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* Claroa in ''Manga/RainsHead'' is a heavily {{Downplayed}} case. While he runs a taxidermy operation revolving severed heads, most of it were done out of convenience and not purely for sadism, as he "shrinks" their heads and puts them into a display case. Mostly he does this to prevent other unsavoury people from selling their heads to others for profit. Though his job pretty much puts off his own family, who feared becoming a part of his head display collection.
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* The killers in the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E6TheEyesHaveIt The Eyes Have It]]" is a crazy taxidermist who kills his victims in order to [[spoiler:use their eyes in place of the eyes of the animals he was stuffing]].

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* The killers killer in the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E6TheEyesHaveIt The Eyes Have It]]" is a crazy taxidermist who kills his victims in order to [[spoiler:use their eyes in place of the eyes of the animals he was stuffing]].
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* One of the killers in ''Series/CriminalMinds'' was a crazy taxidermist who was killing his victims in order to [[spoiler:use their eyes in place of the eyes of the animals he was stuffing]].
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In the episode "Leapin' Lizards," the [=CSIs=] come across a murdered woman who had her head removed and mounted on a wall.

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* One of the The killers in the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' was episode "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E6TheEyesHaveIt The Eyes Have It]]" is a crazy taxidermist who was killing kills his victims in order to [[spoiler:use their eyes in place of the eyes of the animals he was stuffing]].
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In the episode "Leapin' Lizards," Lizards", the [=CSIs=] come across a murdered woman who had her head removed and mounted on a wall.



* In the ''Series/{{Haven}}'' episode "Fur", animals stuffed by Landon Taylor [[spoiler: and his mother Piper and her unnamed father, including both Landon and Piper,]] magically come to life, often very unhappy about being killed.

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* In the ''Series/{{Haven}}'' episode "Fur", animals stuffed by Landon Taylor [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and his mother Piper and her unnamed father, including father (including both Landon and Piper,]] Piper)]] magically come to life, often very unhappy about being killed.



* Randy Mann on ''Series/PushingDaisies'' ("Frescorts") is considered an unsettling weirdo for his taxidermy hobby. [[spoiler: He was actually a pretty nice guy though]].
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''

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* Randy Mann on from the ''Series/PushingDaisies'' ("Frescorts") episode "[[Recap/PushingDaisiesS2E4Frescorts Frescorts]]" is considered an unsettling weirdo for his taxidermy hobby. [[spoiler: He was [[spoiler:He's actually a pretty nice guy though]].
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':



* In the ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "Elegy", three shipwrecked astronauts encounter a mausoleum where anyone willing to pay its exorbitant fees could have their corpse "eternified" and put on display, "living out" their fondest dreams posthumously. It eventually turns out that [[MeaningfulName Wickwire]], the automaton caretaker, has taken the attitude that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, and ultimately [[spoiler:he poisons the three with eternifying fluid and gives them their own diorama set up to look as though they'd finally fixed their ship and were about to take off for home]].

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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "Elegy", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E20Elegy Elegy]]", three shipwrecked astronauts encounter a mausoleum where anyone willing to pay its exorbitant fees could have their corpse "eternified" and put on display, "living out" their fondest dreams posthumously. It eventually turns out that [[MeaningfulName Wickwire]], the automaton caretaker, has taken the attitude that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, and ultimately [[spoiler:he poisons the three with eternifying fluid and gives them their own diorama set up to look as though they'd finally fixed their ship and were about to take off for home]].
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "A Rare Bird", one of the suspects is a vegetarian taxidermist. He regards his work as giving animals a second life.

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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "A "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E8 A Rare Bird", Bird]]", one of the suspects is a vegetarian taxidermist. He regards his work as giving animals a second life.
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* In ''Film/Snapshot1979'', Linsey is one of Australia's most successful advertising photographers, but he is highly eccentric and his true passion is photographing dead animals, and his studio is full of stuffed animals.

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