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* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': The Shame Wizard collects vintage Nazi dildos, disgusting [[EveryoneHasStandards even the Hormone Monsters]]. In "Girls are Angry Too," he's ashamed himself to be caught buying one at a Nazi meeting.

* ''Series/FatherTed'': Father Fitzpatrick has a room of his house devoted to WWII memorabilia, all of which turns out to be Nazi-themed. When Ted is shown the collection he asks if he has any items produced by the Allies, but Fitzpatrick dismissively responds that that sort of thing wouldn't interest him. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that Fitzpatrick is a full-on Nazi sympathizer and harboring an elderly Nazi fugitive in his house. When said fugitive Father Fitzpatrick accidentally kill themselves the collection gets passed to Tedd in Fitzpatrick's will and the ditzy housekeeper Mrs. Doyle sets it up in Tedd's living room to the horror of him and members of the local Chinese-Irish community he'd just invited over]].

This trope is a SubTrope of CollectorOfTheStrange, TheCollector might not necessarily have such a collection though a LivingDollCollector almost certainly does, it is also a SisterTrope of CreepySouvenir.

* ''Series/FatherTed'': Father Fitzpatrick has a room of his house devoted to WWII memorabilia, all of which turns out to be Nazi-themed. When Ted is shown the collection he asks if he has any items produced by the Allies, but Fitzpatrick dismissively responds that that sort of thing wouldn't interest him. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that Fitzpatrick is a full-on Nazi sympathizer and harboring an elderly Nazi fugitive in his house. When said fugitive Father Fitzpatrick accidentally kill themselves the collection gets passed to Tedd in Fitzpatrick's will and the ditzy housekeeper Mrs. Doyle sets it up in Tedd's living room to thehorror of him and members of the local Chinese-Irish community he'd just invited over.]].

* ''Series/FatherTed'': Father Fitzpatrick has a room of his house devoted to WWII memorabilia, all of which turns out to be Nazi-themed. When Ted is shown the collection he asks if he has any items produced by the Allies, but Fitzpatrick dismissively responds that that sort of thing wouldn't interest him. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that Fitzpatrick is a full-on Nazi sympathizer and harboring an elderly Nazi fugitive in his house]].

* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'': The Shadow Gallery both here and in the film stores a massive collection of items the Norsefire Government of Britain has outlawed and would very much like to see destroyed. In-universe politically correct British citizens would not be pleased with such a display and indeed Evie when she sees it is a bit taken aback. Another character has a smaller collection of his own, and when he's arrested and his house raided, it's used as part of the excuse to execute him for treason. Of course for the audience, the collections are intended to show their owners are far more open-minded them their contemporaries.

** Silus Vesuius is the owner of a museum dedicated to the Mythic Dawn, the ApocalypseCult that worshipped [[DestroyerDeity Mehrunes Dagon, Daedric Prince of Destruction]], assassinated Emperor Uriel Septim and caused the Oblivion Crisis [[Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion 200 years prior]]. He boasts about being descended from the cultist who murdered the emperor and wants their deeds to be remembered in spite of all the evil they did.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Extras}}'', Maggie is dating a black man. When she takes him back to her apartment, she remembers that she has a Golliwog doll on one of her shelves, and tries unsuccessfully to hide it from him.

* ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'': In "The Strange Museum", Mickey and Goofy are investigating mysterious disappearances -- including Minnie's. Remembering that an art museum employee had given her a strange look, they follow him. They find out that Minnie and the other missing people are frozen in a private museum of a count, who used to collect art objects until he grew tired of their "lifelesness". The employee is bribed to kidnap whoever looks like the count's favorite sculptures and paintings (Minnie looks like a flamenco dancer from a picture called ''Señorita''); the count has them (un)dressed like the originals, [[AndIMustScream then freezes the poor people with a chemical spray]] (it's never explained how the prisoners are fed). Funnily enough, the spray effect is ceased with a rumble, and Goofy, being Goofy... well, the result is obvious. One of the prisoners, a goose, is forced to sit naked in a ThinkerPose; when he wakes up, he's more annoyed because of the back pain than by his nudity, though he picks up a random cloth for modesty.

