History Main / StickyFingers

** The [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Blood Ravens]] obsessively collect artifacts of historical value, especially anything that might hold a clue to their lost history. [[{{Fanon}} Fanonically]], this is exaggerated (perhaps not terribly so), to the point of grabbing anything that might be of historical value, a useful weapon or piece of wargear, or bling for the heck of it. This has earned them the nickname of [[FanNickname the "Bloody Magpies"]].

* The twin ghosts at the Labyrinth of Amala in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' will take the nonviolent approach: they will offer you ASpotOfTea for a very low sum. The tea is drugged, and they will kick you and our demons back into the entrance of that Kalpa, after helping themselves to more of your money, of course.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, this is a cultural trait of the [[CatFolk Khajiit]]. As their language has [[LanguageEqualsThought no word for "rules"]] and they take a rather ''loose'' view of what constitutes personal property, this is unusually {{Justified}}. In their culture, taking things that belong to others simply isn't [[BlueAndOrangeMorality seen as wrong]]. Unsurprisingly, this leads to significant CultureClash with the other races who consider the Khajiit taking things to be "theft", and the [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racists]] of those races use it against the Khajiit to bar them from their cities and even to justify [[SlaveRace slavery]]. Additionally, Khajiit who've lived among other cultures have shown the ability to grasp the concept.

Also not be confused with a certain [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Stand]], or [[Music/StickyFingers the music]] it references either. See ThievingPet for the animal version of this trope.

* Franchise/WonderWoman [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] villain Byrna Brilyant, otherwise known as "Blue Snowman", is a MadScientist with a twist; nearly all of her impressive tech other than the robots themselves started out as stolen from other scientists or laboratories where it was either left aside unfinished until she took an interest, had potential for use in her schemes with a few tweaks or was just a project she was curious about.

* ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived:'' Jack Tylos revels in being a "master thief." His skills range from picking pockets to robbing banks, and he's never caught after reaching adulthood. It starts as a way for him to keep himself fed on the streets of District 7, and then to win the Hunger Games when he smuggles a stolen taser into the arena. Later in life, he hides stolen weapons around victor hangouts for them to use against the Capitol when the Rebellion comes. When one of the children of his fellow victor Snag is reaped, the largest bank in the Capitol is robbed by a mysterious figure who makes a clean getaway, with Snag realizing that Jack did it to get sponsor money for his daughter.

* In the second era of the ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}'' series, [[Literature/WaxAndWayne Wayne]], the PTSD-suffering sidekick of Wax, will frequently steal small items. Sometimes he does it for a specific purpose, [[ChekhovsGun sometimes for no apparent reason]]. He always leaves something in exchange, though, but the value is not always similar.

* PlayedForDrama ([[TerribleIntervieweesMontage a small amount of drama]]) in the Literature/XWingSeries novel ''Wraith Squadron''. A bit character who interviews to join the eponymous squadron is rejected when he, apparently compulsorily, swipes a framed picture from the commander's desk. (It's mentioned that he is facing charges for several other equally petty thefts, but is confident he'll be cleared.) [[InsistentTerminology Wayne insists that he is trading]], even if the value is completely disproportional, i.e. stealing a ludicrously expensive aluminum gun from the police and leaving a drawing of it in its place or in the inverse case, stealing a minor item and leaving an aluminium bullet behind.
** It gets to the point when the heroes discover that a certain ArtifactOfDoom was stolen, they immediately stare at him out of habit, even though he'd never entered the vault before. [[spoiler:Turns out that he did steal the artifact, but didn't realize what it was. The real treasure was never inside the vault, instead hidden as part of a statue at the entrance. Wayne lifted it (this time without replacement because the building was abandoned), thinking it was an expensive chunk of solid aluminum]].

* In ''Veronica's Closet'', Veronica hires a new model for a fashion show and is amazed as throughout the interview, the woman constantly picks up things and puts them in her purse without the slightest acknowledgement that she's stealing. She continues this behavior throughout the show, stealing the light bulbs from the runway, blithely declaring, "Those are ''my'' light bulbs!" when Veronica confronts her. Veronica finally gets fed up and fires her when the woman has the nerve to steal her bracelet right off of her wrist and insist, "This is ''my'' bracelet!". The woman leaves in a huff, but not before taking a folding chair along with her.

