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4 | ->''"You'll soon discover that the depressing food sold by supermarkets becomes much tastier when you've shoplifted it.''" |
5 | -->-- '''Abbie Hoffman''', ''Steal This Book'', 1969 |
6 | |
7 | An index of tropes about robbery, stealing, and theft. And of course, the thieving criminals who commit these acts. |
8 | |
9 | Compare ConMan, who usually tricks people into giving them money instead of taking it. |
10 | ---- |
11 | !!Tropes: |
12 | [[index]] |
13 | * AffectionatePickpocket: Someone pretends to hug/kiss a person they're stealing from. |
14 | * ArmedBlag: A plot focusing on the theft of an armored car carrying someone's payroll. |
15 | * TheArtfulDodger: A homeless kid who steals and doesn't mind being homeless. |
16 | * BallisticDiscount: A villain steals a gun from a store and shoots the clerk. |
17 | * BanditMook: Video game enemies who can steal items from the PlayerCharacter. |
18 | * BanditClan: A gang of robbers who live in the rural countryside. |
19 | * BankRobbery: Just what it sounds like, one or more people rob a bank. |
20 | * BlatantBurglar: A burglar wears obviously shifty clothes. |
21 | * BorrowedWithoutPermission: Someone who takes from another tries to claim that they merely borrowed it. |
22 | * BrainTheft: Stealing someone's gray matter. |
23 | * TheCaper: Organizing an elaborate robbery. |
24 | * CaperCrew: A group of thieves, each of which has a special job. |
25 | * CaperRationalization: The group of people doing The Caper have a good reason to steal. |
26 | * CaughtUpInARobbery: A plot in which a work's main or supporting characters get wrapped up in a robbery that suddenly and unexpectedly occurs at their location |
27 | * ChekhovsExhibit: If a fancy exhibit is shown in a museum, you bet it will be stolen. |
28 | * ClairvoyantSecurityForce: Even though something looks unguarded, someone who tries to steal it will be stopped by a guard. |
29 | * ClassyCatBurglar: A female thief who's seen as sophisticated. |
30 | * ClotheslineStealing: A character needs clothes and steals some from a clothesline. |
31 | * CoinOnAStringTrick: Characters tying a coin into a string, inserting it into a coin-operated machine, then pulling it out. |
32 | * ConfiscatedPhone: Interrupting a call by taking the phone. |
33 | * TheConvenientStoreNextDoor: A store is right next door to the place people want to rob. |
34 | * TheCrimeJob: A crime story called "The [X] Job". |
35 | * CutleryEscapeAid: Using a utensil to escape from prison. |
36 | * DesertBandits: Impoverished robbers in the desert. |
37 | * DoubleCaper: Protagonists are told to steal, they find out their boss was a fraud, and go to steal from them. |
38 | * DrunkRolling: Stealing from the pockets of passed-out drunks. |
39 | * EmptyQuiver: Nukes are bound to be stolen. |
40 | * EnemyEatsYourLunch: Eating an enemy's lunch in front of them to assert dominance. |
41 | * TheFagin: A male criminal who adopts children and has them steal for him. |
42 | * FakingAndEntering: Someone deliberately trashes their friend's house that they are robbing so that nobody would suspect them. |
43 | * FalseFalseAlarm: Thieves set off an alarm but convince the guards it's no big deal. |
44 | * FellOffTheBackOfATruck: Stealing something or buying something stolen and claiming it fell off a truck. |
45 | * FilchingFoodForFun: Stealing someone else's food as a prank or a petty revenge, done mainly because of the thrill and excitement. |
46 | * FilmFelons: Covering up an EvilPlan (usually a robbery) by pretending to be making a TV show or a movie. |
47 | * FireStolenFromTheGods: Knowledge now possessed by humanity is said to have been stolen from the gods. |
48 | * FiveFingerDiscount: Stealing money from people's pockets. |
49 | * GentlemanThief: A Classy Cat-Burglar except GenderInverted. |
50 | * GiveMeBackMyWallet: Snarking at and/or stealing back from a pickpocket. |
51 | * GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: Someone steals the clothes of SkinnyDipping people. |
52 | * GottaHaveItGonnaStealIt: Someone wants something trendy but isn't allowed/can't afford it, so they steal (or attempt to steal) it. |
53 | * GrandTheftPrototype: Somebody steals a prototype weapon during a war. |
54 | * GraveRobbing: Stealing dead bodies. |
55 | * HandOfGlory: A severed hand that is either holding a candle or each of its fingers are lit like candles, sometimes used to help people steal. |
56 | * HeistClash: Two or more parties attempt to rob the same place at the same time, leading to complications. |
57 | * HeistEpisode: An caper-style episode where the characters have to steal something. |
58 | * TheHelpHelpingThemselves: A household servant steals or otherwise uses their master's property without permission. |
59 | * HeroStoleMyBike: During an action-packed scene, a hero steals a scooter/bike/tricycle from its rightful owner. |
60 | * HighSpeedHijack: Hijacking a moving vehicle. |
61 | * TheHighwayman: A man who robs people on highways. |
62 | * HoardingTheProfits: When an individual or small group steals the gains from the larger group they are part of. |
63 | * HonorAmongThieves: Thieves may sometimes have a few virtues. |
64 | ** NoHonorAmongThieves: But more often than not, their greed tends to make them rather untrustworthy. |
65 | * HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas: A villain tries to stop a holiday from being celebrated by taking the things associated with the holiday (often a [[ShoutOut parody]] of ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''). |
66 | * ImpossibleTheft: Stealing something that's practically impossible to steal. |
67 | * InsideJob: A crime, normally a robbery, committed by someone with license to enter restricted areas, etc. |