* ''WesternAnimation/NascarRacers'': More specific to the world of racing but this is what gives Lyle Owens his nickname, The Collector. An unscrupulous driver, Owens deliberately wrecks other drivers' cars during races, after which he rumored to keep a piece of the wreck as a trophy. We never get to see the collection, but Owens never denies the accusation and makes frequent comments about wanting to add the heroes to his collection. Needless to say, this makes him something of a pariah even amongst the villainous racers.

[[TheCollector Some people]] can collect all sorts of things, but some are less socially acceptable than others, due to being seen as weird, heretical or [[ArtifactOfDoom dangerous]] even if the collector doesn't want to offend the public's moral sensibilities. Just because a person collects EvilOverlord helmets doesn't mean he agrees with their [[RootingForTheEmpire policies]] (though he probably likes their [[VillainousFashionSense fashion sense]]). How a collector might deal with this problem can vary, some hide their collections from the public while others may display them publicly and take the criticisms in stride, [[SuperheroTrophyShelf heroes]] or [[ArtifactCollectionAgency various organizations]] might want to collect such things to keep them out of the wrong hands, serial killers might keep [[PastVictimShowcase mementos of their victims]] hidden away while [[LivingDollCollector some collectors might go so far as to collect people]]. It should be noted that due to ValuesDissonance, a collection that didn't start as one of these might have become one over time; for example, a British big game hunter living in India in the 1800s or so having a room full of taxidermied animals might not be seen as unusual by the general public at the time (i.e. the local Indian populace and his fellow Westerners), but his descendant living in London in the 2020s would find the general public of that era and that location to have a very different reaction.

Other forms of ValuesDissonance can come into play, since what might merely be considered harmless CollectorOfTheStrange behaviour in one place might be considered blasphemous in another. For example, a Muslim who collects Christian memorabilia might get some odd looks if he lived in the urban US or multicultural Singapore, but might find himself being dragged out of his house and beaten to death in rural Pakistan or parts of the Middle East where there's much less tolerance for that sort of thing.

* ''Manga/BeautyAndTheBeastOfParadiseLost'': La Medium has an extensive collection of beautiful faces she removes magically from the young women kidnapped by her minions. She became rich by selling some for noble women who want to change their looks, but she collects them especially for fun. The queen is horrified when she first sees the walls full of faces.

* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': Cancer Deathmask has the walls and the floor of his temple full with the heads of the people he killed, [[WouldHurtAChild including children]]. Shiryu decides to put an end on that when Seiya describes the place for him.

* ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'': In one story, a bored, reclusive millionaire decides to collect living people as a pastime. He first collected beautiful women, but he soon had enough of their futile, empty talk (it is a '60s story). Then, he decided to collect the most gifted people in the world: the greatest violinist, pianist, tenor, ballerina, and Mandrake, the greatest magician. The millionaire has them drugged and taken to his mansion in a remote island, where they wake up wearing shock collars. He orders them to give him a show with their gifts combined, promising that he'll free them afterward... brainwashed and hypnotized to forget their abilities, so nobody else will enjoy them! Despite their anger, the artists are forced to perform because of their shock collars; but, when it's Mandrake's turn, he hypnotizes the millionaire to think that he put a collar on himself. To avoid receiving a shock, the cowardly man deactivates the collars, placing himself at the mercy not only of his angry victims, but also of his enslaved servants. Instead of sending him to prison, the group destroys all communications on the island and all the vehicles except the plane they use to flee, stranding the selfish millionaire, who is abandoned to live off the island resources alone.

* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'': The Shadow Gallery both here and in the film stores a massive collection of items the Norsefire Government of Britain has outlawed and would very much like to see destroyed. In universe politically correct British citizens would not be pleased with such a display and indeed Evie when she sees it is a bit taken aback. Another character has a smaller collection of his own, and when he's arrested and his house raided, it's used as part of the excuse to execute him for treason. Of course for the audience the collections are intended to show their owners are far more open minded them their contemporaries.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1992'': Rare good guy example with Ariel's collection of human artifacts. Humans are fish eating monsters as far as the merfolk are concerned, particularly in King Triton's eyes. That Ariel has a whole grotto full of human stuff is considered appalling, and her father ends up destroying the collection trying to get her to see how dangerous humans are.

* The Franchise/{{Predator}} franchise: Predators collect skulls of the prey they hunt. There are two kinds of Predators, the regular kind and the so called Black Predators who are less like hunters and more like serial killers; the collections of the former aren't this trope but the latter are because by the standards of mainstream Predator culture they collect "normal" trophies while Black Predators collect trophies from creatures who can't fight back like children, which normal Predators find dishonorable.
* ''Film/RatRace'': Randy Pearl and his family visit the Barbie Museum, because his daughter thought it was about the Barbie doll. Actually, it is dedicated to the Nazi Klaus Barbie and maintained by a sinister group of neo-Nazis. Since the Pearls are Jewish, they are properly horrified -- though not above stealing Adolf Hitler's Mercedes, after other racers sabotage their car.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Schtonk}}'', a satirical, partially fictionalized take on the real life Hitler Diaries scandal. Karl Lenz, a factory owner and NaziNobleman, hosts "a birthday party for the Führer", during which he unveils what he believes is a diary from Hitler himself (in truth a forgery by Fritz Knobel, the fictionalised version of real-life Hitler Diary forger Konrad Kujau). While initially careful to only share their interests with those sympathetic to them, the resulting Nazi craze thanks to the sensational discovery of Hitler's Diaries causes many Nazi aficionados to begin publicly and proudly speak about their collections... which comes back to bite them once the diaries are found to be fake.
* In ''Film/VForVendetta'', Gordon Dietrich owns a copy of Literature/TheQuran, stating that while he does not practice Islam, he still finds it beautiful. The problem is that he lives in a fascist, fundamentalist Christian police state that has [[IllegalReligion made Islam illegal]], to the point that even possessing a Qur'an is ''punishable by death''. No points for guessing what Norsefire do to him when they find out.

* ''Literature/TheHollowPlaces'': The Wonder Museum's centrepiece -- the preserved and mounted body of an endangered Amazon river otter -- is among the set of its exotic taxidermy all donated by one man, who very likely shot some of them himself. It's an impressive collection and he clearly took a lot of pride in it, but none of his children shared his passion, and since most of his specimens pre-dated the legal requirements for certification of origin, donating them to the Wonder Museum was his only alternative to letting them be destroyed. Kara doesn't care for how he obtained them, but admits she does feel bad for the donor.

* Invoked in ''Literature/TheScarletPimpernel'': An old woman leaving Paris in a cart shows to Sergeant Bibot her whip adorned with aristocrats' locks, saying she obtained them with the executioner. Despite having a sadistic pleasure into unmasking and arresting aristocrats sentenced to death, Bibot feels repulsed at her small collection. [[spoiler: Actually, the old woman is the Scarlet Pimpernel in disguise and helping a family of nobles to run from Paris, so he disgusts the sergeant on purpose to be turned away.]]

