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Basic Trope: He's neat and tidy - but he can handle blood and gore.

  • Straight: Bob is a neurotically tidy man, but he's one of the few detectives that can handle a gory crime scene.
  • Exaggerated: Bob freaks out at the sight of so much as a speck of dust. But he's the guy that the department calls when the crime scene is too gory for anyone else.
  • Downplayed: Bob has a stronger stomach than most, but he's not absurdly neat.
  • Justified: Bob compartmentalizes - since he's reminded of death so often in his daily life, he feels the need to control what he can.
  • Inverted: Bob is an utter slob whose apartment is practically a biohazard - and he pukes and passes out at the sight of a corpse.
  • Subverted: Bob goes running for the bathroom as soon as he sees a dead body.
  • Double Subverted: But that was only because he knew the deceased. Normally it doesn't bother him.
  • Parodied: How squeamish Bob is ties directly into how clean his apartment is. If it's spic-and-span, he has nerves of steel. If it's dirty? Not so much.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: ???
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "Man, you'd think with how you normally act, you'd be the first one running to go puke..."
  • Invoked: After Bob passes out a couple times, he decides to start working around his fear of dead bodies.
  • Exploited: Bob's tidiness is one of the reason's why he's become such a good surgeon.
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "Man, he shrieked when someone moved his furniture around, but he didn't bat an eye at that dead body."

Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh! No, I'm not screaming at that corpse - I just noticed that someone has messed with my stuff back at Selective Squeamishness Suppression!

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