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{{trope}}
[[File:vadershoppingresize 8027.jpg|link=Star Wars|frame| "I find your lack of asthma inhalers disturbing."]]
{{quote|''When the enterprising burglar's not a-burgling (not a-burgling)''
''When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime ('pied in crime)''
''He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling (brook a-gurgling)''
''And listen to the merry village chime (village chime)''
|''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'', "When A Felon's Not Engaged In His Employment" <ref>(perhaps better known as "A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One")</ref>}}
{{quote|''Look, Perry the Platypus, just because'' I'm ''evil doesn't mean everything I'' do ''is evil''.
|'''Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz''', ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''}}
The heroes are on the ropes, the [[Evil Overlord]] has been [[Sealed Evil in a Can|awakened from his ancient slumber]] and [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours|his kung fu is stronger than theirs]]. While the heroes are licking their wounds, they wonder what unspeakable evil he's plotting, and the camera makes a cut to...''([[Dramatic Pause]]!)''...the villain trying out some jeans and t-shirts at Hot Topic.
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[[Kingpin in His Gym]] and [[Mob Boss Suit Fitting]] are subversions, as the villains may initially seem to be enjoying some downtime but are actually training for/planning further villainy.
{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4_dZPVg8KI Darth Vader goes to Disneyland.]
* It's unclear whether or not the two girls in [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/suntory-ad_n_5599608?cps=gravity this Japanese commercial] ever do [[Professional Killer|anything typical of the Ninja]] (because that is what they obviously are), but here they're just playing a friendly game of tag.
* Spectrum had a whole series of commercials features with famous monsters such as the Grim Reaper, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and a Mad Scientist behaving like average joes with average jobs. The first one had them commuting to work much like any commuters do, nonchalantly talking about their villainous and non-villainous plans - the Mummy plans to summon the Apocalypse right after taking his twin sons to soccer, while the Reaper complains about his cable TV going out. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY1ryoDSp7o&t=32s An entire compilation is shown here.]
* [[Medusa]] manages to have a social life after [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIcORl2jMPE&ab_channel=TheRiske ordering sunglasses from Amazon Prime].
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* Kyoko from ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' {{spoiler|before her [[Heel Face Turn]]}} fits this trope very nicely. She is shown outside of the Apostles as being a normal school girl that text messages and goes clothes shopping.
* During an episode of ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', Revy and Rock are made to deliver news on a shipment to proto-[[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bitch]] and mob queen, Balalaika. They find her...[[Black Lagoon/Funny|busy in the middle of a several-hour marathon of doing post-production and slicing on porn films that her cartel is distributing; all the while complaining loudly that she should ''really'' have an intern for doing this and wishing for someone to shoot her.]]
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* Arguably, ''[[Death Note]]'' and ''[[Code Geass]]'' use this as an [[Invoked Trope]] with the behavior of their respective [[Villain Protagonist]] and [[Byronic Hero]] when they are aware they are under surveillance. Light, of course, has his infamous potato chip eating scene, and Lelouch has a perhaps better example in the second season, where he goes on a sort of date with Shirley at the mall and is observed by both his fellow classmates and the government, and manages to pretend to be oblivious to both, and to enact a scheme as Zero while on the date.
** In ''[[Death Note]]'', [[Hanging Judge|Teru]] [[Ax Crazy|Mikami]] subscribes to a gym (though it does factor into Light's plan).
*** And if you don't take in to consideration that [[Psychopathic Manchild|Misa]] [[
*** Light and [[Shinigami|Ryuk]] have been known to hang out watching wrestling matches and playing video games in between murder plots.
* In ''[[D.Gray-man]]'', when Tyki is invited over to the main villain's lair, he ends up having to help one of the Earl's favorites, Road Kamelot, with her homework.
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* When new villain, Vilagilio, appears in ''[[Rinne no Lagrange]]'', he seems to be a serious deal. In the very next episode he spends most of time goofing out at the beach and goes drinking with Madoka's uncle after they got into a fight over a coat they both wanted to buy.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* While being one of the most horrible villains in the DC universe, [[Darkseid]] has also done some surprisingly normal things, like work at a [[Burger Fool]], buy Earth porn and later watch it (purely for "research" purposes), and was once even mugged, and spent most of the time just analyzing the experience.
