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Panty Thieves usually go about their business while wearing [[Stealth Clothes]].

 

 

Probably an expression of [[Lolicon]]; certainly related to whatever cultural elements contribute to the fact that you can buy used girls' underwear in vending machines in Japan. (Or used to be able to, until it was outlawed in around 2004.) This practice was referenced in (of all things) a 1995 [[wikipedia:Pulp (band)|Pulp]] concert video, in which it's suggested that it wasn't quite as widespread as commonly believed.

** Chamo's reputation as a Panty Thief was subverted in ''[[Negima Neo]]'': One chapter involves Negi chasing a small Panty Thief throughout Mahora academy, and many a reader expected it to be Chamo. {{spoiler|It was a cat.}}

* The hamster Echiboo (which reportedly [[Meaningful Name|translates as]] "Perverted Fart") in the manga ''[[Aoi House]]'', whenever he got the chance.

* In the ''[[Death Note]]'' [[Spin-Off]] novel ''The Los Angeles BB Murder Case'', Ryuzaki (BB) raids a little girl's panty drawer. Making the scene even more inappropriate is that he's supposed to be examining her murder scene with Naomi.

* Onsokumaru in ''[[Ninin ga Shinobuden]]'', though he steals panties by proxy (dispatching Shinobu to do it under the premise of ninja training).

* ''[[Zatch Bell]]'' has a character named Momon, who looks like a cross between a rabbit and a monkey. When Kiyo meets him, he's holding a bra for some reason. When Momon meets the others, he spends countless attempts to see Tia's panties, and somehow manages to steal another pair from her house. Needless to say, Tia ''rages''.

* The Elder does this at least once in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', as part of his [[Dirty Old Man]] gag.

* One ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' story concerns a highly sophisticated Panty Thief—who strangely enough is a parody of Billy The Kid from ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'': he is sewing a blanket out of the pants he steals, "and then it will be like I am sleeping with all the girls at once!"

* Koragashi of ''[[Kamen no Maid Guy]]'' can easily steal the panties off ''the entire female population of a high school without them noticing'' but doesn't do so for perverted reasons. Instead, he is trying to identify a suspicious person and the only clue he has are her unique panties. His partner, Fubuki, tells him that he didn't have to go to such extremes though and promptly punishes him via remote-controlled explosion.

* [[Everything's Better with Penguins|Penguin #1]] from ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]'' uses ''a fish rod'' to steal panties in episode 10.

* One [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]'' is Tadakuni's sister's underwear kept being stolen by her brother and his two friends Hidenori and Yoshitake. Hidenori's older brother had stole it at some point as well.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Booga in ''[[Tank Girl]]'' first met the title character when he tried to steal her knickers. They've been together ever since.

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* The Panty Raid in ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]''

 

== Live-Action TV ==

{{quote|"I'd like several hundred other offenses to be taken into consideration -- black frilly ones!"}}

* On ''[[Degrassi]]'', Connor is revealed to be one of these. He does have Asperger's Syndrome, so that may be why he doesn't understand what's wrong. This is used so he can be [[Put on a Bus]] in season 11.

 

== Music ==

* "In the Middle of the Night" from the One Step Beyond album by Madness is about a sixty-three year old newsagent who just so happens to be an underwear thief. He sees his own picture in the newspaper and books it.

 

== Video Games ==

{{quote|Isaac peered into the wardrobe. [[Kleptomaniac Hero, Found Underwear|There's a silk negligee]]. *line* [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Isaac! Put that back!]]}}

* During a flashback sequence in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', Cloud can sneak into Tifa's room and swipe her "orthopedic underwear" (in the Japanese version, they were "slightly-used" instead). Though it's uncertain if this actually happened or not, since the dialogue options after that are "It's true" and "Just kidding". {{spoiler|Later on in the game, we discover that Cloud is an [[Unreliable Narrator]]. Assuming it actually happened, it's ambiguous as to whether this specific memory belongs to Cloud or Zack.}}

** Later in the game, your roommate may ''actually'' be responsible for the theft of your underwear (a bra this time). Or the other way around. It's accidental... sort of.

 

== Web Comics ==

* Blair from ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' is a "female" doll possessed by definitely male—and very perverted—spirit. He does [http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20091012.html this] whenever [http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20110629.html possible], though usually this doesn't end well for him.

 

== Web Original ==

* There's an entire ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' story built around this trope, as a panty thief hits every girls' dorm on campus, one night at a time, finally getting spotted (but not caught). {{spoiler|That's because it was Sun Wukong the Monkey King, one of the legendary Eight Immortal, the whole she-bang. When he steals yours panties, you just let him.}}

* [[The Onion]] describes why panty raids are a poor idea at [http://www.theonion.com/articles/six-dead-in-west-point-panty-raid,1130/ certain colleges].

 

== Western Animation ==

* In one episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Patrick and Mr. Krabs go on a "panty raid". It is near midnight, however, so Mr. Krabs does not realize until it is too late that the person they are stealing panties from is his own mother.

 

== Real Life ==

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