Hero Stole My Bike: Difference between revisions

[[File:Prince_of_Tennis_Bike_Thief.jpg|link=The Prince of Tennis|frame|STOP! THIEF!]]

 

 

 

Note that you usually never see the bike actually get returned, and if it is returned, don't expect the warranty to cover the damage.

 

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* ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'': Takeshi Momoshiro stole a bike to catch a purse-napper on roller skates. Problem is: the owner of the bike, his [[Fragile Speedster|quick-as-lightning rival Akira Kamio]], sees Momoshiro doing this and starts chasing him because he believes ''he'' has stolen his bike. The two then race to see who's the fastest, forgetting the purse-napper in the process. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Yusuke has to steal a bike. The bike actually was locked up but he had [[Charles Atlas Superpower|Charles Atlas superpowers]], so it didn't matter. Later the bike's chain breaks and it falls apart, so he could never return it. (He had more [[The End of the World as We Know It|pressing issues]] to deal with anyway.)

* Ash steals Misty's bike in the first episode of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' and Pikachu totals it. She initially tags along with him while he gathers enough money to pay her back. Misty ''did'' get her bike back and working again eventually.

* In ''[[Gakuen Alice]]'', Mikan and Permy manage to find a two-person bicycle and borrow it to {{spoiler|chase after the limo where Natsume is being kidnapped}}.

* Conan does this in the first movie of ''[[Detective Conan]]'', stealing a kid's bike to make haste in disposing of a timed bomb. The bike is totally trashed, though it's implied that Conan would have returned it if he could, and actually asked Kogoro to replace it.

* In ''[[Weiss Kreuz]] Side B'', Ken 'borrows' a skateboard and, being really bad at English, leaves Aya to explain.

* In ''[[Spiral]]: Suiri no Kizuna,'' Ayumu steals Kousuke's bike. This is awesome because a) he's racing Kousuke to gain control of a [[MacGuffin]], and b) Kousuke is left yelling "Stop! Thief!" after threatening to murder Ayumu's sidekick and breaking into his mailbox.

* Kiki steals a mop at the end of ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]'', since she needs to save her friend, and doesn't have a [[Flying Broomstick]] handy.

 

* ''[[Batman: Year One]]'' features this trope at the end.

* Evidently a favoured trope of Hergé, as it occurs both in ''[[Tintin]]'' and his other series, ''[[Jo Zette And Jocko]]''. At least Hergé's heroes were conscientious about returning the vehicles (or, more usually, making reparation, since the chases usually led to the vehicles' destruction!)

{{quote|'''Cyclops''': [[The Art of War]] says you must seize opportunities as they arise...The Book of Cyclops says you don't have to be a punk about it, though.}}

 

* In the ''[[Good Omens]]'' fic ''[[Manchester Lost]]'', the Four Archangels "borrow" some motorcycles. A note at the end of the scene reads "It’s not stealing if you’re On a Holy Mission."

* In the Third Movement of ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', George steals a donkey as part of an awkward plan to get three of them through Goblin Valley without attracting (too much) attention. After they make it, he doesn't return the donkey, but he does make sure it's safe.

 

* ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]'': Amounts to the same thing when Kiki borrows a push-broom against its owner's will; she being a witch and all.

* A character in the "Rhapsody in Blue" segement of ''[[Fantasia]]/2000'' takes a little kid's scooter (one of those home-made Depression era deals, basically a box with roller skates and a couple of planks), but at least has the decency to pay for it first.

** Though he ''does'' leave them with their actual vehicle, {{spoiler|since Donkey is now a horse.}}

{{quote|'''Shrek''': Thank you, gentlemen. Someday I will repay you, unless of course I can't find you, or if I forget.}}

* While eloping, the romantic pairing in [[Buster Keaton]]'s ''[[The Scarecrow]]'' make off with first a horse, and then a motorcycle with a sidecar.

** In [[Buster Keaton]]'s ''[[The General]]'', at one point Keaton steals a penny-farthing bicycle to chase after his stolen train, but isn't able to ride it very far before falling over.

* Near the end of ''The [[Terminator]]'', Kyle and Sarah have been [[Oh Crap|tracked to a hotel by the Terminator]], and, in need of transportation, Kyle bashes the head of a [[Innocent Bystander|bystander]] and steals his car.

** One of, if not the first, lines of the T-800 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day is 'I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle'. All of which the Terminator proceeds to take.

* Julius jacks a convertible with buffalo horns on the hood in ''[[Twins]]'', but later mentions that he returned it. [[Acceptable Targets|"He was a cowboy!"]]

* Sedgwick steals a bicycle in ''[[The Great Escape]]''. (And related, two others steal a rowboat.) The liner notes commentary in the DVD points out that stealing is not recommended for POWs because committing a crime gives the foreign government an excuse to prosecute the POW as a criminal. {{spoiler|Luckily, all three escapees who steal manage to flee Nazi Germany.}}

* In ''[[Time Chasers]],'' hero Nick is a terrible driver and crashes the car he just stole for the chase scene. He then steals a bicycle and does quite well with it because he's an avid bicyclist. The bad guys ''follow suit'' by stealing more bicycles. It is a very healthy chase scene.

{{quote|'''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Tom Servo]]''': So it's bicycles, then, eh? We accept your choice of vehicle. En garde!}}

* In the Hungarian phrasebook sketch in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus|And Now For Something Completely Different]]'', the police officer steals someone's bicycle to get to the tobacconist's shop more quickly than in the television series.

* In ''[[The Pacifier]]'', [[Vin Diesel]] takes the (far-too-small for him) bike belonging to Seth, in order to follow the boy and find out why he'd dyed his hair blond, skipped wrestling practices, and had a Nazi armband in his locker.

* Alluded to when the ''[[MythBusters]]/ took on the movie ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]''. During test setup at an old Naval base, Jamie is getting around on a scooter (instead of his usual bike). Grant jokes "What little girl did you have to mug to get that?"

* Subverted on ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia|Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]''. Mac is in a hurry to get to a movie, sees a motorbike parked at the side of the road, quickly pulls on a helmet, gets on and revs it... only to realise that he has no clue how to drive a motorcycle and abandoning it in the middle of the road.

 

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== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[A Miracle of Science]]'' when the main characters need to evade the [[Mecha-Mooks]] sent after them, Caprice has another part of the [[Hive Mind]] [http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos023.html buy a motorcycle parked nearby].

* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', Molly is an otherwise extremely sweet and innocent young girl, but she has a troubling habit of hotwiring cars when she's in a hurry.