History Main / CollectorOfTheStrange

* Just about everything from Warehouse13. See SecretGovernmentWarehouse and ArtifactCollectionAgency

See also TheCollector, who is a character driven by the need to collect something. A group of these might form an ArtifactCollectionAgency. For the super hero version, see SuperTrophySuperRack. A more mundane version would be the TrophyRoom. RoomFullOfCrazy is this taken to its logical conclusion. See also SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset and {{Secret Government Warehouse}}. A specific variant only wants things (and at times people) who are [[WhatMeasureIsANonUnique unique]] and [[LastOfHisKind one of a kind]].

A group of these might form an ArtifactCollectionAgency. For the super hero version, see SuperTrophySuperRack. A more mundane version would be the TrophyRoom. RoomFullOfCrazy is this taken to its logical conclusion. See also SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset and {{Secret Government Warehouse}}. A specific variant only wants things (and at times people) who are [[WhatMeasureIsANonUnique unique]] and [[LastOfHisKind one of a kind]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Don't worry, she pretends they're fake]]

* Owen, Danny [=DeVito=]'s AdultChild character in ''Throw Momma From The Train'', collects coins. Not rare, valuable or mint-condition coins, just coins. The coins are meaningful to him because he acquired them during times he spent with his father as a kid.

* Owen, Danny [=DeVito=]'s AduldChild character in ''Throw Momma From The Train'', collects coins. Not rare, valuable or mint-condition coins, just coins. The coins are meaningful to him because he acquired them during times he spent with his father as a kid.

* Grand Theft Auto IV Add-On The Ballad of Gay Tony has Yusuf Amir. The son of a rich arabian buisnessman says himself that he wants things that he couldn´t buy, so he pays you for illegaly getting him a chopper with miniguns and rockets (later he plated with gold), a subway car and a S.W.A.T. Tank. He never uses anything for himself, he is lucky enough for having the stuff.

* Marisa Kirisame, of ''{{Touhou}}'' fame, has a reputation for stealing and acquiring random objects, many of which are magical in nature. [[TrashOfTheTitans She can't be bothered to sort or identify them.]] In [[AllThereInTheManual one of the supplemental manga]], Rinnosuke once found a ''legendary artifact'' in a pile of junk.
** Earlier, in the PC-98 games, Kotohime was fond of collecting "things no one else finds interesting". [[CloudCuckooLander She also thinks she's a police officer.]]

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* Anju of ''{{Karin}}'' collects [[CreepyDoll Creepy Dolls]], one of which houses a serial killer.

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* British cartoonist/musician Gerard Hoffnung in a radio interview: "I like to collect various types of sauerkraut". Interviewer: "And what do you do with them?" Hoffnung: "That shouldn't be any concern of yours".

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* Mayor Jeff from ''PBAndJOtter'' collects toilet seat covers. A little too enthusiastically for comfort.
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* Subverted in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', where the collection of skulls and/or heads, especially human ones, is commonplace and seldom looked at strangely among the Imperium of Man, Orks, Dark Eldar, and forces of Chaos. A chaos god collect blood and skulls, which form a ''lake'' and a ''mountain'', respectively.

A group of these might form an ArtifactCollectionAgency. For the super hero version, see SuperTrophySuperRack. A more mundane version would be the TrophyRoom. See also SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset and {{Secret Government Warehouse}}. A specific variant only wants things (and at times people) who are [[WhatMeasureIsANonUnique unique]] and [[LastOfHisKind one of a kind]].

However, there are those people who, because of their unique occupation or lifestyle, collect items that are too dangerous, rare or gross for the average human being would even ''want'' to own. For those people who gather anything of the bizarre and strange, this trope page is for you.

However, there are those people who because of their unique occupation or lifestyle who collect items that are too dangerous, rare or gross for the average human being would even ''want'' to own. For those people who gather anything of the bizarre and strange, this trope page is for you.

* In ''{{MS Paint Adventures}}: Homestuck'', all the kids' parental figures collect weird things: Dad collects harlequin paintings and figurines, Mom fancies wizards, and Bro fills the house with uncanny amounts of puppets. Grandpa Harley takes the cake though, collecting trophy heads, armored knights, mummies, globes and his Beauties, which are framed photos of women who specifically have to have been hung for at least twenty years in store windows of beauty salons. (The photos, not the actual women.)