History PlayingWith / BankRobbery

** The FiveManBand needs money, and see this as a quick and easy way to get it.
** They're [[KickTheDog doing something bad just]] ForTheEvulz.

* '''Enforced''': The writer ''really'' wants to tell an elaborate [[TheCaper caper story]] with lots of intrigue and cool gadgets.

** Evil Elliott is proposing to [[DarkChick Lilith]] [[UnholyMatrimony Badgirl]] with a diamond ring he hid in one of the vaults.
** Evil Elliott is threatening...a piggy bank.

* '''Invoked''': The FiveBadBand is getting low on funds.

** The [[Film/BigFish bank is actually broke]]; when the FiveBadBand goes into the vault, they find cobwebs and an I.O.U. before complaining to the tellers outside.

** The FiveBadBand needs money, and see this as a quick and easy way to get it.

* '''Downplayed''': Elliott defrauds an ATM.

* '''Reconstructed''': TheHero pulls BigDamnHeroes to end the stalemate.

** The [[BigFish bank is actually broke; when the FiveBadBand goes into the vault, they find cobwebs and an I.O.U. before complaining to the tellers outside.

** The bank is actually broke; when the FiveBadBand goes into the vault, they find cobwebs and an I.O.U. before complaining to the tellers outside.

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': It's such an elaborate heist, you'd think he was trying to infiltrate the Pentagon or something!

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???

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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

** But participates in shady business practices and/or such things as drug-dealing and pimping, making ungodly amounts of money from that, or he robs someplace else containing valuables (such as a museum).

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Basic Trope''': Someone steals money from the bank.
* '''Played Straight''': [[BigBad Evil Elliott]] leads a bank heist.

** Evil Elliott ''attempts'' a bank robbery, but is arrested before he can complete the bank heist.

** But participates in shady business practices and/or such things as drug-dealing and pimping, making ungodly amounts of money from that, or he robs someplace else containing valuables (such as a museum).
** But then sells the sperm/eggs/embryos/blood/whatever on the black market and makes money from that.
** The bank robbery is an inside job.
* '''Deconstructed''': A bank robbery goes bad and ends in a hostage deal, several dead tellers and customers, and a stalemate with the cops.
* '''Reconstructed''': TheHero pulls BigDamnHeroes to end the stalemate.

** Evil Elliott is proposing to [[DarkChick Lilith]] [[UnholyMatrimony Badgirl]] with a diamond ring he hid in one of the vaults.
** Evil Elliott is threatening...a piggy bank.

* '''Lampshaded''':
-->'''Evil Elliot:'''"This is a robbery!"
-->'''Bank Teller:'''"Oh, not another one. Must be Monday."

* '''Enforced''':
* '''Invoked''': The FiveBadBand is getting low on funds.

* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''':

** Bonus points if this is the result of another group of bad guys.
* '''Played For Drama''': Almost always is.

* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':

* '''Justified''': The FiveBadBand needs money, and see this as a quick and easy way to get it.

* '''Inverted''': A bank teller steals money from Evil Elliott (either intentionally, or due to an error in bean-counting.)

* '''Subverted''': Evil Elliott doesn't steal money from the bank...

* '''Double Subverted''': But participates in shady business practices and/or such things as drug-dealing and pimping, making ungodly amounts of money from that, or he robs someplace else containing valuables (such as a museum).

* '''Parodied''': [[AffablyEvil Evil Elliott enters the bank, removes his hat, waits patiently in line at the bank, allows a woman with two small children to go ahead of him in line, and when he gets to the bank teller, says, "Excuse me, I'm terribly sorry, but this is a bank robbery. Would you be so kind as to hand over the money?"]]

** See "Played For Laughs"

--->'''Evil Elliot:'''"This is a robbery!"
--->'''Bank Teller:'''"Oh, not another one. Must be Monday."

* '''Played For Laughs''': The bank is actually broke; when the FiveBadBand goes into the vault, they find cobwebs and an I.O.U. before complaining to the tellers outside.

* '''Parodied''': [[EvillyAffable Evil Elliott enters the bank, removes his hat, waits patiently in line at the bank, allows a woman with two small children to go ahead of him in line, and when he gets to the bank teller, says, "Excuse me, I'm terribly sorry, but this is a bank roberry. Would you be so kind as to hand over the money?"]]

* '''Lampshaded''':