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The Phantom Thief is a special class of criminal. An elusive and fantastic thief who can be long gone earlier the victim even knows what striking him. Just as likely to be an antihero as a villain.

There is no single set model of the Phantom Thief, but they usually have some of the post-obit characteristics.

• Steals items that are not but very expensive simply oftentimes priceless: fine art, unique gems, historical artifacts.
• Leaves a Calling Bill of fare for the intended victim.
• Is a Master of Disguise.
• Uses trickery and illusions to escape undetected.
• Has a rival in the course of a Great Detective or a stubborn police force inspector.
• Has a strict code of honor, ranging from refusing to commit murder to outright announcing heists in advance.
• Steals for reasons other than personal gain, such as personal challenge, being a Troll or vigilante justice.
• May or may non really suspension the laws of physics or the mutual sense birthday to achieve their goal.
• Is meant to be either admired by the audience or at the very least respected for their wit, brazenness and adherence to self-fabricated rules.

Bonus points given if the graphic symbol is known for being a Sharp-Dressed Man sporting a Cool Chapeau (especially i reminiscent of prissy-looking yet out of fashion fashions). This is particularly mutual in Japanese media, stemming from the popularity of Arsène Lupin in Japan. The Japanese word for it is Kaitou.

Compare Gentleman Thief and Classy Cat-Infiltrator, both of which tin can overlap with this trope. If role of their motivation is the thrill of stealing, so they may accept Pasty Fingers. Come across besides Lovable Rogue and Anti-Hero. Does non require that the thief in question be an actual phantom, though such a character can however fit this trope. And it definitely does not refer to a thief who steals ghosts.

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• The McDonald's Hamburglar, although he steals hamburgers rather than jewels or artwork.

