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6	[[quoteright:200:[[Webcomic/{{Drowtales}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/KharlaAndHerElfDoll2.jpeg]]]]
7	[[caption-width-right:200:Life-size doll. Bigger than life-size pain.]]
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9	->''"Oh! What should I do with Blade?\
10	Perhaps I'll lobotomize you and keep you as pet!\
11	That would be amusing!\
12	Don't you think?"''
13	-->-- '''[[TheBaroness Elexis Sinclair]]''', ''VideoGame/SiN1998''
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15	At some point in life, everyone has had a doll -- pardon, "action figure" -- collection in their possession that they admired and played with, creating fanciful stories and battles, pretending to be someone else. A mother, a father, a doctor, a general... God.
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17	Even after [[GrowingUpSucks growing up takes that delight away]], many adults still enjoy keeping or adding to such a collection as a [[KitschCollection kitschy hobby]]. However, there are some adults who had a less than ideal childhood, breaking their minds to such an extent that only a fantasy where they have complete control can make sense. And dolls? They just don't cut it anymore.
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19	Enter the Living Doll Collector. They will collect people, dead or alive, as if they were dolls and use them in macabre mimicry of their maddened imagination. There are a lot of variations here; the people may be kidnapped strangers, [[StalkerWithACrush crushes]], or family, and are dressed up and forced to act out roles in an [[ClosedCircle inescapable]] [[GildedCage "Dream House"]]. If they resist or the collector doesn't have the means to control or imprison them, well, corpses complain a lot less. [[{{Squick}} Embalming optional]].
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21	If the collector has actual supernatural powers, this gets a ''lot'' creepier.
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23	If they can make PeoplePuppets, then the [[AndIMustScream still conscious]] puppets will be forced to do things against their will. Someone with powerful enough HypnoticEyes or MindControl techniques can eventually program people to be anything from [[EmptyShell empty automatons]] to actually believing they're the collector's [[ReplacementGoldfish long lost dead little sister]]. A {{Necromancer}} might dress up their zombies as maids and butlers, and even lovingly comb their (remaining) hair, preferring their company to that of the living. The HiveQueen [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen may do this to her drones]].
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25	It's also possible the collector was a completely normal person once upon a time, and has simply fallen to the PowerPerversionPotential of their abilities by treating people less like people and more like, well, ''dolls.'' For a deranged enough collector, InterrogationByVandalism usually works when applied to the dolls, though it may backfire if said dolls are capable of self defense. They may be trying to enforce some kind of inner illusion or fantasy, in which case pointing it out to be fake (and dispelling the control over the dolls) can break them out of it and either make them see reason, possibly even releasing the dolls... or get ''[[BerserkButton really]]'' [[VillainousBreakdown angry]].
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27	It's worth mentioning that sometimes the living doll turns out to not be quite so under their control after all and is basically playing along, maybe [[HappinessInSlavery because they like the game]], or [[PretendToBeBrainwashed in order to stage an escape]].
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29	A creepier form of the MarionetteMaster. See also MarionetteMotion. May overlap with ToyTransmutation.
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31	See also ShowingOffTheNewBody and {{Necromantic}}. Contrast PuppeteerParasite, who are parasites that possess people. See also DemonicPossession, WaxMuseumMorgue. Expect to see this often in the PsychopathicManchild.
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33	See also TheCollector, LivingMuseumExhibit and SociallyUnacceptableCollection. Nothing to do with [[AnimateInanimateObject actual dolls that come to life]] and the people that collect them.
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35	!!Examples:
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39	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
40	* ''Manga/BlackButler'':
41	** Drocell from the anime version is one. He turns human girls into dolls, killing them in the process, and then controls their actions as metal dolls through music. [[spoiler:Ash/Angela possibly qualifies as well, since Drocell was a living doll himself that s/he created, and he only acted on his/her orders.]]
42	** Also, in the manga, [[spoiler:Undertaker]] who creates the [[spoiler:Bizarre Dolls]] with human corpses.
