Bank Robbery/Playing With
- Basic Trope: Someone steals money from the bank.
- Played Straight: Evil Elliott leads a bank heist.
- Exaggerated: It's such an elaborate heist, you'd think he was trying to infiltrate the Pentagon or something!
- Justified:
- The Five-Bad Band needs money, and see this as a quick and easy way to get it.
- They're doing something bad just For the Evulz.
- The bank in question has really poor security, and is ripe for the picking.
- Inverted:
- A bank teller steals money from Evil Elliott (either intentionally, or due to an error in bean-counting.)
- Evil Elliott deposits money in his bank account.
- Subverted:
- Evil Elliott doesn't steal money from the bank...
- Evil Elliott robs a sperm bank, blood bank, etc. instead of a normal bank.
- Evil Elliott gets a job as an accountant or bank teller (or sends one of his Mooks to do so.)
- Evil Elliott attempts a bank robbery, but is arrested before he can complete the bank heist.
- 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).
- 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: The Hero pulls Big Damn Heroes to end the stalemate.
- Parodied:
- 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?"
- Evil Elliott is proposing to Lilith Badgirl with a diamond ring he hid in one of the vaults.
- Evil Elliott is threatening...a piggy bank.
- The bank has a line with a special teller: "Robberies"
- Evil Elliott comes into the bank with his band of robbers, and meets Eric Evulz already robbing the bank. Hilarity Ensues as a battle begins over who gets to rob it.
- A bank has more robbers than legitimate customers, yet still has enough money to give them all somehow.
- Lampshaded:
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Evil Elliot:"This is a robbery!" |
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- Averted: Evil Elliott doesn't rob the bank
- Enforced:
- Invoked: The Five-Bad Band is getting low on funds.
- Defied: Evil Elliott believes that robbing banks is kid stuff, and chooses another way to make an ill-gotten fortune.
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Played For Laughs:
- The bank is actually broke; when the Five-Bad Band goes into the vault, they find cobwebs and an I.O.U. before complaining to the tellers outside.
- Bonus points if this is the result of another group of bad guys.
- Played For Drama: Almost always is.