History Main / NeatFreak

* Lelouch of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is shown to be this in extra materials, chasing out C.C. from his room while on a cleaning rampage in one short story.

* Zim of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' at one point becomes this after realizes (incorrectly, by the way) that Earth was covered in germs that could quite possibly kill him. He then goes on a cleaning spree, even going as far as tying Gir onto a tree outside because he was so infested. At the end of the episode, he's seen wearing a "suit" of meat since the meat itself was designed to be sanitized for space travel and, thus, germ-free.

** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Rarity displays this at times, especially in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]". She hates getting dirty, folds bedsheets a precise way, and spends her time picking up and positioning fallen trinkets instead of focusing on the huge tree that has crashed through the window. Her attention to detail helps solve the problem, though. Played with in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Sisterhooves Social]]" when Rarity discovers her sister Sweetie Belle has organized her "inspiration room", which was previously messy and gets completely outraged. Sweetie Belle comments about how Rarity now "likes" messes, to which Rarity clarifies that it was "organized chaos" on her end, which plays into her being an artist/fashion designer. At first still pissed about the supposed lack of inspiration, a short time later Rarity comes up with an idea for a full spectrum clothing line based on how Sweetie Belle organized the different colored fabrics.

* Pearl from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is so obsessed with order and cleanliness that when the Crystal Gems drew up a chore wheel with Dusting, Laundry, Mopping, and Dishes on it, she crossed off everyone else's name and substituted her own.

* Literature/HerculePoirot, though more obsessed with tidying than cleaning.