43	* [[MonsterClown Piedmon]] does a variation in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' by turning people into keychains...but using them like puppets anyway. Sora put it best: "What kind of sicko turns people into keychains?"
44	* ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'':
45	** Episode 30: Kayono, a young girl who was manipulated by her Digimon "partners" [=WaruMonzaemon=] and [=ExTyrannomon=] into allowing [=ExTyrannomon=] to turn everyone they came across into dolls with his Black Matter attack, [[AbusiveOffspring including Kayono's parents]]. The three rampage across Tokyo, inflicting this on dozens of people before [=WaruMonzaemon=]'s GoodCounterpart Monzaemon [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks them down]].
46	** Episode 41: Piedmon does another variation, this time turning people into playing cards instead of keychains. He mainly targets human children for this, but according to his underlings he did similar things even back in the Digital World. Uniquely and surprisingly, Hiro and Ruli can defuse this non-violently by beating him in a game of trump (and they ''have to'', since he appears around the same time that most hostile Digimon are Perfects at most), and he gladly turns all his victims back and ceases his actions per his bargain with Ruli.
47	* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' has a character who kidnaps young women and attaches their souls to dolls he made to look like his disappeared girlfriend. Made all the creepier when [[spoiler:the girlfriend returns years later and he rejects her for the lifeless doll]].
48	* ''[[Manga/CountCain Godchild]]'' has Rebecca, a [[EvilCripple crippled girl]] who's been turning people she "[[LoveMakesYouEvil loves]]" into dolls. She has two methods: place a victim's hair, teeth, and bones into a doll that looks just like them so their soul gets trapped inside their "[[SoulJar human-shaped coffin]]," or drug her victim into a vegetative state so they'll become a "living doll" that she can dress up however she pleases while her equally-insane housekeeper takes care of their physical needs.
49	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
50	** Telence T. D'Arby from ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' [[http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4122/darbydollsbigger.png has this hobby.]] His [[FightingSpirit Stand]] power allows him to [[SoulJar capture the souls of his opponents]] by defeating them in a video game match -- and unlike [[TheGambler his brother Daniel]], who keeps the souls in a dormant state as poker chips, Telence's dolls are aware of everything going on, [[AndIMustScream but unable to do anything]].
51	** [[StarterVillain Gwess]] in ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'' has the ability to [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrink people]] with her Stand Music/GooGooDolls and dresses them up in dead animal skins to keep as pets, treating her victims like a girl playing with stuffed animals and having them do cutesy animal sounds.
52	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
53	** [[MadArtist Sasori of the Red Sand]] turns humans [[spoiler:including himself]] into his ninja puppets, which have the same abilities they had in life. He can use up to 100 at a time; he has ''more''.
54	** And then we have Kankuro, whose ninja puppets were also made by Sasori years ago. [[spoiler:And he ends up collecting ''Sasori'' himself later.]]
55	** Though to be fair to Chiyo and Kankuro, they only use people-puppets when they were created by Sasori, rather than collecting them themselves. And Chiyo went out of her way to create a technique to bring people back to life to fix her family if she could get Sasori back from playing omnicidal maniac. Both of them seem disgusted at the idea of actually killing people specifically to make puppets themselves.
56	* [[LonelyDollGirl Sabrina]] in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' literally does this to other people, [[ToyTransmutation turning them into small dolls]] with her own PsychicPowers.
57	* Kirakishou from ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' is a strange case... [[RussianReversal a living doll who collects humans like they were dolls]].
58	* In ''Literature/{{Slayers}} Next'', this happens in the legendary haunted tower. [[spoiler:The culprit ''almost'' collects Lina and her group, as whoever loses their challenges is transformed into a doll.]]
59	* More than one Shinma from ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'' is like this.
60	* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Ryou Bakura is an unwilling one of these, as his SuperPoweredEvilSide has a nasty habit of trapping his friend's souls in cute little figurines.
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64	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
65	** The Mad Hatter sometimes kidnaps blonde girls and uses his mind control technology to force them to play at being Alice.
