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Kitsch Collection
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If the characters enter the house of an elderly neighbor or relative, they will inevitably find a hundred unblinking, soulless eyes belonging to... a collection of porcelain unicorns, a room full of Sad Clown paintings, or a much stranger collection. Adding to the quirkiness (or, at times, creepiness) will be the impeccable condition of the display, the sheer craftsmanship of the figures/displays, and the owner's utter devotion and Encyclopaedic Knowledge of every item's history. This person - often an elderly woman, though some men and young people, especially Otaku, are depicted as having such collections - will usually create the collection to pass the time and fight the loneliness of a life removed from the joys of family, or as a symptom of oncoming senility. This curious collector will usually see their modest collection grow from a shelf to a bookcase to a Trophy Room, or even fill their entire house with this kitsch. The collection is usually harmless, rarely ever becoming as outright disturbing as the Stalker Shrine, but it can be cause for concern regardless, especially if it includes many a Creepy Doll. The collection itself will be a big source of comfort and pride for the owner, which makes it a prime target for threats and coercion. If a character wants to persuade them to do something, he just threatens the porcelain puppy. If he wants to sweet-talk them, he'll compliment the miniature moose. And of course, if children are about or a statue gets broken, things will get much worse. Needless to say, this trope is Truth in Television. Note that in Real Life, there may be a Values Dissonance; back in the 1930s, collecting figurines was both a status symbol and a symbol of femininity. The little old lady who has 300 figurines may not be pathetically lonely; she is following a tradition of her childhood. Kitsch Collections that can be viewed by the general public probably fit best under Museum of the Strange and Unusual. If the collection is specifically of cute things, it may belong to a Glurge Addict. See also Crack is Cheaper (for when collecting gets expensive). A Nerd Hoard is simlar, but pulls items from the Geek Reference Pool instead. |
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Pawn Stars: Played straight, as occasionally someone will bring in an assortment of things that an older relative collected. Said relative has now passed on, and the family is looking to sell the collection. The problem is that such collections are rarely actually worth anything... | |
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Miss Flitworth in Reaper Man has a spare room in her farmhouse mostly dedicated to a collection of assorted knickknacks, ranging from fine china to cheaply-made porcelain dogs and everything in between. It's implied they're all souvenirs from her late fiancee. | |
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Problem Sleuth: Nervous Broad has a collection of "fancy Santas". | |
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In one episode of Castle, Ryan and Esposito interview an old lady, who has a very large, very creepy doll collection, which is made even worse by the fact that all the dolls have names and she refers to them as her "friends". Ryan, who dislikes dolls, spends the entire conversation looking hilariously freaked out. | |
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Nettie Cobb and her carnival glass in Needful Things. She tolerated her husband's abuse for many years, but when he smashed one of her pieces she took his life. | |
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In Falling Down, William Foster's mother has such a collection. When the police were interviewing her to try and see where her rampaging son might go next, she was incredibly nervous because she felt that William might kill her and wouldn't say anything. The lead detective dramatically calmed her down just by asking which figurine was her favorite, guessing that it was a dog (it was the giraffe). | |
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"All That You Love Will Be Carried Away", a short story in Everything's Eventual about a traveling salesman who collects graffiti. | |
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In The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Javi owns enough Nicolas Cage merchandise and props to neatly fill a shed. | |
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On King of the Hill, Hank's mom, Tilly, and her elderly friends are obsessed with getting to see a glass miniatures museum. It turns out Tilly is obsessed with them because they were the only thing that made her feel better during her divorce from Hank's father. Hank then realizes what a big deal it is to her, he apologizes for dismissing her interest in them by buying her a miniature of a stadium in a walnut shell by the famous artist she had been admiring. While the episode is touching, the obsession is still shown as a sign that Tilly is mentally fragile (all her friends are senile to various degrees). | |
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Discworld: Miss Flitworth in Reaper Man has a spare room in her farmhouse mostly dedicated to a collection of assorted knickknacks, ranging from fine china to cheaply-made porcelain dogs and everything in between. It's implied they're all souvenirs from her late fiancee. Nanny Ogg has a kitsch collection of her own, but she uses it as a means of extortion towards her numerous relatives. To clarify: if you travel off somewhere, you had best bring back a stunning gift for her, or your portrait is moved to a less favorable place. Nanny Ogg has a very extended family, extremely prone to infighting which Nanny encourages as a pastime, and they will know and will take advantage of how favorably Nanny regards you.note And the general guideline for how she regards someone seems to be: Mantle over the fireplace, then various other locations in the living room (where she spends most of her time), then the hallways — the further away the worse, with the very bottom of the totem pole being the wobbly end-table by Greebo's litter box. Stanley from Going Postal kept pins, and later became one of the disc's first stamp collectors. This was a frequently used method of calming him down. |
