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Intangible Theft

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Intangible Theft	comment	As a way to prove one's thieving credentials, the best Impossible Theft is to steal something metaphysical. Stealing a name, so that it cannot be spoken. Stealing a reflection from a mirror, so it only reflects the room you're in. Stealing the scent of every rose, as a Valentine's day gift. These thefts are an attempt to steal from the physical laws of the universe. It may be considered the inverse to the Sister Trope, Monumental Theft. While a monumental theft describes stealing the moon, it doesn't always deal with the ramifications of gravity on Earth. An Intangible Theft of the moon's gravity would certainly cause tidal problems here on Earth, even if the moon doesn't move. Both tropes are a type of Impossible Theft. See also Insubstantial Ingredients, where the ingredients collected are as metaphysical as the items stolen here. They might even overlap! Abstract Eater can ingest what would otherwise be stolen. This is a Super-Trope to Power Parasite, where one character can take away the abilities of other characters and use those power(s) for themselves.
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Intangible Theft / int_1fcdbe32	comment	The Phantom Tollbooth: The Senses Taker is an Obstructive Bureaucrat who takes away the main character's senses. The one sense he can't take away, however, is their sense of humor.
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Intangible Theft / int_1ff419c5	comment	Kingdom Hearts II: During the prologue, the Dusks steal every photo of Roxas along with the word "photo" itself. The characters find this only slightly surprising. The prologue takes place in a computer simulation. The Dusks' actions altered the code so the word "photo" was left undefined.
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Intangible Theft / int_219914e9	comment	Eugenides, from The Queen's Thief, has stolen time, peace, a queen, the king's seal, a mythical object, and a country. He was only caught once, when he was trying to get arrested. There is nothing he can't steal, except, it is said, himself out of a prison.
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Intangible Theft / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: One of Grandpa Simpson's rambling old man monologues involves the German Kaiser stealing the word "twenty", forcing the people of Grandpa's generation to say "dickety" in its stead. This is likely a reference to the anti-German sentiment that compelled Americans to rename several everyday things with roots in that language during World War I, but Grandpa's extreme senility had caused him to misremember things and believe that the word was literally stolen.
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Intangible Theft / int_2ade1ae9	comment	At high levels of Aspect in Nobilis, there are basically no restrictions on what you can steal; whether something tangibly exists, for example. Want to steal Iolithae Septimian's voice? Go right ahead.
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Intangible Theft / int_334120fc	comment	8-Bit Theater: Thief claims he can steal anything that isn't both nailed down and on fire. While fighting Lich, the Light Warriors realize Lich is immortal unless his soul is returned to his body. Luckily, the Light Warriors have his soul, but it is contained within the Earth Orb. Thief is charged with removing the soul from the orb and placing it back into Lich. While Thief is plotting how to do this, he notes that he has stolen non-existent items and the soul is neither nailed down or on fire. Thief successfully returns Lich's soul by suing Lich for polluting public property (The Earth Orb) when Lich placed his soul in it. When asked at the Temple of Fiends to steal his opponents' resolve, he considers it easily done. However, he never actually is seen doing it, due to Black Mage's interference. He also knew Black Mage's secret fear that he was going to steal all their souls because, "I steal souls and secrets."
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Intangible Theft / int_3565350a	comment	Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: Thieves can steal any skill that an enemy has learned, so long as the thief is capable of learning it.
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Intangible Theft / int_39258951	comment	Parodied in the Dino Girl Gauko episode "Alien Chase". Bilibili, the titular alien, steals the 3s from all the analog clocks around town, including the clock tower. When Mutchan points out that the 3s are missing, she says, "How am I supposed to get my three o'clock snack without three o'clock?!"
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Intangible Theft / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall: Sam claims that in his species' mythology they stole everything from their gods, lands, seas, skies, plagues, even each individual sqid's life.
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Intangible Theft / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Interesting Times, Cohen the Barbarian asked if an omen was being used by anyone, and when he was told it wasn't, he declared that he'd stolen it.