** Don't forget sitting on couches.
* In the ninth issue of [[Judd Winick]]'s ''[[Batman and the Outsiders|Outsiders]]'', the demon Sabbac inflicts third degree burns on resident tank Grace. The scene cuts away after a strategic retreat by the eponymous team, and when next Sabbac is shown, he's trying on a new suit. This is partly subverted in that he's murdered everyone working at the shop in incredibly gruesome manners.
* ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'':
**
** Another [[Spider-Man]] example is in [[Marvel Comics|Marvel's]] Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man # 1, where Peter goes into a movie theater to catch a screening of an old sci-fi flick, and ends up sitting next to Quentin Beck - aka Spidey's foe [[Master of Illusion|Mysterio.]] Beck doesn't know who Peter is, and Peter doesn't recognize Beck in the dark, so the two foes wind up chatting back and forth about their mutual appreciation for film.
** During the "Identity Crisis" storyline, Spidey spies on the criminal mercenaries Roughhouse and Bloodscream; the former remarks how he's looking forward to watching the new episode of ''[[South Park]]''.
* In ''[[Thunderbolts]]'', Atlas hangs out at a sports bar and discovers Man-Killer, a psychotically misandrist criminal, laying low by tending bar there. In this case, however, he, having been there before as a former criminal himself, manages to strike up a small friendship with her.
* Done occasionally with the Nomad in ''Beau Peep'', although the Legion were aware he was an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]], they were less sure about his alter ego, the Desert Shadow.
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* In the second issue of ''[[Mega Man (comics)|Mega Man]]'', the ''Short Circuits'' shows Wily lounging by the pool and getting his hair cut, all the while using Cut Man for [[Mundane Utility|Mundane Utilities]].
* While [[Sub-Mariner|Namor's]] villain status is [[Heel Face Revolving Door|in more or less continual dispute]], this does occasionally happen. At one point, he's seen surrounded by tanks protesting that he ''can't'' surrender, he's not here to invade...he just wants a bagel.
* Zigzagged with the Femizons in one ''[[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]]'' story. This ''incredibly'' large team of female villains had assumed Superia had offered them a girls-only pleasure cruise (and were understandably upset when Cap and Paladin crashed their party); Superia hadn't told them she wanted them for an army she'd need for her master plan (she intended to launch missiles from Femizonia which would infect the Earth with a biological weapon designed to sterilize all females. Surrounded by the island's protective dome, Superia and her followers would be unaffected, thereby granting them a powerful bargaining position over the rest of the planet. Unfortunately for her, most of the villains (as in, all but two) didn't have her [[Straw Feminist]] or genocidal views, [[Not What I Signed Up For| and when she revealed them, wanted no part in it.]]
▲== Fan Fics ==
* In ''[[Nareto: The Scret Of Shiobi]]'', Danzo and [[Original Character|Darkeye]] go to a movie together, despite being constantly stated to be really, really evil. However, the movie is called {{spoiler|"How to Take Over the World"}}.
* [http://fav.me/d3ehnjv This] humorous fanart of [[Pokémon Black and White|Ghetsis]] doing household chores.
* [https://www.deviantart.com/oni-tier/art/Day-24-Multi-limb-Marilith-320618888 Here's fan art] of a marilith (a powerful demon queen from ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'') hanging out at the mall.
* In ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]'', Madara and {{spoiler|Sasuke}} play some video games late in the fic. However, since they include ''[[In Famous]]'' and ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'', the author clearly intends it as yet another [[Take That]].
== [[Film]] ==▼
* Drake/Dracula in ''[[Blade (film)|Blade
▲== Film ==
▲* Drake/Dracula in ''[[Blade (film)|Blade]]: Trinity'' visits a goth store soon after he is reawakened from his slumber. He is so disgusted by the sight of what the goths think reflects the nature of vampires that he ends up killing the two clerks managing the store.
* The deliciously silly ''[[D.E.B.S.]]'' starts with a spy organisation being briefed that supervillain and mass murderess Lucy Diamond is back in town and has been revealed to be meeting with a notorious Russian assassin at a local restaurant. {{spoiler|It's a blind date.}}
* The murderous anti-hero protagonists of ''[[The Devil's Rejects|The Devils Rejects]]'' stop to get ice cream in one scene.
