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Even after [[Growing Up Sucks|growing up takes that delight away]], many adults still enjoy keeping or adding to such a collection as a [[Kitsch Collection|Kitschy hobby]]. However, there are some adults who had a less than ideal childhood, breaking their minds to such an extent that only a fantasy where they have complete control can make sense. And dolls? They just don't cut it anymore.
Enter the Living Doll Collector. He or she will collect people, dead or alive, as if they were dolls and use them in macabre mimicry of their maddened imagination. There are a lot of variations here; the people may be kidnapped strangers, [[Stalker
If the collector has powers, this gets a ''lot'' creepier.
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If he or she can make [[People Puppets]], then the [[And I Must Scream|still conscious]] puppets will be forced to do things against their will. Someone with powerful enough [[Hypnotic Eyes]] or [[Mind Control]] techniques can eventually program people to be anything from [[Empty Shell|empty automatons]] to actually believing they're the collector's long [[Dead Little Sister]]. A necromancer might dress up their zombies as [[Maid|maids]] and butlers, and even lovingly comb their (remaining) hair, preferring their company to that of the living. The [[Hive Queen]] [[God Save Us From the Queen|may do this to her drones.]]
It's also possible the collector was a completely normal person once upon a time, and has simply fallen to the [[Power Perversion Potential]] of their abilities by treating people less like people and more like, well, ''dolls.'' For a deranged enough collector, [[Interrogation
It's worth mentioning that sometimes the living doll turns out to not be quite so under their control after all and is basically playing along. Maybe [[More Than Mind Control|because they like the game]], or in order to stage an escape.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* [[Monster Clown|Piedmon]] does a variation in ''[[
** Sora put it best, "What kind of sicko turns people into keychains" indeed.
* In ''[[Slayers]] Next'' this happens in the legendary haunted tower. {{spoiler|The culprit ''almost'' collects Lina and her group, as whoever loses their challenges is transformed into a doll.}}
* Sabrina in the ''[[Pokémon (
* ''[[Naruto]]'' has [[Mad Artist|Sasori of the Red Sand]], who turns humans {{spoiler|including himself}} into his ninja puppets, which have the same abilities they had in life. He can use up to 100 at a time; he has ''more''.
** A more benevolent version is Sasori's grandmother, Chiyo -- who actually taught him how to make these puppets. She's able to use merely 10 dolls [[Badass Grandma|with even more skill than he does.]] {{spoiler|And two of these dolls are... the corpses of Sasori's murdered parents. Which, with some help from Sakura, she uses to finally defeat and kill him.}}
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* The first ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' anime has a character who kidnaps young women and attaches their souls to dolls he made to look like his disappeared girlfriend. Made all the creepier when {{spoiler|the girlfriend returns years later and he rejects her for the lifeless doll}}.
* ''[[Count Cain|Godchild]]'' has Rebecca, a [[Evil Cripple|crippled girl]] who's been turning people she "[[Love Makes You Evil|loves]]" into dolls. She has two methods: place a victim's hair, teeth, and bones into a doll that looks just like them so their soul gets trapped inside their "[[Soul Jar|human-shaped coffin]]," or drug her victim into a vegetative state so they'll become a "living doll" that she can dress up however she pleases while her equally-insane housekeeper takes care of their physical needs.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', Ryou Bakura is an unwilling one of these, as his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] has a nasty habit of trapping his friend's souls in cute little figurines.
* Terrence D'arby from ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure
* More than one Shinma from ''[[Vampire Princess Miyu]]'' is like this.
* Kirakishou from ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' is a strange case... a living doll that collects humans like they were dolls.
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== Comic Books ==
* In the ''[[
* [[Marvel Comics]] gives us the Puppet Master and the Purple Man. One used radioactive (later revealed to be magical) clay to control people like puppets, the other uses pheromones to make them do his every bidding.
* One Cobweb story in an issue of ''[[Tomorrow Stories]]'' featured a [[Mad Scientist]] who used a shrink ray to turn women into literal 'living dolls'.
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* In ''[[Attack Of The Puppet People]]'' a [[Mad Scientist]] turns people [[Incredible Shrinking Man|action figure-sized]], and stores them, taking them out once in a while in order to make them "play" for his amusement.
* ''[[The Cell]]''. A [[Serial Killer]] abducts women, drowns them, bleaches their corpses and then masturbates whilst hanging himself above them by chains attatched to rings in his back before dumping them out by the highway.
* Naturally, ''[[The Collector (
* The guy from ''[[Love Object]]'' abducts a woman and tries to "transform" her (via a makeover and an attempted infusion of embalming fluid) into a replicate of the sex doll he ordered and grew obsessed with. {{spoiler|The ending of the film (his victim dies before he can complete the process, and he [[Karma Houdini|gets away]]) implicates he will try to do it to another woman.}}
* The villain from ''The Devil Doll'' abducted people and transformed them into ''literal'' living dolls: action-figure-sized mini-assassins propelled by the force of his own will. Not nearly as squicky as most examples, although he does sometimes treat the "dolls" with the affection due an obedient pet.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Coraline (
* The ship (and its resident AI) ''Sleeper Service'' in Iain M. Bank's ''[[The Culture|Excession]]'' contains huge recreations of battle scenes, with every soldier represented by a living being held in some sort of stasis field. In a subversion, they are all volunteers happy to be part of such a work of art.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' and ''[[
== Video Games ==
* The first ''[[
** You can with careful dialogue choices, get him to realize they're not his family, it causes him to destroy the zombies before attacking (otherwise, he'd attack you with the zombies).
* A creepy serial killer like this pops up in the ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] "The Taxidermist".
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== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', the Creature in the Darkness kept a paralyzed O-Chul as a playmate for a while, calling him Mr. Stiffly and holding tea parties with him.
== Western Animation ==
* The villain in the [[Pilot Movie]] of ''[[
* In one "Treehouse of Terror" segment on ''[[The Simpsons (
* On ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', a toy collector has every piece of Powerpuff merchandise ever, yet felt that his collection was incomplete without the girls themselves. So he kidnaps them and puts them in boxes.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Avatar]]'''s Hama uses her [[People Puppet|Bloodbending]] skills to kidnap random [[The Empire|Fire Nation]] civilians and keep them locked up in a cave. She also has a bunch of regular puppets she keeps locked in a cabinet in her house: this is so that, if her victims are discovered, she can claim it was at least [[Fore Shadowed]].
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