* Jace Wayland in ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments''. Clary notes that his room is as neat as a pin. When he is rooming with Magnus Bane, the poor messy warlock is driven nuts by Jace fixing up his apartment.
* Tris in the ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' series. The various relatives she was fobbed off on during her childhood made her earn her keep by housekeeping, and when she first comes to Discipline she corrects the other kids' attempts at it. She makes a point to pitch in with the chores in whatever house she's visiting.
* In a ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Dresden Files]]'' short story from Thomas' point-of-view, he mentions that Harry seems to have inexplicably become this a few years ago, as his apartment is nearly always spotless. Readers know that this is actually the work of the tiny Fae under orders from the Summer Lady, and Harry cannot tell anyone about them or they go away.
* In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', the obsessive Stanley's [[ThisIsMySide side of the Post Office bunkroom]] is extremely neat, in contrast to Groat's side, which is covered in bits of paper and the chemical residue of his home-made medicine. Where a bit of paper has fallen over the line, Stanley -- in strict accordance with the unwritten rules -- has carefully removed exactly the bit that's on his side, possibly with a razor blade.
* In Sara Pennypacker's ''Clementine'' children's chapter books, Clementine's best friend Margaret is this combined with TerrifiedOfGerms. Clementine notes that Margaret's joy of cleaning things is so strong that getting to do so seems like Christmas to her. When they go on a field trip to a historical re-enactment village of U.S. settlers from England, Margaret is horrified by the idea of them having dirt floors, but thrilled to help one of the actresses playing a pioneer woman with the task of cleaning peas.
* ''Literature/DirtyBertie'':
** Suzy, Bertie's older sister, likes everything clean, which causes SiblingRivalry between her and Bertie.
** Mr. Grouch, the school janitor, really dislikes mess and [[ChildHater children]], which causes him to despise Bertie.
** Downplayed for Bertie's father, who seems to get peeved if Bertie messes up something he's currently doing.
** In the story "Fleas!", a woman moves to the other side of the vets' waiting room upon hearing that Whiffer the dog has fleas, for fear of him being a "filthy fleabag" and passing his fleas onto her dog Fifi.
** Bertie's mother often tells him to tidy up a lot.
* TheEmpire of Falcrest from ''Literature/TheTraitorBaruCormorant'' obeys the philosophy of Incrasticism, which places great importance on cleanliness and sanitation, going well beyond the physical and into mental and moral grounds. Things that are Incrastic and promote cleanliness include sewers, running water, public education, nuclear families, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick lobotomies, eugenics]]. Things that are unclean and must be wiped from society include royalty, religion, mental illness, homosexuality...
* ''Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Myne is a FishOutOfTemporalWater, and the time she comes from has much higher hygiene standards than the time in which she has landed. While she has helped her sister and best friend get better opportunities by simply having them wash before interacting with people who value cleanliness more than they do, she also has trouble getting taken seriously when requesting that a group of women about to assist in a childbirth wash their hands.
* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': Rilla's Aunt Poppy (and not just because she has to keep things clean for their guests), to the point where when Rilla claims she's straightening things up in her room, Poppy views it as an acceptable excuse for running late for class.
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Magic II'': The brownie in ''Clean as a Whistle'', who works to keep Jamie Carhart's room spic-and-span, against her will.
* ''Literature/MoongobbleAndMe'':
** Fazwad the Mighty has a reputation for being "very fussy", as Urk comments in book 1, and tells Edward they need to have the cottage clean before he gets there.
** In book 5, the Oggledy Nork sees the Rusty Knight's house, which is rather filthy, and promptly starts cleaning it... and apparently ''enjoys'' doing so, to Edward's surprise.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': In the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS]] [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel]] "Ghost-Walker" the small size of crew quarters on the ''Enterprise'' of the 2260s - even for officers - means that many people became neat freaks out of necessity given how little in terms of personal space crew are assigned on the ship.
* ''Literature/TheEnchantedFiles'': In ''Diary of a Mad Brownie'' / ''Cursed'', brownies in general have this as a trait of their species -- part of their "Great Oath" every brownie swears when they come of age is that "We will maintain order and cleanliness in the households we inhabit, as is good and right." Angus Cairns, the titular mad brownie), having been bound to serve the youngest of-age female in the [=McGonagall=] family, is subsequently sworn to keep Alex Carhart's room spic-and-span whether she likes it or not.
* ''Literature/GoblinsInTheCastle'': When the goblins leave a house, they have a tendency to leave it cleaner than it was before they entered it. This is first seen when they thoroughly clean Toad-in-a-Cage Castle on their way out (though not without causing some mischief in the process).
* Literature/WhateleyUniverse: Fractious (Dee Castle), one of the [[ParodySue Lit Chix]] (specifically Diane Castle's AuthorAvatar), suffers from this, and unfortunately, her mutation has rendered the medications she'd been on before less effective. 'O.C. Dee' is also shown as [[ShownTheirWork an obsessive writer]], with short stories ballooning to 600-page dissertations. This is shown in a realistic and sympathetic light in Castle's own stories, as she [[WriteWhatYouKnow suffers from these issues herself]].
-->''"[[https://whateley.academy/index.php/story/stress-fracture That was why she carried around such a big purse all the time. Everyone else on campus with a purse like hers had a bag full of their costume, or weapons, or power armor components, or something Whateley-ish. She had cleaning supplies. Cleaning supplies, neoprene gloves (she didn't like the powder inside the latex ones), seat protectors, toilet seat covers, handsoap, antiseptic, surgical masks, and everything else… Well, she had a lot of stuff she needed to carry around]]."''

* Felix Unger from ''Series/{{The Odd Couple|1970}}''. Given he lives with Oscar Madison, his polar opposite, this drives him up the ''wall''.
* [[Series/{{Monk}} Adrian Monk]] from his titular series has this as his premise. One episode has him unable to concentrate on a crime scene because a nearby cop's socks don't match.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
*** Odo. Dax likes to move everything in his quarters over by an inch to drive him nuts.
*** Nog became one after attending Starfleet Academy, much to the consternation of his friend Jake Sisko when he returned to the station and the two became roommates.
** Seemingly everyone in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration.'' Whenever anyone notices anything out of place, they point it out instantly, and it always turns out to be a major plot point. Likewise, no messes are ever seen aboard the Starship Enterprise. The main cast are officers on a military starship; a large one but still a starship. It's a closed environment. Anything that spills and gets left out eventually gets into everything and there are some really high-tech gadgets all over the place that could be affected by being gummed up. Not to mention neatness is strongly encouraged in most naval training and such attention becomes a habit over time. It is confirmed in "Up the Long Ladder" that the ship is self-cleaning; the mechanism for this is never described.
%%* Mrs. Benson on ''Series/ICarly'' flits between this and ObsessivelyOrganized DependingOnTheWriter.

