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Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
September 26, 2000 David DeMoss 1 Comment
Now that's a knife.
People keep coming back to Crystal Lake, myself included. I saw my first Friday the 13th film at age ten on a requisite dark and stormy night and here I am all these years later still mindlessly prattling on about it.
Except that's inaccurate: the requisite storm turned our satellite reception to shit so by the time it moved off I only really got to "see" the last fifteen minutes of Part 2. "What?" I said, for I was an inquisitive scamp. "This is it? What's everyone so hard on about? This is great shit. Hot chicks beating rednecks over the head with chairs? Yes, please!" At the time I thought, The only way they could possibly improve this would be to stage the whole thing in a Wrestlmania ring, surrounded by thousands of cheering assholes and lights.
Imagine my naive joy as I loaded Friday the 13th Part 3 into the VCR and prepared to have my mind blown by ninety minutes of that. Imagine my disappointment. No Amy Steel burdened with all manner of weapon, from chainsaws to machetes to her own highly-attractive knees. No Frugal Ku Klux Klansman since Amy and her douche boyfriend Paul let Jason Voorhees' malformed head out of the bag at the end of Part 2…and the beginning of Part 3. Still, as with the last picture, director Steve Miner helpfully tacks these last bits of Part 2 onto Part 3, just to make damn sure we're all caught up.
And this is a deliciously phallic shot. You could get a graduate course on psycho-sexual symbolism out of this frame alone.
I appreciated that at age 10. Now I imagine a voice (the voice of Walt "Crazy Ralph" Gorney, or Bettsie "Mrs. Voorhees" Palmer, perhaps) solomly intoning, "Previously on Friday the 13th," as if this were some horrible TV series…rather like the one that would eventually bear Friday the 13th's name. Jason chases Ginny. Ginny almost kills Jason. Paul comes conveniently back from the dead since Ginny's obviously running low on Hero's Battle Death Exemptions. Ginny kills Jason. The end.
Except, of course, it's not, because Part 2 proved far too popular to leave things hanging like that. Especially in an age that had stopped considering the Cliffhanger Ending one of several potential stinger devices at the disposal of creative storytellers and instead looked upon it as necessary set-up for the inevitable sequel.
So here we are, on the other side of the BIG, JUTTING CREDITS (reminding us this was originally filmed in 3D, as will plenty of other things) and Henry Manfredini's somewhat-retro score which, no longer content to rip-off John William's Jaws, now rips-off its percussion track from every shitty disco band who ever debased the 1970s and its eerie theremin sounds from every Universal Monster Picture ever made between the 1930s and the 1960s. So I guess that's what they call "progress" 'round these parts.
Marty, it's all your fault.
Afterwards, Jason teleports (not shown) to a lakeside bait and tackle shop owned by the redneckiest couple of rednecks we've seen since Part 1. No Rosanne-ish air of dignity here. It's hair-curlers, bad game shows and nagging for the lady, whiskey bottles hidden in the outhouse for sir. Jason puts both out of their misery only after we've enjoyed what feels like a glacial age in their presence. I know it was only ten minutes…but I can't shake the feeling Steve Miner threw those in just for an excuse to wave more things at the camera.
Here's a fun game you can play. Pause that shot of a rattlesnake lunging out at Sir Redneck's face (dangit, it misses). Point out the clearly visible string jutting from the snake's mouth (and possibly wound round its jaw) to your friends. Allow them to reflect upon the fact that 3D is cheap, meaningless gimmick trotted out by desperate movie studios as an excuse to inflate ticket prices and make up for the fact that movie theaters are becoming irrelevant in an age of five hundred channels, an internet full of crap, and TVs the size of walls.
Here stands a man fervently hoping for a threesome.
