History Main / ObsessivelyOrganized

** As an artistic genius, Rarity is obsessed with aesthetics. She has difficulty tearing herself away from fixing a messy bookcase despite the presence of a much bigger problem, namely the tree that crashed into Twilight's house (which happened to cause said messy bookcase). See also the bird's nest bit in "Winter Wrap-Up". Also, when she is [[spoiler:temporarily given Rainbow Dash's cutie mark]] in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]", she keeps the clouds organized in a checkerboard-like formation. And in the BadFuture of Sweetie Belle's NightmareSequence in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E20ForWhomTheSweetieBelleToils For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils]]", she ends up spending the rest of her life as a mad recluse, obsessively checking and rechecking her work for mistakes.
** Twilight Sparkle's history of being a model student makes her an extreme by-the-book perfectionist. Her obsession with order causes a lot of trouble in "Lesson Zero", [[SanitySlippage going crazy]] because she thinks she's going to be late with her weekly friendship report, which she thinks will cause her to be sent back to magic kindergarten for missing what amounts to one homework assignment. She's also [[ObsessedAreTheListMakers extremely devoted to plans and timesheets]], which is a personality trait often associated with this trope. She was once up at three o'clock in the morning, obsessing that her schedule didn't leave her any time to plan next month's schedule.
** Starlight Glimmer, Twilight's EvilCounterpart and the ArcVillain of the fifth season premiere, also has traits of this, such as stopping mid-song to make sure somepony's mane is identical to the rest, ensuring the entire town she controls is ''completely'' identical in every way, and having an obsession with keeping things orderly and equal. However, unlike Twilight who's OCD tendencies, Starlight Glimmer applies hers to everyone else.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': [=SpongeBob=] often behaves in an obsessively organized way in several later season episodes, some examples include the time he became afraid of the dark, he bought thousands of night lights to light up his house and freaked out at the slightest bit of darkness. The time he invited Squidward over to his house and copied the inside of Squidward's house down to the last detail including every crack in the walls and ceiling, every detail in his paintings, and the sewing in his mother's pillows. And when he thought everything in his house was sentimental and refused to throw anything out, he even collected jars of his sweat and grease from the grill. It got to the point where he became a hoarder and his house was covered in garbage.

* ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'': one of your targets, bioterrorist and militia leader Sean Rose, suffers from acute OCD, leading to an obsession with cleanliness and a compulsion to maintain order wherever he can, such as making sure all clocks are synchronized to his watch and arranging pencils on his desk in a neat and orderly fashion. This can be exploited, as stress from having his neatness and order disrupted will cause him to seek out cigarettes to smoke and calm his nerves, which you can lace with drugs beforehand to make him suffer a bad trip and isolate himself for an easy kill.

* ''Series/{{Whitechapel}}'': Joseph Chandler is a homicide detective who is incredibly obsessed with neatness, as well as things being clean. His behavior is bad enough that he often stays at the Homicide Department overnight, making everything neat for the next day...only for him to end up spending the entire night doing this. He also has counting rituals that can become so debilitating that he is stuck in place for hours going through them even as he becomes more distraught at not being able to stop. It should be noted, however, that while most of the examples are PlayedForLaughs, Chandler's OCD is shown as an illness and a serious issue, rather than something used for comedy.

* He is the subject of fun across multiple British panel shows, particularly ''Series/EightOutOfTenCats'' and ''Series/EightOutOfTenCatsDoesCountdown'', for his obsessive need for cleanliness, order, and symmetry.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie "Bender's Game", [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Rosie]] makes a cameo in a [[BedlamHouse mental institute]] saying "[[MadnessMantra Must clean up! Everything must be clean!]] [[TheLoonie That's why the dog had to die!]] He was a dirty dog! Dirty! Dirty! And that [[WouldHurtAChild boy Elroy!]] Dirty! Dirty!" Not only does she have Super OCD but she's a murderer!

* In ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', Beyond Birthday cleans ''everything'' in his victims' homes, even things he did not touch, most notably the light sockets. He is also obsessive about [[VillainousCrush L]], letters and numbers, manga, and strawberry jam.

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* In ''Fanfic/{{Brainbent}}'', Kanaya's OCD was so bad at one point that she wasn't able to function or leave her room, and wound up admitting herself to [[HospitalParadiso St. Lobaf's]] to get help for it.

* The ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fanfic [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/109481 "four titles"]] interprets Jade's "space" powers as giving her a side-effect of Super OCD;
-->some kind of obsessive-compulsive need for things to line up straight in three-dimensional space -- the corners of the tent not matching in elevation, say, or pictures needing to be hung exactly evenly on the walls.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/10/story-turning-of-screwball-strange-case.html The Turning of the Screwball]], the character of Button Stitch is so obsessively organized that even Rarity thinks she's a bit high-strung. Her self-repressive levels of OCD are what lead to [[spoiler: a build-up of magical energy that causes her to turn back into "Screwball" (the weird floating background pony from "Return of Harmony, Part 2") and pull bizarre pranks around Ponyville.]]
* ''[[FanFic/RedDeadVirgo Red Dead Virgo]]'' gives Equius the same problem, and considering he's also the Space player in that session, it probably wasn't an accident.
* Twilight Sparkle shows signs of this in ''Fanfic/TwilightsList'', living her life by checklists and freaking out when things don't go to plan. The plot is driven by an unchecked box on a checklist she made up when she was a filly, to go on a date and get a kiss. Rainbow Dash helps break her out of it, though Twilight does get both the date and the kiss.

* ''Film/{{Adam}}'' has a very strict routine and diet because of his UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome.
* Patrick Bateman from ''Film/AmericanPsycho''. He has a precise morning routine that he sticks to, and he won't tolerate so much as a mug ring being left on his table.

* ''Film/AsGoodAsItGets'' plays this for drama, with Creator/JackNicholson's character showing several common OCD fixations, like being unable to walk on the lines between paving stones and only using disposable forks, even in restaurants. And those are the pedestrian quirks. The really bad stuff is needing to have several ''dozen'' pre-packaged soap bars to wash his hands with because he'll only use one for a few seconds before throwing it away. A new soap bar every trip to the bathroom? Sure, it cuts down on germ exposure. ''Three or four'' every time you wash your hands? Holy crap.
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* ''Film/TheAviator'' is centered around Howard Hughes' (played by Leo [=DiCaprio=]) struggle with his advanced OCD. While the film treads familiar territory (task repetition, cleanliness, isolation), it also shows how Hughes was able to use the condition to become a famous billionaire. His manic attention to detail allows him to win Oscars, buy airlines, and fight the US Senate -- and win.
* In ''Film/{{Errementari}}'', all devils have the compulsion to count chickpeas that are spilled on the floor. The blacksmith uses this to torment a captured devil early in the movie, and [[spoiler: again to distract a more powerful devil in a big YouShallNotPass moment at the climax of the movie.]] As noted below, this is a common trait of evil spirits in mythology and folklore, though one more commonly associated with vampires than devils.
* Ashburn from ''Film/TheHeat'', to a degree. She uses it well to aid her in finding hidden drugs/guns but it makes her rather annoying to others.
* Mr. Banks from ''Film/MaryPoppins''. He's a ScheduleFanatic who insists on everything in his life being "run with precision", and when Mary Poppins shows up and causes little disruptions to his life, he sees it as chaos.
* Roy Waller in ''Film/MatchstickMen'' has this with regards to cleanliness -- he can't stand to be outdoors, insists his visitors remove their shoes, opens and closes the front and back door three times, and spends an entire day cleaning the house out of fear it may be dirty.
* Owen from ''Film/Superstar1999''. He has to say and do everything five times.

