History Main / BlatantBurglar

** DuckTales gave the Beagle Boys actual names, almost all of them starting with a B and referring to their main personality trait or gimmick. Ma Beagle and Megabyte Beagle are the only two exceptions to the B rule I can remember. They still wore the same outfits and numbers though.
** Don Rosa's later duck comics give us one more named Beagle: Pa Beagle.

** To specify: a black ski-cap, though not one pulled down over the face; a black mask covering their eyes, a black-and-white striped shirt, and black pants. In Sims2, Sims whose homes are robbed will automatically "meet" the burglar, meaning they can call them up on the phone and eventually befriend or date them.

->"Just then, a bank robber ran by. Sparky knew he was a bank robber because he was wearing what bank robbers always wear: a mask, a striped shirt, and shoes that were good for running."
->'''-[[ThisModernWorld Tom Tomorrow]]''', ''The Very Silly Mayor''

* In one of Ralphie's daydream sequences in ''AChristmasStory'', he uses a BB gun to defend his backyard from a group of burglars dressed in striped shirts, masks, and fingerless gloves. While dressed in a ridiculous singing cowboy outfit.

* Bandits of old {{Western}}s tend to tie a kerchief so it covers their face from the bridge of the nose down, kind of a homemade balaclava. Of course, this didn't look particularly burglar-ish in Real Life -- in areas with a lot of dust and wind, ''everybody'' wore their kerchiefs like that on especially bad days.

-->"Just then, a bank robber ran by. Sparky knew he was a bank robber because he was wearing what bank robbers always wear: a mask, a striped shirt, and shoes that were good for running."
-->'''-[[ThisModernWorld Tom Tomorrow]]''', ''The Very Silly Mayor''

* In the UK, France and certain older works, the mandatory dress code is a DominoMask, a black and white striped shirt, a flatcap, and a ThiefBag (often marked "Swag" for extra honesty) slung over the shoulder. Note that the black and white stripes are trademark old prisoner dress, implying one is dressing like one has already been caught and jailed.

* The Beagle Boys from DuckTales.
* Swiper the Fox of DoraTheExplorer is clearly a burglar because of his name and the fact that he always wears a mask.

* Lampshaded in ''Katamari Damacy's'' sequel, We Love Katamari. The description for "Burglar" in the collection of items you have rolled up is "He wants to be stealthy, but he looks so obvious."

* Japan has [[HighlyVisibleNinja Ninjas who dress like Ninjas,]] so that the people they are hiding from will know they are, in fact, a Ninja. See also, StealthClothes.

* Japan has its own version of this; see StealthClothes.

* An episode of ''Trigger Happy TV'' featured a man dressed in full-burglar-get-up asking people on the street for a boost into an open window, since, he claimed, he'd locked himself outside.

** The best variation of that sketch was when he called out to someone from the second floor window to please hold the ladder for him as he climbed down. Of course, as he exits the person can suddenly see that he is dressed as a burglar and carrying a bag marked "loot". To top it all off he then ran off down the street shouting about he and "that guy" just robbed the house.

* When Stuart and Paul from SpinCity were ordered to break in to Mike's ex-girlfriend's appartment to recover the semen she held hostage (long story) Stuart wore his usual clothes, while Paul dressed in the closest to a black jumpsuit he could find.