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Intangible Theft / int_503d5009	comment	Ayakashi Triangle: When the curse the Gogyosen meant to kill Suzu ends up in boy-turned-girl Matsuri, the result is both a boy and girl Matsuri. As it turns out, the Gogyosen stole Matsuri's male form from his human body to create a boy Matsuri ayakashi. While the resulting girl Matsuri is human, she cannot become a boy unless they merge together, and will be permanently female if boy Matsuri is destroyed.
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Intangible Theft / int_507ed4d5	comment	In Momo, the Grey Men trick people into giving them their spare time, and without any time left for leisure, they lose all emotion or purpose in life.
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Intangible Theft / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: The entire Rogue and Thief classes are based around stealing entire concepts. Roxy, the Rogue of Void, has the potential to steal the essence of nothingness from concepts, which basically means she can pull objects out of thin air, even if they don't exist, because she stole the fact that they don't exist. Vriska's ability to steal luck.
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Intangible Theft / int_521bc750	comment	The Hazards of Love: The monsters of Bright World can steal anything from memories to names, and do so often enough that they use human intangibles as currency.
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Intangible Theft / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5: This is a large part of gameplay. In the Metaverse, people with particularly warped views of the world can cause locations important to them to distort into a Palace (read: dungeon) with a 'treasure' within representing the source of the distortion; removing it from the Palace causes the Palace Ruler to no longer think that way. Normally, this treasure is an intangible golden fog, but if the target is convinced to think of their desires as a stealable object, it will transform into a tangible form and can be removed from the palace (for example, the second target Madarame was getting rich off stolen art, so his Treasure is the Sayuri painting, one of the first he stole and the one that made his name). The main characters are teenagers who stumbled into a Palace, gain Personas, and learn about how it all works. They then decide to become Phantom Thieves and figuratively steal the hearts of corrupt individuals by taking their Treasures, which causes them to immediately regret their actions. Treasures still exist in the real world (although they don't always take the same form they did in the metaverse; for example, Kamoshida's treasure in the metaverse is a crown, and an olympic medal in reality), and selling them makes up a good chunk of the Thieves' income.
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Intangible Theft / int_59631d55	comment	Trinity (2008) has a group of villains perform ever-more elaborate thefts of items as the part of a magical ritual. They steal items related to the Trinity of Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman: Included in the more mundane items of their theft is taking the Joker's laugh. Ultimately, the ritual they began allowed them to steal the heroes' status as The Trinity, the three most important people in the world, resulting in history itself changing.
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Intangible Theft / int_5b42bbed	comment	In the post-game of Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, a mysterious thief steals Salvatore's "womanliness," a "space and letter A" from Master Big Star (turning him into Master Bigster), Prism Red's friends, Laharl's height and his screen time in the new game, Axel's stardom, Marona's "pure heart", and a game in which Asagi (a Running Gag N1 character) is the main character. When Salvatore shows up in DLC for Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance, her character description claims her "womanliness" is still missing. The mysterious thief is Overlord Baal in his incarnation as an insanely overpowered yet cutesy mushroom. He says he doesn't remember all of the things listed, meaning some might be just insurance fraud. Rogue classes can cheerfully steal an opponent's precious memories, hope or whatever (the exact item appears to be determined randomly)... then convert whatever it is into a stat boost.
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Intangible Theft / int_5bb5ad89	comment	In JLA (1997): Tower of Babel, the Big Bad steals human language, first written, then spoken as well.
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Intangible Theft / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Charms which allow you to steal intangible things include Thought-Swiping Distraction, which lets you steal people's thoughts; Dream Confiscation Approach, which is used to steal people's dreams; and Name-Pilfering Practice, which allows its user to steal someone's name. As in, everyone in the world (including the victim) immediately forgets the victim's name.
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Intangible Theft / int_60831e13	comment	In Aphorism, the character Izuru Tomonaga steals the main character's heart, while he's still using it with his power.
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Intangible Theft / int_60a2cbcc	comment	In Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom, the plot revolves around the fact that someone has stolen spring, causing winter to drag on much longer than it should. No explanation is given for how it is possible to steal a season, but it is implied that it is contained within the cherry petals you've been collecting throughout the game.
