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* In the first ''[[Literature/AcornaSeries Acorna]]'' book, Hafiz Harakamian sought to add Acorna to his collection of rarities as the crown jewel. A desire with quickly disappeared once he learned she wasn't some sort of mutant, but a lost member of an space-faring race.
* Creator/SimonRGreen's ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' books feature the [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Collector]], who is reclusive, petulant and somewhat childish in his single-minded devotion to things that - in his opinion - only he can truly appreciate.

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* There's also a MarvelComics character named The Collector, who collected unique specimens from across the universe.

* Oliver, the Duke of Tanas from ''FireEmblem'' 9 and 10, toward the royal heron laguz.

* [[GreenLantern Larfleeze]] wants ''everything'', but especially rare things, like Lantern rings he's never seen before.

* Kamen Rider Diend of ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' has a 'treasure' in each episode that he is seeking. He alone knows what makes something a 'treasure,' and he only wants it because it is one, and rarely for what it actually does (some of 'em are important to the plot.)
** Invoked in the [[Series/KamenRiderKabuto World of Kabuto]] arc, where Decade claims to have a bottle of legendary spice discovered by Vasco de Gama, which of course Diend wants. In reality it's nothing but ordinary pepper, and Decade is {{Troll}}ing Diend as payback for all the trolling he usually does.

** In ''The Seeds of Doom'', two alien pods are found in the Antarctic permafrost. The psychotic millionaire Harrison Chase sends a team of thugs to get them, because they're unique. The pods cause vegetation to kill animal life, endangering the world.
** In ''City of Death'', a key plot-point involves the theft of the Mona Lisa to be sold (along with six identical paintings) to finance Count Scarlioni's temporal experiments. Inspector Duggan observed to the Doctor at one point, "There are at least seven people in my address book who'd pay millions for that picture, for their own private collections. It would be an expensive gloat, but they'd do it."

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* In a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Treehouse of Horror]]'' episode, Comic Book Guy is the supervillain "The Collector" who collects Lucy Lawless, the [[Series/DoctorWho Fourth Doctor]], Matt Groening, etc. He also owns the only working phaser ever made (only fired once, to keep William Shatner from making another album) and a ''[[Film/ThePhantomMenace double-lightsaber]]''.

* In the first ''[[AnneMcCaffrey Acorna]]'' book, Hafiz Harakamian sought to add Acorna to his collection of rarities as the crown jewel. A desire with quickly disappeared once he learned she wasn't some sort of mutant, but a lost member of an space-faring race.

* Mr. Krabs had just sold a cap to ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' when another person showed up saying it was a rare cap and offering way more than what Spongebob paid. Krabs spent most of the episode trying to recover it and, [[spoiler:by the time he did get it back, several others appeared, making it not so valuable anymore]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', episode "The Main Man": An alien called the Preserver has a private zoo in which every creature is the [[LastOfHisKind last of its kind]]; in the episode, it attempts to add Superman, the last Kryptonian, to its collection by hiring {{Lobo}} to capture him.

* In Robert Asprin's fantasy novel ''[[MythAdventures Myth Directions]]'', Tanda the Trollop assassin ropes protagonist Skeeve into her attempt to find a truly one-of-a-kind item to give to Aahz (a scaly green Pervect) as a birthday present. She ultimately settles on a ghastly frog-scuplture trophy that has no value except as the prize for a heated sports competition between rival cities. Their [[ASimplePlan robbery attempt]] goes horribly wrong, and things only spiral further out of control from there.

* ''Series/TheAvengers'' episode "[[TheManFromUNCLE The Man from Auntie]]" features a villainous firm which collects items like this for... collectors. The "item" they've currently stolen and plan to [[AuctionOfEvil auction off]] is Emma Peel.

* In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', a baddie captures Superman, and uses LoisLane as hostage to make sure he doesn't escape. Which he does, via NewPowersAsThePlotDemands.

* In ''LoisAndClark'', a baddie captures Superman, and uses LoisLane as hostage to make sure he doesn't escape. Which he does, via NewPowersAsThePlotDemands.

* Professir Machinegal in ''{{Moldiver}}'' has this as his main motivation for being a supervillain. He already is wealthy, respected and famous, but there are technological artifacts he can only get by stealing, and he doesn't think anyone but him are worthy of them anyway.

* ''DorkTower'': This is actually Igor's CatchPhrase, though it seems like it doesn't so much have to be a unique thing as just press his nerd buttons.

* Chandra in ''EternalDarkness'' says this about one of the [[SealedEvilInACan artifacts of the Ancients]], before she knew what exactly it was.

* [[SimonRGreen Simon R Green]]'s ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' books feature the [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Collector]], who is reclusive, petulant and somewhat childish in his singleminded devotion to things that - in his opinion - only he can truly appreciate.

* Kamen Rider Diend of ''KamenRiderDecade'' has a 'treasure' in each episode that he is seeking. He alone knows what makes something a 'treasure,' and he only wants it because it is one, and rarely for what it actually does (some of 'em are important to the plot.)

* Professir Machinegal in {{Moldiver}} has this as his main motivation for being a supervillain. He already is wealthy, respected and famous, but there are technological artifacts he can only get by stealing, and he doesn't think anyone but him are worthy of them anyway.

* In the first [[AnneMcCaffrey Acorna]] book, Hafiz Harakamian sought to add Acorna to his collection of rarities as the crown jewel. A desire with quickly disappeared once he learned she wasn't some sort of mutant, but a lost member of an space-faring race.
* [[SimonRGreen Simon R Green]]'s ''Nightside'' books feature the [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Collector]], who is reclusive, petulant and somewhat childish in his singleminded devotion to things that - in his opinion - only he can truly appreciate.

* ''LupinIII'' and his posse want a lot of the valuable things they steal.

* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', the villain Sorath was obsessed with obtaining Shana's FlamingSword Nietono no Shana. When he manages to steal it, he throws away his own CoolSword Blutsauger.

* The original motivation of the ComicBook/{{Batman}} villain the Cavalier was to obtain unique pieces that he was unable to purchase for his collection.

Note it's not the artifact [[ArtifactOfAttraction hypnotically seducing the person into wanting it]]. The person is just that selfish or greedy. Nor is it something earned; tt's outright taken. It also doesn't count if someone steals it for the thrill of the theft, or to just show how good a thief he/she is. Either the thief has to want it, or he/she is stealing it for someone who does.