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| 25 | ->'''Shepard:''' Conrad. If you have some kind of weird shrine of me, I'm going to be very unhappy.\ |
| 26 | '''Conrad:''' It's just a poster with a few candles. It's very tasteful!\ |
| 27 | '''Shepard:''' Gah... |
| 28 | -->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' |
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| 30 | What's a good way to show that a character is a bit more attached to someone than is really healthy? That this someone is a {{Yandere}}, a StalkerWithACrush, a LoonyFan, or just very, very creepily obsessed? Have a special private place in the character's residence that is dedicated to the object of the person's obsession. A shrine to them. |
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| 32 | The contents of the shrine may vary, but they usually consist of photos of the stalker's obsession. ''Lots'' of photos. More rarely, newspaper and magazine articles, timelines, address book information, or videos are added. If there's a statue or bust of the stalkee, it has probably been kissed. For extra creepiness factor, a couple of half-melted candles are strategically located at the base of the shrine. There might also be locks of hair, trash, or other mundane items stolen from the object of the stalker's obsession. |
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| 34 | While encountering a stalker shrine is almost always a very creepy event, on rare occasions, it can be strangely touching as well if the stalker truly cares for the target of their obsession. The shrine is simply a substitute for their physical presence. A less creepy version replaces the shrine with a hidden stash of photos of the obsession taken in secret. |
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| 36 | Compare ShrineToSelf, ShrineToTheFallen, TrophyRoom, and KitschCollection. Subtrope of RoomFullOfCrazy. |
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| 38 | !!Examples: |
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| 40 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 43 | * Creed from ''Manga/BlackCat'' (during episode 20) is revealed to have made a giant sculpture in Train's likeness as well as a painting of Train and him together. |
| 44 | * ''Manga/CaseClosed'' has several: |
| 45 | ** In episode 344 (adapted from manga chapter 428), Ran mistakes the photos behind Jodie's bathroom mirror to be this, and she's right, except on one thing: [[spoiler: Jodie's actually investigating Dr. Araide, and these are actually photos of Araide's--or, rather, Vermouth's--Stalker Shrine]]. |
| 46 | ** Rose, one of the suspects in the New York arc (chapter 350-354/episode 286-288), keeps a wall of photos in her dressing room like all of the other actresses, but Shinichi notices that they are all of the Archangel Michael, the character that the actor Heath plays in the musical that they are starring in. This turns out to be [[spoiler: the motive for murder, as Rose is obsessed with the character to the point of believing that Heath will be killing the role with his retirement]]. |
| 47 | * Although he's one of the good guys, Bak from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' spies on Lenalee and has a few pictures of her that he secretly takes. |
| 48 | * Nao Sadatsuka of ''Manga/FoodWars'', has her whole room full of photos of Erina Nakiri. In fact, the second ending in the anime's first season is about her specifically stalking Erina and Hisako to get photos, since she has a restraining order that keeps her away from Erina. |
| 49 | * In the seventh ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' film, [[spoiler:Lio Shirazumi]] is shown to have one for Shiki, featured in the opening credits and later found by Mikiya. |
| 50 | * In ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'', one teacher had a wall full of (photoshopped) pictures of himself and the teacher he had a crush on in wedded bliss. |
| 51 | * Soushi of ''Manga/InuXBokuSS'' has a photo-covered shrine to Ririchiyo in his apartment room. |
| 52 | * In ''Anime/JewelpetMagicalChange'', Laura is so infatuated with Airi's big brother Sakutaro that she has a section in her room, hidden by a curtain, that contains nothing but pictures of Sakutaro. |
| 53 | * Rune from ''Manga/KarakuridoujiUltimo'' has this huge painting of his crush Yamato in his room. Then, when Yamato finally comes to his house in Chapter 21, his reaction to the painting is [[ThousandYardStare hilarious]]. But the chapter, unfortunately, gets worse [[AttemptedRape after that]]. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/KoharuNoHibi'': As of chapter 16, Koharu covers her walls in pictures of Akira, her crush. |
| 55 | * This trope is PlayedForLaughs in an [[BonusMaterial omake]] of ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs'' where Yumi is made to be a stalker of Sachiko with her own Stalker Shrine. |
| 56 | * ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'': [[{{Yandere}} Yamai]] [[PsychoLesbian Ren]] has her room chock-full of photos of Komi pinned over the walls, ''and the ceiling'', as revealed when she decides to kidnap Tadano out of jealousy. Some of them are even have collages with photos of herself, making it even creepier. |
| 57 | * Although less of a 'shrine', Kotone Kirishima of ''Manga/NyanKoi'' has most of her phone dedicated to Junpei. He is noticeably creeped out when he finds out. Her sister's reaction to this indicates that this may be normal for Kotone. |
| 58 | * Ayaka in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'''s AlternateContinuity GagSeries ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'' was known for having her room filled with Negi-themed merchandise including pillows, swimsuits, and ''bread''. [[NoYay It was every bit as creepy as it sounds]]. |
| 59 | * In ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove W'', when the PrettyFreeloaders finally get their own (BiggerOnTheInside) bedrooms in Mahiro's house, Cuuko does hers up as one of these, dedicated to Nyarko. It's full of pictures of her [[ContinuityNod from the first season]] and a body pillow. |
| 60 | * In ''Manga/OkaneGaNai'', Ayase gets an insanely creepy StalkerWithACrush, [[spoiler:Tokigawa Takaii]], who makes one of these in dedication to Ayase. The whole room is filled with pictures he secretly took of Ayase, along with items Ayase discarded, such as water bottles, which he's been doing ever since high school. |
| 61 | * Harry has tons of pictures of Melfina on his wall in ''Manga/OutlawStar''. |
| 62 | * [[StalkerWithACrush Me-Mania]] of ''Anime/PerfectBlue'' has one of Mima in his apartment. |
| 63 | * One of the minor antagonists in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' has a room filled entirely with slashed photos of a woman he murdered. |
| 64 | * Kuno in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has a wall dedicated to Akane and the Pig-Tailed Girl. In one anime-original episode, it was temporarily replaced by a Nabiki wall when the fortune-teller told him he was supposed to marry Nabiki. |
| 65 | * Not a shrine specifically, but in ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' [[StalkerWithACrush Mizore]] collected all the articles of the school newspaper [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Tsukune]] penned (he's a member of the Newspaper Club) into a scrapbook and showed it to him. He was a bit creeped out. |
| 66 | * In ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' Matoi, the stalker girl, is shown having a wall covered with pictures of Nozomu Itoshiki. |
