History Main / OutlawCouple

* In the second season of ''{{Carnivale}}'' a thrill-seeking Bonnie & Clyde team rob a gas station, only to be [[BadAss killed in seconds]] by professional criminal Varlyn Stroud who is using the men's room. Stroud then [[ShootTheDog shoots dead the attendant]] (because he's a witness) as he's in the midst of praising Stroud for saving his life.

* The FilmNoir ''GunCrazy'' had John Dall and Peggy Cummins as a war vet and a circus sharpshooter who fall in love and go on a crime spree.

** The real-life case of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate was apparently a major inspiration for this team.

* [[HeavenlyCreatures Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme]]

** A year after the end of the Pavel and Dagmar's career, [[http://www.praguepost.com/news/6804-bank-robbers-die-in-shootout.html another couple]] of Czech bank robbers (and "[[GentlemanThief Gentleman Gangsters]]") made the news. Even more similarly to the real Bonnie and Clyde, they were both killed in a shoot-out during their last robbery: he was shot by the police, she committed a suicide.

* The original Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow of historical and cinematic fame, though Hollywood tends to romanticize them a bit. For those unfamiliar with the real life Bonnie and Clyde: the public did not like them because they tended to [[MoralEventHorizon kill people]] (police ''and'' civilians) just ForTheEvulz, but they ''did'' root for John Dillinger. The final showdown between Bonnie and Clyde and the ambush posse of Frank Hamer, Bob Alcorn, Ted Hinton, Prentiss Oakley and Sheriff Henderson Jordan was a CurbStompBattle that the posse won, due to them becoming [[CombatPragmatist Combat Pragmatists]] and deciding to ambush them with [[MoreDakka automatic weapons]]. To be fair, Bonnie and Clyde had killed nine police officers in several states, and these didn't happen while they were committing crimes. Given that kind of motivation, law enforcement types do not fool around. Meanwhile, in its entire period of existence, the Dillinger gang only killed five law enforcement officers - one FBI agent, and four officers, and two of those officers were killed during robberies. The gang also wounded many more cops as well in several of their other bank robberies.

** Dillinger himself may have counted during the time when he was dating Billie Frechette. Frechette was present with Dillinger when he and Homer Van Meter engaged police in a small firefight in St. Paul in April 1934. Also, she was riding shotgun when police attempted to ambush Dillinger in a car chase in Chicago on November 15, 1933.

* Surely Canadian tropers remember Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka?
** Much as we'd rather forget them.

** David and Fox Xanatos although they ease up on the illegal stuff after becoming parents.

* ''LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' had a male and female duo of Experiments designed to steal just about everything. Lilo went so far as to name them after the TropeNamer.

* David and Fox Xanatos of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', although they ease up on the illegal stuff after becoming parents.

* Likewise in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', where they even have a crime-spree montage with the two of them performing a cover of Music/HankWilliams' "Setting the Woods on Fire"!

* The Joker and Harley Quinn from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
** Likewise in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', where they even have a crime-spree montage with the two of them performing a cover of Music/HankWilliams' "Setting the Woods on Fire"!

* ''TheFairlyOddparents'' had an episode featuring the 'Souvineer Bandits,' two dimwitted boobs who look exactly like Timmy's parents, who are trying to steal a sacred pencil sharpener.

* Kate and Sawyer on ''Series/{{Lost}}'', pretty much. Also Sawyer and Cassidy.

* A few have happened in ''CriminalMinds''. Most recent was the episode "The Thirteenth Step" where the couple attempted to go through the steps of recovering from alcoholism but show no remorse as they repeatedly shot and kill dozens of innocent civilians who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
** There were also the Canardos and [[EvilOldFolks the Roycewoods]].
* In the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode "Trash," Saphron tries to trick Mal into this type of relationship with her. She was working the same angle on an old buddy of his until Mal showed up and blew her cover. Of course, her ChronicBackstabbingDisorder complicates the whole thing.

** In the episode of ''Heartthrob'' the titular hero faces the revenge of a vampire acquaintance after he kills his Bonny.

* Stick-up kid Omar from ''TheWire'' works with his boyfriends. First Brandon [[spoiler:until said boyfriend is tortured to death]] and later Dante, then Renaldo. Omar and Dante also ally with a lesbian robber couple for a few heists.
* ''WalkerTexasRanger'' had an episode with a [[LoonyFan guy obsessed with Bonnie and Clyde]] kidnapped a girl to act as his Bonnie.
* ''{{Dexter}}''

* In the episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' ''Heartthrob'' the titular hero faces the revenge of a vampire acquaintance after he kills his Bonny.
** You could also count Darla and Drusilla although the lesbian aspect of their relationship is only implied

** Likewise ''Series/{{Brimstone}}''.

* Henricksen refers to ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''s Sam and Dean Winchester like this, despite that they are not lovers (and yes, I'm ignoring those Wincest shippers), though they do have an unusually strong brotherly bond.

* ''LupinTheThird'' and Fujiko seem to have this type of relation in the anime, although its really an on and off romance between them because Fujiko has ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. (In the manga, they're a definite Bonnie/Clyde couple who are often seen having very intense sex.)

** At the end of one manga, Jessie and James are shown to have retired from crime (along with Meowth) and have a kid on the way.

* ''JimmyAndJudy'', an indie film starring Edward Furlong and RachaelBella.

* Pumpkin and Honey Bunny from ''PulpFiction''.

* Mickey and Mallory Knox from ''NaturalBornKillers'' were killers rather than robbers, and the movie was meant as a scathing indictment of media glamorization of serial killers and other violent criminals.

* Another lesbian example. Shell and Denny in ''BadGirls''.

* Real life Bonnie and Clyde couple Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck inspired the films ''TheHoneymoonKillers'', ''DeepCrimson'' and ''LonelyHearts''.

* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' season two ends [[spoiler: by subverting this. After al-Quaeda implicates Brody in a terrorist attack using his suicide note from the *previous* season, he and Carrie seem poised to go on the run together. Instead, Carrie chooses to stay with the CIA so she can try to clear Brody's name for him.]]