* James May on ''Series/TopGearUK'', who keeps a paintbrush in his car to clean the air vents and gets uneasy when things are out of order. Most likely has some degree of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Mocked by Clarkson via application of a watch bezel. If it's not aligned to the right point he'll forcibly try to sort it out. The result was jokingly compared to [[KryptoniteFactor Kryptonite]].
* Danny Tanner from ''Series/FullHouse'' fits this trope, so much so the trope could be named after him. He thinks of big spring cleaning as an equivalent of Christmas.
* Monica Geller in ''Series/{{Friends}}'', who (amidst [[DysfunctionJunction many, many other things]]) can't sleep after she willingly leaves her shoes in the living room in order to prove she's not as much a Neat Freak as everybody thinks. Everybody's right, of course. Once, she vacuums her vacuum cleaner with a smaller one and then wishes she had an even smaller one to vacuum that one. In one episode, Ross briefly dates a woman whose apartment is [[TrashOfTheTitans filled with garbage]]. When Monica learns about this, she shows up in the middle of the night and ''begs'' the woman to let her clean the place.
* Burke's apartment in ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' is this, in stark contrast to the TrashOfTheTitans state of Cristina's apartment.
-->'''Meredith:''' You're going through his stuff, aren't you?\\
'''Cristina:''' Oh, there's no stuff to go through! It's a freak show. I mean, you can do surgery in here. ''[pauses]'' Oh. He arranged his books using the Dewey Decimal system. Mer, I'm scared.\\
'''Meredith:''' Get out. Get out of the house now.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' agent Nikki Jardine was so obsessively germ-phobic that she even turned off Tony [=DiNozzo=] with her constant cleaning.
* Harvey and Val Denton on ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', to the point where they force Benjamin to ''clean the cleaning implements''.

* On ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', one of Phil Hartman's reoccurring characters was the cooking-show host "The Anal-Retentive Chef", who painstakingly cleaned up every last scrap following each step in the recipe of the day.

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', The Mayor often delivers little speeches on the importance of cleanliness (including clean fingernails), keeps things neatly aligned on his desk, and abhors germs.
* Jerry on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. Whenever it comes up, the other characters make fun of him for it - after all, MenCantKeepHouse.

* Subverted with Sylar on ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. Flashbacks show that he kept an eerily clean and organized apartment with plastic-covered furniture. But when the second he snapped and began murdering people, he had no qualms about getting dirty to get what he wants. He also emptied out and cleaned his apartment with amazing speed after realizing Mohinder had discovered evidence of his crimes as the place was completely stripped out the next day when Mohinder returned with the police.
* Ricky Fitness of ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'' doesn't like getting dirty and keeps sanitation products with him at all times; his Handi-Gel defeats Dr. Eva Mudlark's muck monsters in "Laundry Day!" but his Wet Naps don't work against a monster who is made of lint and cleaning chemicals.
* Recurring character Craig Brice on ''{{Series/Emergency}}'', who drives Roy nuts rearranging the drug box alphabetically and wanting everything just right.
* Played up in ''Series/BreakingBad'' in the episode "Fly", a BottleEpisode which revolves entirely around Walt becoming obsessed with trying to kill a fly that has entered the meth lab, refusing to work until it's gone out of fear it will contaminate something. Jesse lampshades how utterly ridiculous this fear is.
-->'''Jesse:''' We have the world's least picky customers! We make ''poison'' for people who don't care!
* Kate Littlejohn in ''Series/ForThePeople'' keeps her office in impeccable order and hates when people intrude.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter in season 3 is shown to keep his apartment very meticulously clean and organized.

