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| 9 | [[caption-width-right:350:"What a haul, what a haul!"]] |
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| 11 | ->'''Mike:''' They don't even know what panties are, yet they feel compelled to raid them.\ |
| 12 | '''Crow:''' Every male of every species has the biological urge to panty raid. |
| 13 | -->-- ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', "''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E17TheHorrorOfPartyBeach The Horror of Party Beach]]''" |
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| 15 | An individual -- almost always a pervert of some kind -- who steals and collects women's (or girls') underwear, usually worn/used. Almost always presented as a reprehensible individual and usually an enemy of the hero, and just as frequently played for laughs. They can be divided into the StalkerWithACrush -- who steals a specific person's underwear as part of a general stalking campaign -- and the indiscriminate, compulsive underwear thief -- who usually doesn't engage in more serious sexual offenses and is more likely to be treated as a comic figure. One might call such a character a "knicker nicker". |
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| 17 | Panty Thieves usually go about their business while wearing StealthClothes. An unintentional version is KleptomaniacHeroFoundUnderwear; in this case, someone is trying to steal ''something else'', and ends up with panties. An ImpossibleThief may steal the panties that their victim is ''currently wearing'', usually without even being ''noticed'' until the thief presents their trophy for all to see. |
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| 19 | Usually this is an anime trope (due to the fact that in Japan, clothes lines are predominant while the West uses dryers), but Western culture has independently produced the college prank of panty raiding (which has been out of fashion since the sexual revolution of the [=1960s=] and the replacement of men's and women's dorms with co-ed dorms). Panty raids are usually perpetrated by ''groups'' of perverted young FratBro males, rather than just one guy. |
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| 21 | It's becoming less common for this trope to be played for pure comedy, due to society being less inclined to write it off as a prank and more inclined to view it as a form of sexual harassment. |
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| 24 | !!Examples: |
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| 28 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 29 | * The hamster Echiboo (which reportedly [[MeaningfulName translates as]] "Perverted Fart") in the manga ''Manga/AoiHouse'', whenever he got the chance. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' has an arc in which Koro-Sensai is framed as a compulsive Panty Thief and his class have to try to prove him innocent. (It ends up being one of the manga's most spectacular MoodWhiplash twists, as it turns out to be part of one of Shiro's elaborate and ruthless attempts to kill him, and the arc ends with Shiro committing an exceptionally callous YouHaveFailedMe which many fans consider his MoralEventHorizon moment.) |
| 31 | * The StalkerWithACrush Kuroko from ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex''. It's only shown in the anime counterpart of the spin-off ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', though. On one occasion, she somehow stole Misaka's swimsuit from a locked container. While she IS a teleporter, it's not clear how she managed to get past the lock. A few minutes after revealing her theft of the swimsuit, Kuroko took the trope [[PowerPerversionPotential to its logical extreme]]: using her ability, she ''teleported Misaka's underwear right off of its owner''. |
| 32 | * The Elder does this at least once in ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', as part of his DirtyOldMan gag. |
| 33 | * One RunningGag in ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'' is Tadakuni's sister's underwear kept being stolen by her brother and his two friends Hidenori and Yoshitake. Hidenori's older brother got in at some point as well. |
| 34 | * In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' SpinOff novel ''The Los Angeles BB Murder Case'', Ryuzaki (BB) raids a little girl's panty drawer. Making the scene even more inappropriate is that he's supposed to be examining her murder scene with Naomi. |