In fiction, it's the trait of a LoveableRogue and is frequently played for laughs. "Sufferers" tend to outright enjoy the act of theft, steal anything that isn't nailed down (particularly if it's valuable, in contrast to RealLife sufferers), gleefully enjoy the material rewards and may well be a KarmaHoudini for this (compared to actual sufferers of kleptomania, who feel an impulse to steal regardless of the value of the item, and often feel guilty afterwards). They are distinguished from other thief related tropes by the fact that they steal for the pleasure of stealing and frequently have trouble leaving something valuable be. They may or may not be outright described as suffering from kleptomania. Sympathetic characters are often MrViceGuy.

* From the film ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', who else but the Thief? He steals pretty much everything he can possibly get his hands on and tries to steal several things he shouldn't even try to get his hands on. At the end of the film, he also steals all the letters from the words "The End", and then goes on to steal the film-strip itself.

* In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Quicksilver's basement is full of stolen goods such as several [=TVs=], a Pong arcade machine and an entire shelf of junk food. His mother, upon opening the door, assumes Wolverine and co. are cops and simply offers to cut a check for whatever he stole.

** [[spoiler:Curate Hawes]] from ''Literature/TheMurderAtTheVicarage'' is responsible for misappropriation of the Church funds, and is likely the cause of the disappearance of a pound note which the Vicar mentioned at the beginning of the novel.

* PlayedForDrama ([[TerribleIntervieweesMontage a small amount of drama]]) in the Literature/XWingSeries novel ''Wraith Squadron''. A bit character who interviews to join the eponymous squadron is rejected when he, apparently compulsorily, swipes a framed picture from the commander's desk. (It's mentioned that he is facing charges for several other equally petty thefts, but is confident he'll be cleared.) [[InsistentTerminology Wayne insists that he is trading]], even if the value is completely disproportional, i.e. stealing a ludicrously-expensive aluminum gun from the police and leaving a drawing of it in its place or in the inverse case, stealing a minor item and leaving an aluminium bullet behind.

* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': It is revealed in the episode "Sex, Lies, and Red Tape" that every time Helen falls pregnant, she gains the urge to shoplift unneccessary stuff (one of the things shoplifted was a wedding dress that was too small for her). She had been convicted at least seven times before the events of that episode, leading to her freaking out when she was caught.

* In ''Veronica's Closet'',Veronica hires a new model for a fashion show and is amazed as throughout the interview, the woman constantly picks up things and puts them in her purse without the slightest acknowledgement that she's stealing. She continues this behavior throughout the show, stealing the light bulbs from the runway, blithely declaring, "Those are ''my'' light bulbs!" when Veronica confronts her. Veronica finally gets fed up and fires her when the woman has the nerve to steal her bracelet right off of her wrist and insist, "This is ''my'' bracelet!". The woman leaves in a huff, but not before taking a folding chair along with her.

-->'''Mozzie''' (after Neal steals a painting despite the fact that it would be incredibly obvious that he stole it, and he could go back to prison for a long time of someone found out): [[ManChild You're like a child.]]

** ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'': The Kender are an entire race of pseudo-{{Hobbits}} who are relentless thieves that will pick pockets and break into locked chests/drawers/houses without even consciously thinking about it, to the point that the "kender greeting" from other races is to swear and protectively clutch at one's valuables. Worse, they do this out of an intense natural curiosity, meaning every single kender is convinced that they're only borrowing interesting things in good faith, and will certainly return them. Except they often wander off and forget the whole thing... but they're utterly convinced that they're not doing anything wrong. In fact, accuse a kender of being a thief and [[{{Hypocrite}} he will protest at length]]. Kender always have dozens of pockets in which they keep their various pilfered goods. As a gameplay mechanic, a Kender can check their pockets to try and find an item of trivial value that they have stolen without remembering. This trait is one of many reasons why kender are considered TheScrappy of the setting and even of ''D&D'' as a whole.

