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The Heroes may be saving a Damsel in Distress. They may be a battalion fighting against The Empire. Being a hero and leading the troops in battle is a hard and dangerous job, with daily risks of being cut, speared, or killed and sleeping in a cold camp tent at night. But it has its perks. And one of the biggest is... PLUNDER!note Followed by Loot, Treasure, Money, Riches, Gold, Lucre, Boodle, Booty, Dough, Graft, Goods, Items, Moolah, Pillage, Prizes, Spoils, Swag, Bling Yes, indeed even our heroes need something to compensate them for risking life and limb and satisfy their sense of mischief and desire for booty. They take joy in depriving their foes of treasure. They also need to get food, supplies and new weapons. For our heroes make money the old-fashioned way: they steal — wait — plunder it. When done by soldiers in a war, this is sometimes called "Spoils of War". This is outlawed as a practice today by many modern military forces, not that it doesn't still happen on some scale. However, the Geneva Convention allows soldiers to take anything necessary for warfare from the enemy. That is, you can plunder ammunition, guns and fuel (as it allows you to keep on fighting and prevents the enemy from doing so) but you can't steal someone's watch, food or valuables, for example. Despite these rules, some soldiers may discreetly pocket a small item after capturing a city. This is Truth in Television and it is Older Than Feudalism. Whenever a tribe would raid the neighboring village, even if the main goal was something other than getting the enemy's possessions (say, getting sole possession of a good hunting ground), getting their livestock, stored grain, tools and weapons was a bonus. Historically, plunder was only limited by what you could carry or heap on your wagon. Personal possessions of conquered civilians, artwork, statues, jewelry could all be looted. Is the priceless relic mounted in a wall in a church? No problem, pry it off and throw it in the cart. Are the jewels decorations in a holy shrine in the conquered city? Smash them out with the butt of an axe...This rapacious plundering was the normal practice in all through the medieval era all the way up to when the Geneva Conventions were signed. Within games, plunder is like Experience Points (and commonly both used, as well) — a reward from defeating your enemies. The difference may be generally more or less certainty in what you may get from your enemies where with Experience Points, it is generally clearly aligned by certain parameters. Most RPGs (since many of them are spiritually descended from Dungeons & Dragons) have you discover a variety of equipment and currency when going through dungeons, both by taking them off of defeated enemies and by finding chests and other storage areas. The moral implications of Robbing the Dead rarely come up, because getting cool new stuff is always fun. Related to this is Pirate Booty which is a treasure hoard gathered by pirates when they do this. Compare Kleptomaniac Hero and Rewarding Vandalism, which are the video game equivalents of this trope. The villainous equivalent is Rape, Pillage, and Burn, where stolen property is not the only offense. As well, the common gaming term of this trope is "loot, lewt, or 13\/\/7". |
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Watch officer Nobby was in the military, and was infamous for stealing equipment from both sides, sometimes just to make profit and sometimes to make himself look like a member of whichever side was winning. In Night Watch, when a young Nobby suggests that boots are a decent battlefield haul, a career soldier in the room implies that anything that heavy just isn't worth the time or effort: best to stick to jewelry. | |
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Worm: When Skitter helps take down a drug house during the war against ABB, she has some of her bugs gather up all the cash and splits it with the other villains. Regent tried to steal Kid Win's hoverboard as a trophy and cool toy until it's pointed out that the Protectorate would have tracking devices installed for just this kind of situation. |
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Star Trek Online: While it may be a bit out of character for Starfleet officers (though not necessarily other factions or races), it's perfectly possible to equip a ship or away team with equipment drops from defeated enemies. Certain mission rewards also read like battlefield loot, like the Vaadwaur Pulsewave Pistol acquired after the final assault on the Vaadwaur homeworld at the end of their storyline. Most explicitly, the Klingon Defense Force has the Marauding Duty Officer missions, where groups of Mauve Shirts are sent out to raid civilian vessels and minor colonies, and the Orion Slaver hanger pets that randomly "acquire" currency and commodities for their owner in battle. | |
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Legends of Runeterra: Plunder is a keyword in the game, mostly concentrated in the Pirate-themed Bilgewater region. Cards with Plunder can only be played (or in some cases will generate bonus effects) after their controller has managed to deal at least one point of damage to the enemy Nexus that turn. Coinciding with this theme, a lot of Bilgewater cards with Plunder allow you to steal your opponent's stuff, most prominently letting you draw cards directly from their deck instead of your own. | |
