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Basic Trope: A character who is obsessed with cleanliness.

  • Straight: Jason likes to keep his apartment clean and insists that his friends don't make a mess of it.
  • Exaggerated: Jason likes to keep everything he sees clean and will freak out if he ever sees anything with dirt or out of place.
  • Downplayed: Jason cleans from time to time.
  • Justified: Jason considers neatness to be a virtue.
  • Inverted: Trash of the Titans
  • Subverted: Jason just messes it up whenever he cleans.
  • Double Subverted: His messes are messed up symmetrically or incredibly organized.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Deconstructed: Jason's obsessive behavior alienates him from his friends, and makes it impossible for him to get dates, and he becomes incredibly lonely.
  • Reconstructed: Jason's cleanliness is seen as a positive trait by his friends as his organizing techniques help them keep track of important things, while girls find his attention to detail and ability to keep house very attractive.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Jason doesn't clean at all.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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