History Main / NobleShoplifter

* Some anarchists have been known to deliberately ignore shoplifters that steal necessities like food, baby formula and diapers.

* A variation in ''VideoGame/UltimaIV'': all of the shopkeepers who sell magical reagents are present at the shops, but also all happen to be blind. The player has the option of buying as many reagents as they want and paying only 1 gp, but due to the virtue system present in the game, cheating the reagents woman results in a hit to Honesty and Honor, so you're really encouraged to pay full price to stay virtuous.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' has a shop in the woods run by a trained parrot. The prices are laid out and you can take what you want. Paying extra, exact price, less, or not at all determines if you make the bird's day, have him thank you, call you a cheapskate, or outright attack you respectively. If you steal from him and show up later as a wolf (to whom he can actually speak fluently), he laments that his boss punished ''him'' for it as well. On the flipside, you're also free to just give him some cash without taking anything; you get nothing from it [[VideoGameCaringPotential other than some very genuine and happy gratitude]].
* Hilariously enough, played straight in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV [[DownloadableContent Episode Ardyn]]''. As the name implies, you're playing as Ardyn, the BigBad of the main game, who is currently leading an imperial attack on the Crown City; it is the intention of his superiors to invade and occupy the city once Ardyn has made it vulnerable, and Ardyn is here with intention to kill King Regis Lucis Caelum. The city is in emergency mode and all the civilians have fled, so all the shops are empty. But you're still ''buying'' your curatives from the shops throughout the city, indicating that Ardyn is leaving money behind.

* On ''Series/{{Castle}}'', the eponymous Castle's daughter is so noble that she pays when her ''friends'' shoplift.

* A similar situation is found in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}''. In [[CrapsaccharineWorld Happy Happy Village]], there's a food cart with a sign saying they trust you to take what you need and leave the money. However, in this case, the player ''does'' have the option to [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential leave without paying]], so this trope depends on the player.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' does this in an ImagineSpot.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Hermione does this at least once in the book, though it isn't really shoplifting then, because she drops the money into the open till from under the cloak.