* Some portrayals of Literature/HerculePoirot borders on this, as he wants everything orderly and frequently complains that eggs won't form neat little cubes. It sometimes helps him notice clues, because he notices ''everything'' that's out of order. Then again, in some books, it's more of a quirk than a disability.
* The protagonist of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's story ''Berenice'' has frequent fits in which he becomes acutely obsessed with random topics to the point of going into a trance-like state. When he focuses on his moribund fiance's teeth (and how [[OurVampiresAreDifferent white and curiously elongated]] they have been getting lately) it does not end well.
* Phileas Fogg, the protagonist in ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'', demands super-human fastidiousness from his servants; he actually fired a servant for giving him shaving water that was two degrees too cold. He is also a ScheduleFanatic.
* Creator/MelanieWatt's ''Literature/ScaredySquirrel'' character. The AnimatedAdaptation plays play up this tendency. [[Series/{{Monk}} Obsessive. Compulsive. Squirrel.]]
* Matt in ''Literature/PeterPaysTribute'' brings a bottle of Febreeze with him to movie theaters, and he spends part of his weekend sanitizing his room.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]] are described as being ''very'' focused. Usually, they use this focus to enable them to feed. But the vampires who give up on feeding on human blood soon find out that they have to redirect this focus unto anything that doesn't [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere remind them of "the B-vord"]]. Collecting seems to be very popular amongst tee-totaling vampires.
** In Literature/ThiefOfTime, we get Jeremy Clockson, who is organised to (if not, as [[TheIgor his new Igor]] thinks, ''beyond'') the point of insanity, and is taking medicine because he used to be even ''worse''. It may be because [[spoiler:he is one half of [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity the son of time]]]].
** In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', we are introduced to Stanley. He was raised by peas and is "quite intense" about pins. Later he graduated to stamps, which were made possible thanks to Stanley's obsessive neat pin-sheets. (The regular holes they left were the inspiration for the stamps' perforation)
* In the Literature/ArtemisFowl book ''The Atlantis Complex'', the [=titular=] mental disease is this trope PlayedForDrama. In stage one the afflicted becomes obsessed with numbers--five is good, while another number (four, in Artemis' case) is bad. Stage two involves the creation of an alternate personality; for Artemis, a romantic sop who called himself [[ThemeNaming Orion]] and spent most of his time trying to woo Holly with bad poetry. On the plus side, the alternate personality doesn't suffer from the number problem.
* The Godspoken on the planet of Path in Orson Scott Card's ''Literature/{{Xenocide}}'' were believed to commune with God with their strange rituals. Turns out that [[spoiler:they were all inflicted with OCD by the Starways Congress to balance out their significantly above-average intellect and keep them in line]]. Qing-jao's ritual is tracing woodlines until her anxiety and panic goes away. She and the other Godspoken of Path also exhibit other behaviors usually believed to be typical of OCD, such as excessive hand washing. This condition does have the bonus effect of making them very methodical workers; Qing-jao slowly and methodically looks at every possible piece of evidence and becomes the only person to realize [[spoiler:the true identity of Demosthenes and the existence of a creature like Jane. A cure for the OCD is eventually created and spread through Path, letting them retain their brilliance without being subjected to the humiliation caused by their rituals. Ultimately Qing-jao becomes TheOnlyBeliever]].

* Colin Wall from ''Literature/TheCasualVacancy''. His OCD manifests in constant thoughts and nightmares about heinous crimes he may have committed unintentionally, including murdering his best friend and pedophilia.
* The eponymous character in the Creator/StephenKing short story ''[[Literature/JustAfterSunset N.]]''. His doctor, Johnny Bonsaint eventually [[spoiler:becomes like this as well, due to the influence of the field.]]

* Chaplain Boreas of ''[[Literature/SpaceMarineBattles Purging of Callidus]]''. At one point, he stops in the middle of a battle to glue part of a statue back together. While he ''is'' aware that he likely has better things to do at the moment, he believes that by not caring, he would fail his duties as a Chaplain.

* Anna-Kat from ''Series/AmericanHousewife'' has OCD and the condition is touched upon lightly but seriously. She's shown to engage in counting rituals and occasionally freezes up if something occurs out of her control. Katie is shown helping her with coping exercises and the entire Otto family relocated so that Anna-Kat can go to a school that has a special-needs program geared toward children like her.

* Sheldon from ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' shows many signs of OCPD:
** A good example is when the cushion that was "his spot" on the sofa was stained and he spent the time in which the cushion was being cleaned slowly going crazy, eventually going to the point where he was crouching over the spot where he used to sit. Howard tries to solve the problem by grabbing Rajesh's cushion and placing it in Sheldon's spot. Rajesh starts to complain, giving us:
--->'''Howard:''' Who cares where you sit? ''You are not crazy!''
** In the thirty seconds it took Rajesh to find a new place to sit, Sheldon had found something unacceptable about the new cushion and the fun was restarted.
--->'''Sheldon:''' These shrimp are all the same size, there's no logical order to eat them in. ''[chucks them into the garbage can]''
** Sheldon always has to knock on Penny's door 3 times and each knock is followed by him calling Penny's name. Penny at one point tries to mess up Sheldon's rhythm by opening the door and imitating what Sheldon does. He feels "that's just wrong."
* [[TheReliableOne Mother's Milk]] in ''Series/TheBoys2019'' is revealed to suffer from this. Early on Frenchie points out that anything that's messed up, whether it be teens with no direction in life or the ice cream in a tub that's partly scooped out, ends up irking him something nasty, driving him to set those kids straight and ''finish that ice cream''. This is how Frenchie gets him on board to help the mentally messed-up Kimiko. In the second season, Starlight suggests he has it, emphasizing clinical behavioral symptoms (compulsive motions and germophobia) rather than obsessive personality traits. M.M. later admits that he suspects he might have inherited this from his father, who worked himself to death over his obsessive crusade against [[EvilInc Vought]].
* Some of the killers in ''Series/CriminalMinds'':
** One is a man who is seen washing his hands with what looks like a fresh bar of soap, then throwing it away after one use.
** The very second episode featured a girl with a severe fixation on the number three. It got to the point that she believed God was speaking to her through patterns involving it... [[KillItWithFire He told her to burn things]].
* Ryan Wolfe on ''Series/CSIMiami'' had it, though not to a really extreme degree.
* Bree from ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' used to be ''very'' bad about this, though she did lighten up about it later on, and it's now been reduced to her making the occasional quip about using a coaster or keeping something straight or neat.
* In the VerySpecialEpisode [[OscarBait Emmy Bait]] parody on ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' Mimi has a relapse into Super Duper OCD, which Drew uses to his advantage.
* Comedian Jon Richardson is the subject of fun across multiple British panel shows, particularly ''Series/EightOutOfTenCats'' and ''Series/EightOutOfTenCatsDoesCountdown'', for his obsessive need for cleanliness, order, and symmetry.

* Monica from ''Series/{{Friends}}''. She can tell if the furniture has been moved even an inch, and will have a near panic attack at the thought of it. How bad she was was really DependingOnTheWriter. In one episode, Chandler cleans the apartment to make Monica happy. When Monica came home, she ''did'' notice that things were moved, but she thought that the gesture was sweet.
* While Danny Tanner in ''Series/FullHouse'' is generally just a NeatFreak, he reaches Super OCD levels when his personal Christmas of Spring Cleaning time comes around. Another episode has the girls moving ''every single item'' on Danny's wall a few inches to the side because he'd otherwise notice the one thing they had to move to cover a hole in the wall. There's finally a HeelRealization mixed with SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and a FreudianExcuse--when Danny goes overboard during the aforementioned Spring Cleaning, DJ drags the family into her room where they all spend several minutes complaining about him. After they leave, Danny emerges from the closet (he was installing shelf paper) and is clearly devastated at the realization of how out-of-control his behavior has gotten and that it's genuinely making everyone hate him. When he goes out for a drive to clear his head, he muses that he's always loved to clean, ever since his mother gave him cleaning supplies as a present--and instantly realizes that (a) that's probably the root of his problem and (b) that he's doing the same thing to Michelle and that one day she might drive ''her'' family crazy.

* Season 2 of ''Series/TheHour'' introduces [[Creator/PeterCapaldi Randall Brown]], who shows many symptoms of this trope, though his disorder is never actually named (justified for the 1950s setting, when psychology was less advanced), thus averting the common media mistake of confusing OCD with Obsessive-Compulsive ''Personality'' Disorder, whose symptoms he more accurately reflects. However, this trope is employed unconventionally; his disorder does not stop Randall from being an authoritative and effective manager, did not prevent him from having a relationship in the past (though it might have played a part in the relationship's failure) and it is generally not played for laughs. For most of the series it is not played for drama, either (it doesn't cause enough grief for that), until he discovers that [[spoiler:his daughter from the aforementioned relationship (who he has never seen and has spent years trying to find) died in an air raid]], and his way of trying to cope with it is absolutely heartbreaking. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=L70ZGiEj_9Q#t=71 Watch it here.]]
* Mrs. Benson on ''Series/ICarly'', flits between this and NeatFreak DependingOnTheWriter.
* Charlie's mom in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has OCD as one of a multitude of mental issues. Her rituals include closing every door and shutting off every light 3 times each "so that Charlie doesn't die."

