History Main / TheCaper

* ''Manga/MagicKaito'' is about a boy becoming a phantom thief and putting on a caper , it covers almost every episode.

* The point of virtually all ''Franchise/LupinIII'' stories. They usually involve at least two or more members of Lupin's gang in the process of executing a grandiose heist, while Zenigata opposes them (mostly to capture Lupin).

* ''Literature/{{Parker}}''. Each book is divided into four sections of roughly equal length, subdivided into shorter chapters. The first and second sections are written in a limited third-person perspective focused entirely on Parker as he plans and undertakes a robbery or heist with colleagues. The second section ends on a cliffhanger, as Parker is betrayed -- often injured and left for dead. Section three shifts to the perspective of Parker's opponents, usually in flashback as they plan and execute their double-cross. Section four returns to Parker's perspective as he survives the plot against him and sets out for revenge.

* The premise of the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' series is a gang of thieves planning heists against master criminals, with each target requiring preparation, planning, and sometimes [[IndyPloy improvisation]].

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The Caper is more action-oriented than TheCon. It often revolves around a [[TheChessmaster brilliant]] GentlemanThief who JustGotOutOfJail hoping to do OneLastJob, usually by PuttingTheBandBackTogether (in comedies, a RagtagBunchOfMisfits). However, [[HeistEpisode almost any type of protagonist]] can be found planning a caper, often [[PowerfulAndHelpless out of necessity]] when their usual methods [[KungFuProofMook won't work]] or [[YourMagicsNoGoodHere aren't available]]. If one or more of the crew works for the target, it's an InsideJob. Can lead to JustLikeRobinHood as a way of CaperRationalization. The crew's leader will inevitably present the job as ASimplePlan that is [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee certain to go off the rails]] due to unexpected variables.

* In ''Film/{{St Trinians|2007}}'', the St. Trinian's girls must get into the final of ''School Challenge'', a TV quiz show held in the National Gallery in London, as a cover for stealing Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring".

* In ''Film/CarryOnMatron'', a gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital to sell abroad. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan.

* ''Comicbook/SuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'' revolves around one complicated caper, which gets increasingly convoluted as everyone involved tries to screw everyone else involved over.

* ''{{Film/Bound 1996}}'': Two lesbians steal several million in cash and try to pin it on the mobster boyfriend of one of them.

** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', of all movies, is an example, with a super-heroic twist. [[LateArrivalSpoiler Following up on]] the last ''Avengers'' movie, the heroes are trying to [[DismantledMacGuffin re-assemble]] the ArtifactOfDoom that [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar killed their friends]] with the hopes of reversing the damage. [[spoiler:After learning that the {{Macguffin}}s have all been destroyed, they decide to use TimeTravel to go back to where the Infinity Stones had been across time and space in [[Film/TheAvengers2012 other]] [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld Marvel]] [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy movies]], bring them back to the present, and save the universe.]] There's a planning phase as they gather everything they know about the Infinity Stones and where they would be, then they split off into smaller groups, each targeting a specific Stone. And of course, not everything quite works out as planned.

* The third act of ''Literature/TheEmberBlade'' focuses on [[LaResistance La Resistance]] breaking into Hammerholt, the most secure fortress in Ossia, to steal the titular sword on the eve of a royal wedding.

** ''Videogame/PAYDAYTheHeist'' is "Heist Film: The Game". Hell, the central bank heist is a huge {{homage}} to ''Film/{{Heat}}''.
** ''Videogame/{{PAYDAY 2}}'' expands on this further. Containing everything, from bank robberies, to rigging elections, to double crossing meth dealers before a bridge showdown, the game covers numerous heist and action tropes (and even adds several more references to ''Heat'' and other caper classics).

* A game of ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' generally follows the structure of The Caper in a future urban fantasy setting, with a [[CaperCrew party]] of a combat specialist, a hacker, a con man, and a mage planning an elaborate theft of a highly guarded target from a corporation, on the behest of a mysterious paymaster.

%% * The point of virtually all ''Franchise/LupinIII'' stories.

* The entire Act 1 of ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' is centered around the heist to steal the Relic biochip from Yorinobu Arasaka. In preparation, V diligently studies the recording of Yorinobu's penthouse suite and retrieves a Militech recon bot together with Jackie, while Dex TheFixer and T-Bug the netrunner prepare costumes and electronic countermeasures. The heist goes swimmingly right up to the point where V and Jackie grab the biochip, when [[spoiler:Saburo Arasaka himself, Yorinobu's father and the most powerful man in the world, suddenly shows up to berate his wayward son... who promptly strangles him to death, [[KlingonPromotion takes over as Arasaka patriarch]], and puts the whole hotel on lockdown. T-Bug manages to get V and Jackie out, but has her brains fried by Arasaka netrunners, while Jackie is mortally wounded in the ensuing shootout. The Relic's containment is also damaged, so V ends up having to slot it into their own head... right before Dex decides to cut his losses and shoots V in said head. V survives, but the Relic is now permanently fused with their brain and slowly killing them, kicking off Act 2...]]

