The Caper: Difference between revisions

Told from the criminal viewpoint, a group plans and executes a robbery. The criminals are usually more rounded than the opposition, or at least more colorful. Usually contains at least one [[A-Team Montage]] or [[Avengers Assemble]] sequence. May feature a [[Plot Tailored to the Party]]. Alternately called a "heist." May be played seriously or as a comedy.

 

 

When adding examples, if a work is more noted for being [[The Con]] than '''The Caper''', but some episodes were '''The Caper''', please identify the episode, or at least give plot details so that it can be identified.

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* A lot of the filler arcs of ''[[GetBackers]]'' qualify as The Caper. Even though the titular characters only steal items to return then to their original owners, sometimes the definition of "original owner" can get really fuzzy (especially with Clayman).

* In an episode of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', Momoka, Natsumi, and Moa form the "[[Phantom Thief]] Troupe: More Peach Summer" to steal the painting "The Birth of Venus"... which turns out to be {{spoiler|[[Embarrassing Old Photo|an embarrassing portrait of Momoka as a baby, naked]]}}.

* The point of virtually all ''[[Lupin III]]'' stories.

* In an early episode of ''[[Armored Trooper VOTOMS]]'', Chirico and company hijack a [[Unobtainium|jijirium]] shipment.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[The Asphalt Jungle]]'' - A deconstruction in which The Caper ends badly for all participants.

* ''[[The Pink Panther]]''

* ''[[The Bank Job]]''

* ''Takers''

* ''How to Steal a Million''

* ''[[Inside Man]]'', in a roundabout fashion.

* The Stanley Kubrick film ''[[The Killing (film)|The Killing]]''.

* The Danish film-series ''Olsen-banden'' and its Swedish and Norwegian counterparts consists pretty much of nothing but this.

* The latest ''St. Trinians'' movie (and the older ones, too).

* ''[[Leverage]]'' uses this trope as its main premise often mixing it with [[The Con]].

* ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "The Heist".

* The short-lived series ''Thieves''.

* The FX character drama ''Thief'' revolves around this trope, as does the NBC actioner, ''[[Heist]]''.

* Pulling off capers is the primary focus of Fragile Alliance, the multiplayer mode of the ''[[Kane and Lynch|Kane & Lynch]]'' games.

* Parodied in one ''[[Saints Row]] 2'' mission where an elaborate plan is thought up for a heist, but the plan is scrapped in favor of just walking through the front door and shooting everyone.

* Pretty much the entire premise of the [[Sly Cooper]] series.

* The ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' DLC Dead Money, where the player (who's been strapped with an [[Explosive Leash]]) is forced to help the insane Father Elijah loot the Sierra Madre casino with the help of three other NPCs, one of which has been at this for two centuries.

** Then there's the one where they somehow manage to set Homestar adrift in the Arctic Ocean, and can't for the life of them remember how they pulled off their "greatest caper ever". It apparently started with The Cheat peeing in Homestar's melonade...

 

* The ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' [[Story Arc]] [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091012 "Displacement"] has the [[Main Characters]] trying to pull one of these at a [[Mad Scientist]]'s auction. Then it turns out the [[Mad Scientist]] is actually throwing a [[Nasty Party]], and [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', Roan's rescue. Since he was [[Made a Slave|a slave]], technically a robbery as well.

 

== Web Original ==

 

 

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