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* In the original version of ''[[The Taking of Pelham One Two Three]]'', when he isn't issuing threats or demands, Mr. Blue passes the time while waiting in the hijacked subway car for the delivery of the ransom by...doing a crossword puzzle.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* In the second [[Thursday Next]] book, ''Lost In A Good Book'', Aornis Hades, the sister of the last book's [[Big Bad]], is followed to find out her [[Evil Plan]]. The report on her finds her actually shopping for clothes in Topshop, and stopping for coffee and carrot cake.
* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]], ''Moritat'' (also known as ''Mack the Knife'') from the Threepenny Opera is an example of this - Macheath is introduced calmly strolling on the street a song detailing his various horrible crimes play calmly in the background. This is especially true in the film from the 1930s, where he actually takes time to admire his wanted poster and ''listen to the song'', behaving without a care in the world.
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** In the next book another Dark Mage is late to a briefing with the [[Big Bad]] because he was...feeding ducks.
** Later on, after Anton partakes in a friendly game of soccer with some random humans to take his mind off his current mission, he muses that he can [[Not So Different|just as easily]] picture a Dark One doing the same thing, especially if an old and experienced one, who's got satiated with the more sumptuous pleasures and comes to appreciate the simple ones.
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'',
* In ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', [[Big Bad|Tigerstar]] spends quite a lot of time hanging out with pretty she-cats. Meanwhile, [[Magnificent Bastard]] Sol has a meet and greet with the heroes in ''The Forgotten Warrior''.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* [[Jeffrey Combs|Weyoun]] of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' gets a few of these moments. There's one where he is analyzing (or trying to analyze) a painting, and even asks Major Kira (a good guy who is under an occupation force that is under his command) what she thinks of it...genuinely, with no sinister undertones whatsoever. There's also a clip from the final montage of the fabulous episode "In The Cards" showing Weyoun thoroughly enjoying the crack-pot "Cellular Regeneration And Entertainment Chamber". Like I said, fabulous.
** Also ordering various meals through the food replicator. He explains that while his taste buds were shaped by the dominion leaders to perceive only one specific taste (a native type of nut from their homeworld) in order to keep them humble, he loved experiencing various types of textures and crunchiness in alien cuisine.
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** Even Marlo Stansfield, the closest example of a pure evil character, is shown picking up chicks in bars and planning a celebratory trip to Atlantic City.
* During the early seasons of ''[[Miami Vice]]'', it was common to see the week's given drug dealer/pimp/gun-runner etc, doing the most diabolical things, like...hanging out on the beach, dancing at the club, and, of course, trying on leather pants in some trendy Miami shop. Well, not leather, because leather and the Miami heat don't mix, but you get the point.
* [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|The reimagined ''
** New Caprica and Season 3 onwards also treat us with glimpses of life aboard the Baseships. Apparently, when not committing genocide and shooting civilian ships, Cylons spend their time living in their personal [[Happy Place]], [[Fan Service|doing Thai-Chi naked]], listening to the ramblings of [[Mad Oracle|Hybrids]], repeatedly committing suicide to get a glimpse of [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|things not meant to be known]], and bickering with each other on every decision.
* UK [[Sketch Comedy]] ''[[Big Train]]'' loves this trope. One recurring sketch has what is essentially Ming The Merciless doing his daily chores, such as cleaning the house, checking his mail, and angrily yelling out the answers to questions of a quiz show he's watching on TV. Another sketch has Wolfman and [[Dracula]] hanging out in a public toilet (apparently at a conference of some sort), [[Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults|bad mouthing]] the other monsters. Which results in an Awkward Silence when The Mummy walks in.
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* In ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', the murderous, {{spoiler|incestuous}} twins Jaime and Cersei Lannister are seen doing such terrible things as having breakfast with their family, giving their condolences to a grieving mother, and giving [[Sarcasm Mode|friendly advice]] to a young man about to leave home for the first time.
▲== Stand-Up Comedy ==
* The most famous routine in comedian [[Eddie Izzard]]'s stand-up show ''Circle'' features [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] vainly attempting to get served with some lunch in the [[Death Star]]'s canteen. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp69rg6Hdlo here].
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' will inevitably have many examples.