68 | * IntangibleTheft: Stealing an abstract concept, something like a name, or something that exists but isn't a physical object (like a smell or a shadow). |
69 | * JustLikeRobinHood: A thief who only robs bad guys and then gives the loot away to the poor. |
70 | * KarmicThief: A thief who robs bad guys, but keeps the things they steal. |
71 | * KingOfThieves: The leader/most important criminal, usually a thief. |
72 | * KleptomaniacHero: A video game protagonist who steals a lot. |
73 | * LittleMissConArtist: A little girl steals. |
74 | * LockpickingMinigame: Part of a video game that involves picking a lock. |
75 | * MissionImpossibleCableDrop: Someone drops from the ceiling on a wire to steal a heavily-guarded object. |
76 | * MistakenForThief: A character didn't really steal, but is wrongly thought to have done so. |
77 | * MonumentalTheft: Stealing a large monument. |
78 | * MooksAteMyEquipment: Video game enemies that dine on equipment or items that the player character needs; the effect is basically stealing from the player character. |
79 | * MuggedForDisguise: Characters have to disguise themselves as the enemy, so they mug some enemies of their clothes. |
80 | * NobleShoplifter: Someone is virtuous but needs to steal from stores. |
81 | * OrganTheft: Taking live people's internal organs. |
82 | * OutlawCouple: Two lovers who are both criminals, usually robbers. |
83 | * OutlawTown: A settlement designed for fugitives. |
84 | * PantyThief: Somebody (generally a pervert) who steals women's and/or girls' underwear. |
85 | * PennyShaving: Stealing tiny amounts of money to avoid being caught. |
86 | * PercussivePickpocket: A pickpocket pretends to bump into the person they're robbing. |
87 | * PhantomThief: An elusive thief who disappears. |
88 | * PirateBooty: {{Pirate}}s steal boxes of gold and/or jewels. |
89 | * PlanetLooters: Alien invaders looking to strip the resources of a planet. |
90 | * {{Plunder}}: Opportunistic looting and robbery, especially when done by bandits, pirates, or soldiers who are [[RapePillageAndBurn raiding a particular location]]. |
91 | * ReplacedWithReplica: Stealing a plot-important item, and then replacing it with a fake. |
92 | * RobbingTheDead: Stealing from a dead person. |
93 | * RobbingTheMobBank: A thief steals from another criminal, who tries to get the thief caught. |
94 | * RoguishPoacher: A hero who steals animals for food. |
95 | * RoguishRomani: Romani/Gypsy people stereotyped as thieving criminals adept at pickpocketing. |
96 | * TheRustler: Somebody who has the talents of a cowboy/cowgirl but steals the farm animals. |
97 | * {{Safecracking}}: Stealing or breaking into safes. |
98 | * SalvagePirates: Robbing people who need rescuing. |
99 | * TheScrounger: A character who shows up with supplies for burglars for unexplained reasons. |
100 | * SecretTestOfThievingSkill: A character has another character steal something in order to test their stealing abilities. |
101 | * ShopliftAndDie: A game where you're meant to shoplift but if you fail, someone or something will kill you. |
102 | * ShouldntYouStopStealing: A character used to have a good reason to do something bad (usually stealing) but now they don't but keep doing it anyway. |
103 | * SkyHeist: Using an aircraft to steal something without landing. |
104 | * StealTheSurroundings: Somebody steals what surrounds the thing they want to steal. |
105 | * StealingFromTheHotel: A character stays at a hotel and takes things like towels/stationery/toiletries/etc. |
106 | * StealingFromTheTill: A character is meant to handle other people's money or whatever but steals it; also called embezzlement. |
107 | * StealingFromThieves: When robbers get a taste of their own medicine. |
108 | * StealItToProtectIt: The only way to prevent something from being stolen is to steal it yourself. |
109 | * StickyFingers: Somebody is a kleptomaniac or otherwise steals just for fun. |
110 | * StolenByStayingStill: Stealing something by making people think it disappeared. |
111 | * StolenGoodReturnedBetter: Someone steals and improves an object, then the person who was robbed gets it back. |
112 | * StolenMacGuffinReveal: The hero steals an object everyone wants, but then another person reveals that they've also stolen it and the one the villain has is usually a decoy. |
113 | * StreetUrchin: A homeless kid who steals to survive. |
114 | * StrippingTheScarecrow: Taking the clothes from a scarecrow or a mannequin. |
115 | * StupidCrooks: A robber who fails spectacularly at being stealthy. |
116 | * SuspiciousSpending: Often funded through ill-gotten gains. |
117 | * TakenDuringTheEnding: A character/object is taken away at the end of the story for a purpose, leaving it ambiguous on what's going to happen next. |
118 | * TakingOverTheTown: The villains take over a town and steal from it. |
119 | * ThiefBag: A bag full of stolen items. |
120 | * ThievesGuild: An elite team of thieves. |
121 | * ThievingMagpie: Magpies are kleptomaniacs and a lot of them favor shiny objects. |
122 | * ThievingPet: A pet who steals human things. |
123 | * ThroughTheCeilingStealthily: Going into a room through its ceiling, with stealth. |
124 | * TrainJob: Boarding a train in order to steal from it. |
125 | * TricksterGod: Gods of trickery and deceit. |
126 | * UnderwearFlag: Someone puts underwear (usually stolen from someone else) on a flagpole. |
127 | * UnknowinglyPossessingStolenGoods: A character gets in possession of items that turns out to be stolen property. |
128 | * VictorStealsInsignia: The winner of a combat takes a symbol off their defeated foe. |
129 | * VideoGameStealing: Video game characters steal in unrealistic ways. |
130 | * WhiteCollarCrime: Crimes (usually thefts) committed by White Collar workers. |
131 | [[/index]] |
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