* Used in ''Selling Hitler'' (a BlackComedy-drama based on the real life Hitler Diaries scandal) to highlight the character flaws of Gerd Heidemann, the journalist who first brought the diaries to the attention of his bosses in the venerable magazine ''Stern''. In the first episode he's sent to photograph the decaying state of Hermann Göring's personal yacht the ''Carin II'', and falls in love with it to the point he purchases it and spends his own savings restoring it. His friends are at first amused by this, since he's known to develop obsessions towards his journalistic targets (his nickname among ''Stern'' staffers is "The Bloodhound"). However, they quickly become alarmed when he somehow recovers the yacht's original furnishings and reveals he got them from Göring's daughter Edda. [[note]] They become even more alarmed when he mentions Edda is coming to see the restored yacht... [[FromBadToWorse along with two friends from "the old days"]]. [[/note]] Throughout the series he pockets much of the money given by ''Stern'' to pay for the other diaries in order to purchase even more Nazi memorabilia.

** In "I Am the Walrus", Principal Lewis is shown to owns five of the ten Mickey Mouse watches made that has him wearing an S.S. uniform.

** In one episode the Smiths try to shift the blame for multiple crimes Stan has (mistakenly) been accused of onto Roger's JerkAss co-worker. After searching the co-worker's house the police find zero evidence of the crimes he's accused of, but do find his very large collection of Nazi memorabilia, which is enough for the Jewish detective in charge of the investigation to bring him in.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': One episode dealt with the Planeteers trying to find an important cultural artifact for a Native American friend. In doing so, they come across a shop selling South American tribal masks, which Linka comments on the beauty of. Ma-Ti, who is from South America, points out that the masks have significant importance to the tribes they come from and reducing them to a simple decoration is disrespectful. Linka admonishes him, stating that they are beautiful works of art and that it's not as if the shop is selling artifacts from the Saint Petersburg Cathedral. A shopkeeper, overhearing the last part of the conversation, apologizes that the shop is out of paintings from St. Petersburg Cathedral, but they do have plenty statues from minor Russian churches if she's interested. Linka is horrified at this, only to realize Ma-Ti's point.

* ''WesternAnimation/NascarRacers'': More specific to the world of racing but this is what gives Lyle Owens his nickname, The Collector. An unscrupulous driver, Owens deliberately wrecks other drivers' cars during races, after which he rumored to keep a piece of the wreck as a trophy. We never get to see the collection, but Owens never denies the accusation and makes frequent comments about wanting to add the heroes to his collection. Needless to say this makes him something of a pariah even amongst the villainous racers.

* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In "Launch", Horde Prime takes Glimmer to a room full of the "tokens" from the planets he destroyed. Among other things, there are weapons, animal heads, framed insects and even some flowers; most things would be considered acceptable in Earth or Etheria, except that they are everything left from their respective planets, and Prime rubs that on Glimmer's face to convince her to tell him more about the Heart of Etheria. [[spoiler: The collection ends up becoming a ChekhovsGun much later: after Glimmer is rescued and comes back to save Catra, she uses one of the spears to fight the clones.]]

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* ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'': In one story, a bored, reclusive millionaire decides to collect living people as a pastime. He first collected beautiful women, but he soon had enough of their futile, empty talk (it is a '60s story). Then, he decided to collect the most gifted people in the world: the greatest violinist, pianist, tenor, ballerina, and Mandrake, the greatest magician. The millionaire has them drugged and taken to his mansion in a remote island, were they wake up with shock collars. He orders them to give him a show with their gifts combined, promising that he'll free them afterward... brainwashed and hypnotized to forget their abilities, so nobody else will enjoy them! Despite their anger, the artists are forced to perform because of their shock collars; but, when it's Mandrake's turn, he hypnotizes the millionaire to think that he put a collar on himself. To avoid receiving a shock, the cowardly man deactivates the collars, placing himself at the mercy not only of his angry victims, but also of his enslaved servants. Instead of sending him to prison, the group destroys all communications on the island and all the vehicles except the plane they use to flee, stranding the selfish millionaire, who is abandoned to live off the island resources alone.

* In ''Film/VForVendetta'', Gordon Dietrich owns a copy of Literature/TheQuran, stating that while he does not practice Islam, he still finds it beautiful. The problem is that he lives in a fascist, fundamentalist Christian police state that has [[IllegalReligion made Islam illegal]], to the point that even owning a Qur'an is ''punishable by death''.