** The foremost Necromancer Queen of ''[[Eberron]]''
** In the ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'', the most powerful evil force is likely [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Daurgothoth Daurgothoth the Creeping Doom], an ancient dracolich. He usually stays in his lair, engrossed in endless magical research, and kills anyone who dares enter and devouring their souls - but he is also known to sometimes assume human form and go to taverns to socialize, especially ones with pretty female singers. (An old ghost story told in Waterdeep pubs is of a young bard traveling alone at night, her music attracting a fellow traveler to her campsite... [[Nightmare Fuel|But ''is'' it a fellow traveler, or the Creeping Doom in disguise?]]) Granted, his fondness for human women might stem from a plan to sire offspring, which seems impossible for an undead like him, but the yearning is almost an obsession.
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'': When not raining plagues and disease on the mortal realms,
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'', the player can often find him or herself in situations where Sith soldiers or even Dark Jedi are "off duty" in a lounge, bar, or simply keeping to themselves. This is the entire point of the world of Manaan, where a neutrality treaty has forced enemies to work in close proximity to each other without fighting. The player can even accept sidequests from some of these characters to help them out. This is somewhat justified in some cases where the player can choose to support the Sith for their own purposes.
** The sequel has a rather hilarious conversation tucked into Dantooine, where the player confronts one of the mercenaries plaguing the planet, while he's placidly (and helpfully) spelunking. As he says, even professional killers need hobbies.
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* The very first scene in [[Thief]] had a pair of guards talking about going to the bear fights latr, one of them being disgusted at how soft and harmless the bears have become compared to [[Everything Is Worse With Bears|the killing machines they were in his youth.]]
* In the remakes of ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'', the player character can visit the Goldenrod City Department Store while disguised as a member of Team Rocket. The civilian NPCs [[Lampshade Hanging|make some bemused comments about you]].
* One DLC character in ''[[Everybody's Golf World Tour]]'' (or ''Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds'' in North America) is Kratos. Yep, the brutal, violent, god-slaying [[Villain Protagonist]] from ''[[God of War]]'' is taking some time out for a round of golf with a bunch of chibi teenagers. For those interested in how well he plays, he's excellent at Power Driving, pretty good at Spin, but terrible at Sidespin.
* ''[[Clock Tower]]''; in one part of the game, you can enter what looks like a lounge and see [[Big Bad| the Scissor Man]] watching television. Look closely, and you can see he's watching ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoons!
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance]]'', Johnny Cage's Konquest Mode says that Cyrax always hated Johnny's movies and "felt especially robbed of his eight bucks when he saw Johnny's ''Ninja Mime''"; the whole idea of a member of [[Murder, Inc.| the deadly Lin Kuei clan]] spending eight bucks to take in a movie seems kind of amusing.
== [[Web Animation]] ==▼
▲== Web Animation ==
* The ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoon ''Cheat Commandos: Shopping For Danger!'' revolves around this premise. The villainous Blue Lasers are at the supermarket, picking up their groceries, which the Commandos assume must be part of some sort of plan to "make it snow at the beach". It turns out that they're half-right; the Blue Laser Commander was convinced that the mildewy grout in his shower was the reason his organization couldn't crush the Cheat Commandos.
* Legendary Frog's cartoon "The Return of Ganondorf" has Ganondorf from ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' come back after being defeated by Link, claiming to have reformed. Link doesn't believe him though, so he keeps trying to spy on Ganondorf to catch him being evil, but only succeeds in seeing him playing Saria's Song, getting a drawing from him after sneaking into his room, and watching him at Zelda's slumber party as everyone does the Chicken Dance.
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* The [[Gag Dub]] series ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkUAZYgDSYg The Skeletor Show]'' reveals what the villains from ''He-Man'' do in their off-hours. (Going on blind dates, yammering on about skincare products, singing to themselves, etc.)
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
* ''[[8-
▲== Web Comics ==
▲* ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'': When loser sociopath Black Mage unexpectedly finds himself without his despised bunch of "allies" (aka The Light Warriors), he enjoys the freedom from their quest to [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/06/08/episode-705-starting-over/ fulfill his lifelong dream of... becoming a cobbler's apprentice]. After murdering the previous owner of a cobbling shop (the man made the mistake of rebuffing Black Mage's application), Black Mage takes over as the new owner. (The amazing thing, knowing Black Mage, is he ''did'' ask beforehand, but the more amazing thing is that he actually [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/06/13/episode-707-the-shoe-that-broke-the-mages-back/ sticks with the job.]) Turns out, he is [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/06/17/episode-709-midnight-in-the-garden-of-shoes-and-evil/ surprisingly good at making shoes]. Something of a wasted talent, what, with all his usual plans for death and destruction and sacrificing orphans to the Dark Gods, that is.