** Played seriously eight episodes later. The MonsterOfTheWeek is a painter who ''really'' wants his painting to be perfect and will ''petrify anyone who disturbs him'' to get his wish...which includes the sweet little girl trying to help the Glee Club with a cute song about a satellite.
* ''Series/TheLastEnemy'' has the protagonist, a brilliant mathematician, who has an advanced form of OCD. When we first see him, he's on a plane wrapped in a blanket and wearing a heavy-duty mask, and sitting stock upright to avoid physical contact. Then, because the guy next to him is coughing, he runs to the bathroom and proceeds to thoroughly wash his hands... which turns out to be a habit he does throughout the series. Surprisingly, it's mostly related to cleanliness, so we never see him watch where he steps or repeat certain actions just because. When his ex meets him, she gives him a disinfectant wipe after they come out of a church.
* Chad, Dewey's classmate from the special ed class on ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' takes this trope to AxCrazy levels. With an actual ax.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': They sometimes do portray this as a seriously debilitating illness, but just as often it's portrayed as funny. The idea is that he's CursedWithAwesome, so that he notices every detail of a crime scene, picking up clues that no one else would. In one episode, his doctor finds an effective drug that helps Monk tone down his OCD considerably, at the expense of his attention to detail. By the end of the episode [[StatusQuoIsGod he's back to his usual self.]] Ironically, Howie Mandel (also being OCD in real life) guest-starred as a cultist who tries to help Monk get over his condition when he spends time at their commune to investigate.
* Adam Savage, in the Battle of the Sexes episode of ''Series/MythBusters'', admitted to feeling something akin to this while he was watching people pack cars during the course of the episode. He would wonder why a person was packing a car in a certain way, and then realize that they were doing things differently from how he would do it because ''they weren't him''.
* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Dr. Kevin Casey has extreme OCD. It gives him [[TheAce the benefit]] of [[LevelGrinding practicing things over and over until he does them perfectly]], but the drawback of [[ForcedLevelGrinding practicing things over and OVER until he does them perfectly]]. In a hospital full of quirky characters, the fact that he starts out every day by literally touching EVERYTHING in his first patient's room while saying "bink" is [[BunnyEarsLawyer initially played for laughs]]. But he can't even enter the room without timing his last step to his breath. The effects of this are shown [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome very deliberately]] at the [[DownerEnding end of the episode, when the stress from his first day in a new environment (and from trying to hide how much it affects him) has left him unable to stop washing his hands over and over again for hours despite being exhausted and desperately wanting to just go home.]]
* Mr. Pitt, Elaine's condescending boss, in Season 6 of {{Series/Seinfeld}}. He could never find a pair of socks that properly fit. Jerry also has a dislike for germs which borders on OCD, and Elaine warns him that his odd "tendencies" can become this if he's not careful. One episode where he's faced with more germs than usual ''does'' push him over the edge temporarily. A couple of characters also join a support group for germaphobes, which is {{played for laughs}}.
** Though it's not explicitly commented on, George also shows signs of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primarily_obsessional_obsessive_compulsive_disorder purely obsessional]] variety of OCD, most notably in "The Note", where he began to obsessively fear he was secretly gay after receiving a massage from a male masseuse.
* Odo in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' gets this a lot, along with a very deep sense of justice. It makes him an excellent chief of security, as he will follow a case doggedly, running down options and suspects very swiftly. It also means he won't indulge in such little things as police brutality, meaning his cells tend to be the safest place for a criminal to stay. Dax got a lot of fun out of sneaking into his quarters and moving things around just a couple centimeters. When he later discovered his people, the Founders, it turned out "establishing order" is kind of their [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. On the other hand, their idea of order and his idea of justice were completely incompatible. It probably relates to their biology: ShapeShifting must require [[RequiredSecondaryPowers superhuman attention to detail]].
* Very briefly comes up in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', when the brothers have to deal with TheFairFolk. One of the listed weaknesses that the faeries have is that if something is spilled in front of them (like grains of rice), they ''have'' to count it. Naturally, this comes in handy when it's time to give the bastards the bum rush.

* [[{{Kayfabe}} At times]], James May from ''Series/TopGear''. On one occasion while the team was racing to build a prefabricated car, he insisted on putting away every tool they used after they were done with it, driving Clarkson insane.
* ''Series/{{Whitechapel}}'' has Joseph Chandler, a homicide detective, who is incredibly obsessed with neatness, as well as things being clean. His OCD is bad enough that he often stays at the Homicide Department overnight, making everything neat for the next day...only for him to end up spending the entire night doing this. He also has counting rituals that can become so debilitating that he is stuck in place for hours going through them even as he becomes more distraught at not being able to stop. It should be noted, however, that while most of the examples are PlayedForLaughs, Chandler's OCD is shown as an illness and a serious issue, rather than something used for comedy.

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* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]]. According to legend, scattering grain is a good way to stop a vampire, as they will be compelled to count it, which gives the victim time to escape and may keep them out past sunrise. The best-known modern vampire with this feature is ''Series/SesameStreet'''s The Count, and they did it seemingly by accident.
** It was used in ''Series/TheXFiles''. Mulder defeated a vampire by spilling his sunflower seeds.
** Also featured in ''Literature/MySwordhandIsSinging'', which contains very traditional vampires.
** Subverted sometimes with the vampire counting the damn things before they hit the ground, as in ''Film/DraculaIIAscension''. When a group of idiot kids decide to mess around with Dracula, they try to slow him down by throwing a handful of seeds at him. It goes into a brief BulletTime and Dracula nonchalantly states the number of seeds and keeps going.
* Myth/RussianMythologyAndTales has the "leshy", a forest spirit that gets people lost and, eventually, killed. One way to hold it off is to drop something for it to count, such as pine needles or seeds.
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* Kathy in ''Vanities'' is an obsessive organizer, who has a nervous breakdown when things stop going according to her plans.
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* In ''Videogame/{{Dishonored}}'', the [[EvilChancellor Lord Regent Hiram Burrows]] is affected by this, though it isn't stated outright. The Heart will mention that he has to count every flagstone he steps on and that he has to obsessively record all of his thoughts in order to keep everything organized (which allows Corvo to [[EngineeredPublicConfession find his secret confession of his crimes]]) and if Corvo confronts him in his safe room he will ask if he's being punished for his imperfections.

* Quarians in ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' have a completely justified case of [=Super OCD=] when it comes to germs. Due to their homeworld having very few pathogens, they never developed robust immune systems. This issue only worsened after they performed a HomeworldEvacuation after the [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Geth rebelled]], the sterile ships causing their immune systems to atrophy to the point that contact with any foreign microbe can cause a fatal allergic reaction. They spend most of their lives encased in sealed environmental suits equipped with medical suites as a result, even within their own fleet.
* Sion from ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood''. At one point early in their meeting, Shiki calls her a "bastard." She gets ''very'' upset and informs him, that [[DoWrongRight no, the acceptable word for insulting a woman is "bitch."]] Note, she's not insulted by the actual name-calling, just that it's ''wrong.''
** In the ending where she befriends both Shiki and Akiha; she takes alternating turns on siding with Shiki or Akiha when Shiki tries to sneak out of the house. Super OCD or TrueNeutral? Can't it be both?
** She also gets ticked off at the concept of "randomness". Being able to subdivide her mind into several rooms and analyze each possible outcome in a very short amount of time, she can figure out the outcomes of every (or at least many) possible series of events.
* Thoroughly averted in ''VideoGame/NeverendingNightmares''. The game takes place in the nightmares of a character with obsessive-compulsive disorder, which manifests not with an obsession over order or compulsive rituals, but an increasing feeling of isolation and violent images that repeat themselves over and over again. The game's creator has OCD himself, and in addition to a desire to accurately portray the disorder in a work of fiction, much of the game's content is directly inspired by his experience living with the disorder, as well as the violent intrusive thoughts he's had.

* Giratina in the ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' games. It's so obsessed with maintaining order between dimensions that it will violently attack anyone it perceives as a threat to either the Pokemon Universe and/or the Reverse/Distortion World. It got to the point where Arceus had to banish it to another dimension (IE: the aforementioned Reverse/Distortion World).
** Also Minccino and Cinccino.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' Petunia has this. The episode "Wishy Washy" gratuitously showed us how bad it is with some serious panic attacks, at one point she brushes her teeth so hard that her gums start bleeding![[spoiler: It gets worse when she commits [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] with a [[FlayingAlive POTATO PEELER]] just because her skin was dirty]].