    Anime and Manga

• The Black Rose in Ashita no Nadja. He's really Keith Harcourt, the older twin blood brother of Francis Harcourt who walked out on the family after his mother died.
• The Nezumi Kid from Akazukin Chacha. He comes into conflict with Chacha and her friends when he steals the Graduation Stamp needed to enable the students to graduate.
• Kaitou U of Butt Detective is a poop-themed thief.
• The Kisugi sisters trio in Cat's Centre.
• And in Tsukasa Hojo's next piece of work, City Hunter, you accept Kasumi Asou alias Thief n°305, who comes from a line of women phantom thieves.
• The Man of 20 Faces from Clench School Detectives (and his ain manga; notation that the manga was inspired by a Admirer Thief by the same proper name from before books, movies, and tv).
• Kaitou Ace from Codename: Sailor 5, although he's also the Mysterious Protector and the Big Bad.
  • Tuxedo Kamen steals objects that he hopes would return his lost memories. He drops the thief attribute completely and becomes a full-on hero afterward getting them back.
• Loser from Dimension W, although he never actually steals anything...because he'south actually targeting illegal coils hidden within art pieces.
• More patently, Dark from D.N.Angel, although he steals cursed items to get them uncursed.
• Dorian Carmine Gloria, Earl of Gloria (more than commonly known as "Eroica") from From Eroica with Dear is a successful fine art thief who leaves behind bribe cards signed with his catchphrase: "From Eroica with love. Good luck."
• Psiren of Fullmetal Alchemist. The people of her city don't actually want her defenseless - information technology'due south an Expy of Venice and will soon slide underwater, so she'due south the only matter keeping people coming.
• Played with in Ghost in the Shell when the Major is Cash Eye. A false thief created to trap a Corrupt Corporate Executive.
• Part of the backstory of Gosick involves a St. Marguerite Academy graduate named Saying, who went on to become a criminal known every bit Phantom Thief Kuiaran. A major plot bespeak in Episodes 4 and 5 involves a New Transfer Student named Avril, who turns out to be Kuiaran'southward successor. It'southward revealed that she kidnapped the existent Avril and bearded herself as her in order to pull off a heist at the Academy.
• In the Boys' Love manga Gorgeous Carat, main character Ray is also known equally Phantom Thief Noir.
• Called out to, but not actually played right with Fumi and Sharna of Hayate the Combat Butler.
• Gaitou, the thief in Kaitou Alice, just appears in dreams and steals the darkness inside of people'south hearts.
• The Boys' Beloved manga Kaitou Game revolves around a phantom thief who is literally known as the Phantom Thief and the nobleman'due south son he falls in love with.
• Saint Tail from Kaitou Saint Tail is a Magical Daughter style thief who uses Impossibly Awesome Magic Tricks to steal back property that was already wrongly taken. Notably, she only leaves calling cards to taunt her Kid Detective crush—and equally disguised beloved letters.
• Robas from Kiba, who becomes the thief "No Face" because he'due south bored and wishes for a claiming. It's also hinted he may be trying to help out his family unit financially, since their fortune is somewhat on the rocks.
• The Kindaichi Instance Files has Kaitō Shinshi ("Lady Thief"), a mischievous femme fatale. She's one of Kindaichi's ii recurring elusive rivals, along with Jigoku no Kugutsushi ("Hell'south Puppeteer"). Unlike the manipulative homicidal maniac Jigoku no Kugutsushi, she'southward just involved in fun, lighthearted thievery. She can also be likened to a Classy Cat-Burglar type.
• Male monarch of Brigand Jing: The titular character himself; legends claim he tin steal the very stars from the night sky- and he proceeds to live up to his Impossible Thief status; conceding in one case- to monument which he admits he doesn't have a pocket big plenty to fit. He tends to forgo total disguises as his youth normally works every bit is; he also enjoys leaving the classic calling card from time to time which all carry his symbol of a black true cat confront wth wingding optics.
• Lupin III is based on Arsène Lupin; both titular characters are famously uncatchable and both pretty much fit all of the listed criteria for this trope, with the one-half-Japanese character being the grandson of the famous French thief.
• Kaitou Kid (literally known as the Phantom Thief Kid) from Magic Kaito and Instance Airtight. In Magic Kaito he had a lot of Lupin homages, including the indefatigable Nakamori for Ganimard and Hakuba Saguru popping over from England in place of Sherlock Holmes.
• X in Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro. Unfortunately, those aren't his merely crimes...
• Phantom Renegade of Medabots steals rare medals in club to go on them out of the wrong hands. He would actually practice a pretty expert job, if he didn't clumsily lose them right after gloating over his successful heist.
• The hero of Mouse and his three female colleges, all of whom pose as normal teachers when not out thieving.
• Hailing from Mysterious Joker is its titular graphic symbol whose embodies this trope in-universe. His rivals and mentor are also this.
• In Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok, Freyr (in his beginning episode), because every Swell Detective needs a rival.
• The protagonist of Nishikida Keibu wa Dorobou ga Osuki is "Kaitou Jack", a thief who steals outrageous things and world treasures.
• In Ane Slice, Nami can steal practically anything without anyone noticing (as seen in the Drum arc). Nonetheless she prefers to brag.
• Maron/"Jeanne" from Phantom Thief Jeanne is considered to be this, as whenever she purifies a piece of art, information technology disappears.
• Phantom Thief Pokémon 7 is about a, well, Phantom Thief in the world of Pokémon.
  • The anime has an episode where Team Rocket imitates an historic thief chosen the Black Arachnid. Of course, they go their butts kicked.
  • Annie and Oakley from Pokémon Heroes lack the skillful intentions of the boilerplate Swish True cat-Burglar, but are introduced using fancy gadgets and acrobatic maneuvers to break into a library and steal a rare book, while leaving behind a rose and a card with the colors on their respective outfits intersected.
• Twenty Faces from Kigitsu Katsuhisa's one-shot manga Phase twenty.
• Odoren from Pretty Cure All Stars Haru no Funfair portrays himself every bit this. His actions… make it less and so.
• I of the earliest examples is probably Osamu Tezuka's Rainbow Parakeet, whose unusual name comes from his mastery of disguise & power to mimic voices.
• Shadow Lady has Aimi Komori that crosses paths with De-Mo, a resident of the Demon World who forcefully introduces her to the magic middle shadow that transforms her into Shadow Lady, a Swish Cat-Burglar that becomes the focus of a law task force led by Vivid Honda.
• Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure features the cat conflicting thief Blue True cat, whose noncombatant identity is the famous idol Mao. After she fully becomes a Cure, Cure Cosmo.
• Le Bled from Steam Detectives. As well known as Phantom Thief Le Bled!
• Time Bokan series "Kaitou Kiramekiman". Set in the nigh hereafter, the main graphic symbol are a couple of young thieves named Kiramekiman. Secretly, the goal of Kiramekiman is really noble, since they are but stealing certain objects in social club to maintain peace in the future.
• Kaitou le Vin is well-nigh a Five-Human being Band of thieves who travel the world under the name "Phantom Thief Levain" in order to steal rare wines.