** In true Black Mage form, though, he does make shoes out of the COBBLER HE SLAUGHTERED.
* In ''[[Clan of the Cats]]'', Dracula has been revived after years of being dead. The first thing he does is...go shopping for Dracula memorabilia.
* [http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_932.php This] ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
* In ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'', Mr. Mighty steps out his of front door one morning to find his arch-nemesis, [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=archive&chapter=29688 Dr. Unpleasant], volunteering as a school crossing guard.
* The entire point of ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'', which mostly shows the titular group when they aren't performing super duper top secret missions or plotting global revolutions.
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* The [[Mega Crossover]] [[Fanfic]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007]]'' (and for a lesser extent its [[Spin-Off]] s ''[[Girls Next Door]]'' and ''[[Down the Street]]'') tends to run on this, if for no other reasons than most of the characters are [[Villains]] and out of their own continuity. So they are out shopping, at work (the local [[Extranormal Institute|university]] is an interesting place), doing laundry, having a [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=168#/d132xw9 movie night], eating sushi, having picnics, and [http://pika-la-cynique.deviantart.com/art/GND46-GuitarSympatheticVillain-107272139?offset=20 playing video games] amongst others.
* ''[[Samurai Princess]]'': Nicholas and their pet raccoon engage in banter while having some ice cream at cafe after shopping.
* ''[[The Adventures of Superhero Girl]]'': Superhero girl runs into a shopping ninja.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]'' is this trope like red is a color. When he isn't building freeze rays (Stops time. Tell your friends.), Billy (AKA the titular Doctor) is doing laundry, checking his mail, and trying to work up the courage to confess his feelings toward an ordinary girl named Penny.▼
▲== Web Original ==
▲* ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]'' is this trope like red is a color. When he isn't building freeze rays (Stops time. Tell your friends.), Billy (AKA the titular Doctor) is doing laundry, checking mail, and trying to work up the courage to confess his feelings toward an ordinary girl named Penny.
* ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'' has Voldemort arguing with Quirrell about laundry in his first scene. Later in the show, they go out and get drunk, talk about watching ''[[She's All That]]'', and rollerskate.
{{quote|'''Newsreader''': Voldemort blogs about [his return to power] on his new FlooTube channel.
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'''Newsreader''': Also does a review of ''[[17 Again]]''.
'''Voldemort''': Well, it was a little slow at the beginning, but come on: [[Zac Efron]]! Zefron! 'Nuff said. }}
* Obligatory ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' example: In the Bad Seeds' Christmas story, the Seeds (all children of supervillains), when they aren't trying to steal energy from Seraphim or beat up the supervillain leaving She-Beast's real name on crime scenes, are using their time in New York City to shop. Legal shopping for Christmas gifts. Except [[Sociopathic Hero]] Jobe, who is using his downtime to do biological research and argue over the phone with other researchers, which turns out to be an enormous [[Chekhov's Gun]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E5iUry5EjQ This delightful gem] from Kajet begins with ''[[Castlevania]]'' [[Big Bad]] Dracula enjoying some delicious pot roast...when he is informed of a Belmont in the castle (PFFFT). (Caution, lots of cursing)
* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', [[Big Bad|Danya]], when not kidnapping hundreds of high school students at a time and forcing them to fight to the death, is shown to enjoy spending quality time with his loving wife and adorable eight-year-old daughter.
* ''[[The Spoony Experiment]]'' features a [[Mad Scientist]] villain named Dr. Insano, who plots to take over the world ''with science''. Despite claiming to have killed thousands with his army of robotic suicide squirrels, and winning the 2008 presidential election, what we mostly see him doing is sitting around Spoony's house, helping with reviews (and occasionally doing his own), and fixing an Atari Jaguar CD.
