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* The entire BitchinKitchen is decorated with porcelain and chrome baby dolls and skulls. Lampshaded when Nadia goes on about her grandmother's creepy collection of figurines while the camera zooms into the set behind her.

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** Also, [[MyBelovedSmother Kirstie Carver]] in ''The Regulators'' collects Hummel figurines. Her goal in life is to design one that looks like her SpoiledBrat son.

* Deconstructed in ''Film/Up'' - Carl has to learn to ''let go of it all'' in order to move on.

-->'''Sue''' Well, isn't this just [[DeadpanSnarker lovely and normal.]] [...] Boy, the only thing missing from this place is a couple dozen bodies, limed and rotting in shallow grades under the floorboards.

* In Tennessee Williams' play ''The Glass Menagerie'', Laura, a young, introverted woman who is shy due to a physical disfigurement, is obsessed with her collection of glass animals.

** Stanley from ''Going ostal'' kept pins. This was a frequently used method of calming him down.

* In Charlotte [=McLeod's=] novel ''Exit the Milkman'', one of the characters has a huge collection of porcelain.
* Annie Wilkes from StephenKing's ''Misery'' has a collection like this, and she knows how they're ''exactly'' placed.

** Stanley from ''Going Postal'' kept pins. This was a frequently used method of calming him down.
* [[Characters/HarryPotter Professor Dolores Umbridge]]: in ''HarryPotter and the OrderOfThePhoenix'' has a collections of plates with kittens of them in her office. Harry doesn't like them in the least.
* In ''RiverofDancingGods'', the wizard Throckmorton P. Ruddygore has a massive collection of kitsch that he considers underappreciated art.
* In PaperTowns, Radar's parents have the world's largest collection of black Santas. Radar (and presumably his parents) are black, but Radar is understandably hesitant to bring his girlfriend over to meet his parents and see his house.

* On ''KingOfTheHill'', Hank's mom, Tilly, and her elderly friends are obsessed with getting to see a glass miniatures museum. It turns out Tilly is obsessed with them because they were the only thing that made her feel better during her divorce from Hank's father. Hank then realizes what a big deal it is to her, he apologizes for dismissing her interest in them by [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming buying her a miniature of a stadium in a walnut shell]] by the famous artist she had been admiring. While the episode is touching, the obsession is still shown as a sign that Tilly is mentally fragile (all her friends are senile to various degrees).

* Creepy... semi-subversion, I guess, in TransformersAnimated. Lock-Down has a collection of all sorts of trophies. However, he is not extremely old (doesn't look it, anyway), and the "trophies" are various mods (read: body parts) he's ripped off of his bounties.

* In the video for the {{Vocaloid}} song "Fear Garden," [[{{Characters/Vocaloid}} Rin Kagamine]] [[NightmareFuelUnleaded collects people's hands (that she has severed from her living friends/family/fellow Vocaloids) and puts them in a garden as flowers]].

* People with these kinds of collections (or more sinister variations) occasionally appear as characters on ''ScareTactics''. One notable episode had a particularly deranged doll collector.

Needless to say, this trope is based on RealLife. If you have examples, please put them in the [[TroperTales/KitschCollection Troper Tales]] page. Note that in RealLife, there may be a bit of ValuesDissonance involved; back in the 1930s, collecting figurines was both a status symbol (showing that you had enough money to buy them) and a symbol of ''femininity'', of all things. The little old lady who has 300 figurines is probably not pathetically lonely as much as she is following a tradition of her childhood.

Needless to say, this trope is based on RealLife. If you have examples, please put them in the [[TroperTales/KitschCollection Troper Tales]] page. Note that in RealLife, there may be a bit of ValuesDissonance involved; back in the 1930s, collecting figurines was both a status symbol (showing that you had enough money to buy them) and a symbol of ''feminity'', of all things. The little old lady who has 300 figurines is probably not pathetically lonely as much as she is following a tradition of her childhood.

* Francis has a whole bunch of ''PaperMario'' merchandise in his room in SuperPaperMario.

* Variation: In ''{{Homestuck}}'', John's dad is obsessed with [[strike:clowns]] harlequins. The house is covered with harlequin pictures and, yes, figurines. He was given a restraining order by the cast of Cirque du Soleil. Rose's mum, on the other hand, is obsessed with wizards. Dave's brother was recently revealed to have a collection of puppets, though this time, Dave actually likes it. Sometimes.

* ''AngelMoxie'' has Mrs. Merriweather, a cutesy MisplacedKindergartenTeacher who is actually an evil demon who genuinely loves kitsch, in fact Alex beats her when her house is destroyed mid battle and she realised she [[http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/1/2/123.html no-longer has her precious moments collection]].

If the characters enter the house of an elderly neighbor or relative, they will inevitably run into a hundred unblinking, soulless eyes belonging to... [[GlurgeAddict a collection of porcelain unicorns]], a room full of SadClown paintings, or a [[BazaarOfTheBizarre much stranger collection]]. Adding to the creepy factor will be the impeccable condition of the display, the sheer craftsmanship of the figures/displays, and the owner's utter devotion and encyclopedic knowledge of every item's history.

Needless to say, this trope is based on RealLife. If you have examples, please put them in the [[TroperTales/KitschCollection Troper Tales]] page. Note that in RealLife, there may be a bit of ValuesDissonance involved; back in the 1930s, collecting figurines was both a status symbol (showing that you had enough money to buy them) and a symbol of ''femininity'', of all things. The little old lady who has 300 figurines is probably not pathetically lonely as much as she is following a tradition of her childhood.

* TheUmbridge in ''HarryPotter and the OrderOfThePhoenix'' has a collections of plates with kittens of them in her office. Harry doesn't like them in the least.

* In the video for the {{Vocaloid}} song "Fear Garden," [[{{Characters/Vocaloid}} Rin Kagamine]] [[NightmareFuelUnleaded collects people's hands (that she has evered from her living friends/family/fellow Vocaloids) and puts them in a garden as flowers]].

*In the video for the {{Vocaloid}} song "Fear Garden," [[{{Characters/Vocaloid}} Rin Kagamine]] [[NightmareFuelPremiumUnleaded collects people's hands (that she has evered from her living friends/family/fellow Vocaloids) and puts them in a garden as flowers]].