History Main / SlaveCollar

* Inverted in ''LightNovel/{{Inukami}}'' where Keita wears only a collar as a sign of his ownership of Yoko. The thing is that Yoko wants to play this trope straight, but Keita's hard-headedness forces her to use her overwhelming powers when she wants him to comply. Recall that Keita is the master in this relationship and Hilarity Ensues.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'', the entire population of Japan is forced to wear "Peace Makers", or [=PMs=], at all times, which are thin metal chokers paired with [[SuperWristGadget computer bracelets]] that constantly [[BigBrotherIsWatching monitor the user's speech, movements, and online activity]] [[CrapsackWorld to automatically report "obscenity" to the government]].

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' has [[FetishizedAbuser Loic]], a StalkerWithACrush who repeatedly offers one to the heroine of the second dating sim, Noelle, as part of his route's [[MultipleEndings Bad End]]. It's a [[AppliedPhlebotinum magical item]], made from the roots of a WorldTree, coming with a chain that ties to the master's wrist, and whenever the chain [[SummonMagic is summoned]], the victim is magically pulled towards the master. Loic puts it on Noelle, after blackmailing her into wedding him, only for the novel's protagonist, Leon, to [[WeddingSmashers crash the wedding]], lop Loic's arm off, and take the master half. Afterwards, [[CasualKink she and Leon flirt using it]], only to be walked in on by his fiancee.

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* Eureka and Anemone in ''Anime/EurekaSeven''. [[spoiler:It becomes important later because the BigBad collared them as part of his EvilPlan to destory the Scub Coral; the collars have a virus programed in it.]]

* Evvy from the ''Literature/{{Circleverse}}'' is also revealed to have been a slave and worn an iron collar, although no magical element is mentioned. Being a stone mage, she was able to break it with a rock and escape.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Beatrice makes Battler wear nothing but a collar with a chain leash, at the end of the second arc when he (temporarily) submits to her.

* As [[spoiler:Ako, Akira, and Natsumi]] from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' found out in an unfortunate way, people sold into slavery in the Magic World are forced to wear collars that would shock them anytime their master wishes to. And explode if you try to remove them by force. On the other hand, the collars do prevent masters from getting ''really'' abusive, and the shocks are not supposed to be used except in emergencies.
* [[DarkMagicalGirl Fate]] and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Reinforce]] from ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' wear red belts around their neck as part of their outfit to symbolize the domination that their EvilMatriarch and corrupted programming has over them respectively. [[HeelFaceTurn After they are freed from their respective metaphorical chains]], they continue to wear this as part of their outfit, likely because it also happens to look pretty hot.
* Juri's locket in ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' is a necklace variation of this. Its breaking at the end of her story symbolized her finally being free of her self-destructive, one-sided relationship with the person found inside the locket.
* All the ''Manga/DearS'' in the series of the same name. Being a slave race it's the [[PlanetOfHats hat]] they wear.

* Used humorously in ''Anime/{{Potemayo}}'', with Nene dragging around one of ThoseTwoGuys on a chain.
* Often used on cover art as a motif in ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'', though Soubi also has what appears to be a tattoo across his neck [[spoiler:but is actually a scar from where Seimei carved his name into Soubi's skin with a knife]] as a symbol of his obedience to Seimei.
* Shows up in numerous {{Hentai}} anime and manga, naturally.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The collar around the slaves' necks contains a bomb. Should the slave try to run away, the collar will explode, severely wounding (If not outright killing) the poor guy/girl. Only the slave's master (Or a real badass) can remove them safely. There's also a [[PowerNullifier Seastone version]] for Devil Fruit users. To add insult to injury, most slaves seen in the series are owned by the [[AristocratsAreEvil World Nobles]], horrible jackasses who are completely above the law.
* The collar worn by prisoners of ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' act as this. While their will is not suppressed and they have some slight freedom, they are forced to participate in the deadly and degrading games of the carnival or die from the collar's poison; which is injected into their bodies on a daily basis. While not initially lethal, it ensures that they do not attempt to rebel or escape, as the result will be death by poison after accumulated injection. Prisoners are encouraged to acquire and eat special candies, which contain an antidote to reduce the accumulated poison.

