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* In ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'' following the storming of Aqaba the Bedouin turn their attentions to plunder. In another incident later, Lawrence explains that this is part of his men's pay. Which of course it was, as they had no other clear reason to care whether they were ruled by Prince Feisal or the Sultan.
* ''[[The Patriot]]'': one of the principal financial motivations for some of the French-Indian war veterans to join Mel Gibson's protagonist was the ability to sell back every English gun or uniform found or recovered.
* ''[[The Golden Voyage of Sinbad]]''. After defeating Prince Koura, Sinbad has the opportunity to gain a "crown of untold riches". He generously gives it to the facially-disfigured Vizier instead, and the crown restores the Vizier to normal.
* Spoofed in the [[After the End]] [[B-Movie]] ''Battletruck'' (aka ''Warlords of the 21st Century'').
{{quote|[[Big Bad]] (to The Dragon): "Tell the men to Inventory and Requisition."
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* In ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' the soldiers go through the mansion of a Nazi grandee and find a large supply of expensive wine. After which they solemnly enact an Ancient Military Custom...
** Later, Major Winters shows his friend Nixon (who has a major drinking problem) Hermann Goering's wine <s>cellar</s> warehouse. The expression on Nixon's face is priceless.
** Also, Ronald Spiers' collection of silver, and other various characters collecting everything from Hitler's personal photographs to Luger pistols.
* In ''[[The Pacific]]'', a Seabee on Peleliu says he is looking for a Japanese sword to take home. The Marines, who have just been through some very nasty fighting, give him a very dirty look.
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* ''[[Sid Meier's Pirates!]]'': Every time a ship is captured, they show this quite deliciously.
* In a CD-ROM game based on the show ''[[Arthur]]'', if one succeeds in finding a treasure chest in the scuba diving minigame, a newspaper article with a picture of Arthur surrounded by the treasure will appear.
* ''[[Borderlands]]'' allows you to plunder enemy weapons, grenade mods, and cash.
* A game play mechanic in ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Thracia 776''. Since you get very little money on your own, the best way to get items and weapons are to Capture enemy units, strip them of their possessions and then release them.
* The average [[RPG]] has the gameplay mechanic of "When it's dead, loot it.". [[Moral Dissonance|The moral implications of]] [[Grave Robbing|robbing the dead]] [[Moral Dissonance|rarely come up,]] [[Rule of Fun|because getting cool new stuff is always fun.]]
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* ''[[Servants of the Imperium]]''
** [http://www.servantsoftheimperium.com/comic/?comicid=32 "Krin, what is that you're holding" "Standard issue looting sack M'lord" "Of course it is, how silly of me"]
* In ''[[The Zombie Hunters]],'' the eponymous team of [[Disaster Scavengers]] loot and smuggle on the sly while on salvage missions for their [[Island Base]] of [[Zombie Apocalypse]] [[Action Survivor|survivors]]. It's this [[Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb|temptation]] that causes [[The Captain]] to lead them on a misadventure in a zombie-dense "[[Forbidden Zone|red zone]]," and a ''slightly'' less brazen attempt to steal beer from quarantine. [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]] is a favored hiding place for contraband, and one character brazenly sports the slogan "I [[Heart Symbol|<3]] Looting" on a [[Fun T-Shirt]].
* [[Schlock Mercenary]]'s [[Big Book of War|Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Pirates]] addresses this issue in its very first Maxim: Pillage ''then'' burn.
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** Indeed. And a lot of the country estates of [[Jane Austen]] s friends were "unwillingly subsidized " by France.
*** Though it wasn't quite a "reward". The Navy bought captured ships from the ships' crews that captured them, and the ships' crew split the money, according to ancient custom. It was cheaper and quicker for the Navy to get ships that way than to have them built.
* One book described [[Badass Israeli|Israel]] as "The second largest [[Arms Dealer|exporter]] of Soviet arms" because of all the gear it had "acquired" in the course of their [[Arab-Israeli Conflict|relations with surrounding powers]].
* The British attack over the Rhine into Germany in World War II was named "Operation Plunder." While the pilfering was of a rather touristy kind (Cameras, choice wines, nice pictures) the British took the name of the operation as a rather tacit permission to go to town. Officers generally looked the other way.
** The British are generally quite good at this. See any Invasion of any kind by English, Scottish or Welsh troops.
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