| 67 | * From ''Manga/SgtFrog'', [[{{Ojou}} Momoka]] is rich enough to give her Stalker Shrine to Fuyuki its OWN BUILDING. And that's not the half of it, as her own bedroom has things like Fuyuki-cherubs decorating the bed, an alarm clock with Fuyuki's voice... |
| 68 | ** One episode has Momoka coming to terms with the presence of "the other woman" ([[SchoolNewspaperNewshound Chiruyo Tsukigami]]), and willingly taking down the Stalker Shrine. Her bedroom remains untouched though... |
| 69 | * Himespetchi of the ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'' television series has such a passionate crush on Mametchi that she keeps a lot of things themed around him in her house, among them plushes, balloons, an alarm clock, and a "Happy Darts" dartboard depicting him. Whenever anyone visits her house, Himespetchi hastily hides all this Mametchi stuff since she doesn't want anyone to know about her crush. |
| 70 | * Mutsuki of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' plays with this in later chapters of re in that he doesn’t have pictures of the main character Kaneki/Sasaki (object of his psychotic crush) on his wall; but rather copied pictures of his love rival Touka posing with her friend Yoriko. What’s worse is that they are all pinned to the wall with knives highlighting [[MurderTheHypotenuse that he intends to remove Touka and anyone else he perceives as being in the way]]. |
| 71 | * In ''Music/{{Tsukiuta}} the Animation'', Shun has one to Hajime (an IdolSinger) in his room. It's full of actual merchandise, mostly - rather ordinary for a huge fan, and Shun is sixth in his fan club. The issue? Shun is another idol, and he and Hajime live in the same dorm building. |
| 72 | * Akane Akaza, from ''Manga/YuruYuri'', has one... [[BrotherSisterIncest Of her younger sister, Akari]]. Complete with a dakimakura (Body pillow). Covered in lipstick kisses. Oh, and Akari is thirteen years old. |
| 73 | [[/folder]] |
| 74 | |
| 75 | [[folder:Audio Plays]] |
| 76 | * Wakasa from ''AudioPlay/YandereHeaven'' has in his room. He has taken several pictures of the protagonist and has marked specific dates on them to commemorate each moment he spent spying on her. |
| 77 | * Yumemi from ''AudioPlay/YandereNoOnnaNoKo'' has several pictures of [[KissingCousins her cousin]] on her bedroom wall. The second part of her track reveals that her room is so full of pictures that she has to use the ceiling to tape new pictures she took of him. |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 81 | * PlayedForLaughs on an ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' cover, as Betty has apparently turned her entire bedroom into one to Archie. Actually, Betty often has a stalker shrine on covers or even in-story. It's usually never more than her locker or a wall in her room, but it's still kind of creepy. Occasionally, Archie does this for Veronica as well. Reggie, on the other hand, has a ShrineToSelf. |
| 82 | * Hebe has one dedicated to Hercules in ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules''. |
| 83 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': |
| 84 | ** In a [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] story about the Characters/{{Black Cat|MarvelComics}}, she has been stealing numerous artworks connected to love. Since she has a known obsession with her father, Spider-Man assumes this is some sort of dedication to him, "as if she was making a shrine". He is wrong; [[DatingCatwoman she is making a shrine for Spider-Man]]. |
| 85 | ** Another storyline has the Parkers' creepy neighbor building a shrine out of MJ's publicity photos. |
| 86 | * In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Supergirl: Identity]]'', Powerboy had one of Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}}, a wall of photos. |
| 87 | * Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} used to have a bit of a habit about those. If you were one of his love interests, one of his enemies, or just someone he vaguely knew, there was a pretty good chance he had a room somewhere plastered with your pictures and complete with a life-sized statue. Here's [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/f/f4/Superman%27s_Girlfriend_Lois_Lane_2.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/335?cb=20060307194141 one he made for Lois Lane]]. |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 91 | * In ''Batman: Melody for a Mockingbird'', the BigBad [[spoiler:Thomas Elliot]]'s SupervillainLair, rather than the conventional shrine of photos and idols, is his home made into a replica of [[spoiler:Wayne Manor, a monument to Elliot's desire to usurp Bruce's identity]]. The replica is not physically perfect, but it ''is'' visibly perfect enough for [[spoiler:Bruce]] to not immediately realize the difference. |
| 92 | * In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5939478/1/The-Bachelor The Bachelor]]'' Harry has one date with an obsessed fan whose entire house is painted Gryffindor red and gold and filled with Harry Potter memorabilia, right down to a pair of Harry's boxers in a glass box over the fireplace. |
| 93 | * In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7336188/4/Black-Betrayals Black Betrayals]]'' Regulus has a secret room filled mostly with clippings and photos of Harry and his parents (with his dad crossed out), with a small section devoted to Sirius. |
| 94 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11259043/1/Black-Rose-Admirer Black Rose Admirer]]'' Team RWBY finds a shine with pictures of Ruby, and red and black roses. Needless to say, they are all creeped out by it. |
| 95 | * In the Literature/{{Worm}} x Videogame/{{Dishonored}} crossover fanfic, ''FanFic/AChangeOfPace'', the Bone Carver has several shrines set up to the [[AllPowerfulBystander Outsider]] and carves the runes in tribute to him. He's more than a little unstable. |
| 96 | * In ''[[http://ficwad.com/story/200184 Emerald Flight Book One: Union]]'' Ginny's room is filled with books, dolls, pictures and action figures of Harry. |
| 97 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10705888/4/Living-Dolls Living Dolls]]'' Colin has so many photos of Harry in his bedroom that Ron refers to it as "Harry Potter wallpaper". |
| 98 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10036636/1/Mushy-Romance-y-Junk Mushy, Romance-y Junk,]]'' [[spoiler:Gloyd Orangeboar has one dedicated to Taffyta, and]] the shrine has everything from statues to pictures to a ''spat-out lollipop.'' This character, in addition to being played as an [[IgnoredEnamoredUnderling ignored enamored underling, ]] effectively becomes an [[AntiRoleModel example of what not to do]] for Rancis. |
| 99 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2270096/6/Nappies-and-Naked-Dancing Nappies and Naked Dancing]]'' Colin has a shrine to Harry in his wardrobe. |
| 100 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{ResurrectedMemories}}'': As per cannon, Paulina has a shrine to Danny Phantom in her locker. Ember is quick to point out how creepy it is. |
| 101 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Spotless|GoldenEnderHawk}}'', after Marinette got together with Kagami, she had her shrine dedicated to Adrien replaced with pictures of her and Kagami together. |
| 102 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13686679/24/Tones-of-Gray Tones of Gray]]'' a possessed Ginny has an altar in her dresser, surrounded by pictures of Harry and his family. Harry is circled with little hearts, while everyone else has their eyes either removed or covered with an unidentified substance. |