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Broodhollow}}'', Zane ''needs'' things to be closed.
* Melody from ''Webcomic/ComingUpViolet'' qualifies as an example, and was once the page picture. Though, to be fair, it probably doesn't help that she's a hyperactive chinchilla in HighSchool.
* Averted in {{Creator/Don Hertzfeldt}}'s ''Temporary Anaesthetics''. Though PlayedForLaughs, "Bobby Neurotic's" OCD is shown as being a crippling and irrational series of anxieties that only time-consuming, meaningless rituals can abate. Even if it's taken to comical extremes that only Don Hertzfeldt could pull off, it is ultimately portrayed as a life-destroying, soul-draining, and frightening mental illness, [[TruthInTelevision just like in reality.]]
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive:'' If an immortal even thinks of violating a vow they have made, they will be bombarded with intrusive thoughts regarding that vow until they abandon the intent. Demonstrated [[https://egscomics.com/comic/2013-09-04 here]], and later explained [[https://egscomics.com/comic/2016-09-28 here]] by Mr. Verres (complete with {{Lampshading}} of the difference between actual and Hollywood OCD).
** In the same comic, Susan's [[https://egscomics.com/comic/2017-10-09 description]] of her fear of germs sounds a lot more like OCD than actual germophobia.
* Abner [=VanSlyk=] of ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'' is a diagnosed mysophobic. He's obsessed to the point of wearing gloves and a surgical mask while working.
* Mordecai Heller from ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' is this, as well as being completely sociopathic. In one of the pre-canon comics, he gave a long rant to the person he was about to murder about how his position on the back seat was throwing off the aesthetic balance of the car.
** In his first act seen in the comic, he successfully infiltrates Lackadaisy to clean out their armory; when the theft is discovered, they realize Mordecai did it because he not only took the guns, but he also tidied up the room in the process.
* Some (but probably not all) vampires in ''Webcomic/ALoonaticsTale''. In Job Hunting: Rehired, one character scatters change on the ground to distract the Cruor brothers. Lynch gets caught up counting the coins, but wealth-obsessed businessman Lee takes the cake, as ''he'' gets caught up counting the ''value'' of the coins.
* O.C. from ''Webcomic/{{OC and Dee}}'' is a quintessentially acute sufferer of OCD.
* Hannelore in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', which is probably [[RuleOfFunny deliberate]] instead of not doing the research, because author Jeph Jacques himself has OCD. She appears to have both a fairly accurate case of OCD ''and'' Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, and possibly a few phobias as well, not entirely unlike the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' example. She also has some more problems that probably aren't the direct result of mental illness, like [[NoSocialSkills some unfamiliarity with normal social protocol due to having a weird upbringing]], and occasional hallucinations brought on by her [[TheInsomniac chronic insomnia]]. She definitely has phobias, as a lot of fun has been had with her growing mistrust of tapirs. It comes and goes depending on what the joke requires; for example, when she was first introduced, she had a conversation with Marten while watching him pee in a sink, which would be unthinkable with her current characterization. This is semi-justified because she's constantly switching meds in a desperate search for a combination that will properly control all her varied and sundry neuroses, phobias, and disorders without reacting badly or slamming her with nasty side effects.
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* [[MeaningfulName Accord]] of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' has a literal example of this -- his extreme OCD is a side effect of his superpower. He shows all the traits of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, including an obsession with neatness in his environment. If something is insufficiently neat, he is compelled to eradicate it -- whether it be an ill-designed piece of clothing or a particularly annoying person. To give an example of how extreme his compulsion is, he had to force himself to refrain from violently murdering someone who ''started a statement with conjunction when speaking to him''.
* Fractious of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', whose RealityWarper powers tend to make things worse for her Super OCD. Her manifesting as a mutant also means her old meds don't work on her anymore, and she has the associated General Anxiety Disorder. Done pretty accurately: the author claims to be OC and to have a child with clinical OCD. To put it another way, she's based on Diane Castle, who is practically the poster child for ShownTheirWork.
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%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3R6VjrSXd8&feature=channel_video_title This video]] features someone with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is a rare example where the person isn't shown cleaning all the time. Instead, he obsesses over tiny things and repeatedly brings them up during a review and later ones. According to vlogs, Doug says he has it too, being a schedule fanatic and getting antsy when shots are slanted.
* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Antibody]] of the [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slenderseries]] ''WebVideo/OneHundredYardStare'' has such symptoms. No, he doesn't clean either, but for example has extreme anxieties (also paranoia, but that's standard issue in the genre), he keeps track of time to the minute and has some InsaneTrollLogic plans on how to restore the order of the world.
* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug19JBIIycs This video]] made by Creator/RachelBloom depicts some of the ritual behaviors and intrusive thoughts associated with the real-life disorder... [[LyricalDissonance as a dance number]] in the style of the ''Cha Cha Slide''.
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* The Earl of Lemongrab of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' displays many attributes of this on several occasions. According to Patrick Seery, a production assistant on the show, "he likes order." Which means that anything that's even REMOTELY un-orderly freaks him out. As soon as he walked into the candy castle, he saw candy people pillow-fighting, and Cinnamon Bun lying on the floor, which was covered in candy-muck. He screamed that the castle was in "UNACCEPTABLLLEE CONDITIIIOONN!!!" and sent everybody in the room to thirty days in the dungeon. "IF ANYONE NEEDS ME I'LL BE TAKING A NAP! A..a-a...and clean this place up or Dungeon! THREE HOURS DUNGEON!!!"
* Mechanicles from ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries''. All of his schemes in the show revolve around his need to keep things clean and tidy (melting desert sand to create flawless glass, wiping out a rainforest to destroy all the bugs, "steam-cleaning" the Earth by boiling the oceans, etc.). He also keeps an organized "things to do" list with him at all times. In his debut episode, Aladdin and co. press his BerserkButton by making a mess in his headquarters as a distraction.
* One of Daggett's goons, [[IronicName ironically nicknamed Germs]], in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. He had a habit of using a napkin to open doors, and was hesitant to assassinate someone at a hospital "with all those sick people". He's the poster boy for TerrifiedOfGerms.
* Linda Belcher suffers a variant of this in ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''. Specifically, in "Bed & Breakfast," she attempts to turn the Belcher home into a B & B during a long weekend, but Bob warns her that every time she tries to entertain people she goes way overboard until she snaps when her efforts aren't appreciated enough. Sure enough, Linda manages to embarrass the three people staying at the Belcher home and she becomes hostile. She then resorts to locking everyone in their rooms while Louise tries to get her room back from Teddy. It all leads up to SanitySlippage and a disheveled and twitchy Linda carrying around a tray of bowls of melted ice cream before Bob manages to get her to come to her sense.
%%* Jeff from ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}''.

%%* Mr Herriman from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.

* Corey Riffin from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' suffers from this, he's always booking gigs at every opportunity, and not letting even one slip by.
* Johnny Test's Dad in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' who's obsessed with the house being clean.

* Bloberta from ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel''. To the point where she scrubs the UNDERSIDE of the floor tiles as well as the surface.
** And she even noticed how dirty her cleaning products were.
* The previous ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' generation had Minty, who is not only Super OCD but a Derpyësque [[TheKlutz klutz]]. Disaster ensues, especially in ''A Very Minty Christmas''.
%%* Menlo from ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''.

* WesternAnimation/PorkyPig is revealed to have this in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode "Gossamer is Awesomer!" after he briefly moves in with Bugs and Daffy. He's obsessed with having a "system", organizes ''everything'' in Bugs' kitchen, makes sure ''all'' of his soup cans are facing the exact same way, and is so CrazyPrepared that he has a recycling bin dedicated to wet paper. Bugs can't stand it.

