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Impossible Theft

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Impossible Theft	comment	The ultimate climax of any thief story is to steal something that cannot be stolen. Some thefts are more impossible than others, of course, and thieves that commit impossible thefts incidentally are usually more impressive than thieves who need to build up to a less impossible theft, but any sort of thief vs. thief conflict will usually prove the need to escalate the difficulty to impossible levels. Leave the objective in a timelocked diamond-hard safe underground in a room filled with lava past a pit of crocodiles and it will be gone in the morning. Should they choose to, they could steal your underwear (while you're wearing them!) without you noticing anything, or they could steal a jewel from in front of a dozen attentive guards without any of them seeing it go. If the theft was a climax of the story, then there's often an Unfolding Plan Montage to describe how it was done and what happens next. Otherwise, the explanation is more of a Noodle Incident, and the character is just that good. Narrower examples of the same are Monumental Theft, where the prize is too big to steal, and Intangible Theft, where there's no physical thing to steal. While this can be done by any thief, a Phantom Thief is most common, with Classy Cat-Burglar and Gentleman Thief not far behind. The Caper may also have an impossible target, but a large enough crew can reduce how "impossible" the theft seems to be. If video game mechanics allow the player's character to steal ridiculous things or under ridiculous circumstances, see Video Game Stealing. Ridiculous Repossession is when these items are repossessed instead of stolen.
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Impossible Theft / int_1063bb9	comment	Lelouch in The Black Emperor manages to steal C.C.'s bra while she's still wearing it and without coming within arms length of her.
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Impossible Theft / int_119a1cc9	comment	Team Fortress 2: Meet the Medic: Medic tells an anecdote about how he somehow non-lethally stole a patient's entire skeleton.
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Impossible Theft / int_11b7db91	comment	The Adventure Time episode "City of Thieves" ends with Penny managing to steal Finn's clothes while he's wearing them, leaving Finn in his underwear.
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Impossible Theft / int_11c6567a	comment	In the Thursday Next book The Eyre Affair the villain Acheron Hades has various inexplicable abilities such as not appearing on film or video, being impossibly persuasive, practically unkillable, able to "lie in thought, word and deed" and can push his hand through a bulletproof glass case to steal the item inside leaving only a faint ripple in the glass. In one scene he muses on how there's no need to hide from the guards, since they would be easily taken care of, but that wouldn't be as much fun.
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Impossible Theft / int_16fc4335	comment	Skif of the Heralds of Valdemar series claims to be able to make impossible thefts. At one point, he is challenged to steal a classmate's lucky coin. The classmate spends the rest of the day with his hand on his pocket to make sure it's still there, and gleefully tells Skif at the end of the time limit that he has failed. Skif then produces the coin. He pulled it off by stealing the coin and replacing it with a lead slug before the other kid challenged him.
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Impossible Theft / int_19ac551d	comment	In X-23, Gambit plays on his own reputation by promising Storm he will make Laura smile. And if not, he'll steal one for her.
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Impossible Theft / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma Â½ : Genma and Ranma using the Umisenken can steal the floor out from under trained martial artists or the clothes they are wearing without them noticing until after it was done. Happosai and Ranma have been shown to be able to steal underclothes (or objects hidden within them) while the people were still wearing them.
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Impossible Theft / int_1c1885de	comment	Raffles: A.J. Raffles, in the stories by E.W. Hornung, repeatedly pulls off "impossible" thefts, including that of a gold cup from the British Museum, and once, stealing the collection of "souvenirs" of his previous crimes from the Black Museum of Scotland Yard itself.
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Impossible Theft / int_1e123f98	comment	In the Franco-Belgian comic Achille Talon, kleptomaniac Toussaint Glinglin is able to steal absolutely everything, including people's clothes while talking to them, or the whole display of a shop he passed by. He even mentions having inadvertently stolen bells while visiting churches.
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Impossible Theft / int_1e9bf504	comment	Kids Praise: Risky Rat, the series' go-to villain, managed to steal every copy of the ninth album. Psalty called the churches and bookstores to see if any copies were anywhere, but there were absolutely none left: somehow Risky got them all in a very short time. Perhaps in reaction to how impossible this would be, a video adaptation changed it to where instead of stealing every copy of the 9th album, Risky instead stole the master tapes.
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Impossible Theft / int_1fc7499e	comment	In Reaper Man, two priests in Offler's lost temple hear someone approaching, presumably to steal the huge diamond therein. As the would-be thief trips one murderous booby-trap after another and still keeps coming, the priests grow increasingly alarmed, and are on the brink of panic when the intruder bypasses the temple's final line of defense. Luckily for them, it's only Death, not Mrs. Cake.
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Impossible Theft / int_1ff419c5	comment	At the beginning of Kingdom Hearts II, a Nobody steals all photos of Roxas from the simulation of Twilight Town. However, what makes it an example of this trope is that said Nobody also stole the word "photo" itself, making all characters unable to pronounce it and making it appear as "——" in text boxes.
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Impossible Theft / int_20948a39	comment	Tales of Monkey Island features Kevin the Thief who can repeatedly steal anything Guybrush tries to take from his place. Kevin has NO HANDS!
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Impossible Theft / int_2129f55	comment	The Return of the Pink Panther: Played for laughs in this film, and most of the franchise for that matter, as stealing the Pink Panther diamond should become more and more impossible with each film entry. In this film, a thief is able to use advanced gadgets to bypass security and steal the pink panther even as he makes several near misses, and he escapes when a security guard accidentally enters the room and triggers the lockdown procedures. Chaos and hilarioty often ensues since Police Are Useless.
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Impossible Theft / int_2161674a	comment	In The Gamers, the thief idly picks a bar patron's pocket for some money. Then he sees how far he can go, culminating in stealing the literal pants off the patron without them noticing:
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Impossible Theft / int_219914e9	comment	Before the story even begins, the main character of The Queen's Thief steals the king's seal; by the end of the series he steals peace, time, a queen, and three countries.
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Impossible Theft / int_21ab2cb9	comment	Thunderstruck: Saxony Canterbury uses magic by pretending to perform conjuring tricks. Stealing with only a fleeting contact is simple for him, more impressive is stealing a bullet from mid-air and producing it from behind the gunman's ear with all the brain spatter that implies.
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Impossible Theft / int_21ec74db	comment	Veronica, on Better Off Ted, was dating a magician named Mordor. One scene has the two of them fencing. Overcome by lust, they pull off their helmets and begin snogging. He pulls back and, with a magician's flourish, demonstrates that he's managed to remove her bra, though she's still in her fencing gear. He does it again with her panties.
