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A lot of supernatural beings are described as having certain compulsive ways of behaving, which can be used against them. There are several varieties:
=== Magical
This is when there is either something magical that forces them to act compulsively, or some magical consequences for not doing so. Examples include a [[Magically-Binding Contract]] or [[Restraining Bolt|geas]] that is in some way related to the nature of that creature.
=== Obsessive-Compulsive
This type, similar to the [[Real Life]] condition known as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, is when there are unpleasant emotional consequences to breaking the compulsion, such as extreme anxiety. [[Heroic Willpower]] may make it possible for them to overcome this.
=== Happy Compulsion
This is when they act compulsively because they ''want'' to act that way. Maybe it's really fun to [[Evil Laugh|laugh maniacally]] or answer riddles or whatever, to the point where it's hard to restrain yourself from doing so.
=== Stupid Compulsion
This is when the character is apparently unaware of the consequences of following the compulsion. In these cases, it can be hard to distinguish from [[Too Dumb to Live|ordinary stupidity]], but a highly patterned way of outsmarting a certain kind of creature suggests some sort of compulsiveness. If this is present in AI, then it goes under [[Artificial Stupidity]].
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* In [[Soul Eater]], Death the Kid has a crippling obsession with symmetry, resulting in him stopping mid-battle to chew out one of his [[Empathic Weapon|Weapons]] for being off center, going home in the middle of a mission to check whether the picture in his room was centered properly (it was), refusing to attack a symmetrical opponent and going berserk and obliterating an asymmetrical one.
** He manages to ignore such obsessions (specifically not freaking out about the line in his [[Marked Change|hair]]) when he needs to deal with Mosquito. But that arguably is a case of one compulsion being overridden by another - his need to create order between life and death.
* The Contractors of ''[[Darker than Black]]'' have to fulfill a "remuneration", which is a compulsion to do something after using their
* Teru Mikami of [[Death Note]] always uses exactly one page of the Death Note each day - no more, no less. This means that Near can replace the page that he uses on the day of the confrontation at the Yellow Box Warehouse weeks in advance. All of the other pages work, so the criminals that Mikami writes down keep dying and he doesn't get suspicious, but when he tries to kill Near and the rest of the SPK, he only confirms his guilt and Light's.
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