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The massive collections of sci-fi/fantasy and comic-book tie-ins accumulated by the core cast of The Big Bang Theory would probably be a male equivalent. It is interesting that when Penny calls Leonard out on his, and he seeks to sell it all off to please her, Sheldon hits back by referring to Penny's own compulsive accumulation of Care Bears, My Little Ponies, etc. The capping instance must be Doctor Lorvis,note A dermatologist with a lot in common with Howard - single and living with his mother who compensates for being single and living with his mother by spending a private practice salary on really-high-end movie and television tie-ins, filling the whole basement with them to create his Fortress of Solitude. | |
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In an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody it is revealed that Arwin's mother collects owls. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Professor Dolores Umbridge has a collection of plates with kittens of them in her office. Harry doesn't like them in the least. | |
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Homestuck: Each of the four kids grows up in a household with one. John's dad is obsessed with harlequins. The house is covered with harlequin pictures and, yes, figurines. He was given a restraining order by the cast of Cirque du Soleil. It turns out, though, that this collection was part of a misguided attempt to connect with John who had been scribbling pictures of harlequins insulting him all over his walls in his sleep thanks to Gamzee cursing him to have nightmares about them. In the Alpha universe, Jane's version of Dad collects hard-boiled private-eye memorabilia in a more successful attempt to bond with her. Rose's mother collects wizard figurines. Rose is convinced that this is part of their Passive-Aggressive Kombat and that she doesn't even like them. Turns out that she does like wizards, or at least her post-Scratch counterpart does. Dave's brother is obsessed with puppets, and their apartment is filled with ventriloquist dummies, muppet-like stuffed and foam dolls, etc. He even runs a collection of puppet porn sites. However, Bro Strider is such a master of esoteric levels of Irony that it's impossible to tell whether the line between "being creepily into puppets" and satire of them even exists. Dave pretends to be cool with this. Dirk, Bro's alpha-universe counterpart, has pretty much the same collection with some Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff merchandise tossed in. Jade's grandfather's... everything. From mummies to assorted taxidermied creatures, to collections of faded blue salon posters, to globes, to suits of armor, to... all sorts of assorted other things. |
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Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics reveals that Doctor Doom has a Shrine Wall devoted to all sorts of Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal memorabilia — mint-in-bag comic books, music records, cereal boxes, plush toys, novelty telephones, Pez dispensers, cookie jars... | |
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Deconstructed in Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues with Muggy, a robot that was programmed to collect coffee mugs. He hates it. | |
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The Merchant in Resident Evil 4 has a collection of bottlecap figurines of the game's other NPC's, and he rewards the player's prowess at his Shooting Gallery by letting them see progressively more of them. | |
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People with these kinds of collections (or more sinister variations) occasionally appear as characters on Scare Tactics (2003). One notable episode had a particularly deranged doll collector. | |
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A stand-out example is Fallout 3's Sierra Petrovita, a woman who has the largest collection of Nuka-Cola memorabilia found anywhere post-apocalypse. She'll even give you a tour of her "museum." | |
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Neopets outright encourages this. There's a gallery feature which players can use to show these off (along with their coding skills, since one can use custom HTML to spiff up their gallery), and the Gallery Spotlight shows off some of the more impressive galleries people have created - though since once has to spend Neopoints in order to increase their gallery's size, many opt for simply keeping their collection(s) in their Safety Deposit Box. Some items don't serve much of a purpose beyond looking prettynote either intentionally, or, in some cases, due to having been intended to have some function that was removed (as with the Glass Paint Brush) or never implemented (as with everything in the School Supplies category), and some of those are still worth a lot of Neopoints due to their popularity with collectors. Some of the unlockable avatars are unlocked by collecting things, as well. | |
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Angel Moxie has Mrs. Merriweather, a cutesy Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher who is actually an evil demon who genuinely loves kitsch, in fact Alex beats her when her house is destroyed mid-battle and she realised she no longer has her Precious Moments collection. | |
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Stanley from Going Postal kept pins, and later became one of the disc's first stamp collectors. This was a frequently used method of calming him down. | |
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In the film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Andy owns a collection of action figures. He sells them at the end of the movie when he starts to mature. | |
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Starman: While on one of his buying trips, Jack Knight buys a collection of carnival glass off a creepy old farmer. The farmer says that the collection belonged to his late wife and, since she died, he has taken to every so often shooting a piece of it with his shotgun. Jack leaves wondering exactly how the wife died. | |
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In Paper Towns, Radar's parents have the world's largest collection of black Santas. Radar (and presumably his parents) are black, but Radar is understandably hesitant to bring his girlfriend over to meet his parents and see his house. | |