| 35 | * Oolong from ''Franchise/DragonBall'' is an offender. It was stated by Puar that he was kicked out of [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Shapeshifting School]] for stealing the teacher's panties. He even saves the day by stealing Emperor Pilaf's wish from Shenron; Oolong swoops in and wishes for "panties off a hot babe" to prevent Pilaf from wishing for world domination. |
| 36 | * Shinji Kazama from ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' is forced to do this when some upperclassmen steal one of his possessions and ransom it for a pair of Kaname's panties. |
| 37 | * In ''Literature/GargoyleOfTheYoshinagas'', there's a scene in which Kaitou Hyakushiki literally steals the undies off of two people in front of a crowd. |
| 38 | * ''Manga/GhostTalkersDaydream'': [[StalkerWithACrush Mitsuru]] has made it a habit of breaking into Misaki's apartment and has [[http://www.mangapark.com/manga/ghost-talker-s-daydream/v1/c1/3-5 repeatedly stolen all her underwear]] [[spoiler: so he can sniff them.]] Then [[RefugeInAudacity adds insult to injury]], by leaving her money so she can buy more undies that he intends to steal, later... ''after'' she's had time to wear them. |
| 39 | %%* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has a whole episode about this. There was much violence. |
| 40 | * Tomoki from ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty''. He frequently steals women's underwear. Sometimes he even wears stolen panties as a mask! |
| 41 | * ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'': In one of the [=OVAs=], the Occult Research Club faces against a former priest who steals women's underwear, which he uses for his experiments to create a PhilosophersStone. [[ItMakesSenseInContext He then transforms into an underwear monster capable of controlling women's bras and panties while they wear them]]. |
| 42 | * In ''Anime/{{K}}'', Misaki Yata fears looking like this when he goes to the school island to return a pair of panties Neko left at Bar HOMRA -- and a side-story shows him getting caught as such by the [[FunnyRobot campus cleaning robots]], and [[FoeRomanticSubtext enemy/love interest]] Saruhiko Fushimi has to get him out of trouble for it. How did she leave her panties at the bar? "That's what I want to know - no, wait, I definitely ''don't'' want to know!" |
| 43 | * Koragashi of ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'' can easily steal the panties off ''the entire female population of a high school without them noticing'' but doesn't do so for perverted reasons. Instead, he is trying to identify a suspicious person and the only clue he has are her unique panties. His partner, Fubuki, tells him that he didn't have to go to such extremes though and promptly punishes him via remote-controlled explosion. |
| 44 | * Kazuma from ''Literature/KonoSuba'' is an odd case. His [[VideoGameStealing Steal skill]] is ''supposed'' to steal a random item from the target based on his Luck stat. However, when he tries it out for the first time on the girl who taught him the skill (with her consent), he ends up [[KleptomaniacHeroFoundUnderwear unintentionally stealing the panties she was wearing]]. As it turns out, his extremely high Luck stat means that when he targets women, he steals their panties almost every time. He (and everyone who knows him) soon comes to expect this result, pushing him into this trope. |
| 45 | * A story in the first volume of ''Manga/MaboroshiPanty'' has Maboroshi Panty fight a man who is using a fishing pole to yank off women's panties. Maboroshi Panty herself ends up losing two pairs of panties to the criminal, both of them being the ones she wears over her private parts rather than as a mask. |
| 46 | * In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'', the one time [[TheOjou Sheryl]] attends school with Ranka and Alto is memorable not just for her own interstellar celebrity, but because of her [[FoeTossingCharge unstoppable]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes rampage]] through the campus while ''going commando'' in a skirt. The culprit? A tiny, green, and adorable RidiculouslyCuteCritter ([[spoiler:a Vajra in larval form]]) that crawled into her laundry basket while she was showering, then started hopping about the campus with no regard for the pair of panties that had wrapped around it. The IdolSinger was lucky no paparazzi were nearby to capture the moment... Also of note is that the little guy is then pursued by -- with three exceptions -- ''the entire male population of the school'', whose motivation appears to be acquiring said panties as a trophy rather than giving them back. |