* In ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'', Chise is shown in the first scene shackled and collared at the slave auction. Shortly after purchasing her, Ellias says there is no need for them and dissolves the chains and collar with magic.
* Played with in ''Manga/DotHackLegendOfTheTwilight'', in one episode Shugo receives a dog collar as an event item, since The World has nothing doglike he at first is kinda downed by its apparent uselessness until Ouka (A werewolf) suggested that he could always put it on her. So while it's not a Slave Collar per se, Ouka... made her suggestion of being Shugo's dog/pet pretty clear. From that point onward she wears it in both wolf and human form. And while she doesn't seem to consider herself submissive to him she definitely behaves the other way sometimes. Mostly to tease Shugo.
-->'''Shugo:''' ''[Annoyed]'' Are you kidding me, what am going to do with this, you can't raise dogs in The World, can you?\\
'''Ouka:''' You could always... put it on me if you felt like it ''[Gets close to him while her Character-song plays]'' I wouldn't mind it flyboy.
** This subtext is made even stronger in the German Dub, while the first half of her answer is more or less the same the second half boiled down to that she [[IfItsYouItsOkay doesn't mind putting on a collar as long as it's his]].
** And then there's always her Character song, aptly named ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwiWAohAE5g "You Want To Have Me As Your Pet, Don't You...]]''
* In ''Anime/{{Endride}}'', the [[{{Tykebomb}} child assassin]] Mischa wears a collar as a sign of her status. It's unclear whether the collar contributed to the brainwashing or is merely symbolic, but its destruction by Demetrio is a major step in her reclaiming herself and her independence.

* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': The cat-girl Shakira wears a spiked collar in both human and cat forms. One storyline implies that she was the product of sorcerous experimentation as all of the sorcerer's other subjects wore identical collars. After defeating the sorcerer, Morgan takes the collar off and throws it away. Shakira retrieves it and puts it back on.
* In the premiere issue of Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}'s ''The Cat'' series, the newly empowered Shirlee Bryant naively dons a studded collar as part of her costume. Only then does her sponsor, Malcolm Donalbain, reveal that it is a "will-nullifier" that makes her obey him. Later, Donalbain attempts to place a will-nullifier on the similarly empowered Greer Nelson but she manages to escape, subsequently returning to put an end to his plans and launching her short-lived superheroine career.
* {{Averted|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/{{Incandescence}}''. Her collar is the source of her powers.

* In ''Fanfic/MaybeSproutWings'' patents on slave collars are the source of Castiel's family wealth and something which causes him great guilt and distress. He uses his fortune to free and rehabilitate slaves, including Dean Winchester.

* ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi]]'': Princess Leia is forced to wear a collar by Jabba the Hutt. (In fact, this seems to be standard attire for ''all'' his slaves.) At one point he yanks her around by a chain attached to the collar: she later [[KarmicDeath uses the chain to strangle him]].

* ''Film/PrincessOfMars'': When he is captured by the Tharks, John Carter has a slave collar placed around his neck and he is dragged along by a chain attached to it.

* Mercedes Lackey/Andre Norton's ''Literature/TheHalfBloodChronicles'':
** When the main characters in ''Literature/{{Elvenblood}}'' are taken prisoner by the Iron People, they are made to wear iron collars that block their natural magic talents.
** In ''Literature/TheElvenbane'', the elves use magical collars to control both their human slaves and elven subordinates.

* Timkin in Victor Kelleher's novel ''The Red King'' is forced to wear a slave collar.
* The A'dam of ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' looks like a leash with collar at one end and a bracelet at the other, and is not only a symbol but also affects direct control over its wearer. Only works on those with magical potential. [[spoiler: Both the master and the victim must have magical potential, and given the culture that led to using the A'dam in the first place... it's not a pretty revelation.]]
* Similarly, the Rada'han of ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth'' (the similarity is not accidental) suppresses the magical power of the wearer and can only be removed by another magic user.
** It's also standard practice for [[TortureTechnician Mord-Sith]] to put collars on their "pets".
* In Octavia Butler's ''[[Literature/ParableOfTheSower Parable]]'' series there are shock collars worn by slaves.

