Overwhelming Obsession: Difference between revisions

Overlaps with [[Drink Order]] and [[Trademark Favorite Food]] (especially the [[Orgasmically Delicious]] sort), when those are what the character lives for. Compare with [[Security Blanket]], where the liked item in question gives its owner peace of mind simply by being within sight. Not to be confused with [[Fetish]], which is when someone really, really likes something in [[If You Know What I Mean|that very special way]].

* Many of [[Batman]]'s Rogues are crazies and weirdos who are obsessed with a concept or thing they base their entire identities around: Two-Face and duality, Scarecrow and fear, Poison Ivy and plants, Riddler and his... well, [[Captain Obvious|riddles]]... whether they're solely defined by these quirks or are deeper characters that happen to have an obsession differs from writer to writer, though D-Listers like Captain Blimp and Cap'n Fear are often stuck with being the former.

* Marvel Comics's [[Thanos]] loves Death -- theits [[Anthropomorphic Personification]], not the act of killing, which for him is simply a means to the end of being able to see her again.

* In the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', the major threat behind The One Ring is its ability to corrupt the minds of those who wear it, and in a few cases, ''see it''. One only has to look at the friendly hobbit Smeagol's transformation into the utterly insane and twisted Gollum to see how deep its corruption runs. Gollum is consumed by his obsession with the Ring and lovingly refers to it as "my precious", a trait that Bilbo shares in the modern day which further convinces Gandalf that he's in danger of having his mind destroyed by it.

* Carlton Lassiter from ''[[Psych]]'' ''really'' loves his guns. ''A lot''. To the point that he keeps a ton of them stashed in various places in his house, including in a ''bowl of almonds''. He's also very trigger[[Trigger happyHappy]] and sees no problem in casually threatening to shoot people (namely his boss, Shawn) who annoy him, and when he's fingered as a murder suspect and has to give up his firearms, it contributes heavily to his resulting downward spiral.

* To an outsider ofto ''[[Fire Emblem|Fire Emblem: Three Houses]]''{{'}}s Golden Deer house, Raphael Kirsten's personality seems dominated by his love of two things: eating and training. And even if you choose to join the Golden Deer, a lot of Raphael's dialogue revolves around those two things. However, he's a surprisingly deep character in his own right as shown by his support conversations with others, it's just that he likes to focus on things that make him strong enough to protect the people he cares about, and it just so happens that the things that make him stronger are delicious food and rigorous workout routines.

* While there are plenty of characters in the ''[[Monster Hunter]]'' series that love and appreciate the various monsters that populate the setting and want to learn more about them, the Guildmarm from the fourth game takes her obsession just a ''little'' too far. And by a ''little'', it's more like she's literally in love with them. The explosive slime-weildingwielding, brawling wyvern Brachydios is the main target of her affections, and when the Hunter is assigned quests to fight one, she waxes lyrical about how dreamy and attractive she finds them, and at one point admits to being the sole member of a ''Monsterphile Club''. Needless to say, she ''[[Understatement|may]]'' have a few screws loose here and there... [[Ensemble Darkhorse|but that's exactly why the fans love her.]]

* [[Why Don't You Marry It?|"If you love "X" so much, why don't you marry it?!"]] is a common bit of schoolyard teasing directed towards kids perceived as obsessed with something, usually a toy, favorite food, or other such items.

* Most sexual fetishes tend to materialize with an erotic obsession with something way outside the norm, such as a specific body part or object as opposed to the male and female form as a whole. Several instances of rather ''extreme'' fetishes include [https://www.today.com/popculture/man-has-intimate-relationship-his-car-my-strange-addiction-1C9379872 a man being in a committed romantic relationship with his car], [https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/005/866/b08.jpg a 4chan anon developing a kink for tile patterns], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUGlwTi0D_Y a man's obsession with women farting on cakes resulting in the creation of the infamous "cakefarts" video] (videolink is to a documentary discussing the video's history]). YouIt probablygoes don'twithout need to be toldsaying that each link is ''very'' NSFW.