| 47 | * ''Manga/MakenKi'': Martha Minerva is a rare ''[[MysteriousWaif and unusual]]'' female example, who has an obsession with other girls' breasts and panties. They're safe so long as she [[EyesAlwaysShut keeps her eyes closed]]. But, once she opens them, she can freely open and close [[spoiler: dimensional gateways]] at will, which she uses to instantaneously steal other girls' panties while they're ''wearing'' them! Which is why Haruko, Inaho, and Azuki wound up spending chapters 22-24 [[GoingCommando without theirs.]] |
| 48 | * ''Manga/MazingerAngels'' features a Panty Thief who somehow manages to acquire a [[RoBeast Mechanical Beast]] ([[BadSanta Satan Claus P10]]) from Doctor Hell and employs the giant robot to commit the dastardly deed of stealing the underwear of all the women on the city to fill an Olympic pool and then swim in it. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/{{Miyuki}}'': Panties get stolen back and forth like it's their mission. In one chapter Yasujirou actually does a case where he is trying to bring justice to a panty thief. |
| 50 | * Rudeus of ''Literature/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'' steals a pair of Roxy's unwashed panties before she leaves and forgets to return them. He protects them carefully, referring to them as the "Divine Artifact". [[ItMakesSenseInContext At one point Rudeus is wearing a pair of panties on his head and a knight accuses him of stealing them from the captive princess]]. Rudeus takes offense as they are [[spoiler:his wife's panties]]. |
| 51 | * One of the "Orphans" in ''Anime/MyHime'' is a lingerie thief. HilarityEnsues when one of the victims is [[ButtMonkey Natsuki]], who has to [[GoingCommando go around panty-less.]] |
| 52 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': |
| 53 | ** Chamo-kun, though only rarely. Notable in that he's an ermine, and not even a transformed human. He seems to want the panties to make a nest. His love of panties was ''really'' confirmed when [[spoiler:his share of the Rainyday sisters's LotusEaterMachine has him dreaming that he ''swims'' in panties.]] |
| 54 | ** Jack Rakan deserves special mention. In one manga chapter, he ends up having to fight two girls. He {{Flash Step}}s behind them, flips up their skirts, and ''steals the panties off one of them before they knew what happened''[[note]]and the only reason that he didn't steal the panties off both of them is because one was GoingCommando to begin with[[/note]]. Said panties end up ''being a crucial element in [[TheNoseKnows locating]] and [[DefeatByModesty defeating]] them''. Then he does it again later... [[http://mangadoom.com/Mahou-Sensei-Negima/259/5/ to ALL of Fate's minions simultaneously,]] [[DefeatByModesty then flips up their skirts repeatedly until they concede defeat]] ([[WouldntHitAGirl so he won't have to fight them]]). |
| 55 | ** Chamo's reputation as a Panty Thief was subverted in ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'': One chapter involves Negi chasing a small Panty Thief throughout Mahora academy, and many a reader expected it to be Chamo. [[spoiler:It was a cat.]] |
| 56 | * Onsokumaru in ''Manga/NinjaNonsense'', though he steals panties by proxy (dispatching Shinobu to do it under the premise of ninja training). |
| 57 | * Penguin #1 from ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'' uses ''a fish rod'' to steal panties in episode 10. |
| 58 | * Happôsai from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is the patron saint of all panty thieves. This OldMaster even developed some martial art techniques around panty-thieving and peeping. Currently the trope image. |
| 59 | * In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'': |
| 60 | ** Meliodas feels up Elizabeth and somehow steals her panties. The fact he did allows him to SpotTheImposter later. |
| 61 | ** In OVA 1, Ban tries to swipe Elaine's, but the attempt fails since she isn't wearing any. |
| 62 | * ''Literature/{{Shimoneta}}'': |
| 63 | ** Applies to Gathered Fabric as a whole, since they engage in ero-terrorism as a ruse to indulge their fetish for stealing underwear. Their leader, White Peak, garbs himself in an entire bodysuit of white panties that have been sewn together and sips wine with another pair soaking in it. |
| 64 | ** Black Base is exact opposite, by having a preference for only stealing black panties and lingerie. But he also seems determined to share his interest by setting traps so the victims have to change clothing so he can steal them. Then leaves [[GoGoEnslavement only black lingerie for the victims to wear]] afterward. |
| 65 | * ''Manga/TimeStopHero'': Kuzuno Sekai's first on screen use of his ability to [[TimeStandsStill stop time]] is to steal Niña's panties off her body, while they were in different jail cells. After teasing her for wearing [[GoofyPrintUnderwear teddy bear panties]], he returns them just as quickly. |