* Act 1 of ''VideoGame/{{Cyberpunk 2077}}'' has you accepting a job from Dexter [=DeShawn=] to steal a prototype biochip from Arasaka. The plan involves a military spiderbot from Militech that was stolen by Maelstrom and a penetration of the executive suite of Yorinobu Arasaka, the guy who has the chip, at Konpeki Plaza. While the approach itself goes off without a hitch for the most part, in classic Cyberpunk fashion, the job goes straight to hell when [[spoiler:V and Jackie, the two people carrying out the stealing part of the heist, are caught in the middle of a father-son confrontation between Yorinobu and Saburo Arasaka himself that ends with Yorinobu strangling his father to death and putting the hotel on lockdown, resulting in V and Jackie having to delta out of there with tragic results for the both of them]].

* The entire Act 1 of ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' is centered around the heist to steal the Relic biochip from Yorinobu Arasaka. In preparation, V diligently studies the recording of Yorinobu's penthouse suite and retrieves a Militech recon bot together with Jackie, while Dex TheFixer and T-Bug the netrunner prepare costumes and electronic countermeasures. The heist goes swimmingly right up to the point where V and Jackie grab the biochip, when [[spoiler:Saburo Arasaka himself, Yorinobu's father and the most powerful man in the world, suddenly shows up to berate his wayward son... who promptly kills him, [[KlingonPromotion takes over as Arasaka patriarch]], and puts the whole hotel on lockdown. T-Bug manages to get V and Jackie out, but has her brains fried by Arasaka netrunners, while Jackie is mortally wounded in the ensuing shootout. The Relic's containment is also damaged, so V ends up slotting it into their own head... right before Dex decides to cut his losses and shoots V in said head. V survives, but the Relic is now permanently fused with their brain and slowly killing them, kicking off Act 2...]]

* Act 1 of ''VideoGame/{{Cyberpunk 2077}}'' has you accepting a job from Dexter [=DeShawn=] to steal a prototype biochip from Arasaka. The plan involves a military spiderbot from Militech and a penetration of the executive suite of Yorinobu Arasaka, the guy who has the chip, at Konpeki Plaza. While the approach itself goes off without a hitch for the most part, in classic Cyberpunk fashion, the job goes straight to hell when [[spoiler:V and Jackie, the two people carrying out the stealing part of the heist, are caught in the middle of a father-son confrontation between Yorinobu and Saburo Arasaka himself that ends with Yorinobu strangling his father to death and putting the hotel on lockdown, resulting in V and Jackie having to delta out of there with tragic results for both]].

* Act 1 of ''VideoGame/{{Cyberpunk 2077}}'' has you accepting a job from Dexter [=DeShawn=] to steal a prototype biochip from Arasaka. The plan involves a military spiderbot from Militech and a penetration of the executive of Yorinobu Arasaka, the guy who has the chip, at Konpeki Plaza. While the approach itself goes off without a hitch for the most part, in classic Cyberpunk fashion, the job goes straight to hell when [[spoiler:V and Jackie, the two people carrying out the stealing part of the heist, are caught in the middle of a father-son confrontation between Yorinobu and Saburo Arasaka himself that ends with Yorinobu strangling his father to death and putting the hotel on lockdown, resulting in V and Jackie having to delta out of there with tragic results for both]].

* Act 1 of ''VideoGame/{{Cyberpunk 2077}}'' has you accepting a job from Dexter [=DeShawn=] to steal a prototype biochip from Arasaka. The plan involves a military spiderbot from Militech and a penetration of the hotel room of Yorinobu Arasaka, the guy who has the chip. In classic Cyberpunk fashion, things go straight to hell when [[spoiler:V and Jackie, the two people carrying out the stealing part of the heist, are caught in the middle of a father-son confrontation between Saburo and Yorinobu that ends with Yorinobu strangling his father to death and putting the hotel on lockdown, resulting in V and Jackie having to delta out of there with tragic results for both]].

* ''Film/RobotAndFrank'', a scifi dramedy secretly including several caper tropes.
* The first part of ''Film/{{Ronin}}'' has a team of former spies of various nations planning the elaborate take-down of a four-car caravan to steal a mysterious case for an Irish militant group.

* The basic plot of most ''Manga/CatsEye'' episodes ist the trio putting on a caper - and Toshio trying to prevent it.

* ''Film/RainingInTheMountain'' is a variation; it takes place in a Buddhist mountain monastary during China's Ming Dynasty. The MacGuffin is a SacredScripture, and rather than a CaperCrew that falls apart there are two rival crews competing for the same prize, versus the elderly Abbot who, it's implied, suspects what's going on and is trying to foil them.

* ''Film/OddsAgainstTomorrow'' -- Can easily be seen as a deconstruction in the vein of ''The Asphalt Jungle'', as the three-man heist operation falls apart due to internal strife between the racist Earl Slater and the AngryBlackMan Johnny Ingram, and the leader, Burke, being unable to keep their differences in check.

The members of a CaperCrew fall into standard roles. For targets, see BankRobbery, ArmedBlag, TheCasino, TrainJob. See also ImpossibleMission, TheInfiltration and DoubleCaper. Not to be confused with TheCape. Can contain an ATeamMontage or AvengersAssemble sequence. HeistEpisode is for when works that are normally not about thievery pay homage to the Caper genre for an installment, usually by having the characters steal something.