** Orks of the Deathskulls clan have a marked tendency to filch anything that catches their eye, regardless of whether it's clearly unattended, just laying around, in another Ork's pile of stuff or in another Ork's pockets.

* Sidney Malik Of ''Webcomic/{{Widdershins}}'' is cursed with this. Walking though a crowd could result in an extra ten wallets with no effort from him. He isn't happy with the curse and it may have played a part in him being expelled.

* Homer Simpson from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has been known to steal beer mugs from Moe's, office supplies (including computers) from work, and especially just about anything from Ned Flanders. One episode had him get a job at a Wal-mart parody only to find out every employee has a shock collar on their neck. When his coworkers told him they all knew how to disable the collars and steal everything that's not nailed down, they asked him not to judge them. Homer not only doesn't judge them but he steals an entire cart of [=TVs=] right then and there.

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->''"Hi, hi! The more important it is to others, the more it's worth to steal. It's great watching dithered faces!"''
--> -- '''The Thief''', ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}''

* ''[[Videogame/OneHundredPercentOrangeJuice 100% Orange Juice]]'': Marie Poppo kickstarts the plots of the various campaigns by stealing other characters’ valuables. This is also demonstrated by her Hyper “Ubiquitous” where it has her teleport to another character and steal their stars. [[spoiler:Turns out she (or rather, ''[[SelfDuplication they]]'') do this to lead everyone to [[BigBad Tomomo]].]]

* Thief in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', who steals from everyone (both via outright sleight of hand and contracts with legal mumbo jumbo) to [[spoiler:finance the search for a cure for his sick father]]. When this is done he still steals everything that's isn't both nailed down and on fire.

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': The semi-felinoid alien Sparrials in the Space setting have Kleptomania as a trait in their species template.

* In ''Veronica's Closet'',Veronica hires a new model for a fashion show and is amazed as throughout the interview, the woman constantly picks up things and puts them in her purse without the slightest acknowledgement that she's stealing. She continues this behavior throughout the show, stealing the light bulbs from the runway, blithely declaring, "Those are ''my'' light bulbs!" when Veronica confronts her. Veronica finally gets fed up and fires her when the woman has the nerve to steal her bracelet right off of her wrist and insist, "This is ''my'' bracelet!". The woman leaves in a huff, but not before taking a folding chair along with her.

* Faith in her early appearances on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Dawn started doing this late in season 5, and it became a serious issue in season 6 when the DysfunctionJunction was at its worst.

* Kieszonka (Pocket) from ''ComicBook/LilIPut'' series is a pick-pocket, almost always seen either trying to steal something or running away after being caught red-handed (unless she's already in jail).

* Thief in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', who steals from everyone (both via outright sleight of hand and contracts with legal mumbo jumbo) to [[spoiler:finance the search for a cure for his sick father]]. When this is done he still steals everything that's isn't both nailed down and on fire.
* The pixie Feiht in ''Webcomic/ChasingTheSunset'' regards anything shiny as there for the taking. (Spelling her name backwards gives you a clue to her personality.)

* The dungeon rats in ''Webcomic/LatchkeyKingdom'' like to collect "treasures", which can be actual artifacts or random junk they found and liked.

* Swiper the Fox from ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' is one of the most iconic examples of this trope. Once an episode showing up at random times to steal whatever is relevant to the plot from Dora and Boots. [[SwiperNoSwiping Though everyone saying "Swiper no swiping" three times before he takes anything always makes him back down.]]

* Jax from ''ComicBook/JaxEpochAndTheQuickenForbidden'' stole a notepad and a spellbook and magic gloves and boots

* "Fingers", a stage magician and thief encountered by ComicBook/LuckyLuke once. Not only will he constantly pickpocket everyone around him (which means he cannot be kept in prison because he will casually disarm the guards and steal their keys), but he will regularly offer you your wallet, gun, and [[ImpossibleThief underwear]] back, as a gesture of goodwill.
* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Even after becoming a powerful general in Wismerhill's army, [[LoveableRogue Pile-ou-Face]] is often seen robbing people of their purses in the background.