* In ''Series/SeriouslyWeird'', Harris Pembleton is practically anal in his compulsion for order. Which is a problem when you have been cursed to be a WeirdnessMagnet.
* ''Series/OddSquad'':
** Olive is one in contrast to her partner Otto, who loves to get dirty. It's most notably seen in "Trials and Tubulations" where she spreads the bare minimum of mud needed on her body in order to evade the laser chicken's detection, while Otto slathers himself in it. However, since she's a {{Tomboy}}, her tendency to be neat and organized is not to an obsessive extent.
** O'Callaghan, a tube operator working at Precinct 13579, is revealed in "Odd Outbreak" to wash the tubes eleven times a day.
** Olympia, being a [[ThePerfectionist perfectionist]], loves to clean and doesn't like dirty things, but shockingly, she never takes it to obsessive levels of cleanliness. In "Total Zeroes", she tells Otis that she spent her work break down in the Filing Room refiling the various filing drawers in there.
** In "Crime at Shapely Manor", General Pentagon invokes the trope, using the excuse of liking his hands to be clean and running away from the party when the lights went out to wash them in order to throw the other party guests, as well as Olive and Otto, off his trail.
* Simon on ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' fits this. He always stays proper and immaculately dressed and isn’t fond of getting dirty. It’s his being a proper upper-class core boy that prompts it.
* Brittany's parents Michael and Loretta Flune in ''Series/{{Mortified}}''. In "Girl Power", they vacuum their front lawn in preparation for the sale of their house.

* Takasu Ryuuji from ''Literature/{{Toradora}}''. You get no points for guessing [[TrashOfTheTitans what his neighbor, best friend, and potential love interest is]]. Hilariously, Ryuuji's face breaks out into a SlasherSmile most every time he's removing mold from something or other.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** The illustrator [[WordOfGod Takeshi Obata]] thinks of L as a Neat Freak, which is why he chose to depict him as such (the writer, Tsugumi Ohba, didn't tell him to do so) and made him grab things with the tips of his fingers. Does not extend to his personal experience (he might well sleep in his clothes. In his defense, they look comfy).
** According to Gevanni's observations, Teru Mikami is also this (which fits his overall personality pretty well).
* Chiri from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' has this as her gimmick. And she's been slowly {{Flanderized}} from a simple Neat Freak to a near [[AxCrazy psychopathic]] ControlFreak who'll be perfectly willing to slaughter the cast in order to maintain order. Any scene featuring her as a centerfold for the scene will inevitably result in comedy and scary moment. In one of the {{OVA}}s we're introduced to her older sister, Kitsu Tane, who is her complete opposite and great character foil. We have it explained that in their childhood, Tane chose to become ThePigPen and personification of the TrashOfTheTitans trope in order to save the life of their goldfish, which Chiri had decided to clean... With shampoo...
* Hazuki Oikawa from ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}''. What a disinfectant-happy girl like her is doing at an agricultural college (''and'' hanging out with people who study microorganisms for a living, at that), we're not sure.
* As an extension of his ObsessivelyOrganized mannerisms, Death the Kid from ''Manga/SoulEater'' always makes sure everything is neat, tidy, and, most importantly, symmetrical.
* In ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords2004'', Blue Link is revealed to be one of these in an omake. It's impossible for him to sleep at night unless his clothes are neatly folded and in a nice neat stack near where he's sleeping.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Not overly shown to be a Neat Freak, but Ranma finds himself compulsively tidying [[KiManipulation Hinako-sensei's]] apartment (twice), forgetting that he sneaked in to steal her fighting fish in manga volume 30, chapter 5.
* Eiichirou from ''Manga/BabySteps'' eats from both sides of his lunch box to keep the sides even, freaks out over the possibility of his food touching, and takes ''two'' sets of notes in class: a pristine "master" copy, and a second that he doesn't mind lending out to his less tidy classmates.
* One chapter of ''Manga/FrankenFran'' has a woman, raised in extremely sterile circumstances, recruit Fran in an attempt to wipe out cockroaches. She freaks out at the merest hint of contamination. The experiment does not go as planned...