| 103 | * ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'': After Twilight relocates to Ponyville, Princess Celestia demonstrates her obsession by maintaining Twilight's old room exactly as it was when Twi lived there. The room even smells the same as it used to. |
| 104 | * In ''Fanfic/WontTellASoul,'' Nino comes across this in Marinette's room (of Adrien) while waiting for her. He texts her about it and calmly runs as far as he can, knowing that Marinette would not be amused by it. |
| 105 | -->"Oooh she's coming to kill me," Nino said aloud to himself, watching as Ladybug all at once vanished from the livestream. He had had a pretty intense laugh at watching her react and did feel sort of bad, but he couldn't quite contain the giddy giggle he had anyways.\ |
| 106 | It was just so ''funny''. |
| 107 | [[/folder]] |
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| 109 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 110 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', Hal Stewart has a poster of Roxanne Richie with a sticky note taped to it that says, "Good night, Hal!" He gets rid of it after she makes it very clear that she's not interested in him -- by disintegrating it with his laser eyes. |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
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| 113 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 114 | * In the documentary ''Film/AbductedInPlainSight'' the FBI discovers a shrine to the sexual predator's young victim. Also counts as a real-life example. |
| 115 | * In ''Film/AceVentura'', Ray Finkle's room is a stalker shrine to Dan Marino...or at least, to the famous Super Bowl play that made Finkle a goat, which he blames Marino for. |
| 116 | * ''Film/Aftermath2021'': [[spoiler:Otto]] has a shrine to [[spoiler:Natalie in his secret room. Any photos of her and Kevin have Kevin's face scratched out]]. |
| 117 | * In ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'', Max Dillon has one of Spider-Man. |
| 118 | * ''Film/{{The Avengers|1998}}'' (1998). Sir August has one to Mrs. Peel (or her clone) in his mansion above the OminousPipeOrgan. |
| 119 | * Completing the Jim Carrey hat trick, Edward Nygma in ''Film/BatmanForever'' has one for Bruce Wayne in his cubicle. |
| 120 | %%* ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'' |
| 121 | * In ''Film/BetterOffDead'', the walls of Lane Meyer's room are entirely covered with pictures of his girlfriend Beth, and he even has cardboard cutouts of her over each of his clothes hangers in his closet, so it appears as though she's wearing each of the items. |
| 122 | * The BMovie ''Film/BlackBelt'' (1992): muscleman serial killer with MommyIssues keeps a shrine of a singer, adorned with dozens of candles. |
| 123 | --> "When I heard the song, I know that is you, mother" |
| 124 | * In ''Film/TheBoyNextDoor'', Claire finds out that Noah has one for her in his basement consisting of pictures of her plastered all over the place. He even has a series of pictures taped together to form a picture of Claire sleeping. |
| 125 | * [[spoiler: Willy Wonka's dad]] turns out to have built one of these, as Charlie and Willy discover at the end of Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', including [[spoiler: clipped newspaper articles about Willy's success. It serves as proof that Dr. Wonka truly cared about his son, and followed his rising career with genuine interest, despite initially deriding Willy's dream of being a candy maker]]. |
| 126 | * ''Film/ConspiracyTheory'': Since Jerry Fletcher did her a good turn once, Alice Sutton regards the protagonist as loony but essentially harmless until she sees his stalker shrine while they're escaping from his apartment during a fire. |
| 127 | * In ''Film/TheCrush'', Nick discovers that Adrian Forrester, the teenage girl who is {{Yandere}} for him, has a shrine to him in his own basement. |
| 128 | * Helen Sharp in ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'' has one of her nemesis and rival Madeline Ashton. |
| 129 | * Jed Parry from ''Film/EnduringLove'' toward Daniel Craig's character Joe. He creates a shrine (together with creepily writing Joe's name all over paper and photos), which Joe promptly trashes... only for Joe to find Jed nearby naked. God knows what Jed was doing with it. |
| 130 | * In the 1996 movie ''Film/{{Fear|1996}}'' David is {{Yandere}} for Nicole so one of the creepy things he does is make one dedicated to her complete with doctored pictures of Nicole’s family—replacing Steven’s head with David’s—a pair of Nicole’s panties, etc. |
| 131 | * In ''Film/TheFirechasers'', [[spoiler:Jim Maxwell]] has a hidden wall covered in photographs of Toby. When Quentin disovers it, he realises that [[spoiler:Maxwell]] must be the arsonist, and what the motive for the fires is. |
| 132 | * In ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'', it is revealed that Dr. Loomis' office is a shrine to Michael Myers, with three decades worth of newspaper clippings about Myers taped all over the office walls. To add to the creepiness, he also has high school photos of Laurie (Michael's sister) stuck to the wall too. |
| 133 | * ''Film/HeLovesMeHeLovesMeNot'' shows one by the time one of the main characters finally starts putting two and two together. |
| 134 | %%* Not - so - creepy example: ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' |
| 135 | * In ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'', a shrine set up with newspaper clippings about JFK's assassination prompts the landlady of the apartment where the film's villain used to live to call the Secret Service, which starts up the hunt for the would-be assassin. |
| 136 | * In ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'', Mr. Bridger's LuxuryPrisonSuite is one of these towards [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII Queen Elizabeth II]]. |
| 137 | %%* Vanko's basement in ''Film/IronMan2''. |
| 138 | * In ''Film/IWakeUpScreaming'', the innocent man sneaks into the apartment of the cop that's been trying to frame him for murder, and finds a whole apartment covered with pictures of the murdered girl. |
| 139 | * ''Film/KillerWorkout'': When Chuck breaks into Jimmy's house, he discovers that Jimmy has an entire wall of photos of Rhonda. |
| 140 | * ''Film/{{Mimic}} 2'' has Remy's door, covered in pictures of ''herself'', crying after some sort of poor experience with the person labeled under the photo. |
| 141 | * ''Film/MinorityReport'' features a pile of photographs of the lead detective's missing son. It is, however, [[spoiler:deliberately set up to get him to murder the patsy hired to frame him]]. |
| 142 | * In ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'', Nadya has a locker filled with Kermit pictures in it. |
| 143 | * A plot-point in ''Film/MySuperExGirlfriend''; the Villain is the Super-heroine's old boyfriend, and he still loves her. The main character finds this out when he finds the shrine in the boy friend's house. The main character brings this up to stop the battle at the end. |
| 144 | * In ''Film/OneHourPhoto'', the main character works at a photo development kiosk and prints extra photos from one family to display in his home and live vicariously through them. |
| 145 | * In ''Film/PennAndTellerGetKilled'', Penn and Teller's stalker has a shrine in his rat-hole apartment, including a video in which he's spliced himself into Penn and Teller routines. |
| 146 | * In ''Film/PerfectStranger'', it turns out that [[spoiler: Miles]] actually made one of Rowena that's hidden in a secret room in his house. |
| 147 | * In ''Film/{{Pixels}}'', Ludlow has a shrine of Lady Lisa, complete with posters, figurines, and candles. Sam lampshades the creepiness. |