* ''Fanfic/{{Arcanum}}'': Ruby will gladly steal anything that isn't attached and won't be immediately noticed as missing, from money and jewelry to mundane things such as clean robes.

* There is a character from the movie ''Film/IfItsTuesdayThisMustBeBelgium'' who starts the trip with an empty suitcase. By the end of the film, the suitcase is full of stuff he's pilfered, including a life preserver from a cruise boat.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Even after Daenerys commands Kovarro not to steal anything from their host Xaro Xhoan Daxos, he takes a golden wine chalice, dumps the wine, and takes the chalice.
* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': Somebody is stealing phonebooks in the episode "Phonebook Follies".
* PlayedForDrama (and somewhat more realistically) in an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' when a couple of murderers are caught when one of them can't resist stealing an eggcup from their victims' home. This leads to a somewhat {{Narm}}y ending where her partner screams "EGGCUP!" at her while he's hauled off.
* Parker from ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' is an prolific pickpocket. She poses as a kleptomaniac when the team needs to infiltrate a rehab facility, and in the same episode, she pickpockets someone ''accidentally'' because it's so reflexive for her.
* Faith in her early appearances on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Dawn started doing this late in season 5, and it became a serious issue in season 6 when the DysfunctionJunction was at its worst.

* Mike Hamar of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' is a robber on parole who hasn't had an honest day's work in his life. A RunningGag is that he frequently has to return small items to the people he's talking to, having picked their pockets out of force of habit.

* Amanda from ''Series/{{Highlander}}''. She's more or less the Hollywood version, with a taste for expensive stuff.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Alf}}'' dealt with this when one of Tanner's neighbors is revealed to be a kleptomaniac. Alf caught her stealing some of the family's jewelry and confronted her son, who he had become friends with, and he had to explain that his mother simply couldn't help it.
* In Tricia's back-story in ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', she stole even while trying to pay a store back for something else she stole.
* Liv becomes one in the ''Series/{{iZombie}}'' pilot after eating the brain of a dead Romanian escort. This also helps her figure out why the escort died (she took something she shouldn't have). One of the things Liv steals is a [[Film/OfficeSpace red Swingline stapler]]. At the end of the episode, after eating another brain, she replaces all the stolen items.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Down Among the Dead Men", one of the suspects is a kleptomaniac cleaning woman who is being blackmailed by one of her clients. When Barnaby discovers her secret, she shows him a room crammed to the brim with objects she has stolen from her employers.
* ''Series/{{ER}}''. Luka gets his new girlfriend a job at the hospital. It's soon offhandedly mentioned that the petty cash is missing. Later, Abby mentions that she can't find her wallet. Later still, the desk clerk is looking for his PDA when he hears it chiming (he sets an alarm to remind him to take his medication) from the girl's purse. Sure enough, she has it, and everyone instantly realizes that she's responsible for everything else. She takes off, and in his futile efforts to find her, Luka learns that she was also stealing from the bar where she previously worked.
* In ''Veronica's Closet'',Veronica hires a new model for a fashion show and is amazed as throughout the interview, the woman constantly picks up things and puts them in her purse without the slightest acknowledgement that she's stealing. She continues this behavior throughout the show, stealing the light bulbs from the runway, blithely declaring, "Those are ''my'' light bulbs!" when Veronica confronts her. Veronica finally gets fed up and fires her when the woman has the nerve to steal her bracelet right off of her wrist and insist, "This is ''my'' bracelet!". The woman leaves in a huff, but not before taking a folding chair along with her.