* The only formal interview [[Evil Overlord|Lord Doom]], the primary [[Big Bad]] of the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', ever gave to any member of the press was to a seventeen year old high school girl who asked nicely in an open letter posted to the internet. The inquiry intrigued the master villain, and the girl got international fame (and a very, very interesting story for her school newspaper) when he agreed to her request. While the interview started off as the standard piece, it eventually descended into a three-page discussion about classic rock music, James Bond films, favorite books, and where one could find the best pizza on the planet.
* ''[[Marik Plays Bloodlines]]'' is an entire miniseries of this, spinning off from ''Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series''. Yugi's mortal (if rather kooky) enemy is apparently taking time off at some unspecified point to LP ''Vampire: The Masquerade'', complete with fellow villain Bakura snarking at him in the background.
* The Luthor/Green Goblin debates in the ''[[I'm a Marvel...
** Later installments of the series feature Villains ''and'' Heroes Out Shopping (or drinking, anyway), as they focus on both sides relaxing, unwinding, and shooting the breeze at their local drinking holes. In typical fashion, the hero bar is a rather calm, sedate place where water costs $4.99 because most superheroes don't drink booze ([[Never Live It Down/Comic Books|except, notably]], [[Iron Man]]), whereas the villain's hangout is generally a bit more raucous.
** Taken even further by the "Goblin Bloggin'" segments by the same author, in which Green Goblin hosts a [[YouTube]] vid-blog, and generally furthers the impression, gained over the previous 'Marvel / DC' installments, of being quite an [[Affably Evil]] [[Anti-Villain]] with a deluded crush on [[Harley Quinn]] in this universe (albeit one with a psychopathic hair-trigger temper, an almighty grudge against [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]], and a slightly uncomfortable obsession with [[Spider-Man (film)|Willem Dafoe]]).
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEaVhbomEdM Daleks taking a break to get ice cream] at the Leicester Space Centre.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''
▲== Western Animation ==
**
** In "Harley's Holiday", a 'reformed' Harley literally goes shopping—and takes the pet hyenas for a walk. Of course, when she buys a dress at a clothing store, she leaves with the dress before the cashier can remove the theft alarm from it. The shoplifter alarm starts ringing and the security guard comes over to try to explain that the cashier needs to remove the tag for her, but Harley sort of...freaks out, thinking she was going to be arrested again. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
{{quote|'''Harley:''' I'm havin' a bad day! I'm sick of people trying to shoot me, ride over me and blow me up! ...I didn't get to keep my new dress, and I actually paid for it!}}
** Also in
** And then there's that Christmas episode where Harley and Poison Ivy kidnap Bruce Wayne and brainwash him to pay for all their Christmas shopping. Batman is not amused.
** An amusing subversion: the episode with [[The Creeper]] has him tearing through a series of outfights in a shop while [[Super Stoic Shopkeeper|the bored woman at the till]] looks on. You thoroughly expect him to abscond with the clothes ''sans'' payment...except Batman traces his identity because he used his former self's credit card.
** "Almost Got 'Im" mostly consists of the villains hanging out playing poker, drinking tea, and swapping [[Death Trap]] stories without being up to any evil schemes ({{spoiler|except for the Joker...}}).
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* Norm the Genie from ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' did this after becoming a fairy godparent, except it wasn't literal shopping. It was car racing, Hawaii, wish-granting, flirting, restaurants, etc. Probably because now that he was a Fairy, he had to follow their rules and laws, or risk losing his new status and freedom and going back to the lamp as a Genie.
** The Thanksgiving storybook does this with Vicky, though it's technically her family (who we know she terrorizes on the show) doing the shopping. In this book, Timmy finds that Vicky is alone on Thanksgiving because her family went out to get cranberry sauce and their car broke down, and, [[Out-of-Character Moment|for once, Vicky is actually worried for them]].
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Trump Guy", Peter's [[Arch Enemy]] Ernie the Giant Chicken is seen visiting the Smithsonian with his son; he doesn't even notice the brutal fight between Peter and [[Donald Trump]] behind them, although many [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight| other folks in the city don't seem to notice either.]]
