History Main / EvilDebtCollector

-->'''Friar Tuck: ''GET OUTTA MY CHURCH!'''''

** The usually nameless thugs after WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. Barks apparently based his portrayal of these on his own experience with debt collectors as a struggling young artist... There was also a story (where this page's image comes from) where Donald is hypnotized into believing he's one. HilarityEnsues... For real.

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers The Sun Makers]]", far-future Pluto is governed by a monstrous tax collector (literally: [[spoiler: he turns into some kind of fungus at the end]]) and his greedy lackeys, who subjugate the human colonists through providing them with access to an artificial sun -- for which they are taxed into poverty and starvation.

* Played for laughs in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "The Bar Association." When Rom organizes a strike of the workers at Quark's bar, it causes some messes on the station. Sisko presses Quark to end the strike with Quark naturally refusing. Sisko then brings up the tiny fact that the Federation hasn't been charging Quark for being on the station for the last five years...until now.
-->'''Sisko''': Let's see...five years of back rent, plus power consumption, plus repairs...do you know how much latinum that is?
-->'''Quark''': [[OhCrap A lot.]]
-->'''Sisko''': That's right.
-->'''Quark''': I'll talk to my brother.
-->'''Sisko''': I'm glad we're in agreement.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E121InPraiseOfPip In Praise of Pip]]", the gangster Moran has one of his henchmen beat up George Reynold, who owes him $300, after Max Phillips took pity on George and allowed him to keep his money.

* A handful of side quests in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' involve Wei taking on some work as a collector until he becomes thoroughly disgusted with the job after [[spoiler:a debtor commits suicide in public, and Wei's boss just shrugs and says to move on to the dead man's wife instead]].

* ''Film:DonnieBrasco'': Lefty is a debt collector for the mob, and the first job h does with Donnie is reposessing the car of a strip club owner that tried to pay his debt with a fake diamond ring.

** I'll tax your tropes!
* "Repo Man" by The Coup.

* [[RobinHood The Sheriff of Nottingham]] is considered by most to be the TropeCodifier. He's rarely shown personally collecting the debts, though; that's what his men are for.

** As your first job after being initiated, you have to collect debts owed to the Guild by various individuals around Riften, [[PragmaticVillainy preferably in a nonlethal manner]]. While simple intimidation has a chance for failing, learning more about your targets and [[ShameIfSomethingHappened their vulnerabilities]] allows you to tailor your threats to succeed.

* In the Thieves Guild questline for ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', one quest has you remove a pest problem for Sabjorn, the owner of the Honningbrew Meadery. If you talk to Sabjorn about his assistant, you find he falls under this trope. Sabjorn loaned his assistant a sum of money that he knew his assistant could never pay back, then using said assistant as unpaid labor. You can help [[LaserGuidedKarma correct this situation]] by poisoning the mead, leading to Sabjorn being arrested by the Whiterun Guard and the assistant being put in charge.