66	** Lazlo Valentin, better known as Professor Pyg, turns people into androgynous, masked, puppet-like servants named Dollotrons. The process of creating Dollotrons is implied to involve brain surgery, genital mutilation, and mind-altering drugs.
67	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
68	** ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': The Purple Man uses {{pheromones}} to make other people do his every bidding.
69	** ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': The Puppet Master uses radioactive (later revealed to be magical) clay to control people like puppets through their likeness.
70	** ''ComicBook/IronMan'': The Controller does this with cybernetics. The more people he controls, the more powerful he becomes.
71	* "Misty" by James [=McQuade=] (somewhat NSFW). The guy there collects superheroines (''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' is most easily spotted).
72	* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': The seventh and final Evil Ex, [[spoiler:Gideon Gordon Graves]], is revealed to have put [[spoiler:his six ex-girlfriends]] into suspended animation. [[spoiler:He plans to do the very same thing to Ramona.]]
73	* One Cobweb story in an issue of ''ComicBook/TomorrowStories'' features a MadScientist who uses a ShrinkRay to turn women into literal 'living dolls'.
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76	[[folder:Fan Works]]
77	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12274050/2/Above-Rubies Above Rubies]]'' a dark wizard gives love potion to people, kidnaps the resulting "couples" and arranges them in various poses, then casts a stasis charm on them.
78	* In ''Fanfic/HiccupTheUseless'', the reason why Stoick tried to paint Snotlout as the Hero of Berk instead of Hiccup was because Mogadon has a reputation for "collecting" things of his interest and he was worried that he would try to capture and enslave Hiccup, setting up Snotlout as a decoy.
79	* The Hellion of ''Fanfic/TheLandOfWhatMightHaveBeen'' spends her days kidnapping people from across the world and dragging her back to her lair, where they are magically remade into dolls -- [[MindRape completely destroying their personalities]] in the process. Almost as childlike as [[PsychopathicManchild the Hellion herself]], the dolls are slavishly devoted to their "mother" and obey her without question -- serving as both her playthings and her army. And now the Hellion wants Dorothy Gale as her newest doll...
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82	[[folder:Film]]
83	* In ''Film/AmericanGothic1988'', what the daughter of a family calls her "big dollies" are actually the corpses of people her parents have murdered.
84	* In ''Film/AttackOfThePuppetPeople'', a MadScientist turns people [[IncredibleShrinkingMan action-figure-sized]] and stores them, taking them out once in a while in order to make them "play" for his amusement.
85	* In ''Film/TheCell'', a SerialKiller abducts women, drowns them, bleaches their corpses and then masturbates whilst hanging himself above them by chains attached to rings in his back before dumping them out by the highway.
86	* ''Film/DeadSilence'' features a lot of {{Creepy Doll}}s, but [[spoiler:the main antagonist's goal is to create a collection of life-like dolls made from people. One of the main characters in the film [[DeadAllAlong turns out to have been a doll all along]]. It's also implied that the souls of the victims become trapped in their doll-modified bodies]].
87	* The villain of ''Film/TheDevilDoll'' abducts people and [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrinks them down]] into ''literal'' living dolls: [[PerversePuppet action-figure-sized mini-assassins]] propelled by the force of his own will. Not nearly as {{squick}}y as most examples, although he does sometimes treat the "dolls" with the affection due an obedient pet.
88	* The Fat Man's modus operandi in ''Film/{{Ghostland}}'' is to 'play' with his victims, who are dressed up as dolls.
89	* In the 1971 movie ''Film/{{Hoffmann}}'', Creator/PeterSellers plays a rather more subtle and psychologically creepy version of the Creator/TerenceStamp character in ''The Collector''. Sellers' character uses mind-games and psychological control to bend younger women to his will, forcing a young Sinead Cusack to strip for him and go to bed with him.
