History Main / TheFagin

* ''Series/{{Hunter|1984}}''. Used as a VillainOfTheWeek and lampshaded by Hunter, though he has to explain what he means as the villain has never read ''Literature/OliverTwist''.

* [[PunnyName Fay Gunn]] is the most notable of several from the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comics because [[ComicBook/RedHood Jason Todd]] (the second ComicBook/{{Robin}}) briefly worked for her after Batman [[NiceJobBreakingItHero placed him in her care]].
** Subverted in one ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' short story: Batman ''thinks'' ComicBook/ThePenguin is kidnapping kids from troubled backgrounds to lead them into a life of crime. He's actually giving them a decent education and a pleasant childhood so they can grow up to be outstanding members of society... who owe him a huge favor.
** Ed Brubaker's ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' run introduces two: Mama Fortuna, who Selina worked for in her early teens, and Sylvia Sinclair, Selina's old friend and fellow thief who took over the business after Mama Fortuna died.
* Byron Wylie, the founder of Midway Orphanage in the 1990 ''ComicBook/{{Batman}} ComicBook/{{Superman}}: World's Finest'' miniseries ran it as an OrphanageOfFear which trained orphans as criminals. [[spoiler: Long after Wylie was arrested, and [[FakingTheDead apparently died]], one of these orphans grew up to become part of the orphanage staff, still under Wylie's control.]]

* This is the relationship between ComicBook/{{Diabolik}} and King, as the latter was already a well-affirmed criminal mastermind before the infant that would grow up to become Diabolik was saved from a shipwreck and trained into thieving. A later story revealed he had a very good reason for this, but both King and the only other man who knew have been killed by Diabolik himself in separate occasion, and [[SequelHook nobody knows where King hid the papers that prompted him to take Diabolik in or that they even exist]].

* ComicBook/{{Gambit}} was once part of a group of street urchins actually known as Fagin's Mob, which was run by the offspring of an illicit relationship between a member of the ThievesGuild and a member of the Assassin's Guild.

* ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': The criminal only known as "Shark" from issue 75 is a particularly cruel example since he blackmailed and threatened his underage charges into stealing for him and when he realized Franchise/WonderWoman was about to reveal his involvement in the thefts tried to burn down his hideout with the boys bound inside to destroy all evidence and witnesses tying him to the crimes.
* In ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'', Spider-Man is horrified to discover that The Vulture has become this kind of criminal. He nearly kills him over it.

* The Red Death in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' is a monstrous draconic version, forcing dozens of much smaller dragons to steal food to sustain itself. [[ImAHumanitarian Woe to the poor dragon]] who [[YouHaveFailedMe fails to deliver enough food...]]

* ''Series/{{Hunter}}''. Used as a VillainOfTheWeek and lampshaded by Hunter, though he has to explain what he means as the villain has never read ''Literature/OliverTwist''.

* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': Arlecchino, the "Knave", oversees the House of the Hearth, an orphanage that takes in orphans from all over Teyvat and, after they become adults, they are trained to become Fatui soldiers and sleeper agents in other nations. However, it's said that those "with potential" are the ones who are trained to become Fatui agents. Her wards are encouraged to form strong emotional bonds, viewing each other as siblings and her as a figure of both love and fear. The teachings of the House encourage them to enjoy their brief innocence as children, before embracing their duty to become the worst of the worst in the service of their "family" and motherland.

* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': Arlecchino, the "Kave", oversees the House of the Hearth, an orphanage that takes in orphans from all over Teyvat and, after they become adults, they are trained to become Fatui soldiers and sleeper agents in other nations. However, it's said that those "with potential" are the ones who are trained to become Fatui agents. Her wards are encouraged to form strong emotional bonds, viewing each other as siblings and her as a figure of both love and fear. The teachings of the House encourage them to enjoy their brief innocence as children, before embracing their duty to become the worst of the worst in the service of their "family" and motherland.

* The Red Death in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' is a monstrous draconic version, forcing dozens of much smaller dragons to steal food to sustain itself.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' features the Tantalus gang, led by a boisterous, bearded BeastMan named Baku. It's stated outright that he adopted the hero after finding him abandoned near the docks as a child, raised him and taught him to steal and perform on the stage; and it's implied that the rest of the gang may have been similarly recruited. Baku will [[ToughLove knock you cross-eyed]] if you betray him...but eidolons help anyone who tries to [[PapaWolf hurt his gang]].

* Clare Novak, daughter of Castiel's vessel on ''Series/{{Supernatural}},'' falls in with one of these named Randy. He and some guys threatening him all wind up getting {{kick| the son of a bitch}}ed pretty hard by Dean.

* In ''[[Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy The Paradise Snare]]'', Garris Shrike runs this kind of organization. One of his kids is Han Solo.
** Parodied in that his child-begging operation is overseen by a droid called [=F8GN=].