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Alternatively, he might be brazen about his crime, but will have found a loophole in the law to get away with it.
Of course, he rarely will, for one reason or another. Maybe he isn't so smart as he thinks he is. Maybe his [[Mad
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* One issue of ''[[Astro City]]'' starred a mostly-retired villain who was seen as [[Laughably Evil]] by the hero community. He ends up committing a series of bank robberies and gets away with it, baffling the city's heroes. No one suspected him so he got away with it completely. The only way he gets caught is when he gets frustrated at not having [[Dude, Where's My Respect?|proper credit]] so he tries to commit the crime a second time and purposefully gets captured so he could explain how he did it in court and rub it in the faces of the heroes and legal system. {{spoiler|He also had pre-planned his escape from the courthouse... and possibly the country.}}
* {{spoiler|Eva Lord}} from ''[[Sin City]]'' manipulated Dwight McCarthy into committing murder and seduced a cop to protect her, leading to {{spoiler|his suicide and the slaying of his partner.}} She got away with everything. Even after death, there was no way to expose her.
* In ''X-Men Noir'', {{spoiler|Jean Grey kills Anne-Marie Rankin with [[Wolverine Claws]] to frame her old pal Captain Logan. She then cuts up all distinguishing facial features and dyes both her and the body's hair, assuming Rankin's identity. The police decide to not investigate the murder when they see an X-Man tattoo on the body, thinking it's not worth taxpayer money to figure out which of "Jean"'s gangland boyfriends got tired of her first. This leaves Jean to wait out the years until "Rankin" turns 21 so she can collect on her trust fund. Oh, and one last thing; Rankin had the unique talent to absorb the personality traits of whomever was around her at the time. Meaning Jean was now impersonating someone with no fixed personality; she's just ''that'' good an actress. Robert Halloway figures it for the perfect crime... at least, until he and his brother got involved and screwed it all up for her. One detail of such is that the body has apparently shrunk since it died, exposing the roots of its hair. That, or the cops didn't look closely at the body.}}
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