| 148 | -->''Man, if she was real, she'd have, like, a hundred restraining orders on you.'' |
| 149 | * Celia has this in the 1991 Australian film ''Film/{{Proof|1991}}''. Because her point of obsession is a blind man played by Hugo Weaving, he's unaware of it, even as he's standing in the room. |
| 150 | * ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'': Following the [[UndeadChild creepy ghost girl]] into the cellar, Jane and Sadie discover a shrine devoted to UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper: the walls plastered with maps, newspaper articles, photographs, etc. |
| 151 | * ''Film/{{Replicant}}'': Garrote is shown to have a wall plastered with pictures of his nemesis Detective Jake Riley. |
| 152 | * In the... interesting TV movie ''Film/ShesTooYoung'', the DoggedNiceGuy happens to have a bulletin board covered in pictures of the girl he has a crush on. This is never commented on, even when said girl comes to his house. |
| 153 | * In ''Film/Snapshot1979'', [[spoiler:Elmer]] has a secret studio wallpapered (including the floor and ceiling) with Angela's topless Bermuda Cool advertisement. |
| 154 | * Madison's crush on Ben in the 2002 movie ''Film/{{Swimfan}}''. Ben discovers a creepy shrine of his personal belongings that Madison had been secretly stashing. |
| 155 | * ''{{Film/Ted}}'' has the titular teddy bear discover that Donny has covered his living room wall with old newspapers and magazines with his picture. |
| 156 | * The Duke of Buckingham in ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973'' keeps a painting of Queen Anne in a secret room surrounded by hundreds of candles. Possibly a subversion - since they're in love with each other, it comes across as romantic rather than stalkerish. |
| 157 | * In ''Film/TheTripper'', the killer has one to UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in his Unabomber-style shack. |
| 158 | * A later Creator/JimCarrey film, ''Film/TheTrumanShow'', had a rare reciprocated one - during the climax, it's shown that [[spoiler: Truman had created [[TheOneThatGotAway an approximation of Sylvia's face]] by clipping various features from models in magazines]]. |
| 159 | * In ''Film/{{Vicki}}'', Cornell's apartment is a shrine to Vicki with photos of her everywhere. |
| 160 | [[/folder]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 163 | * In ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}} Adventures #1: Mystery of Metru Nui'', Toa Nokama, while looking for her former student and friend Vhisola, breaks into her house to find it decorated with carvings of her, her achievements and copies of her awards, and practically nothing that would hint at the house belonging to Vhisola. |
| 164 | * In ''A Certain Justice,'' by Ruth Rendell (at least in the TV adaptation), a lawyer who was a sort of mentor to the lawyer Venetia Aldridge obsessively keeps a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of her career. When she's murdered he puts her birth and death dates in big press-on letters. |
| 165 | * The second half of the ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'' reveals that there is an underground "Amber Cult" in the Courts of Chaos, where adherents have taken to fixating on individual members of the Amber royal family. Participants create shrines to their favorite Amberite, with images and paraphernalia -- the more authentic, the better. [[spoiler: Dara's shrine to Corwin contains a portal to a dungeon where Corwin himself is being held.]] |
| 166 | * OlderThanRadio: ''Literature/FarFromTheMaddingCrowd'''s Farmer Boldwood has a room full of jewelry and clothing in Bathsheba's favorite colors and styles labeled "Bathsheba Boldwood" which he's amassed at considerable expense and in considerable secrecy. Bathsheba has NOT agreed to marry him, despite his insistence that he deserves it. |
| 167 | * In the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' short story "What Price Dreams?", the suicide bomber who attempted to kill the princess had one of these. It was created by the people who warped his mind so that he would become a suicide bomber on command so that any investigation would classify her death as the act of a deranged stalker. It would have worked had the man not been taken alive. |
| 168 | * In ''Literature/SandmanSlim'', when Stark goes [[ToHellAndBack back to hell]] and takes on the job of [[spoiler: [[ToHellWithThisInfernalJob Lucifer]]]], he finds a room that his enemy Mason left that's filled with pictures of him, as well as the bodies of mutilated [[OurDemonsAreDifferent hellions]]. Stark realizes with a jolt that Mason must have spent hours down there, torturing and slicing up [[FallenAngel hellions]] while staring at pictures of him. |
| 169 | [[/folder]] |
| 170 | |
| 171 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 172 | * In the ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' episode "Draw Back Your Bow", Cupid has one of the Arrow. |
| 173 | * ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': In the episode "Jake & Amy", Dario Moretti has a wall covered in pictures of Amy with her eyes scratched out. |
| 174 | * Spike, from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', has one of Buffy in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E14Crush Crush]]". |
| 175 | * ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': |
| 176 | ** Used as a setup. [[spoiler:Turns out the guy who has it isn't the killer, however.]] |
| 177 | ** In another episode, the police find the apartment of what they believe to be a stalker, but Castle notes the lack of any shrine, just a single photo. It turns out a rival model had paid him to stalk her in an effort to get her to quit the industry. |
| 178 | ** In the episode "Boom," the team enters the apartment of a serial killer who is obsessed with Nikki Heat, the character in Castle's new book who he based Becket off of, and find a huge shrine on his wall, which includes newspaper clippings, his own copy of the book, which Castle autographed, and even a huge painting of Becket's face. |
| 179 | * This crops up quite a lot in the various ''Series/{{CSI}}'' series. |
| 180 | ** In ''Series/{{CSI}}'' (original), Nick discovered that he had his own personal stalker who installed cameras in his house and taped him doing stuff. |
| 181 | ** In the ''Series/CSIMiami'' episode "Under the Influence" a female stalker has shrines of her victim's photos in both her locker at work and her home. |
| 182 | * ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': |
| 183 | ** Lynette goes to give the neighbor who saved her life a cake and discovers a basement full of toys and a wall covered in photos of young shirtless boys. |
| 184 | ** In Season 7 Susan's old schoolfriend offers to give her a kidney, and then reveals himself to have a huge crush on Susan. When Susan invites him over in order to thank him, he brings a scrapbook full of her old school pictures, her lock of hair, her old English essay, and her retainer. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Renee: "It's like the part of the movie when they go to the guy's basement and find the candles in front of the picture of the woman he's gonna kill!" |
| 185 | * ''Series/DocMartin'': After developing an obsession on Martin due to a medication issue Mrs Tishell constructs one of these in season 5 finale. |
| 186 | * A somewhat milder version of this in ''Series/DoctorWho'' series five: young Amelia Pond, who met the Doctor briefly as a child, apparently became obsessed with him and made dolls, models, and drawings of him and his TARDIS for years. These can be seen strewn about her bedroom even fourteen years later when he reappears as her NotSoImaginaryFriend. |