After you've driven all your friends away, resume film. Time to meet this week's episode's entry's cast. Thankfully, after Part 2's Bland Brigade, these Pretty White Kids seem a colorful bunch, even if their Problems are the same kind of superficial bullshit that now clogs basic cable line-ups. Chris (Dana Kimmell), the obvious Final Girl, we'll talk about later. Andy (Jeffrey Rogers) and Debbie (Tracie Savage), are our designated Guy and Girl couple, and thus doomed. Shelly (Larry Zerner) is the real wild card. Here the Odious Comic Relief is redesigned as a special effects nerd in larval form, the filmmaker's projection of their own "core" audience members. Too bad that projection is a socially-inept, insecure jerk, fond of dressing up in masks and fake-stabbing his friends. Vira (Catherine Parks) is Shelly's "date" for this "weekend in the country," and thus his Doom in a Blouse. Not that she'll fuck him. Nor should she. He's a socially-inept, insecure etc. Chuck (David Katims) and Chilli (Rachel Howard) round things out by being the worst type of movie stoners, having to be asked before they share the wealth…a disgrace to the entire stoner race. And two years out from Cheech and Chong's Next Movie. For shame.
This merry band is off to Chris' parent's place, Higgins Haven…which may be on Crystal Lake, but…shit, how large is the lake, anyway? Never mind. First they meet a crazed local in the Crazy Ralph mode, ignore his Warnings From the Divine, and proceed. They meet Rick (Paul Kratka), a Manly Spice chiseled from the Paul and Steve mode, at Higgins Haven, setting off an extended back and forth between Rick and Chris. This helped me come to terms with a central fact: the writing in this series has actually improved as things have gone along. Sure, Rick has a one track mind and that track leads right between Chris' legs, but she just ignores him and remains in a better humor about it than I certainly would, were I in her position. Here she is, trying to get over a Past Traumatic Experience, and all Mr. "Dumb Country Boy" can think of is doing the horizontal hoola.
"Hey, man, you tell me where else I'm gonna get a speaking role these days?"
Alas, it's 1982 and Final Girls hadn't yet learned to respect themselves. (Just look at the useless dicks Alice and Ginny settled for.) I only mean to say "the writing's improved" in relation to Parts 1 and 2. Characters are now recognizable as characters rather than mere archetypes. The Slasher movie has completed its house in Stereotype Land whence it remains to this day. Sensible plotting remains beyond the series, over the boarder in the lands of "real" movies. Having tossed the "camp" out of their "lakeside summer camp murder" movie franchise last go 'round, they here jettison the "lakeside." Why did Jason go after that Redneck couple anyway? Why go after the kids at Higgins Haven? Assume he just needs to kill everyone in the Crystal Lake woods. What kept him from doing so in the five years since his Mommy dearest's death-by-Alice? And I'm sorry, but…suddenly Crystal Lake's big enough for its own biker gang? The fuck you say?
I suppose anything that gives black actors speaking rolls is better than nothing…but, of course, they play criminals. And they die pointless deaths. But at least they served a narrative purpose, providing a conflict that Shelly must overcome. And does. So the film almost pulls me back from the brink by dangling the chance to watch at least one character develop before me, like a coy stripper dangling that last little bit of fabric.
In that same vein, Chris here is the first Final Girl with a Defining Element of Tragedy in her past. Alice had a thing obviously going on with her boss and "something" to do in California. Ginny had a college career, opinions, her boss wrapped around her fingers, and knees that functioned the way any sensible woman's should if and when she is chased by a maniac. Ah, but Chris…she has a tragic story to relate to Rick (and thus the audience) once they get tired of hanging out with her dumbass friends. A year ago, after a tiff with her parents, Chris ran away into the woods. She fell asleep while sulking and woke up to the sounds of a hamburger-faced maniac trudging toward her. She ran, he chased her, he caught her, she blacked out…and woke up in her own bed with no memory of what happened.
Boing!
