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Not to be confused with [[Tomb Raider|Tomb Raiding]].
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*** "Tomb robbers" turning out to be there about a certain [[Sealed Evil in a Can]], so a clash with tomb guards accidentally breaks the can, which they otherwise could avoid.
*** Adventurers breaking and entering a crypt only to face a room seemingly empty except one old man with a pipe, who answered the obvious question by stunning everyone (as in "power word"), introducing himself as Elminster and stating that "despoilers of tombs" will leave him and his friends alone—right now. ([http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=2942 Lords of Darkness])
** Ahem, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150420084011/http://eberron.wikia.com/wiki/Cadaver_Collector Cadaver Collector], which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. While this is actually a mindless golem used by a necromancer to collect corpses, usually from battlefields, that fact doesn't make it any less unsettling. And it often has difficulty telling living creatures from dead ones...
* Tomb robbing is the [[Planet of Hats|Hat]] of the Yitek race in the ''Talislanta'' game.
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', grave robbing is discouraged not only for cultural reasons, but also because desecrating a tomb/corpse will unleash a raging Hungry Ghost (one of the person's souls that remains with the body to protect it) on the local area. Powerful people often recieve highly secure tombs as much to reduce the chance of anybody angering the resident ghost as to protect their valuables and dignity (although lavish tombs also help keep the ghost placated).
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* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' has an entire guild of people known as the Collectors whose job is to find dead bodies and turn them in to the Dustmen, a local sect that uses the corpses as zombie laborers. Of course, the Collectors almost always strip the bodies of everything valuable first. One of your party members, [[Half-Human Hybrid|Annah]], is one...and met you by finding your [[Player Character]] dead and collecting his body. (The game starts with you waking up at the morgue, and you meet up with her again later.)
* ''[[Minecraft]]'' lets you rob treasure from pyramids in the desert. Each pyramid can contain things like gold, iron, diamonds, bones, and rotten flesh, but they're also guarded by TNT traps that trigger if you step on the pressure plate. Doing so will destroy all the treasure and kill you.
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat|Mortal Kombat 11]]'', the Krypt is sort of a minigame where the protagonist is an unnamed thief searching the ruins of Shang Tsung's island in order to find treasure. The "treasure", of course, is unlockables the player can use in Arcade Ladder Mode.
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Underling]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20120622114610/http://underlingcomic.com/page-one-hundred-forty-five/ or so he is accused]
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', [http://endstone.net/2009/03/30/issue-1-page-9/ what started the present-day story.]
* Done adorably in ''[[Frankie and Stein]]'' when Stein, armed with his book "Graverobbing for Dummies" goes a'hunting for the perfect parts with which to make a friend.
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** In the same episode he is seen emerging from an open grave saying that "no one can say that I don't own John Larroquette's spine".
* According to Disney's ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'', grave robbers are also known for their tendency of double-parking.
* ''[[Harley Quinn]]''; one of the many items Catwoman has stolen that is displayed in her house is an urn with [[Pablo Picasso]]'s cremated remains. Sort of a reflection to her enormous ego in this version, she isn't satisfied with simply stealing his artwork, she has to steal the remains of the artist himself.
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