| 187 | ** In the 2015 episode "Face the Raven", Clara reveals that she's aware of a secret room in the TARDIS where the Doctor collects information related to the immortal Ashildr. |
| 188 | * ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', in "The 200th Episode", has every one of his radio shows on tape - except one, which is accidentally destroyed. To replace it, he contacts an obsessive fan who pulls back the curtains of his apartment to reveal a giant wall of stalk, where his window used to be. |
| 189 | * Happens to Nick in one episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' where he is searching for a Grimm vigilante and upon going into their bedroom, he finds that the walls are posted with dozens of pictures of Nick. |
| 190 | * In the ''Series/HartToHart'' episode "You Made Me Kill You" a woman named Peggy Mullen has one of Jonathan. |
| 191 | * In an episode of ''Series/ImAlanPartridge'' Alan is creeped out by the discovery that his "number one fan" has a room papered entirely with Alan's publicity photos. (Mind you, they're creepy enough even before being turned into an obsession.) |
| 192 | * ''Series/{{JAG}}'': [[DirtyCop DC Detective Frank Coster]] had one of these with secretly taken photos of Mac in the, rather aptly named, episode "The Stalker". |
| 193 | * ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'' has a reconstructed parody in ''Miss Piggy's Hollywood''. All through the special the egotistical Piggy's been trying to play up her stardom and nonexistent friendships with other Hollywood celebrities by ambushing them for interviews. At her lowest point, however, Creator/DudleyMoore is delighted to see her at his doorstep and it turns out his house is filled with pictures, paintings, etc. of her at her most glamourous. She's overwhelmed, but she loves it and they sing a duet of "(Our) Love Is Here to Stay" to close out the special. |
| 194 | * ''Series/JohnDoe'' has one about himself, as he tries to find clues about who he is. Upon discovering it, Karen comments that it looks like a serial killer's shrine. |
| 195 | * Hiroki Makise of ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' holds one on the prettiest girls in school, and desired to crash a bus full of these girls off of an unfinished highway. |
| 196 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': The killer in "Delicate" has one devoted to the current subject of her obsession hidden in her dorm room. |
| 197 | * There's also the "wall of VCR tapes" version; ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' found a few of these in some of the houses of the pedophiles they were on the trails of. |
| 198 | * One episode of ''Series/TheMentalist'' has the team find one in the house of a suspected [[JackTheRipoff Red John copycat killer]], showing the suspect photoshopped into pictures of the victim. [[spoiler:It's actually fake -- the suspect was just being set up to take the fall by the real copycats and wasn't actually stalking the victim.]] |
| 199 | * ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': |
| 200 | ** Barnaby and Jones discover one in a storeroom at the killer's house in the episode "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E8 A Rare Bird]]". |
| 201 | ** Another had the homophobic Troy realize one man was actually CampStraight when he found one dedicated to a young woman in the man's house. |
| 202 | ** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS23E3 A Grain of Truth]]", [[spoiler:Gabriel Arnson]] has one to Chrissie Larkton in his basement. |
| 203 | * ''Series/{{Monk}}'': |
| 204 | ** In one episode, it is revealed that Marci Maven has a stalker shrine for Adrian Monk. |
| 205 | ** In another episode, Monk observes that if the deceased person had been an obsessed fan, as the police assumed, one would expect some kind of stalker shrine in his apartment. |
| 206 | * ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "The Scorpion and the Frog", the detectives discover a very creepy shrine (the photos all have the subject's eyes scratched out) in the apartment of the paranoid schizophrenic that is being framed for the murder of the VictimOfTheWeek. |
| 207 | * ''Series/TheMuppetShow:'' Ms. Piggy's dressing room has one for Kermit. |
| 208 | * The murderer in the ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "One Good Bid Deserves a Murder" has one to the actress whose diary is the MacGuffin. [[spoiler: It turns out that as well as the two murders that happened on screen, he also killed her.]] |
| 209 | * Abby's stalker has one of these in an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. |
| 210 | * ''Series/OneTreeHill'' had an episode where [[spoiler: an impostor of]] Peyton's brother does this. [[spoiler: He had lost his girlfriend in a car accident and sought to use Peyton as a ReplacementGoldfish.]] Needless to say, when Peyton discovers the shrine, still thinking that he [[spoiler: is her real brother]], she is terrified. |
| 211 | * One episode of ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' featured one of these for Beth Davenport, but it [[ItWasHereISwear mysteriously disappears before the police get there]]. [[spoiler:It was actually made by her client at the time as part of a plan to be able to request a mistrial if she failed to clear him on the grounds that she was clearly distracted by the stalking.]] |
| 212 | * ''Series/{{The Sarah Jane Adventures}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E3E4EyeoftheGorgon Eye of the Gorgon]]", Chrissie explores her neighbour Sarah Jane's house and finds a statue of her husband Alan (who was actually petrified by an alien gorgon posing as an abbess), but she assumes that her neighbour is obsessed enough to craft a statue of Alan. Later, after Alan is turned back to flesh and blood, Chrissie storms into Sarah Jane's house, claiming that the statue [[ItWasHereISwear was right there]], but since Alan is back to normal, and there is no proof of a statue, she gives up, going back to the house. |
| 213 | * ''Series/{{Scandal}}'': [[spoiler: Becky, Huck's girlfriend,]] has a secret room containing this and super-spy equipment. Sure, she's an assassin, but that's a lot of photos she's got on him... |
| 214 | * The episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' where Elaine enters the apartment of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uov9d-nqyFY&feature=related Crazy Joe Davola]] for the first time and finds a wall of pictures of her that serve as the first hint to her that all is not well with her new boyfriend "Joey". |
| 215 | * ''Series/{{Skins}}'': |
| 216 | ** Sketch has one of Maxxie. |
| 217 | ** Sophia has one of Naomi. |
| 218 | * Subverted in ''Series/ATouchOfCloth'' when the main characters find a creepy shrine to TV-actor Todd Carty of ''Series/EastEnders'' fame in a seemingly abandoned warehouse. |
| 219 | -->'''Anne:''' What kind of sick mind creates a shrine to Todd Carty?\ |
| 220 | '''[[AsHimself Todd Carty]]:''' ''(barges into the warehouse)'' Oi! What are you doin' in [[ShrineToSelf my lockup]]?!\ |
| 221 | '''Jack:''' So this is your lockup?\ |
| 222 | '''Todd:''' Yeah, I store chains, art... my scrapbook here. |
| 223 | * Sam "Whiplash" [=McBride=] has a door full of photos of Bridget "Red Cap" Sullivan on ''Series/TheUnit''. |