| 66 | * One ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'' story concerns a highly sophisticated Panty Thief -- who strangely enough is a parody of Billy The Kid from ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'': he is sewing a blanket out of the pants he steals, "and then it will be like I am sleeping with all the girls at once!". After the girls catch him, they break him of his habit by informing him that one of the pairs he stole belonged to a WholesomeCrossdresser on the anti-Chikan squad. |
| 67 | * ''Manga/ZatchBell'' has a character named Momon, who looks like a cross between a rabbit and a monkey. When Kiyo meets him, he's holding a bra for some reason. When Momon meets the others, he spends countless attempts to see Tia's panties, and somehow manages to steal another pair from her house. Needless to say, Tia ''rages''. |
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| 70 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 71 | * Booga in ''ComicBook/TankGirl'' first met the title character when he tries to steal her knickers as part of a gang initiation. They've been together ever since. |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
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| 74 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 75 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9011622/1/A-Baby-Changes-Everything A Baby Changes Everything]]'' begins with Lily confronting a panty-twirling James after he and the rest of the Marauders conducted a panty raid on her dorm. |
| 76 | * In the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' ParodyFic ''Farce Contact'', the Suliban steal all female clothing on Enterprise, as part of an EvilPlan to make Starfleet switch to the miniskirts of the Original Series. |
| 77 | * ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsMagicalGirls'': Since [[ChivalrousPervert Spike's]] powers run on lust, doing this is a great way of having a quick power-up. That being said, though, he seems to also do it just for the hell of it, such as when, during [[MsFanservice Rarity's]] first (pre-mahoushojou) fight alongside the team, he magically steals hers ''off her body'' while changing her outfit into a gi to fight in, something she doesn't realize until later. |
| 78 | * Homura Akemi from ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka Magica]]'' stealing poor Madoka's panties (among other forms of pervery) is a trope so prevalent in fan-art that it has its own pool on Danbooru. |
| 79 | * ''Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan'': Artful Dodger, Vulcan's apprentice, knows a spell to nab mares' underthings. Vulcan is more confused as to why such things even exist when most ponies go without any clothes whatsoever. |
| 80 | * ''Fanfic/VowOfTheKing'': For her own amusement, Yoruichi steals all of Soifon's panties and strings them up in the captain assembly hall just before a meeting. |
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| 83 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 84 | * The StalkerWithACrush protagonist of ''Film/BodyDouble'' (1984) steals the underwear of the woman he's obsessed with, which doesn't help his case when the police find them on his person after she's murdered. |
| 85 | * ''Film/DriveACrookedRoad'': Not exactly underwear, but when Eddie finds Barbara's handkerchief in her car while he is servicing it, he looks around furtively, then sniffs it and tucks it away in his pocket. Back home, he takes it out and lies on the bed smelling it. Of course, as their whole meeting was a HoneyTrap, it is likely Barbara left it there for him to find deliberately. |
| 86 | * In ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'', one of the first indications we get that Patrick is a bit of a creep is when he casually states he stole a pair of Clementine's panties while standing beside her (comatose) ex-boyfriend. |
| 87 | * ''Film/{{Following}}'': When Cobb the GentlemanThief steals a couple of pairs of panties from a woman's apartment, it comes off as him just being creepy. This however is subverted in the end when his true motivation is revealed: he stole the panties as part of a plot to frame his friend and partner-in-crime, the unnamed young man, for the murder of the woman. |
| 88 | * In ''Film/HappyBirthdayToMe'', Etienne sneaks into Ginny's bedroom and steals the panties she takes off when she goes to take a bath. He later reveals he is carrying them under his jersey during the dirt bike race. |