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Intangible Theft / int_60f95f8	comment	Nick Velvet: In "The Theft of Twenty-Nine Minutes", Nick is hired to 'steal' 29 minutes from the guests on a cruise ship.
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Intangible Theft / int_6130f613	comment	In The Last Days of FOXHOUND, after their trip through Ocelot's memories of the events of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the members of FOXHOUND who were aware of the Patriots were implanted with a psychic block by Ocelot's subconscious preventing them from referring to the Patriots as such, with the term 'La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo' coming out of their mouths instead. Psycho Mantis was not happy about this.
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Intangible Theft / int_61d57039	comment	In The Rithmatist, the Scribbler initially creates a drawing that steals their voices so that they cannot be heard screaming or fighting (or anything) while he's kidnapping them and the crime won't be discovered.
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Intangible Theft / int_6760b31e	comment	NiGHTS into Dreamsâ€¦ & NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams: The Nightmaren's purpose is to steal Ideya (aspects like Wisdom/Growth and Hope in the form of crystal orbs) to aid the goals of Wizeman the Wicked. There's only one that they can't steal, and which the four young kids possess, that is the red Ideya of Courage; which also helps in freeing the titular protagonist of the two games from imprisonment.
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Intangible Theft / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition: The legendary thief Andromalius managed to prove his devotion to/prank Olidammara, god of thieves and rogues, by repenting for his crimes on his deathbed, essentially stealing his soul from his own deity. Olidammara was pissed at first, then realized the delicious irony of the deed, but was faced with a conundrum - he'd either have to ruin the joke by accepting Andromalius' soul, or let such a character pass into the realms of another deity. So Olidammara stole the thief's soul from the multiverse, turning him into a Vestige somewhere between life and death, transcending mortality but forever beyond the reach of any god. "Whether Andromalius deemed this result an honor or not remains unclear." The Fourth Edition Epic Destiny "Thief Of Legend" is all about being a thief so deft, you can steal things like memories, colors, the princess' smile or the sighs of a maiden. At the highest levels, you even gain the ability to steal your own soul from death, allowing you to come Back from the Dead.
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Intangible Theft / int_6cbd00ce	comment	Dragon Tales: In "Wheezie's Last Laugh", the antagonist Mr. Pops steals Wheezie's laugh through a special device of his. He does this with all sorts of critters, loving to take the sounds home and mess around with them. At the end of the episode, his own laugh is stolen and so he's forced to give back all the sounds.
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Intangible Theft / int_74a4c704	comment	Kingdom Hearts: the Queen of Hearts accuses Alice of attempting to steal her heart. In this game series, the "heart" is the emotional seat of characters, usually represented by a glowing pink/gold heart-shape. The real culprit in this case wasn't Alice but a Heartless, who go around trying to take the hearts from people.
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Intangible Theft / int_7af3b1bd	comment	Rubel from Thieves & Kings has an uncle, McGi, who has performed feats like retrieving a girl's lost memories.
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Intangible Theft / int_7e86f5f5	comment	Goblin mages in Warhammer Fantasy Battle. The Little Waaagh's Lore attribute meant that a goblin who successfully got a spell off had a one in three chance of stealing one of the opponent's Dispel dice and turning it into a Power die. In other words, goblin mages were capable of half-inching game abstractions representing general magical defence, and using them to cast spells, presumably after a quick coat of paint and swearing blind that they'd had the die in question for years.
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Intangible Theft / int_86814cd0	comment	Edge of Final Fantasy IV is able to steal Dark Matter, a hypothetical form of matter largely believed to be both invisible and intangible, from the final boss.
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Intangible 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. The pilot has her stealing the talent of famous athletes and musicians by using a prototype neural scanner to scramble their nervous systems while overlaying her own with an imprint of their abilities.
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Intangible Theft / int_9e20ccb2	comment	In Glorious Shotgun Princess, Kasumi Goto is a Sidereal Exalted and she steals: A villain's ability to read. Shepard's lack of a lisp, just to prove a point.