| 224 | * An oddly heartwarming example in the Creator/VH1 biopic on Music/MeatLoaf. After a fight with his drunken father, (words were said, knives were thrown....) Meat runs away from home and becomes a famous rock and roll singer. Years later, when he's hit a rough patch in his life, Meat goes back to his childhood home to find his estranged father has built a shrine of Meat Loaf albums and photographs. Not sure if this is real life since Meat made no mention of it in his autobiography. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 228 | * In the video of Music/{{Dido}}'s ''White Flag'', the singer has pictures of Creator/DavidBoreanaz all over her wall and then spends the rest of the video stalking the actor. At the end, it turns out that Boreanaz also has a stalking shrine of Dido. |
| 229 | * Speaking of Dido, [[LoonyFan Stan]] from Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Stan" writes his letters in a basement plastered with Eminem's pictures and magazine covers. In the lyrics, he tells us, "I got a whole room of your posters and your pictures, man!" |
| 230 | * In the video clip for Music/GeorgeMichael's ''Father Figure'', George has a shrine to the supermodel he carries around in his taxicab. |
| 231 | * Music/KimPetras: The music video for "I Don't Want It at All" starts with Kim kneeling in front of her Creator/ParisHilton shrine, filled with scented candles and pictures of Hilton. |
| 232 | * Seen in [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Weird Al's]] parody of Taylor Hicks' ''Do I Make You Proud,'' called ''[[https://youtu.be/r_U377vst5o Do I Creep You Out.]]'' |
| 233 | [[/folder]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 236 | * Used twice in Wrestling/{{WWE}}/F. First was Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage having a shrine set up for Sara (Wrestling/TheUndertaker's then-wife). A few years later Wrestling/MickieJames set one up for Wrestling/TrishStratus. |
| 237 | * In [[Wrestling/TotalNonstopActionWrestling TNA]], Samuel Shaw had a shrine dedicated to Wrestling/ChristyHemme, as shown to viewers via supposed hidden camera footage. Bizarrely it seemed that Hemme must have actually watched the show, as she called him on it the following week. |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 241 | * When it was announced that UK terror legislation would be used to monitor people with "an unhealthy interest in the Royal Family", ''Radio/TheNewsQuiz'' started joking that this would include some journalists at Creator/TheBBC and that senior Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell probably had a stalker shrine to the Queen. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 245 | * In ''VideoGame/AmberJourneysBeyond'', the delusional gardener, Brice has a small one hidden below a gazebo he was building, complete with candles, a framed photo of his crush, Mandy, and a letter which she wrote. The letter describes Mandy begging Brice to quit stalking her, being sick of his [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy theories]], and threatening that her father would fire him if this went on any longer. When Brice looks at it, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint he only takes note of her handwriting]]. |
| 246 | * In ''VideoGame/Borderlands1 - Secret Armory of General Knoxx'' DLC, there is an easter egg featuring a stalker shrine dedicated to Lilith, one of the protagonists. |
| 247 | ** In ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'''s ''Captain Scarlett'' DLC, Herbert has a stalker shrine dedicated to Scarlett. |
| 248 | * ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' - Near the end of the game [[spoiler: you enter George Woodman's home and in his basement is a shrine to Emily with photos of her and evidence bags containing items she used or touched hanging on the walls]]. |
| 249 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' - One of the creepiest missions in the game features one dedicated to [[spoiler: a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Hawke's mother]]. |
| 250 | --> '''Fenris:''' This man is either very devoted or very insane. |
| 251 | * In ''VideoGame/FrontMission5'', there's a RunningGag of how cold hardass Lynn Wennwright has one such shrine of player character Walter Feng. |
| 252 | * ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': If you rescue Bretta, she [[RescueRomance idolizes the Knight]] and starts keeping a doll in its likeness in her house in Dirtmouth, complete with flowery prose in her diary gushing over her "White Savior". [[spoiler: If you save [[SmallNameBigEgo Zote the Mighty]] and face him in the Colosseum of Fools, she becomes obsessed with [[FakeUltimateHero Zote and his tall tales]] to the point of putting up a poster of him and building a shrine to him in the basement, which has enough "dream power" to unlock an optional boss fight against Grey Prince Zote, a much stronger idealized version of Zote.]] |
| 253 | * ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'': [[BigBad Cia]]'s dimensional lair is, in itself, one gigantic stalker shrine to Link. Everywhere you go, portraits of him can be found here and there. Her backyard? A rose garden with statues of ''every single Link''. Including [[BestialityIsDepraved Wolf Link]], [[PaedoHunt Young "Hero of Time" Link]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Right-Handed Link]]. Oh, and guess who ''you'' get to [[TheHero come here as]], and [[StalkerWithACrush who you're here]] [[AxCrazy to find?]] [[SarcasmMode Simply delightful.]] |
| 254 | * It was known throughout ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'' that the hotel's owner Hellen Gravely is a FanGirl of [[BigBad King Boo.]] [[spoiler: The Master Suite, where she lives, has King Boo statues plastered everywhere.]] |
| 255 | * Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' with Shepard's obsessive fanboy, Conrad Verner. When Shepard asks Conrad if he lost anyone when the Reapers hit Earth, Conrad answers no, eventually admitting that the "wife" he's mentioned before doesn't actually exist. In light of this, Shepard sees this trope coming a mile away, and sure enough, Conrad lives down to expectations. In his "defense", it's apparently very small and only has a few "tasteful" candles. [[{{Squick}} Shepard is understandably still weirded out]]. |
| 256 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': |
| 257 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona3'' in the Female Protagonist Magician [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 Social Link]], has the Protagonist getting told by Junpei that someone took photos of her during gym class. Junpei briefly wonders why someone would do this but then gets quiet and tells the protagonist to enjoy the ramen. (They later find the culprit and Junpei fights with him offscreen) |
| 258 | ** The first area in the TV world of ''VideoGame/Persona4'' (The one with the noose) has photos of councilman Namatame's wife with her head cut out plastered all over the walls. [[spoiler:It's the mental world of the first victim, who was in a relationship with Namatame. It's implied, given the state of everyone else's mental worlds, it was formed by her repressed envy towards Namatame's wife.]] |
| 259 | ** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Kamoshida's castle holds a hidden room containing photos of Ann's friend Shiho. |
| 260 | * In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Omega Ruby]]'', PsychopathicManchild Courtney has a laptop filled with photos of her boss Maxie. |
| 261 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' has the Ghost-type trial, the boss of which is a Pokémon called Mimikyu, a Ghost-Fairy who dresses up as [[SeriesMascot Pikachu]] because it wants to be as popular as Pikachu. The fight takes place in a room filled with pictures of Pikachu, with the strong implication that Mimikyu put them up itself. |