* As is obvious once you get a glimpse of his meticulously clean, almost-empty apartment, Barnaby from ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' does not appreciate clutter. He keeps only the bare minimum furniture; one chair, one small table, one bed, etc., and the only "unessential" objects in the living room (the one room we see properly) are a laptop, a television (both of which he uses to research his parents' murder), a family photo and a toy robot (a birthday present from his parents). He also dislikes the thought of anyone visiting his place, worrying that they'll make a mess.

* Charles and Ray Beams in ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' keep their ship impeccably clean at all times. [[spoiler:One of the first signs of Ray's breakdown after Charles is killed is the fact that the ship has been utterly trashed. Things just get worse from there.]]
* Inverted in ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': Machi can't stand when things are spotlessly clean. She frequently messes up clean rooms and such because she can't stand the "perfection".

* Chiaki from ''Manga/NodameCantabile'', especially when he first sees [[TrashOfTheTitans Nodame's apartment]].
* Hachi of ''Manga/MysteriousJoker'', a trait revealed upon seeing the state of Joker's airship, the [[BlatantLies creatively]] named Air Joker.
* Koro-Sensei of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' has a tendency to clean things, [[ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask usually when someone is trying to kill him.]] In the first episode, he meticulously trims his assailant's eyebrows and takes the time to clean and wax a fighter jet that was sent to attack him.
* Lelouch of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is shown to be this in extra materials, chasing out C.C. from his room while on a cleaning rampage in one short story.
* Taro, the floor supervisor of ''Manga/CafeKichijojiDe'', is so obsessed with cleanliness that he would move out of an apartment he'd just move into for a week the moment he finds a cockroach inside. He also keeps a whole wardrobe full of cleaning supplies, and sanitizes everything before letting guests enter his room.
* Garfaxy of ''Manga/DragonKnights'' is obsessive about keeping Kharl's castle clean, which is useful since Kharl doesn't know how to clean anything.
* Albert of ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' has OCD, which, among other symptoms, manifests as a compulsion to maintain neat and orderly surroundings, which his brothers happily accommodate.

* This is the entire point of ''Manga/CleanFreakAoyamakun''.
** The titular protagonist is so germophobic and so obsessed with cleanliness that he wears gloves when going to school, cleans the football club's balls and the school's bathroom, and wears a mask inside school sometimes. [[ExaggeratedTrope He'd rather starve than eat a meal cooked by someone that's not him because he's that big of a germophobe]].
** Zigzagged in episode 1. It rains during Fujimi High's match against Oshigami-Minami High, and it's obvious that Aoyama won't play so won't get dirtied by the muddy ground... until he kicks the ball into the goal which makes him fall on the ground and gets him dirty much to everyone's shock. Because he hates losing more than being dirty.
** Narita is another neat freak but he keeps it to himself because he thinks letting others know is dumb. He's even worse than Aoyama in that he questions why even bother cleaning the school's property and getting germs in the process and [[PlayingSick feigns sickness]] so he won't have to participate in PE and get dirty.
* VideoGame/PriPara: Chili hates getting dirty, and always cleanses herself with her water dance. [[spoiler:Episode 123 subverts this, as she gives Pepper a licky-stick (licking your finger and sticking it to someone's forehead) after Pepper gave her one.]]

* Craig Brice's neat freak tendencies in ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' are amplified in ''[[http://www.oocities.com/toddfe2002/Vectorsweb.htm Vectors]]'' by Rose Po. When he gets delirious with fever, he hallucinates killer dust bunnies. When it first happens, his girlfriend had called paramedics after discovering he was sick, and she covered his head with a blanket, saying they wouldn't get him if they couldn't see him. In the hospital, they keep a broom near his bed as it seems to calm him better than the alternative, heavy sedation.