90	* Kenneth from ''Film/LoveObject'' abducts a woman and tries to "transform" her (via a makeover and an attempted infusion of embalming fluid) into a replicate of the sex doll he ordered and grew obsessed with. [[spoiler:The woman escapes before he can complete the process and knocks Kenneth unconscious, but she's gunned down by the police (who believe that she's murdered him) and [[KarmaHoudini he gets off scot-free]]. Worse, the ending implies that he will try to do this to another woman.]]
91	* In ''Theatre/TheMiracleWorker'', Anne Sullivan describes her own time in the orphan asylum/poor house growing up as a child. She and her brother lived in the room where the babies of prostitutes were kept until they died (of the [=STDs=] which they contracted from their mothers) and were kept there until burial. She and her brother would play with them. It's unclear from the script if they stopped playing with them after they were dead. The real UsefulNotes/AnneSullivan owned several beautiful dolls and continued to dress and play with them long after she began working with UsefulNotes/HelenKeller. Some biographers think that she saw Helen as a sort of living doll, since she could communicate with her and guide and direct her character.
92	* Shrike from ''Film/MortalEngines'' is a [[TorturedMonster more sympathetic version]], an undead SuperSoldier who collects dolls because he still has vague memories of having had a child once. For this reason, he acts as a ParentalSubstitute for an eight-year-old Hester after her mother is murdered. Because Hester is a BrokenBird, he offers to heal her pain by killing her and resurrecting her as a cyborg like himself. Hester actually agrees, but when an opportunity for revenge on the man who killed her mother arises, she flees instead. Shrike does not take this well and pursues her, determined to make her stick to their agreement.
93	* ''Film/RogueOne'' and ''Film/{{Solo}}'' have Dryden Vos, TheDragon to Darth Maul in his NebulousEvilOrganisation. He hired a MadScientist to make him {{Cyborg}} slaves with their brains (and [[BodyHorror the entire upper halves of their heads]]) removed called the Decraniated, reducing them from humans to OrganicTechnology. It's described as [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil worse than slavery]], as slaves can at least be freed, but the Decraniation process is irreversible.
94	* ''Film/TouristTrap'' features a [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]] killer who transforms his victims into [[MurderousMannequin mannequins]] which he can control with his powers.
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97	[[folder:Literature]]
98	* Madame Mandilip from ''Burn Witch Burn'' by Abraham Merritt is an evil witch that turns people into dolls who then uses them as animated assassins.
99	* ''Literature/TheCollectorJohnFowles'' is about an unsocialised loner nerd who wins the big one on the football pools. He promptly quits his job, buys a house and kits out a dungeon. Then he goes after the beautiful woman he has been stalking, who didn't even know him, drugs her, takes her home, and makes her his "guest". Knowing that she is a prisoner for life, she withers and dies. He disposes of her body, and the book ends on our "hero" stalking the next potential occupant of the dungeon... See ''Film'' above for the movie of the book.
100	* ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'': The Other Mother, aka Beldam, is revealed to keep children she's lured into her Otherworld as living dolls, sewing buttons onto their eyes and eating them up inside, leaving them as nothing but ghosts. ''Creepy.'' Every creature in the Other world could count as this, as they were all created and commanded by the Other Mother.
101	* ''Literature/TheEnemy'': The third book in the series features a sicko known as the Collector who, in addition to compulsively filling his house with junk, abducts children and "plays" with them until he kills them, at which point he goes out to find more. It takes the combined effort of [=DogNut's=] group (who have just lost [[TagalongKid Olivia]] to the Collector) and the kids from the Natural History Museum to bring him down.
102	* The ship (and its resident AI) ''Sleeper Service'' in ''Literature/{{Excession}}'' contains huge recreations of battle scenes, with every soldier represented by a living being held in some sort of stasis field. In a subversion, they are all volunteers happy to be part of such a work of art.
103	* ''Literature/MercyThompson'' features the doll collector who appears in the novel ''Dead Heat''. Doll Collector is an ancient fae which preys on children. Her MO is to kidnap them and dress them up as dolls, keeping them alive but in magically induced stasis as a living collection as she deems fit. She than feeds of their life energy which eventually kills them after a year and a day and then than adds them to a growing collection of rotting corpses.
