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Crosses over occasionally with [[Skeletons in the Coat Closet]], [[Genuine Human Hide]], and [[Having a Heart]]. Compare [[Battle Trophy]], [[Collector of the Strange]], [[Stalker Shrine]], [[Kitsch Collection]], [[Decapitation Presentation]]. Note that this is different from using body parts for [[Human Resources|religious, medical, magical, or other purposes]], although that's no less creepy.

 

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* One ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' short story centered on a man trying to become famous by growing the world's largest nose—and falling afoul of a collector of body oddities, who wanted to mount the nose on a plaque. Eventually, Judge Dredd finds his hideout, with an extensive collection of heads, arms, and other parts, each one notable in some way—and each one taken forcibly and likely fatally.

 

 

* Captain Love in ''[[The Mask of Zorro]]'' keeps his enemies' body parts in jars and [[I Am a Humanitarian|drinks from them]], supposedly to gain insight on their strategies. This becomes much creepier when he invites Alejandro to drink from the jar containing ''his own brother's head''.

* In ''[[Cube]] 2: Hypercube'', a man who's been in the Cube for some time starts killing and [[I Am a Humanitarian|eating others]] and wearing their watches/dog tags as souvenirs.

* ''[[Universal Soldier]]'' starts out with a rogue soldier killing Vietnamese civilians—to emphasize his insanity, he wears a necklace of human ears.

* The main villain from ''[[Battle Beyond the Stars]]'' collects limbs from people he killed - and use them to replace his own. This comes back to bite him when one of his victims was a member of a hivemind who could still control the arm and tried to strangle him.

 

== Gamebooks ==

* In ''The Chasm of Doom'', book 4 of his series, [[Lone Wolf]] can fight against a large Vassagonian warrior wearing [http://www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/04tcod/ill1.htm a necklace of shrunken heads].

 

== Literature ==

** The House of Bolton has a notorious reputation for [[Flaying Alive|flaying their enemies alive]] and wearing cloaks made out of their skin.

* In ''[[1632|1633]]'', Gunther Achterhof of the Magdeburg Committee of Correspondence was said to carry around the ears, noses, and [[Groin Attack|private parts]] of two soldiers he had killed before joining the CoC, in revenge for the killing of his family by an army passing through the area.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* In the season 8 finale episode of ''[[New Tricks]]'' "Tiger Tiger", the team discover that their victim {{spoiler|was the first victim of a [[Serial Killer]], who collected parts from his victims and stored them in old VHS tape boxes.}} To add to the creepiness factor, the bad guy kept the body parts in [[Punny Name]]d video cassette boxes too. The fingers were kept in a box marked "''Goldfinger''".

* [[The Nameless]] hitman in "Battleground" (adapted from the short story by [[Stephen King]]) collects trophies from his victims, usually a personal item from their room. When he murders a toymaker, it's implied that this habit enables his witch mother to track the hitman to his apartment.

* Ronon Dex of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has the handle of his faithful [[Ray Gun]] wrapped in Wraith hair. A [[Deleted Scene]] also has him showing Carter a necklace made from the fingerbones of Wraith he killed.

 

== Music ==

* [[Tom Lehrer]]'s song "I Hold Your Hand in Mine":

{{quote|''I hold your hand in mine, dear, / I press it to my lips.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* Jaqueline Montarri, a cursed villain from ''[[Ravenloft]]'', collects the [[And I Must Scream|animated still-conscious]] heads of women she's decapitated.

* In ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'', there is an ogre who fancies himself a sort of a samurai—his symbol is a collection of mons from samurai he killed, stitched together.

 

== Video Games ==

* In the Meet the Medic video for ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', [[Mad Doctor|the Medic]] is revealed to be keeping the living head of a Blu Spy in his refrigerator. The head asks for death when the medic is going through the fridge looking for something else.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''

** At one point, Belkar beheads Yikyik the kobold and wears his head as a hat. He later uses the head of Yokyok, the son of the first kobold, as a tortilla bowl.

 

== Western Animation ==