    Comic Books

• The Rogue from The Maze Agency. He leaves backside a Calling Card informing his victims that their fine art has been selected for his 'Rogue'south Gallery'.
• Fantômas (the Mexican comic volume version anyway.)
• Crude Diamond from My Piffling Pony arc Manehatten Mysteries. Her Cutie mark and her motif is a diamond, and she is a Chief of Disguise
• Wonder Woman (1987): Angle Man got a reimagining into a Sharp-Dressed Man who uses his Reality Warper abilities to pull off theatrical Impossible Thefts and is a rather friendly and flirtatious villain with his own code of award.

    Fan Works

• Betwixt the Lines: The chapter, "Phantom Thief Railgun", an Adjective Noun Fred title, since "Railgun" is a name, and also Role Called considering this is a occupation.
• Doctor Strange dabbles in this in Child of the Storm, mixing in elements of the Impossible Thief - things stolen then far include Harry'due south phoenix feather from the back-pocket of i of the two nigh powerful telepaths ever to live, Alastor Moody's wooden leg, and Loki'due south disembodied caput. Twice. In the latter case, he really left a annotation: "I.O.U. one Loki." Considering that he'd simply delivered it to Asgard, afterwards swiping it from under the nose of an extremely powerful necromancer with Super Senses, information technology's likely that he did it just to prove he could. All of this happens as part of his usual addiction of treating the Laws of Physics equally optional extras.
  • It gets to the point that in the sequel, Thor bluntly states that if Strange wanted to pinch the Tesseract from Asgard's vaults, he could.
• In the first affiliate of Tales of Minako and Hotaru , Hotaru Tomoe poses equally i in order to get Minako's attention.
• Chapter 23 of The New Trials of Cardcaptor Sakura introduces Kaitou Sorcerer, who often manages to steal artifacts without leaving a single inkling.
• Zenigata'southward granddaughter, of all people, in Battle Fantasia Project. For extra Irony points, she's existence pursed by none other than Lupin'due south granddaughters.
• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfic Footling Deceptions stars Primary of Disguise Blank Slate, who is 1 of these. He is trying to pull off The Perfect Crime, robbing the royal vault correct nether the princesses' noses. It doesn't get as planned.
• The sidestory centered on the Black Arachnid of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines fully portrays him as ane of these.
• A tumblr mail past Cornerverse has a Phantom Thief AU of Miraculous Ladybug, with Ladybug and Chat Noir as rival Phantom Thieves that use their Miraculous to steal from the corrupt.

    Film

• Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. 'the Phantom', from The Pink Panther and sequels.
• François Toulour (Vincent Cassel), also known as "The Night Fox", in Ocean's Twelve and Sea'due south Thirteen.

    Literature

• Arsène Lupin is the Trope Codifier.
• Fantômas, an anarchist whose crimes (supposedly) stem from a disdain for mod civilization. Unlike Lupin, he is a cruel, manipulative psychopath with no qualms at all about murdering people and framing the innocent to face up the guillotine for his crimes. His titles include "The Man with a Thousand Faces", "The Lord of Terror", "The Master of Crime" and "The Genius of Evil."
• The Saint is a modernistic solar day Robin Hood-figure who targets corrupt politicians, warmongers, and other low life, and leaves a "calling card" at his crimes - a stick figure of a man with a halo over his head. He's slightly darker than virtually examples, however, equally he is willing to ruin the lives of the "ungodly," and fifty-fifty kill them, if he feels that more innocent lives can be saved.
• The Gray Ghosts in the Shadowleague books.
• Conina from Sourcery once stole some diamonds from a thief who had himself absconded from a jewellery shop having swallowed them. She'due south really a phantom thief illegitimate barbarian hairdresser.
• The titular character of the German gangster spoof serial Dickie Dick Dickens has traces of this, being a Chicago gangster in the 1920s who uses trickery, charm and his impossibly well-honed skills as a pickpocket to reach his goal. His son, Donald D. Doberman, is an even clearer case of the trope.
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats:

  He's the bafflement of Scotland 1000, the Flying Squad's despair:
  For when they reach the scene of crime—Macavity'due south not there!

