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-->-- '''Creator/Aldous Huxley''', ''Do What You Will'' (1929)

-->-- '''Aldous Huxley''', ''Do What You Will'' (1929)

* ''Film/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' has Charlie, after his death, complain (in song form!) about how he hates predictability and would much rather not know what's coming.

* In the ''Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels'', this is possibly the most defining characteristic of Charlotte Campbell-Ross, Cormoran Strike's former fiancee (they split up permanently at the very beginning of the first book in the series, ''Literature/TheCuckoosCalling''). In ''Literature/LethalWhite'', it is stated that Strike knows that she has practiced a "career of disruption" and that she has "an almost pathological hatred of routine, responsibility or obligation" and has therefore sabotaged every possibility of permanence before having to deal with the threats of boredom or compromise.

* The BigBad of ''Franchise/DanganRonpa,'' [[spoiler: Junko Enoshima,]] has this as [[spoiler: her]] entire motivation for everything [[spoiler: she]] does in the series: [[spoiler: her talent in analysis allows her to forecast [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil almost]] every outcome to a situation, which causes her to constantly be agonizingly bored, so much so that she's become fixated with despair, since its chaotic and unpredictable nature is the only thing that makes her feel alive.]]

* In ''Videogame/{{Tyranny}}'', Bleden Mark the Archon of Shadow, official headsman and executioner of Kyros' court and unofficial assassin for Kyros, is a very old and jaded being who does what he does because it's not boring. [[spoiler:The reason he aids you in the Anarchist path, betraying his masters Tunon and Kyros after serving them loyally for so long, is because he was impressed and entertained by your insane rebelling. He's also apparently bored with serving Kyros. If you convince him to serve you, the epilogue mentions that you are very careful to keep him busy lest he grow bored and betray you as well.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has Dr. Stanislaus Braun. A shining, textbook example of [[TheSociopath a high-functioning sociopath]], every single action he takes is to amuse himself somehow, and he gets bored quickly. He's extremely friendly to the player when they arrive in [[spoiler:Tranquility Lane]], because it's something to shake up the routine. It's even one of the assignments he gives you: [[spoiler:kill one of the inhabitants, but in a novel way (no simply beating her to death - he's ''already'' done that)]].
* ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' has Sheep Man, who is mentioned [[AllThereInTheManual in his profile]] to be so easily bored that not only did he quit his initial sheep-herding job, he also considered quitting his circuit board static resistance tester job shortly before was afflicted with Roboenza.

{{Calvinball}} is essentially this trope in game form, so if the Calvinball-like game in a work is presented as one specific character's brainchild, then you can guess that character will probably exhibit this trope (as [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin himself]] definitely does).

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* Rygamine Mikado from ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' seems like an unassuming high school protagonist, but later comes to embody this trope. Made most apparent when he essentially starts a gang war for the sake of simply making his life more exciting.