* ''Fanfic/SecretPassages'' characterizes Elsa as one during the years leading up to the events of ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''. In this case, she keeps her room very neat and tidy so that none of her possessions are ruined whenever she loses control of her powers. This greatly contrasts with Anna, whose room is a complete mess by comparison.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Fanfic/{{Kindred}}''. Cinderella has a deep-rooted obsession with cleanliness thanks to her DarkAndTroubledPast being treated as little more than a slave to her abusive step-family.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Fanfic/ExTenebrisLux''. Due to her abused past as a servant for her step-family, Cinderella sometimes gets upset about cleanliness. She gets better as time goes on.
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Cerasse, such as during a meeting in "[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6355843 Frenzied Fortification]]":
-->"Technically, if we went travelling while we were supposed to be here, we could be accused of dereliction of duty," Cerasse pointed out, demonstrating that she was paying attention despite being busy arranging cookie crumbs in a neat circle.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

* Cinderella in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', as a TakeThat to the original story.
* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Ratatouille}}'', Colette's classic line, "keep your station clear, or '''[[IllKillYou I WILL KILL YOU!]]'''" [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], [[ShownTheirWork as a cluttered kitchen station will cause delays which can snowball into a catastrophic backlog]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei claims to like cleaning, gushes about a new feather duster she got and makes a point to clean off her eraser shavings directly into the waste bin with a ruler.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

%%* Nicholas Cage's character in ''Film/MatchstickMen''.
* Alexander in ''Film/VincentWantsToSea'' has OCD, which logically goes with Neat Freak tendencies. When sent into a gas station to steal a map so the group can get to Italy, he takes the opportunity to make off with several boxes of disposable gloves, which he's shown wearing much of the time. He also freaks out at the idea of the main character (his roommate) using their shared bathroom for anything other than washing.

* In ''Film/CoronerCreek'', {{Rancher}} Della Harms says that she likes things neat and orderly and has her cowhands doing things like planting flowerbeds and painting furniture, much to the bewilderment of her new foreman.
* Major Jasem from ''Film/Mosul2020'' is this, or as much as one can be in a rather wrecked part of the titular city. Whenever the team stops to rest, he goes about cleaning the immediate area of loose garbage. He even does this in the base of a foreign-led paramilitary group right after a tense MexicanStandOff. [[spoiler:This gets him killed near the end when he trips a booby trap at the ISIS compound.]]

* Aunt March from ''Literature/LittleWomen''. Poor Amy ''really'' didn't know what she was getting into when she replaced Jo as her lady-in-waiting when Beth was sick...
* Flora Poste of ''Literature/ColdComfortFarm''. ("I cannot ''endure messes''")
* Creator/PatriciaCWrede's ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'' has Morwen, a witch who lives cleanly enough to subvert the "[[KillItWithWater Kill Witches With Water]]" stereotype.
* Mr. Standish from ''Literature/TheLongDarkTeaTimeOfTheSoul'' is an eccentric variant: a clutter-averse man who keeps his phone, intercom, and personal ornaments sealed up inside his desk, leaving every horizontal surface in his office absolutely bare. The picture frame on the wall is empty, and he has to open a desk drawer every time he wants to check his notes.
%%* Carnifex from the ''Literature/WildCards'' series.

** Ludwig aka Germany. In one strip, Italy was cooking and Germany was next him, cleaning. Germany is ''very'' big Neat Freak, as revealed by [[http://losthitsu.tumblr.com/post/30599497705/birz-10-translation one manga]]

** The illustrator [[WordOfGod Takeshi Obata]] thinks of L as Neat Freak, which is why he chose to depict him as such (the writer, Tsugumi Ohba, didn't tell him to do so) and made him grab things with the tips of his fingers. Does not extend to his personal experience (he might well sleep in his clothes. In his defense, they look comfy).

* As an extension of his ObsessivelyOrganized mannerisms, Death the Kid from ''Manga/SoulEater'' always makes sure everything is neat, tidy and, most importantly, symmetrical.

** Ash's mom Delia owns a Mr. Mime who's a neat-freak too, keeping it in the house as a sort of maid. Mimey's been known to run its vacuum over Ash's face as he sleeps if he doesn't wash it.