104	* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', this is Graendal's hobby. She finds noble and/or handsome persons, enslave them using an extremely powerful mind control magic, and make them serve her, often in a humiliating and depraved way.
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107	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
108	* In ''Series/BJAndTheBear'', one of the lady truckers winds up in the dollhouse of a rock star (Paul Williams) who collects beautiful blondes in a set of rooms without doors. He dresses them up and "plays" with them in predictable ways.
109	* Creator/RobertEnglund appears in an episode of ''Series/Charmed1998'' as a man who turns women into figurines.
110	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'':
111	** In the episode "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E14ColdComfort Cold Comfort]]", the [=UnSub=] kidnaps women and embalms them alive, keeping them for several months until they decay too much, at which point he finds a replacement and the cycle continues. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that his nanny/au pair (who basically raised him) died while his parents were away, and he was left alone with the body for several days; he was found curled up with her corpse. His victims are given make-overs to more closely resemble his nanny, even to the extent of being dressed in the outfit she was buried in.]]
112	** The [=UnSub=] in the episode "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E12TheUncannyValley The Uncanny Valley]]" is doing this: kidnapping women, drugging them, dressing them in very specific homemade dresses, and posing them. [[spoiler:The [=UnSub=] is a [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]] who was raped and given ECT by her pedophilic psychiatrist father and is kidnapping the women to recreate the only doll playset she'd ever owned, which said father had taken from her and given to his ''next'' unfortunate victim after his daughter got too old for him.]]
113	** In "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS8E10TheLesson The Lesson]]", the [=UnSub=] is an old man who kidnaps people to make them into living puppets -- living [[ImpaledPalm marionette]] [[AgonyOfTheFeet puppets]].
114	* In ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', Terry Karrens is a serial killer who "collects" realistic-looking dolls and names them. The creepiness goes up several notches when one of them slumps over, because the drugs that he'd used to paralyze her were starting to wear off.
115	* The first killer in the second season of ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' abducts people along with their cars and injects them with silicone so that their shape will hold. As an [[spoiler:imprisoned]] Will tells Beverly, the victims make up a color palette.
116	* In the ''Series/HartToHart'' episode "Harts Under Glass", a deranged art fancier who wants Jennifer for his collection traps her and Jonathan in a glass case.
117	* One episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' involves a pedophile with obvious mommy issues who does this, dressing little girls up (before doing "stuff" with them) to look like the dolls in his mother's extensive collection.
118	* In the ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "[[Recap/NightGalleryS2E2 Death in the Family]]", an undertaker preserves dead bodies and treats them as his "family".
119	* The killer in the ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' episode "Welcome to the Dollhouse" kidnaps his victims, murders them, dresses them as dolls from the 1980s and leaves them posed at bus stops.
120	* The ''Series/SuperForce'' episode "Yo! Super Force!" features a deranged man who kidnaps women, puts them in suspended animation, and arranges them on display stands in a private museum in order to cope with the death of his wife.
121	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'':
122	** The end of "Azoth the Avenger is a Friend of Mine" sees Craig transforming his abusive father into an action figure with a magic spell.
123	** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone2002S1E19 The Collection]]" features a little girl who turns all her babysitters into Barbie dolls because she's lonely and doesn't want them to ever leave.
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127	* The Alice's Night Circus song ''Penny Dreadful'' is about a man called Mr. Strange who abducts a woman and uses sewing and button eyes to turn her into a "puppet bride" companion. By the end of the song, he has begun to see the flaws in his work, but is certain his next project will turn out better...
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131	* In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' and ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', this is very, ''very'' explicitly laid out to be one of the big dehumanizing aspects of the vampiric discipline Dominate. One bloodline in ''Requiem'', the Melissidae, are themed on wasps and bees, and have advanced powers that allow them to make people their mental puppets.