| 89 | * Subverted in ''Internal Affairs'' (1990). The antagonist (a corrupt and manipulative police officer) beats up the protagonist (an InternalAffairs cop), claims to have slept with his wife and [[MindScrew throws some panties in his face to taunt him]]. His wife is bewildered at the accusation and doesn't even understand why his husband is later brandishing a strange pair of panties at her. |
| 90 | * One of the many pranks pulled by the Lambda-Lambda-Lambdas in ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds''. The actual raid, which is blatantly obvious (it's even kicked off by a Pi Delta Pi opening her shower curtain to reveal Lewis, who cheerfully announces "Panty raid!"), is actually a diversion while two more Tri-Lambs secretly install a spy camera in the Pis' changing room. |
| 91 | * ''Film/{{Valentine}}'': Halfway through the film, [[spoiler:the killer finds Kate's apartment door open; her neighbor Gary, who was hitting on her earlier, is inside trying on Kate's underwear. Gary tries to reason with the killer by saying it's NotWhatItLooksLike and that Gary himself is mentally ill (the term he uses is "not well"), but that doesn't dissuade the killer as he beats Gary to death with a running iron.]] |
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| 94 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 95 | * Akatsuki from ''Literature/AestheticaOfARogueHero''. He also steals brassieres off girls' wearers with no problem. |
| 96 | * ''Literature/MacdonaldHall'': Bruno and Boots frame their unwanted BoardingSchool roommates as these, with the full cooperation of some friends from the nearby girls' school. The Headmaster isn't fooled for an instant, so he has the roommates pretend to have been expelled to guilt-trip Bruno and Boots into fixing things. |
| 97 | [[/folder]] |
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| 99 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 100 | * ''Series/TheBill''. When [[CowboyCop Inspector Burnside]] is picked to play the suspect during a course in police interrogation, he boasts proudly about how a criminal once told him he'd make an excellent {{Armed Blag}}ger. Cue his OhCrap expression when Burnside reads his lines. We then see Burnside confessing to stealing underwear off a laundry line, though he turns it into a joke at the end. |
| 101 | -->'''Burnside:''' I'd like several hundred other offenses to be taken into consideration -- black frilly ones! |
| 102 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 103 | ** In season 5, Riley catches Spike sniffing Buffy's clothes, which he tries to excuse as "standard predator behavior". As he's leaving the room though Spike nicks some lacy panties from a drawer. |
| 104 | ** The day after Spike and Buffy have sex for the first time, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Buffy is trying to get dressed and get out of there]] as quickly as possible when a smirking Spike shows her he's still got her panties. Buffy gives him a [[TalktotheFist sock on the jaw]] and storms off. |
| 105 | * In ''Series/{{Community}},'' Jeff Winger is revealed to have stolen a pair of Britta's panties as one of his "sexual conquest trophies" in [[Recap/CommunityS5E04CooperativePolygraphy "Cooperative Polygraphy."]] |
| 106 | -->'''Britta''': You told me a ''[[ThievingMagpie hawk]]'' stole them! You exploited me and made me believe in a slightly more magical world!\ |
| 107 | '''Abed''': If you wanna collect women's underwear, [[StatingTheSimpleSolution can't you just buy them?]]\ |
| 108 | '''Jeff''': [[HonorBeforeReason They have to be won in battle!]] |
| 109 | * On ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', Connor is revealed to be one of these. This is used so he can be PutOnABus in season 11. |
| 110 | * Gender-inverted in ''Series/{{Entourage}}'', when some of movie-star Vince's underwear turns up missing from his home. Later, when his housemate Turtle arrives at the campus of his college, he's confronted by a girl he likes and her laughing friends, all wearing the underwear (outside of their clothes). They were pranking ''him'', unaware that they'd broken in to a celebrity's home. |
| 111 | * Odd, and very easily missed example, from ''Series/{{Friends}}''. Joey actually sets for a "panty raid" and gets into Rachel's room while she leaves the appartment to confront Monica about her secret relationship with Chandler. This can only be seen in the uncut episode from the DVD set. Here is a link to said episode's [[http://uncutfriendsepisodes.tripod.com/season5/512uncut.htm script]] if you're skeptical. |
| 112 | * Jacob Ben Isreal, Rachel's StalkerWithACrush on ''Series/{{Glee}}'', blackmails her into doing this. |
| 113 | * ''Series/HappyDays'': due to [[HandWave some convoluted plot reasons]] Richie and Fonzie are undercover in a girls' dormitory just as Potsie and Ralph storm the place during a panty raid. |