* As is obvious once you get a glimpse of his meticulously clean, almost-empty apartment, Barnaby from ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' does not appreciate clutter. He keeps only the bare minimum furniture; one chair, one small table, one bed etc., and the only "unessential" objects in the living room (the one room we see properly) are a laptop, a television (both of which he uses to research his parents' murder), a family photo and a toy robot (a birthday present from his parents). He also dislikes the thought of anyone visiting his place, worrying that they'll make a mess.

* Taro, the floor supervisor of ''Manga/CafeKichijojiDe'', is so obsessed with cleanliness that he would move out of an apartment he'd just move into for a week the moment he finds a cockroach inside. He also keeps a whole wardrobe full of cleaning supplies, and sanitize everything before letting guests enter his room.

** Narita is another neat freak but he keeps it to himself because he thinks letting others know is dumb. He's even worse than than Aoyama in that he questions why even bother cleaning the school's property and getting germs in the process and [[PlayingSick feigns sickness]] so he won't have to participate in PE and get dirty.

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': Minor Decepticon Windsweeper is obsessed with cleanliness. He used to be the head of Cybertron's Department of Sanitation before the war and was such an extremist that he would have Cybertronians imprisoned for infractions as minor as leaking oil in public. He now patrols the skies for the Decepticons, shooting down everything in his airspace to keep it clean. This leads to him blasting everything that flies with his double laser cannons; he has been documented incinerating targets as important as enemy Autobots down to those as irrelevant as ''literal insects'' in his mania to keep the skies clear. He once considered shooting ''Megatron''--not for the usual [[TheStarscream usurpation purposes]], but because Megatron's fighting with Starscream was causing a mess. His bio even says that the best way to beat him is to throw garbage on him and watch him give himself an apoplexy by blowing all his fuses.

--> "Technically, if we went travelling while we were supposed to be here, we could be accused of dereliction of duty," Cerasse pointed out, demonstrating that she was paying attention despite being busy arranging cookie crumbs in a neat circle.

* Major Jasem from ''Film/Mosul2020'' is this, or as much as one can be in a rather wrecked part of the titular city. Whenever the team stops to rest, he goes about to clean the immediate area of loose garbage. He even does this in the base of a foreign-led paramilitary group right after a tense MexicanStandOff. [[spoiler:This gets him killed near the end when he trips a booby trap at the ISIS compound.]]

* In Sara Pennypacker's ''Clementine'' children's' chapter books, Clementine's best friend Margaret is this combined with TerrifiedOfGerms. Clementine notes that Margaret's joy of cleaning things is so strong that getting to do so seems like Christmas to her. When they go on a field trip to a historical re-enactment village of U.S. settlers from England, Margaret is horrified by the idea of them having dirt floors, but thrilled to help one of the actresses playing a pioneer woman with the task of cleaning peas.

-->''"That was why she carried around such a big purse all the time. Everyone else on campus with a purse like hers had a bag full of their costume, or weapons, or power armor components, or something Whateley-ish. She had cleaning supplies. Cleaning supplies, neoprene gloves (she didn't like the powder inside the latex ones), seat protectors, toilet seat covers, handsoap, antiseptic, surgical masks, and everything else… Well, she had a lot of stuff she needed to carry around."''[[https://whateley.academy/index.php/story/stress-fracture]]

* Monica Geller in ''Series/{{Friends}}'', who (amidst [[DysfunctionJunction many, many other things]]) can't sleep after she willingly leaves her shoes in the living room in order to prove she's not as much a Neat Freak as everybody thinks. Everybody's right, of course. Once, she vacuums her vacuum cleaner with a smaller one, and then wishes she had an even smaller one to vacuum that one. In one episode Ross briefly dates a woman whose apartment is [[TrashOfTheTitans filled with garbage]]. When Monica learns about this she shows up in the middle of the night and ''begs'' the woman to let her clean the place.

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', The Mayor often delivers little speeches on the importance of cleanliness (including clean fingernails), keeps thing neatly aligned on his desk, and abhors germs.

* Subverted with Sylar on ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. Flashbacks show that he kept an eerily clean and organized apartment with plastic covered furniture. But when the second he snapped and began murdering people, he had no qualms about getting dirty to get what he wants. He also had emptied out and cleaned his apartment with amazing speed after realizing Mohinder had discovered evidence of his crimes as the place was completely stripped out the next day when Mohinder returned with the police.