* ''Literature/CodexAlera'' features both conventional slave collars, which merely indicate that someone is a slave, and the far-creepier magical Discipline Collars, which kill if removed by anyone other than the one who put it on and can be used to give both pleasure (when they obey an order) and pain (when they disobey). Over time, those who are collared will gradually go insane. And the collars are used to create berserkers that will use any means to complete their orders, even if it kills or maims themselves in the process, and they ''enjoy'' it too. The only known way to beat a discipline collar is to [[spoiler: already be wearing one -- the furycrafting of the second collar doesn't take.]]
* {{Invoked}} in Creator/HBeamPiper's story "A Slave Is a Slave". A delegation of slaves (they do '''all''' the work) from the newly annexed planet Aditya mistakes Commodore Shatrak of the Galactic Empire's Space Navy for a slave because he wears the Knight's Star of the Order of the Empire on a collar ribbon (they wear slave collars), and he's bald (their heads are shaved). The commodore is '''not''' happy.
--->''Shatrak's face turned pink; the pink darkened to red. [[NarrativeProfanityFilter He used a word; it was a completely unprintable word.]] [[ClusterFBomb So, except for a few scattered pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions, were the next fifty words he used.]]''
* In Creator/RosemarySutcliff's ''[[Literature/TheDolphinRing Dawn Wind]]'', the enslaved hero wears this. After his master frees him, someone comments that he obviously had been wearing either a royal neckring or a slave collar.
** Aquila in ''The Lantern Bearers'' and Jestyn in ''Literature/BloodFeud'' also wear thrall-rings. For Aquila the scar is a physical reminder of the traumas of enslavement; for Jestyn its removal is when he becomes HeterosexualLifePartners with his erstwhile owner.
* ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'': Gurth, the swine-herd of Cedric, wears around his neck a soldered brass-ring, "resembling a dog's collar", with an inscription saying in "Saxon characters" that "Gurth, the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood." After he has saved his master's life, his master frees him, and the collar is ceremoniously sawed off.
* In Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/TrickstersDuet'', all slaves wear metal collars. The collars are enchanted to strangle any slave who goes out of a given range of a member of the owning family. The one exception is [[spoiler:the main character herself,]] who manages to get hers deactivated [[spoiler:on the grounds that she's serving a god.]]
** Evvy from the ''Literature/{{Circleverse}}'' is also revealed to have been a slave and worn an iron collar, although no magical element is mentioned. Being a stone mage, she was able to break it with a rock and escape.
* Members of the legions in ''Literature/TheStoneDanceOfTheChameleon'', who have been taken away from their tribes, wear metal collars. They are unable to remove these, thus the [[MasterRace Masters]] are always able to identify deserters.
* Jane Yolen's ''Literature/PitDragonChronicles'' trilogy features 'bond' slaves who wear collars with bags attached. The bag represents the price of their freedom; fill the bag, and the slave is free. It's a case of not as easy as it looks.

* In the ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'' novel ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycle Prophecy]]'' the Keldons outfit their slaves with collars that kill them if they try to take them off.
* In Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures professional bodyguard Alinadar wears a choker made of three intertwining chains to indicate her ownership by the Red Vixen.

* The ones in ''Literature/TheVipersScheme'' are functional as well as symbolical. Human mages created the collars to bind magic and make it impossible for the wearer to commit violence, making it safer for them to keep demons as slaves.
* In ''Literature/AWorldLessVisible'' Ash is initially forced to wear one, then later wears the collar of his rescuer as part of his healing process.
* ''Literature/HowARealistHeroRebuiltTheKingdom'': Slave collars are enchanted with a registered owner, and tighten if the wearer acts against them, up to decapitating the wearer on the spot if they severely harm or kill the owner. Of particular note: after Castor and Carla Vargas are taken prisoner in the CivilWar and then convicted of treason, Souma has collars put on them to control them. After having to ShootTheDog at least a dozen times during the conflict and surrounding power struggles in Elfrieden, he begins to worry about JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and [[MercyKillArrangement orders Carla to kill him if his reign ever turns tyrannical]], to which she agrees, knowing it will be a MutualKill because of her collar.
* {{Exploited}} in ''Literature/SurvivalInAnotherWorldWithMyMistress''. Slave collars work by reading the wearer's magical signature to detect them acting against their registered master, and then choking them when they do. Kousuke is able to take his on and off at will, because [[TrappedInAnotherWorld as a human from Earth]], he has no magic at all (his super crafting powers are apparently something completely different). He and Sylphy are able to use this to prove conclusively to the villagers and refugees that he has no connection to the human-supremacist Holy Kingdom.

* Inverted in ''LightNovel/{{Inukami}}'' where Keita wears only a collar as a sign of his ownership of Yoko. The thing is that Yoko wants to play this trope straight, but Keita's hard-headedness forces her to use her overwhelming powers when she wants him to comply. Recall that Keita is the master in this relationship and Hilarity Ensues.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Members of the Enterprise crew wear collars in two episodes: "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E16TheGamestersOfTriskelion The Gamesters of Triskelion]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain Spock's Brain]]". In each case, the collars are high-tech devices that can inflict pain on their wearers on command and are used for control purposes.
* In one alternate universe episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the captured Garak is restrained this way by Worf.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "The Keeper of Traken", the [[LivingStatue Melkur]] uses a collar to control [[LoveMakesYouEvil Kassia]].
** And considering [[TheMaster who was inside that statue]] at the time... he gets to wear one of his own in "The End of Time". And ''how''.