| 114 | * On ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'', doing this in a laundromat was Murr's punishment for one episode. Unfortunately, it was in front of both the woman and her husband...and he was instructed to ''wear it on his head''. |
| 115 | * ''Series/LostGirl''. Kenzi brags about how Dyson has been training her as a Shadow Thief, which she demonstrates by stealing Lauren's panties [[ImpossibleTheft while she's wearing them]]. |
| 116 | -->'''Lauren:''' ''(snatching her panties back)'' You have got to stop ''doing'' that!\ |
| 117 | '''Dyson:''' I did not teach her to do that. |
| 118 | * ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': In the first episode, Nathan asks Simon what he did to end up on Community service, claiming "You look like a pantysniffer." (In fact, it was arson). |
| 119 | * ''Series/OdysseyFive''. After spending the night with her former boyfriend Kurt Mendel, Angela Perry wants to know how her lace panties got in his fridge. [[BlatantLies Kurt has no idea]], and turns the accusation back on her by asking why she wore sexy underwear when her decision to sleep with him was supposedly made on the spur-of-the-moment. |
| 120 | * ''Series/ScottAndBailey'' were investigating a murder when they discovered a neighbor had several pairs of the victim's underwear. [[spoiler: That was his only crime.]] |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 124 | * "In the Middle of the Night" from the ''Music/OneStepBeyondAlbum'' album by Music/{{Madness|Band}} is about a sixty-three year old newsagent who just so happens to be an underwear thief, beginning his raids at 8pm. He sees his own picture in the newspaper and books it. |
| 125 | * The title character from Music/PinkFloyd's single "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNv5p5wtWL8 Arnold Layne]]", a transvestite whose primary pastime is stealing women's undergarments from washing lines and wearing them in secret. |
| 126 | * Music/{{Pink}}'s "Raise Your Glass" includes the line "Party crasher, panty snatcher." |
| 127 | [[/folder]] |
| 128 | |
| 129 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 130 | * The image accompanying the Dexterity skill in ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'' shows an ImpossibleThief at work, swiping a woman's panties from ''under her full plate armor''. |
| 131 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', our [[AntiHero hero]], Jimmy, does this for gym coach Mr. Burton. Slightly [[{{Squick}} squicky]], but overall, funny. |
| 132 | * [[TokenEvilTeammate Vico]] doesn't actually steal any female undergarments in ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'', but he does show an unhealthy obsession with the player character's underwear. |
| 133 | * One of the side-quests in ''VideoGame/FableIII'' involves stealing a pair of Reaver's underwear for one of his female fans. |
| 134 | * During a flashback sequence in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cloud can sneak into Tifa's room and swipe her "orthopedic underwear" (in the Japanese version, they were "slightly-used" instead). Though it's uncertain if this actually happened or not, since the dialogue options after that are "It's true" and "Just kidding". [[spoiler:Later on in the game, we discover that Cloud is an UnreliableNarrator. Assuming it actually happened, it's ambiguous as to whether this specific memory belongs to Cloud or Zack.]] |
| 135 | * In ''VideoGame/GalGun Double Peace'', there's a side mission to help a girl find out who stole her underwear. [[spoiler: It turns out to have been a playful kitten]]. There's also a mission in one route to steal underwear from the girls' lockers. |
| 136 | * In ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'', [[KleptomaniacHero snooping in Lady McCoy's wardrobe]] ends in Isaac apparently trying to steal her underwear. |
| 137 | -->Isaac peered into the wardrobe. [[KleptomaniacHeroFoundUnderwear There's a silk negligee]]... Isaac! Put that back! |
| 138 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': |
| 139 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona2'' has [[IntrepidReporter Maya]] run into one of these while she's investigating the women's changing room at the gym. He runs off as soon as she notices him. Talking to [[NiceGuy Katsuya]] after this and choosing to tell him about the incident triggers a sequence where he runs off to chase the man down and beat him up off screen. |
