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{{quote|''Look at all this garbage that I keep generatin'

''I sit around all day and watch it biodegradin'

''Bet there's a hundred health codes that I'm violatin'

 

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™|™]].

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* Nodame's apartment in ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]'' is like this whenever Chiaki isn't around to clean it. How her piano stays in a playable state is anyone's guess.

* Lain's house in ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' gains a worrying amount of mess and a nasty brown fog near the end of the series, {{spoiler|when Lain's family turn out to be adoptive and goes away, leaving her alone there}}.

* Sheska of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' is not a slob, but her room is absolutely full of unsorted books. So much that's she introduced needing rescue from being buried under a pile of them that fell over.

* Sato's apartment from ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' definitely counts. He at least tries to keep things marginally tidy during his 'oh god I'm a [[Hikkikomori]]' moments, but for the most part, its a sty.

* ''[[Roadside Picnic]]'' by the [[Strugatsky Brothers]] demonstrates what happens when [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] have this trait. (For those not in the know, this book was the basis for ''[[STALKER]]''.)

* The Wyler/Garin household in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Regulators]]''. Autistic 8-year-old Seth {{spoiler|and evil possessing entity Tak}} doesn't care what the place is like, and his aunt/guardian Audrey, the only surviving adult in the household, has much bigger problems occupying her time and energy.

* In Harper Lee's ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'', the Ewell family's house and yard are described this way.

* In the ''[[Nightside]]'' series, Suzie Shooter's place is like this. John speculates that the only reason she doesn't have rats is because she eats them.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** Seems the author [[Did Not Do the Research]]. Old, caked blood isn't crimson, it's ''[[Color Coded for Your Convenience|black]]'', or, if it's somewhat fresh and in a thin enough layer, a kind of rusty red. In fact, dried bloodstains are often almost impossible to distinguish from the rust stains without proper chemicals. It's kinda understandable, given that the main oxygen-bearing agent in a human blood is, well, ''rust''.

** The less said about [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|Nurgle followers]] and their (lack of) hygiene, the better...

* The Dust Men from ''[[Infamous (video game series)|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.

 

== Web Comics ==

* The character of [http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1413 Marigold] in ''[[Questionable Content]]'', at least before [[Super OCD|Hanners]] gets to her.

{{quote|'''Dora:''' Aww, what a cute pet rat!

* [http://community.livejournal.com/housematehorror/1451.html The Worst Roommate Ever] Warning: language definitely NSFW, narrative definitely not [[Nausea Fuel|stomach-]] or [[Brain Bleach|sanity-]]safe.

* Some people hoard garbage in their cars, till all but the front seat are inaccessable. You can only wonder what their houses are like.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqVekHHObLg This guy] hoarded buckets of his own urine and feces.

* On a smaller scale, many rapidly-urbanizing Third World cities don't have the infrastructure in place to handle all the garbage its citizens produce. In Cairo, for instance, garbage is sometimes stored on the roofs of houses.

[[Category:Truth in Television]]

[[Category:Cleanliness Tropes]]