* In ''[[Freakazoid!]]'', the titular hero has encountered The Lobe at least twice while the latter was shopping. He expresses amazement at this, saying "Lobe? I thought you were terrorizing [name of place] with some kind of [silly sounding weapon]!"▼
* ''[[Freakazoid!]]'',
▲**
** The Lobe decides he needs a break from villainy and goes to a restaurant, where everybody knows him by name, and he's their favorite guest. Mind you, he does cut this short to help out Freakazoid, but demands a chase scene before he does so.
** Queen Cobra is also shown having decorated her villainous lair with Chinese Lanterns, as per Freakazoid's suggestion, off camera, sadly.
* ''[[Gargoyles]]''
**
** Xanatos, however, is [[Xanatos Gambit]]. Shortly after he begins shopping for diamonds, two members of The Pack attempt to rob the place. The events are convoluted, but the result is Xanatos recruits Maza's brother as his helicopter pilot and bodyguard. The Pack is controlled by Fox, who is Xanatos's girlfriend and later wife. Xanatos claims he set the whole thing up, but it's hard to tell if he's being truthful or just playing mind games.
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'' has at least two such events.
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** The whole episode "Zim Eats Waffles" is about this and Dib's [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend|inability to catch Zim being evil]]. Dib has a [[Surveillance as the Plot Demands|hidden spy camera]] in Zim's house, but rather than doing evil things, Zim...eats waffles and putters around like it's a lazy Saturday. Of course, ''his'' lazy Saturdays involve rampaging cyber-zombies and flesh-eating robot squid. Demon squid.
* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' had a variation: the episode "Flash and Substance" opened with a conversation between various minor villains in a [[Bad Guy Bar|bar frequented by other minor villains]]. They chat and drink (''[[Frothy Mugs of Water|milk]]''—he has ulcers) and welcome a fellow [[Rule of Three|minor villain]] heartily when he shows up, newly released from jail.
** Later in the same episode, it turns out that Flash knows all about their little "hole-in-the-wall on Third."
* A common plot has ''[[Kim Possible]]'' outright attacking a shopping villain for a crime they didn't commit. It doesn't matter if said villain should be in [[Cardboard Prison|jail]] right now for what they ''did'' do [[Negative Continuity|in previous episodes]].
** Shego also has been known to spend time at the beach when she's angry at Dr. Drakken.
** In one episode, Drakko sics a bunch of robotic suits of armor on the heroine, because his usual henchmen are guests at a wedding. (Again, sadly, the wedding is completely offscreen.)
* Used repeatedly on ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' with Perry the Platypus and Dr. Doofenshmirtz (expected, as the two basically exist to parody every action and spy movie trope in existence).
** In "Unfair Science Fair Redux", Perry and Doofenshmirtz literally [[Friendly Enemy|go out shopping together]] to get supplies for Doof's latest [[Evil Plan]]—in the store, they encounter Perry's boss Major Monogram and his intern Karl, also out shopping. They stare at each other awkwardly and back away without saying anything.
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** Another episode had Him working at a pancake restaurant.
* Practically every episode of ''[[A Pup Named Scooby-Doo]].'' It's almost never [[Punny Name|Red Herring.]] He's usually revealed to be on a paper route, and never happy to be interrupted.=
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
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** At the end of the same episode, when Bob is sent to jail with his brother Cecil, Chief Wiggum says "who knows what diabolical schemes they might concoct?" Cut to Bob and Cecil having a [[Wimp Fight]] over the top bunk. After losing, Cecil asks where the menus are.
** At the beach, Chief Wiggum is told by his wife to relax, since he's on vacation, to which he dramatically replies, "Crime doesn't take a vacation." [[Whip Pan]] to the Springfield Mafia throwing a beach ball around; one mobster plaintively cries "Careful, you'll pop it!"
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** "Return to Spiderskull Island" features the old Team Venture gang and their former archvillains getting together at the titular island for Jonas Venture Jr.'s inauguration of the Jonas Venture Sr. museum. Team Venture is miffed that the villains seem to be making more table money selling autographs than ''they'' are.
** When Rusty gets out of being arched for his group therapy night, Dean, Hank, Sergeant Hatred and the entire Monarch mook contingent go see a movie ''at the same theater.''
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'':
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* Done in the ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' episode "Aquaman's Outrageous Adventure." After promising Mera and Arthur Jr. that he'll stop [[Busman's Holiday|running off on heroics during their family vacation]], Aquaman sees Sportsmaster on the road next to him. Initially excited at the opportunity to fight something dropped into his lap, he then realizes that Sportsmaster's family is in the car and he's on vacation too.
