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6	->''"I have CDO. It's like OCD, but with the letters in alphabetical order -- '''like they're supposed to be.'''"''
7	-->-- '''Chris Addison''', ''Series/LabRats''
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9	Someone who's obsessively organized requires ''order'' in their life. They must adhere to the rules, and everything has to be perfectly organized. Stepping out of line isn't an option. Lines must be straight, angles must be just the right degree, and the numbers must absolutely match. Sometimes this translates into NumberObsession or HyperAwareness.
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11	Can be {{justified\|Trope}} if the character has a career in chemistry or engineering etc., where it really ''is'' crucial to have measurements just right, or a job such as bomb technician or infectious disease handler, where doing even ''one'' thing even a little bit wrong could mean death for you and others.
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13	Often a trait of the DefectiveDetective or the MadMathematician. See also ScheduleFanatic, a person who requires everything to be done precisely on time. For a less extreme version, see NeatFreak. When this becomes a superpower see ClockKing. [[BotheringByTheBook A certain type of character]] will act like this for no other reason than to annoy people.
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15	!!Examples:
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20	* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Chiyo Iin has a compulsion to fix anything that is disorderly or out of place. This caused her some initial trouble with getting acclimated with the rest of the harem due to trying to set them straight and shoehorning her beliefs into the group, but she soon managed to see the error of her ways and accept the other girls for who they are.
21	* ''Manga/ArataTheLegend'' has Yataka, who is obsessed with everything, especially himself, being absolutely spotless. He insists that his zokusho wear gloves at all times (and gets really pissed off when they touch him without gloves), he claims to take baths twice a day, refuses to allow anyone to get into the same hot spring as him, if his zokusho disobey him, he traps them in his domain's landfill until they "repent", he apparently has servants to sweep up even the smallest pile of dirt or trash the moment it appears, and whenever someone leaves or enters his palace, there's a machine that sanitizes them as they are going in or out.
22	* 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. 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.
23	* Eiichiro, the protagonist from the sports manga ''Manga/BabySteps'', is a perfectionist, and obsessed with keeping things organized. He's known at his school for his ridiculously neat notes, which actually end up helping his tennis playing.
24	* ''Manga/CaseClosed'' has an arc where Kogoro has to investigate the murder of a rich man, whose servants all have 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.
25	* In ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', every contractor has a remuneration for using their powers, sometimes an involuntary reaction (such as [[MerlinSickness de-aging]]) but more often an overwhelming compulsion. The second enemy contractor we see in the series had to find things to arrange at equidistant points in a quadrilateral, [[spoiler:which allows Hei to kill him effortlessly while he's doing it]].
26	* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
27	** Mikami's 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.]]
28	** [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]] shows signs of being obsessively organized 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.)
29	* Re-l Meyer from ''Anime/ErgoProxy'' is a straight-forward example. She's obsessed with both cleanliness and punctuality, and while investigating crime scenes has a habit of symmetrically rearranging some of the evidence.
30	* MonsterOfTheWeek [[SnakePeople Mediator Botis]] of ''Anime/FutureCardBuddyfight'' appears on the set of a film and rants about how everything is just slightly off. He also has a perfectly symmetrical attack, which he brags about.
31	* Yoshikage Kira, the BigBad of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable''. A simple businessman and a SerialKiller who has been secretly operating in Morioh for nearly 20 years. The trope is the reason why he's so obsessed with having a normal, predictable life. He even delays finishing off Koichi after noticing that his sock was inside out, and couldn't concentrate until he put his sock and shoe back on right, despite knowing that Josuke would be arriving to help in less than a minute.
32	* ''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.
33	* 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).
34	* Death the Kid from ''Manga/SoulEater'' is obsessed with symmetry.
35	** Pointing out he's naturally asymmetrical by virtue of only one side of his hair having white streaks in it makes him curl up in self-loathing.
36	** He was defeated after a blade cut off a couple of centimeters of his hair on one side and he freaked out. [-[[note]] Though it could hardly be called a defeat, seeing as both of his opponents were [[CurbStompBattle lying on the floor in a crater.]] [[/note]]-]
37	** In the middle of a hunt, he abandoned his two sidekicks to go home and make sure a painting was hanging straight. It was; it ''always'' is. When he saw a blatantly asymmetrical enemy he fought back with UnstoppableRage.
38	** More than halfway through an exam, Kid was still trying to write ''his name'', and had a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AkarXuw0Og complete psychological breakdown]] when he erased too hard and tore the paper.
39	** When [[spoiler: his arm was cut off]] his first thought was that he was even less symmetrical than before.
40	** As it turns out, the reason he has such bad obsessive compulsive tendencies is [[spoiler:that he's an [[HumanoidAbomination Elder God]] representing the madness of Order.]]
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44	* ''ComicBook/DamageControl'' with Edifice Rex, a cosmically-powered crewman. He declares his duty was to clean ''the entire planet.'' [[spoiler:He later vows to clean the universe by putting everything back in the primordial cosmic egg.]]