* In ''Film/VForVendetta'', Gordon Dietrich owns a copy of Literature/TheQuran, stating that while he does not practice Islam, he still finds it beautiful. The problem is that he lives in a fascist, fundamentalist Christian police state that has [[IllegalReligion made Islam illegal]], to the point that even owning a Qu'ran is ''punishable by death''.

* In ''Film/VForVendetta'', Gordon Dietrich owns a copy of the Quran, stating that while he does not practice Islam, he still finds it beautiful. The problem is that he lives in a fascist, fundamentalist Christian police state that has [[IllegalReligion made Islam illegal]], to the point that even owning a Qu'ran is ''punishable by death''.

* In ''Film/VForVendetta'', Gordon Dietrich owns a copy of the Quran, stating that while he does not practice Islam, he still finds it beautiful. The problem is that he lives in a fascist, fundamentalist Christian police state.

This trope is a SubTrope CollectorOfTheStrange, TheCollector might not necessarily have such a collection though a LivingDollCollector almost certainly does, it is also a SisterTrope of CreepySouvenir.

* The Franchise/{{Predator}} franchise: Predators collect skulls of the prey they hunt, there are two kinds of Predators, the regular kind and the so called Black Predators who are less like hunters and more like serial killers, the collections of the former aren't this trope but the latter are because by the standards of mainstream Predator culture they collect "normal" trophies while Black Predators collect trophies from creatures who can't fight back like children, which normal Predators find dishonorable.

* ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'': In one story, a bored, reclusive millionaire decides to collect living people as a past time. He first collected beautiful women, but he soon had enough of their futile, empty talk (it is a '60s story). Then, he decided to collect the most gifted people in the world: the greatest violinist, pianist, tenor, ballerina, and Mandrake, the greatest magician. The millionaire has them drugged and taken to his mansion in a remote island, were they wake up with shock collars. He orders them to give him a show with their gifts combined, promising that he'll free them afterward... brainwashed and hypnotized to forget their abilities, so nobody else will enjoy them! Despite their anger, the artists are forced to perform because of their shock collars; but, when it's Mandrake's turn, he hypnotizes the millionaire to think that he put a collar on himself. To avoid receiving a shock, the cowardly man deactivates the collars, placing himself at the mercy not only of his angry victims, but also of his enslaved servants. Instead of sending him to prison, the group destroys all communications on the island and all the vehicles except the plane they use to flee, stranding the selfish millionaire, who is abandoned to live off the island resources alone.

* ''Series/{{ICarly}}'': In the second half of "iDate a Bad Boy", Griffin, the titular bad boy, is revealed to have a collection of Peewee Babies, which are mini stuffed toys for little girls. The rest of the cast is disgusted by this revelation and it leads to him and Carly breaking up.

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* In ''Literature/TheCurseOfChalion'' the physician Rojeras collects tumors, and asks permission to collect Cazaril's tumor after his death. Cazaril is both horrified and curious, and Rojeras explains that he keeps the tumors in jars of wine spirits to study. "I know it sounds gruesome, but I keep hoping?if only I learn enough, someday I will understand, someday I will be able to find some way to keep these things from killing people."

* ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'' In a story, a bored, reclusive millionaire decides to collect living people as a past time. He first collected beautiful women, but he soon had enough of their futile, empty talk (it is a '60s story). Then, he decided to collect the most gifted people in the world: the greatest violinist, pianist, tenor, ballerina, and Mandrake, the greatest magician. The millionaire has them drugged and taken to his mansion in a remote island, were they wake up with shock collars. He orders them to give him a show with their gifts combined, promising that he'll free them afterward... brainwashed and hypnotized to forget their abilities, so nobody else will enjoy them! Despite their anger, the artists are forced to perform because of their shock collars; but, when it's Mandrake's turn, he hypnotizes the millionaire to think that he put a collar on himself. To avoid receiving a shock, the cowardly man deactivates the collars, placing himself at the mercy not only of his angry victims, but also of his enslaved servants. Instead of sending him to prison, the group destroys all communications on the island and all the vehicles except the plane they use to flee, stranding the selfish millionaire, who is abandoned to live off the island resources alone.