| 262 | * ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', in the RoomFullOfCrazy, has a photo shrine for the [[CargoShip Companion cube]]. |
| 263 | * [[DirtyOldMan Inbeda]] of the [[{{Oni}} House-In-Exile]] has one of these in ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''. More specifically, he's turned most of the bathhouse into a weird sex-shrine to Illuminati handler [[IceQueen Kirsten Geary]]. One room alone is dominated by a massive painting of her in a pose that the real woman probably wouldn't be caught dead in; the pool is surrounded by mannequins, quite a few of which appear to be deliberately modeled on Geary as well... and there appears to be a blow-up doll floating in the water. Also, Inbeda is in the habit of having sex with the mannequins. Geary has seen this particular shrine, and the fact that she recommends having Inbeda [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness bumped off as soon as he's no longer useful]] is [[BlatantLies purely coincidental]]. |
| 264 | * To absolutely no one's surprise, Yandere-chan from ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' has one for Senpai, complete with things she's personally stolen from him without his knowledge. |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 268 | * In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', Chapter 18, "S1", Antimony and her TrueCompanions stumble upon a room full of robots, and an adjoining chamber with a large portrait of Jeanne and a much smaller portrait of someone named Diego. They conclude that Diego must have put the whole thing together to honor Jeanne's memory; they disagree on what the relationship between Diego and Jeanne must have been, and consequently whether the construction of the shrine was something sweet or creepy. The story itself later reveals that [[spoiler:Diego was in part responsible for Jeanne's death and did his part out of jealousy, only to afterwards deny any association with the crime [[BelievingTheirOwnLies even from himself, only blaming others for what happened]]]] pushing it firmly into the creepy camp. |
| 269 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Vriska Serket keeps one for Creator/NicolasCage (or rather, [[Film/ConAir Cameron Poe]]). |
| 270 | * In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' Kevin's first wife arranged a marriage for his adopted daughter Lindesfarne when the latter was a baby and the parents of the intended groom have one set up in [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0705.html their home]]. |
| 271 | * In ''Webcomic/NerdAndJock'', Stalker Girl has one for Jock. [[spoiler:Xarhuul, the eldritch being Stalker Girl worships, has a similar one for Nerd.]] |
| 272 | * In ''Webcomic/OniGF'', Billy's stalker has decorated at least one wall of her bedroom with blown-up photos of him so that "her prince" is the first thing she sees when she wakes up in the morning. |
| 273 | * ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'': Tycho apparently has one to John Romero. |
| 274 | * Driver of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfWiglafAndMordred'' has one of these to Mordred, complete with a life-size plush doll and nude photos (from the back). |
| 275 | * Alternate Universe Music/JohnWilliams [[https://web.archive.org/web/20071229061632/http://www.webcomicsnation.com/culturepulp/culturepulp/series.php?view=archive&chapter=17999 has one]] for Music/YokoKanno. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 279 | * ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'' Season 2: fWhip has proclaimed himself to be deeply devoted to Sheriff Jimmy and the Law he enforces. Reflecting this, he has a shrine to the Law filled with candles and toys made in the Sheriff's likeliness located deep in Gobland. When Grian accidentally digs into the cavern where it's located during the Hermitcraft crossover, he is understandably uncomfortable and voices a sneaking suspicion that he's not supposed to be there. |
| 280 | * When ''WebVideo/KateModern''[='s=] K-Team break into Justin's office in "WC ONE", they find that it is a repurposed disabled toilet with the walls plastered with notes, and photographs of Julia in a bikini and (bizarrely) Lee dressed as a jockey. |
| 281 | * ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'': The Spoony One joked about having one for [[Series/XPlay Morgan Webb]] in his basement in his ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'' review, which apparently contains a desiccated human corpse. |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 285 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "A Little Mystery," we learn that Wild Willie, the proprietor of a western-themed photo studio that Jeff frequents, has a shrine dedicated to Jeff. |
| 286 | * [[{{Pyromaniac}} Firefly]] in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had one of these for the female singer he did pyrotechnics for. As Detective Bullock noted upon seeing it, "Oh, he's got it bad." |
| 287 | * A benign example PlayedForLaughs: WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}} has a shrine to Lydia...in his head. She finds out in [[FantasticVoyagePlot one episode where she gets stuck in his brain]]. (They do take donations for its upkeep.) |
| 288 | * ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': |
| 289 | ** In the episode "Fanning The Flames", whilst under the effects of [[MusicalAssassin Ember's]] [[LovePotion Love Spell]], Danny constructs a mini-shrine to Sam, meditating over it. When Sam sees it, she's a bit creeped out. |
| 290 | --->'''Sam:''' O-kay, even the part of me that's liking the attention is ''really'' freaked out by this. |
| 291 | ** "Lucky In Love" shows that a random boy at Casper High School has a shrine to [[AlphaBitch Paulina]] in his locker. At the end of the episode, Paulina has made her own locker into a shrine for [[LovesMyAlterEgo "Inviso-Bill"]]. |
| 292 | * ''WesternAnimation/DenisAndMe'': In "Besties", when Lady Barks-A-Bit goes to retrieve her ball for Denis, she goes inside her doghouse, which is full of photos of Denis. |
| 293 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'': In "The New Cadet", Dodgers finds a room abundant with pictures of himself by Soren, an assassin who hunts targets she's fallen in love with. The room contains a statue, one picture with Cadet Porky crossed out, and a picture Dodgers doesn't remember taking. |
| 294 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': |
| 295 | ** Tootie basically filled her entire bedroom with Timmy shrines, dolls, and pictures. |
| 296 | ** Veronica is obsessed with her popular friend Trixie and has tons of Trixie merchandise decorating her room. She isn't obsessed with Trixie; [[IJustWantToBeYou SHE IS TRIXIE]]!! |
| 297 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 298 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E19StuckTogetherTornApart Stuck Together, Torn Apart]]", Peter sees Lois talking to an old boyfriend and decides to respond in OperationJealousy fashion. Unfortunately, one of the women he tries to pick up happens to be his old prom date, who has an entire ''hallway'' full of pictures of Peter. She is also wearing the dress that she wore to that prom... and hasn't washed the hand that touched Peter's since then... or flushed the toilet he used, for that matter. |
| 299 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E8BarelyLegal Barely Legal]]" Brian took pity on Meg and took her to her prom, and she became violently obsessed with him. He discovers she made a shrine for him in her room. |
| 300 | ** Quagmire has been shown to have a shrine for Lois. |