* [[AmbiguouslyJewish Filburt]] from ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', most ''especially'' in the episode "Put Out To Pasture" when he is running low on potato chips [[FatBastard due to Heffer's gluttony]] and decides he's going to eat approximately ''one of them per day''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Lisa sometimes suffers from this in various episodes. In "The PTA Disbands", Lisa is desperate to continue learning even though the teachers go on strike. She at one point begs Marge to grade and evaluate her, and sometime later Marge mentions that Lisa tried dissecting her raincoat.
** She seems to get it from Marge. In "Fear of Flying", her OCD tendencies actually prompted the Simpsons to seek therapy on her behalf.
--->''[discovering Marge in her bathrobe, re-shingling the roof]''\\
'''Homer:''' Marge, it's 3 AM! Shouldn't you be baking?
** Focusin, a drug meant to combat attention defect disorder, induces super OCD in Bart. While taking the drug, he seems to be suffering from paranoid delusions, [[ProperlyParanoid but it turns out he is right]].
** The Rich Texan is revealed to have this in "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story", explaining his habit of constantly shooting his guns in the air (which he does after tapping his foot on the ground while counting to four).
%%* ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'': Antoine; this is taken to the extremes in the filler episode "The Odd Couple."
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': [=SpongeBob=] often behaves this way in several later season episodes, some examples include the time he became afraid of the dark, he bought thousands of night lights to light up his house and freaked out at the slightest bit of darkness. The time he invited Squidward over to his house and copied the inside of Squidward's house down to the last detail including every crack in the walls and ceiling, every detail in his paintings, and the sewing in his mother's pillows. And when he thought everything in his house was sentimental and refused to throw anything out, he even collected jars of his sweat and grease from the grill. It got to the point where he became a hoarder and his house was covered in garbage.
* Pearl in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' can occasionally fall into this. "Mirror Gem" has her take a random pile of vaguely educational stuff Steven had pooled to get some experience of schooling and get so worked up about keeping it symmetrical that she stabs teddy bears and cereal boxes with her spear when Amethyst throws them at the pile.
* TOM from Creator/{{Toonami}} has it when he plays ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} 3'', so obsessed with getting a perfect day that he won't give it a proper review until it is ''perfect''.
* Trent from ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Action]]'' develops a Super OCD obsession with the number 9, [[CompressedVice even though there were never any such behaviors before or after.]] It is, however realistic. ''[[DudeNotFunny And it is all treated as a joke.]]''

* Captain Levi, the leader of the Recon Corps in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', is a major neat freak: he dislikes blood (even though fighting Titans is an incredibly messy job) and goes to great lengths to keep himself clean while cleaning up around base.
** Let's clarify this. In one of the first scenes he's featured in, he wipes titan blood off of his hands and the handles to his blades while expressing disgust for the mess. Titan blood evaporates. Quickly.

** Mikami has shades of this trope -- his daily schedule is exact to the minute. [[spoiler: It's part of what gets him caught when he willfully ''breaks'' this habit temporarily to try and tie up a loose end himself.]]
** Light shows signs of this as well; he seems to be a NeatFreak with routines he HAS to go through i.e. he has to place his shoes ''just'' so, doesn't leave the house much, ''always'' [[ProperlyParanoid locks the door and sets it up so he'll know if someone was in his room and messed with his stuff]] (it's implied he did this even ''before'' he needed to), etc. (Insert joke about how just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.)
* Re-l Meyer from ''Anime/ErgoProxy'' is a straight-forward OCD example. She's obsessed with both cleanliness and punctuality, and while investigating crime scenes has a habit of symmetrically rearranging some of the evidence. Then comes Episode 16.

* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'': Albert is fixated on things being in proper order, but the focus is more on his discomfort with "distortions" to the way the world should be properly, which makes it clear he has OCD.
* In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', Black is apparently so incapable of ''not'' thinking about challenging the League and becoming the best that he needs his Munna to literally ''eat'' his dreams away so that he can concentrate on the matters at hand. In fact, it turns out that Black ''really'' can't concentrate without his Munna without frying his brain, making this a bit of a FatalFlaw.
** However, he's slowly been getting over this, especially when White's well-being is concerned.
* Chiri Kitsu from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''. [[MeaningfulName It's in her freakin' name!]] Not even [[{{Yandere}} having to kill]] will stop her from balancing the world. [[GagSeries But it's that kind of show.]]
** She's so precise, when she speaks, the punctuation ''shows up onscreen''. Also, her CrossPoppingVeins are perfectly symmetrical and located in the middle of her forehead (though not always, oddly enough).

** As it turns out, the reason he has such bad OCD is [[spoiler:that he's an [[HumanoidAbomination Elder God]] representing the madness of Order.]]

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* Hello Saferide's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHTcwzQ0qHs If I Don't Write This Song, Someone I Love Will Die]]"
* Dream Theater's song "Constant Motion" was written by former drummer Mike Portnoy about his struggle with OCD.
* Creator/RachelBloom's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug19JBIIycs OCDance!]]'' is a realistic portrayal of OCD – Rachel speaks from experience.
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* ''Manga/CaseClosed'' has an arc where Kogoro has to investigate the murder of a rich man, whose servants all has some sort of phobia or quirk. The butler, in particular, is a meticulous perfectionist who is constantly fixing the angles of tablecloths, paintings, etc. around the house.

* In ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'', Violine's chauffeur constantly expresses things in minute details or splits numbers up in smaller units. Marushka is obsessed with hygiene and health, even analyzing Violine's stool to see if she eats healthily enough.

* On ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' vampires who stop drinking blood try to develop daily patterns and routines so they can stop themselves from constantly thinking about blood and killing. Mitchell tried to build a 'normal' routine life for himself but kept failing. Hal managed to created complex daily rituals for himself and managed to suppress his vampire urges by religiously following them for over 50 years. However, this caused him to cut all contact with the outside world and when his routines are disrupted, he becomes violent and unstable.

--->'''Sheldon:''' These shrimp are all the same size, there's no logical order to eat them in. [chucks them into the garbage can]

* [[TheReliableOne Mother's Milk]] in ''Series/TheBoys2019'' is revealed to suffer from this. Early on Frenchie points out that anything that's messed up, whether it be teens with no direction in life or the ice cream in a tub that's partly scooped out, ends up irking him something nasty, driving him to set those kids straight and ''finish that ice cream''. This is how Frenchie gets him on board to help the mentally messed-up Kimiko. In the second season Starlight suggests he has it, emphasizing clinical behavioral symptoms (compulsive motions and germophobia) rather than obsessive personality traits. M.M. later admits that he suspects he might have inherited this from his father, who worked himself to death over his obsessive crusade against [[EvilInc Vought]].

** The very second episode featured a girl with a severe fixation with the number three. It got to the point that she believed God was speaking to her through patterns involving it... [[KillItWithFire He told her to burn things]].

** In ''A Little Bit OCD'', he explores his compulsions, such as the need to watch where he steps so his feet are "evened out", and reveals that he used to sleep in his car whenever his housemates' messiness became overwhelming. He also meets with OCD sufferers and treatment specialists and learns that some are so disordered that they struggle to maintian personal relationships while others become non-functional to the point of incontinence. In the end, he undergoes an assessment and is told that he exhibits some obsessive-compuslive traits but isn't disordered by them so he can't be diagnosed as actually having OCD.

* Season 2 of ''Series/TheHour'' introduces [[Creator/PeterCapaldi Randall Brown]], who shows many symptoms of this trope, though his disorder is never actually named (justified for the 1950s setting, when psychology was less advanced), thus averting the common media mistake of confusing OCD with Obsessive-Compulsive ''Personality'' Disorder, whose symptoms he more accurately reflects. However, this trope is employed unconventionally; his disorder does not stop Randall from being an authoritative and effective manager, did not prevent him from having a relationship in the past (though it might have played a part in the relationship's failure) and it is generally not played for laughs. For most of the series it is not played for drama, either (it doesn't cause enough grief for that), until he discovers that [[spoiler: his daughter from the aforementioned relationship (who he has never seen and has spent years trying to find) died in an air raid]], and his way of trying to cope with it is absolutely heartbreaking. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=L70ZGiEj_9Q#t=71 Watch it here.]]

* Each of the playable characters in ''VideoGame/MarySkelterNightmares'' have at least one obsession that is based upon their namesake FairyTale. For example, [[Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk Jack]] is obsessed with climbing the Jail Tower, [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood Red Riding Hood]] feels lightheaded and emotionally weak without something to wear near her head, Literature/{{Thumbelina}} feels comfortable in tightly-enclosed spaces, and Literature/{{Rapunzel}} throws a fit when someone casually suggests that she cut her hair. This is because [[spoiler:they are {{Half Human Hybrid}}s whose pregnant mothers were transformed into Marchens by the fairy tale-themed [[GeniusLoci Jail]]; they inherited just enough from their Marchen mothers for the Jail's desire for mimicry to affect their subconscious.]]