* ''Series/{{Survivors}}'' includes a period of forced labor in a coal mine for two of the main cast. The miners wear metal collars connected by a length of cable to help prevent escapes.

* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', slaves in Essos wear collars. This was part of Missandei's outfit, which she loses when she is given to Daenerys. Part of Daenerys' psychological warfare campaign against the slave masters of Meereen is to catapult barrels full of broken collars over the walls, signalling that she can and will free Meereen's slave population. Interestingly enough, Daenerys's own clothes in seasons three and four often incorporate a collar-like band. [[FridgeBrilliance A subtle "screw you" towards the masters?]]
* In the Series/{{Arrowverse}} crossover event ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'', the heroes are placed in power-dampening collars while imprisoned on Earth-X, even the ones who don't have powers. They double as shock collars.

* Considering it's called ''Slave Maker'', it would have made no sense at all for this to not show up.
* Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 5'', in Lee's ending. He forces Heihachi to serve him while wearing a speedo and this, doubling as a butterfly necktie (not made of leather). For bonus parts, Lee also plants a bomb on that 'collar' which first threatens Heihachi by giving him the image of the explosion at Honmaru (which nearly killed him) and for the second time, explodes for real (we never see). This is actually enough to make Heihachi go weak in his knees. HilarityEnsues.

* The prisoners in the Astral Prison in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate 2'' must wear cursed collars that reduce their stats and are impossible to remove with normal means.
* Lamia Loveless of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAdvance'' wears this as part of her standard outfit, symbolizing that she is an obedient doll towards the Shadow Mirror. But when she rebelled, she didn't throw it away, adding more points to her hotness. Predictably, not only she gets another hijinx where someone actually turns her BrainwashedAndCrazy (and surprisingly, both brainwashers FORGOT to put her collar back for extra symbolism), she also spends her normal times (especially in {{Fanon}}) as [[CoolBigSis Excellen's]] {{Uke}}.
* This is also a part of the standard outfit of Rider of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', which may imply her times being dominated by Shinji, who abuses the hell out of her [[spoiler:and implied to have raped her many times]], and her sisters Euryale and Stheno, who in the past used to bully her. This, fortunately, is not part of her {{Meganekko}} public look.
* It's a bit more complicated than some instances of this trope, but Presea Combatir from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' was in this situation regarding the crystal around her neck. And [[spoiler:Colette was headed down the same path before others intervened.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' have a play on this in Slaves' Bracers, which are left and right bracers worn by slaves that drain their magicka.
* Potemkin of ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' wears one. There used to be a bomb in it, and even without the bomb, it makes movement very difficult. He wears it as a reminder of what he's been through. This overlaps with PowerLimiter since step one of his [[OneHitKill Instant Kill]] is taking the collar off.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Terra was forced to wear a device called a slave crown to make her a puppet to Kefka's will at the start of the game, this is later nodded to in ''Duodecim VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' this time as an actual necklace, that once again makes her Kefka's puppet.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Fenris, a former slave, was once kept in one, and also apparently leashed. [[spoiler:Especially creepy once one considers that he was sexually abused, according to WordOfGod]].

* Darc in ''Videogame/ArcTheLadTwilightOfTheSpirits'' is enslaved in his backstory, and spends the first chapter wearing a slave collar that's enchanted to choke him if his mistress suspects he's being disobedient.

* [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Nagito Komaeda]] spends all of ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'' with a collar around his neck when acting as the Servant to the Warriors of Hope, a group of gifted kids leading a massacre of all adults in Towa City. Kurokuma at one point asks him if he's finally realized he's [[{{Leatherman}} Hard Gay]].
* Kuka, of ''VideoGame/PrincessConnectReDive'', is a raging masochist who willingly wears a slave collar at all times. Note that she's no one's slave (as much as she'd like to be Yuuki's), making it a stylistic choice for her.

* In ''Videogame/Borderlands2'', Handsome Jack developed specialized collars that can imprison Sirens, which act as a PowerLimiter that renders the captured Siren unable to use her powers. He uses this first on Angel, [[spoiler: his daughter]], in order to render her docile and controllable so she can channel Eridium to power the Vault Key, and later he [[spoiler:captures Lilith using a similar device]] and uses her to do the same thing.
* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Beatrice makes Battler wear one at the end of the second arc when he (temporarily) submits to her.

* In ''Webcomic/HolidayWars'', AprilFoolsDay has a watch attached to his wrist that lets the Easter Bunny control him, as seen [[http://www.th3rdworld.com/web-comic/Holiday-Wars/episode/Holiday-Wars-Episode-41 in this strip]].

