History Main / EvilDebtCollector

* Turned UpToEleven in ''[[{{Ptitleswfyluia}} Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors]]''. WordOfGod reveals that it was [[spoiler: [[CompleteMonster Lord Gordain]] who created the original Nonary Game as away of both getting rid of his debtors in a ridiculously brutal manner and to provide entertainment to other billionares.]]

* In ''DoctorWho'': "The Sunmakers", far-future Pluto is governed by a monstrous tax collector (literally: [[spoiler: he turns into some kind of fungus at the end]]) and his greedy lackies, who subjugate the human colonists through providing them with access to an artificial sun -- for which they are taxed into poverty and starvation.

* In TheBible, Jesus redeems a tax collector named Matthew (or Levi, depending on which of the four New Testament gospels you're reading) who up to that point is portrayed as a very sinful and evil man. He even makes him one of His Apostles.

---> "And then, two men came to the farm. They were men from a place that felt no love or compassion for anyone, the bank."

* A professional wrestling example of an evil tax collector was Irwin R. Schyster (IRS) from the WWE (early-mid 1990s). Of course he was a heel. Part of the famous tag team Money Incorporated with Ted [=DiBiase=]. This team was known for its prowess as technical wrestlers.
* Abut the same time, in WWE (then still under the moniker WWF) there also was the ''Repo Man'' (Barry Darsow) who was the embodiment of this trope.

-->-- '''Typical call from a [[strike:typical]] nice debt collector'''

* Abut the same time, in WWE (then still under the monicker WWF) there also was the ''Repo Man'' (Barry Darsow) who was the embodiment of this trope.
* Inverted in 1990, when the ''Big Boss Man'' (Ray Traylor) refused to reposess Te [=DiBiase=]s Million Dollar Belt, because he wouldn't take a pay-off.

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A trope about that [[{{Sarcasm Mode}} most revered and respected of all professions, the debt collector.]] They have a proud reputation for being nasty, lazy thugs who think the law is a suggestion and will stoop to no low in order to shake some money out of their "customers". Their stereotypical nature is often the butt of many jokes. Note that for the sake of examples, tax collectors are also included. The most common alignment for this trope is NeutralEvil.

* The villain in ''ConfessionsOfAShopoholic'' is a debt collector who goes as far as to humiliate the hero on national television in order to collect.

* Inverted in 1990, when the ''Big Boss Man'' (Ray Traylor) refused to reposess Te [=DiBiase=]s Million Dollar Belt, beause he wouldn't take a pay-off.

* Played for laughs in the ''RockosModernLife'' cartoon Who Gives A Buck. after Rocko gets a credit card. He picks up the phone and receives the standard collection call.
* ''CowAndChicken'' uses a similar joke with the red guy as the debt collector.

* In Mexico with the latest crisis not getting any better, there have been a series of scandals, as many bank debt collectors have started using more abusive practices to make people pay, a huge number even illegal. They aren't authorized to call you too, early in the morning or too late at night, it's forbidfen for the caller to use disrespectful, rude or abusive language. They cannot show up at your house and scream at you through the window to pay, and so on. People are getting these calls even if they just forgot to pay on time over the month, no matter if they have actually paid on time until then. And sometimes they harass people who owe nothing but got the bad luck of having their number given by another person. http://www.zocalo.com.mx/seccion/articulo/cobradores-acoso-ilegal (it's on spanish though).

* The thuggish debt collector in ''HadashiDeBaraWoFume'' is a prime example. In his attempt to collect a debt incurred by her older brother from protagonist Sumi, he initially offers to let her [[WorkOffTheDebt work off the debt]] by paying with her body. When she refuses, he later returns and kidnaps Sumi's younger siblings, threatening to ''sell them off to a foreign country'' if he didn't have his money by the following day.

Related to AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks. OlderThanFeudalism. A form of AcceptableProfessionalTargets.

* In ''SuicideKings'', it is eventually revealed that the two kidnappers are debt collectors for an [[AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks All Devouring Black Hole Loan Shark]], and that the kidnapping is simply a means to allow the debtor to get the money from their family. Who that debtor is becomes the film's central mystery.

--->-- '''Typical call from a [[strike:typical]] nice debt collector'''

A trope about that [[{{SarcasmMode}} most revered and respected of all professions, the debt collector.]] They have a proud reputation for being nasty, lazy thugs who think the law is a suggestion and will stoop to no low in order to shake some money out of their "customers". Their sterotypical nature is often the butt of many jokes. Note that for the sake of examples, tax collectors are also included. The most common alignment for this trope is NeutralEvil.

* What happens when evil debt collectors face off against evil payment avoiders? Not everyone that doesnt pay his debt is a nice old lady. Some people practically make a living of it.

* Played for laughs in ''RockosModernLife'' after Rocko gets a credit card. He picks up the phone and receives the standard collection call.

--->-- '''Typical call from a typical debt collector'''

*** Especially since Jesus frequently mentions debt collectors and prostitutes in the same sentence in his parables.

** Jesus frequently mentions debt collectors and prostitutes in the same sentence in his parables.

** Adding in for the Bible entry, it would seem that being a Debt Collector is the AlwaysChaoticEvil and DesignatedVillain version of jobs, as Jesus often uses them as the bad guys in the metaphors (and then subverts that these bad guys still pale in the faces of the haughty).

*** Not to mention in those days, it wasn't uncommon for them to demand more than was really owed, and skim off the top.

** From the same [[TheVerse Verse]], the usually nameless thugs after Donald. Barks apparently based his portrayal of these on his own experience with debt collectors as a struggling young artist...