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At the start of Rocketship Voyager, the eponymous rocketship has just taken part in the compulsory evacuation of the Asteroid Belt, prior to them being handed over to the Jovians. Because it's their only source of contraterrene, Spacefleet has confiscated every gram they can get their hands on, plus anything else they can get from the asteroid mines and refineries including uranium, tungsten and high-quality steel. All this comes in handy when Voyager ends up on the far side of the galaxy with only the contents of their cargo holds for trading or repairs. There they find a Portal Network run by the Caretaker, who uses K'Zon and Hirogen mercenaries to plunder riches, slaves and technology from throughout the galaxy. | |
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How Zbyszko and Maćko from The Knights of the Cross earn their living. Justified Trope, since they're knights and only plunder other knights having bested them in duels, but still. | |
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In The Monuments Men, the Allies set up a section of the military dedicated to ensure the protection of works of art in the Allied-controlled areas of Europe as well as finding the whereabouts of works of art plundered by the forces of Nazi Germany. | |
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Puzzles & Survival: One way of gaining resources is by attacking other players and stealing theirs. | |
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Honor Harrington made a substantial amount in prize money (see Real Life section below) under some of her earlier commands. Even some of the junior officers did fairly well out of more successful anti-piracy operations. | |
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In The Sun Over Breda, Alatriste and his squire Inigo experience the Spanish soldier's life in The Eighty Years' War. The promise of plunder drives many of the soldiers, especially as the Spanish Crown rarely bothers actually paying their wages. However, they're also expected to operate under various rules of conduct and are often denied the right to plunder (especially as the Crown hopes to hold the conquered lands, not just pillage them) and must pay civilians for food. As a result many of the men are on near-starvation rations except for the rare times they're allowed to plunder, and often had to resort to mutiny to get paid. | |
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Wario Land: Pretty much the only reason Wario will ever be interested in doing anything even remotely heroic is if there's a decent chance of making himself richer by sacking his way through somewhere loaded with treasure (that and taking back things that were plundered from him). | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall : Most of Linkara's "Arsenal of Freedom" consists of magically enchanted toys, but he makes a habit of picking up souvenirs from his defeated foes. This has included everything from simple weapons to Humongous Mecha and a fully functional starship. | |
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Tarkin's Fist: Fort Knox and other national gold reserves are looted the world over by the Imperials during the war, both as a means of enriching the Empire itself and depriving the enemy of its more precious resources. | |
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Sid Meier's Pirates!: Every time a ship is captured, they show this quite deliciously. | |
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With This Ring: Part of what makes the Accala such a terrifying threat is that they don't need any logistics train at all. A couple of hundred people with their level of Super-Strength and Super-Toughness, able to shatter concrete, shrug off most bullets, and outrun cars, can easily take food and perhaps replacement clothing from their defeated enemies, and they don't need anything else — which means they could launch their assault at the drop of a hat. | |
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The Traveler's Gate: Valinhall's emphasis on earning everything means the Territory has an odd ability. If a Valinhall Traveler wins an item from another Territory in battle, they can take it back to Valinhall and have it remade into a form that the Travelers can draw power from. It is placed in a room and given an appropriate test, and once a Traveler passes that test they can use its power. | |
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In The Pacific, a Seabee on Peleliu says he is looking for a Japanese sword to take home. The Marines, who have just been through some very nasty fighting, give him a very dirty look. | |
