Line #1 Main/TheFinickyOne


1	You know the character, the wound up, by-the-book character who has no flexibility or [[NoSenseOfHumor sense of humor]]. Tends to be a StraightMan or a ButtMonkey at times.
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3	See also: NeatFreak, NervousWreck.
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5	Compare: ThePerfectionist, ObstructiveBureaucrat.
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8	!!Examples:
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12	[[folder:Advertising]]
13	* A long-running series of commercials for 9 Lives brand cat food featured Morris, an extremely finicky cat who would only eat 9 Lives. %%Does Picky Eater apply here better?
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16	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
17	* Chiri Kitsu from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' must have everything done properly, even if it it's just for cutting a cake in equal slices.
18	%%* Memetchi from Anime/{{Tamagotchi}} slips into this a lot, especially in The Power of Gossip. %%ZCE
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21	%%[[folder:Comic Strips]]
22	%%* Spoofed in [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2001/ga011205.gif this]] ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} strip with "[[{{Show Within A Show}} Stewey The Anal-Retentive Elf]]". %%ZCE
23	%%* Verne from ''ComicStrip/OverTheHedge'', to the point of being TheChewToy and TheWoobie. %%ZCE
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26	[[folder:Fan Works]]
27	* In the PeggySue ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' fic ''Fanfic/ForLove'', Hinata realises that her bodyguard Hyuuga Ko is actually excessively uptight and stuffy, strongly disapproving of her friendship with Naruto and insistent that even people she's close to address her as "Hinata-''[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics sama]]''", despite her openly telling them not to (something she never really noticed her first time around).
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30	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
31	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': Zazu is stuffy, straight-laced and serious. %%Would prefer more context
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34	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
35	* Jason in ''Film/CouplesRetreat'', who actually gives his friends a [=PowerPoint=] presentation to discuss the possibility of divorcing his wife.
36	%%* Every character besides Jack Black in ''Film/SchoolOfRock''. At least at first. %%ZCE
37	%%* C-3PO from ''Franchise/StarWars''. %%ZCE
38	%%* Seth Green's character in ''Film/WithoutAPaddle''. %%ZCE
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41	%%[[folder:Literature]]
42	%%* Percy Weasley and Barty Crouch Sr. from ''Literature/HarryPotter''.
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45	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
46	* In ''Series/AlienNation'', George is offended by the fact that he's called Obsessive-Compulsive. "Another word for that is anal retentiveness. I don't ''have'' an anus!"
47	* Sheldon Cooper from ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has a thing for making people sign written agreements, is something of a germaphobe and is very picky about where he sits.
48	%%* Rupert Giles in the early seasons of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', and then Wesley when he came in as the SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute in Season 3. Both left it behind by the later seasons of Buffy and ''Series/{{Angel}}''. One of the Buffy characters actually lampshaded it, but I forget if it was directed at Giles or Wesley...it was a variant of the old 'stick up your butt' joke. %%ZCE; first-person troping
49	* Wes Mitchell from ''Series/CommonLaw'', as stated by Travis Marks: "You're anal retentive". %%Would prefer more context
50	%%* Annie from ''Series/{{Community}}''. %%ZCE
51	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Mac Taylor, who once tells a scheming reporter, "I ''am'' a big fan of the rules," has been accused of this. Danny says to Lindsay, when she's the victim of an office prank, that the word "joke" isn't in Mac's vocabulary. It isn't as pronounced later on as in the first few seasons, though. He loosens slightly after a couple of near-death experiences and beginning a romance with an old friend.
52	* ''Series/DeathInParadise'' has Detective Inspector Richard Poole, who is considered stuffy and uptight even by his fellow [[BritishStuffiness Englishmen]]. %%Would prefer more context
53	* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Monica is [[NeatFreak obsessed with cleanliness]], [[ControlFreak controlling over even the most simple of past times]] and known to fits of neurotics when the slightest thing is out of place. %%Her brother Ross has shades of this too. %%ZCE for Ross
54	* Detective Frank Pembleton from ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' is a rigid, uptight snob who does not react well to being pushed out of his comfort zone. [[ItMakesSenseInContext When the detectives are forced to work out of an abandoned bank for a few episodes]], Pembleton spends the entire time having a meltdown (albeit partially because of his stress over his wife's pregnancy).
55	--> '''Bayliss:''' Frank, go home. You're, I dunno, discombobulated.\
56	'''Pembleton:''' [[SuddenlyShouting OF COURSE I'M DISCOMBOBULATED! I WORK OUT IN A GODDAMN SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX, FOR GOD'S SAKE]]! ''[Pembleton walks over to a phlegmatic tube canister]'' LOOK AT THIS! ''[pulls it down]'' WHAT IS IT?!