| 140 | ** In ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', [[RobotGirl Aigis]] foils an unusual airline hijacking, where the hijackers made no demands [[spoiler: and was in fact a cover to steal an old prototype anti-Shadow weapon being transported on that flight]]. When her superior Mitsuru deduces that her luggage was the true target, Aigis immediately thinks Mitsuru's underwear was the target. |
| 141 | * ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' has a perverted wizard who turns himself into an armoire in the Brothel of Slaking Intellectual Lusts so that women store their underthings inside him. "Good riddance, you wooden pervert" is the player character's last comment to him. |
| 142 | * In a quest in ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'' one of the things your hero has to do in order to become a Guildsman is to raid the ship and steal panties from pirates. This actually makes sense in context, because the entire quest has been setting up Guild initiation as a frat rush. (Even [[PirateGirl the women pirates]] have disgusting panties. Then again, this ''is'' TheDungAges.) |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 146 | * In the second case in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', one of the witnesses gets involved when it's discovered he steals panties. This leads to the odd situation of [[AccidentalPervert Apollo having to present multiple pairs of panties as evidence in court]] (not to mention Apollo can keep both of the panties afterwards for some hilarious commentary). |
| 147 | -->'''Judge:''' What!? More panties!?\ |
| 148 | '''Klavier:''' How many panties are you carrying in your pocket, Herr Forehead?\ |
| 149 | '''Apollo:''' These are the last!!! Honest!!! |
| 150 | ** Notably, the thief doesn't steal them because he's a pervert. The panties he's seeking are a prop used in Trucy's magic act (she pulls various objects out of them like how a magician would typically pull objects out of their hat), and the culprit, a "man of science", [[ForScience was desperate to find out how they worked]]. However, he didn't know where Trucy lived, so he just went around stealing all the panties he could get his hands on hoping to get lucky and find the right pair. Or at least that's his excuse. |
| 151 | ** This, of course, all builds up to the end of the case where [[spoiler: Trucy's panties are the final, case-winning evidence.]] Basically, half of the case was built on this joke. |
| 152 | * Unsurprisingly given its focus on WackyFratboyHijinx, ''VisualNovel/BeingADIK'' has the [=DIKs=] tell the MC to raid the [=HOTs=] house for a pair of panties in exchange for a place to sleep after he's kicked out of his dorm by Troy (and it's later revealed they asked Derek to do so as well, though he didn't need the room). This goes wrong when Quinn and Camila catch him in their bathroom, forcing him into a ShamefulStrip and potentially having Camila perform oral sex on him before kicking him out of the house ''au naturel''. Even worse, the [=DIKs=] don't even let him sleep there once he gives the panties, leading him to be stuck outdoors completely naked (and wanting to leave B&R) before Bella helps him with some spare clothes and Maya lets him sleep in her room. |
| 153 | * In an early event in ''VisualNovel/MagicalDiary'', you catch one of your roommates going through the other's stuff, and have the option of suggesting that she's trying to steal her panties. Later in the game, your roommate may ''actually'' be responsible for the theft of your underwear (a bra this time). Or the other way around. It's accidental... sort of. |
| 154 | * ''Pantsu Hunter'', made semi-famous by the WebVideo/GameGrumps, is an entire game built around being a serial panty thief. The protagonist claims he collects them in order to study them in the hopes of understanding women better. [[SarcasmMode Good luck with that.]] |
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| 156 | |
| 157 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 158 | * The M.U.G.E.N series, ''WebAnimation/PantyThiefMysteries'', by [[http://www.wenoo.net/user/chimukun chimukun]] is built around a group that steals panties. Interestingly it does not even contain one male perverted villain, in an all female cast. A 1 episode sequel titled ''Anime/ASetsukoChristmasTale'' was later released, also with a case of a different panty thief. |
| 159 | [[/folder]] |
| 160 | |
| 161 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 162 | * In ''Webcomic/BlackAdventures'', [[DirtyOldMan Tornadus]] does this to Skyla. [[ImpossibleThief And she's wearing short-shorts.]] This is later exploited by sending [[DudeLooksLikeALady Black]] in fancy lingerie to bait Tornadus into an ambush. |