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Impossible Theft / int_22e860f4	comment	An episode of Psych had a thief who managed to do things like steal an object out of a sealed metal box within seconds of the opportunity arising and this without disturbing the casing. It turned out he wasn't a thief at all. Everything was given to him by the "victims" who then collected insurance.
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Impossible Theft / int_25170ba6	comment	Avatar Battle Royale: Beren has he stolen a table (and since TSS takes place on a ship, the tables are nailed to the floor), and Mr. X's wallet. (Mr. X does not have a wallet.) Beren also steals Alana's rapier and uses the art change as a distraction; stealing the fourth wall in order to reveal it to the reader.
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Impossible Theft / int_2547d61f	comment	Neal Caffrey of White Collar fame charmingly cultivates a reputation for impossible thefts in-universe.
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Impossible Theft / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Grandpa Simpson pulls this on himself in "The Front", taking his own underwear without removing his pants so he can read his name. In "Simpsons Spin-off Showcase" segment "Chief Wiggum P.I.", crime boss Big Daddy was not only able to steal the Governor of Louisiana's mansion (as in off its foundation) but was able to keep it hidden for months. After Bart is caught in the store he was banned from for shoplifting in "Marge Be Not Proud", Det. Brodka claims that him stealing toys today will eventually lead to him stealing stadiums and quarries once he gets older.
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Impossible Theft / int_28508de	comment	In Winx Club Bloom's Dragon's Flame is a power that is impossible to take away. It can be given away, sealed, or even snuffed out, but cannot be taken away, as shown by the Three Ancestral Witches having failed in the backstory and the Legendarium trying and failing in the same scene it steals five other fairies' powers. The Trix stole it near the end of the first season. They apparently missed a part (it's not clear), enough that Bloom could eventually defeat them and take the rest back, but they still stole it... And when they returned in the second season they were planning to repeat the feat (and then to kill Bloom to avoid the chance of being defeated again) before they were directed to a larger and more easily stolen power.
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Impossible Theft / int_2ade1ae9	comment	High-Aspect heroes in Nobilis can do anything that can be described as an application of a mundane skill. Aspect 7-8 miracles allow you to do fairytale or comic book shenanigans, so an ultimate thief character with a Gift based off Aspect 8 Skill "Thief" could quite possibly steal your soul, your family, or even the Eiffel Tower.
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Impossible Theft / int_2b29e1a8	comment	The Four Horsemen in Now You See Me pull some stunning heists that keep the police dumbfounded (like robbing a bank in France remotely from Las Vegas). Fortunately, the police had an insider explain them how it's done.
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Impossible Theft / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Once a character stole an elderly man's dentures while he was wearing them.
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Impossible Theft / int_2cc2f35d	comment	In the promotional one-shot for Loki: Agent of Asgard the eponymous mischief god stole a key from the Red Skull's pocket... in his supervillain lair, and he didn't even notice until Loki was long gone despite his telepathy. And in the "Last Days" arc stole and pocketed the RagnarÃ¶k.
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Impossible Theft / int_334120fc	comment	8-Bit Theater: The Protagonists are named by Final Fantasy classes, and Thief is, naturally, a known thief. When asked about how he was able to get so much loot from an already-plundered town, Thief responded: "They (The pirates) left everything that was nailed down. I did not." "I've stuffed more riches in there than actually exists." He steals gold from the walls while simply walking past. He achieves his class upgrade by stealing it from himself in the future. Naturally, this comes back to bite him when he has his class upgrade stolen by his past self. Red Mage suggests that Thief should minmax by putting all his skillpoints into pick-pocketing, since it could cover all other thief skills — opening locks by pickpocketing them out of the doors and chests they're attached to, disarm traps by pickpocketing the mechanisms, and successfully lying to people by "picking the truth pocket of their minds". His other accomplishments include stealing a soul from the orb it was contained in (noting this to be easier than some of his thefts because "This soul exists, so that helps.") and stealing a secret (that he never told anyone) from Black Mage. He has also boasted about "stealing things that weren't even there."
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Impossible Theft / int_3565350a	comment	In Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Thieves can not only steal target's Gil, but also equipment, experience points, judge points and even abilities.
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Impossible Theft / int_37aadb6c	comment	Played surprisingly straight in the Bernice Summerfield novel Ship Of Fools where the brilliant thief called "the Cat's Paw" defeats the most advanced technological security systems.
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Impossible Theft / int_37d920ea	comment	Drifting: Early on when Naruto faced a trio of incompetent female Chunin who had infiltrated the village, he managed to steal all their underwear without taking off or damaging their clothes, or even them noticing until he showed them his "loot".
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Impossible Theft / int_37f1c1bb	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) Issue 21 to 22": Rough Diamond manages to get the fake diamond under Applejack's hat and the real diamond under Trixie's hat without either noticing (though she did leave a clue behind in the process).
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Impossible Theft / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: The world's greatest pickpocket steals a man from inside his clothing without anyone on the street noticing.
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Impossible Theft / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall has Sam Starfall stealing in incredible ways: He has been known to steal the locks off of prison doors while escaping—and sometimes the doors themselves. It's apparently a natural trait of his species. Also worth noting that he can effortlessly steal watches and lift wallets, which is impressive since he wears a bulky environment suit everywhere he goes, one that's probably not even shaped like he is. Heck, in one strip, he briefly thought about going straight, while lifting a wallet without even thinking about it! In at least one occasion, he's stolen a robot's fingers while shaking its hand. Poor bot took quite a while to notice he didn't have a full count. Conversations with Sam can literally cost an arm (and eventually a leg for those who have them) for unwary robots. Sam's species has a long history of this; their mythology is full of mortals stealing everything, even their own lives, from their deities because they refused to give them anything. Some of the impossible thefts in question were a little regrettable however (their lesson in "if it's too easy to steal, it's because no one wants it" apparently came from stealing plagues from their gods).
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Impossible Theft / int_40ef1034	comment	The Seven Deadly Sins has Meliodas steal Elizabeth's panties while she's wearing them. While demonstrating what a pervert he is, it turns out to have a practical purpose: when a bunch of duplicates of Elizabeth show up, Meliodas has them do things to try and prove who's the real one, and when he tells them to jump up, the real Elizabeth can't because she's too embarrassed about her missing panties. Meliodas gives them back afterwards. Ban takes it to the next level with his magical ability "Snatch". He can steal anything without making contact or even seeing the item. And with a weapon, he has a range of hundreds of meters. And then he has the abilities Physical Hunt, Hunter Fest and Zero Sign. Physical Hunt can steal a person's strength, speed, durability, etc. Hunter Fest is the same but on everyone around him. Zero Sign steal others' awareness of him, making him impossible to detect.