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Discworld: Watch officer Nobby was in the military, and was infamous for stealing equipment from both sides, sometimes just to make profit and sometimes to make himself look like a member of whichever side was winning. In Night Watch, when a young Nobby suggests that boots are a decent battlefield haul, a career soldier in the room implies that anything that heavy just isn't worth the time or effort: best to stick to jewelry. This certainly doesn't apply just to Nobby. In Monstrous Regiment, Jackrum makes sure to train the squadron that if the other guy's dead, he's not using what's on him, much to Blouse's discontent. Field-expedient acquisitions are also encouraged to make sure the squad survives. The Royal Sto Plains Riflers, in The Discworld Mapp, are not named after a weapon that doesn't exist on the Disc (or at least didn't for long), but for their tendency to rifle through an opponents pockets, taking jewelry, boots and gold teeth. Some of them don't even wait until the enemy is dead, and go into battle armed only with shoehorn and pliers. |
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The plunder of resources on defeated enemy ships in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Assassin's Creed Rogue etc. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries addresses this issue in its very first Maxim: "Pillage, then burn." | |
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Defied in Red Storm Rising, when the senior officer of a group of US military personnel stranded in Soviet-occupied Iceland leads his men to an isolated farmhouse to ask for food. | |
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Servants of the Imperium: In Strip #32: "Loot Ahoy!", one of the characters prepares for an attack on a pirate fortress by bringing along a large sack in preparation for looting treasure. | |
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World of Horror: Miku has access to two perks that simulate this, Looting, which grants Miku 1 fund after defeating an enemy, and Pickpocket, which increases the chances of finding items after combat. | |
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In the backstory to A Brother's Price, the Whistlers sneak into the palace of the Queens of Southland on reconnaissance near the end of the war, and while there they liberate some impressively elegant cutlery, jewelry, and the almost-old-enough-to-marry Prince Alannon in a bathrobe. He was not happy about this, but since the war ended and his mothers, father, and sisters were executed for treason, he made the best of things. And got his new wives to build him a bathhouse. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Third Edition book Oriental Adventures discusses how to best avert this trope in parties where one or more of the characters are nobles of some sort (as samurai and most spellcasters are), and as such it would be highly improper for them to handle the dead at all, much less going through a fallen foe's pockets for coin. Tomb of Horrors, famed of course for its unfairness and sheer level of cruelty, has quite a lot of more interesting things the party can plunder if they're careful. Certainly, there were such treasures as one would expect within the dungeon... but how many people would think of stealing the adamantium doors? Revised versions have since patched many of the most dire examples, but where there's a will (and a ton of platinum to be made), there's a way... |
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Fallout 2: You can freely plunder the bodies of defeated enemies, but the game draws the line at literal Grave Robbing — doing this causes the player to take a hit to their reputation and receive a special negative title. | |
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Mild case in Gettysburg when Tom Chamberlain gets coffee from "some poor souls who had no more use for it." Lawrence calls it ghoulish, but he drinks it anyway. | |
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Call of Cthulhu: In early adventures, the investigators can almost always find some kind of valuable treasure among the Cthulhu Mythos menace's belongings. It's not clear whether this was unconsciously based on Dungeons & Dragons type games or a practical decision due to the investigators' need for money to carry on their work. | |
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Borderlands: The lifeblood of the series, aided by a weapon generation system that randomizes every single weapon, shield and grenade you find, allowing for eighty-seven bazillion combinations of loot. | |
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Arthur: In a CD-ROM game based on the show, if one succeeds in finding a treasure chest in the scuba diving minigame, a newspaper article with a picture of Arthur surrounded by the treasure will appear. | |
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Band of Brothers: The soldiers go through the mansion of a Nazi grandee and find a large supply of expensive wine. After which they solemnly enact an Ancient Military Custom... Later, Major Winters shows his friend Nixon (who has a major drinking problem) Hermann Goering's wine cellar warehouse. The expression on Nixon's face is priceless. Also, Ronald Spiers' collection of silver, and other various characters collecting everything from Hitler's personal photographs to Luger pistols. |
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This certainly doesn't apply just to Nobby. In Monstrous Regiment, Jackrum makes sure to train the squadron that if the other guy's dead, he's not using what's on him, much to Blouse's discontent. Field-expedient acquisitions are also encouraged to make sure the squad survives. | |
