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** The titular character lampshades it in the comment at the top of the page
*** Which is of course a [[Shout-Out|reference]] to ''[[Les Misérables]]'', where Jean Valjean's lifelong chase with [[Inspector Javert]] begins with the theft of a loaf of bread.
*** Shouted out in [[The Animated Series]] when a thief is being pursued by both the guards and Aladdin himself. The scene is an almost shot-for-shot remake of the one from the move (before the singing), only the thief in question is nowhere near as good as Aladdin is, and stole a huge diamond ("All this for a diamond?").
** Subverted in that stealing an apple is punishable by instant removal of a hand.
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* Video game example: In the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series, the police will chase you after a simple fender bender. If the chase goes on long enough (and enough officers [[Lemming Cops|get killed trying to chase you]]), SWAT teams, helicopters, soldiers and eventually tanks will be called in to take you down. Though to be fair, after the player has killed multiple police officers and racked up thousands of dollars in property damage, they have some valid reasons to call in the tanks and jets.
** To be unfair (Ha!), the police will up your wanted level when they kill ''themselves'' in pursuit of you—apparently the GTA universe has some ''harsh'' felony murder laws. And of course the cops have absolutely no regard for innocent bystanders. Tanks, helicopters, troop trucks and jet fighters in the middle of an urban area - "Well, he dinged my fender!"
*** Even more amusing, they only chase you if you ding a cop car. You can plow into a civilian car at top speed and leave a huge dent in it, and the cops won't care. So much as tap a cop car though... In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|San Andreas]]'', they will pursue other civilians that hit their cars (opening up the [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|hilarious potential to shunt other cars into the cops]], only to watch ''them'' get busted when they roll dazed from the wreckage).
* ''[[Need for Speed]]: Most Wanted''. While the wanted level increases, the police not only use squad cars, but in Level 3, they use Pontiac GTO, and in Level 5, they use "Corvette C6!" And let's not talk about "[[Bonus Boss|Sgt.Cross]]", with heavily-modified Corvette C6!!! There are several destructible environments while you can laugh at when you crashed on it and see [[Lemming Cops|how the cop cars WRECKED!]] while your car doesn't.
** [[Older Than They Think|Before]] ''Most Wanted'', there was ''[[Need for Speed]] III: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Hot Pursuit]]''. After ''Most Wanted'', there was ''Carbon''. And ''Undercover'', [[Fanon Discontinuity|but fans don't talk about that]].
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