* In ''Webcomic/DomainTnemrot'', this is how the slaves are controlled remotely.
* Slaves usually wear these in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' where slavery is just a part of the everyday economy. Liriel was the most notable example of wearing one until recently, even though she was closer to a PrettyFreeloader than an actual slave, which would have entailed taking orders, not spending all the time drunk, and so on.

* Naturally, fetish collars appear regularly in BDSM themed comic ''{{Webcomic/Sunstone}}''; all the subs have them. Most of them are leather but special mention goes to the one Alan provides Anne which is ''made of solid silver.''
* In ''[[{{Webcomic/Morphe}} morphE]]'' Amical puts collars on each of his new recruits when training mages. They cannot be taken off and [[ExplosiveLeash will not allow the wearer to escape his manor]]. When Billy argues that death collars are not a friendly gift, Amical responds that they must run in different circles.

* In the FiveEpisodePilot of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', COBRA uses special headbands, rather than collars, on enslaved citizens (and briefly, Scarlett and Duke) which could act like {{Shock Collar}}s or even control the wearer like a puppet if it had too. (Duke was subjected to the second effect by Destro in a gladiatorial fight, until Destro found it boring and stopped using it, just to make the fight interesting; the hero was quickly able to mop the floor with his foe on his own.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Amity's amulet functions as a symbolic one, as her mother uses it as a medium to give her orders telepathically via Oracle Magic. When she finally stands up to her parents in the climax of "Escaping Expulsion", she rips off the amulet and crushes it to drive home the point that she won't let herself be controlled anymore.

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* In ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'', cat-girl Shakira wears a spiked collar in both human and cat forms. One storyline implied that she was the product of sorcerous experimentation as all of the sorcerer's other subjects wore identical collars. After defeating the sorcerer, Morgan took the collar off and threw it away. Shakira retrieved it and put it back on.

** In the anime, Eve reads an Aesop fable which reads "If you put a bell around the neck of a bad cat, he'll become good, and you'll always know where he is." This causes her to take the bell-collar off of a stuffed animal (coincidentally a black cat) and try to force it on him. Her distrust was due to the fact that she was once his target, and was sent to kill her. After failing (sorta by choice) on the first attempt, he went after her again, but decided to spare her life and walk away.

* As [[spoiler:Ako, Akira and Natsumi]] from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' found out in an unfortunate way, people sold into slavery in the Magic World are forced to wear collars that would shock them anytime their master wishes to. And explode if you try to remove them by force. On the other hand, the collars do prevent masters from getting ''really'' abusive, and the shocks are not supposed to be used except in emergencies.

* Played with in ''Manga/DotHackLegendOfTheTwilight'', in one episode Shugo receives a dog collar as an event item, since The World has nothing doglike he at first is kinda downed by its apparent uselessness, until Ouka (A werewolf) suggested that he could always put it on her. So while it's not a Slave Collar per se, Ouka... made her suggestion of being Shugos dog/pet pretty clear. From that point onward she wears it in both wolf and human form. And while she doesn't seem to consider herself submissive to him she definitely behaves the other way sometimes. Mostly to tease Shugo.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The women of Mercury have enslaved their men and force them to wear collars that they can use to infilict pain if the men don't obey them.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The Sangtee Empire enslave women, stick them in manual labor jobs designed to work them to death and put them in shock collars to guard against escape attempts.

* Lex Luthor's "[[PowerNullifier IRONs]]" in ''Teen Titans: Together for Tomorrow'' have this vibe. As Damian's narration says, Luthor could have designed handcuffs or injectable microchips, but chose a collar because he liked the idea of a superhuman as his pet too much.

* The prisoners in the early part of ''Film/TheRunningMan'' wear collars which explode when taken past the perimeter of the work camp.

* Members of the legions in ''Literature/TheStoneDanceOfTheChameleon'', who haven been taken away from their tribes, wear metal collars. They are unable to remove these, thus the [[MasterRace Masters]] are always able to identify deserters.

* {{Exploited}} in ''Literature/SurvivalInAnotherWorldWithMyMistress''. Slave collars work by reading the wearer's magical signature to detect them acting against their registered master, and then choking them when they do. Kousuke is able to take his on and off at will, because [[TrappedInAnotherWorld as a human from Earth]], he has no magic at all (his super crafting powers powers are apparently something completely different). He and Sylphy are able to use this to prove conclusively to the villagers and refugees that he has no connection to the human-supremacist Holy Kingdom.

