definitions of related tropes
- The Collector: A narrative trope in which a character runs into an antagonistic being with an interest in collecting things (usually strange things) who adds that character to their collection
- Collector of the Strange: A character who collects items that are seemingly rare, dangerous or gross for one to keep.
- Living Doll Collector: A character who collects people, living or dead, and forces them to act out their delusions / fantasies.
- Might have a problem here since Laconic.Living Doll Collector says: "Collects people like they were dolls."
- Living Museum Exhibit: A still living character as a museum exhibit.
- People Puppets: Controlling the body of someone else while they are still fully conscious and aware (and often opposed)
- Dead Guy Puppet: Turning a corpse into a puppet.
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- Anime & Manga - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean: Jolyne's cellmate Gwess. Upon first meeting her she attempts to brain Jolyne with a chair in a fit of rage after she mistakenly attempts to use her bunk before doing a full 180 and acting friendly and treats her shrunken victims like (Living Doll Collector) a girl playing with stuffed animals, having them do cutesy animal sounds in the "costumes" she makes for them. She also has them killed when they stop being of interest to her. Her ability is explained as a manifestation of her desire to make friends but have power over them.
- Criminal Minds S 5 E 12 The Uncanny Valley: Samantha is doing this: kidnapping women, drugging them, dressing them in very specific homemade dresses, and posing them. She 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.
- Mystery Case Files: Charles Dalimar captured Rose Somerset and her daughters (which, as shown in Key to Ravenhearst, also are his own daughters) and trapped them in a nightmarish complex hidden beneath Ravenhearst Manor), where they seemingly had to play the role of his "family". Although it turns out they were mostly abducted as their souls were needed to fuel his Soul Jar.
- Under the Moon - Break the Cutie: This is the stated intention of love interests with love/hate paths, but Seizh is cutie-breaker extraordinaire. The more deranged he becomes, the more blatantly he treats Ashe like a plaything. In one of his endings, he goes full-on Living Doll Collector and dresses Ashe in a frilly Creepy Doll outfit.
- The Alloy of Law: Bloody Tam, the serial killer at the beginning, makes carefully composed scenes using corpses.
- Senran Kagura: Nintendo 3DS - Haruka: In Burst, she expresses a disturbing desire to turn Hibari into her personal doll. When she was a child, she was on the receiving end of such treatment from her mother, who treated her like a dress-up doll.
- Salad Fingers - Salad Fingers: Whether or not he's actually killing the people and imagining them to have died in other ways is up for debate, but Salad Finger's keeps and converses with at least two corpses throughout the series, Milford Cubicle and Kenneth; both of which he refuses to acknowledge as being dead, despite their advanced states of decomposition.
misuse
- The Land of What Might-Have-Been: The Hellion's sole joy in life seems to be kidnapping people at random and making them into her brainwashed dolls... and now she wants Dorothy for the next spot in her collection. — doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
- Akame ga Kill! - The Jaegers: Her weapons allow her to convert those who was killed by her into undead puppets under her command. — doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies. Also Dead Guy Puppet.
- The Cell: Carl's mental world includes these, made out of his past victims. - doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
- American Gothic (1988) - What Fanny calls her "big dollies" are actually the corpses of people her parents have murdered. - doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
- Tropes K to R: Gideon keeps all of his ex-girlfriends in People Jars and plans for Ramona to be next. A big part of the reason the reader is still cheering for Scott in spite of his occasionally dysfunctional personality.
- Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina 1 E 11 A Midwinters Tale, Complete Monster: Living Doll Collector Mr. Bartel is one of the single most terrifying demons in the series. Bartel poses as a friendly Santa so he can lure in "beautiful" children, like Susie (later Theo) Putnam. Once Bartel has them, he has them dipped in hot wax and uses dark magic to preserve them forever in "beauty" while they are terrifyingly alive and conscious, with one statue still able to shed tears. Bartel has a massive collection of such statues, bragging how he makes them himself while intending on having Susie/Theo join them. - doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
- The Well Speaks To Me, Complete Monster - Like Veins Beneath The Town: The Suturer is a demon-worshipping human who desires to transcend humanity and become a demon himself. To this end, the Suturer abducts the women of Ishinakku Village and bludgeons them to death, offering their fresh corpses as sacrifices to the Forest. The Suturer also removes parts of their bodies to attach to his own and uses more to create twisted (Living Doll Collector) dolls, believing himself to be creating art. Having already done this to 22 women, when protagonist Dr. Jesse Thornheart comes to apprehend him, the Suturer tries to kill Jesse and turn him into another sacrifice. - doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
- Charmed S4E5 Size Matters, Complete Monster - Living Doll Collector Gammill, The Collector, was once a handsome man with a fondness for kidnapping women and shrinking them before baking them in special clay to make them into figurines he adds to a macabre collection. Cursed so that his appearance is as hideous as his soul, Gammill uses a golem to lure in other women over the course of decades so he may burn them endlessly in his kiln and fulfill his desire for the greatest collection in the world. - doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Industrial Illusions - The Ventriloquist of the Dead: Well, he pretends to be this. He only collects dolls based on people thought to be dead, rather than actual people. - doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
- Ward — S-Class Threats - Miranda: She collects parahumans and slowly brings them under her control using her power so that they do as she wishes. Of course, she has little interest in the true "dolls," of Teacher's thralls, who have no personality to speak of. She refers to her parahuman thralls as her "boys." - doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
- The Chronicles Of Riddick Mercenaries - Antonia: She turns murderers into Human Popsicle statues she can admire. - doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
- Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion - Specimen 6: It's implied to have turned the village's children into puppets, and it seems intent on doing the same to the Player should it kill them. - doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
- Rozen Maiden - Kirakishou: In an odd case of a doll collecting humans as if they were the dolls.
- Pokémon Sun and Moon: Major Organizations - Lusamine: She has a collection of Pokémon that she cryogenically froze to preserve their "beauty and perfection". She also treats her own children as dolls rather than people in Sun And Moon, expecting them to look and behave however she wants them to, and viciously discarding them when they display the slightest bit of independence. Gladion likens living with her to being a "living ornament" instead of a person. - doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
- Penny Dreadful - Madame Kali: She keeps a room of her victims, represented by dolls with the hearts of babies/children stitched into them. - doesn't talk about being forced to act out fantasies.
ZCE
- Small World (Tabitha King novel): What Dolly inevitably becomes.
- Night Gallery: "A Death In The Family." That undertaker loves his embalmed charges just a bit too much...
- Vampire: The Masquerade: Depraved masters of Dominate. The Tzimisce. Mortals in third stage vinculums. People under enough Majesty. Really, we could go on all night.
- Heavy Rain: Leland.
- Willow Hill: The other Dr. Greta was one. Emphasis on the "was".
- Maybe I'm a Lion: Touko.
- Tomorrow Stories: Phallocrates Phlange.
