Basic Trope: A robber who's classy about it.
- Straight: Seemingly Indolent playboy Richard Coyne III makes a hobby out of stealing priceless objects, heirlooms and artifacts the world over as the renowned thief "Mr. Bullion", always taking the greatest care to choose the proper targets and leave those he defrauds with the sense that they've been taken by the best—especially in cases involving ladies.
- Exaggerated: Richard is so skilled as Mr. Bullion he can steal jewels if they were encased in concrete and so suave he can bed women simply by clearing his throat. Even the police's top man doesn't want to catch him deep down because the scumbags he targets are far worse than he could ever be.
- Downplayed: Richard doesn't leave behind any traces on a job, and his victims are at best pragmatically chosen to minimize the amount of damage done. Manners aside, it's mostly about the payday, and he's a professional.
- Justified:
- Money is less important to Richard than the thrills he gets from a heist, and too many of his peers have too many riches on their hands to do any good anyhow.
- Despite his lifestyle and demeanor, Richard isn't nearly as rich as he appears. His heists as Mr. Bullion serve a dual purpose of keeping his reputation and his end aloft.
- Inverted: Richard has never stolen a thing in his life, being a sterling businessman who worked his way up from nothing.
- Subverted: Beneath the gilded exterior of Mr. Bullion, Richard's thieving tactics include blackmail, extortion, fraud, murder, etc., bespeaking a near-total lack of humanity and a singular focus on one thing: getting more money.
- Parodied: Richard makes his crimes as conspicuous as possible for the sake of good press.
- Zig Zagged: After dipping his toes into the criminal underworld, Richard's lack of experience makes him feel unsafe continuing on as Mr. Bullion, so he retires... until his Secret Identity is blown, prompting a criminal enterprise to kidnap him and force him to undertake One Last Job. He completes the job and defeats the syndicate in the process, so reinvigorated he goes back to being Mr. Bullion, this time on the side of the law, stealing from those who steal from others.
- Averted: Richard's only real crime is being wealthy without merit.
- Enforced: "We want a more charming criminal than the usual goons."
- Lampshaded: "Why do you think I charm them so much? If I were rude, they wouldn't allow me within ten feet of their mansions in the first place."
- Invoked: Richard is crazy bored with a life of luxury and wants to spice things up a bit with some grand larceny.
- Exploited: After a while, Richard uses his Mr. Bullion identity to branch out into other "victimless" criminal enterprises like counterfeiting and smuggling—variety is the spice of life, after all.
- Defied: Richard is a dirt-poor, slovenly lowlife who'd rip off his own mother.
- Discussed: The life of a thief can be dangerous, so Richard jots down a detailed plan on what to do and not to do.
- Conversed: Richard doesn't know where to start as a robber, so he asks around for targets on behalf of an uncle writing a crime novel.
- Implied: Richard spends a lot of time around the rich and famous.
- Deconstructed:
- Despite all pretentions, Richard is little more than a Con Artist with an overstuffed ego. He's bad at thieving, his Calling Card is insipid and easily traced back to him, and his taste is so horrendous he steals items nobody else even wants.
- Even if he's a charmer, Richard is still a criminal. When the inevitable happens and he's exposed his numerous crimes get him a long sentence.
- Reconstructed:
- A milquetoast sybarite in his normal life, Richard's exploits as Mr. Bullion turn him into the witty, debonair man he's always wanted to be, and instills in him a sense of economic justice that was sorely lacking before.
- Richard escapes his minimum-security prison and becomes a full-fledged "king of thieves".
"A confession: while you were dallying with the above nonsense, I have stolen the link to the main page. Bon soir."
—M. T.V. Tropez