** Olympia, being a [[ThePerfectionist perfectionist,]] loves to clean and doesn't like dirty things, but shockingly, she never takes it to obsessive levels of cleanliness. In "Total Zeroes", she tells Otis that she spent her work break down in the Filing Room refiling the various filing drawers in there.

* Simon on ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' fits this. He always stays proper and immaculately dressed and isn’t fond of getting dirty. It’s his being a proper upper class core boy that prompts it.

* Broom Hatter from the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' is this. She is always seen sweeping with her iconic broom, and doesn't even try to attack Kirby, as she's so obsessed with cleaning up around her. Her trophy description in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'' suggests she doesn't use her broom as a FlyingBroomstick because she's a clean freak. In fact, her Guest Star description in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' has her set out to stop the Jambastion cult and clean the entire world.
* Mario's brother Luigi is revealed to be this in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''. His commentary on the game boy horror has him complain about moth holes in the furniture, say how the mansion would never pass the WhiteGloveTest, how he wishes he could tidy up a bit before he left and compliments a room that is clean, saying it's just how he likes it. As well as this, his weapon in the game is a vacuum cleaner.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'': In the [=PS3=] version and ''Definitive Edition'', if you do the final portion the Yumanju Hot Springs quest, your party is assigned various tasks to help out at the hot springs. As Yuri, you find Flynn in one of the rooms cleaning. Yuri mentions that he recalls how Flynn always kept his room so clean that you couldn't tell that anyone lives there. They reminisce for a bit before Flynn goes back to cleaning, saying that there's some mold that looks like it's going to put up a fight.

* Julian from ''Webcomic/TheGuideToAHealthyRelationship'' is constantly cleaning something or tidying up; they work as a janitor and are very meticulous in their job, and they keep their home painstakingly clean. Although the latter is implied to be at least partly due to [[DomesticAbuse fearing a punishment from their partner]], even a flashback to childhood shows Julian folding laundry while talking to a friend.

%%* Fractious (Dee Castle) of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', who not only has this but also has a RealityWarper power which messes things up. This tends to cause a vicious cycle.

* Alfred in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. When he and Bruce briefly visit a run-down movie-store, Alfred tries his finger on the counter, glares at the dirt it comes up with and wipes the counter clean(-ish) with a cloth. Given that he's a ''butler'', and part of his job is the upkeep of Wayne Manor, it's pretty understandable.

* One-shot villain Mr. Washer from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' took this to rather absurd proportions. He was so obsessed with keeping his store's counter-top clean that he plotted to destroy every hot dog cart in the city, simply to stop his customers from getting chili-dog residue on it. [[spoiler:LaserGuidedKarma hit when his attempt to destroy the hot dog factory resulted in his counter - and entire store - being destroyed when his plane crashed into it.]]

* Pearl from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is so obsessed with order and cleanliness that when the Crystal Gems drew up a chore wheel with Dusting, Laundry, Mopping and Dishes on it, she crossed off everyone else's name and substituted her own.

* Literature/WhateleyUniverse: Fractious (Dee Castle), one of the [[ParodySue Lit Chix]] (specifically Diane Castle's AuthorAvatar), suffers from this, and unfortunately, her mutation has rendered the medications she'd been on before ineffective. 'O.C. Dee' is also shown as [[ShownTheirWork an obsessive writer]], with short stories ballooning to 600-page dissertations. This is shown in a realistic and sympathetic light in Castle's own stories, as she [[WriteWhatYouKnow suffers from these issues herself]].

* Jack Nicholson's character in ''Film/AsGoodAsItGets'' suffers from the extreme version as a major premise.

* Takasu Ryuuji from ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}''. You get no points for guessing [[TrashOfTheTitans what his neighbor, best friend, and potential love interest is]]. Hilariously, Ryuuji's face breaks out into a SlasherSmile most every time he's removing mold from something or other.