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The Zombie Hunters: The eponymous team of Disaster Scavengers loot and smuggle on the sly while on salvage missions for their Island Base of Zombie Apocalypse survivors. It's this temptation that causes The Captain to lead them on a misadventure in a zombie-dense "red zone", and a slightly less brazen attempt to steal beer from quarantine. Victoria's Secret Compartment is a favored hiding place for contraband, and one character brazenly sports the slogan "I <3 Looting" on a Fun T-Shirt. | |
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DM of the Rings provides a list of such incentives for players to continue gaming. | |
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The accompanying Drama CD for Girls und Panzer der Film explains the reason why the Jatkosota High School girls don't show up in the ending sequence where everyone's going home. That is, they left early to loot the University Strengthened Team's stockpile. | |
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Merry Brandybuck: "One thing you have not come by in your travels is brighter wits" (explaining why he and Pippin are feasting amid the ruins of Isengard in The Lord of the Rings). | |
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The US first infantry division actually converted itself into a motorized division this way in France. During the German retreat they captured and hot-wired enough German vehicles — and probably stole some from the civilians — that they could carry the entire force. | |
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In DC, Batman will definitely pocket inventions from his enemies in order to analyze their equipment and have a nasty surprise waiting for future foes. Superman, himself, isn't above taking some trophies to pad out the Fortress of Solitude. The Justice League even got one of their later bases by looting and plundering Overmaster's escape pod. | |
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There was a Knights of the Dinner Table strip where Bob's dad who was hostile towards roleplaying. He joined a Cattlepunk game, and was shocked and appalled that players would casually loot the bodies of their adversaries, which John Wayne would never do, and other instances of "gamer logic." | |
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Girl Genius: The Super-Soldier Jaegers collect their "uniforms" piecemeal from defeated enemies, most famously their hats. As it turns out, they only wear clothing collected from defeated enemies, which causes problems when none of their enemies are the same size they are. When Agatha is wandering Paris in a bikini covered by a shirt due to briefly being kidnapped by a villain, Dimo refuses to let her wear anything she doesn't win herself — and everyone she defeats is noticeably smaller than her in the hip department. Even when she finds a dress shop, he says she can't loot it, since she hasn't conquered the entire city of Paris. Fortunately, Agatha is able to find some lady revenants in formal wear so she can beat one who shares her dress size up and steal her clothing not long after (Causing Zeetha to comment that you really ''can'' find anything in Paris). | |
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The Patriot (2000): One of the principal financial motivations for some of the French-Indian war veterans to join Martin's militia is the ability to sell back every English gun or uniform found or recovered. | |
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BattleTech: On of the original slogans is "in the 31st Century, life is cheap, but Battlemechs aren't." It's traditional in the setting to try to capture as much of the enemy's equipment as you possibly can. This was especially true in the game's beginning, when there were few factories able to continue producing Battlemechs, and also after the Clans invaded — their equipment was drastically superior to Inner Sphere weapons and armor, so once the Inner Sphere factions figured out how to start winning fights with them they made a habit of sending raiding forces across the border to take their stuff. | |
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Aiel in The Wheel of Time look forward to plundering wetlander settlements, though they have a strict custom of only taking 20% of what is available. | |
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Fire Emblem: Thracia 776: A gameplay mechanic. Since you get very little money on your own, the best way to get items and weapons is to Capture enemy units, strip them of their possessions, and then release them. | |
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The Elder Scrolls series, in addition to the standard "RPG uses" of this trope, actively utilizes this trope to compensate for the low monetary rewards most quests offer. In most cases, whatever you are being paid to complete a quest won't even cover the costs of the potions, arrows, and weapon/armor repairs (at least prior to Skyrim) you will need after. Instead, you are expected to loot the cave/lair/ruin/house of whatever/whoever you were sent to kill. In the vast majority of cases, plunder will be your real source of income. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire. Even the notoriously strict King Stannis doesn't try to stop his men from plundering. And a sign of the discipline of the Unsullied slave soldiers is that they have no interest in plunder (being forbidden any private possessions) unless ordered to do so on behalf of their master. As per the Real Life example below, Sandor Clegane advises Arya Stark how to find money hidden on a dead body, looking inside the man's boots and checking for money sewn into his clothes. |
