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** And a satellite full of money
** The latter three he did ''[[Serial Escalation|in the same damn movie]]''
** One notable aversion was in ''[[The Castle of Cagliostro]]'', {{spoiler|the treasure of the Cagliostro line is an almost perfectly preserved lost Roman city submerged in the lake the castle rests in}} Lupin admits that it's the greatest and most valuable thing he's ever come across, but it's simply too big for him to take.
* Kaitou Kid, from ''[[Magic Kaito]]'', has accomplished a few as well, since he's an [[Expy]] of Lupin III's famous ancestor, [[Arsène Lupin]].
** And is from arguably the same universe, depending on how [[Canon]] you consider the ''Lupin III vs [[Detective Conan]]'' [[Crossover]] TV special)
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Jonathan Teatime from ''[[
** Conina from ''[[
*** Must be harry-deterry; her father and his Silver Horde managed to steal {{spoiler|[[
** Fred Colon justifies hanging around various Ankh-Morpork landmarks rather than going on an actual beat by the fact that he is guarding them against such grandiose thieves.
*** This is made more impressive due to the fact many major landmarks were designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson, and are thus rather small.
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* Kay Faraday from ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]'' ''tries'' to be a Monumental Thief, but fails at it mostly. All she manages to steal are Edgeworth's lines and poses and Gumshoe's supporting role. Her actual goal, stealing ''the truth'' is foiled by the fact that her "partner" would rather find it the traditional way.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'', some games allow the thief to steal hearts, experience, and the like.
* In ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'', the [[Crazy Awesome|evil yet awesome]] (as the hero describes them) [[Space Pirates]] are stealing ''entire constellations''.
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time]]'' starts with a giant-sized Krang stealing the Statue of Liberty; given the plot (or what passes for it) of the game, it seems this is done as bait to lure the heroes into Shredder's trap.
** The bad guys do it again in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge]]'', but have a different motive this time - {{spoiler| Krang intends to use the Statue of Liberty for a new robot body! He does, and the Turtles fight the Krang!Statue as the second-to-last boss. [[Anticlimax Boss| He is, by the way, a pushover]].}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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Thief: Oh, I steal souls and secrets. }}
** Earlier in the comic, Red Mage suggests that Thief should minmax by putting all his skillpoints into pick-pocketing, since it could cover all other thief skills - opening locks by pickpocketing them out of the doors and chests they're attached to, disarm traps by pickpocketing the mechanisms, and successfully lying to people by "picking the truth pocket of their minds".
* Haley Starshine from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' used this trope for a gag. The team needed a diamond for a spell, so she stole one. From ''herself'', in the ''past'', by [[No Fourth Wall|climbing the links on the website and stealing it from the comic on the cast page]]. Leaving a note saying "I O Me one big-ass diamond", which is still on the cast page.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'': In Othar's Twitter, he was at one point asked to help after the Louvre had gone missing. It turns out that {{spoiler|it had been stolen using a shrink-ray and hidden inside a cake in a refrigerator, because shrunken objects expand when heated}}.
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' gives us [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2257 the pickpocket version.]
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