* Sion from ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood''. One point early in their meeting, Shiki calls her a "bastard." She gets ''very'' upset and informs him, that [[DoWrongRight no, the acceptable word for insulting a woman is "bitch."]] Note, she's not insulted by the actual name-calling, just that it's ''wrong.''

* ''VideoGame/SWAT4'' afflicts your AI teammates with this in singleplayer. If you order your squadmates to do anything to a door, they will neatly stack up on the door before doing anything else. So if you ordered all 4 of them over and one is being blocked from reaching his position ([[InvertedTrope most often by you]]) they will incessantly tell you to move over and refuse to carry out their order until everyone is on the PIXEL.

Someone with Super OCD requires ''ORDER'' in their life. Everything has to match some kind of pattern that they approve of. Lines must be straight, angles must be just the right degree, and the numbers must absolutely match. This doesn't have to be a pattern that [[InsaneTrollLogic makes sense]]. Social skills will be extremely difficult. Sometimes this translates into GoodWithNumbers or HyperAwareness.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is frequently misrepresented in fiction. Most people are surprised to find that rituals are not the defining trait of OCD -- in reality, it is an anxiety disorder that causes repeated, unwanted thoughts. The rituals (which may or may not have anything to do with order) are simply attempts to stop those thoughts. Fiction so exaggerates the "order" part in OCD that people are downright dumbfounded to find out that it actually exists. Like other anxiety disorders, OCD exists on a spectrum and its presentation can vary greatly from person to person and from day to day (depending on how much stress the person is dealing with).

Obsessive-Compulsive ''Personality'' Disorder, on the other hand, really is all about order. Whereas OCD is an anxiety disorder, with compulsions and behaviors that alleviate anxiety from unwanted or intrusive thoughts, OCPD is a personality disorder. The person is globally meticulous and nitpicky, desiring order in every aspect of their life. Where someone with OCD is aware their behavior is irrational (which causes more anxiety, which needs to be relieved, which leads to more irrational behavior...), someone with OCPD doesn't suffer distress from their behavior and views it as The Best Way Of Doing Things; distress with OCPD comes from someone screwing with their system, not from their behavior itself.

There's nothing to prevent someone from having both OCD and OCPD at the same time. However, OCPD is quite rare.

Fiction can land all over the place on this one. Sometimes the person has one or two odd behaviors, sometimes the person is incredibly demanding and particular. Sometimes it's a crippling disorder that limits the character's ability to function, sometimes it's just a mild quirk. However, it's usually a DisabilitySuperpower that turns the character into a super-detective or some such.

It was once an UnacceptableTarget, but later "upgraded" to an {{Acceptable Target|s}}

* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' plays with this with Albert, as his symptoms actually line up with real-life OCD. His fixation on things being in proper order and neat and how things "should" be leads to a NeatFreak nature, but the focus is more on his discomfort with "distortions" and incorrectness and compulsions to fix it.

* One of Daggett's goons in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. He had a habit of using a napkin to open doors, and was hesitant to assassinate someone at a hospital "with all those sick people". He's the poster boy for TerrifiedOfGerms.

* Chad, Dewey's classmate from the special ed class on ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' takes this trope to AxCrazy levels. [[UpToEleven With an actual ax.]]

* ''VideoGame/SWAT4'' afflicts your AI teammates with this in singleplayer. If you order your squadmates to do anything to a door, they will neatly stack up on the door before doing anything else. So if you ordered all 4 of them over and one is being blocked from reaching his position ([[InvertedTrope most often by you]]) they will incessantly tell you to move over and refuse to carry out their order until everyone is on the [[UpToEleven PIXEL]].

* [[AmbiguouslyJewish Filburt]] from ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', most ''especially'' in the episode "Put Out To Pasture" when he is running low on potato chips [[FatBastard due to Heffer's gluttony]] and decides he's going to eat approximately ''[[UpToEleven one of them per day]]''.

* Owen from ''Film/{{Superstar}}''. He has to say and do everything five times.

** Pointing out he's naturally asymmetrical by virtual of only one side of his hair having white streaks in it makes him curl up in self-loathing.

** Mikami has shades of this trope -- his daily schedule is exact to the minute. [[spoiler: It's part of what gets him caught.]]

'''Wasabi:''' Hey! You can't do that! This is anarchy!

* As mentioned under WesternAnimation, Twilight Sparkle suffers from this. So, naturally, it appears in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries''.
** Issue #1; shelving a book by its introductory subtitle rather than the larger-font main title, to Jade's annoyance.
*** Later, Twilight gets caught up in reading a book she was meant to be shelving, but Jade also admits that she gets that way, hence why the library is cluttered with unshelved books.
** Issue #3; Twilight asks Spike to take a letter, he immediately objects since they're in Canterlot and Princess Celestia is literally 40 feet away. Twilight justifies the letter because it can be saved and properly indexed. Celestia comments, when reading the letter, that she was just right there and they could have told her then.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Brainbent}}'', Kanaya's OCD was so bad at one point that she wasn't able to function or leave her room, and wound up admitting herself to [[HospitalParadiso St. Lobaf's]] to get help for it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/10/story-turning-of-screwball-strange-case.html The Turning of the Screwball]], the character of Button Stitch is so obsessively organized that even Rarity thinks she's a bit high-strung. Her self-repressive levels of OCD are what lead to [[spoiler: a build-up of magical energy that causes her to turn back into "Screwball" (the weird floating background pony from "Return of Harmony, Part 2") and pull bizarre pranks around Ponyville.]]

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' applies this to Mr.Perfect Cell, who makes ''three'' different combat rings all because they weren't perfect like he was - the first one had a green tile, the second one was in the shape of a circle (and it had a green tile) and the last one, before he gave up, had half a tile. The following episode revealed that he patched it up, much to his annoyance.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Chloe Cerise is noted to dislike new things and has multiple routines: she always has the same lunches from home every day, she has her mother brush her hair 100 times, she dislikes it if a recipe isn't followed correctly, etc. Once she gets on the eponymous Infinity Train, she decides to break out of these habits and become much more daring.

* M-O from ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' stands for Microbe Obliterator, which is an apt name for a droid who is '''dead serious''' about cleaning anything remotely foreign-contaminated. Which could make perfect sense aboard a starship where people have lived for generations and might not have much resistance to infection. Of course, one [[FridgeHorror wonders what happens once they return to Earth]].
* Rabbit from ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' is obsessed with keeping things clean, tidy, and in place and if someone -- usually Tigger -- messes with it, he goes nuts.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie "Bender's Game", [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Rosie]] makes a cameo in a [[BedlamHouse mental institute]] saying "[[MadnessMantra Must clean up! Everything must be clean!]] [[TheLoonie That's why the dog had to die!]] He was a dirty dog! Dirty! Dirty! And that [[WouldHurtAChild boy Elroy!]] Dirty! Dirty!" Not only does she have Super OCD but she's a murderer!

* ''Film/TheAviator'' is centered around Howard Hughes' (played by Leo [=DiCaprio=]) struggle with his advanced OCD. While the film treads familiar territory (task repetition, cleanliness, isolation), it also shows how Hughes was able to use the condition to become a famous billionaire. His manic attention to detail allows him to win Oscars, buy airlines, and fight the US Senate -- and win.

* Roy Waller in ''Film/MatchstickMen'' has this with regards to cleanliness -- he can't stand to be outdoors, insists his visitors remove their shoes, opens and closes the front and back door three times, and spends an entire day cleaning the house out of fear it may be dirty.
* ''Film/{{Adam}}'' has a very strict routine and diet because of his UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome.
* Ashburn from ''Film/TheHeat'', to a degree. She uses it well to aid her in finding hidden drugs/guns but it makes her rather annoying to others.
* Aubrey of ''Film/{{Anamorph}}'' is compelled to arrange things in just the right way. Based on the timing, he may be using it to ward off memories of the Uncle Eddie killings. His obsession with details helps him to spot clues in the case.

* Mr. Banks from ''Film/MaryPoppins''. He's a ScheduleFanatic who insists on everything in his life being "run with precision", and when Mary Poppins shows up and causes little disruptions to his life, he sees it as chaos.
* In ''Film/{{Errementari}}'', all devils have the compulsion to count chickpeas that are spilled on the floor. The blacksmith uses this to torment a captured devil early in the movie, and [[spoiler: again to distract a more powerful devil in a big YouShallNotPass moment at the climax of the movie.]] As noted below, this is a common trait of evil spirits in mythology and folklore, though one more commonly associated with vampires than devils.