[[TheCollector Some people]] can collect all sorts of things, but some are less socially acceptable than others, due to being seen as weird, heretical or [[ArtifactOfDoom dangerous]] even if the collector doesn't want to offend the public's moral sensibilities. Just because a person collects EvilOverlord helmets doesn't mean he agrees with their [[RootingForTheEmpire policies]] (though he probably likes their [[VillainousFashionSense fashion sense]]). How a collector might deal with this problem can vary, some hide their collections from the public while others may display them publicly and take the criticisms in stride, [[SuperheroTrophyShelf heroes]] or [[ArtifactCollectionAgency various organizations]] might want to collect such things to keep them out of the wrong hands, serial killers might keep [[PastVictimShowcase memento's of their victims]] hidden away while [[LivingDollCollector some collectors might go so far as to collect people]]. It should be noted that due to ValuesDissonance, a collection that didn't start as one of these might have become one over time; for example, a British big game hunter living in India in the 1800s or so having a room full of taxidermied animals might not be seen as unusual by the general public at the time (i.e. the local Indian populace and his fellow Westerners), but his descendant living in London in the 2020s would find the general public of that era and that location to have a very different reaction.

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* ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'' In a story, a bored, reclusive millionarian decides to collect living people as a past time. He first collected beautiful women, but he soon had enough of their futile, empty talk (it is a 60s story). Then, he decided to collect the most gifted people in the world: the greatest violinist, pianist, tenor, ballerina and Mandrake, the greatest magician. The millionaire has them drugged and taken to his mansion in a remote island, were they wake up with shock collars. He orders them to give him a show with their gifts combined, promising that he'll free them, afterwards... brainwashed and hypnotized to forget their habilities, so nobody else will enjoy them! Despite their anger, the artists are forced to perform because of their shock collars; buutt, when it's Mandrake's turn, he hypnotizes the millionaire to think that he put on him his own collar. To not receive a shock, the coward man deactivates the collars, geting at the mercy not only of his angry victims, but of his servants, who were his slaves, too. Instead of sending him to prison, the group destroys all the communication on the island and all the vehicles except the plane they use too flee, stranding the selfish millionaire, who is abandoned to live off the island resources and all alone.
* ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'': In "The Strange Museum", Mickey and Goofy are investigating mysterious disappearances - including Minnie's. Remembering that an art museum employee had given her a strange look, they follow him. They find out that Minnie and the other missing people are frozen in a private museum of a count, who used to collect art objects until he grew tired of their "lifelesness". The employee is bribed to kidnap whoever looks like the count's favorite sculptures and paintings (Minnie looks like a flamenco dancer from a picture called ''Señorita''); the count has them (un)dressed like the originals, [[AndIMustScream then freezes the poor people with a chemical spray]] (it's never explained how the prisoners are fed or drunk). Funnily enough, the spray effect is ceased with a rumble, and Goofy, being Goofy... well, the result is obvious. One of the prisoners, a goose, is forced to sit naked in a ThinkerPose; when he wakes up, he's more annoyed because of the back pain than by his nudity, though he picks up a random cloth for modesty.

* ''Film/RatRace'': Randy Pearl and his family visit the Barbie Museum, because his daughter thought it was about the Barbie doll. Actually, it is dedicated to the Nazi Klaus Barbie and maintained by a sinister group of neo-Nazis. Since the Pearls are Jewish, they are properly horrified - though not above stealing Adolf Hitler's Mercedes, after other racers sabotage their car.

