History Main / JustTakeThePoster

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 bounty hunters in Westerns, who tear down "Wanted!" posters so they're the only ones who know about the bounty.

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 bounty hunters in Westerns, who tear down "Wanted!" posters so they're the only ones who know about the bounty.

Related to RippedFromThePhonebook.

* ''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.

* ''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.
* 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.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown'', Nigel takes a poster for Cat Watch with him after reading it.

* In ''Webcomic/SneakyGoblins'', Dank [[http://www.tolcraft.com/comic/63/ does this]] when he finds a job listing by someone who might be as desperate to hire someone as he is to be hired.
* ''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.

* [[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.
* 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.

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* 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. RealityEnsues when the owner of the restaurant finds out, bans them from the store, and gets them in trouble with their parents.

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* 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.

* In NSFW web comic ''The Rock Cocks'', 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.

* When ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' came out in 1989, people stole the posters from bus stations.