Here's a Death Exemption to end all Heroes Battle Death Exemption and yet another shark jumped in the name of adding depth to a series that self-consciously centers itself around the meaningless deaths of fake teenagers. Credit where it's due: screenwriters Carol Watson and Martin Kitrosser are actually trying. They just don't do anything with the tools they spread out in front of themselves.
As with Part 2, we spend an entire film watching Jason kill everyone he comes across…and yet here's Chris telling the laziest kind of survivor story. "I blacked out. I don't know what happened after that." Because neither of our screenwriters, nor our director, could figure out a good way to have Chris (a) meet Jason and (b) survive.
Goddamnit, Friday the 13th. Pick a sport and you're way out of it. Way out from any of your initial premises. Oh, Jason drowned in 1957, cries the first film. Driving his mom co-ed-killing insane. But wait, cries the second film. Jason didn't really drown. He's been living in the woods all this time, doing a bit of mom-worship and killing everything he comes across. So what sent Mom so carve-you-up mad? Who cares? this film asks. Here. We'll kill Jason and then bring him back to life again. Just like you did in the first film? Yeah, man. Only this time, we'll pit him against this chick he came across in the woods last year. So he found a nubile teenage girl in the Crystal Lake Woods and didn't kill her? Why not? What stopped him? What's so special about Chris? Hey, says the film, don't be so harsh. You ask too many questions. You got this negative vibe going. Smoke some grass. Chill.
Ah, they filmed my dreams...
I'd need more grass than Snoop Doggy Dog to "chill" in the face a plot hole like this. Okay, maybe Jason had to work his way up to Part 2's "kill-death-destroy" rampage. "Typical" real world killers (I use that adverb lightly, fully acknowledging its pitfalls) often take time to test how their fantasies play out before moving up to acting them out on humans. These often amount to a series of "Oh, shit," moments, as in, "Oh, shit, my victim didn't passively submit to being strangled and stabbed. I better refine my technique before I screw up and get my ass jailed." Only problem with that (from a storyteller's perspective, at least) being, who said Jason's a "typical" killer? Seems pretty a-typical to me, what with the coming back from the dead and all…twice now…
Never mind, says the film. Time to cull tonight's herd. With these deaths, and Debbie's death in particular, an almost shot-for-shot recreation of Kevin Bacon's death in Part 1, the series announces it's officially run out of ideas and started ripping itself off, right down to the violations of basic physical laws.
Debbie climbs into the hammock and starts paging through Fangoria in a perfect example of the co-option that turns entertainment "journalism" into cheerleading for shit. Blood starts dripping onto the (quite well-written) Godzilla article she's reading. She looks up. Fucknuggets! There's Andy, sliced in half by Jason's machete. A hand reaches out from under the hammock and stabs Debbie through the chest.
Awww, man...that issue's worthless now. No collector wants to touch blood.
So…Jason killed Andy while Debbie was in the shower…stowed the two halves of Andy's body in the rafters without recourse to a ladder, chair, or any of the other height-increasing pieces of furniture in the room…magically ensured Andy's guts would defy gravity and stalwartly remain inside his abdominal cavity…and somehow concealed his own bulk behind the various covers thrown over the hammock until Debbie got into position.
Jesus H. Christ. So what if the film has characters in it? Every film should! And the little drips and drabs of characterization can't distract from the basic, logical problems underlying this whole series.
I should probably come up with some grand sociological theory as to why these films are so popular, given how deeply and truly they suck…but I can't get anything past Occam's razor except "tits + blood = financially successful horror movie." Except that's what They Who Live While Sleep want us to think. Really, the equation runs something like, "$1 million dollar film + $40 million dollar box office = successful horror film." Make um cheap, make um quick, and you'll make your money back, so long as you sacrifice whatever dreams you might've had of making "good" films.