• Comus from the Ellery Queen short story "The Dauphin's Doll" in Agenda of Crime.
• The Bishop from A Stainless Steel Rat is Born is a retired Phantom Thief. His crowning accomplishment was stealing shipments of cash from the local equivalent of Fort Knox: a sealed crate of money leaves, just when it arrives at the destination, it contains but a unmarried chess bishop. The Stainless Steel Rat himself is rather more physical: it's a rare crime that doesn't involve guards winding up on the wrong end of a gas grenade or a karate chop, something the Bishop calls him out on.
• Ishimaru Kouta of Zaregoto is supposedly one of these, although we never see her in action.
• Deconstructed by Anthony Ryan's Draconis Memoria series. The dastardly Moonlighter was a decent thief, but he got away with information technology because the upper grade loved scandal. One-half his exploits were concocted past bored upper-class and sensationalist news (and a smutty novel, apparently), and he never fifty-fifty stole half of what he was defendant of. When the Blood Cadre really got on his case, he was caught very quickly.
• In The High King's Tomb (Greenish Rider serial #3) by Kristen Britain, the graphic symbol Xandis Amberhill, an impoverished nobleman, becomes the Raven Mask to restore his fortune, following the example of his gramps, the original Raven Mask.
• The Fiend with Twenty Faces(Kaijin Nijū Mensō), the phantom thief created by Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo, was heavily influenced past Arsène Lupin, and the occasional rival for Kogoro Akechi, the private detective created by the aforementioned writer.
• The Breakthrough Thief and sequels star Jean le Flambeur, a science fiction have on the concept who was inspired by Arsène Lupin both out of and in-universe. While simultaneously Famed in Story and Shrouded in Myth as a "god of thieves", the trilogy actually begins with him in prison, having finally been defenseless as the next step in his biggest heist yet, until he's cleaved out the same chapter past a figure in need of the greatest thief in the solar system.

    Live-Action TV

• Kamen Rider
  • In Kamen Passenger Kabuto, Tadokoro's team create their own Phantom Thief, 'Shadow', to lure out a Worm that targets criminals.
  • Kamen Passenger Decade: Kamen Passenger Diend's existent name is Daiki Kaitou, just he's but partway to being a total-fledged Phantom Thief. He has the "theft of valuable objects" and "uses trickery and illusions" bits down only his personality boils down to "existent-life Troll" for his victims (especially Tsukasa), and he steals not out of a sense of social justice but because he enjoys it (though that's just his assertion, in truth it'due south considering he'south trying to fill up the void left backside past his brother existence brainwashed by a crime dominate).
  • Kamen Rider Drive has Zoroku Tojo who was one in his youth, merely fourth dimension was not kind to him until he found Cyberoid ZZZ.
• Il Ji-Mae: "Don't worry, I can steal annihilation. Afterwards all, I'm Il Ji-Mae."
• Parker on Leverage is this, simply she's also crazy and more than a little unsettling due to her lack of understanding for basic social norms. Her mentor, Archie Leech, is this as well, and a Admirer Thief.
• Super Sentai:
  • In Tokumei Sentai Become Busters: One episode in the last one-half of the serial features Kaitou Pink Buster, a rich adult female who steals wearing an outfit based on the Go-Buster'due south out of transformation uniform, and becomes attached to Red Buster. In the Alternating earth Dobutsu Sentai Go-Busters, her counterpart, Pink True cat, is His sister.
  • The showtime of ii eponymous teams in Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger is a trio of heroic thieves. As their proper noun implies, they're styled afterward Arsène Lupin, and they target the intergalactic offense syndicate Ganglar in order to steal back a prepare of artifacts he originally gathered.
• Spider-Man (Japan) has two examples - one who gets kidnapped past the Iron Cantankerous Army and hypnotized into committing crimes in Spider-Man's name, and 1 who retired v years ago later stealing a highly valuable gem to look after his orphaned grandson.
• Choukou Senshi Changéríon, another obscure not-franchise Toei tokusatsu hero show, features a guest star named Phantom Thief Kuroageha in episode 25.
• The heroines of the Girls ten Heroine! series Secret X Warrior Phantomirage! are thieves who steal corrupt Gyaku Jewels and purify them.

