Line #22 Recap/AdventureTimeS1E13CityofThieves


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2	Finn and Jake wander into a city with a terrifying curse: anybody who enters the city leaves as a thief.
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4	!! Tropes
5	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The City of Thieves is full of crime 24/7.
6	* BadassCape: Jake turns into one of these and is worn by Finn.
7	* BatmanParody: The section when Finn considers himself "darkened" by becoming a thief is a spot-on visual parody of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
8	* BigNo:
9	** Finn gets one when he realizes he's been tricked into stealing.
10	** Penny gets one when Finn and Jake [[ItMakesSenseInContext force her to take a bath.]]
11	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Penny was only pretending to be a helpless little girl who was just a victim, but was actually EvilAllAlong.
12	* BreakTheCutie: Finn believes that he's IncorruptiblePurePureness, but he ends up manipulated by Penny into becoming a thief like her, shattering his confidence.
13	* TheCorruption: The City of Thieves will end up making all its inhabitants into thieves.
14	* DeadAllAlong: The King of Thieves died a long time ago surrounded by his treasures before Finn meets him.
15	* DefeatByModesty:
16	** One of the many thieves in the city is rendered helpless after he gets his ninja jammies stolen.
17	** Finn suffers this at the end when Penny steals his clothes, leaving him in his underwear, socks and shoes.
18	* EnfantTerrible: Penny turns out to be a thief too, and went so far as to trick Finn into stealing a treasure for her.
19	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Penny's absurd story about how she got her flower basket stolen while in the middle of a desert starts to make sense when her [[ManipulativeBitch true nature]] is revealed.
20	* IWarnedYou: The witch Finn and Jake encountered early in the episode warned them about the city of thieves, but they didn't listen as they believe their pure hearts were enough to overcome the curse. She shows up again after Finn was tricked into stealing, telling them this would happen, only for Jake to kick her away.
21	* ImpossibleTheft: At the end of the episode, Penny somehow steals Finn's ''clothes'' right off his back without him noticing.
22	* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Subverted. Finn tries to remain a noble pure hero, but he ends up corrupted thanks to the manipulation of Penny.
23	* KarmaHoudini:
24	** Whoever really stole Penny's basket is never caught.
25	** Penny gets away with manipulating Finn and Jake all along and runs off after faking her change of heart before stealing Finn's clothes.
26	* LosingYourHead: The twin headed thief gets one of his heads stolen.
27	* ManipulativeBitch: Penny.
28	* ParentalBonus: When the ninja cloaked thief gets [[DefeatbyModesty his cloaking jammies ripped off]] we can see he's wearing a chastity belt. This implies that material things aren't the only thing stolen in the city.
29	* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder:
30	-->'''Finn:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I done?]] What have I become?!\
31	'''Penny:''' You've become a thief, stupid!
32	* SayMyName: At the end, Finn shouts Penny's name when he realizes she managed to strip him to his underwear, socks and shoes while he wasn't looking.
33	* SelfGuardingPhlebotinum: The King of Thieves' tower has a barrier around it that repels all thieves.
34	* ShoutOut:
35	** ''City of Thieves'' is the title of one of the best known ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' books.
36	** The King of Thieves being revealed to have been DeadAllAlong while surrounded by his dark tower is a reference to a classic ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats}}'' episode.
37	* WhatHaveIBecome: Finn becomes a thief thinking he was helping a little girl.
38	* WoundedGazelleGambit: Penny plays the victim to trick Finn into doing her bidding.

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