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:

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

• 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.