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1	There's an important, plot-relevant event coming up that just might help our heroes out with the problem of the week. Instead of reading the poster while it's on the wall like anyone who doesn't like to get scolded, they just yank it down and (often implicitly) take it with them. After all, it's not like anyone else is going to need it.
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3	A common justification is a twist on the last line of the previous paragraph—they don't ''want'' anyone else to read the poster. This is common with [[BountyHunter Bounty Hunters]] in Westerns, who tear down "Wanted!" posters so they're the only ones who know about the bounty.
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5	Ripping down any ol' poster doesn't cut it for this trope. It has to be because they want the information on it (or, more rarely, they want to keep that information from someone else). Otherwise, it's probably closer to WantedPoster.
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7	Related to RippedFromThePhoneBook.
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9	!!Examples:
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13	[[folder:Comic Books]]
14	* ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' has Batman doing this while subjecting Gotham's criminals to InterrogationMontage. Interestingly, the poster is ''not'' a traditional wanted poster; for [[ComicBook/TheJoker the guy Batman's looking for]], nothing but a ''[[TheDreaded DANGER: DO NOT APPROACH]]'' will do.
15	* In the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' book "The Bounty Hunter", when the sheriff puts up posters for a wanted Indian, the titular bounty hunter follows him and takes every poster [[JustifiedTrope so he'll be the only one after the reward]].
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18	[[folder:Fan Works]]
19	* ''Fanfic/BoldoresandBoomsticks'': Ruby steals a flyer for the Golden Valley Tournament off a store window and shows it to her team. Yang enters the tournament to earn them some money.
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22	[[folder:Film]]
23	* In ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', one of the Nazis brings a poster promoting the band's gig at the Palace Hotel Ballroom, which he had obviously torn off a wall somewhere, to the leader of the Illinois Nazi Party.
24	* During [[ColonelBadass Colonel]] [[BountyHunter Mortimer]]'s EstablishingCharacterMoment in ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'', he takes a wanted poster for the bounty he's after and slides it under the door of his target's hotel room, so the man will flee enabling Mortimer to snipe him down from a distance.
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27	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
28	* Tobias does this in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' when an ad for an acting job is pointed out to him. [[PlayedForLaughs When he shows up for the audition,]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he's the only one there.]]
29	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': When the BAU is canvasing the area trying to find out how the victims encountered the killer, Prentiss excitedly pulls a flier off a laundromat's bulletin board. Of course, they suspect this ''particular'' flier is what's luring the victims, so she has every reason to want to get it off the street, but without that context, it looks like this trope.
30	--> '''Prentiss:''' "Ooh! Look at this!" yoink
31	* In ''Series/DerryGirls'', the girls are looking for a job and see a bulletin board in a restaurant with job postings. Michelle takes the whole entire bulletin board, so they can have all the job applications to themselves. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs when the owner of the restaurant finds out, bans them from the store, and gets them in trouble with their parents.
32	* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': Bulk and Skull found an ad offering a reward to whoever returns a lost dog. They ripped it from the wall so nobody else would know about it.
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35	[[folder:Theatre]]
36	* In ''Theatre/OnTheTown'', Gabey takes down the poster of Miss Turnstiles on the subway train, determined to find her. A little old lady immediately gets up to protest his vandalism, and hollers for a policeman, which starts an EscalatingChase.
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39	[[folder:Video Games]]
40	* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'':
41	** Ezio has the ability to rip down {{Wanted Poster}}s of himself to decrease his notoriety in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' and in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations''.
42	** Connor from ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedIII'' can also do this to decrease his notoriety in any of the cities he visits.
43	* In ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', you can take a flyer for the Voodoo Lady's new Plunder Island location. It's completely useless, but if you try dispose of it, Guybrush will say he wants to see whether there's a discount.
44	* In ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown'', Nigel takes a poster for Cat Watch with him after reading it.
45	* When you accept a bounty in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', John Marston rips the poster off of the wall, folds it up, and places it inside his coat. Justified in that he wouldn't want others to know about the bounty.
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48	[[folder:Web Comics]]
49	* ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies'': Orrig asks Thistle to take down the posters she sees with his name on then. Justified in that he was looking for help, and now that he's hired Thistle, would rather not go through ''another'' TerribleIntervieweesMontage.
50	* In ''Webcomic/TheRockCocks'', Steg takes down a poster for a battle of the bands. Justified in that Suria, his girlfriend and bandmate, is busy busking elsewhere, and he wants to tell her about it.
51	* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': One of the first things Tessa sees after transferring to her new school is a MagicalGirl recruitment poster, featuring a prominent celebrity endorsement from her former teammate Alchemical Air. This is understandably upsetting to her in particular -- [[spoiler:Tessa's magical girl teammates, including Alchemical Air, were recently killed in the same monster attack that [[DePower cost Tessa her powers]], and Tessa [[ItsAllMyFault blames herself]] for not being there to save them.]] She leaves the poster up at first and walks away, but she later [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-6-page-29 doubles back to tear it down]].
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54	[[folder:Western Animation]]
55	* In the ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' episode "Super Hero Worship", Tommy does this with a superhero convention poster.
56	* [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''. Steve, in an attempt to get his father's attention, takes an application for junior football from a sign. Roger, in a [[ItMakesSenseInContext twisted attempt in helping]], starts a fire. Just before the scene ends, the fire is seen quickly spreading to the sign, suggesting that it and the rest of the applications are destroyed.
57	* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers "The Ember Island Players"]], Sokka and Suki take down the play's poster instead of bringing the Gaang to the wall it's on.
58	* Discussed in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
59	-->"You think we get a discount if we bring the poster?"\
60	"Maybe we better take it!" rip
61	** In the musical version of the episode, they said they didn't get a discount.
62	** ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbStarWars'' shows Boba Fett finding a wanted poster of Han and Chewie and adding it to his shopping basket.
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65	[[folder:Real Life]]
66	* Some posters have a fringe on the bottom with contact details printed on each tag, to allow a limited version of this without taking the whole poster.
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