45	-->"A world where garbage bags have built-in handles. Where zip-lock stripes turn green, to assure proper sealage. Where spray cleaner comes in a bottle with setting both spray and stream. So many gifts they have, so untidy they are. Rejected though I am, I will leave them with this gift: a world of perpetual neatness. With a place for everything -- and everything in its place!"
46	* As mentioned under WesternAnimation, Twilight Sparkle suffers from this. So, naturally, it appears in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries''.
47	** Issue #1; shelving a book by its introductory subtitle rather than the larger-font main title, to Jade's annoyance.
48	*** 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.
49	** 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.
50	* ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'''s incarnation of Ultra Magnus seems to have O.C.D, to the point of considering an Autobot with his badge on crooked to be automatically disreputable, even prompting Tailgate to mock "[...] Ultra Magnus is an O.C.D. control freak who uses learning to hurt people" when Ultra Magnus' un-abridged teaching of the Autobot code bores him into sleep. Ultra Magnus' reaction to thinking said "graffiti" was a spec of dust further proves this.
51	** His attitude in issue 13 (especially in the shuttle) doesn't help his case either.
52	-->"Look! The fifth rivet in that sequence - it's 30 degrees wide of the weld line! I knew there was something odd about this shuttle."
53	** Becomes something of a CerebusRetcon when it turns out that he's like this because he's having a very drawn-out breakdown where he [[AllCrimesAreEqual enforces all the rules with equal vigor]], even the minor and stupid ones. He loosens up a fair bit once he has a chance to work through it.
54	* In ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'', Violine's chauffeur constantly expresses things in minute details or splits numbers up into smaller units. Marushka is obsessed with hygiene and health, even analyzing Violine's stool to see if she eats healthily enough.
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58	* ''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.
59	* ''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.
60	* In ''Fanfic/TwilightsList'', Twilight Sparkle lives 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.
61	* In ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', Twilight Sparkle constantly corrects others (including [[InteractiveNarrator the narrator]]) over minor mistakes. This gets lampshaded in "How to Control Freaks", where she flips out over not being able to write a journal entry for the day. Someone else says she's acting a bit OCD, and she shoots back:
62	-->'''Twilight:''' It's not OCD! It's ABCD! [[FunWithAcronyms Aggressively Belligerent Compulsive Disorder]]! See, my way makes more sense! Why doesn't anyone ever listen to my opinions?!
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66	* Wasabi in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': His workbench is meticulously organized, with a spot outlined in white for every tool he has. He even has an outline for his car keys and his coffee mug.
67	-->'''Wasabi:''' I have a system. A place for everything, and everything in its place.\
68	'''[[TheGadfly GoGo]]:''' Need this! ''[grabs a wrench and jostles the whole table]''\
69	'''Wasabi:''' You can't do that! This is anarchy! Society has rules!
70	* 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!]] [[AxCrazy 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!
71	* 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.
72	* 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]].
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76	* 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.
77	* ''Film/AsGoodAsItGets'' plays this for drama, with Creator/JackNicholson's character showing several common obsessively organized 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.
78	* ''Film/TheAviator'' is centered around Howard Hughes' (played by Leo [=DiCaprio=]) struggle with his obsessively organized tendencies. 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.
79	* Mr. Banks from ''Film/MaryPoppins'' is 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.
80	* Roy Waller in ''Film/MatchstickMen'' 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.
81	* Bruce Brazos from ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''. It's clear he already has a bit of a leaky faucet and he backs this up with the neurotic work environment in his company. The floors are color-coded, the staff and employees are erratic, the employee conduct manual is 500 pages long, a strict dress code, and doing something as harmless as bringing a red cup to the yellow floor is labeled a "visual and visceral betrayal" by Brazos and the offending employee is immediately dismissed.
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85	* Some portrayals of Literature/HerculePoirot feature him wanting everything orderly and frequently complaining 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.
86	* David Cusk in ''Literature/ThePaleKing''. Thanks to his fear of being noticed for his sweating, he eventually develops the ability to keep track of a room's temperature, the locations and distances of the exits, sight lines, and proximity of every person in the room, and quickly strategize ways to avoid detection.
87	* Anna in ''Literature/TheMarkOfTheDragonfly'' gets upset that Piper is wearing clothes too big for her, because "It's all out of proportion".
88	* Auri in ''Literature/TheSlowRegardOfSilentThings'' shows signs of distress when she can't find exactly the right place for an object to go and has specific rituals she follows. This is most obvious in her description of her routines, and in the candle-making scene.
89	* In ''Literature/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.
90	* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries'': In "Literature/TheMule", [[KingBobTheNth Mayor Indbur III]] is described as a natural-born bookkeeper. He is exceptionally fastidious, and disrupting his routine can send him into paroxysms. In stressful situations, he calms himself down by drawing geometric shapes in geometric patterns, like rows of triangles or six squares in a hexagonal shape. Before [[PenPushingPresident he signs anything]] requiring his attention, he [[GrammarNazi checks the page for grammatical mistakes and corrects them]].
