1 | Terrorists, assassins, murderers, killers, poisoners, rapists, drug dealers, kidnappers, counterfeiters, robbers, muggers, burglars, thieves, bootleggers, conmen, [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking and little cheats]]. These characters will tend to be involved with CrimeAndPunishmentTropes. |
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3 | Villains like the CorruptCorporateExecutive, CorruptPolitician, or TheEmperor and other LawfulEvil villains are per definition not included, even if you may consider them as a kind of criminal. Since HiredGuns usually work for the highest bidder, they often fall into a legally grey area, though some are just outright criminals. Also, don't list more fantastic villains like the MadScientist, [[EvilSorceror evil wizards]], or {{Evil Overlord}}s here. |
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5 | !!Tropes: |
6 | [[index]] |
7 | [floatboxright: |
8 | '''UsefulNotes:''' |
9 | + {{UsefulNotes/Criminals}} (real life) |
10 | |
11 | '''Categories:''' |
12 | + ConMan |
13 | + HiredGuns |
14 | + OrganizedCrimeTropes |
15 | + PirateTropes |
16 | + SmugglingIndex |
17 | + StealThisIndex |
18 | + TerrorismTropes |
19 | ] |
20 | * AffectionatePickpocket: A character tries to disguise picking someone's pocket as an affectionate hug. |
21 | * AfricanTerrorists: Ruthless militants from Sub-Saharan Africa. |
22 | * TheAggressiveDrugDealer: He really doesn't want to hear "no" from potential customers. |
23 | * AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Outlaw biker gangs are often styled after the Hells Angels. |
24 | * AmbiguousCriminalHistory: A character is implied to have committed a serious crime(s) in the past, but it isn't known exactly what offense(s) they've committed. |
25 | * ArmsDealer: Someone who illegally smuggles weapons to sell them to the highest bidder, including criminal gangs and terrorist organizations. |
26 | * TheArtfulDodger: Crafty, street-wise homeless child. |
27 | * BackAlleyDoctor: A doctor without a medical license operating illegally. |
28 | * BalkanBastard: Criminals from Albania and former Yugoslavia. |
29 | * BanditClan: A clan or family of criminals who rob people in the rural countryside. |
30 | * {{Bandito}}: Mexican bandits. |
31 | * BanteringBaddieBuddies: A duo of hired guns who provide bloodshed and witty banter. |
32 | * BlackWidow: A woman who marries men and then kills them. |
33 | * BlatantBurglar: You can tell this person is a criminal because they wear such stereotypical garb as masks and shirts with black and white stripes. |
34 | * TheBluebeard: A man who marries women and then kills them. |
35 | * BombThrowingAnarchists: Militant anarchists who want to overthrow the government and all forms of centralized authority through acts of terrorism. |
36 | * BoxedCrook: You can die in prison, or you can do us a favor and get out. |
37 | * CaptainNemoCopy: An {{Expy}} of [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Captain Nemo]]. |
38 | * CannibalClan: A family who [[ImAHumanitarian eat people]]. |
39 | * TheCartel: Latin American gangsters and mobsters. |
40 | * ClandestineChemist: Someone educated in chemistry decides to use their knowledge for illegal purposes, such as the creation of drugs or poisons. |
41 | * ClassyCatBurglar: A skilled, sexy, mysterious female thief, who is just as agile and elegant as a cat. |
42 | * CleanupCrew: Criminals who enter a crime scene to hide or destroy evidence. |
43 | * CopCriminalFamily: A lawbreaker and law-enforcer are related, often causing conflict between them. |
44 | * CopKiller: Someone who murders a police officer. |
45 | * TheCracker: A hacker who uses their skills for non-harmless applications. |
46 | * CriminalAmnesiac: Amnesiac characters are convinced by the villains that they are on their side. |
47 | * CriminalConvention: A social gathering for crooks and outlaws. |
48 | * CriminalDoppelganger: An IdenticalStranger who happens to be a [[EvilDoppelganger notorious criminal]]. This may result in their non-criminal lookalike getting in trouble with the law. |
49 | * CriminalCravesLegitimacy: A villain wants to live a "normal" or much-improved life and resorts to criminal enterprise to do it. |
50 | * CriminalFoundFamily |
51 | * CrookedContractor: A sleazy, sketchy contractor who does extremely poor work and dodges accountability whenever something they did catches up with them. |
52 | * CrooksAreBetterArmed: When criminals have better weapons than the police do. |
