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** Often, their clients aren't even looking for money, but revenge, or some other compensation. In these cases, they use the payout to bankroll their operation.
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' had a whole episode devoted to the investigation of a rash of thefts of this nature. Of the two leads, Chuck is sympathetic to the perpetrator, Ned is not. {{spoiler|The events of the episode eventually show Ned as the correct one}}.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'':
** At the start of ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'', Jack and Z are stealing food and clothing for the homeless. The [[Space Police]] soon catch up with them, but offer them the chance to serve as Rangers instead of rotting in jail (Z jumps at the chance, Jack takes more convincing).
** Ziggy from ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' was similar, but slightly darker, initially being a actual villain raising money to fund an orphanage by working for a mobster before becoming a hero - seeing as he wasn't the most competent one, it seemed easier to forgive him later. Even as the Green Ranger he was something of a maverick and a [[Loveable Coward]] type.
* In ''[[Firefly]]'', Jayne Cobb is portrayed as one of these by the people of the mud-farming slave town of Canton. Emphasis on [[Accidental Hero|"portrayed."]]
* Omar Little of ''[[The Wire]]'' generally just steals from drug dealers, but he's been seen on more than one occasion giving money to poor kids. Additionally, Stringer tells Avon at one point that his 'Robin Hood' style is why he's so untouchable, despite the sizable bounty on his head; he's known to share his take of the drugs with addicts in the areas he settles in, so they won't pass on his whereabouts to the Barksdales.
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