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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
* 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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** 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.
* In the ''[[
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** {{spoiler|Succeeding gives you a miniaturized Eiffel Tower loot item to display in your base. Although this troper feels that, after the ''Ark of the Covenant'' and ''Excalibur'' (along with [[Sadly Mythtaken|the stone it's lodged in]]), using a shrink ray to steal a national landmark is pretty much par for the course...}}
* ''[[Tachyon the Fringe|Tachyon: The Fringe]]'' has a side quest wherein the player, a freelance starfighter, escorts a ship carrying the roof of the Sistine Chapel and protects it from a baron's forces (their master hoping to steal it so they can humiliate another baron in the region).
* ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' functions almost entirely off this trope. As a bit of a [[Shout
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Rouge the Bat]] aspires to this; she won't be happy until she owns ''all the jewelery in the world''.
* 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.
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** It's contagious. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/pennsylvania-bridge-theft_n_1001124.html A bridge also went missing] in North Beaver Township, Pennsylvania. A story just about made for [http://www.youtube.com/user/TVsCraigFerguson?blend=1&ob=5#p/c/0EE4FC52DD92F112/0/eXfYPIw_iwQ late night comedy].
* Making a large monument disappear tends to be a standard illusion for television specials. This is almost always done by {{spoiler|moving the camera.}}
** Amusingly, one special featured a magician making the space shuttle ''Explorer'' disappear. ''Explorer'' is actually [
* Technically, [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] once stole the Vatican's personal soundtrack. Using only his memory.
* A particular [http://www.snopes.com/autos/theft/carthief.asp urban legend] celebrates this type of thief: a man chains his shiny new car to the ground with padlocks in an effort to prevent it being stolen, and finds it the next morning still securely locked under the chains... but ''facing the opposite direction''. Inside the car is a note: ''"If we want it, we'll take it."''
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