In Popular Culture
Notable gentlemen thieves (and lady thieves) in popular culture include the following:
- Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar
- Thomas Crown from The Thomas Crown Affair
- John Robie in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief,
- E. W. Hornung's A. J. Raffles
- Carmen Sandiego (character)
- Edward Pierce from The Great Train Robbery
- Selina Kyle (Catwoman)
- Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin
- Arsène Lupin III, from Lupin III (by Monkey Punch).
- Kaito Kuroba the Phantom Thief Kid from Magic Kaito and later Detective Conan (by Gosho Aoyama)
- Meimi Haneoka, who transforms into Saint Tail, a thief with acrobatic and magician skills, from Saint Tail (by Megumi Tachikawa)
- Dark Mousy the angel-like thief from D.N.Angel (by Yukiru Sugisaki).
- David Goldman in An Education
All are superb at stealing while maintaining a sophisticated front and/or a thief's code of honor: Raffles steals mostly when he is especially in need of money; Lupin steals more from the rich who don't appreciate art or their treasures and redistributes it (not unlike a modern Robin Hood); Saint Tail steals back what was stolen or taken dishonestly, or rights the wrongs done to the innocent by implicating the real criminals.
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