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The whole point of the 1974 dnd game is to kill the inhabitants of this dungeon so you can get their money. This is even reflected in the leveling system, which is tied to how much loot you bring out of the dungeon. | |
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A plot point in Eikou no Napoleon: Eroica (the little-known sequel to The Rose of Versailles dedicated to Napoleon's rise and fall) is that Napoleon, differently from any other general, forbids his soldiers from plundering (and keeps them in line by eating less then them when on the field, thus the soldiers are too ashamed to protest). This is not out of goodness but out of sheer pragmatism: by not plundering, the inhabitants of the entire territory they're marching through love them more than the other army and, to keep themselves on their good side, pool their collective resources to maintain the army, thus on the long term giving them more than they could have stolen, and are also more sympathetic to the ideals of the French Revolution.note Napoleon allowed his soldiers to plunder the battlefield exactly once, at the Battle of the Pyramids: having being caught by a larger Mamluk-Ottoman force while his own troops were tired after Crossing the Desert, Napoleon gave them the permission and added that the Mamluk went at war covered in golden jewels. Finding enough strength to fight through sheer greed, the French annihilated the enemy force and broke forever the Mamluk military might. | |
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In the Malazan Book of the Fallen book The Crippled God, a character alarmingly notices that the common soldiers in the Bonehunters army stopped caring about plunder. This signifies that the Badass Army is turning fanatical in their purpose. | |
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. After defeating Prince Koura, Sinbad has the opportunity to gain a "crown of untold riches". He generously gives it to the facially-disfigured Vizier instead, and the crown restores the Vizier to normal. | |
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Horatio Hornblower: Hornblower never gets as much of this as he likes because he is too busy fighting the war to turn aside to trifles like prize-money. Almost every time he does get any, something keeps him from profiting. True until Flying Colors, at the end of which he receives prize money from the prizes he took in the previous book, plus more from the (re)capture of the Witch of Endor. |
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Game of Thrones: In Daenerys's storyline she goes to Qarth to get ships, but is double crossed by the New King of Qarth Daxos, and the warlock Pyats Pree. After killing the warlock she locks up Daxos in his empty vault, and takes all the gold and jewels in the palace to buy her ship. | |
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Zulus are shown rifling British dead at Isandhwana in Zulu. | |
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In Herodotus' Histories: King Croesus is captured by King Cyrus and they watch Croesus' city burn, Croesus remarks that, since he's already lost the battle and his kingdom, the soldiers sacking the city are technically destroying Cyrus' property and stealing Cyrus' wealth. Later on, after the Battle of Salamis, Persian dead were washed ashore for the Greeks to rifle. The Athenian politician Themistocles perhaps thought being a scavenger might lose votes. So he told a companion, "Help yourself, for you are not Themistocles." |
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For the most part the plunder in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? are the magic crystals dropped from slain monsters; adventurers would them exchange them to Vals. Orario seems to use them as an energy source. | |
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Glory had the 54th Regiment's first field mission accompanying a white officer leading African American irregulars. The irregulars prove to be a mere rabble of plunderers and the 54th are disgusted to a man at seeing their robbery of a civilian home, but Col. Shaw is no position to keep his unit from at least taking part in the destruction. | |
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In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Cesare Borgia's army assaults Ezio Auditore's town/headquarters Monteriggioni and plunders paintings from his villa. | |
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HeroQuest: Played with in Warhammer Quest. Your heroes will definitely yank every bit of gold out of any orifice of their dead enemies. In fact, gold from the dead is so vital that it replaces experience in the game. However, your heroes will never loot enemy equipment, the reason being that all the evil races use weapons that are tainted with black magic that's harmful to your heroes. | |
