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{{trope}}
[[File:stolen image 1834.jpg|link=Arsène Lupin|frame|Dear All The Tropes: By the time you find this, I will have made my escape with your precious page image.
The '''Phantom Thief''' is a special class of criminal. An elusive and fantastic thief who can be long gone before the victim even knows what hit him. Just as likely to be an antihero as a villain.
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* Steals as a form of vigilante justice.
* May or may not actually [[Impossible Thief|break the laws of physics]] to achieve their goal.
* An [[Escape Artist]] who is hard to catch and even harder to hold.
Particularly common in Japanese media, stemming from the popularity of [[Arsène Lupin]] [[Big in Japan|in Japan]]. The Japanese word for it is ''Kaitou''.
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{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* McDonalds' Hamburglar.
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* Le Bled from ''[[Steam Detectives]]''. Also known as Phantom Thief Le Bled!
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The Rogue from ''[[The Maze Agency]]''.
* [[Fantomas]] (the Mexican comic book version anyway.)
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* Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. 'the Phantom', from ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' and sequels.
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Arsène Lupin]] the [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[The Saint]]
* The Gray Ghosts in the ''[[Shadowleague]]'' books.
* Conina from ''[[
* The titular character of the German gangster spoof series ''[[Dickie Dick Dickens]]'' has traces of this, being a Chicago gangster in the 1920s who uses trickery, charm and his [[Impossible Thief|impossibly well-honed skills as a pickpocket]] to reach his goal. His son, Donald D. Doberman, is an even clearer example of the trope.
* ''[[Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats|Old Possums Book of Practical Cats]]'':
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* Comus from the [[Ellery Queen]] short story "The Dauphin's Doll" in ''Calendar of Crime''.
== [[Live
* [[Kamen Rider Decade|Kamen Rider Diend]]
* ''[[Iljimae|Il Ji-mae]]''{{context}}
* Parker on [[Leverage]] is this, being the only member of the team to never have been put in prison.
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* [[Sly Cooper]].
* ''[[Wario Master of Disguise]]'' features Wario becoming one of these using a magic wand he took from a ''real'' phantom thief.
* The Phantom from ''[[Maple Story]]'', the member of the Thief class among the original Five Heroes who sealed [[Big Bad|The Black Mage]].
* Most versions of [[Carmen Sandiego]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Steal This Index]]
[[Category:Criminals]]
▲[[Category:Phantom Thief]]
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