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One episode of 30 Rock deals with Jack having to abandon his large secret cookie jar collection "because the guy with the weird hobby never gets the corner office". (it is explained that Giuliani only became mayor of NY after ditching his doll collection). He does insist you don't have to be weird to have a collection like that though: | |
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Sandy Ryerson from Glee has a doll collection. Sue doesn't like it: | |
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A M*A*S*H episode has Klinger decking the company clerk office out in various "treasures" sent from his family in Toledo, to this effect. | |
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On Kim Possible, the villain DNAmy is obsessed with collecting Cuddle Buddies stuffed toys... and with creating real live Mix-and-Match Critters. | |
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Francis has a whole bunch of Paper Mario merchandise in his room in Super Paper Mario. | |
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Linda from Bob's Burgers collects porcelain babies. She obsesses over them to the point of talking, kissing, and singing to them. The rest of her family finds it disturbing. Her collection appears to be a waste of money because Bob had to confiscate her credit card after ordering too many and she reluctantly attempts to sell the collection to a pawn shop after the family has serious financial trouble but couldn't because they were deemed valueless. Her collection was also threatened to be destroyed when her kids interrogate her. | |
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Oddities. Kind of the point of the show. | |
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In The Good Place, Eleanor's home in the Good Place has a collection of clown paintings, because supposedly she loves clowns, and homes in the Good Place are supposed to be decorated with the person's favorite things. One of the ways Eleanor figures out there's been a mistake and she doesn't belong in the Good Place is that she hates clowns with a passion. | |
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In Le Professionnel, the protagonist's former colleague at the French secret services has a collection of robot toys. | |
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Moral Orel: Florence Papermouth, one of Moralton's citizens owns a zebra collection. In her loneliness as a divorced wife and single mother and hopelessly in love with Reverend Putty, Florence clings to these figurines as her prized possessions. | |
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Creepy... semi-subversion, maybe, in Transformers: Animated. Lockdown has a collection of all sorts of trophies. However, he is not extremely old note he doesn't look/act it, at least - being a Transformer, he's probably a couple million years old, and the "trophies" are various mods (read: body parts) he's ripped off of his bounties. | |
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In Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name, Ples really likes clocks. | |
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Annie Wilkes from Misery has a collection like this, and she knows exactly how they're placed. | |
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Up: A deconstructed example in Carl. Since the death of his wife Ellie, Carl has been living in the same house they built together, never throwing out anything his wife used to own, and still talking to a framed picture of Ellie as if she was still alive. This gets him into conflict with the state, who want him to move into a retirement home so they can build on his property. Later, he ends up befriending a young boy named Russel, and gradually grows fond of him. When Russel is kidnapped and taken hostage by the Big Bad, Charles Muntz, Carl lets go of his grief in order to save him - namely by throwing out everything in the house just so it'll be light enough for him to chase after Muntz' airship via balloon. | |
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The League of Gentlemen -"Do not touch the precious things of the shop!" | |
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Many Animal Jam players have some form of this. The usual collections are the stuffed animals and figurines won from minigames, and player-created paintings (which can only be turned into items if one pays actual money, and as such can be quite valuable). Other collections, such as objects that can be clicked to access minigamesnote most of which are accessible via other means and special adventures, or Phantom items, are not unknown either. It's not unusual to meet a player whose den contains such a collection - many dens are even entirely dedicated to this. | |
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In Investigation Held by Kolobki, the protagonists have a large collection of clocks and watches in their home, filling most of the walls, as well as porcelain elephants and various photographs of unknown origins. The reason why is never explained. | |
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The entire Bitchin'Kitchen is decorated with porcelain and chrome baby dolls and skulls. Lampshaded when Nadia goes on about her grandmother's creepy collection of figurines while the camera zooms into the set behind her. | |
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Gammill the Collector is a male version from Charmed. Except he kidnapped young women, magically shrunk them, covered them in clay and baked them alive for his creepy figurine collection. | |
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The Tick: A supervillain named Pig Leg, a man with a fully formed, sentient pig for a leg, had a collection of pig figurines — he sheepishly explained that he told a friend in passing that he liked pigs, so his friend bought him a little pig figure, then someone else saw it and bought him another; it sort of just happened. | |
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In the film About Schmidt, Warren Schmidt's wife, Helen, collects little Hummel figurines, to Warren's displeasure. Later in the film, Warren visits a museum full of them and has to admit they aren't all so bad. Warren and Helen are both in their late 60s, and Helen is depicted as grandmotherly, though technically not a grandmother. | |
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In River of Dancing Gods, the wizard Throckmorton P. Ruddygore has a massive collection of kitsch that he considers underappreciated art. | |
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