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Impossible Theft / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion: The Gray Fox has many in-game Urban Legends surrounding him, which regard him as an impossible thief who can turn invisible and slip underneath locked doors. The Gray Fox stole the iconic Gray Cowl from the Daedric Prince Nocturnal, making these legends well deserved. The player gets to inherit the title of Gray Fox by stealing an Elder Scroll, the series' namesake and an item that can literally rewrite the laws of time and space, a feat considered impossible in and of itself.
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Impossible Theft / int_45a29545	comment	Wadi in The Secret Saturdays can not only steal people's clothes while they're wearing them, she can do so without even getting within arm's reach of the target.
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Impossible Theft / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: The daughter of Cohen the Barbarian once managed to steal some jewelry by pickpocketing the boss of Ankh-Morpork thieves' guild. The jewels weren't in his pocket, he'd swallowed them. "This was the type of thief who could steal the initiative, the moment and the words right out of your mouth." In Interesting Times Cohen himself executes a plan to steal the Agatean Empire. In Reaper Man, two priests in Offler's lost temple hear someone approaching, presumably to steal the huge diamond therein. As the would-be thief trips one murderous booby-trap after another and still keeps coming, the priests grow increasingly alarmed, and are on the brink of panic when the intruder bypasses the temple's final line of defense. Luckily for them, it's only Death, not Mrs. Cake. The titular Thief of Time steals items by stopping time so others don't notice. There is a limit, but so long as he's nearby, he can steal anything without apparently his hands getting near you.
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Impossible Theft / int_46a4b34d	comment	While obviously hyperbolic, the thief Talen from David Eddings' The Elenium series is, at one point, said to be able to "Steal the eyes right outta your head, and you wouldn't notice 'till you need to look at something closely." He's not QUITE that good in reality, but he really is very, very good.
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Impossible Theft / int_483a069c	comment	Mortadelo y FilemÃ³n: Mortadelo makes it a habit to steal things that are required for their missions, often replacing them with other useless things. Normally right in front of the owner. Many times, Mortadelo saves the day by stealing something without anybody else noticing. His speciality is when someone is holding an important object, which he manages to exchange for an useless thing (eggplants are perhaps the most common example). An ability that Mortadelo seems to be pretty proud of, as he likes to brag about it whenever he does it. This ability also comes useful when a policeman is holding either him or both characters. Backfires also many times when he steals something from FilemÃ³n or the SÃºper. In Los ladrones de coches, a story about a gang that steals cars, there are some instances of this. For example, there is one guy sitting on his sports car, waiting for the green light, and the thiefs take his car. While he was on it. And without him noticing. He ends up sitting on the street, his feet into the sewer and stepping on a sewer worker's ear, one of his hands on the sewer's lid as if it was the drive wheel, and the other on a dog's tail. In Â¡El carnet al punto!, while driving a car searching for corrupt cops, Mortadelo and FilemÃ³n get caught in fog, preventing them to see anything, and when it dissipates, they realize their car has been stolen... while they were in it.
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Impossible Theft / int_4efed37e	comment	Invoked in Disney's Robin Hood (1973) during the "Phoney King of England" song:
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Impossible Theft / int_4f147fad	comment	Magic Kaito: Kaitou KID's exploits are performed in amazing ways, such that Shinichi (from Case Closed, but they share The 'Verse) has long since given up on figuring out his identity, focusing more on how he performs his impossible tasks. The biggest thing he has ever stolen is a pair of clock hands from a clock tower. He's literally walked in midair (via Wire Fu). One time an alibi was established by going on a date and performing his heist, effectively putting him in literally two places at once.
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Impossible Theft / int_54b7865d	comment	Agents of Cracked: A girl Dan had a crush on becomes steals the clothes off Dan and Swaim backs and swaps them around. And then when leaving steals a bunch of office supplies and the ice cream off an ice cream cone Swaim was eating.
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Impossible Theft / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: In comic #649, Haley steals her own diamond from the cast page, leaving an "I.O. Me" note in its place. In #673, a pair of young pickpockets steal Durkon's purse. In the same instant Haley steals it back and swaps it with a fake containing only a note warning — specifically addressed to these thieves — that her party is off-limits, and also steals their purse.
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Impossible Theft / int_58fe28b4	comment	In April and the Extraordinary World, street urchin Julius is able to steal the food from the plate detective Pizoni is eating from while sitting in front of him and talking with him.
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Impossible Theft / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: The Nightingales are a secret order within the Thieves' Guild that have made a pact with Nocturnal to give them supernatural abilities. The Big Bad of the questline, Mercer Frey, is revealed to have be a former Nightingale who stole Nocturnal's Skeleton Key, which unlocks everything, up to and including the limits of human potential. It is possible to pickpocket the Briar Heart out of a Forsworn Briarheart's chest, at which point they'll drop dead. The final perk available for the Pickpocketing skill allows the Dragonborn to steal any item that somebody has equipped, including the clothes that they're wearing. It's not uncommon for a master thief Dragonborn to make entire holds look like a Victoria's Secret catalogue.
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Impossible Theft / int_59c939c6	comment	Nodwick: The party thief Keebler, returning from a bout of therapy after Yeagar 'accidentally' put a cursed helm on his head that gave him brain damage, gets a contract that prevents him from being fired as long as no-one in the party can prove he's stealing from them. The party knows he's going to try to steal the artifact they've looted this time around, but aren't sure how to stop him. Nodwick solves the problem because he has his own impossible skills: he stacks the loot so that the item can't be removed by anyone but a trained henchman without the entire pile of loot collapsing onto them, which not even the thief's impossible theft skills can fox and he's caught red-handed. Double Subverted in that Keebler still makes off with Nodwick's shirt and pants as he walks off into the sunset, and Nodwick didn't even notice it.
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Impossible Theft / int_5c1d9db0	comment	Invoked in House, M.D.. When House is forcing a bunch of candidates to compete for his team, one of his challenges is to steal Dr. Cuddy's thong. Ultimately one candidate stuns the team by producing the undergarment in question, but refuses to say how he pulled it off. House being House, he figures it out. The guy had asked Cuddy for them. In exchange, he agreed to act as her agent to influence the selection process.
