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->'''Molloy:''' I sincerely regret any harm I may have caused, and while I may have stolen your material goods, rest assured, your town stole my heart.\\
''(crowd goes 'aww')''\\
'''Skinner:''' He's so charming!\\
'''Barney:''' Let's let him go!\\
'''Crowd:''' Yaaaay!
-->'''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Homer the Vigilante"
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->''"Milady, a woman of your beauty has no need for such... decorations."''
-->--'''Robin Hood''', ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''
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->''"You have nice manners, for a'' thief, ''and a ''liar''."''
-->--'''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Smaug]]''' to '''[[GuileHero Bilbo]]''', '''''Literature/TheHobbit'''''
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->''"I want you to give [the gems] back, Flambeau, and I want you to give up this life. There is still youth and honour and humour in you; don’t fancy they will last in that trade. Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down. The kind man drinks and turns cruel; the frank man kills and lies about it. Many a man I’ve known started like you to be an honest outlaw, a merry robber of the rich, and ended stamped into slime. Maurice Blum started out as an anarchist of principle, a father of the poor; he ended a greasy spy and tale-bearer that both sides used and despised. Harry Burke started his free money movement sincerely enough; now he’s sponging on a half-starved sister for endless brandies and sodas. Lord Amber went into wild society in a sort of chivalry; now he’s paying blackmail to the lowest vultures in London. Captain Barillon was the great gentleman-apache before your time; he died in a madhouse, screaming with fear of the "narks" and receivers that had betrayed him and hunted him down. I know the woods look very free behind you, Flambeau; I know that in a flash you could melt into them like a monkey. But some day you will be an old grey monkey, Flambeau. You will sit up in your free forest cold at heart and close to death, and the tree-tops will be very bare."\\
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Everything continued still, as if the small man below held the other in the tree in some long invisible leash; and he went on:\\
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"Your downward steps have begun. You used to boast of doing nothing mean, but you are doing something mean tonight. You are leaving suspicion on an honest boy with a good deal against him already; you are separating him from the woman he loves and who loves him. But you will do meaner things than that before you die."\\
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Three flashing diamonds fell from the tree to the turf. The small man stooped to pick them up, and when he looked up again the green cage of the tree was emptied of its silver bird.''
-->-- Literature/FatherBrown deconstructing the trope, ''The Flying Stars''
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->''"The developers understood that it takes a certain kind of person to enjoy this sort of thing and tailored the main character accordingly. Garrett, a misanthropic anti-social loner making snarky comments to liven up the dark silent corners he hung around in. An appropriately unheroic character for the situation, the {{NPC}}s he pitted his wits against were generally bored, inattentive rent-a-cops [[EnemyChatter loudly voicing their every slightest daydream]], quick to dismiss suspicious noises and sights as the work of imagination [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy or extremely large and resourceful rats]]. This may explain why Garrett has such contempt for them that he goes around [[WithCatlikeTread wearing tap shoes that make loud noises when stepping on anything harder than a bathroom rug.]]"''
-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/ThiefTheDarkProject''
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-->--'''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Smaug]]''' to '''[[GuileHero Bilbo]]''', '''''TheHobbit'''''

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-->--'''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Smaug]]''' to '''[[GuileHero Bilbo]]''', '''''TheHobbit''''''''''Literature/TheHobbit'''''
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->''"You have nice manners, for a'' thief, ''and a ''liar''."''
-->--'''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Smaug]]''' to '''[[GuileHero Bilbo]]''', '''''TheHobbit'''''
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->''"The developers understood that it takes a certain kind of person to enjoy this sort of thing and tailored the main character accordingly. Garrett, a misanthropic anti-social loner making snarky comments to liven up the dark silent corners he hung around in. An appropriately unheroic character for the situation, the {{NPC}}s he pitted his wits against were generally bored, inattentive rent-a-cops [[EnemyChatter loudly voicing their every slightest daydream]], quick to dismiss suspicious noises and sights as the work of imagination [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy or extremely large and resourceful rats]]. This may explain why Garrett has such contempt for them that he goes around [[WithCatlikeTread wearing tap shoes that make loud noises when stepping on anything harder than a bathroom rug.]]"''
-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/ThiefTheDarkProject''
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