    Music

• The Momoiro Clover Z song "Kaitou Shojo" is all near this, although they're more interested in stealing your heart than stealing jewels.
• There are many VOCALOID songs featuring this trope, most notably:
• Super Junior's music video for Blackness Suit is nigh the group planning to steal a adapt at an auction, only for somebody else to become information technology before them.
• Jacques Dutronc'southward "Admirer Cambrioleur", about such an individual - possibly even Arsene Lupin himself.

    Podcasts

• Pokemon: Adventures in the Millennium has Phantom Theif Roulette, a French-absolute (Kalosian?) thief who dresses in a card and roulette-style outfit who pops in every once in a while stealing things (fake artifacts, library books, subwoofers).

    Tabletop RPG

• Pathfinder has a rogue classic literally named phantom thief. Described in flavor text equally a career pick for aristocrats looking for excitement in their lives and breaking into the nearly secure places but for the thrill of it and often leaving a nice calling card behind rather than stealing annihilation, it removes the sneak attack, trap finding and trap sense class features to instead give massive bonuses to the utilize of skills, even more form skills and skill points to spend and more options for rogue talents, making the phantom thief classic the ultimate skill monkey and burglar.
• Shadowrun has a philosophy in campaign and grapheme design chosen "mirrorshades" that fits into this category. In a "mirrorshades" campaign the emphasis is on legwork, laying down preparations and heavy use of skill-based characters similar the decker and the mage'southward noncombat magic: The end outcome is turning a run across a puzzle scenario where not a single shot is fired and the victim of the run has little more than xxx minutes' downtime in their security cameras every bit a clue as to who stole their MacGuffin. Knowing whether your GM intends to run a "mirrorshades" campaign, its opposite, "pink mohawk", or something in-betwixt can ofttimes exist important to players.
• Gord the Rogue from Greyhawk, who steals for the challenge (and because he loves treasure).

