History Main / ScheduleFanatic

* Mikami Teru from ''DeathNote'' was so constant in his conduct that [[spoiler: it was the breaking of his routine that allowed Near to make one of his final deductive leaps.]] There's also ''another'' [[KnightTemplar sense in which he's a fanatic.]]

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* For one episode of ''PhineasAndFerb'', Baljeet tried this. It didn't work out so well.
* The Clock King in ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. The one time he ''did'' break his routine, things [[StartOfDarkness went pretty wrong]].

* The man at the start of ''AlexRider'' novel ''Point Blanc'', [[spoiler:which leads to his death when he steps into an empty liftshaft]].

** But unless the syllabus changes very frequently, surely he can [[CompletelyMissingThePoint just re-take the exam using the original schedule he created?]]

* Annie in ''{{Community}}'' is shown to be one i an online webisode. She forces the entire study group to take a 90 second study break every thirty minutes.

* ''{{The Order of the Stick}}'': Redcloak tortures a character who is immune to fear, even though he doesn't expect it to work, purely because it's written on his schedule.

* The One State in ''{{We}}'' is a PlanetOfHats of schedule freaks -- it's part of the effort to maintain {{Instrumentality}}. All "[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for their own good]]"...

* In one of Arnold Lobel's ''Frog and Toad'' stories, ''The List'', Toad makes a list of things to do and sticks to it so rigidly that when the wind blows the list away, he refuses to chase after it because chasing the list wasn't on his list of things to do.

* While not quite the same thing, in the ''RedDwarf'' novel, it's explained that Rimmer routinely fails the officer's exam because he spends so much time color-coding his study schedule he falls way behind in his studies and has to color-code an ''emergency'' study schedule. By the time he's done with ''that'', it's time take the test.
** But unless the syllabus changes very frequently surely he can [[CompletelyMissingThePoint just re-take the exam using the original schedule he created?]]

* ''Clockwise''. Just...''Clockwise''.

* The postman from ''{{The Legend of Zelda}}: [[MajorasMask Majora's Mask]]''. He at one point breaks into tears when he can't follow his schedule, and near the end of the three-day cycle, says something to the effect of "I'm free! ''I can set my '''own''' schedule!''"

* Mikey from TheClassMenagerie, though apparently [[spoiler: it's to distract him from his sexuality.]]

** Though it was still on his schedule because he had to pretend to Xykon that it might work, in order to keep them at their current location for long enough for him to do what he wanted that was not connected to their overall plan.