132	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has the mad Necron overlord Trazyn the Infinite, a robotic tyrant and historian whose "collection" of artifacts and individuals takes up most of the subterranean caverns of his throne-world of Solemnace. He is particularly keen on producing recreations of great moments and famous battles from history, using captured alien soldiers transformed into hard-light holograms and positioned accordingly. When his collection is damaged or disturbed by intruders, he makes a point of seeking out fresh individuals to replace the losses -- occasionally complaining that the squad markings and equipment of his victims is too different, and therefore his display is ruined.
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136	* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' has Bassilus, an evil cleric who used Create Undead to [[{{Necromantic}} "bring back his family"]] out of locals. Since Create Undead [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment creates undead]] rather than truly resurrect them, they're just shambling zombies that he's [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable delusional enough to think are fine]]. With careful dialogue choices, you can get him to realize that they're not his family, which causes him to destroy the zombies before attacking (otherwise, he'd attack you with the zombies).
137	* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'':
138	** Relius Clover has a nasty habit of doing this in two forms; the first is the Murakumo units he helped create, {{Living Weapon}}s formed from clones of [[spoiler:Saya]] and stripped of all emotion to make them willing servants to the NOL. The second way is to play this trope much straighter, by turning his own daughter into Nirvana [[spoiler:and using the experience he gained from this to turn his ''wife'' into a much stronger doll]].
139	** His son, Carl, also follows this trope in the same way as Kankuro and Chiro from higher up this page, as he uses Ada (now Nirvana) as his main weapon in his quest for revenge against his father. It seems like Ada's still sentient and following Carl willingly to protect him, unlike Relius' mindless doll.
140	* In ''VideoGame/Drakengard3,'' Three makes dolls from living soldiers.
141	* A creepy serial killer like this pops up in the ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' [[DownloadableContent DLC]] "The Taxidermist".
142	* Elzevir the Dollmaker from ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen]]'' is implied to be this. When Kain breaks into Elzevir's place to search for King Ottmar's daughter's soul, you'll notice that Elzevir has people chained up against the wall, and sentient toys going around protecting the place. Apparently, it makes you wonder if there's a connection between the two. To quote Kain when he finds the princess's soul:
143	-->''"Elzevir imprisoned the princess's soul in the small fabric doll. The old man's intentions... I shall ''never'' know."''
144	* ''VideoGame/LufiaTheLegendReturns'' has [[spoiler:Leydock]], who sets up monster-hunting tournaments and then adds the strongest competitors to his collection.
145	* Did you ever think the Doll Room in ''VideoGame/MadFather'' was a tad random at the beginning? Well, if you examine the dolls, you'll understand why [[HerrDoctor Dr. Drevis]] has dedicated an entire room to them. [[spoiler:Spoilerific tip: the chair at the front of the room is reserved for Aya.]]
146	* ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' gives us the bonus boss [[PsychopathicManchild Sirius]]. He collects the strongest warriors from across the Solar System to use as action figures for his own sick amusement (while destroying the planets he visits with his black hole). He's been doing this for ''eons'', and we have no idea what happened to the people he did capture after you beat him in the end.
147	* ''VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles'': Charles Dalimar from the ''Ravenhearst'' StoryArc/subseries abducted a woman and her daughters and forced them to play out the roles of his "family".
148	* The Maven in ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' is a godlike entity who is obsessed with witnessing conflict, observing and creating copies of warriors and monstrosities to pit them against each other in a never-ending battle. You help her out by slaying bosses so that she can watch you fight them again. ''Siege of the Atlas'' reveals her hyperfixation with conflict actually ends up being a good thing because the Atlas keeps her occupied with endless "toys" for her to collect and disinterested in the real world, where any other eldritch horrors that could take her place would likely result in a FateWorseThanDeath.
149	* [[BigBad Lusamine]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' is revealed to have had her Pokémon cryogenically frozen, and is implied to do this routinely to Pokémon she gets bored with. Also, while not quite to the creepy serial-killer-esque extent as other entries on this list, her children, Gladion and Lillie, claim that they were basically [[AbusiveParents their mother's precious dolls rather than living people]], in that she expected absolute perfection from them and strictly controlled every aspect of their lives to this end. In the AlternateUniverse ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', she did the same thing but was ''[[AdaptationalNiceGuy slightly]]'' less creepy about it, as she did it out of [[NeverBeHurtAgain fear of losing them like she did her husband]] rather than outright insanity, and she unfreezes them after a HeelRealization.