53 | * DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: [[EvilIsCool Organized crime looks very fun]]! |
54 | * DangerousDeserter: A soldier who has abandoned their military post and is now a ruthless fugitive. |
55 | * {{Delinquents}}: Young hoodlums who commit petty crimes. |
56 | * DesertBandits: Robbers who attack travelers in remote desert regions. |
57 | * DetectiveMole: Someone investigating a crime turns out to have been secretly complicit in it. |
58 | * DiabolicalMastermind |
59 | * DigitizedHacker: Hacker who enters cyberspace and operates within it. |
60 | * DirtyCop: A police officer who is not above engaging in criminal activity themselves. |
61 | * TheDon: A crime boss, the leader of TheMafia or TheSyndicate. |
62 | * EcoTerrorist: A radical environmental activist who's willing to resort to illegal or even violent methods to try and save Mother Nature. |
63 | * EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Some criminals want their kids to be honest citizens. |
64 | * EvilPoacher: Someone who illegally hunts wild animals, especially if they're legally protected species. |
65 | * TheFagin: Someone who teaches children how to steal for them. |
66 | * FameThroughInfamy: Someone does something heinous just to get on the news and be famous for it. |
67 | * TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: A family of ruthless murderers. |
68 | * TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily |
69 | * FantasticTerrorists: Terrorists who use methods that only exist in their SpeculativeFiction setting. |
70 | * FarEastAsianTerrorists: Ruthless militants from East/Southeast Asia. |
71 | * FilmFelons: Crooks pretend to be filmmakers so they can use the cover of making a movie to keep their crimes under wraps. |
72 | * FingerSnappingStreetGang: A street gang advances on someone while rhythmically snapping their fingers. |
73 | * FirefighterArsonist: Firefighters who can't resist starting the fires themselves. |
74 | * FiveFingerDiscount: Thieves who engage in pickpocketing, or stealing things on a person's body through stealth and trickery. |
75 | * FootballHooligans: Obsessive football/soccer fans who are prone to bouts of drunken violence against fans of rival teams. |
76 | * FriendInTheBlackMarket: A shady merchant who sells illegally obtained products. |
77 | * FromCamouflageToCriminal: An ex-military veteran who uses their combat training and experience to enter a life of crime. |
78 | * {{Gangbangers}}: Criminal thugs who are members of street gangs, which are smaller and less powerful than major criminal syndicates but no less ruthless or dangerous. |
79 | * GangOfHats: A crime group which differentiates themselves from others with a gimmick. |
80 | * {{Gayngster}}: A gay gangster. |
81 | * GenericEthnicCrimeGang: Criminal gangs tend to be mostly or completely comprised of people from a common ethnic background. |
82 | * GentlemanThief: A ManOfWealthAndTaste who steals for sport. |
83 | * GetawayDriver: Someone who helps a criminal escape the scene of a crime (for example a robbery) by zooming away in a vehicle. |
84 | * GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: When a drug dealer is also a drug addict, frequently using their own product whenever they're not selling it. |
85 | * GreaserDelinquents: The iconic leather-wearing, cigarette-smoking, slicked-hair-sporting, trouble-making subculture of the 50s and 60s. |
86 | * HackedByAPirate: Hackers using pirate imagery as their CallingCard. |
87 | * TheHighwayman |
88 | * HillbillyMoonshiner: Someone who illegally produces alcohol despite laws which ban or restrict this activity. |
89 | * HitmanWithAHeart |
90 | * HolyHitman: A ProfessionalKiller that makes references to the Good Book. |
91 | * HonestJohnsDealership: Illegitimate salesmen who trick their customers into buying shoddy merchandise. |
92 | * HonorAmongThieves: When criminals demonstrate professional courtesy and respect for their colleagues. |
93 | * HostileHitchhiker: When someone allows a suspicious stranger to take a ride in their car, only for that stranger to turn out to be some sort of armed robber, escaped convict, SerialKiller, or another dangerous criminal. |
94 | * HumanTraffickers: Criminals who illegally transport live people, often moving [[TheIllegal undocumented migrants]] across international borders, and sometimes [[MadeASlave selling them into slavery]]. |
95 | * HuntingTheRogue: For rogue agent deserters from organizations they served. |
96 | * ImpersonatingAnOfficer: When a criminal disguises themselves as a cop as a cover for their actions. |