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94	* 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 create 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.
95	* Sheldon from ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has a 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:
96	-->'''Howard:''' Who cares where you sit? ''You are not crazy!''
97	* ''Series/{{Cheers}}:'' One episode portrays Diane as being neurotically obsessed about the contents of her pockets. Another has Lilith tease Frasier about being this, though it doesn't come up as much as it does in his own series.
98	* Creator/JonRichardson:
99	** 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.
100	** 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 maintain 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-compulsive traits but isn't disordered by them so he can't be diagnosed as actually having OCD.
101	* Monica from ''Series/{{Friends}}'' 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.
102	* While Danny Tanner in ''Series/FullHouse'' is generally just a NeatFreak, he reaches obsessively organized 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.
103	* 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.
104	* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'':
105	** 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.
106	** a 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.
107	* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS9E4 Down Among the Dead Men]]", Barnaby describes the VictimOfTheWeek Martin Barrett as knowing every speck of dust in his house.
108	* Mr. Pitt, Elaine's condescending boss, in Season 6 of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', 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}}.
109	* Odo in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' is obsessively organized, along with having 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]].
110	* 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.
111	-->'''Fairy''': (As Sam is performing the un-summoning spell) One, two, three, four... ''You ass.''
112	* ''Series/WhitechapelTVSeries'': 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.
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116	* ''VideoGame/DiceyDungeons'': Before the Robot entered the dungeons, they were the kind of human who used color-coded charts to schedule their life down to the minute, which Lady Luck (who by her nature thrives on chaos) finds distasteful.
117	* In ''Videogame/{{Dishonored}}'', the [[EvilChancellor Lord Regent Hiram Burrows]] is obsessively organized, 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.
118	* 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.
119	* ''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 [[ImplausibleSynchrony 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.
120	* 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 fairytale-themed [[GeniusLoci Jail]]; they inherited just enough from their Marchen mothers for the Jail's desire for mimicry to affect their subconscious.]]
121	* 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.
122	* The Neurotic trait in ''VideoGame/TheSims 3''. Sims who have it will worry about random objects, obsess about their hygiene, and check and re-check things like the stove and the fireplace. It doesn't make them a NeatFreak, though, so for a proper case of Super OCD, the player would have to combine it with the Neat trait.
123	* ''VideoGame/SWAT4'' afflicts your AI teammates with this in single-player. 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.
124	* In ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'', the Corwid of the Free each have their own obsession which they pursue single-mindedly. One guy's obsession is walking in a straight line, forever. [[note]]You eventually find him dead, facing a big rock that he couldn't pass without breaking his straight line[[/note]] Another's obsession is [[ImAHumanitarian killing and eating people]]. Then there's the guy who wants to be invisible and achieves this through rather [[EyeScream unconventional methods]].
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128	* Virgo from ''WebAnimation/AstroLOLogy'', to the point of absurdity; in "Virgo Da-Vinci", she resorts to ''leveling a mountain'' with explosives to make the landscape look perfect enough for her to paint, while in "Parking Disorder", she takes some time before her flight out of town to rearrange several cars that are incorrectly parked (and then screams in frustration when the plane takes off and she sees that she missed one).
129	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Petunia is obsessively organized. The episode "[[Recap/HTFWishyWashy 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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133	* ''{{Webcomic/Lackadaisy}}'': Mordecai has an impulse to clean everything and is hideously terrified of anything untidy, unclean, or unorganized. Mitzi knows right away that he's the one who cleared out their arsenal because he cleaned up the storeroom after stealing everything useful from it. Taken to comedic levels in a bonus comic where he freaks out on their hostage because he keeps moving to the side of the car and breaking the symmetry.
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137	* ''WebVideo/SMPLive'': Cooper's chests and inventory are always organized, and he will spend a significant amount of time making sure to put everything in its proper place.
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141	* The Earl of Lemongrab of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' displays many obsessively organized attributes 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!!!"
142	* 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.
143	* Edd from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has a habit of labeling things around his bedroom and is obsessed with having everything immaculate and in the right order.
144	* Breach of ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' teleported the city of Greenville, Ohio to a pocket dimension, where she turned it into a ''Franchise/SilentHill''-like "dollhouse". The whole place is creepily well-organized, with mopeds perfectly aligned in the streets and ice cream trucks carefully stacked on top of each other. Messing the place up is a good way to get her angry, and she wasn't exactly the most stable individual to begin with. [[spoiler:Her OCD is actually so bad that she literally implodes if the destruction gets to be too much for her.]]
145	* [[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.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
147	** As an artistic genius, [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicRarity 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.
148	** [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTwilightSparkle 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.
149	** [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicStarlightGlimmer 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.
150	* 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.
151	* WesternAnimation/PorkyPig, in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode "Gossamer is Awesomer!", is 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.
152	* 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.
153	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsTitularCharacter 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.
154	* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': Malik is known to make lists of pros and cons for every situation. Also, Mr. E has a precise arrangement for all of his items, and he'll get angry if something is just a tiny bit off-kilter.
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