150	* [[FetishizedAbuser Haruka]] from ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' is known for encasing people in wax and keeping them as dolls. She also [[HoYay longs to do this to Hibari]].
151	* ''VideoGame/TouchDetective'' features a little girl who lives at the observatory, and with the help of one of its workers, kidnaps people to act as her brainwashed living dolls -- what little we see of this suggests they're reduced to a near-inanimate state by the brainwashing, capable of little more than speaking a "pre-recorded" line.
152	* The Doll Maker in ''VideoGame/WelcomeToTheGameII'' is a MadDoctor who kidnaps women and surgically twists them into immobile yet still living sex dolls for sale on UsefulNotes/TheDeepWeb, based on an infamous {{creepypasta}} regarding "Lolita Slave Toys".
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156	* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=626&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&extra=1&page=1&check=1 Kharla does this as a hobby.]]
157	* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the Creature in the Darkness kept a paralyzed O-Chul as a playmate for a while, calling him Mr. Stiffly and holding tea parties with him. This is a slightly less deranged version than usual, because O-Chul eventually is un-paralyzed, but continues to play with the Creature in the Darkness of his own free will (as a prisoner routinely tortured for information he doesn't have, it's the least painful way to kill boredom). Eventually O-Chul even begins to teach the Creature in the Darkness some life lessons and considers him a friend.
158	* {{Downplayed\|Trope}} with Verdi in ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', who likes to kidnap people with the help of her weird powers and giant octopus pet, dress them up while they're unconscious, and call them her dolls -- but she lets them go after she's done it, and may even give them something to make them more powerful while she's at it, so it's not ''that'' bad. She's on Shibisu's team, and in spite of being a good guy, he tolerates her "weird hobby".
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162	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has the Little Misters, a line of living "toys" heavily implied to [[WasOnceAMan have once been ordinary people]] before being modified into their current states by the WickedToymaker Doctor Wondertainment. Each of the ~20 humanoids carries an advertisement encouraging the reader to "[[GottaCatchThemAll Find them all]] and become Mr. Collector!"
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166	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderThePuppetmaster The Puppetmaster]]", Hama uses her [[PeoplePuppets Bloodbending]] skills to kidnap random [[TheEmpire Fire Nation]] civilians and keep them locked up in a cave. She also has a bunch of regular puppets she keeps locked in a cabinet in her house: this is so that, if her victims are discovered, she can claim it was at least {{foreshadow\|ing}}ed.
167	* The villain in the PilotMovie of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' is the Collector, a creepy-looking {{Toon}} who collects other toons. [[spoiler:He turns out to be a human in disguise.]]
168	* The titular villain in the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "[[Recap/CourageTheCowardlyDogS1E13LittleMurielTheGreatFusilli The Great Fusilli]]" uses a magical stage to [[PuppetPermutation transform people into string puppets]]. Courage sadly is unable to free Muriel and Eustace from the stage before they have already been transformed (thank goodness for NegativeContinuity). In the end, the villain falls victim to the allure of the stage himself and starts a performance to an imaginary audience which ends with him becoming a puppet too.
169	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlss2E2CollectHerSupperVillain Collect Her]]", a toy collector has every piece of Powerpuff merchandise ever, yet feels that his collection is incomplete without the girls themselves, so he kidnaps them and puts them in boxes.
170	* An episode of ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' has a villain who kidnaps notable people, shrinks them with a ShrinkRay and keeps them under glass.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX Treehouse of Horror X]]" segment "Desperately Xeeking Xena", Comic Book Guy becomes a collector of cult actors and plans to trap Creator/LucyLawless in plastic. [[spoiler:She kicks his ass.]]
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