Monumental Theft: Difference between revisions

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', it's possible to steal...just about anything from your opponent. Artifacts, creatures, lands, '''[[Serial Escalation|enchantments]]'''.

 

* 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.

* An one-shot villain from ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' shrank and captured monuments - ''and'' his rival, Numbuh 2 - to defeat him in a spectacular mini-golf (''"[[Insistent Terminology|It's miniature golf!]]"'') game, also causing ''the planet'' to shrink so he could play a galactic golf game. Really.

* Another one-shot villain, Lilliput, is featured in a ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode. While Darkwing's back is (literally) turned, he steals Saint Canard's skyline. (With a shrink ray.)

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