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Intangible Theft / int_a3362850	comment	The Twisted Toyfare Theatre story "Hello Kitty" re-envisions Kitty Pryde's tour of the X-Mansion, including her parents. Professor X introduces Storm, briefly mentioning that she used to be a thief. A quick introduction, and Storm leaves. Hilarity Ensues as Storm is accused of stealing Kitty's virginity. (Here you can have a look.)
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Intangible Theft / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Edge of Final Fantasy IV is able to steal Dark Matter, a hypothetical form of matter largely believed to be both invisible and intangible, from the final boss. Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings shows where all the that Level Grinding from XII went, as Vaan can casually steal concepts and attributes from an enemy, up to and including their sense of time, and make use of it himself. He steps it up by Final Fantasy Tactics A2, where he's essentially become the most incredible thief of Ivalice. Final Fantasy Tactics: In addition to more mundane thieving skills, the thief class can learn "Steal Exp" and "Steal Heart" (which charms an enemy of the opposite sex). Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: Thieves can steal any skill that an enemy has learned, so long as the thief is capable of learning it.
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Intangible Theft / int_a825da3e	comment	Lethemancers in Magic: The Gathering are a strain of necromancer specialized in the Vampiric Draining of thoughts and memories, which they convert into mana and Life Energy for their own use, leaving their victims insane, amnesiac or both.
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Intangible Theft / int_c0ce313e	comment	Mahou Sentai Magiranger: Gaston the Thief is capable of stealing intangible things, like Kai's courage.
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Intangible Theft / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Discworld crossover Watch! Watch!, sergeant Dobbin "Dobby" steals, among other things, the blame for the bad weather and the name of the city Apple-Moretone, forcing her superior Corporal "Rainbow" M. Dash to make up a new one. She settles on Ponyville.
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Intangible Theft / int_ccd1ec22	comment	The Thief from The Thief and the Cobbler steals the MacGuffin from a collapsing death machine, the words "The End" at the end of the movie and the film from the projector!
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Intangible Theft / int_cdcbdaed	comment	In the Wayside School book Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger, Mr. Gorf arrives at the school to serve as a substitute teacher to Mrs. Jewls's class and get revenge for his mother Mrs. Gorf. He sucks up the children's voices with the third nostril in his nose, which allows him to use them; he then calls their mothers and says cruel things, destroying their relationships. Miss Mush, the cafeteria lady, eventually saves the day by attacking Mr. Gorf with a Logical Weakness—pepper—that makes him sneeze out the stolen voices.
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Intangible Theft / int_cf3fc678	comment	Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings shows where all the that Level Grinding from XII went, as Vaan can casually steal concepts and attributes from an enemy, up to and including their sense of time, and make use of it himself. He steps it up by Final Fantasy Tactics A2, where he's essentially become the most incredible thief of Ivalice.
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Intangible Theft / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In the backstory for In Nomine, the Demon Prince of Theft, Valefor, was promoted to Demon Prince after he apparently stole the Word of Rapine from its previous owner. Words, in this context, being abstract concepts that grant semi-phenomenal, nearly-cosmic power to those bound to them.
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Intangible Theft / int_d2df44f8	comment	In the first Time Out of Time book, "Beyond The Door", when the Greenman comes into Timothy's house, he takes all the light in the room. Not the light bulbs, the actual light.
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Intangible Theft / int_d3b17858	comment	Final Fantasy Tactics: In addition to more mundane thieving skills, the thief class can learn "Steal Exp" and "Steal Heart" (which charms an enemy of the opposite sex).
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Intangible Theft / int_d8040caa	comment	In Space Jam, the Nerdlucks steal the talent of basketball superstars Larry Johnson, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsy Bogues, and Shawn Bradley.
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Intangible Theft / int_da02c1ef	comment	In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, at one point, a particular ghost in Chapter 4 places a curse on Mario that can only be lifted by saying the ghost's name. In case Mario already knows his name (and to prevent Sequence Breaking by players who already know), the ghost somehow removes the letter "p" from Mario's vocabulary, which is in the ghost's name (Doopliss) and thus physically preventing Mario from saying it until Mario finds where he hid the "p." (The capital letter "P" remains, but doesn't work.)