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Impossible Theft / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: A power named "Flawless Pickpocket" whereby if you can touch someone you can steal anything from them. The more powerful version is "Steal in Plain Sight". No one even notices the item (possibly protected by museum security, guards, and security cameras) is gone until 5 minutes AFTER you leave and you don't even need to touch them if you spend a point of willpower. There's also one that lets you pilfer things on the other side of a door...literally any kind of door, even if it's a portcullis or has been nailed shut. The Adorjan theft charms; stealing in plain sight, no one realizing it for a while. But the Scourge steal individuals "owned" by others. This is more then just slaves, they can steal children, proteges, henpecked husbands, etc. This makes the object of the theft lose any emotional connection to their previous owners as well as making the original owners forget the thing stolen or be alright with it being gone.
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Impossible Theft / int_5fe95ab6	comment	The whole premise of Despicable Me is centered on the main character Gru devising a plan to steal the moon.
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Impossible Theft / int_605432ba	comment	In Lin T, one of the main characters is a thief so skilled that he can steal your socks. While you're standing in them. And you won't noticed until you suddenly realize that your feet feel different.
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Impossible Theft / int_60f95f8	comment	Sandra Paris (a.k.a. the White Queen) in the Nick Velvet stories. While Nick specialises in stealing the valueless, Sandra specialises in seemingly 'impossible' crimes, such as stealing the entire contents of a room, a roulette wheel off a busy casino floor, or a painting off the wall in plain view in a gallery. Her slogan is "Impossible things before breakfast".
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Impossible Theft / int_66989d0	comment	Every episode of Banacek involves Banacek investigating some sort of impossible theft; whether that is due to size (e.g. a 3 ton sculpture), location (e.g. a car stolen off a moving train), or security (e.g. a book from a sealed case ringed with alarm systems).
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Impossible Theft / int_66fd198d	comment	Near the end of The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Crown goes to the museum to "return" the painting he originally stole. He walks past the sealed (with steel gates) Impressionist gallery, tosses in smoke bombs, sets off the fire alarm (which puts a metal cover over all the paintings), and walks out. Somehow, he managed to steal a painting from the wall while this happened. Even the director says he doesn't know how it would work.
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Impossible Theft / int_67c48982	comment	In Animal Crackers, he ups the ante by stealing a man's birthmark.
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Impossible Theft / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder Second Edition has the feat Legendary Thief, which allows the character to pickpocket things like the target's shoes or armor, or even items they are actively wielding. Downplayed in that there's several restrictions on this: it takes at least one minute to do (more for things like armor), you have to remain hidden the whole time, you take a significant penalty to your Thievery check, and even on a success, the item's absence is likely to be quickly noticed. Even given all that, being able to pickpocket a target out of their full plate armor still qualifies for this trope.
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Impossible Theft / int_68b1c5d0	comment	Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves has the Thieves engaging in some Impossible Theft during their raid on the town, stealing the stripes off a barbershop pole, the gold teeth out of a man's mouth, and a fishbowl — while leaving the fish behind. All while charging past on horseback, no less. As they size each other up, bandit leader Abu Hassan yanks off Popeye's belt without unclasping it. Not to be outdone, Popeye reaches out and snatches Hassan's underwear right from under his clothes.
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Impossible Theft / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons: Third (and 3.5) Edition: A target might notice an attempt to pick his pocket, but can't stop the thing from being taken. Regardless of how big the item is, how it's secured or whether the target is watching, the check is always a flat DC 20. A level 3 character can literally steal the shirt off someone's back with 100% success.note Have 18 Dexterity, put 6 ranks in the relevant skill, and take 10. There's only a chance of failure if you try it during combat. Or if the DM levies circumstantial penalties to the check because Common Sense has to apply sometimes. It has been worked out on the Character Optimization boards of the Wizards of the Coast website that a sufficiently skilled thief is able to steal his own pants without himself noticing. An epic-level character with high ranks in Escape Artist is explicitly allowed to crawl through spaces that are smaller than his own head. Don't think too hard about that. In Spheres of Power, a third party supplement for Pathfinder, you can potentially even steal ongoing spell effects. For example, if an evil mage has turned himself into a dragon, you can return him to normal and become a dragon yourself. In 4th edition, the Thief of Legend epic destiny allows the player characters to approach levels unseen since the double-dealing diva herself. Such a thief can swipe unattended objects or vehicles, intangible concepts such as memory or eyecolor, or even the thief's own soul, ensuring that death will never hold her back. In 5th edition a high level (17+) rogue can potentially have a 'minimum' sleight of hand roll of 27 and only need a roll of 13 to pass a 'Nearly Impossible' skill check. Throw in things like the lucky feat and you can have a character who can reliably steal anything they can carry.
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Impossible Theft / int_6be52549	comment	West of Loathing: Upon getting enough hornswagglin and moxie, the player characters gains some very incredible thefting abilities. One notable instance has them steal someone's gold tooth right out of their mouth without them noticing it, leaving the narrator shocked and impressed.
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Impossible Theft / int_7152ebab	comment	A Scotsman in Egypt: Eoin Makartane manages to escape from a sealed, windowless room after the guards watched him walk in there and locked it behind him, and then snatches Aodh Canmore's personal orders to him from his locked office without the guards ever seeing him or even unlocking the door. Of course, given that the whole thing may have been a setup...
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Impossible Theft / int_740815bb	comment	In Interesting Times Cohen himself executes a plan to steal the Agatean Empire.
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Impossible Theft / int_77be988d	comment	The titular Thief of Time steals items by stopping time so others don't notice. There is a limit, but so long as he's nearby, he can steal anything without apparently his hands getting near you.
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Impossible Theft / int_77e30f15	comment	On Secret Squirrel, a villain makes voodoo dolls of several people, including Secret, and torments them. Secret asks what personal possession of his that his doll has. The villain says his hair, and Secret checks his tail and is annoyed and surprised to find a bald spot. Secret then makes a voodoo doll of the villain, leading to this hilarious exchange:
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Impossible Theft / int_78d0c8c6	comment	In Justice League: War, Batman steals Green Lantern's ring while he was wearing it. He doesn't notice until Batman holds it up and Hal's costume is suddenly replaced by his street clothes.
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Impossible Theft / int_7b2ca7a2	comment	In Bayonetta, after Jeanne passes Bayonetta by on a motorcycle, the two banter for a bit, then Jeanne suddenly holds up Bayonetta's Umbran Watch — the heart of an Umbra Witch, mounted on her chest. Bayonetta is understandably shocked, and Jeanne mocks her for getting so rusty that she wouldn't notice that.
