History Main / TheCollector

* The Caretaker in ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager'' sends out his K'zon SpacePirates and Hirogen hunters to seize sentient species and unique technology, with the prize exhibits displayed in his personal archive, and demands a [[MarsNeedWomen Terran female]] in payment for allowing ''Voyager'' to use his PortalNetwork to return to Earth. [[spoiler:He's actually a front man for the Psiborg Collective, who use the Caretaker to secretly add species and technology to their HiveMind.]]

* One issue of ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' comic had the main cast kidnapped by Car-Heem, an alien collector from the planet Weet ([[StealthPun "Car-Heem of Weet"...get it?]]).

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* ''Film/UltramanGingaSTheMovieShowdownThe10UltraBrothers'': The main villain, Etelgar, is a insanely powerful Space-Time Demon who wants to collect '''Ultramen'''. As in, the real deal. Prior to the events of the movie, he had already defeated and collected the Ultramen Tiga, Dyna, Gaia, Nexus, Max, Mebius, and in the ActionPrologue he is shown capturing Ultraman Cosmos as his latest "addition".

* D.N. Amy from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' eventually makes [[NonHumanSidekick Rufus]] and Steve Barkin into one giant living cuddlebuddie for her collection.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' #106: Tooroo , a giant alien, tries to collect Diana for his significant other Rikkaa who has a charm bracelet decorated with "souvenirs" from other planets.

* ''Film/TortureGarden'': "The Man Who Collected Poe" showcases the rivalry between two obsessive Creator/EdagrAllanPoe collectors. One of the the two, Lancelot Canning, is a third generation Poe collector and his rival, Ronald Wyatt, eventually discovers Canning's greatest secret: his grandfather was a [[GraveRobbing grave robber]] who stole Poe's remains from the cemetery and used black magic to resurrect him. Canning has the now immortal Poe a prisoner in his basement, where he is forced to scribe new tales for him.

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** A newlywed couple wake up in a small, deserted town, only to find out at the end that they are toys in a giant alien's playset.

* In the second ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' movie, the villain targets the three legendary birds Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres in order to force the legendary Lugia out of hiding, so he could have them all in his collection. Of course, the real problem for the heroes wasn't just that he was merely collecting, it was that his attempt disturbed the balance between the three birds which lead to global weather chaos.

** [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Collector They exist in the games too.]]

* At the height of his madness, Kraven the Hunter's son Alyosha kidnapped animal-themed superhumans (including Bushmaster, Gargoyle, Tiger Shark, Kangaroo, Aragorn, Vulture, Mongoose, Man-Bull, Dragon Man, Swarm, Mandrill, Grizzly, Frog-Man, and Rhino) and kept them in a "zoo", until it was sabotaged by ComicBook/ThePunisher.)

* [[https://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/who/who-intro.php?topic=auctioneer The Auctioneer]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' #106: Tooroo , a giant alien, tries to collect Diana for his significant other Rikkaa who has a charm bracelet decorated with "souvenirs" from other planets.

** ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', "A Zoo Out There" features the Chlorms, who regard every other species as "lesser beings", kidnapping members of the Galactic Senate (and eventually Team Lightyear) to put in their zoo.

* In ''Film/TheCollector'', a 2009 saw-esque movie by the writers of Saw 4, 5, 6, and 7.

* In a similar vein, ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' has the Grandmaster, a hedonistic egomaniac who holds collect strange and unusual beings to fight each other in gladiator battles[[note]]according to the creators the two are brothers, but other than a picture of the two together in the aforementioned ride there's no canon confirmation of that[[/note]]. The film focuses on two - namely, Thor and Hulk - but others include Korg, a being made completely of rocks, and Miek, a small, larva-like alien in a metal exoskeleton. The edifice of his palace suggests that Comicbook/{{Ares}} and Comicbook/BetaRayBill were once champions of his as well.

* In the first ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' book, the heroes visit Medusa's garden-statue store. Guess [[WaxMuseumMorgue how she makes the statues]].

** In 2007, an alien villain named The Auctioneer captured Supes and several dozen other heroes. Guess what he planned to do with them?

* ''Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter'' is about a man trying to end laughter by imprisoning the characters from the Sunday funnies.

* While ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}'s origins vary, his goal is always to collect a piece of every civilization on all worlds, then destroy the rest of that civilization.

-->'''Al [=McWhiggin=]''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCglkc12GA "The Collector"]] from the ''Toy Story 2: Sing-Along'' cassette

* Larfleeze, the ONLY Orange Lantern in Franchise/GreenLantern comics has this as his defining character trait. He's powered by greed itself and will not be sated until every single treasure in existence is his.

* In the first ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' book, the heroes visit Medusa's garden-statue store. [[CaptainObvious Guess]] [[WaxMuseumMorgue how she makes the statues]].

** [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Collector They exist in the games too]].

-->'''Al [=McWhiggin=]''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCglkc12GA The Collector]]" from the ''Toy Story 2: Sing-Along'' cassette

* In a similar vein, ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' has the Grandmaster, a hedonistic egomaniac who holds collect strange and unusual beings to fight each other in gladiator battles. The film focuses on two - namely, Thor and Hulk - but others include Korg, a being made completely of rocks, and Miek, a small, larva-like alien in a metal exoskeleton. The edifice of his palace suggests that Comicbook/{{Ares}} and Comicbook/BetaRayBill were once champions of his as well.

* At the height of his madness, Kraven the Hunter's son Alyosha kidnapped animal-themed superhumans (including Bushmaster, Gargoyle, Tiger Shark, Kangaroo, Aragorn, Vulture, Mongoose, Man-Bull, Dragon Man, Swarm, Mandrill, Grizzly, Frog-Man, and Rhino) and kept them in a "zoo", until it was sabotaged by ComicBooh/ThePunisher.)

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' has the aptly named [[ADogNamedDog Collector]], who keeps slaves of different species and alien items, his collection ranging from various artifacts to [[spoiler: even [[ComicBook/HowardTheDuck Howard]] [[Film/HowardTheDuck The Duck]] himself.]]