* ''Series/EerieIndiana'': In both "Mr. Chaney" and "Zombies in P.J.s", Dash X can be seen at the World O' Stuff shoplifting a trench coat's worth.
* Gina from ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' apparently has a habit of swiping objects and Terry has to specifically task Rosa to keep an eye on Gina when they visit Holt's house. Unfortunately, she'd already stuffed her bag full of loot.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Lost and Found", Jenny Templeton notices that the contents of her trash can and the mug that she uses for her pencils have both disappeared. She soon discovers that they were stolen by two time travelers from 2139 who wanted souvenirs as [[YoungFutureFamousPeople she will one day become the first President of Earth]]. The male time traveler returns the mug as they were only supposed to take things that Jenny wouldn't miss.
* ''{{Series/Trinkets}}'': Elodie has kleptomania, as does Tabitha (Moe took the fall for her brother Ben). They all meet in a Shoplifters Anonymous group. Unlike most examples, this is ''not'' {{played for laughs}} but shown to be a destructive, debilitating addiction. Elodie especially struggles with it.
* ''Series/BigSky'': Scarlet steals a small item in her first scene, and says later that she's a kleptomaniac, getting a thrill out of doing this.
* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': It is revealed in the episode "Sex, Lies, and Red Tape" that every time Helen falls pregnant, she gains the urge to shoplift unneccessary stuff (one of the things shoplifted was a wedding dress that was too small for her). She had been convicted at least seven times before the events of that episode, leading to her freaking out when she was caught.

* "How Many Tbone Steaks Can I Fit In My Pants," by Music/BAJohnston, is about the boss of a grocery store not giving an employee a raise, and the employee retaliates by constantly stealing from work. Even the awful toilet paper.

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': The semi-felinoid alien Sparrials in the Space setting have Kleptomania as a trait in their species template.

* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'': The Piskies aren’t exactly thieves, but items of great value somehow always end up in their pockets. When a piskey sees something she desires, she can’t help but swipe it, often without consciously making the decision to do so.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' has Rouge the Bat, a "professional treasure hunter". Often she makes no attempt to hide how she wants to steal the Master Emerald from Knuckles, either.
* Marisa Kirisame in ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' [[InsaneTrollLogic figures]] that since a human lifespan is so much shorter than the lifespans of the {{Youkai}} that make up so much of the cast, she can just "borrow" whatever she wants from them, and they can have it back after she's dead. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't convince anyone, and sometimes the victim will take what's theirs back. It also just so happens that Marisa's an ImmortalitySeeker...

* ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'': You can give your Sims the "Kleptomaniac" trait. It lets you swipe three items per day. However, the item your Sim steals is random.
* Spies in ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'' can steal from other Sims as well as from the messenger posts. Because of this, spies can get more money more easily than almost any other profession.

* Shir Gold from ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII'' has a random chance of stealing from every armory, armor shop, or item shop you enter with her in the party. The downside of this is that she'll also hightail back to your base, even if you're currently on an entirely different planet.
* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'': Shanty doesn't even try to hide her intent to steal whatever she can get her hooves on, and sometimes tries to straight up rob the other characters for any loot they might have in a few of her pre-fight intros. Justified, as she's a low-level PirateGirl.
* Garrett of ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' usually gives "the rent is due" as an excuse for his thieving, or has some other objective he needs to accomplish. However, it is clear from his actions and dialogue that he really enjoys theft and is, at least partially, DoingItForTheArt. For example, when a museum in ''Deadly Shadows'' boasts that its security is impenetrable, Garrett takes it as a personal challenge.
* Billiken is a more aggressive version of this in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' - he compulsively mugs other demons (or tamers) and has no qualms about killing. Once he depletes your wallet, he can hit you with the powerful ''Barrage Strike'' move.

* ''[[Videogame/OneHundredPercentOrangeJuice 100% Orange Juice]]'': Marie Poppo kickstarts the plots of the various campaigns by stealing other characters’ valuables. This is also demonstrated by her Hyper “Ubiquitous” where it has her teleport to another character and steal their stars. [[spoiler:Turns out she (or rather, ''[[SelfDuplication they]]'') do this to lead everyone to [[BigBad Tomomo]].]]