    Video Games

• Phantom Thief Jade from 24-ji, Kimi no Heart wa Nusumareru ~Kaitou Jade~ is an enigmatic and charismatic admirer thief clad in a silk hat, and cloak, who has been plaguing the domicile belonging to the Chairman of Hakuou Academy for the last one-half a year, stealing only treasures containing his namesake.
• Ace Attorney:
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, Mask☆DeMasque (yes, complete with the star) is a Phantom Thief - and he's your client. Your high-strung, flighty customer. The same case gives u.s.a. his self-declared Ace Detective rival, Luke Atmey. DeMasque didn't commit the theft in question - that was Atmey, who was responsible for putting him up to most of his previous heists and was using this one as an alibi.
  • Ace Attorney Investigations:
    • The game has another in "The Great Yatagarasu", a sort of Intrepid Reporter version of the Vigilante Man. The Yatagarasu has two odd quirks compared to other phantom thieves. Commencement; the Yatagarasu doesn't steal much that's tangible. Rather, the thief makes off with evidence of dirty dealings and makes them public. Secondly, the Yatagarasu doesn't actually transport calling cards to the victim beforehand. Rather, the victim doesn't know that their info was even stolen, until it shows up on the news, having been delivered to the authorities alongside a calling card. Actually, there'south three of "him", all Cowboy Cops. One still is The Mole planted in the group to keep them away from a smuggling band. They are prosecutor Byrne Faraday, Detective Tyrell Badd, and attorney/mole Calisto Yew.
    • Related is Kay Faraday, who claims to exist the new Yatagarasu though she doesn't really e'er steal anything. Bonus points for managing the unlikely combination of Highly Visible Phantom Thief.
• Trilby epitomizes this trope in The Art of Theft. He continues to be i in the Chzo Mythos, though he presently finds his chosen vocation tin be stressful.
• Cookie Run has Roguefort Cookie, a jewel thief who tin disguise themself as other characters.
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has the Gray Fox, who people believe tin can slip through doors and become invisible. And no one knows who he is, considering he'due south wearing a cursed Daedric antiquity that strikes the wearer'due south name from history.
• Last Fantasy 7 Remake has the Guardian Affections of the Slums, stealing from the rich and giving it to the poor. Her identity is later revealed to be the old lady Mireille, who then convinces Cloud, Barret, and Tifa to steal from Don Corneo's secret stash in a sidequest and help out the people from Sector 7 whose houses and livelihood collapsed from the plate falling. Cloud then posits that they've too get phantom thieves later on the sidequest.
• The newly-introduced Trickster class in Fire Emblem Enkindling, a promotion of the standard Thief, is literally described as a glamorous phantom thief. Its members are capable of using healing staves too every bit swords.
• Granblue Fantasy has two flavors of phantom thieves in the form of Conversation Noir and Nightsmoke.
  • Chat Noir is the classic Gentleman Thief and Chief of Disguise who is famous for announcing his heists beforehand. His rival is Barawa who is treated like a Great Detective, despite existence actually a Dumb Muscle with a Hypercompetent Sidekick in the grade of Sarya. Chat Noir lives in his fame, so much that he will also try to assistance Barawa and the crew if a villain of the week is using his proper noun.
  • In contrast, Catherine, aka Nightsmoke, is a strictly professional person Classy Cat-Burglar who takes on requests of her clients. Her rival is Detective Rick, who also happens to be a regular in her daytime job as a café waitress. Catherine prefers anonymity and places value in completing her client's requests, just she also has her brand of justice, such as destroying her original target if information technology could be used as a weapon for evil.
• Skye from Harvest Moon DS Cute is widely known every bit "Phantom Skye". He doesn't seem to steal for any other reason other than for the fun of information technology (or, should you lot choose to woo him, to see with the player). Simply Skye steals considering he wants to make really skillful curry. The items he steals are ingredients and other people's curry dishes (to taste them).
• Anzu, the heroine of the Visual Novel Kaitou Apricot, becomes the titular thief at night. Her mission in the game is to steal someone's center.
• The protagonist of Kaitou Z ~Anata to Heart o Nusumimasu~ is an antique shop owner who moonlights equally a admirer thief and uses hypnotism to aid his thefts.
• In Let'south Kaitou! Nusumi Kei!? -Ano Ko no Heart no Nusumikata, Oshiemasu♪-, Tomoki seeks to go ane of these, and then he enrolls in the famous thief schoolhouse Kaitou Gakuen, and ends up in the same group every bit Ai, a descendent of Arsène Lupin.
• Phantom Thief Butterfly from LiEat. They even have "phantom thief" in their name.
• Risa Atago from Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken is a famous one in Kyoutou Hamlet, although she simply does information technology because it's fun.
• The Blackness Foxes of Love Letter from Thief X, who also serve as possible Love Interests for the protagonist.
• Dearest Nikki - Apparel Upwards Queen has Sapphires the Phantom Thief from the Pigeon Kingdom, whose outfit can be purchased with Association Coins. He is described as an "elegant and handsome" Sharp-Dressed Man who "is in fact, a thief!" The outfit comes complete with his Warning Letter Calling Card.
• MapleStory gets ane every bit a playable character, unsubtly named Phantom.
• Kasumi Goto of Mass Outcome 2.

  I'm the best thief in the galaxy. Not the most famous.