| 301 | --->'''Quagmire''': A couple of teeth and some toenails, and we'll be ready for our date! |
| 302 | ** In the non-Christian universe from "Road to the Multiverse", Stewie mentions that without Christianity to inspire the ceiling of the Art/SistineChapel, they gave the job to John Hinkley, Jr., and the scene pans up to reveal that the ceiling is a shrine to Creator/JodieFoster. |
| 303 | * The ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' episode "The Incredible Shrinking Fanboy" reveals Yo to have a shrine consisting of photos of Chum Chum. |
| 304 | * In ''WesternAnimation/FishHooks'', Clamantha has a shrine to Oscar in her locker, and Oscar has a shrine to Bea in his. |
| 305 | * Berry has one for Bloo in ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', and it isn't even in her house. It's in the house of the family she's kidnapped in an elaborate plot to alienate Bloo from Mac so he can spend more time with her. |
| 306 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 307 | ** Leela discovers one of herself while hiding from the angry-mob-of-the-week. [[spoiler:The shrine belongs to her birth parents, [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou who gave her up as a baby rather than raise her as a sewer mutant]] but have still been watching over her for her entire life]]. |
| 308 | ** Kif has one for Amy before they begin dating. |
| 309 | * ''WesternAnimation/GetAce'': Downplayed. It's never called attention to, but Ace has a [[TerribleArtist crudely drawn]] picture of his crush Tina [[ProjectileKiss blowing a kiss with hearts]] on the wall of his room. |
| 310 | * ''WesternAnimation/GlennMartinDDS'': Jackie's old boyfriend Gary never got over her and has a room full of photographs and other mementos of Jackie. There's even a wedding photo with Gary's face taped over Glenn's face. |
| 311 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': Irwin is so unhealthily obsessed with Mandy that he has an entire wall of his room covered with her photos, most taken while she was glaring at him and trying to hit him. |
| 312 | * Myron Reducto's not-so-well-hidden Booty Shrine in ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''. |
| 313 | * ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': |
| 314 | ** The intensity of Helga's love for Arnold was quickly established by showing that she kept a shrine of Arnold in the back of her closet that was shaped like his head and made out of his used chewing gum. Later shrines shown included one made out of an actual football and garbage, and another that was some sort of hat / mask thing that she put on and danced around in. About the only thing preventing this from being incredibly creepy is the fact that [[PuppyLove she's nine years old]] and it's PlayedForLaughs. |
| 315 | ** Ernie, one of the boarding house attendants, has a shrine to Lola, a tall fashion model who he has a crush on. |
| 316 | * Heloise of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' has a very Helga-esque shrine of Jimmy hidden behind her living room. Her interest in Jimmy is used as a cute contrast to the fact that she's a [[EnfantTerrible horrid little]] MadScientist who spends her days working to create instruments of torture, and her free time to [[CuteBruiser beat or murder]] anyone who looks at her funny. |
| 317 | * ComicStrip/KrazyKat has one of Ignatz in the 1963 cartoon. |
| 318 | * [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw''; although this is Zack's first thought when he discovers that Melissa has a room full of pictures of Milo, it's very much NotWhatItLooksLike. [[StringTheory Unless it looks like an attempt to discover the inner workings of Milo's condition, in which case it's exactly what it looks like]]. Either way, it's fair to be a little unsettled by the fact that she managed to procure his old toothbrushes. |
| 319 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': |
| 320 | ** Marinette, who has a huge crush on Adrien, has pictures of him plastered all over her room. She then has to take them out when he is going to visit her. |
| 321 | ** The Agreste Mansion is loaded with paintings and sculptures of Adrien's MissingMom and Gabriel's beloved wife, Emilie. |
| 322 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': Sheldon has an unsettling amount of pictures of Jenny in his locker and closet. |
| 323 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Simple Ways", Rarity had a shrine of Trenderhoof. |
| 324 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyPonyLife'' has ''Fluttershy'' of all ponies having one for Finn Tastic. |
| 325 | * Candace from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has a shrine for Jeremy. |
| 326 | * [[LoonyFan Lorne The Friend for Life]] has one, glorifying his idols ''WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'': |
| 327 | -->'''Sam''': Now about this shrine...\ |
| 328 | '''Max''': What's the deal with these wax figures and yellowing news clippings? It's so outdated.\ |
| 329 | '''Sam''': Yeah, a [[http://samandmax.co.uk/ Sam and Max website]] is the way to go! |
| 330 | * ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': "Howl of the Fright Hound" features Jason Wyatt, a teenage robotics genius and Velma's obsessive stalker. When the gang go to his house to question him about his potential involvement in the case of the week, they find his room covered with pictures of Velma. |
| 331 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Parodied in the episode "Pranks A Lot." When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick [[{{Invisibility}} turn invisible]], they use it to prank Sandy. One of the things that they do is set up a bunch of pictures of Patrick in one room at Sandy's house. |
| 332 | -->'''Sandy:''' And since when did I acquire [[SuddenlyShouting ALL THESE PORTRAITS OF PATRICK]]?! |
| 333 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''. Star has a fangirl who has her locker filled with pictures of her. Then Star shows her locker is filled with pictures of said girl. |
| 334 | -->'''[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname StarFan13]]:''' Star! I wallpapered my locker with pictures of you!\ |
| 335 | '''Star:''' That's weird…because I wallpapered ''my'' locker…with pictures of ''you!''\ |
| 336 | ''(the two girls high-five)'' |
| 337 | * A disturbing variant occurs in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' where Darth Maul is shown to have a candlelit shrine to Duchess Satine, a woman he ''murdered''. Rather than it being a result of an obsession with her however, it was a symbol of [[TargetedToHurtTheHero his victory over her lover]], Obi-Wan Kenobi. |
| 338 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': This is actually averted or downplayed with Sierra, who otherwise displays every other LoonyFan and StalkerWithACrush hallmark but is never even implied to have a shrine to Cody, the unwilling object of her affections — unless one counts the numerous fan blogs she made for him. It's played straight with Sierra's mother, [[LikeParentLikeChild who is just as obsessed with Chris as Sierra is with Cody]] and showed this devotion by converting an entire room of her house into a mini-Chris museum. |
| 339 | * ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': TheStinger for the episode "The Buddies" reveals that Commander Peepers' entire room is liberally plastered with images of Lord Hater. |
| 340 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject'': [[StalkerWithACrush Buzz]] had one for Ro, which seriously creeped her out. |
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