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Someone's [[Fatal Flaw]] is that they are messy. But in fiction, it's not as simple as leaving the occasional book on the floor or not cleaning up a minor spill. No, [[Absurdity Ascendant|these people go all the way]] and produce environments that should not be able to sustain human life. Trash is overflowing from garbage bags like vomit from the mouths of several bloated black slugs, the air is a sickly brown colour, primitive lifeforms have begun to develop under the sink and [[It Came From the Fridge|don't even think about opening the fridge]]. But don't worry! They have A System[[Tradesnark|™]].
There is actually a real-life term for this behavior: [
Compare [[Men Can't Keep House]], [[The Pig Pen]], [[It Came From the Fridge]], [[Down in The Dumps]]. For the opposite behavior, see [[Neat Freak]].
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* ''[[Persona 3]]'': In a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBArA1sF-qE similar case] to the above, when Mitsuru notices Junpei's door open, she calls the police assuming it was a break-in. However, Junpei states that his room is always like that, embarassing Mitsuru and Junpei.
* A ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' quest centres on giants trashing the plains from their castle in the sky
* Marisa of ''[[Touhou]]'' is a [[Kleptomaniac Hero|notorious thief]] that grabs anything that interests her. However, she lives in a small cottage, and it is filled with everything she hasn't bothered to sort or throw away (which considering her short attention span is a lot). At one point in ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'', [[The One Guy|Rinnosuke]] even manages to find the legendary [
* The Dust Men from ''[[In Famous (Video Game)|In Famous]]'' embrace this trope, as they bulit their base from pieces of steel plates and garbage over a park.
** They also construct some of their weapons for garbage as well. From annoying little spider drones to '''HUGE''' trash robots that are controlled by psychic hobos.
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** That being said, cities in the 1800's and early 1900's were cesspools of disease. New York was one of the worst, along with London, but every crowded city would have this problem. This may have also facilitated the spread of the Spanish Flu pandemic.
* The filth and overcrowded conditions in Paris in the second half of the eighteenth century were a contributing factor to the French revolution. (Short version: The king had decreed Paris could not expand beyond its walls, for fear that the common people would take over the countryside and displace the nobility. Whoops.)
* Perhaps the scariest real-life version of this trope would be the [
** "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, depicted in the documentary film ''[
* In 2007, the entire city of Naples, Italy was subjected to this. Factors blamed were incompetent local government, restrictive environmental laws, and in-fighting among organized crime.
* [
* [[Incendiary Exponent|The burning of]] [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1642 the Cuyahoga River] in [[Cleveland]]. When a ''body of water'' becomes flammable, you know you have a pollution problem.
** Which time? It caught on fire at least thirteen times between 1868 and 1969.
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