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* The ''[[Serial Killer]]'' {{spoiler|Lucas}} in ''[[Mind Hunters]]''.
* Mr. Banks in ''[[Mary Poppins]]'':
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My slippers, sherry, and pipe are due at 6:02.
Consistent is the life I lead! }}
* ''Clockwise''. Just...''Clockwise''. Brian, played by [[John Cleese]], is a strictly punctual headmaster who holds everyone else to his own exacting standards. The whole plot of the movie is how a misunderstanding leads to him missing his train to an important event and how his life slowly unravels as he tries desperately to get there on time. In the end {{spoiler|he arrives exactly on time but with his life utterly ruined.}} Brian was chronically late and disorganized when he was younger, so his insane devotion to punctuality is likely overcompensation.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[Around the World In 80 Days]]'', Phileas Fogg is this trope in action.
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** Fogg was actually a flanderized version of Verne's father, who often acted like this in [[Real Life]].
* The autistic hero of ''[[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]]''.
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