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, this is a cultural trait of the [[CatFolk Khajiit]]. As their language has [[LanguageEqualsThought no word for "rules"]] and they take a rather ''loose'' view of what constitutes personal property, this is unusually {{Justified}}. In their culture, taking things that belong to others simply isn't [[BlueAndOrangeMorality seen as wrong]]. Unsurprisingly, this leads to significant CultureClash with the other races who consider the Khajiit taking things to be "theft", and the [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racists]] of those races use it against the Khajiit to bar them from their cities and even to justify [[SlaveRace slavery]]. Additionally, Khajiit who've lived among other cultures have shown the ability to grasp the concept.
* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': Zigzagged. Tiki the toucan tends to steal objects with the intention of just borrowing them but neglecting to return them. Baz Barnacle takes things from his cousin Buck and sells them, but as far as he's concerned, he's just borrowing them. Raffles the Sneaky Tealeaf steals objects a lot but he always gives them back.
* Adventurers with the Kleptomania negative quirk in ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' randomly half-inch stuff out of curios in the dungeons. Unusually, it's considered to be one of the ''very worst'' quirks a hero can have, for two reasons. One, the Hamlet runs entirely on the loot economy, and anything stolen by a Kleptomaniac adventurer isn't coming back. Two, a lot of items you can interact with need a special item to make safe - keys, purifying herbs, holy water - and Kleptomaniac adventurers don't bother, meaning they tend to cost a bit more in bandages, antivenom, and medical treatments from all the blight, bleed and diseases they pick up from opening trapped chests and rooting through the guts of decaying sea creatures.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'': A side-mission assigned to Connor by [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Daniel Boone]] entails the investigation of none other than [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti the Sasquatch]]. Keeping with the generalized "nothing is actually supernatural" trait of the larger franchise, it turns out that the creature is actually a very big, very hairy man living in the wilderness who, when found by Connor, admits to being a kleptomaniac but is ultimately harmless. After learning the truth, Connor just leaves him alone.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'': Jewel the Thief is one of the {{Fallen Hero}}es who defeated the last Overlord. Representing Envy, she obsessively steals items simply for the sake of stealing them, losing all interest in the item once it's hers. [[spoiler:She was corrupted by the Wizard, possessed by the slain Overlord, into following her base desire]].

* ''Series/VeronicasCloset''. Veronica hires a new model for a fashion show and is amazed as throughout the interview, the woman constantly picks up things and puts them in her purse without the slightest acknowledgement that she's stealing. She continues this behavior throughout the show, stealing the light bulbs from the runway, blithely declaring, "Those are ''my'' light bulbs!" when Veronica confronts her. Veronica finally gets fed up and fires her when the woman has the nerve to steal her bracelet right off of her wrist and insist, "This is ''my'' bracelet!". The woman leaves in a huff, but not before taking a folding chair along with her.

* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': It is revealed in the episode "Sex, Lies, and Red Tape" that every time Helen falls pregnant, she gains the urge to steal unneccessary stuff (one of the things stolen was a wedding dress that was too small for her). She had been convicted at least seven times before the events of that episode, leading to her freaking out when she was caught.

* ''Veronica's Closet''. Veronica hires a new model for a fashion show and is amazed as throughout the interview, the woman constantly picks up things and puts them in her purse without the slightest acknowledgement that she's stealing. She continues this behavior throughout the show, stealing the light bulbs from the runway, blithely declaring, "Those are ''my'' light bulbs!" when Veronica confronts her. Veronica finally gets fed up and fires her when the woman has the nerve to steal her bracelet right off of her wrist and insist, "This is ''my'' bracelet!". The woman leaves in a huff, but not before taking a folding chair along with her.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': Glendale is a compulsive kleptomaniac, and often needs to physically restrain herself from stealing objects to hoard in the portal on her belly. She later says that taking what doesn't belong to her makes her "feel alive".

* Dijon from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''. While a common thief otherwise, also seems to suffer from kleptomania, unable to resist stealing even when not intending to, including stealing worthless junk like old shoes.
* Bender from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Just as well he seems to have [[DoAnythingRobot near-infinite space in his chest]], though in one episode he goes on such an epic spree of kleptomania that he nearly fills it up.