History Main / LivingDollCollector

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** [[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''.
** And then we have Kankuro, whose ninja puppets were also made by Sasori years ago. [[spoiler:And he ends up collecting ''Sasori'' himself later.]]
** 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.

-->-- '''[[TheBaroness Elexis Sinclair]]''', ''[[VideoGame/SiN1998 SiN]]'' (1998)

** 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.]]
** Also, in the manga, [[spoiler: Undertaker]] who creates the [[spoiler: Bizarre Dolls]] with human corpses.

** 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 could defuse this non-violently by beating him in a game of trump (and they ''had to'' since he appears around the same time where most hostile Digimon are Perfects at most), and he gladly turns all his victims back and ceases his actions per his bargain with Ruli.

** Telence T. D'Arby from ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' [[http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4122/darbydollsbigger.png had this hobby.]] His [[FightingSpirit Stand]] power allowed him to [[SoulJar capture the souls of his opponents]] by defeating them in a video game match. And unlike [[TheGambler his brother Daniel]], who kept the souls in a dormant state as poker chips, Telence's dolls were aware of everything going on, [[AndIMustScream but unable to do anything]].
** [[StarterVillain Gwess]] in ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'' had the ability to [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrink people]] with her Stand Music/GooGooDolls and dressed 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.

* [[LonelyDollGirl Sabrina]] in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' literally did this to other people, [[ToyTransmutation turning them into small dolls]] with her own PsychicPowers.
* Kirakishou from ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' is a strange case... [[RussianReversal a living doll that collects humans like they were dolls]].
* 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.]]

* 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 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...

* Naturally, ''Literature/TheCollector'', a 1965 film in which Creator/TerenceStamp is a butterfly collector who decides to kidnap and keep Samantha Eggar as well. See ''Literature'' for the original book.

* ''Film/RogueOne'' and ''Film/{{Solo}}'' had Dryden Vos, TheDragon to Darth Maul in his NebulousEvilOrganization. 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 could at least be freed but the process was irreversible.

* The John Fowles novel ''Literature/TheCollector'' 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. And 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". But she is a prisoner for life. Knowing this 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.

* ''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.
* The ship (and its resident AI) ''Sleeper Service'' in Iain M. Banks's ''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.
* 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.

* In Robert Jordan's ''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.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* Creator/RobertEnglund appeared in an episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' as a man who turned women into figurines.

* 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.

* In the ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "A Death in the Family", an undertaker preserves dead bodies and treats them as his "family".

* In "Yo! Super Force" an episode of ''Series/SuperForce''. A deranged man who kidnapped women, put them in suspended animation, and arranged them on display stands in a private museum. The women were kidnapped from a carnival so the deranged man could cope with the death of his wife.
* An episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'' featured a little girl who turned all her babysitters into Barbie dolls because she was lonely and didn't want them to ever leave.
** The end of "Azoth the Avenger is a Friend of Mine", also from the 2002 TZ revival, sees Craig transforming his abusive father into an action figure with a magic spell.

* ''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.

* The first ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' game had Bassilus, an evil cleric who used Create Undead to "bring back his family" out of locals. Since Create Undead [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment creates undead]] rather than truly resurrect them, they were just shambling zombies that he was delusional enough to think were fine.
** You can with careful dialogue choices, get him to realize they're not his family, it causes him to destroy the zombies before attacking (otherwise, he'd attack you with the zombies).

->''"Elzevir imprisoned the princess's soul in the small fabric doll. The old man's intentions....I shall ''never'' know."''

* [[BigBad Lusamine]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' is revealed to have had her Pokemon cryogenically frozen, and is implied to do this routinely to Pokemon 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.
* Charles Dalimar from the ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Ravenhearst]]'' hidden-object games abducted a woman and her daughters and forced them to play out the roles of his "family".
* [[FetishizedAbuser Haruka]] from ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' is known for encasing people in wax and keeping them as dolls. [[LesYay She also longs to do this to Hibari.]]

* {{Downplayed}} 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".

[[folder:Web Original]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Hama uses her [[PeoplePuppet 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.
* The villain in the PilotMovie of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' is The Collector, a creepy-looking {{Toon}} who collected other toons. [[spoiler:He turns out to be a human in disguise.]]
* One villain in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' used a magical stage to 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.
* On ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', a toy collector has every piece of Powerpuff merchandise ever, yet felt that his collection was incomplete without the girls themselves. So he kidnaps them and puts them in boxes.
* An episode of ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' had a villain who would kidnap notable people, shrink them with a ShrinkRay and keep them under glass.
* In one "Treehouse of Terror" segment on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Comic Book Guy becomes a collector of cult actors, who plans to trap [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Lucy Lawless]] in plastic. [[spoiler:She kicks his ass.]]

** 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]].
** Episode 41: Piemon 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 could defuse this non-violently by beating him in a game of trump (and they ''had to'' since he appears around the same time where most hostile Digimon are Perfects at most), and he gladly turns all his victims back and ceases his actions per his bargain with Ruli.

Enter the Living Doll Collector. He or she 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]].

If he or she 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]].

* ''{{TabletopGame/Warhammer 40000}}'' 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.

* Relius Clover from ''VideoGame/{{BlazBlue}}'' 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]].

* [[LonelyDollGirl Sabrina]] in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime literally did this to other people, [[ToyTransmutation turning them into small dolls]] with her own PsychicPowers.

* In ''LightNovel/{{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.]]

-->-- '''[[TheBaroness Elexis Sinclair]]''', ''VideoGame/{{SIN}}''

See also TheCollector and LivingMuseumExhibit. Nothing to do with [[AnimateInanimateObject actual dolls that come to life]] and the people that collect them.

If he or she 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 {{maid}}s 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]].

->''"Oh! What should I do with Blade?''\\
''Perhaps I'll lobotomize you and keep you as pet!''\\
''That would be amusing!''\\
''Don't you think?"''

** The [=UnSub=] in the episode "The Uncanny Valley" is doing this: kidnapping women, drugging them, dressing them in very specific homemade dresses, and posing them. [[spoiler: The [=UnSub=], a [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Woman Child]] was raped and given ECT by her pedophile psychiatrist father, and was 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.]]
** The episode "Cold Comfort", where 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.]]
** There is also the eighth season episode "The Lesson", with an old man that kidnaps people to make them into living puppets. Living [[ImpaledPalm marionette]] [[AgonyOfTheFeet puppets]].

* There was an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' involving a pedophile with obvious MommyIssues who did this, dressing little girls up (before doing "stuff" with them) to look like the dolls in his mother's extensive collection.
* ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "A Death In the Family". An undertaker preserves dead bodies and treats them as his "family".