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The plot of Flesh+Blood (1985) is kicked off by this. A nobleman promises his mercenaries they can loot a town if they succeed in taking it. Once they succeed however, the nobleman reneges on the deal because he needs the money and goodwill of the townspeople. The mercenaries are thrown out, and plot their revenge. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Orks are notorious for looting and plundering. They even have a squad dedicated to this, the Lootas, who scrounge battlefields and mug enemies for loot to sell in return for the heavy weapon Deffguns. Chaos warbands rely heavily on plundering to meet their need for equipment, slaves and Space Marine gene-seed. Tyranids plunder the biospheres of whole worlds to take back genetic information and bio-matter for their Hive Fleets. Dark Eldar have a lust for looting too but differ from the other villainous races in that they're typically not interested in material goods except as an odd trophy. Rather, they take enemies as slaves to take back home, so they can get their souls sucked out and other nefarious purposes. The Imperium largely gets the short end of the looting stick and will usually find anything from their enemies to be incompatible/dangerous to them — at most, various veteran guardsmen might acquire something special off of other, deceased simultaneously-luckier-and-unluckier guardsmen — but isn't without their own legendary looters. The Primarch Roboute Guilliman got his Gauntlets of Ultramar by yoinking them off the corpse of a defeated Chaos champion, while the Space Wolves commander Logan Grimnar got his axe, Morkai, in a similar fashion. The Minotaurs chapter of the Space Marines are infamous for attacking other Space Marine chapters (despite being Loyalists) and taking their weapons. This had earned them the ire of almost all Space Marines who have been targeted by them. The fandom has long nicknamed the Blood Ravens Chapter as "the Bloody Magpies" because their army has a lot of wargear from different Chapters, which are usually claimed to have been gifted to them when the other Chapter have no records of such an exchange. Became an Ascended Meme in one of the novels when one character compares a trophy room to a magpies' nest. |
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Shadowrun adventures usually have this trope as well. Even if Mr. Johnson stiffs them on their pay and dead enemies have no money, PCs can at least loot and fence the enemies' equipment. Note that, because of the nature of the setting, this extends to their opponents bodies (and not just cybernetics). | |
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El Goonish Shive: Moral exceptions for Skyrim/Fallout style plundering is lampshaded in the Fantasy Wasteland storyline. | |
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In Lawrence of Arabia following the storming of Aqaba the Bedouin turn their attentions to plunder. In a later incident, Lawrence explains that this is part of his men's pay. Which of course it was, as they had no other clear reason to care whether they were ruled by Prince Feisal or the Sultan. | |
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Unsounded: The Lions of Mercy go through Litriya Shrine looking for things to steal. | |
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Empire Earth: In the last mission of the Greek campaign, Alexander the Great's forces come across small villages, which can either be spared and assimilated for civilization points, or razed for plunder. | |
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Tomb of Horrors, famed of course for its unfairness and sheer level of cruelty, has quite a lot of more interesting things the party can plunder if they're careful. Certainly, there were such treasures as one would expect within the dungeon... but how many people would think of stealing the adamantium doors? Revised versions have since patched many of the most dire examples, but where there's a will (and a ton of platinum to be made), there's a way... | |
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Frank Castle, a.k.a. The Punisher, freely takes weapons, money, and vehicles from the criminals he kills. | |
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Total War: In all games, armies can raid trade paths and the victors of a battle for a town can choose to damage and loot it at some sort of trade-off — usually in the future to contrast with the immediate cash injection looting gives one. Total War: Rome II adds the ability for armies to be set in a raiding over an area (which is more profitable while over trade routes that don't belong to you) which carries over in future titles. Total War: Attila adds "sack" and "raze" options when defeating a town's defenders — the former is like looting but even more profitable and doesn't transfer control of the town to you, while the latter grants less money but destroys the town entirely and penalizes its fertility should anyone decide to reclaim the area again. Befitting the Darker and Edgier style of Attila, players are likely to find both options very necessary at times. Total War: Warhammer adds a guaranteed cash bonus for every army's victory over another army and can allow you to get items for your generals and heroes/steal the items of enemy, while sack and raze options remain, though they are somewhat less strategically significant because there are large swaths of territory that are habitable only by specific factions anyway and all armies can fortify to replenish their numbers while outside of allied territory. | |