97 | * IndispensableScoundrel: A shady character who is kept around because their skills and body of knowledge are too invaluable to lose by killing or imprisoning them. |
98 | * InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Non-humans kidnapping babies. |
99 | * IrishExplosivesExpert: A (Northern) Irish terrorist who knows how to make and use bombs. Oftentimes a veteran of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles. |
100 | * TheIrishMob: Irish gangsters and mobsters. |
101 | * JackTheRipoff: A murderer who takes inspiration from the M.O. of a famous serial killer. |
102 | * JapaneseDelinquents: Japanese petty criminals that are not exactly like the {{Yakuza}}. |
103 | * JustAGangster: [[Film/TheGodfather When life thinks to get them out]], this person [[RussianReversal pulls themselves back in]]. |
104 | * JustLikeRobinHood: A thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. |
105 | * JustifiedCriminal |
106 | * KarmicThief: A person who only steals from bad people. |
107 | * KillerCop: A murderous police officer. |
108 | * KingOfThieves: The leader of a big gang of muggers, robbers, and pickpockets. |
109 | * KosherNostra: Jewish gangsters and mobsters. |
110 | * LawmanGoneBad: A criminal who formerly worked for the police. |
111 | * LoanShark: If you borrow money from this thug, you better pay back your debt to him or else. |
112 | * LondonGangster: British gangsters and mobsters. |
113 | * LovableRogue: They break the law at least somewhat for their own gain, but are charming and affable enough for the audience to root for them. |
114 | * LowerClassLout: Working-class and poor people being depicted as this. |
115 | * MadBomber: Someone who's planting and detonating a lot of explosives in public places. |
116 | * TheMafia: Italian gangsters and mobsters. |
117 | * TheMafiya: Russian gangsters and mobsters. |
118 | * MasterForger |
119 | * MiddleEasternTerrorists: Ruthless militants from West Asia or North Africa. |
120 | * MinorWithFakeID: A teenager gets a fake ID to pretend to be older. |
121 | * TheMobBossIsScarier: The head honcho of the gang is feared and respected for a good reason. |
122 | * TheMostWanted: The top list of fugitive criminals wanted by the law. |
123 | * MurderersAreRapists: A criminal who rapes their victim before killing them. |
124 | * NaughtyNarcs: A narcotics officer who accepts bribes from drug dealers. |
125 | * NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: Local criminals try to protect their neighbors and communities from other bad guys. |
126 | * NoHonorAmongThieves: Though this doesn't always work. Many criminals tend to [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder be disloyal to one another]]. |
127 | * NotoriousParent: Someone's father or mother who turns out to be an infamous fugitive criminal. |
128 | * TheOldConvict: An elderly prison inmate who's been serving a very long sentence. |
129 | * {{Outlaw}}: A fugitive criminal, especially a bandit living in a [[TheWildWest lawless frontier region]]. |
130 | * OutlawCouple: A duo of criminals who are married or in love with each other. |
131 | * PedophilePriest: A priest who sexually abuses children. |
132 | * ThePeepingTom: People who get their sick kicks by spying on others. |
133 | * PercussivePickpocket: A thief pickpockets something off of someone, disguising the act as an accidental bump on the street. |
134 | * PetRat: Ill-repute crook secretly working for a good-repute boss. |
135 | * PhantomThief: A thief archetype known for being elusive. |
136 | * {{Pirate}}: Criminals who sail around in water to rob boats and ships passing by. |
137 | * PirateGirl: A female pirate. |
138 | * PlayfulHacker: Hacks computers for fun. |
139 | * PoeticSerialKiller: A SerialKiller that operates on DeathByIrony. |
140 | * PredatoryProstitute: A sex worker who is also a criminal in other ways. |
141 | * ProfessionalKiller: Also known as contract killers, hitmen, or assassins. These people commit murder in exchange for monetary payment. |
142 | * ProtectionRacket: An extortion scheme where gangsters force business owners to pay them if they don't want to risk damage to their livelihoods. |
143 | * {{Pyromaniac}}: If someone is so obsessed with fire that it leads to them committing arson. |
144 | * TheQuincyPunk: A negatively stereotyped, even violent 1970s / '80s punk character. |
145 | * TheQueenpin: A female mob boss. |
146 | * RabidCop: A sadistic police officer who really enjoys [[PoliceBrutality beating the crap out of suspects]]. |