* ''Literature/TheHollowPlaces'': The Wonder Museum's centrepiece - the preserved and mounted body of an endangered Amazon river otter - is among the set of its exotic taxidermy all donated by one man, who very likely shot some of them himself. It's an impressive collection and he clearly took a lot of pride in it, but none of his children shared his passion, and since most of his specimens pre-dated the legal requirements for certification of origin, donating them to the Wonder Museum was his only alternative to letting them be destroyed. Kara doesn't care for how he obtained them, but admits she does feel bad for the donor.

* This is a recurring controversy in the military modelling and wargaming communities. Here on TV Tropes, the NoSwastikas page covers the situation in general. While complete accuracy in miniature models of the [=WW2=] period demands use of emblems like the Nazi swastika or the Italian ''fasces'', both modern Germany and modern Italy have laws against their display. Modellers and collectors with an interest in [=WW2=] Germany can find their interest is treated with suspicion and their collecting can be equated with Nazi sympathy. Facebook has been known to come down hard on modelling/collecting/wargaming pages displaying photos of Nazi topics with prominent swastikas, and this suspicion has also been extended to other eras - American Civil War collectors have pointed out the Confederacy's flags are rather unavoidable in context, but their use in the USA by far-right or racist groups has splashed suspicion on the modellers.

-->'''Professor Farnsworth''': Doomsday device? Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court! I suppose I could part with ''one'' and still be feared...

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* ''Series/FatherTed'': Father Fitzpatrick has a room of his house devoted to WWII memorabilia, all of which turns out to be Nazi-themed. When Ted is shown the collection he asks if he has any items produced by the Allies, but Fitzpatrick dismissively responds that that sort of thing wouldn't interest him.

[[TheCollector Some people]] can collect all sorts of things, but some are less socially acceptable than others, due to being seen as weird, heretical or [[ArtifactOfDoom dangerous]] even if the collector doesn't want to offend the public's moral sensibilities. Just because a person collects EvilOverlord helmets doesn't mean he agrees with their [[RootingForTheEmpire policies]] (though he probably likes their [[VillainousFashionSense fashion sense]]). How a collector might deal with this problem can vary, some hide their collections from the public while others may display them publicly and take the criticisms in stride, [[SuperheroTrophyShelf heroes]] or [[ArtifactCollectionAgency various organizations]] might want to collect such things to keep them out of the wrong hands, serial killers might keep [[PastVictimShowcase memento's of their victims]] hidden away while [[LivingDollCollector some collectors might go so far as to collect people]]. It should be noted however that due to ValuesDissonance a collection may not have started as one of these but might have become one over time, for example if a British big game hunter living in India circa the 1800s or so having a room full of stuffed animals might not be seen as unusual the general public at the time (i.e. the local Indian populace and his fellow Westerners) , but his descendant living in London in the 2020s would find the general public of that era and that location would have a very different reaction.

A certain amount of ValuesDissonance can come into play, since what might merely be considered harmless CollectorOfTheStrange behaviour in one place might be considered blasphemous in another. For example, a Muslim who collects Christian memorabilia might get some odd looks if he lived in the urban US or multicultural Singapore, but might find himself being dragged out of his house and beaten to death in rural Pakistan or parts of the Middle East where there's much less tolerance for that sort of thing.

* ''Film/AceVentura'': In an effort to get one over on Ace Ventura, who's gone to great lengths to be insulting to his guests, British Consulate Vincent Candy decides to give Ace a treat, one animal lover to another. He proceeds to show Ace his game room, a huge space filled with dozens and dozens of taxidermied animal heads, many endangered. The Pet Detective reacts about as well as you'd expect a semi-insane animal rights activist to.

* ''Series/DrWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E2ThePiratePlanet The Pirate Planet]]", the Captain shrinks inhabited planets into small, portable balls that he keeps in his trophy room. When the Doctor realizes what the Captain is doing he reacts with absolute fury at the pointless waste of life.