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Hit Girl and Big Daddy from Kick-Ass have looted and plundered from so many criminals around the world that in the 3rd series, it turns out that they have a secret base complete with submarines and underground docks. | |
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Flashman's attempts to have a chapter on foraging and decorating included in the British Army manual get nowhere. However the loot he gathers from the Indian Mutiny alone is enough to set his family up for life (but not retirement, unfortunately, as he continues to get into scrapes). | |
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Sharpe The books devote a fair bit of time to the loot and plunder that most of the British, French and Spanish armies get up to (not to mention the army wives, who worry even the badass Richard Sharpe). Of particular note is the looting that occurs at the end of Sharpe's Honour, a real incident where the retreating French baggage train was captured by British soldiers, and Sharpe and Harper (taking the place of some unknown soldiers) captured the Marshal of Vitoria's royal baton and King Joseph Bonaparte's royal jakespot. Sharpe actually gets into trouble in one book because some of the items he and his men took technically did not qualify as legitimate military plunder under the conventions of the time. For political reasons the army cannot just tell the lawyers to go to hell so he is sent to an out-of-the-way outpost till the matter blows over. He does however forbid looting from civilians unless it's that or starve, though that's not for any particular moral reason; it's just that pissing off the local residents will make his job considerably harder than it has to be. |
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Elona: Downplayed. Looting the bodies of monsters you kill yourself is OK, but looting dead adventurers' bodies (most have been dead for long) isn't — there is a karma penalty for the latter. | |
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The Rigel Black Chronicles: As Rigel is officially responsible for the death of the basilisk, she's entitled to claim its corpse and the many valuable potion ingredients therein. She's initially reluctant and wants to just hand it over to Professor Dumbledore, but when it's pointed out that that could get politically complicated, she accepts. At her request, though, a lot of it is donated or sold cheaply to charitable causes. | |
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Firefly: The crew of Serenity, are more or less space scavengers and bandits (only taking from the very rich, or people who died before the crew showed up). The Alliance considers such "unlicensed" activity to be outright piracy and, as such, the goods and cargo they claim (the most valuable being packages of manufactured food, which sells for a high price) to essentially be plunder claimed illegally. Still, despite the risk and legal troubles, the crew couldn't really get by without it. This exchange near the end of the episode "Ariel" is fairly indicative: | |
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In Marvel, every main superhero team will help themselves to Doctor Doom's time machine technology. And a few (notably the Fantastic Four) will take his Doombots too. | |
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Jack Aubrey of the Aubrey-Maturin series is more fortunate in the matter of prize money; when he has money problems, they tend to come from unfortunate investments on land. | |
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The treasure in National Treasure is an enormous hoard of riches plundered from one owner to another. Which go as far as Ancient Egypt up to the Crusades, where it was kept hidden by the Knights Templar, who took it to America to hide it. | |
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Belisarius Series revels in plunder. Every time he wins a victory (often over arrogant generals who have their own marching Decadent Court with viands, sex slaves and luxurious tent-palaces), great hoards of plunder are found and when divided ordinary soldiers get enough to set up a small farm or business on retirement. Or knowing soldiers, just to get really, really smashed. | |
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Assassin's Creed: In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Cesare Borgia's army assaults Ezio Auditore's town/headquarters Monteriggioni and plunders paintings from his villa. The plunder of resources on defeated enemy ships in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Assassin's Creed Rogue etc. |
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In The Hobbit Bilbo is promised a fair share of the dragon's hoard in payment for his services as a burglar. As it belonged to the Dwarves in the first place, it was kind of Re-Plunder. | |
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