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Has [[FetishizedAbuser Loic]], a StalkerWithACrush who repeatedly offers one to the heroine of the second dating sim, Noelle, as part of his route's [[MultipleEndings Bad End]]. It's a [[AppliedPhlebotinum magical item]], made from the roots of a WorldTree, coming with a chain that ties to the masters wrist, and whenever the chain [[SummonMagic is summoned]], the victim is magically pulled towards the master. Loic puts it on Noelle, after blackmailing her into wedding him, only for the novels protagonist, Leon, to [[WeddingSmashers crash the wedding]], lop Loic's arm off, and take the master half. Afterwords, [[CasualKink her and Leon flirt using it]], only to be walked in on by his fiancee.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Members of the Enterprise crew wear collars in two episodes: "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E16TheGamestersOfTriskelion The Gamesters of Triskelion]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain Spock's Brain]]". In each case the collars are high tech devices that can inflict pain on their wearers on command, and are used for control purposes.

* Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 5'', in Lee's ending. He forces Heihachi to serve him while wearing a speedo, and this, doubling as a butterfly necktie (not made of leather). For bonus parts, Lee also plants a bomb on that 'collar' which first threatens Heihachi by giving him the image of the explosion at Honmaru (which nearly killed him) and for the second time, explodes for real (we never see). This is actually enough to make Heihachi go weak at his knees. HilarityEnsues.

* This is also a part of the standard outfit of Rider of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', which may imply about her times being dominated by Shinji, who abuses the hell out of her [[spoiler:and implied to have raped her many times]], and her sisters Euryale and Stheno, who in the past used to bully her. This, fortunately, is not part of her {{Meganekko}} public look.

* The ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' add on 'Shadows of Undrentide' has the player wearing a slave collar for the final chapter. It shocks them if they wander in the wrong direction and [[spoiler: shatters after the death of the slave master.]]

* Potemkin of ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' wears one. There used to be a bomb in it, and even without the bomb it makes movement very difficult. He wears it as a reminder of what he's been though. This overlaps with PowerLimiter, since step one of his [[OneHitKill Instant Kill]] is taking the collar off.

* "Shock collars" are commonplace in Imperial territories in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', as slavery is legal in the Sith Empire and said collars offer an easy way to keep the slaves in line--even powerful Force users. On more than one occasion, Imperial players will be tasked with putting shock collars on people, and on one notable occasion, a Sith Lord on on Belsavis sends his apprentice to be [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by an ancient spirit, while wearing a shock collar, so that when the spirit takes the bait, it has no choice but to obey the Sith.

* Mutalist Alad V from ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' owns a collar which he can throw at Tenno in order to control their warframes. He can also wear it himself to become invulnerable and perform a few other attacks. Getting to fight him in the first place requires fighting his experiment, the [[TheGunslinger Mesa]] warframe with the same collar on her neck, putting her under the control of the Infestation.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Beatrice makes Battler wear one at the end of the second arc, when he (temporarily) submits to her.

* ''Webcomic/{{Collar 6}}'' is ''named'' after this accessory (and "6" refers to one of the protagonists title). Due to the fact that pretty much everyone in the world practices BDSM, collars hold the same cultural significance as wedding rings.

* Slaves usually wear these in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' where slavery is just a part of the everyday economy. Liriel was the most notable example of wearing one until recently, even though she was closer to a PrettyFreeloader than an actual slave, which would have entailed taking orders, not spending all the time drunk and so on.

** It's often so important that entire rituals (again, like weddings) have been created around the presentation and clasping of a collar, and usually tailored individually to the Dom/sub involved. Such collars are often hand-made and/or custom-ordered. A single collar can hold an amazing amount of significance, and it's not uncommon for the dedicated to have multiple collars, each with a different purposes: training/discipline, standard around-the-house (usually the most significant one, often also the 'playtime' collar), and/or one for public appearances (which is often a bit more 'tasteful' for the general public, such as a common-looking necklace that perhaps locks in the back). Seriously, going into further details, customs, and variations could fill a page.
* TruthInTelevision. Binding hands and feet can still let someone struggle. Collar the neck and struggling becomes self strangulation.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** The body-hopper Malice manifests a black choker on whatever body she is inhabiting.
** Genoshan slaves have [[ClingyCostume full-body suits grafted directly to their skin]].

* In ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'' #12, Tigra is captured by an unseen foe while running through the woods. Later, Graviton turns up with Tigra lying at his feet in a collar and leash and defeats the rest of the WCA. He imprisons the others but keeps Tigra around with the goal of making her his pet.
** Another time, Tigra was captured by Kraven the Hunter, who put a MindControl collar on her and made her fight ComicBook/SpiderMan. Spidey realized that there was something odd about the collar and ripped it off, allowing them to team up to defeat Kraven.