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': They sometimes do portray this as a seriously debilitating illness, but just as often it's portrayed as funny. The idea is that he's CursedWithAwesome, so that he notices every detail of a crime scene, picking up clues that no one else would. In one episode, his doctor finds an effective drug that helps Monk tone down his OCD considerably, at the expense of his attention to detail. By the end of the episode [[StatusQuoIsGod he's back to his usual self.]] Ironically, Howie Mandel (also being OCD in real life) guest-starred as a cultist who tries to help Monk get over his condition when he spends time at their commune to investigate.

* Odo in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' gets this a lot, along with a very deep sense of justice. It makes him an excellent chief of security, as he will follow a case doggedly, running down options and suspects very swiftly. It also means he won't indulge in such little things as police brutality, meaning his cells tend to be the safest place for a criminal to stay. Dax got a lot of fun out of sneaking into his quarters and moving things around just a couple centimeters. When he later discovered his people, the Founders, it turned out "establishing order" is kind of their [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. On the other hand, their idea of order and his idea of justice were completely incompatible. It probably relates to their biology: ShapeShifting must require [[RequiredSecondaryPowers superhuman attention to detail]].
* [[{{Kayfabe}} At times]], James May from ''Series/TopGear''. On one occasion while the team was racing to build a prefabricated car, he insisted on putting away every tool they used after they were done with it, driving Clarkson insane.
* Mrs. Benson on ''Series/ICarly'', flits between this and NeatFreak DependingOnTheWriter.
* Emma Pillsbury on ''Series/{{Glee}}'', a severe mysophobe with an irrational fear of germs. This has naturally made her one of the biggest NeatFreak ever, to the point that she cleans every grape individually before eating it and spends an hour cleaning a pencil sharpener. The depiction of OCD on the show did get better as it went on, although still not perfect. Emma was also shown ritualistically rubbing hand lotion into her hands while counting and was also shown to have anxiety and panic attacks. She eventually seeks help.
* Some of the killers in ''Series/CriminalMinds'':

* Monica from ''Series/{{Friends}}''. She can tell if the furniture has been moved even an inch, and will have a near panic attack at the thought of it. How bad she was was really DependingOnTheWriter. In one episode, Chandler cleans the apartment to make Monica happy. When Monica came home, she ''did'' notice that things were moved, but she thought that the gesture was sweet.
* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Dr. Kevin Casey has extreme OCD. It gives him [[TheAce the benefit]] of [[LevelGrinding practicing things over and over until he does them perfectly]], but the drawback of [[ForcedLevelGrinding practicing things over and OVER until he does them perfectly]]. In a hospital full of quirky characters, the fact that he starts out every day by literally touching EVERYTHING in his first patient's room while saying "bink" is [[BunnyEarsLawyer initially played for laughs]]. But he can't even enter the room without timing his last step to his breath. The effects of this are shown [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome very deliberately]] at the [[DownerEnding end of the episode, when the stress from his first day in a new environment (and from trying to hide how much it affects him) has left him unable to stop washing his hands over and over again for hours despite being exhausted and desperately wanting to just go home.]]
* In the VerySpecialEpisode [[OscarBait Emmy Bait]] parody on ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' Mimi has a relapse into Super Duper OCD, which Drew uses to his advantage.

* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'':
** In episode 7, the PowerTrio are in detention, along with the JerkJock and {{Goth}} girl. When they ask the Goth what she's in for, she explains that she hacked the school computer and deleted every single picture from a school event...because her hair ribbon was slightly off-kilter in '''''one''''' of the pictures.
** Played seriously eight episodes later. The MonsterOfTheWeek is a painter who ''really'' wants his painting to be perfect and will ''petrify anyone who disturbs him'' to get his wish...which includes the sweet little girl trying to help the Glee Club with a cute song about a satellite.
* [[TheReliableOne Mother's Milk]] in ''Series/TheBoys2019'' is revealed to suffer from this. Early on Frenchie points out that anything that's messed up, whether it be teens with no direction in life or the ice cream in a tub that's partly scooped out, ends up irking him something nasty, driving him to set those kids straight and ''finish that ice cream''. This is how Frenchie gets him on board to help the mentally messed-up Kimiko. In the second season Starlight suggests he has it, emphasizing clinical behavioral symptoms (compulsive motions and germophobia) rather than obsessive personality traits. M.M. later admits that he suspects he might have inherited this from his father, who worked himself to death over his obsessive crusade against [[EvilInc Vought]].
* ''Series/{{Whitechapel}}'' has Joseph Chandler, a homicide detective, who is incredibly obsessed with neatness, as well as things being clean. His OCD is bad enough that he often stays at the Homicide Department overnight, making everything neat for the next day...only for him to end up spending the entire night doing this. He also has counting rituals that can become so debilitating that he is stuck in place for hours going through them even as he becomes more distraught at not being able to stop. It should be noted, however, that while most of the examples are PlayedForLaughs, Chandler's OCD is shown as an illness and a serious issue, rather than something used for comedy.
* On ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' vampires who stop drinking blood try to develop daily patterns and routines so they can stop themselves from constantly thinking about blood and killing. Mitchell tried to build a 'normal' routine life for himself but kept failing. Hal managed to created complex daily rituals for himself and managed to suppress his vampire urges by religiously following them for over 50 years. However, this caused him to cut all contact with the outside world and when his routines are disrupted, he becomes violent and unstable.

* Ryan Wolfe on ''Series/CSIMiami'' had it, though not to a really extreme degree.
* Very briefly comes up in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', when the brothers have to deal with TheFairFolk. One of the listed weaknesses that the faeries have is that if something is spilled in front of them (like grains of rice), they ''have'' to count it. Naturally, this comes in handy when it's time to give the bastards the bum rush.
-->'''Fairy''': (As Sam is performing the un-summoning spell) One, two, three, four... ''You *ass*.''
* ''Series/TheLastEnemy'' has the protagonist, a brilliant mathematician, who has an advanced form of OCD. When we first see him, he's on a plane wrapped in a blanket and wearing a heavy-duty mask, and sitting stock upright to avoid physical contact. Then, because the guy next to him is coughing, he runs to the bathroom and proceeds to thoroughly wash his hands... which turns out to be a habit he does throughout the series. Surprisingly, it's mostly related to cleanliness, so we never see him watch where he steps or repeat certain actions just because. When his ex meets him, she gives him a disinfectant wipe after they come out of a church.

* Adam Savage, in the Battle of the Sexes episode of ''Series/MythBusters'', admitted to feeling something akin to this while he was watching people pack cars during the course of the episode. He would wonder why a person was packing a car in a certain way, and then realize that they were doing things differently from how he would do it because ''they weren't him''.
* Chad, Dewey's classmate from the special ed class on ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' takes this trope to AxCrazy levels. [[UpToEleven With an actual ax.]]
* Mr. Pitt, Elaine's condescending boss, in Season 6 of {{Series/Seinfeld}}. He could never find a pair of socks that properly fit. Jerry also has a dislike for germs which borders on OCD, and Elaine warns him that his odd "tendencies" can become this if he's not careful. One episode where he's faced with more germs than usual ''does'' push him over the edge temporarily. A couple of characters also join a support group for germaphobes, which is {{played for laughs}}.
** Though it's not explicitly commented on, George also shows signs of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primarily_obsessional_obsessive_compulsive_disorder purely obsessional]] variety of OCD, most notably in "The Note", where he began to obsessively fear he was secretly gay after receiving a massage from a male masseuse.

* Anna-Kat from ''Series/AmericanHousewife'' has OCD and the condition is touched upon lightly but seriously. She's shown to engage in counting rituals and occasionally freezes up if something occurs out of her control. Katie is shown helping her with coping exercises and the entire Otto family relocated so that Anna-Kat can go to a school that has a special-needs program geared toward children like her.
* Comedian Jon Richardson is the subject of fun across multiple British panel shows, particularly ''Series/EightOutOfTenCats'' and ''Series/EightOutOfTenCatsDoesCountdown'', for his obsessive need for cleanliness, order, and symmetry.
** In ''A Little Bit OCD'', he explores his compulsions, such as the need to watch where he steps so his feet are "evened out", and reveals that he used to sleep in his car whenever his housemates' messiness became overwhelming. He also meets with OCD sufferers and treatment specialists and learns that some are so disordered that they struggle to maintian personal relationships while others become non-functional to the point of incontinence. In the end, he undergoes an assessment and is told that he exhibits some obsessive-compuslive traits but isn't disordered by them so he can't be diagnosed as actually having OCD.

