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* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' - In the first tournament arc, Krillin faces off against Bacterian, a huge fat guy whose main superpower is the unbearable stench emanating from his person due to the fact that he supposedly has never bathed once in his entire life. {{spoiler|Krillin eventually manages to beat him when he's reminded by Goku that ''he doesn't have a nose'', and thus can't smell him.}}<br /><br />Krillin also {{spoiler|had to ''fart in Bacterian's face'', meaning that Bacterian could handle only his ''own'' stench.}} But the other ways Bacterian fought...[[Nausea Fuel|poor, poor Krillin]]...

* In the ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei|Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' [[OVA]] we're introduced to [[Neat Freak|Kitsu]] [[Control Freak|Chiri's]] older sister, Kitsu Tane, who became [[The Pig Pen]] and godess over the [[Trash of the Titans]] trope by choice in order to save the life of their gold fish, which Chiri had decided to clean (using shampoo). Unfortunately for Tane, she had to maintain this behavior for so many years, it eventually got stuck (literary, trash seems to follow her around) and now she can't even take proper care of herself... She once appeared on TV in a ''How Clean Is Your House'' like show.

'''Tane''': What? I tidied up before you came. }}

* ''[[GeGeGe no Kitaro]]'' - Nezumi Otoko is stated to have never taken a bath in three hundred years, and the older Manga specifically states that he has [[Nausea Fuel|hookworms and other lovely diseases]] from this filth. His stench has been known to make humans pass out, and once an entire TV News Studio had to wear gas masks in order to interview him. it's not his only character trait, but one of his most noticeable.

* The Mess was a joke character who tried to join [[The Legion of Super Heroes]]. His power was the ability to attract dirt.

* Smudge (Cascão) from the Brazilian comic ''[[Monica's Gang]]'' (''Turma da Mônica'') had as his personal gimmick the fact he ''never'' took a shower. ''Ever'', since he was born. An early comic strip implies Smudge took a bath as a Mother's Day gift, a cover of his comic book once shown him washing his hands... and in the [[Spinoff Babies|spinoff teenagers]] series, he bathes once in a while. Though he's still not quite into it, as he himself once said:

::From the same series, villain Captain Fray (Capitão Feio) (who has a barely remembered origin as Smudge's uncle).

* ''Pongalongapongo'' / ''Krazy Gang'' - [http://www.toonhound.com/pongalongapongo.htm Pongo Snodgrass], a 70's-80's British comics character who loved filth and all things putrid, and was also something of a schemer.

** Most of the Canting Crew probably qualify, although Foul Ole Ron is the only one ''named'' for this trope.

* This is the natural state of even the good members of vermin species in ''[[Redwall]]''. They actually have a comic song in ''Loamhedge'' about how bathing too much means one risks washing oneself entirely out of existence.

** Most of the Dibbuns (babies) would also be this way if their caretakers let them, going to impressive lengths to avoid bathing.

* Gunner Jurgen from the ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novels fits this to a tee. He is exempt from normal Imperial Guard peacetime cleanliness regulations due to a variety of skin conditions. Other than Cain himself, nobody wants to be around him. {{spoiler|Of course that has more to do with Jurgen being a soulless [[Anti-Magic]] pariah, but his filthiness tends to be what people fixate on when they feel repelled by him.}}

** His Georgian ancestor is so disgusting that the ancient Greeks simply mistook Pandora's Box for his trousers, which he has never changed. He admits that, "They can get a bit whiffy!" In ''Blackadder Back and Forth'' his underwear is responible for wiping out the dinosaurs.

** One episode of ''Blackadder II'' features an especially unclean named Mr. Ploppy, leading to this exchange:

'''Blackadder:''' I think congratulations are in order. We live in an age where disease and deformity are common, but you, Ploppy, are the most disgusting individual I have ever met. I would shake your hand, but I fear it would come off. }}

* Danny Tamboreli made his mark on [[Nickelodeon]] by being the one actor who genuinely enjoyed being slimed.

* ''[[Glee]]'': Apparently the guy who sits next to Kurt in English, although he doesn't ''look'' that filthy.

* ''[[The Red Green Show]]'': Winston Rothschild, III, owns and operates a very successful sewage and septic sucking service.

* In an episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'', [[Sick, Sad Subculture of the Week|a gamer couple]] are facing charges of abusing their daughter. Benson notes that they haven't showered in awhile.

* Pauline from ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'' apparently 'smells like a really good salad bar.'

* Sylvester from ''[http://www.agameoffools.com A Game of Fools]''.