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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Who needs dolls when I have you?"''}}
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''Don't you think?"''
At some point in life, everyone has had a
▲''Perhaps I'll lobotomize you and keep you as pet!''<br />
▲''That would be amusing!''<br />
▲''Don't you think?"''|'''[[The Baroness|Elexis Sinclair]]''', ''SiN''}}
▲At some point in life, everyone has had a doll --pardon, "action figure"-- collection in their possession that they admired and played with, creating fanciful stories and battles, pretending to be someone else. A mother, a father, a doctor, a general... [[A God Am I|God.]]
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.
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 [[
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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See also [[Showing Off the New Body]] and [[Necromantic]]. Contrast [[Puppeteer Parasite]], who are parasites that possess people. See also [[Demonic Possession]], [[Wax Museum Morgue]].
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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,
*** And then we have Kankuro, whose ninja puppets were also made by Sasori years ago. {{spoiler|And he ends up collecting ''Sasori'' himself later.}}
*** Though to be fair to Chiyo and Kankuro, they only use people-puppets when they where created by Sasori, rather than collecting them themselves. And Chiyo went out of her way to create a technique to bring people back to life to fix her family if she could get Sasori back from playing omnicidal maniac. Both of them seem disgusted at the idea of actually killing people specifically to make puppets themselves.
* 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
* Terrence D'arby from ''[[
* 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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* ''[[Night Gallery]]'' episode "A Death In the Family". An undertaker preserves dead bodies and treats them as his "family".
* The UnSub in the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "The Uncanny Valley" is doing this: kidnapping women, drugging them, dressing them in very specific homemade dresses, and posing them. {{spoiler|1=The UnSub, a [[Psychopathic Manchild|Pyschopathic Girl Child]] was raped and given ECT by her pedophile psychiatrist father, and was kidnapping the women to recreate the only doll playset she'd ever owned, which said father had taken from her and given to his ''next'' unfortunate victim after his daughter got too old for him.}}
* There was an episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' involving a [[Lolicon]] with obvious [[Mommy Issues]] who did this, dressing little girls up (before doing "stuff" with them) to look like the dolls in his mother's extensive collection.
* An episode of the 2003 ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' reboot featured a little girl who turned all her babysitters into Barbie dolls because she was lonely and didn't want them to ever leave.
* An episode of ''[[Super Force]]'' had a deranged man who kidnapped women, put them in suspended animation, and arranged them on display stands in a private museum.
== New Media ==
* Void Heart, from ''Best Friends ForEvil'', has at least some of her failed friendships (or attempts of friendships) end up as her ‘hug pillows’. Considering one of them was drooling on her sheets, at least to an extent, some (if not all) of them are still alive. By the way, Void Heart has a terrible record of making (and keeping) true friends. Although perhaps that’s expect of someone who keeps people who stubbornly rejected her attempts as friendship as ‘hug pillows’.
== 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".
* ''[[Touch Detective]]'' features a little girl who lives at the observatory, and with the help of one of its workers, kidnaps people to act as her brainwashed living
* In ''[[Drow Tales]]'', [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=626&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&extra=1&page=1&check=1 Kharla does this as a hobby].▼
* 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. ▼
== Web Comics ==
▲* In ''[[
▲* In ''[[The 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
* An episode of ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'' had a villain who would kidnap notable people, shrink them with a [[Shrink Ray]] and keep them under glass.
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