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2	[[caption-width-right:258:[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Dat wascawwy wabbit!]]]]
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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.
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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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