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Impossible Theft / int_7c6f5e19	comment	Bill on The Red Green Show stole, in order, Red's wallet, house keys, pocket knife, car keys, pocket change, boxer shorts, socks, and then shoes. Red noticed none of this and all the viewer sees is Bill give Red a pat on the shoulder. (Episode 108)
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Impossible Theft / int_7cabe488	comment	In the lore of Bendy and the Ink Machine, Boris is known for stealing Bendy's food. With them both being cartoon characters, this goes to comedic extremes. In one example, Boris manages to appear from nowhere and steal Bendy's gingerbread cookie the exact second he's finished baking it in the oven, without having opened the door first, while Bendy was staring at it.
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Impossible Theft / int_8281aef3	comment	In KonoSuba's RPG Mechanics 'Verse, the Steal skill consists of holding out your hand and magically teleporting away something in your target's possession. It can even be performed at a distance. Kazuma regularly uses it to steal panties off girls, whether that's what he was trying to steal or not.
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Impossible Theft / int_84f3f987	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, Tsukikage somehow steals the pin that attaches the wheel to Captain Solo's pirate ship, even though there were two pirates standing next to it.
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Impossible Theft / int_86814cd0	comment	Edge Geraldine in Final Fantasy IV can steal Dark Matter from the final boss.
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Impossible Theft / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI overlaps with Video Game Stealing when Locke Cole, behind enemy lines in occupied South Figaro, steals first a merchant's clothes and then an Imperial officer's uniform, while the merchant and the officer are wearing them. While it's done within the standard battle system (this section of the game being the only time Locke's in-battle theft works this way), stealing the officer's uniform is required to advance the plot (the merchant's clothes, while useful, can be skipped), meaning that it's not just gameplay mechanics.
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Impossible Theft / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Violetta has twice swapped a weapon while someone was in the middle of using it, including once from across the room. She even swapped a hostage for a straw dummy pulled out of nowhere ...also from across the room, while in full sight of her target. And since Tarvek outsneaks her and learned more than he used to let on, he can do this too. In fact, this is one of the Hats of the Smoke Knights in general. It really says something about their abilities when Violetta confesses that as Smoke Knights go, she's not even very good.
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Impossible Theft / int_88b580f0	comment	Werewolf: The Apocalypse: The spirit gift "Taking The Forgotten" lets you steal something and makes the previous owner forget they possessed it in the first place. At higher levels, there's Thieving Talons of the Magpie, which allows you to steal another being's supernatural powers.
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Impossible Theft / int_8aaea4cd	comment	In Spheres of Power, a third party supplement for Pathfinder, you can potentially even steal ongoing spell effects. For example, if an evil mage has turned himself into a dragon, you can return him to normal and become a dragon yourself.
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Impossible Theft / int_8bad4425	comment	ArsÃ¨ne Lupin features an impossible thief, the first Gentleman Thief. The stories, written by Maurice Leblanc, are contemporaneous with Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Lupin sometimes adds insult to injury by giving the owners of his targets details such as the time, date, or even method of the theft in advance.
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Impossible Theft / int_9284ad43	comment	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Dual Destinies: Phineas Filch manages to steal Detective Bobby Fulbright's shoes while he's wearing them, without him noticing. Twice. The second time, he does it in the middle of court and nobody in the room notices. And this theft becomes even more impressive once "Fulbright" is revealed to be the phantom, an extremely skilled international spy (assuming the phantom genuinely didn't notice his shoes being stolen and wasn't merely Obfuscating Stupidity in order to stay in-character as Fulbright).
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Impossible Theft / int_94c65c01	comment	Final Fantasy Brave Exvius has Xon, the game's best thief. Not only can he unfailingly steal both money and items from anything that has them, his Twist of Fate skill allows him to steal stat buffs from the enemy and give them to the party.
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Impossible Theft / int_966d5b18	comment	Strange Hill High: Peter Dustpan from "The Lost and Found Boy" who, amongst other things, steals Abercrombie's desk while he is sitting at it and his trousers while he is wearing them.
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Impossible Theft / int_968513c4	comment	Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? worked hard to make Carmen Sandiego's seemingly outrageous crimes semi-plausible in their execution. A later plot to steal an uncracked Liberty Bell is accomplished by hijacking a Russian military time-travel project and then using it to travel back to the 18th century. Another plot to steal the skill from the world's greatest musicians and athletes involved an alien-made neural scrambler.
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Impossible Theft / int_9689a78c	comment	In Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, Akatsuki Ousawa has a talent for stealing girl's clothes while they are wearing them.
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Impossible Theft / int_99102298	comment	In The Two Ronnies sketch show, there was an extended series of sketches where they played stage magicians caught up around a diamond heist and having to investigate it for themselves. To reveal the plot at the end they invited the villains on stage during their act and proceeded with a pickpocket act which went from the mundane "Is this your wallet, sir?" to the absurd "Is this your knicker elastic, madam?" (her underwear fall down from under her dress at this point) and finally getting to the point of "Is this your stolen diamond, sir?" They also stole the man's belt, setting things up so neither villain could run effectively.
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Impossible Theft / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: The series' lore includes Rajhin, the legendary Khajiit hero who became their God of Thievery. Among his accomplishments are stealing the Ring of Khajiit off the arm of the Daedric Prince Mephala, stealing the shadow from a merchant, stealing the tattoo clean off the neck of the Empress Kintyra as she slept, and stealing the entire city of Falenesti. He was said to have abilities like being able to hide in his own shadow as well as move invisibly, silently, and as fast as the wind. Morrowind: One sidequest requires you to obtain a ring from a slave trader named Brallion. The player has the option to steal the ring while he is wearing it. Oblivion: The Gray Fox has many in-game Urban Legends surrounding him, which regard him as an impossible thief who can turn invisible and slip underneath locked doors. The Gray Fox stole the iconic Gray Cowl from the Daedric Prince Nocturnal, making these legends well deserved. The player gets to inherit the title of Gray Fox by stealing an Elder Scroll, the series' namesake and an item that can literally rewrite the laws of time and space, a feat considered impossible in and of itself. Skyrim: The Nightingales are a secret order within the Thieves' Guild that have made a pact with Nocturnal to give them supernatural abilities. The Big Bad of the questline, Mercer Frey, is revealed to have be a former Nightingale who stole Nocturnal's Skeleton Key, which unlocks everything, up to and including the limits of human potential. It is possible to pickpocket the Briar Heart out of a Forsworn Briarheart's chest, at which point they'll drop dead. The final perk available for the Pickpocketing skill allows the Dragonborn to steal any item that somebody has equipped, including the clothes that they're wearing. It's not uncommon for a master thief Dragonborn to make entire holds look like a Victoria's Secret catalogue.
