Pick-Pocketing Mastery

Pick-Pocketing Mastery
Haley Starshine (The Order of the Stick) showing off her skills.
Power/Ability to:	Be a master of pick-pocketing.

"This fell out of her pocket when I accidentally bumped into her. Took me four goes."

― The Doctor Doctor Who, The Beast Below

The ability to be a master of pickpocketing, either innately or through training. Sub-power of Enhanced Thievery and Thief.

Also Called

• Enhanced Pick-Pocketing/Pocket-Picking
• Hyper Pick-Pocketing
• Pocket-Picking
• Pick-Pocketing Intuition
• Stealthy Kleptomania/Pick-Pocketing/Pocket-Picking

Capabilities

User, either innately or through training, is a master of pickpocketing, able to pick the pockets and steal from anyone without them noticing.

Associations

• Access and Occlusion
• Thief
• Enhanced Thievery/Peak Human Thievery/Supernatural

Limitations

• May require tools to achieve.
• Victims may still notice afterward.
• May require a degree of training or exposure.
• May take time to achieve mastery.
• Uses of Hyper Awareness may be aware of the user before they get pick pocketed.

Known Users

See also: Affectionate Pickpocket and Percussive Pickpocket.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)
• Gintoki Sakata (Gintama)
• Seita (Gintama)
• Silvers Rayleigh (One Piece)
• Nami (One Piece)
• Giorno Giovanna (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
• Cid Kagenou ("The Eminence In Shadow)

Comics

• Clutch the Opossum (IDW's Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Kitsune (Usagi Yojimbo)
• Black Cat (Marvel Comics)
• Selina Kyle/Catwoman (DC Comics)
• Bruce Wayne/Batman (DC Comics)
• Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (DC Comics)
• Aristides Silk (The Adventures of Tin Tin)

Cartoons

• Kevin Levin (Ben 10)
• Jake the Dog (Adventure Time)
• Dragons (American Dragon: Jake Long)
  • Jake Long
• Bender Bending Rodríguez (Futurama)
• Kai (Avatar: The Legend of Korra)
• Ruffnut Thorsten (How To Train Your Dragon)
• Thief (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)
• Quick-Pick (Thundercats 1985)
• Manic (Sonic Underground)

Live Television

• Sheridan (Babylon 5)
• Grey Cole (Kickin' It)
• Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
• Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
• Kang Sae-byeok (Squid Game)
• Parker (Leverage)

Video Games

• Members of the Cooper Clan (Sly series)
• Bentley (Sly series)
• Murray (Sly series)
• Assassins (Assassin's Creed)
• Vaan (Final Fantasy XII)
• The Player (Elder Scrolls Series)
• Prisoners (ROBLOX Jailbreak)
• Pokémon with the ability Pickpocket (Pokémon)
  • Sneasel/Weavile
  • Seedot/Nuzleaf/Shiftry
  • Binacle/Barbaracle
  • Impidimp/Morgrem/Grimmsnarl
  • Shroodle
  • Tinkatink/Tinkatuff/Tinkaton

Web Animation/Comics/Series/Original

• Haley Starshine (The Order of the Stick)
• Roman Torchwick (RWBY )

Gallery

Cartoons

Trained by thieves, Manic (Sonic Underground) is able to pick-pocket others expertly.

Having spent time on the streets, Kai (Avatar: The Legend of Korra) is an impressive thief and pickpocket, having even used his ability to airbend for this very task.

Ruffnut Thorsten (How to Train Your Dragon) was able to swipe the keys to her cell from the guard with no one noticing.

Comics

Selina Kyle/Catwoman (DC Comics)

Felicia Hardy/Black Cat (Marvel Comics)

Clutch The Oppossum (IDW'S Sonic The Hedgehog)

Kitsune (Usagi Yojimbo)

Live Television/Movies

Dean Winchester (Supernatural)...

...is a skilled pick pocket.

Assane Diop (Lupin)

Video Games

As a master thief, Sly Cooper (Sly series) is able to use his cane to reach into the pockets of others and steal whatever they have on them without being noticed.

Bentley (Sly series) outfitted his wheelchair with magnets and robotic arms specifically for the purpose of pickpocketing.

Among many other thief-based skills, Assassins (Assassins Creed) are trained in the art of pickpocketing.

Video

When you max out stealth in RPG's - Sneak