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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 ''[[Discworld|Hogfather]]'' is an assassin who's spent his spare time developing plans to kill various gods and [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]s. Including Death.
** Conina from ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'' fits, having stolen treasure that had been swallowed for safekeeping
*** Must be harry-deterry; her father and his Silver Horde managed to steal {{spoiler|[[Discworld/Interesting Times|the entire Agetean Empire]]}}.
** 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.