147 | * RageAgainstTheLegalSystem: Convicted and/or incarcerated criminal seeks revenge against authorities for his punishment. |
148 | * RecruitingTheCriminal |
149 | * ReformedCriminal: They used to be a criminal, but are now on the straight and narrow path. |
150 | * RetiredOutlaw |
151 | * RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Far-right-wing American terrorists who really distrust the US federal government. |
152 | * RobinHoodlum: A copy of Robin Hood that's a villain or a {{Jerkass}}. |
153 | * RogueAgent |
154 | * RogueSoldier |
155 | * RoguishPoacher: Someone who hunts animals illegally, but does so more for sustenance rather than greed or thrills. |
156 | * RoguishRomani: Romani gangsters and mobsters. |
157 | * RuralGangsters |
158 | * TheRustler: A thief who specializes in stealing cattle, horses, or other livestock. |
159 | * RuthlessForeignGangsters: Immigrant criminals who are more dangerous than the native-born criminals. |
160 | * RuthlessModernPirates: Unromanticized pirates from the present day. |
161 | * SatisfiedStreetRat: An orphaned kid who has turned living on the street to their advantage. |
162 | * SerialKillerKiller: A serial killer who preys on other murderers. |
163 | * ScoundrelCode: Even career criminals are sometimes expected to follow a code of behavioral conduct, for [[EvenEvilHasStandards moral]] or [[PragmaticVillainy practical]] reasons. |
164 | * SchlubbyScummySecurityGuard: Frequently criminals. |
165 | * SerialKiller: A murderer who gradually kills multiple individual victims, one after another. |
166 | * SerialRapist: A rapist who sexually assaults a series of individual victims. |
167 | * ShadyLadyOfTheNight: A prostitute who is hired to be an informant, a hitman, or to do criminal activites other than sex. |
168 | * ShadyScalper: People who sell items of limited availability (e.g. tickets, toys) but jack up the prices. What they do is sometimes not actually ''illegal''... but still pretty crummy. |
169 | * SiblingsInCrime: A group consisting of brothers or sisters who commit crimes together. |
170 | * SkyPirate: Pirates in the air. |
171 | * SouthAsianTerrorists: Ruthless militants from South Asia. |
172 | * SpacePirates: {{Pirate}}s InSpace |
173 | * SpreeKiller: A mass-murderer who kills multiple people during a quick rampage. |
174 | * StealingFromTheTill: Embezzlement. |
175 | * StupidCrooks: Criminals who are too incompetent and moronic to commit a successful crime. |
176 | * SubmarinePirates: Pirates ''under'' the sea. |
177 | * SuperMobBoss: A gang leader or mob boss who's tough enough to be considered a {{supervillain}}. |
178 | * SympatheticMurderer |
179 | * TheSyndicate: A big and powerful criminal organization. |
180 | * TattooedCrook: Criminals with tattoos, usually to display gang affiliation. |
181 | * TerminallyIllCriminal: A character commits a crime or engages in regular criminal activity after learning (or while so) they have a fatal disease. |
182 | * TerroristsWithoutACause: These criminals commit quasi-terrorist acts with a thin veneer of political ideology. |
183 | * TheatrePhantom: A Phantom of the Opera rip-off. |
184 | * ThemeSerialKiller |
185 | * ThievesCant: Code-words used by professional criminals to discreetly discuss their illegal affairs. |
186 | * ThievesGuild: When all illegal activity is strictly controlled and regulated by a criminal organization. |
187 | * ThoseWackyNazis: Neo-Nazis are often [[WhiteGangBangers members of prison/street gangs]], or terrorists who commit violent crimes for ideological reasons. |
188 | * TotalitarianGangsterism: Gang-controlled neighborhoods are very unpleasant for law-abiding citizens who live in them. |
189 | * TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Chinese gangsters and mobsters. |
190 | * VenturousSmuggler: An adventurous scoundrel who transports illegal cargo for a living. |
191 | * VigilanteMan: A person who isn't a cop decides to pursue and fight criminals, which often involves using illegal methods to do so. |
192 | * WesternTerrorists: Ruthless militants from the Americas, Europe, or Oceania. |
193 | * WhiteCollarCrime: Not all criminals are involved with drugs, sex, or violence. White-collar criminals use fraud, scams, and other dishonest tactics to steal money from people. |
194 | * WhiteGangBangers: Criminal thugs of non-Hispanic white European descent, as opposed to gangsters of other ethnicities. |
195 | * {{Yakuza}}: Japanese gangsters and mobsters. |
196 | * TheYardies: Jamaican gangsters and mobsters. |
197 | [[/index]] |
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