* ''[[Cinderella]]'' had Lady Tremaine giving a music lesson to her daughters.
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* ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'' has Gaston, who does lots of things when he's not plotting evil such as decorating his place with antlers, taking part in spitting contests, drink beer with his buddies and even attempting to play chess. And no one does any of those things like he does!
* From the [[Netflix]] version of ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]''; the faculty of [[Academy of Evil|V.I.L.E.]] truly get into the spirit during the [[Halloween Episode]], throwing a party with costumes, pumpkin carving, and bobbing for apples. Unfortunately for them, the apples get swapped for [[Stock Yuck| haggis]]
* An episode of ''[[G.I. Joe|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'' opened with the Baroness just minding her own business at a spa. Flint and Lady Jay had the day off too; unfortunately for all three of them and Cobra Commander, a third-party villain named the Gamemaster had other ideas..
== [[Real Life]] ==
* A ''New Yorker'' review of books on [[The French Revolution]] described how, at the height of the Terror, [[Maximilien Robespierre]] lived a normal life at a respectable boarding house, eating toast every morning with his favorite marmalade and flirting with his housekeeper's daughters (although not too much, as he was a rather prudish guy). After this, of course, he would go to work and sentence lots of people to the guillotine.
* In 1940, after the fall of France, many people assumed that Britain would quickly make peace and that the war was effectively over. Hitler certainly thought so, taking a post-conquest break to do a little sightseeing in Paris. Hitler was also [[Fan Art|fond of drawing Disney characters]] and ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' was one of his favorite movies. Joseph Goebbels wrote that he was "very pleased" to be given [[Mickey Mouse]] merchandise as a gift.
* At a Fugazi concert, Guy Picciotto chastised two violent audience members, who he saw before the show [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCdG6KPE35M "eating ice cream like little boys... ice-cream eating motherfuckers, that's what you are."]
* Bandits Bonnie Parker, of "Bonnie and Clyde" fame, and Charles Bolles, better known as "Black Bart," were known for writing light-hearted poetry about their crimes.
* In [[World War I]], during Christmas, [[Go-Karting with Bowser|the Allies and Central Powers forces on one part of the trenches stopped fighting and enjoyed games of association football, shared brewskeys, and, all and all, had a good laugh.]] Fighting resumed after that day. Some officers were more accommodating than others. In nearly all the cases, the soldiers were later transferred to different parts of the front. Even before this, there was the Gentlemen's Agreement between many opposing officers to mainly shoot grenades over each other's head, rather than aim at one another. Aside from this, there were areas where the trenches of each side were only several feet from each other...and soldiers would exchange cans of one thing for cans of another with the other side.
* James J. Bulger's entry on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list
* There are many photos in history books of Nazi soldiers posing next to famous landmarks in the countries they've just invaded, like the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131229090311/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Deutschesoldatenvordemarcdetriomphe1940.jpg "Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel"] here, or enjoying a swim in the Atlantic.
** Speaking of [[Those Wacky Nazis]], there's footage of several
** Also speaking of the
* Many students have bumped into the [[Sadist Teacher]] at the shops.
* This kind of effect can happen before and after a zombie walk, when the zombies are in costume but not [[Zombie Gait|in character]] and mill about riding public transit and buying snacks and so forth.
** Not only zombies but
** 1994's LA earthquake resulted in Edward Wiley/Gul Toran and Armin Shimerman/Quark driving home in full Cardassian/Ferangi makeup to check on their families.
** This was apparently quite common at Paramount Studios, with actors going home after a late night's filming still in makeup and just bringing back the prosthetic bits the next morning.
** Likewise, go to any anime/''Star Trek''/''Star Wars''...well,
*** A similar effect can show up whenever the local educational establishment encourages wearing one's Halloween costume to school. Entertainingly, the older the participants, the more likely group costumes are, which can result in things like Batman and the Joker sitting around peaceably, eating lunch together.
* [[North Korea|Kim-Jong Il]] was a fan of basketball and was delighted when Madeline Albright gave him a basketball autographed by [[Michael Jordan]], to the point he had a museum built specifically for its housing. He even owned all footage of Jordan playing for the Chicago Bulls.
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