* ''LightNovel/BeastTamerAndTheCatGirl'': When Rein first encounters the God Race kitsune girl Niina imprisoned in the mayor's mansion, he sees that her captor has placed a collar that forces her to obey. Rein is able to remove the collar because the magic it uses is similar to his own Beast Taming magic, but not before having to endure the ShockCollar feature it has to prevent such tampering.

* In ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'', Gurth, the slave of Cedric wears this. When he saves his master's life,his master frees him, and the collar is ceremoniously sawed off.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Beatrice makes Battler wear one at the end of the second arc, when he (temporarily) submits to her.

* Inverted in ''LightNovel/{{Inukami}}'' where Keita wears only a collar as a sign of his ownership of Yoko. The thing is that Yoko wants to play this trope straight, but Keita's hard-headedness forces her to use her overwhelming powers when she wants him to comply. Recall that Keita is the master in this relationship and Hilarity Ensues.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'', the entire population of Japan is forced to wear "Peace Makers", or [=PMs=], at all times, which are thin metal chokers paired with [[SuperWristGadget computer bracelets]] that constantly [[BigBrotherIsWatching monitor the user's speech, movements, and online activity]] [[CrapsackWorld to automatically report "obscenity" to the government]].

* [[TheDitz North Italy]] of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' wears one with the Ancient Roman slave costume that he wears for the ''Manga/Hetaween2011'' event. [[spoiler: And many other nations are wearing them by the FoodEnd of the event, thanks to Ancient Rome's attempt at making the costume popular.]]
* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Has [[FetishizedAbuser Loic]], a StalkerWithACrush who repeatedly offers one to the heroine of the second dating sim, Noelle, as part of his route's [[MultipleEndings Bad End]]. It's a [[AppliedPhlebotinum magical item]], made from the roots of a WorldTree, coming with a chain that ties to the masters wrist, and whenever the chain [[SummonMagic is summoned]], the victim is magically pulled towards the master. Loic puts it on Noelle, after blackmailing her into wedding him, only for the novels protagonist, Leon, to [[WeddingSmashers crash the wedding]], lop Loic's arm off, and take the master half. Afterwords, [[CasualKink her and Leon flirt using it]], only to be walked in on by his fiancee.
* ''LightNovel/BeastTamerAndTheCatGirl'': When Rein first encounters the God Race kitsune girl Niina imprisoned in the mayor's mansion, he sees that her captor has placed a collar that forces her to obey. Rein is able to remove the collar because the magic it uses is similar to his own Beast Taming magic, but not before having to endure the ShockCollar feature it has to prevent such tampering.

* ''LightNovel/BeastTamerAndTheCatGirl'': When Rain first encounters the God Race kitsune girl Niina imprisoned in the mayor's mansion, he sees that her captor has placed a collar that forces her to obey. Rain is able to remove the collar because the magic it uses is similar to his own Beast Taming magic, but not before having to endure the ShockCollar feature it has to prevent such tampering.

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Has [[BastardBoyfriend Loic]], a StalkerWithACrush who repeatedly offers one to the heroine of the second dating sim, Noelle, as part of his route's [[MultipleEndings Bad End]]. It's a [[AppliedPhlebotinum magical item]], made from the roots of a WorldTree, coming with a chain that ties to the masters wrist, and whenever the chain [[SummonMagic is summoned]], the victim is magically pulled towards the master. Loic puts it on Noelle, after blackmailing her into wedding him, only for the novels protagonist, Leon, to [[WeddingSmashers crash the wedding]], lop Loic's arm off, and take the master half. Afterwords, [[CasualKink her and Leon flirt using it]], only to be walked in on by his fiancee.

* In ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers]' #12, Tigra is captured by an unseen foe while running through the woods. Later, Graviton turns up with Tigra lying at his feet in a collar and leash and defeats the rest of the WCA. He imprisons the others but keeps Tigra around with the goal of making her his pet.

->''"I train my men to make sure the slaves' flesh bulges a bit around the top and bottom. [...] If you fit it just right, their body never gets used to the feeling of wearing it. It cuts in just enough when they swallow or turn their head to remind them who they belong to. And it's that constant reminder that keeps them docile."''

* ''ComicBook/XMen'' is an aversion; Genoshan slaves had full body suits grafted directly to their skin.

