Hero Stole My Bike: Difference between revisions

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* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!|Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu]]'' Kaname and Sōusuke steal a bike in order to get back to school in time for their test. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when a crazy policewoman tries to pull them over, leading to a [[Chase Scene]] that results in her crashing her squad car. Which then explodes.

* 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.

* In ''[[Iketeru Futari]]'', Saji steals a scooter from his friend Urawa to chase his would-be girlfriend Koizumi, who's taken a taxi. Especially troublesome for Urawa, since he was working at the time.

{{quote|'''Saji:''' Urawa! I'll never forget what a great friend you are!

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* ''[[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.

* When Mr. Freeze kidnaps Barbara in ''[[Batman and Mister Freeze Sub Zero]]'', Dick grabs a bystander's motorcycle to make chase. Unlike most examples, he gives the guy something else in exchange: his corvette.

* [[Shrek]] rather unceremoniously steals the clothes of some travelers in the second movie after he takes his potion...

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

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* [[Nicolas Cage]]'s character does this in pursuit of Sean Connery's character with a Ferrari in ''[[The Rock]]''.

** And also a motorbike, after admitting to the owner that the Ferrari he just totaled wasn't his and neither was the guy's bike.

** [[Nicolas Cage]] steals a bike from a woman after threatening her with a gun in ''[[The Wicker Man]]''. "Step away from the bike!"

* Indiana Jones does this in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|The Last Crusade]]'': An old male peasant is replacing a hubcap on his old car when it pulls away from him without warning. Indy, of course, is at the wheel.

* ''[[Apocalypse Now]] Redux'' has a restored scene in which Willard and his crew steal Kilgore's surfboard, and Kilgore sends helicopters in pursuit for several days.

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* ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'' has Jonathan steal ''a double-decker bus'' when he breaks the keys to Rick's car, whilst in the ignition. [[Crazy Awesome|Luckily, a double-decker bus was the nearest available vehicle.]] How convenient!

* 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.

* '[[Bedtime Stories]]'' does this too.

* 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!"]]

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* 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 1990 ''[[Captain America]]'' film, Captain America feigns sickness to lure the unsuspecting driver out from the car before he steals it, ''twice''. He also does steal a bike from a civilian during his and Sharon's escape from the Red Skull's thugs.

* In the 1990 ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' film, Captain America feigns sickness to lure the unsuspecting driver out from the car before he steals it, ''twice''. He also does steal a bike from a civilian during his and Sharon's escape from the Red Skull's thugs.

* 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.

* In ''[[L: Change the World]]'', after being caught on the train, L, Maki and Near have no choice but to avoid public transport. In the next scene they are cycling away on bikes that are clearly not theirs.

* The ''[[Mystery Team]]'' doesn't have to; they provide their own!

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== Gamebooks ==

* In one ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' book, Lone Wolf needs to follow someone fast. There's a horse in the street; he can either buy it legitimately off the owner, or just steal it. The latter's riskier but a heck of a lot cheaper.

** This happens ''repeatedly'' to Lone Wolf throughout the books. At the end of the series, he can probably have a dozen count of mount thief on his tab, including some flying creatures.

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* In the [[Time Scout]] book, ''Wagers of Sin'', Skeeter steals a champion racing horse to get away from some angry Romans, making this a case of [[Hero Stole My Bike|Hero Stole My Horse]].

* In [[Ethshar]] novel ''With a single spell'' the hero steals a ship to escape his home village. This is one of the few examples where he does give it back... in the epilogue a couple of years later.

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Chuck]]'' had one of the few examples where the bike owner is seen afterward... because, as it turns out, it was Morgan's bike. At least Chuck was nice enough to steal a bike he knew he could return.

* Ben Mercer in ''[[Covert Affairs]]'' at least had the decency to throw the owner a stack of bills as he drove off with his motorcycle.

* The Third Doctor "borrows" a vintage car in one episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and takes a liking to it. UNIT ''does'' return the car to its rightful owner, but they get the Doctor another one a lot like it.

** Not to mention the TARDIS, which he reportedly stole from a repair shop under "pressing circumstances."

*** In the novel ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' the Time Lord villain is revealed as the guy the TARDIS really belongs to.