Not to be confused with the The Collector (level) of the same name.
The Collector is a rogue Creator Curator who is the main antagonist in Story mode. He rules The Wilderness, a hazardous military base located in a snowy tundra.
Character Biography
The Collector is a small, menacing, envious character who is determined to steal the other Creator Curators and their friends and become the ruler of the whole LittleBigPlanet world. It can be assumed he used to be a peaceful Curator for such a thing not to have happened before, but his loneliness and envy for the other Curator's creations must have led him to seek dominance over the planet and create a dangerous stronghold. For the majority of the game, The Collector is egotistical and treats everyone else as if they are inferior to him. He seems confident in his machines and cares not for the well-being of others. He can be seen in each of the other Curator's locations as well as his own; for he captures some of the characters whilst the player is traversing their worlds, so that said player can get an early glimpse of the main antagonist. He is said to first appear early in the game disguised as Dumpty in Skate to Victory to try and kidnap The King, and in The Meerkat Kingdom disguised as a Meerkat in Stripey Tail's club. However, his most obvious appearance is when he comes to swipe Don Lu's Dog in The Darkness in his strange flying machine, which he uses for his captures from that point onwards. He kidnaps many characters throughout the game, and eventually has all the other Creator Curators and the majority of the other non-player characters captured and locked in The Collector's Lair. The player goes to rescue them and frees them all before taking on The Collector in the level of the same name. The Collector tries to defeat the Sackperson with his powerful robotic devices but in the end is cornered, his robotic armour damaged beyond repair. There he openly confesses that he only stole things because he was jealous that he didn't have any friends to share his creations with. The King suggests that the rest of the LittleBigPlanet community can be his friends and he seems to agree, ultimately forgiven for his criminal ways.
Trivia
His name may be a pun on a book by John Fowles about a man who collects butterflies and then later kidnaps a young woman (yet this could be coincidental).