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Author: troublegum

Apr 1st 2012 at 4:22:46 AM

^ I think that ^^ may have been confused by the working title into thinking that KarmicThief meant the thieving backfires in some karmic manner. HalfwayToRobinHood? TropeNamer being ''{{Series/Blackadder}}'' in the episode ''Amy and Amiability'', in which mysterious highwayman The Shadow is said to be ''"halfway to being the new RobinHood."''
--> '''Blackadder:''' ''"Why only halfway?"''
--> '''Baldrick:''' ''"Well, 'e steals from the rich, but 'e 'asn't gotten around to givin' to the poor yet."''
-->-- '''Edmund Blackadder and Baldrick''', ''Blackadder The Third'', "Amy and Amiability."

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* The band of highly-skilled hijackers and bank-robbers in MichaelMann's {{Heat}}. They only target high-value targets like precious metal depositories, banks and corporate money vans. RobertDeNiro's character invokes this directly during a bank heist by telling everyone they're holding hostage ''"This isn't your money. Your money is federally insured."''
* The crew of career criminal protagonists in ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'' decide to rob the much nastier gang of thieves who happen to live to next door to them to get themselves out of massive debt. Ironically, [[GambitPileup the profits they plan to steal from their neighbours are themselves being stolen from a group of drug dealers.]]
** Dog and his band of unpleasant thieves who're the neighbours mentioned above only steal from other criminals - mostly drug dealers.
--> ''"When they're not kicking pupppies or picking the peanuts out of poo, they rip unfortunate souls off of their hard-earned drugs."''
-->-- '''Bacon,''' ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels''
* In ''{{Film/Serenity}}'' Mal Reynolds and crew take a job which involves stealing a [[LawEnforcementInc corporate security payroll]]. It's a job hurting [[TheEmpire The Alliance]] from a probably corrupt corporation, so they're {{Jerkass Victim}}s, but Mal has no intentions of handing out his crew's cut to the poor. Well, except that the poor and the crew of ''Serenity'' have a lot in common.

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* ''{{Series/Blackadder}}'' See above. The elusive Shadow.

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* In KimNewman's ''Literature/DarkFuture'' novels Jessamyn and Hawk-That-Settles only raid convoys from the {{Megacorp}}s [=GenTech=] and Winter Inc. They stockpile their wealth to pay for supplies and hire people to do things that they need done.

That one's slightly iffy, 'cause ultimately, they're using their accumulated wealth to buy supplies and services to help them stop the series BigBad from ending the world. They're not donating it to charity, though.