| 163 | * Blair from ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' is a "female" doll possessed by a definitely male -- and very perverted -- spirit. He does [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20091012.html this]] whenever [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20110629.html possible,]] though usually this doesn't end well for him. Although in one case, he might have [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/those_are_the_rarest saved everyone from evil.]] |
| 164 | * ''Webcomic/ErikaAndThePrincesInDistress'' : The reason why Morphine was banned from the chatospital is because she was caught spying on young men and stealing their panties. She accumulated an impressive collection of them, and was furious when Aurel took them away, to the point of placing a {{curse}} on him. |
| 165 | %%* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' are not [[http://www.karatebears.com/2012/01/panty-raid.html above this.]] |
| 166 | %%* In-game in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' of ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Years of Yarncraft]]'', it's a quest. Of [[CuteMonsterGirl sorority demon girls]]. |
| 167 | * In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', Davan apparently trained Choo Choo to do this. And then, after the incident with Kestrel, hired him out professionally. |
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| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 171 | * Website/FourChan: One of /tg/ {{joke character}}s is [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Jeanstealer Jeanstealer]] -- a [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 genestealer]] with a jean fetish. |
| 172 | * Website/TheOnion describes why panty raids are a poor idea at [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/six-dead-in-west-point-panty-raid,1130/ certain colleges.]] |
| 173 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': When SCP-261, a magic vending machine, dispensed a package of edible underwear, the log simply notes "Items confiscated. Current whereabouts unknown." |
| 174 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': |
| 175 | ** There's an entire story built around this trope, as a panty thief hits every girls' dorm on campus, one night at a time, finally getting spotted (but not caught). [[spoiler:That's because it was Sun Wukong the Monkey King, one of the legendary Eight Immortal, the whole she-bang. When he steals yours panties, you just let him.]] |
| 176 | ** Mimeo's biographical story, "Mimeographic", mentions that the one attempt at a panty raid when he was a student at Whateley (in the mid-1960s) got thoroughly stomped by several of the tougher girls. |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 180 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Steve's best friend Snot tries stealing Hayley's panties and pays the violent price as a result as Hayley finds and beats the hell out of him and snatches them back in anger. |
| 181 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' featured an episode with Numbuhs 1 and 2 believing that the training bra belonging to Numbuh 5's older sister is actually [[FunWithAcronyms Battle Ready Armor]]. What starts out as a misunderstanding, after stealing and trying it, turns out to be real near the end. It has since been used by teen villains all series, both female ''and'' male, even though some still see their initial form to be ridiculous. |
| 182 | * Inverted in a two-part episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' called "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Traitor]]", after a CriticalFailure to [[AppliedPhlebotinum the armor-treatment chemical]], Lady Jaye catches a COBRA infantryman... and obviously, he leaves her with a souvenir! |
| 183 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Mid-Life Crustacean", [=SpongeBob=], Patrick and Mr. Krabs go on a "panty raid". It is near midnight, however, so Mr. Krabs does not realize until it is too late that the person they are stealing panties from is his own mother. |
| 184 | * Black Bump, A Feca Demi-God in ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', collects underwear from all over the World of Twelve. His explanation ([[CloudCuckooLander if you can call that]]) is that underwear are the most intimate piece of clothing, and thus something akin to a "soul" of their owner. He has a whole temple where his collection is proudly exposed and stored. A rather rare example in that he collects from both males and females. However, [[EveryoneHasStandards he draws the line]] at ''children's'' underwear (tough [[OlderThanTheyLook 12-year old looking but 20+ in reality Yugo]] is fair game). |
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