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* ''Literature/TressOfTheEmeraldSea'': Tress collects cups from faraway places because they let her imagine life in other lands than her boring island home. Her interest wanes after she gets to sail the seas and see some of those places, but she keeps a few personally significant pieces.
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* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'': Downplayed; Tito, one of the members of the Jukebox Band, collects the nickels that are put into the jukebox. While collecting coins is fairly normal, collecting those coins specifically can be considered strange.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'':
** In "[[Recap/RugratsS6E24PlantingDilTheJokesOnYou Planting Dil]]", Grandpa Lou is revealed to collect rutabagas shaped like the heads of former U.S. Presidents.
** In "Chuckie Collects", Chas is revealed to collect inhalers.
** In "[[Recap/RugratsS6E24PlantingDilTheJokesOnYou Planting Dil]]", Grandpa Lou is revealed to collect rutabagas shaped like the heads of former U.S. Presidents.
** In "Chuckie Collects", Chas is revealed to collect inhalers.
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* One issue of ''ComicBook/AgentX'' features two rather strange people who collect famous people's ''underwear''.
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* ''ComicBook/AgentX'': One issue of ''ComicBook/AgentX'' features two rather strange people who collect famous people's ''underwear''.
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* ''ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics'' examples:
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* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Exploited in one of Creator/MattFraction's early issues. Tony Stark naturally knows several wealthy people who collect bits of Iron Man memorabilia, up to and including pieces of destroyed suits. When Tony discovers that someone has been buying up these pieces and using them to create one-shot disposable supervillains, he deliberately seeds the market with some choice bits -- all of which have been tagged with a special tracking virus so he can find the mystery buyer.
* The Elders of the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' are each defined by their obsession. Each one the LastOfTheirKind, they devoted their entire immortal life to something, the most famous example being the Collector, a minor Avengers villain who collected superheroes.
* The [[PlanetLooters alien Horde]] in ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri'' combine this with BattleTrophy. Horde leaders prominently wear souvenirs from hunts, ranging from bottle caps and trinkets to human bones and scalps.
* The titular character of ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' has a huge collection of treasures in his Skull Cave. It helps that he's a LegacyCharacter and that the Phantoms have BeenThereShapedHistory for centuries. His collection is divided in two: The Minor Treasure room with gold and jewels, and the Major Treasure room which includes invaluable, historical treasures like the snake that killed Cleopatra, Excalibur, the diamond cup of Alexander The Great, Shakespeare's original Hamlet script, and one of Alfred Nobel's first sticks of dynamite.
* The Elders of the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' are each defined by their obsession. Each one the LastOfTheirKind, they devoted their entire immortal life to something, the most famous example being the Collector, a minor Avengers villain who collected superheroes.
* The [[PlanetLooters alien Horde]] in ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri'' combine this with BattleTrophy. Horde leaders prominently wear souvenirs from hunts, ranging from bottle caps and trinkets to human bones and scalps.
* The titular character of ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' has a huge collection of treasures in his Skull Cave. It helps that he's a LegacyCharacter and that the Phantoms have BeenThereShapedHistory for centuries. His collection is divided in two: The Minor Treasure room with gold and jewels, and the Major Treasure room which includes invaluable, historical treasures like the snake that killed Cleopatra, Excalibur, the diamond cup of Alexander The Great, Shakespeare's original Hamlet script, and one of Alfred Nobel's first sticks of dynamite.
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* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Exploited in one of the early issues of Creator/MattFraction's early issues.''ComicBook/InvincibleIronMan2008''. Tony Stark naturally knows several wealthy people who collect bits of Iron Man memorabilia, up to and including pieces of destroyed suits. When Tony discovers that someone has been buying up these pieces and using them to create one-shot disposable supervillains, he deliberately seeds the market with some choice bits -- all of which have been tagged with a special tracking virus so he can find the mystery buyer.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': The Elders of the''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' Universe are each defined by their obsession. Each one the LastOfTheirKind, they devoted their entire immortal life to something, the most famous example being the Collector, a minor Avengers villain who collected superheroes.
* ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri'': The [[PlanetLooters alien Horde]]in ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri'' combine this with BattleTrophy. Horde leaders prominently wear souvenirs from hunts, ranging from bottle caps and trinkets to human bones and scalps.
* ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'': The titular character of''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' has a huge collection of treasures in his Skull Cave. It helps that he's a LegacyCharacter and that the Phantoms have BeenThereShapedHistory for centuries. His collection is divided in two: The Minor Treasure room with gold and jewels, and the Major Treasure room which includes invaluable, historical treasures like the snake that killed Cleopatra, Excalibur, the diamond cup of Alexander The Great, Shakespeare's original Hamlet script, and one of Alfred Nobel's first sticks of dynamite.
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* ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri'': The [[PlanetLooters alien Horde]]
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* Cain and Abel from ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' are brothers and collectors. Cain collects mysteries, and Abel collects secrets.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': Cain and Abel from ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' are brothers and collectors. Cain collects mysteries, and Abel collects secrets.
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* In the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' story ''[[Recap/TintinTheSecretOfTheUnicorn The Secret of the Unicorn]]'', the pickpocket who's been plaguing the city turns out to be an eccentric old [[StickyFingers kleptomaniac]] who keeps a collection of the wallets he's stolen, without bothering to empty the contents.
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* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' story ''[[Recap/TintinTheSecretOfTheUnicorn The Secret of the Unicorn]]'', the pickpocket who's been plaguing the city turns out to be an eccentric old [[StickyFingers kleptomaniac]] who keeps a collection of the wallets he's stolen, without bothering to empty the contents.
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** Brainiac collects ''cities'' which he miniaturizes.
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** Brainiac collects ''cities'' Brainiac's whole thing is that he wipes out planets, but preserves one city from each civilization that he destroys, which he miniaturizes.shrinks and keeps in glass containers. The most notable is Kandor, a Kryptonian city which Superman manages to recover but can't unshrink.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Ed collects sponges in his basement bathroom's wall. He is also weirdly secretive about it.
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See also TheCollector, driven by the need to collect ''someone'' in particular, or the LivingDollCollector, who transforms the living into a collection of custom toys.
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See also TheCollector, driven by the need to collect ''someone'' in particular, or the LivingDollCollector, who transforms the living into a collection of custom toys.toys, and NerdHoard, which is a collection of items from the GeekReferencePool.
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* Tooth Fairy from ''VideoGame/Reverse1999'', as her name suggests, collects teeth. This is partly a necessity as she needs to breed magical critters called tooth fairies as part of her magical medical practice, but she's also fond of collecting them for sentimental reasons, oftentimes for the memories associated with the specific events, such as the time that she [[spoiler:accidentally ran over a young boy and managed to save his life but knock his baby tooth out in the process, her unknowingly being part of a harmful drug trial, and punching out her former mentor Prof. Evan's incisor in a fit of rage.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Jefferson Twilight collects the fangs from the blaculas he hunts and makes them into a necklace.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': Jefferson Twilight collects the fangs from the blaculas he hunts and makes them into a necklace.
