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{{trope}}
We all have
The
For extra bonus points, taxidermy it, because [[Taxidermy Is Creepy]]. The character might have an entire [[Trophy Room]] of such things. Particularly disturbed individuals may carry the items around with them wherever they go.
Crosses over occasionally with [[Skeletons in
▲[[No Real Life Examples Please]] -- this has been common practice throughout human existence, from shrunken heads to scalping, but documenting real examples is tasteless and not our job. If you're interested in learning more, see [[The Other Wiki]]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trophy_collecting article on the subject].
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== Comic Books ==
* Mr. Zsasz from the ''[[Batman]]'' comics carves a line into his body every time he kills someone. He has them all over his body, notched in fives.
* Perhaps the strangest example is consul Enshu Atsukau from ''[[Sillage]]'': he uses his telepathy to seduce females of various species. The addition to his harem is marked by a connection to a machine that links their neural systems to his in a permanent empathic
* One ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' short story centered on a man trying to become famous by growing the world's largest
== Fan Works ==
* In [[Real Person Fic]], ''[http://fav.me/ddb26fk Seeing is Believing]'', both [[Spice Girls| Victora and Melanie]] were both kidnapped and subjected to [[Unwilling Roboticisation]] by a [[Mad Scientist]]. Both of them are left with biomechanical replacements of most of their original bodies. his included their eyes. {{Spoiler|Their original eyes were surgically removed}} and replaced with [[Electronic Eyes]]. {{Spoiler|The eyes were preserved, allowing both of them to keep them.}} The narrator understood this was common for people kept remains of their original body parts.
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* 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.
* The [[Predator]] collects skulls from its prey, including intelligent ones. We get to see a very impressive display at the end of the second movie, including the elongated skull of a [[Alien|Xenomorph]], laying down the foundation for the ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]'' franchise.
* General Grievious from ''[[Star Wars]]'' carries a collection of lightsabers from the Jedi he has killed.
* ''[[Universal Soldier]]'' starts out with a rogue soldier killing Vietnamese
* 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 Bone Collector]]'' is about a murderer whose [[Signature Style]] involves removing bones from each of his victims.
* The famous French short story "La Main" ("The Hand") by [[Guy
* In ''[[False Memory]]'' by [[Dean Koontz]], [[Psycho Psychologist|Dr. Ahriman]] has his father's eyes. Literally. He seems to have some kind of twisted fetish for eyes and tears.
* In one short story, an assassin kills a man who turns out to be a serial killer (which is a part of a larger plot between
* In ''Savages of [[Gor]]''/''Blood Brothers of Gor'', the Red Savages ([[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] to Plains Indains) regularly scalp their enemies.
* Bennat Ladradun in [[Tamora Pierce|Tamora Pierce's]] ''Circle Universe'' keeps a shelf full of mementos that he takes from fires in which he makes a difference (he is a semi-professional firefighter). However, {{spoiler|excepting one (his dead wife's hand, complete with matching melted ring), they are actually mementos from the fires that he set}}.
* ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]''. Buffalo Bill collects parts of the skin of his victims to make a woman suit. This is actually lampshaded when Clarice mentions that most [[Serial Killer|serial killers]] keep souvenirs of their victims.
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'''Clarice:''' No. No, [[I'm a Humanitarian|you ate yours.]] }}
* Goth and Throbb, the cannibal antagonists in ''[[Silverwing (
* In ''[[The Witcher]]'' novels, [[Psycho for Hire]] Leo Bonhart keeps a collection of witcher talismans.
* ''[[
** The Tattered Prince is a mercenary leader known from wearing a cloak stitched from rags of cloaks of his defeated enemies.
** One of the barbarian leaders wears a necklace of ears from defeated enemies. Unusually for the trope, all of them had been left
** 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 ==
* [[Dexter]] keeps blood sample slides of all his victim in his apartment, hidden in a box in his air conditioner. In the books, he keeps them on his [[Hidden in Plain Sight|bookshelf]]. The idea is that, as a serial killer, he can't stop himself from taking a trophy, and the tiny, easy to hide, easy to get rid of slides are a pretty good idea. {{spoiler|Even in their "convenient to hide" form, the trophy box bites him in the ass when Doakes finds it...}}
* 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
* [[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.
* From ''[[
* Ronon Dex of ''[[
*In [[Deep Space Nine]] episode: ''The Siege of Ar-558'' one Starfleet soldier has a necklace of capsules of Ketracel White(the drug that the Dominion uses to control it's JemHadder slave-soldiers) that he killed.
**Similarly and more in keeping with the stereotype, a Klingon in ''Soldiers of the Empire'' has a necklace of Cardasian neckbones.
== Music ==
* [[Tom Lehrer]]'s song "I Hold Your Hand in Mine":
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''I take a healthy bite from / Your dainty fingertips.
''My joy would be complete, dear, / If you were only here,
''But still I keep your hand as / A precious souvenir.
''The night you died I cut it off. / I really don't know why.
''For now each time I kiss it / I get bloodstains on my tie.
''I'm sorry now I killed you, / For our love was something fine,
''Until they come to get me / I shall hold your hand in mine.'' }}
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer
** Champions of Khorne collect skulls from their victims. These are usually piled up in some sort of a shrine, though many a champion carries a couple of favourites with himself.
** Many warriors from ''Warhammer''. The most prominent among those are Gorthor, who wears a fur cloak made of [[Genuine Human Hide|the skins of beastmen shamans]] he killed (showing his badassitude, as well as his belief that gods are with him - he can freely kill a shaman and suffer no curse for it), and the ratmen warlord Queek headtaker who, showing courage unharacteristic for his race, loves single combat and goes to battle with an actual trophy rack on his back.
** Inverted for the Slaaneshi champion Lucius the Eternal in ''Warhammer 40000''. Lucius is blessed with an ability to "always triumph"
* ''[[Dungeons
* Jaqueline Montarri, a cursed villain from ''[[
* In ''[[
== Video Games ==
* In the Meet the Medic video for ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
** 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.
** Gannji the lizardfolk mentions that keeping a
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
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