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This is the ultimate way to punish any [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who's a [[Slave to PR]]. Compare [[Just Like Robin Hood]], a slightly more direct (and frequently more violent) style of wealth redistribution.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* A villain in the ''[[Lupin III]]'' episode "[[Lupin III/Recap/S2/E63|Charity Begins at Home]]" decided to donate all his money to charity when he was told he was about to die. When he discovered he'd been misdiagnosed, he hatched a plot to pretend Lupin had stolen his money, so he could keep it all to himself. In retaliation, Lupin tricked him into ''really'' donating his money.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The [[Black Panther]] recently{{when}} did this to ruin [[Doctor Doom]]. Given Doom's [[Joker Immunity]], this is probably the closest anyone's gotten to actually beating him.
* After Tommy Elliot, AKA Hush, nearly killed her in an attempt to get to [[Batman]], a recuperating Selina Kyle took every dime the [[Mad Doctor]] had and dispersed it amongst charities. "Not bad for a gutter slut", indeed!
* Two-Face did this to ''himself'' in his debut appearance, choosing to donate whenever good heads came up and to conduct a robbery when bad heads did.
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* The main character of [[Jackie Chan]]'s ''[[Who Am I]]'' does this to two villains who are exchanging a sum of money electronically.
* A variation. Whoopi Goldberg's character, the psychic Oda Mae Brown, does to the villain in ''[[Ghost (film)|Ghost]]'': With Sam's help, she's able to steal the money from its special account, turn it into a check and donate it to a nuns' charity.
* This is Moriarty's final humiliation in the 2011 ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]''
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the game ''[[Headhunter]]'' half way through the [[Nebulous Evil Organisation|Evil Syndicate]] break into a bank is about to transfer all the money from all accounts of the customers to the Syndicate's account. However Jack ''hero'' Wade manages to reverse the process and the Syndicate's account gets drained.
* This is the plot of the "Let Them Eat Pie" quest in ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The rationale of the hackers behind the STRATFOR breach was supposedly this.{{verify}}<!-- MOD: And specify; is this the 2011 Stratfor breach or the 2012 Stratfor breach? -->
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