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Impossible Theft / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Nami the Navigator (and thief!) Her greatest exploit was when she leaves her home village. She's running past the villagers to pick up the speed she needed to leap from the harbor onto the ship that was already starting to head out. So she was stealing from everyone while at a dead run. Once on the ship, she turns around and lifts her shirt to reveal that she just stole all of the villagers' purses and tucked them under there. Then smiles back at the village as she waves goodbye as if to say, "That was for old time's sake." There was also the time she stole a key from a highly trained killer Kumadori while he had her limbs bound with his hair, preparing to stab her with his staff.
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Impossible Theft / int_9f89a5f0	comment	The PokÃ©mon Hoopa can use its rings to manifest portals for a variety of tricks, many of which take the form of stealing whatever it feels like. Due to the nature of the rings, this ranges from precious jewelry in a castle to the golden throne of a castle, all the way up to the castle itself.
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Impossible Theft / int_a06fe5a2	comment	The main character of the Dickie Dick Dickens series starts out as a humble pickpocket who earns the ire of the gangster leaders of Chicago by not playing by the rules; when they sic the police on him in a massive betrayal, he turns out to have stolen every gun of every cop in Chicago the day before. The embarrassed cops call it a day; Dickens dumps the weapons in Lake Michigan.
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Impossible Theft / int_a8729c90	comment	On The Fairly OddParents!, Dr. Bender once stole Chip Skylark's teeth. They are not dentures, they just came out as if they were.
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Impossible Theft / int_a9c126b5	comment	Caspian from Brawlhalla not only did he do things like stealing the crown jewels with a hand tied to his back, The Mona Lisa (which he replaced with a portrait of himself with a Mona Lisa Smile), the city of Kiev (all of it), and August 32nd. He's also a master of disguise who won the Kentucky Derby disguised as a horse and won one of the tournaments of Valhalla while disguised as Lord Vraxx. A tournament where Lord Vraxx was participating, no less.
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Impossible Theft / int_aa540269	comment	In Bleach: Happy to Serve You, Chizuru is capable of stealing bras while the mark is still wearing them, without disturbing their shirt or having the mark notice until afterwards.
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Impossible Theft / int_aa5b1ac8	comment	Jesper, of Brotherband can steal the bracelet of the man he is in the middle of talking to without his noticing.
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Impossible Theft / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	In Oglaf, a comic highlighted Vanka's ability by stealing the keys to her prison cell from a guard across the hall and giving him a handjob without him noticing.
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Impossible Theft / int_ab42c63a	comment	In an episode of Get Smart, Smart is working with a thief for an important operation. They are hiding behind a clump of bushes from a guard, and Max says that the thief needs to steal the guard's keys without being noticed. Not only does the thief get the keys, he steals the guard's German Shepherd guard dog without him noticing.
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Impossible Theft / int_abb70593	comment	The Magician: In "The Illusion of the Cat's Eye", an insurance underwriter asks Tony investigate when a silver statue is stolen in seemingly impossible circumstances. The statue was inside a locked case with four locks, each requiring a different key, and having to be unlocked in sequence to open the case. Each lock was seperately alarmed, and the floor around the case was rigged with a pressure sensitive alarm that would trigger with an ounce's change in pressure. The statue vanished within minutes of the alarm being tested and the doors locked.
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Impossible Theft / int_acb92fd0	comment	Father Ted: In "Old Grey Whistle Theft," Ted places two bottles of wine on a table and looks away for a couple seconds. When he looks back, they're empty, and Jack, who's been lounging roughly five yards away the whole time, is acting way too innocent.
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Impossible Theft / int_ace263fa	comment	Deltora Quest's Polypans are described as being able to 'steal the shirt off your back without you noticing.'
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Impossible Theft / int_aff02a4e	comment	Twice in the ASDF Movie series: A hat-wearing man steals a jerkass's face... in mid-sentence... and the sentence was "well, I stole your face". Another man steals his friend's lungs. While the victim does catch the thief red-handed, it's not until after his entire ribcage has been forced open.
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Impossible Theft / int_b1e46e9a	comment	In Adventurers!: Karashi manages to steal Drecker's dagger-print underwear without him noticing. Bonus points since Drecker is the party's thief, not Karashi. Decker manages to steal a huge sword from a foe who didn't even know he was carrying it, and was upset that he'd been stuck with a wooden shortsword all this time. This is of course poking fun at Video Game Stealing.
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Impossible Theft / int_b2653c12	comment	Abarat: John Mischief and his brothers managed to steal the tattoos of a criminal named Monkai-Monkai while he was in prison.
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Impossible Theft / int_b48b954b	comment	Kitty Softpaws, in Puss in Boots, starts off with stealing Puss' boots while he's wearing them, and then his bag of money, which he had hidden inside his boot, and he had to take off his boot to check that his bag was actually gone.
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Impossible Theft / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (2018), one storyline had the New York branch of the Thieves' Guild regain their infamy by stealing items from various heroes and villains right under their noses and in improbable ways, like having Spidey's web-shooters swiped in midair.
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Impossible Theft / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind: One sidequest requires you to obtain a ring from a slave trader named Brallion. The player has the option to steal the ring while he is wearing it.
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Impossible Theft / int_b712435c	comment	Leverage has a catchphrase "Let's go steal an X", though they usually do this through Bavarian Fire Drill or similar means. This has led to lines like "Let's go steal us a wedding", "Let's go steal a hospital", or "Let's go steal us a general". The team's thief, Parker, once stole the Hope Diamond, then put it back, just because she didn't have anything better to do. When it's pointed out that "Let's go steal the Department of Defense" would be treason, Nate shrugs and says they'll give it back. Parker's onscreen lifts are surprisingly mundane, especially because their consultant was Apollo Robbins, from Real Life.
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Impossible Theft / int_b9afed9a	comment	In Superman & Batman: Generations, president Hal Jordan has a contingency plan for in case Superman goes evil — a Kryptonite ring stored in an ultra top secret bunker behind the most sophisticated alarm systems on the planet, protected by a river of molten synthetic Kryptonite. When he goes to retrieve the ring he finds Batman has already nipped in and taken it.