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Intangible Theft / int_dc72c82f	comment	Fallen London: Many of his visits have Mr Sacks offering to take emotions and feelings away from you, instead of material objects. He never takes them forcibly.
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Intangible Theft / int_de6659ec	comment	Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, from Once Upon a Time steals three things for her time travel spell: Rumplestiltskin's (metaphorical) brain, Prince Charming's courage, and Regina's heart (or rather, a physical manifestation of her metaphorical heart).
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Intangible Theft / int_e81f0471	comment	In The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat, the Grinch creates a vacuum-like device that lets him steal sounds from people and objects. He can either replace them with other sounds, such as when he replaces some birds' singing with burping sounds, or he can leave them be and render them unable to form any sounds at all, as what he does to The Cat in the Hat.
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Intangible Theft / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In "Farmer Guy", the Griffins find that their house has been robbed, and Peter comments that the robbers even stole his sense of wonder. This cues a Cutaway Gag where Peter watches a rainbow and says "Nope".
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Intangible Theft / int_ea8e3cb2	comment	King of Bandit Jing: Jing claims to be able to steal anything and that is what he does. He does concede defeat after discovering that one treasure is a landmark. Given that he has succeeded in stealing greed, a dream, and a smile, this is quite an admission. However, each of the three things he stole did have a physical representation that was small enough to carry one-handed.
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Intangible Theft / int_ed1f519e	comment	How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: Averted Trope when the Grinch tries to steal Christmas by taking away all the material trappings of the holiday, and finds the spirit of Christmas remains intact.
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Intangible Theft / int_f50b4a8b	comment	In Soushuu Senshinkan Gakuen Hachimyoujin, Hiiragi Seijuurou possesses a Kyudan which allows him to steal anything, ranging from physical things like body parts to psychical phenomena such as feelings, memory and concepts like talent and skill, from anyone who has negative feelings about him, in addition to inflicting them with one of the many incurable and painful diseases which plagues his body.
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Intangible Theft / int_f6a54e75	comment	In Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts: the Queen of Hearts accuses Alice of attempting to steal her heart. In this game series, the "heart" is the emotional seat of characters, usually represented by a glowing pink/gold heart-shape. The real culprit in this case wasn't Alice but a Heartless, who go around trying to take the hearts from people. In Chain of Memories, this plot is reprised, only her memories were stolen instead of her heart. Which explains why she couldn't identify the thief (her memory of the theft itself had been altered), which Alice uses to "prove" hers and Sora's innocence of the crime. Kingdom Hearts II: During the prologue, the Dusks steal every photo of Roxas along with the word "photo" itself. The characters find this only slightly surprising. The prologue takes place in a computer simulation. The Dusks' actions altered the code so the word "photo" was left undefined.
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Intangible Theft / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	In The Little Mermaid (1989), Ariel has her voice taken from her by Ursula immediately before being turned into a human. Not her physical tongue as in the original fairy tale, but her actual voice, depicted as a pulsating pin-prick of golden light that appears inside of Ariel's throat when she sings an aria intended to be her very last song...and is still singing on its own when Ursula's phantom-hand snatches it to place inside her swirling shell pendant. The entire sequence is quite eerie.
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Intangible Theft / int_f9368d52	comment	In Chain of Memories, this plot is reprised, only her memories were stolen instead of her heart. Which explains why she couldn't identify the thief (her memory of the theft itself had been altered), which Alice uses to "prove" hers and Sora's innocence of the crime.
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Intangible Theft / int_fa2d46b4	comment	Alice Mare: The Cheshire Cat's a thief capable of stealing away things like emotions.
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Intangible Theft / int_fd7a473d	comment	In Loki: Agent of Asgard, Loki once stole the RagnarÃ¶k. Yes. The event. He wanted to survive the end of the world and it's hard to die in it after you stole it... why yes, it is circular. That's Loki logic for you.
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Intangible Theft / int_ffecc2ad	comment	In the Nine Series, Miyako Kujo's Power of the Thief takes away a person's memories of a stolen item along with the item itself. The victim gets their memories back when she returns the item, though they will not realize that anything has been stolen unless she admits to the theft. She can also read a person's mind by stealing just the memories themselves.
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