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* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath''. Prince Ozymardien is famous for collecting all kinds of valuable things, including the most beautiful virgin in the Eastern Lands as his wife (whom he apparently left untouched to maintain her value). When Jame breaks into Ozymardien's treasure trove, she sees what she assumes to be a life-sized sculpture of a woman reclining on a couch, until the woman rolls over in her sleep and Jame realises she's the virgin princess.
-->''Well, why not'', Jame found herself thinking wildly. ''She's part of the collection too, isn't she?''
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' gives us Trazyn the Infinite, a surprisingly [[AffablyEvil gentlemanly]] Necron lord who has amassed a ''massive'' collection of rare artifacts and exhibits, many of which are in fact living beings that have been placed in stasis or converted into hard-light and meticulously posed in dioramas that recreate famous battles in galactic history. Exhibits that have proven particularly difficult to "collect" are often [[AndIMustScream wide awake]] while in stasis.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' gives us Trazyn the Infinite, a surprisingly [[AffablyEvil gentlemanly]] Necron lord who has amassed a ''massive'' collection of rare artifacts and exhibits, many of which are in fact living beings that have been placed in stasis or converted into hard-light and meticulously posed in dioramas that recreate famous battles in galactic history. Exhibits that have proven particularly difficult to "collect" are often [[AndIMustScream wide awake]] while in stasis.
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->''"And yet, no matter how fleeting their existence, I welcome all...to a place in my perfectly curated collection!"''
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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "The Main Man", an alien known as the Preserver keeps endangered aliens in his zoo, in which he hired SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} to capture Superman. The Preserver also betrayed Lobo since he knew all along that he is also endangered ([[WhereIWasBornAndRazed by his own volition]]) but the two escaped and defeated him. Superman took his zoo and placed them in the Fortress of Solitude.
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Such exhibits can be part of a MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual. Strongly related to PeopleZoo.
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* This is the Collector's shtick in [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel Comics]]. He gathers rare specimens of countless alien species for his private collection. He tried many times to include superheroes in his gallery, especially Franchise/TheAvengers.
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* In ''Literature/TheMoteInGodsEye'', the Moties take some of the visiting humans on a tour of one of their museums. In addition to replicating entire habitats, there also a caste of non-sapient Moties. It's turns out their purpose is a hint towards what the Moties are keeping secret [[spoiler:as they are called Meats]].
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* One episode of ''Series/LoisAndClark'' had two bored millionaires who planned to put Superman in their private collection of rare items.
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* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': The Archives in Onu-Metru is an underground museum built for the main purpose of preserving and studying all known Rahi species. It was mentioned that in a disk dueling incident, a Matoran was transformed by a Reconstitute at Random disk into something so grotesque that he nearly ended up on exhibition as a Rahi in the Archives.
* The bio of the ''Toys/GoGosCrazyBones'' character Artix states that he visits museums and pretends to be a statue so that visitors will see him as an exhibit.
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* In ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'', H. T. Parnell's museum in Tarant is home to Gar, the world's smartest orc. He sold himself to Parnell as an indentured servant in exchange for Parnell saving his family from poverty, and works off the debt by performing as a "freakshow" exhibit, impressing visitors to the museum with his above average (by orc standards) knowledge.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PurnoDePurno'' had an episode where Purno and his friends visited a museum showcasing various kinds of humans. One of them gets away, leading Purno and the gang to a prehistoric LostWorld where cavemen put them in a museum as exhibits.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Atlantis Squarepantis" ended with Plankton being shown as an exhibit in the Atlanteans' museum to replace the World's Oldest Bubble, which [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick had accidentally popped earlier.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow'' episode "Stranger Things", a clumsy robot plays with "the most dangerous thing on earth" (a BananaPeel). When he superiors see all the damage he had done over the course of the film, they declare him the new most dangerous weapon and put him on display.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "The Main Man", an alien known as the Preserver keeps endangered aliens in his zoo, in which he hired SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} to capture Superman. The Preserver also betrayed him after finding out that he is also endangered ([[WhereIWasBornAndRazed by his own volition]]) but the two escaped and defeated him. Superman took his zoo and placed them in the Fortress of Solitude.
* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "The Night Owl". Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and High Five Ghost are all [[HarmlessFreezing frozen in liquid nitrogen]] for a few thousand years by an evil radio DJ, who has a convoluted plan to build a museum exhibit around them so that he can become rich and powerful. But eventually, all four of them are unfrozen and try to escape via TimeMachine.
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Maybe the character was mistaken for a caveman or something. Maybe they're the [[LastOfHisKind last of a rare species or race]]. Or maybe they're just being tortured [[ForTheEvulz for the heck of it]]. Either way, the result is the same: There's a living person behind a glass wall in a museum.
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* This is the Collector's shtick in [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel Comics]]. He gathers rare specimens of countless alien species for his private collection. He tried many times to include superheroes in his gallery, especially Franchise/TheAvengers.
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* In ''Literature/TheMoteInGodsEye'', the Moties take some of the visiting humans on a tour of one of their museums. In addition to replicating entire habitats, there also a caste of non-sapient Moties. It's turns out their purpose is a hint towards what the Moties are keeping secret [[spoiler:as they are called Meats]].
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* One episode of ''Series/LoisAndClark'' had two bored millionaires who planned to put Superman in their private collection of rare items.
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* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': The Archives in Onu-Metru is an underground museum built for the main purpose of preserving and studying all known Rahi species. It was mentioned that in a disk dueling incident, a Matoran was transformed by a Reconstitute at Random disk into something so grotesque that he nearly ended up on exhibition as a Rahi in the Archives.
* The bio of the ''Toys/GoGosCrazyBones'' character Artix states that he visits museums and pretends to be a statue so that visitors will see him as an exhibit.
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* In ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'', H. T. Parnell's museum in Tarant is home to Gar, the world's smartest orc. He sold himself to Parnell as an indentured servant in exchange for Parnell saving his family from poverty, and works off the debt by performing as a "freakshow" exhibit, impressing visitors to the museum with his above average (by orc standards) knowledge.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PurnoDePurno'' had an episode where Purno and his friends visited a museum showcasing various kinds of humans. One of them gets away, leading Purno and the gang to a prehistoric LostWorld where cavemen put them in a museum as exhibits.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Atlantis Squarepantis" ended with Plankton being shown as an exhibit in the Atlanteans' museum to replace the World's Oldest Bubble, which [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick had accidentally popped earlier.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow'' episode "Stranger Things", a clumsy robot plays with "the most dangerous thing on earth" (a BananaPeel). When he superiors see all the damage he had done over the course of the film, they declare him the new most dangerous weapon and put him on display.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "The Main Man", an alien known as the Preserver keeps endangered aliens in his zoo, in which he hired SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} to capture Superman. The Preserver also betrayed him after finding out that he is also endangered ([[WhereIWasBornAndRazed by his own volition]]) but the two escaped and defeated him. Superman took his zoo and placed them in the Fortress of Solitude.
* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "The Night Owl". Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and High Five Ghost are all [[HarmlessFreezing frozen in liquid nitrogen]] for a few thousand years by an evil radio DJ, who has a convoluted plan to build a museum exhibit around them so that he can become rich and powerful. But eventually, all four of them are unfrozen and try to escape via TimeMachine.
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