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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 Thanthan Black]]'' have to fulfill a "remuneration", which is a compulsion to do something after using their powers-- and the compulsion is so powerful that they ''must'' do it (though it's never really explained what would happen to a Contractor who's unable to fulfill his or her remuneration). This can vary from folding the corners of every page in a book to drinking beer to [[Fingore|breaking one's own fingers]]. The only exception is for someone whose mind is no longer in their original body; for example, Mao, who has the ability to possess animals and whose human body was killed, doesn't have a remuneration. {{spoiler|This is why Hei doesn't have to pay any price for his ability: it comes from his [[Dead Little Sister]]'s [[Soul Fragment]].}}
* 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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== Web Original ==
* Part of containment procedures for [[SCP Foundation]]-[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-578 578-3] is covering the containment area with sand and painting a labyrinth on the floor, since the undead wight in question compulsively counts salt grains and traces labyrinth lines, slowing it down when it inevitably manifests. There was apparently some resistance to this kind of "folkloric strategy" at first among the scientifically-minded SCP researchers.
* [[Left Hanging|Had it ever been continued past chapter three,]] [[Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name]] would've featured this tactic with the [[Super OCD]] [[Vampire Hunter]], Abner. According to the author's sketches, he would somehow be defeated by the [[Trash of the Titans|masterfully disgusting]] [[Back-Alley Doctor|Doc Worth]]; using Worth's repulsiveness to drive the mysophobic (that's 'fear of germs') hunter away.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* In an episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', Desiree the Wishing Ghost is compelled to grant any wish she hears. Sam takes advantage of this to undo her mischief so that Danny can defeat her. In her first appearance, Danny ends up wishing her back into her bottle, lampshading that if he were smarter, he would have just done that in the beginning.
* Disney's Aladdin series had a Greek inventor character who compulsively revealed weaknesses to his inventions... tied to a compulsion to dictate notes to himself not to do that again.
** [[Neat Freak|Not to mention his obsession with cleanliness]]. Splash a bit of mud on his tunic and he'll be incapable of anything but whining until he scrubs it all out.
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