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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "The Shadow War Part I: The Night of De Spell!", bitter and depressed over the fight with his family in the preceeding episode, Scrooge wallows around in his underwear with his mansion littered with junk food and hundreds of pizza boxes. Enough that even [[spoiler:Magica]] is disappointed as she's was expecting to find Scrooge - "the greatest adventurer", not the sorry mess she sees before her.

* ''Utaite no Ballad'': After he is publicly exposed as a [[PaedoHunt pedophilic]] SerialRapist, [[VillainProtagonist Seiji Kotani]]'s apartment is shown to absolutely trashed by the end, with upturned furniture, broken musical equipment, and half-eaten ramen cups scattered around as he bitterly attempts to convince himself that his career hasn't gone down in flames. Seconds later, the police burst in and arrest him.

* ''Utaite no Ballad'': After he is publicly exposed as a [[PaedoHunt pedophilic]] SerialRapist, [[VillainProtagonist Seiji Kotani]]'s apartment is shown to absolutely trashed by the end, with upturned furniture, broken musical equipment, and half-eaten ramen cups scattered around. Seconds later, the police burst in and arrest him.

* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': After Abigail leaves Henry, Abe finds him in an apartment filled with old newspapers and other debris, simple necessities like cleaning and picking up after himself clearly having gone by the wayside while Henry has been [StringTheory trying to]] [[StalkerShrine track down]] [[TheLostLenore Abigail]].

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the fifth episode, after Claudia runs away from home, the townhouse becomes a pigsty with various objects strewn all over the place, and there are raccoons and rats running free. It's implied that [[{{Househusband}} Louis does the tidying]], but he's so crestfallen from Claudia's absence that he spends all day reading, and Lestat is too much a male chauvinist to do any cleaning.

Compare TrashOfTheTitans, SeriouslyScruffy, RoomFullOfCrazy, and BadBedroomBadLife. See also SkewedPriorities. The inverted version is SoullessBedroom, where someone's bedroom looks off-putting because it's too clean instead of too dirty.

* In Creator/TheBBC's ''Series/TheMusketeers'', Athos's room is full of [[DrowningMySorrows many, many empty wine bottles]], which are, aside from the bed (and a MythologyGag to the book), the only decoration.

* A ''Series/WithoutATrace'' storyline had a character developing a painkiller addiction after being shot. His ex-girlfriend stops by his apartment to check up on him and notices how sloppy it is, in contrast to how it usually looks and realizes something is seriously wrong.
* In the ''{{Series/Lost}}'' Season 3 finale [[spoiler:flashforwards which take place after Jack and a few others escape the island]], Jack becomes a depressed wreck, and his apartment is seen trashed and littered with liquor and pill bottles, dirty dishes, newspapers and maps.

Compare TrashOfTheTitans, SeriouslyScruffy, RoomFullOfCrazy, and BadBedroomBadLife. See also SkewedPriorities. The inverted version is SoullessBedroom, where someone's bedroom looks off-putting because it's too clean.

Compare TrashOfTheTitans, SeriouslyScruffy, RoomFullOfCrazy, and BadBedroomBadLife. See also SkewedPriorities.

* In ''Literature/YourServantMistress'', Maleficent shows mild signs of this. A wilted potted plant and the fact that she seems to eat only noodles with tomato sauce are the most prominent indicators. It seems to have been the normal state of things ever since [[spoiler: Stefan raped her]]. [[SugarWiki/{{WAFF}} She gets better.]]

* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', Harry shows signs of descending into this in chapter 72, and not without excellent reason. He [[spoiler: saw the still warm corpse of Luna, who he'd been trying to protect -- and consequently blamed himself for not instantly shutting off the HYDRA troops as soon as they came into range -- went into a full-on firefight, was killed by being stabbed through the heart before being violently resurrected by the Phoenix, which then went on a rampage]], barely eating, barely leaving his room and apparently not bathing. Carol snaps him out of it -- and makes him take a shower.

* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': As revealed in chapter 24, Moondancer's home is a disaster area because she was in a bad place mentally when she moved in, and couldn't bring herself to care enough to worry about keeping it clean.

* In the ''{{Series/Lost}}'' Season 3 finale [[spoiler:flashforwards which take place after Jack and a few others escape the island]], Jack becomes a depressed wreck, and his apartment is seen trashed and littered with liquor and pill bottles, dirty dishes and maps.

* In the''{{Series/Lost}}''Season 3 finale [[spoiler:flashforwards which take place after Jack and a few others escape the island]], Jack becomes a depressed wreck, and his apartment is seen trashed and littered with liquor and pill bottles, dirty dishes and maps.