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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|The Castleof Cagliostro]]'', {{spoiler|the treasure of 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 valuble 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)
* The titular character of ''[[Mouse]]'' has a tendency to make off with entire buildings just to get at one small treasure.
* Atomsk the Pirate King from ''[[FLCL]]'' is said to have stolen entire solar systems.
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* In ''[[Despicable Me]]'', {{spoiler|Vector}} manages to steal a pyramid of Giza and replace it with a giant pyramid-shaped balloon. Not to be outdone, for most of the movie, Gru concocts a plan to steal ''the moon''. (Admittedly after shrinking it to the size of a basketball.)
* Another phenomenal movie thief would be [[Fat Bastard]] in ''[[Austin Powers]]: The Spy Who Shagged Me''. He poses as a guard, sneaks up to the cryogenic tube in which Austin's naked body is frozen and employs a giant syringe to literally steal Austin's sexual energy (or "mojo"), which here is depicted in the material world as an icky red substance that looks a bit like melted licorice. Following this theft, Austin (in 1999) is in bed with a woman and suddenly discovers that - for the first time in his life - he is unable to make love.
* The plot of ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' hinges on an entire ''galaxy'' being held hostage by extraterrestrial terrorists. (Of course, since it's a microcosmic galaxy only about the size of a marble, this is not as difficult as one might think.)
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* One episode of ''[[Michael Bentine's Potty Time|Michael Bentines Potty Time]]'' had someone stealing Nelson's Column, the Effiel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. It turned out he had only removed them so he could have them cleaned as gifts to the respective governments.
* The ''[[Leverage]]'' team specializes in some amazing tactics to get what they're after and leave their client's enemies holding the proverbial bag. The targets of their clever thefts and elaborate con-jobs are never small-time, either. Their first job netted them "retire and buy an island money" (which is why they work on an [[Arc Words|"alternate revenue stream"]] for all the jobs after the first) and upset the ''entire industry'' of the guy who double-crossed them, on top of causing an international incident. It helps when you have four amazing thieves lead by a grandmaster of the [[Batman Gambit]].
* After discovering that [[Divine Race Lift|God is black]] (as in the race, not the color), [[Sarah Silverman]] snark that she's cool with it and ''not'' one of those racists who would wonder if a black God is going to steal the Moon (heavily implying she is EXACTLY that kind of racist).
** Then again, since God is....well, God, that might actually put the scenario above and beyond this trope.
* In an episode of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', a thief named Tarsus manages the steal a huge statue from the coast of a village.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* A notorious [[WCW]] storyline had [[Booker T]] and his [[Evil Counterpart]] Big T fighting over who would ''gain ownership of the letter "T."'' (As [[Wrestlecrap]] sarcastically put it, the show must have been taken over by ''[[Sesame Street]]''.)
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* In the ''[[Thief]]'' series, the main character manages to steal from eclectic nobles, zombies, ''other thieves'', monsters, wizards, the mystic brotherhood of shadows that ''trained him'', and even a '''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|god]]'''. And from what I heard of the game's female fans, he's also stolen a few hearts.
* The Thieves from ''[[Disgaea]]''; they can steal ''your enemies' stats''.
** {{spoiler|Tyrant Overlord Baal}} in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' could classify. He, among other things, steals various people's height, stardom, screen time, the letter "a" and a space out of their names, the game they starred in, their anime DVD collection, their innocent heart, an unspecified "item," their friends, and a one billion HL savings account. And after all that, it's revealed that he ''might or might not'' have actually stolen all of those things and may have just been engaging in "insurance fraud."
* 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.
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== Web Comics ==
* Thief from ''[[8-Bit Theater
{{quote|Thief: Oh Black Mage, you and your delusions... "Thief is trying to rob us of our very souls."
Black Mage: Wait, I only '''think''' that last one out of fear of you. I've never '''said''' it out loud.
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 ''[[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.
* In [[Girl Genius|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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* A possible reference was in ''[[Futurama]]'', where a character mentions that New New York had a "super villain mayor" who stole several landmarks, such as the Sphinx and the Eiffel Tower, and put them on the beach at Coney Island.
** In the aptly named movie, ''Bender's Big Score'', Bender steals ''everything''. Items seen include the Mona Lisa (incomplete), Tutankahmen's death mask, and what has to be the True Cross.
* The season three finale of ''[[Justice League]]'' featured Lord Chronos stealing historic landmarks from throughout space and time. And displaying them in the streets of Neo Gotham. This included, among others, the Titanic, the Sphinx, and the Colosseum.
* The ''[[Hoppity Hooper]]'' episode "Colonel Clabber--Limburger Cheese Statue" featured a villain who was stealing the world's great landmarks and having them transported to his estate because he was unable to travel to see them.
* Of course, the cartoon adaptation ''[[Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'' also involved Carmen's larger than life heists, but worked hard to make her seemingly outrageous crimes semi-plausible in their execution. The pilot has her stealing the talent of famous athletes and musicians by using a prototype neural scanner to scramble their nervous systems while overlaying her own with an imprint of their abilities. A later plot to steal an uncracked Liberty Bell is accomplished by hijacking a Russian military time-travel project and then using it to travel back to the 18th century. A plain to make her the most famous crook in time by stealing Roman Colosseum from Ancient Rome, the deals with stolen miniature landmarks, ACME's first Chronoskimmer, a burst of a Roman leader, a electric magnet from the future, & Hannibal's elephants. True to the trope, she always commits her crimes just to prove she can, and allows the stolen goods to be recovered once the theft's been accomplished.
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