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== [[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]]
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* Comus from the [[Ellery Queen]] short story "The Dauphin's Doll" in ''Calendar of Crime''.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* [[Kamen Rider Decade|Kamen Rider Diend]] is actually named has Daiki ''[[Meaningful Name|Kaitou]]'', but he's only partway to being a full-fledged Phantom Thief. He has the "theft of valuable objects" and "uses trickery and illusions" bits down but his personality boils down to "real-life [[Troll]]" for his victims (especially [[The Hero|Tsukasa]]), and he steals not out of a sense of social justice but because he enjoys it ({{spoiler|though that's just his assertion, in truth it's because he's trying to fill the void left behind by his brother being [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashed by a crime boss]]}}).
* ''[[Iljimae|Il Ji-mae]]''
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