* In the premiere issue of Marvel's ''The Cat'' series, the newly-empowered Shirlee Bryant naively dons a studded collar as part of her costume. Only then does her sponsor, Malcolm Donalbain, reveal that it is a "will-nullifier" that makes her obey him. Later, Donalbain attempts to place a will-nullifier on the similarly-empowered Greer Nelson but she manages to escape, subsequently returning to put an end to his plans and launching her short-lived superheroine career.
* In ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers West Coast Avengers]]'' #12, Tigra is captured by an unseen foe while running through the woods. Later, Graviton turns up with Tigra lying at his feet in a collar and leash and defeats the rest of the WCA. He imprisons the others, but keeps Tigra around with the goal of making her his pet.

* Averted in ''ComicBook/{{Incandescence}}''. Her collar is the source of her powers.
* Malice, a body-hopper from The Marauders, manifests a black choker on whatever body she is inhabiting.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

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* Averted in [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2038305/chapters/4425591 this]] ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' fanfic; Diaval (who is a submissive in the BDSM sense of the word) states that he won't wear a slave collar. Which [[FridgeLogic is logical]] considering that he hates dogs in the film.

* ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi]]''. Princess Leia is forced to wear a collar by Jabba the Hutt. (In fact, this seems to be standard attire for ''all'' his slaves.) At one point he yanks her around by a chain attached to the collar: she later [[KarmicDeath uses the chain to strangle him]].

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-->'''Pidge''': We had this sort of running joke between us, about how whenever she turned round, there I was, and she did this joke about how I should have a bell on my collar. So I thought ... I'll send her a dog collar. With my name on it.\\
'''Gavin''': Pidge, ''mate''.\\
'''Pidge''': I know.\\
'''Gavin''': A dog collar, though? With your ''name'' on it?\\
'''Pidge''': I know! I can't explain. When I thought of it, it seemed, like, cute and playful and, you know, not weird. And I went and bought it and sent it, really quickly so I wouldn't have second thoughts, and then I had massive second thoughts.\\
'''Gavin''': Well, yeah. I mean...\\
'''Pidge''': I ''know''! Like, what am I saying? "I want to be your doggy"?\\
'''Gavin''': Yeah, or, like, a fetish thing?\\
'''Pidge''': Oh, God.

* Invoked in ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' musical, where The Phantom rips off the necklace on which Christine strung Raoul's engagement ring.
--> '''The Phantom:''' Your chains are still mine, you will sing for ''me''!

When you see someone wearing a collar (particularly the ones made of leather - and we're ''not'' [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant talking about the collar of a shirt]]), you can assume that they're under the control of someone else. It's also a popular device to use when brainwashing someone, and it may also be a part of a GoGoEnslavement routine. If it's part of a person's normal costume, it's usually intended to suggest that they're sexually adventurous, and often to suggest submission (though dominant types frequently wear them too). It's especially popular with characters on various levels of the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism who can justify it as basically the only article of "clothing" associated with animals. This is generally intended as fetish appeal (and even if it wasn't intended as such, will become fetish appeal anyway) because of the connotations of bondage and slavery.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' - In "The Cat Woman From Channel Six", Shredder mutates April into a catgirl, puts a mind control collar on her, and sends her to kill Splinter.
* Unlike the comics version, the Genosha arc in the ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' cartoon used explosive slave collars to force obedience of its captured mutants.

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', prisoners and slaves have their superpowers neutralised with specialised inhibitor collars. These collars can also administer electric shocks for behavioural control.

* ''LightNovel/TheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Has [[BastardBoyfriend Loic]], a StalkerWithACrush who repeatedly offers one to the heroine of the second dating sim, Noelle, as part of his route's [[MultipleEndings Bad End]]. It's a [[AppliedPhlebotinum magical item]], made from the roots of a WorldTree, coming with a chain that ties to the masters wrist, and whenever the chain [[SummonMagic is summoned]], the victim is magically pulled towards the master. Loic puts it on Noelle, after blackmailing her into wedding him, only for the novels protagonist, Leon, to [[WeddingSmashers crash the wedding]], lop Loic's arm off, and take the master half. Afterwords, [[CasualKink her and Leon flirt using it]], only to be walked in on by his fiancee.

* Often used on cover art as a motif in ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'', though Soubi also has what appears to be a tattoo across his neck [[spoiler:but is actually a scar from where Seimei carved his name into Soubi's skin with a knife]]as a symbol of his obedience to Seimei.

* A popular form of enslavement in some episodes of ''MyLittlePony'', usually in the form of chained metal collars.

''Spiked'' collars generally don't fall under this trope. TheChainsofCommanding is completely unrelated.