  • She would lampshade leaving notes and signs of her robberies past proverb her partner/lover Keiji got her out of the habit.
• Neeshka from Neverwinter Nights 2, although certainly interested in money, mostly sees burglary every bit a sort of competitive game, taking please in difficult heists.
• The Shy Bandit from Newspaper Mario: Color Splash styles himself as 1, though his getup is somewhat lacking.
• The protagonists of Persona 5, known as the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, are an interesting twist on this trope. Going by appearances, they seem to fit the classic Phantom Thief archetype; all members are either a Gentleman Thief or Swish True cat-Burglar, uses excessive amounts of stealth in their heists, and even send calling cards to their victim before offset their heists. To drive the point home, Joker's Persona is a version of the Arsène Lupin. What really differentiates them from standard Phantom Thieves is that they're less thieves and more than Internal Reformists; embarking on a Journey to the Center of the Listen and effectively triggering Heel–Face up Brainwashing by stealing the manifestations of evil people'south desires. In doing so, people normally untouchable by the constabulary are brought to justice, making them a mix between Internal Reformists and Cowboy Cops.
• Phantom Thief Silver True cat: Ginka, the heroine, is a member of a local SWAT team who moonlights as a phantom thief named the Silver True cat.
• The Mythical Pokémon Hoopa, introduced in Pokémon X and Y, is capable of using its portal rings to hide away the treasures information technology stole. Which apparently include unabridged islands and Legendary Pokémon''. Hoopa would besides classify equally an Impossible Thief.
• The sequel to Prinny: Can I Really Exist the Hero? focuses on a Phantom Thief, who serves as the primary antagonist. The Prinnies, using rare items, do manage to catch him, though he ends up getting away via airship. Turns out he's Lord Junkie, a demon noble who wants revenge on Etna.
• Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure gives us the aptly named Phantom R, a thief known for stealing priceless works of fine art... only to return them days later without a scratch. The Law always fail to take hold of him, even afterwards they spot him in the human activity. Then again...
• The Sly Cooper franchise is built on this trope, covering each and every indicate detailed above; even the Japanese name for the series is "Kaitou (Phantom/Wonder Thief) Sly Cooper".
• In the Thief series, Garrett is a archetype Phantom Thief and Anti-Hero, though he steals for his own proceeds likewise as for the thrill of it. The higher difficulty levels impose a lawmaking of honour (no killing humans; zombies and the similar are fair game). The Fandom takes it further nonetheless, with a common Cocky-Imposed Challenge being the Ghost run - a playthrough in which Garrett gets in, steals everything not nailed down, and gets out once more without anyone even suspecting he was ever there. To clarify, Ghosting means leaving no evidence anyone was at that place. No unlocked doors (lock them again), nobody looked round and asked "What's that noise?", no broken windows, no doused torches (in Thief ii, which this is very popular for, re-lighting torches is easy) and definitely nobody injured or killed. The just difference is all the boodle is gone.
• Tekken: Kuni II's a phantom thief who takes on various jobs from loftier-paying clients similar governments and large corporations to purloin important items for their benefit.
• Trails Series has Bleublanc, a baron from Erebonia and ane of Ouroboros' agents. He has appeared throughout the Liberl, Crossbell, and Erebonia arcs, testing the heroes by stealing priceless jewelry and giving it back once they've passed his test, and sometimes even helping them. His modus operandi includes stealing items that hasn't been appreciated every bit much by their owners.
• Wario: Master of Disguise features Wario becoming one of these using a magic wand he took from a real phantom thief. The game's original title, Kaitou Wario the Seven, is clearly meant to suggest both Lupin the 3rd and the Fiend of 20 Faces (since seven is actually how many costumes Wario has, besides the basic thief).

    Web Comics

• Geist from Heist!. He lives in a superhero universe and only his quondam clients even know he exists.
• The unknown rook (thief) in Snow By Night, who goes after objects having to do with hearts. Even the other rooks are baffled by this person. Turns out the thief is Snow By Night, a manitou with magic powers, which explains why she is so difficult to find.
• Phantom Thief Kiara of Aware (it's in her proper name).

    Spider web Original

• Cassidy Cain of Grandmaster of Theft is a phantom thief in her criminal alter ego.

    Western Blitheness

• Chameleon in Super Secret Secret Squirrel is this kind of thief, specializing in classic art. His preferred style is to enter a museum in the daytime and hide equally a graphic symbol in one of the paintings to scope the area out, then sneak out with the art at night when the guards aren't watching. He has a Weaksauce Weakness in abstruse art, every bit he has problems comprehending information technology and consequently has a hard time hiding within it.
• Villains of this type were a mutual one-off enemy on Fangface.
• An episode of Time Team features Harry Houdini as a thief who uses his talents as an illusionist to steal jewels. Ironically, he steals in order to fund his truthful passion of illusionary magic and has to exist told outright that people would pay him practiced money only to see his tricks.

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