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Impossible Theft / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In episode "F.U.N.", Mr. Krabs tempts Plankton (who claims to have reformed) with a Krabby Patty. Although the patty is untouched and always on camera, at the end it's somehow been replaced with a cutout, which Krabs should have been able to notice from his angle even if it was standing up. In episode "Shanghaied", Spongebob and Patrick manage to go into a closed room and steal the sock that the Flying Dutchman needs in order to be able to eat, and instantly appear on the deck of the ship afterwards. Even more perplexing once you consider that he should've been able to notice them coming into the room, especially since he was facing the general direction of the door.
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Impossible Theft / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 has a few: Blood Ravens chapter, nicknamed Bloody Magpies has a nasty habit of acquiring heaps of gear by underhanded means. Arsenal of one company note Chapter consists of 10 companies. includes, but not limited to: mace of Scarband, thunder hammer of Fulgrim, armor and weapon of Adeptus Custodesnote Emperor's bodyguards, almost as strong as Primarchs, who would rather die than part with their equipment, all of which is locked on their genecode., Aegis armor of a Grey Knight and weapons once wielded by current Chapter Master of Ultramarines and first Grand Marshal of Black Templars. To boot, original game mentioned that each Terminator armor of the chapter has a piece of Emperor's armor, that he wore on Vengeful Spirit, enclosed in it. note It is a thing, but those fragments are incredibly rare. They are issued to chapter's champions, not the entire first company. Fanon suggests that the infamous Steal Rainnote Steel Rain was a defensive maneuver employed by Blood Ravens in Kaurava campaign that resulted in total destruction of their strike force. was in fact the very reason Imperial Guard lost a hundred of superheavy tanks in transit, Firaeveus Carron lost the favor of the Dark Gods and Necrons lost their power supply. Trazyn the Infinite makes the Impossible Theft routine easier by employing reality warping Necron technology. Orks economy relies heavily on looting everything that wasn't bolted down and bolts themselves. Orks of Octarius sector upped the game, by looting Avatar of Khaine, earthly reincarnation of the God of Murder, a 20 feet tall animated statue made of molten metal. Another Ork warboss stole a gun from himself. He did it by traveling back in time and killing his past self. Orks aren't big on subtlety and don't care about your time paradoxes. It is widely believed that Abaddon, Warmaster of Chaos, the most powerful mortal being in the galaxy is no longer in possession of his arms.note A fanon belief, based on his General Failure tendencies and structural faults of his tabletop miniature Surely, only some kind of tactical genius could pull this off... CREEEEED!!! Obviously not Creed! It had to be a HERO!!! HERO OF THE IMPERIUM COMMISSAR CIAPHAS CAIN!!!!
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Impossible Theft / int_bd54ba07	comment	Blazing Saddles: Bart, the new black sheriff, strikes a friendship with Jim, a drunken gunslinger, whom he does not believe is the infamous "Waco Kid". To prove himself, Jim encourages Bart to clap his hands onto a chess piece starting with his hands about about a foot apart, and Jim halfway across the room. Bart claps his hands around the piece, and Jim apparently doesn't even move. When Bart opens his hands, he finds them empty, and Jim reveals that the chess piece is now in his previously empty holster.
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Impossible Theft / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer: One Goblin warboss, Great Grif Snazgit Nosepicker, defeated a chariot-heavy tribe by stealing or sabotaging every wheel in their army before the fight.
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Impossible Theft / int_c2474b16	comment	The Detective, protagonist of The Way of the Metagamer 2: In Name Only is confirmed to have stolen a left hand and kidney without their owner noticing.
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Impossible Theft / int_c3b1fe07	comment	Lost Girl by season 4 gives Kenzi this by making her a Shadow Thief. As you might guess, this sort of thing is their raison d'etre. Exemplified by Kenzi actually stealing Lauren's panties without her even noticing.
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Impossible Theft / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has Doctor Strange, who dabbles in being this and a Phantom Thief, mostly for amusement value — so far, he's pinched Alastor Moody's wooden leg (while he was wearing it), Harry's phoenix feather (actually Laevateinn, an ancient and immensely powerful repository of the Phoenix Force's power) while it was in Maddie's pocket, and Loki's disembodied head. In the latter case, he left behind a note, saying, 'I.O.U. one Loki'. It gets to the point where Thor bluntly states that if Strange wants to steal something (like the Tesseract), then not even Asgard has any real way of stopping him.
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Impossible Theft / int_ccd1ec22	comment	At the end of The Thief and the Cobbler, the Thief steals The Thief And The Cobbler. Yes, he literally steals the film right off the projector.
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Impossible Theft / int_ceac0c1d	comment	During an optional phone call in the fangame Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Case 5: Turnabout Substitution, Trucy somehow manages to steal Apollo's wallet when he had it that morning, and she had been on the other side of the planet for the past week!
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Impossible Theft / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In the backstory for In Nomine, the Demon Prince of Theft, Valefor, stole a Book from the Library of Yves, the Archangel of Destiny, which is located in Heaven. As a demon, he wouldn't be able to enter Heaven without being destroyed instantly. However, this may just raise questions as to whether he's as demonic as he claims to be...
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Impossible Theft / int_d4f9ccf	comment	In Aladdin, Abu somehow manages to steal the lamp from Jafar's inner pocket without him noticing until they were both separated (although he had just bitten Jafar on the arm so he was probably distracted by the pain). Not only that, Abu manages to hide it in Hammerspace.
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Impossible Theft / int_d5c2a7a3	comment	Garrett from the Thief series — trained by people who make near invisibility and stealth an art form. He steals an evil artifact from an elder god in the middle of a ritual in which it is being used to make the world a horrifying place. Taken to extremes in that many players consider exploiting bugs to pass through walls or steal items from inside locked boxes as not being bug exploits at all. Garrett is really that good. In the 2014 game, he can steal a person's earrings without them noticing.
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Impossible Theft / int_d62bbf7a	comment	Assassin's Creed II: According to the database entry on La Volpe, he once managed to rob the Pope's carriage — while the Pope was still inside it.
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Impossible Theft / int_d7cc3505	comment	Square Root of Minus Garfield: This strip has Garfield somehow stealing an old man's pacemaker.
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Impossible Theft / int_da02c1ef	comment	In the fourth chapter of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Doopliss steals Mario's name and appearance in the middle of their first fight. In order to get his body back, Mario must guess the character's real name, not unlike Rumpelstiltskin. In order to make sure that those who have already played the game before or read a guide in advance can't correctly input his name before learning it in-game, he steals the letter "p" on the keyboard input and hides it in a chest.
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Impossible Theft / int_df2aa872	comment	High School High: When Mr. Clark first goes to the Inner City School, his car is stolen seconds after he parked it—from an enclosed parking space. Then his briefcase is stolen by breaking off the handles while he was holding it.
