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There's people who are vain, and then there's people who are ''vain.'' The latter have such a depth of narcissism that they don't just keep a mirror handy, but fill their house floor to ceiling with mirrors, self portraits (expect a few nudes), statuary, awards (if any, no matter how minor) and sundry other them-centric paraphernalia. Any pictures will likely be exclusively of themselves, or with celebrities, royalty, and politicians. It's almost unheard of for a shrine to include family pictures.
Basically, they make their home a '''Shrine
A variant is the "shrine to a former glory", made by someone who realizes they're no longer famous and doesn't like their new situation. The [[White Dwarf Starlet]] will often fill her mansion this way. For extra tragedy, the mansion/museum will be in an advanced state of decay.
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** 12 Grimmauld Place is prominently hung with the Black family tree, portraits, [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|and the mounted heads of former house-elves]], as a Shrine to Family.
* The villain in the [[Dean Koontz]] novel, ''Dragon Tears'', has a serious [[A God Am I]] complex. He had every wall in his house mirrored just to admire himself.
* Ginger, the movie star in ''[[
* Miss Havisham's decaying mansion in ''[[Great Expectations]]''. All the clocks are stopped at the moment that Compeyson betrayed her, she still wears her wedding dress as a grim reminder, and the dining room table remains set with the rotten wedding feast and cake. She proposes to have her body laid out there when she dies.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In volume 5 of ''[[Heroes]]'' Peter Petrelli's apartment is decorated only with newspaper clippings about the lives he has saved as a paramedic.
* (probably) Samantha of ''[[Sex and the City]]'' commissioned a photographer to do a series of nudes of her while she's still "young and spry". When it isn't as fabtabulous as she wants, she lets herself go and buys a pizza... and when the delivery man compliments her legs (the nude was the picture facing the door) she perks up and tips him with a $20 bill.
* [[Alpha Bitch|Libby]] of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' has her bedroom wall plastered with gold-framed glamour shots of herself, plus [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|one photo of her grandma]].
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