57	* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': The lovable neurotic Adrian Monk, who has turned his obsessive penchant for detail into a helpmate rather than a liability.
58	* Phil Hartman had a character on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' that never got a project done because he was so fussy about neatness that he completely forgot what he was doing to stop and tidy up his workstation.
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61	%%[[folder:Radio]]
62	%%* Joe Friday in ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}''. Exaggerated by Dan Ackroyd's performance in the 1987 AffectionateParody. %%ZCE
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65	[[folder:Theatre]]
66	* Felix Unger from ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'' (and the [[Series/TheOddCouple1970 70s series]]) is the anal retentive poster child due to his obsessiveness with neatness.
67	* Joanne from ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' admits to making to-do lists in her sleep.
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70	%%[[folder:Web Comics]]
71	%%* The blue stickman from ''Webcomic/{{Irrelevator}}''. %%ZCE
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74	[[folder:Web Original]]
75	* ''Podcast/DiceFunk'': Roland from "[[Recap/DiceFunkSeason3Ilium Ilium]]" is extremely serious and straight-laced, which is PlayedForLaughs when he acts as the StraightMan to his much more rowdy teammates. Downplayed somewhat as he does loosen up a bit at times and is an expert PungeonMaster.
76	* Douchey [=McNitpick=] from ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'', who lives up to his name by picking apart even the smaller mistakes that the Critic makes. [[spoiler:This is enough for him to be one with the Plot Hole in the Critic's place.]]
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79	[[folder:Western Animation]]
80	%%* Simon gradually evolved into this in ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks''. %%ZCE
81	%%* Dexter from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''. %%ZCE
82	* Edd from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. In the early days, he was more relaxed and willing to go along with the boys' plans, but over time, he becomes more stressed and acts as the group's OnlySaneMan.
83	%%* [[Characters/FamilyGuyBrianGriffin Brian Griffin]] increasingly becomes this in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', albeit to an often hypocritical level (it is frequently lampshaded for all his uptight rants, he is as much of a self-serving sleaze as the rest of the family). %%ZCE
84	%%* Mr Herriman in ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''. %%ZDE
85	* Dipper Pines from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' can border on this often. He's pretty sensitive to criticism, stresses easily and has very little patience for his sister's CloudCuckoolander antics, as well as very easily worked-up. Naturally the other characters derive a fair bit of humour from playing off this tendency of his.
86	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
87	** [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTwilightSparkle Twilight Sparkle]] has been know to start riots and rips in time due to her anal retentiveness.
88	** [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicRarity Rarity]] due to her [[ThePerfectionist perfectionism]], NeatFreak moments, and neuroses.
89	%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': %%ZCE
90	%%** Depending on the writer, [[Characters/TheSimpsonsMargeSimpson Marge Simpson]] sometimes takes this to extremes. Naturally, this contrasts hard with her slovenly family.
91	%%** [[Characters/TheSimpsonsLisaSimpson Lisa Simpson]] also has this in regards to education; otherwise, though, she actually often joins Homer and Bart in their laziness.
92	* ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'': Princess Sally Acorn, to foil the reckless, fun-loving Sonic. Though she is played more primarily as TheStraightMan than other examples, her neuroses are a large source of comedy for her character. She starts off this way in [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics the comic adaptation]] as well, though by later comics, she is more laid back.
93	%%* [[Characters/SouthParkKyleBroflovski Kyle Broflovski]] of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has shades of this at times, though his foil, and more or less [[CrapsackWorld the entire world he lives in]] is so immoral he doesn't really need that high standards to get wound up over it. %%ZCE
94	%%* [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsSquidwardTentacles Squidward Tentacles]] in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. Funnily enough, his German voice also does Zazu. %%ZCE
95	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' gives us [[Characters/StevenUniversePearl Pearl]], the constantly stressed TeamMom, an extreme NeatFreak with an aversion to chaos and a tendency to nitpick her less precise and proper team members, particularly the more messy and fun-loving Amethyst, whose jokes are almost never funny to Pearl.
96	%%* Rebecca Cunningham of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' occasionally acts as this DependingOnTheWriter, usually when butting heads with [[TheSlacker Baloo]]. %%ZCE
97	* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'''s two passenger coaches, Annie and Clarabel are this. They nitpick Thomas' behavior constantly and fuss over the speed he travels (he has a lot of fun with this one in "Not So Slow Coaches"). Gordon found them unbearable to work with after a mishap left them his substitute Express coaches.
98	* Archibald Asparagus from ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' is often portrayed this way. One time, he cancelled "Silly Songs With Larry", due to Larry's silly song "Song Of The Cebu" not making any sense, and another time, he took over the show from Bob and Larry in an attempt to add culture and class to the show.
99	%%* Rabbit in the Disney versions of ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh''. %%ZCE
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