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Impossible Theft / int_e253aa98	comment	Harpo Marx' talent at pickpocketing is no better depicted than in The Cocoanuts where he steals handkerchiefs effortlessly, a pushy cop's wallet and badge, the same cop's SHIRT while it's being worn, and for a grand finale, Groucho's dental plate!
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Impossible Theft / int_e31a4abd	comment	Megatokyo: Noticing the things Yuki steals has become a sort of sport on the Megatokyo forums. Kleptomania actually seems to be her inherited Magical Girl power, if her mother is any indication. (The first time we meet Yuki's mother, she excitedly shows Erika the new kitchen knife she bought, after a moment realizing she "forgot to pay". Erika just says "You're still doing that?") Any time Yuki gets in a fight as a Magical Girl (usually in the Omake chapters), she "fights" by stealing peoples' weapons before they can use them. When Dom points a gun at her, she steals all of his numerous guns and ammo clips in the blink of an eye, and then she disappears... with his van, before he even notices his guns are missing. She also steals his tie. BTW, this is the only time in the entire comic that Dom's been unarmed.
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Impossible Theft / int_e3349241	comment	Diabolik has this reputation in-universe due him getting through all sorts of defenses for his heists. On one occasion the plans for a new fighter jet disappeared from a locked room whose only window was defended by bars with a very sensible alarm and the police correctly deduced it had been him because "It's impossible to steal from here, yet someone did it" (he had used a trained monkey that could get through the bars. Subverted and Exploited at times, where Diabolik finds he cannot steal something, so he instead pretends he did it to push the would-be victim into either open the safe for him (at which point Diabolik knocks them out and commits the heist) or make them lower their guard so he can commit the theft without interference.
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Impossible Theft / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Dual Destinies: Phineas Filch manages to steal Detective Bobby Fulbright's shoes while he's wearing them, without him noticing. Twice. The second time, he does it in the middle of court and nobody in the room notices. And this theft becomes even more impressive once "Fulbright" is revealed to be the phantom, an extremely skilled international spy (assuming the phantom genuinely didn't notice his shoes being stolen and wasn't merely Obfuscating Stupidity in order to stay in-character as Fulbright). During an optional phone call in the fangame Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Case 5: Turnabout Substitution, Trucy somehow manages to steal Apollo's wallet when he had it that morning, and she had been on the other side of the planet for the past week!
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Impossible Theft / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Jack Rakan stole panties off one of two girls without them noticing. The only reason he didn't get both of them is that the other girl was Going Commando. And he is supposed to be a fighter, not a thief. He later one-ups himself by stealing the panties off of several of Fate's minions simultaneously. The epilogue reveals Paio II became Jack Rakan's apprentice and she learned how to steal people's clothes while they are wearing them.
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Impossible Theft / int_e8d13e52	comment	From Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer movie: Ataru Moroboshi steals the top to Lum's bikini outfit from 20 or so feet away, pulling it from his pants of all places, to distract her long enough for him to tag her horns. In the anime series, Ataru steals Lum's bikini by using a sticky dart gun to latch onto and pull off her Fur Bikini top. When the ashamed oni dives at him to retrieve it, he outmaneuvers her and grabs her horns from behind, as she's too distracted to think about flying away from him.
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Impossible Theft / int_ede55421	comment	The Makyr's energy crisis that drives the plot of Doom Eternal is revealed to have been the result of one of their own, Samur, defying the Khan Makyr's will and stealing their A.I. creator, the Father. Given that the Makyrs are the closest thing to angels in the Doom universe, this basically means Samur stole God from Heaven.
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Impossible Theft / int_f120845f	comment	Becoming a full member of the Kingdom of Loathing equivalent of the Thieves' Guild requires you to sneak into the Sleazy Back Alley and steal your own pants, without yourself noticing. You automatically fail the test if you are not wearing pants at the time, which is only logical.
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Impossible Theft / int_f1d492d4	comment	P.C. Hodgell's Chronicles of the Kencyrath has Jame and her master Penari, who both have accomplished thefts considered impossible, for the entertainment value. Jame frequently steals only the least valuable thing she can on her missions, and Penari uses the giant uncut diamond he stole in impossible circumstances as a paperweight.
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Impossible Theft / int_f2da188a	comment	In The Batman, Batman defeats Sinestro by stealing his ring off his finger.
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Impossible Theft / int_f524a357	comment	The Black Knight: Arpin Lusene, the Black Knight, from Don Rosa's Disney comics, is an Affectionate Parody of ArsÃ¨ne Lupin as well as Gentleman Thieves in general. He casually steals a man's socks while he's wearing them, the bullets from a museum guard's gun and a viking ship. While naked. He also stole the filament from a camera's flash bulb. While the camera was in the cameraman's hands. At exactly the same time, he stole another reporter's underwear. For context, the reporters were inquiring about Lusene's Black Knight persona, when a cameraman tries to take a picture of Lusene. The very next panel, Lusene is holding the filament and the other guy's underpants while denying being the Magnificent Black Knight, the world-famous master thief. In spite of all this, he eventually decides to fake his last grand impossible theft — to disintegrate Scrooge's money while having everyone think he stole it, because carrying it all away would be, well, impossible. And for an encore when he is finally caught and handcuffed while naked to prevent him from escaping using hidden lockpicks or such, he then picks the lock on the handcuffs with one of his mustache hairs.
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Impossible Theft / int_f7c8e36e	comment	In Octopath Traveler, the bosses of Therion's Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, both fellow thieves, can steal the protagonists' hit points, or their items (preventing the party from using items until the boss's defenses are broken). In the case of Therion's final boss, his former partner Darius, one special ability steals all the party members besides Therion himself. Amusingly enough, Darius betrayed Therion because he was envious of Therion's superior talent.
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Impossible Theft / int_fa5c1b11	comment	Macore, the master thief of the River of Dancing Gods series, like all high-level thieves in his world, uses magic (the really good stuff is all spell-protected, so it's an occupational necessity) in his thefts.
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Impossible Theft / int_fe16b92c	comment	Season 7 episode 45 of Happy Heroes revolves around a Funny Animal cat named Jeiro who is a notorious thief and pulls off especially improbable thefts a lot. In particular he threatens to steal Smart S. (though wouldn't the more accurate term be kidnapping?) at midnight, and Doctor H. sets up a ball of ice surrounded by security lasers to protect him... and yet Jeiro still makes off with Smart S. anyway.
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