* Quarians in ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' have a completely justified case of [=Super OCD=] when it comes to germs. Due to their homeworld having very few pathogens, they never developed robust immune systems. This issue only worsened after they performed a HomeworldEvacuation after the [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Geth rebelled]], the sterile ships causing their immune systems to atrophy to the point that contact with any foreign microbe can cause a fatal allergic reaction. They spend most of their lives encased in sealed environmental suits equipped with medical suites as a result, even within their own fleet.

* Giratina in the VideoGame/{{Pokemon}} games. It's so obsessed with maintaining order between dimensions that it will violently attack anyone it perceives as a threat to either the Pokemon Universe and/or the Reverse/Distortion World. It got to the point where Arceus had to banish it to another dimension (IE: the aforementioned Reverse/Distortion World).
** Also Minccino and Cinccino.

* Thoroughly averted in VideoGame/NeverendingNightmares. The game takes place in the nightmares of a character with obsessive-compulsive disorder, which manifests not with an obsession over order or compulsive rituals, but an increasing feeling of isolation and violent images that repeat themselves over and over again. The game's creator has OCD himself, and in addition to a desire to accurately portray the disorder in a work of fiction, much of the game's content is directly inspired by his experience living with the disorder, as well as the violent intrusive thoughts he's had.

* Symmetra from ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' is obsessed with order and perfection, which is shown both in her dialogue and in one of her highlight intros, where she is annoyed when the camera goes askew and corrects it. Her comic short "A Better World" elaborates on this.
* Each of the playable characters in ''VideoGame/MarySkelterNightmares'' have at least one obsession that is based upon their namesake FairyTale. For example, [[Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk Jack]] is obsessed with climbing the Jail Tower, [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood Red Riding Hood]] feels lightheaded and emotionally weak without something to wear near her head, Literature/{{Thumbelina}} feels comfortable in tightly-enclosed spaces, and Literature/{{Rapunzel}} throws a fit when someone casually suggests that she cut her hair. This is because [[spoiler:they are {{Half Human Hybrid}}s whose pregnant mothers were transformed into Marchens by the fairy tale-themed [[GeniusLoci Jail]]; they inherited just enough from their Marchen mothers for the Jail's desire for mimicry to affect their subconscious.]]
* ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'': one of your targets, bioterrorist and militia leader Sean Rose, suffers from acute OCD, leading to an obsession with cleanliness and a compulsion to maintain order wherever he can, such as making sure all clocks are synchronized to his watch and arranging pencils on his desk in a neat and orderly fashion. This can be exploited, as stress from having his neatness and order disrupted will cause him to seek out cigarettes to smoke and calm his nerves, which you can lace with drugs beforehand to make him suffer a bad trip and isolate himself for an easy kill.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', Jyggalag is the Daedric Prince of Order, and his fundamental nature is to order and catalogue ''everything''. He once created the Library of Jyggalag, a massive repository that predicted the actions of every being in the universe which Jyggalag compiled [[AwesomenessByAnalysis by simple study and deduction.]] Jyggalag's extreme obsession with ordering things lead him to become the most powerful of the Daedric Princes until the others joined forces and [[IronicHell cursed him to become his antithesis:]] the insane and unpredictable MadGod Sheogorath, who would then be locked into an endless cycle where he would shift between these two beings and destroy all he had built. Sotha Sil and his priesthood, who argue that the Daedric Princes are "flaws" in the structure of the universe, presented a theory that Jyggalag is a MadGod driven insane by the contradiction of being a Prince of pure Order while being a cosmic "error" at the same time.

* O.C. from ''Webcomic/{{OC and Dee}}'' is a quintessentially acute sufferer of OCD.
* Hannelore in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', which is probably [[RuleOfFunny deliberate]] instead of not doing the research, because author Jeph Jacques himself has OCD. She appears to have both a fairly accurate case of OCD ''and'' Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, and possibly a few phobias as well, not entirely unlike the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' example. She also has some more problems that probably aren't the direct result of mental illness, like [[NoSocialSkills some unfamiliarity with normal social protocol due to having a weird upbringing]], and occasional hallucinations brought on by her [[TheInsomniac chronic insomnia]]. She definitely has phobias, as a lot of fun has been had with her growing mistrust of tapirs. It comes and goes depending on what the joke requires; for example, when she was first introduced, she had a conversation with Marten while watching him pee in a sink, which would be unthinkable with her current characterization. This is semi-justified because she's constantly switching meds in a desperate search for a combination that will properly control all her varied and sundry neuroses, phobias, and disorders without reacting badly or slamming her with nasty side effects.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Broodhollow}}'', Zane ''needs'' things to be closed.
* Averted in {{Creator/Don Hertzfeldt}}'s ''Temporary Anaesthetics''. Though PlayedForLaughs, "Bobby Neurotic's" OCD is shown as being a crippling and irrational series of anxieties that only time-consuming, meaningless rituals can abate. Even if it's taken to comical extremes that only Don Hertzfeldt could pull off, it is ultimately portrayed as a life-destroying, soul-draining, and frightening mental illness, [[TruthInTelevision just like in reality.]]
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive:'' If an immortal even thinks of violating a vow they have made, they will be bombarded with intrusive thoughts regarding that vow until they abandon the intent. Demonstrated [[https://egscomics.com/comic/2013-09-04 here]], and later explained [[https://egscomics.com/comic/2016-09-28 here]] by Mr. Verres (complete with {{Lampshading}} of the difference between actual and Hollywood OCD).
** In the same comic, Susan's [[https://egscomics.com/comic/2017-10-09 description]] of her fear of germs sounds a lot more like OCD than actual germophobia.

* The Earl of Lemongrab of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' displays many attributes of this on several occasions. According to Patrick Seery, a production assistant on the show, "he likes order." Which means that anything that's even REMOTELY un-orderly freaks him out. As soon as he walked into the candy castle, he saw candy people pillow-fighting, and Cinnamon Bun lying on the floor, which was covered in candy-muck. He screamed that the castle was in "UNACCEPTABLLLEE CONDITIIIOONN!!!" and sent everybody in the room to thirty days in the dungeon. "IF ANYONE NEEDS ME I'LL BE TAKING A NAP! A..a-a...and clean this place up or Dungeon! THREE HOURS DUNGEON!!!"

* WesternAnimation/PorkyPig is revealed to have this in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode "Gossamer is Awesomer!" after he briefly moves in with Bugs and Daffy. He's obsessed with having a "system", organizes ''everything'' in Bugs' kitchen, makes sure ''all'' of his soup cans are facing the exact same way, and is so CrazyPrepared that he has a recycling bin dedicated to wet paper. Bugs can't stand it.

* The previous ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' generation had Minty, who is not only Super OCD but a Derpyësque [[TheKlutz klutz]]. Disaster ensues, especially in ''A Very Minty Christmas''.
%%* Menlo from ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''.

* Foduck from ''WesternAnimation/TheodoreTugboat'' likes doing certain things exactly the same way, and in "Foduck and the Rainbow", when little surprises change his routine, he feels all mixed up inside.

* [[ThePerfectionist Amanda]] from ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' is a ScheduleFanatic who always wants everything to be as organized and predictable as possible. [[ThePollyanna Milo]] has [[OppositesAttract a crush]] on her, but he's BornUnlucky and TheJinx, so Amanda's need for order makes her even more nervous around him than most people.
* Sean Rafferty from ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' is ThePerfectionist of the cast, and is super neurotic and gets frustrated when things aren't ''exactly'' right and mistakes are made. He especially shows this in "Eye in the Sky", where he has charts for every single situation that he could end up in...except for rain.

* ''Film/TheAviator'' is centered around Howard Hughes' (played by Leo [=DiCaprio=], see RealLife below) struggle with his advanced OCD. While the film treads familiar territory (task repetition, cleanliness, isolation), it also shows how Hughes was able to use the condition to become a famous billionaire. His manic attention to detail allows him to win Oscars, buy airlines, and fight the US Senate -- and win.