There are good bits here. Shelly's "boy-who-cried-wolf" death scene is a perfect moment, and the inclusion of the Biker Gang both pads out the body count and provides a good reason for Chris' Mystery Machine to break down, forcing her into the usual Final Girl confrontation. A battle that's much more varied and kinetic than Ginny's…or Alice's…or Laurie Strode's, for that matter. One that's resolved with a brutal finality indicative of the Slasher movie's overall obsession with humanity's inhumanity towards itself…
…and then promptly ruined by a tacked-on, bullshit cliffhanger that does nothing but echo Part 1's tacked-on, bullshit cliffhanger. Oh, Friday the 13th series, you coy bitch, why don't you toy with my emotions some more?
Uneven, illogical, contrived, and haphazardly assembled, Part 3 could've signaled a move toward more nuanced storytelling and at least the illusion of depth other, better horror movies at least try to paint. The cast is a marked improvement over previous entries, evidence of the greater production value behind the show, but having only one note to play certainly must've made things easier.
Given the number of trends this movie set for the rest of the series (Jason's hockey mask and machete being only the most obvious, along with Chris Defining Element of Tragedy) I'm tempted to call Part 3 required viewing for anyone curious about why horror films suck as much and as often as they do…but I don't want to subject you to this much obviously horrific 3-D.
ACTING!
Thanks to the internet, terabytes of worth of data and opinion on all three of these films is readily available. Read some of that instead. I'd recommend Liz Kingsley's exceptionally well-done write ups of these films, which not only entertained me a great deal more than the film's they describe, they're also real value changers.
At least then you'll be reading. Improving your mind and what-not. And don't worry…there's no hockey-mask wearing redneck hiding under your hammock…or is there?
Carol WatsonDana KimmellFriday the 13thHenry ManfrediniLarry ZernerMartin KitrosserPaul KratkaSlasher MoviesSteve Miner


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Thousands of Arkansans maintain feeders and plant flowers to attract hummingbirds. The beautiful Ruby-throated Hummingbirds with their jewel-like colors and legendary aeronautical skills are the hummingbirds most likely to be seen. Ruby-throats are the only common hummingbirds in the eastern U.S.
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Hummingbirds feed numerous times each day from nectar-bearing flowers and nectar feeders. Hummingbirds need to eat an average of 7 times per hour for 30-60 seconds each feeding. Most hummers won't pass up an easy nectar meal from feeders and most hummingbird fans won't pass up the chance to watch them dart about.
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If you have bee or wasp problems at your nectar feeder, try creating a diversion for the bees and wasps. Take down all your hummingbird feeders and create only one with strong sugar syrup: ½ cup sugar per 1 cup of water. Put this heavy syrup feeder in an out-of-the-way spot-- away from where you want your hummingbirds to feed. Bees and wasps will find the heavy syrup and stay with that one.
You can return your hummingbird feeders with the regular sugar water (1 cup sugar to 4 cups water) to your favorite location a few days later.


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Letizia Battaglia, the Sicilian Photographer of the Mafia
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By now, I'm pretty sure you all know where I come from 😉 — and how proud I am about it. The following post is very close to my heart and to my cultural sensitivity, as sometimes I have the impression that there is a weird mix of fear and awe when talking about Mafia today. And a lot of false myths entangled with it. In a month like this, in which Anti-Mafia Judge Giovanni Falcone's statue was vandalised, former and legendary Cosa Nostra Boss Totó Riina was sentenced to stay in prison for his crimes, and legal proceedings of the process "Mafia Capitale" is nailing its perpetrators, I feel I had to add something through the lenses of Art.
So keep reading to discover more about it and about the photographer who captured it in its bare, gruesome essence.
Portrait of Letitia Battaglia by Francesco Bonomo, 2017
Last week I talked about some of the most interesting kick-ass girl-bosses in art world whose Instagram profiles — I'm sure! — you are now following.
Today I would like to introduce you another kick-ass lady, the Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia. Her snapshots of Sicily during the 1980s and 1990s are simply considered a part of Italian history and a visual diary of my beautiful, yet tortured, native land. For 30 years, Ms. Battaglia has photographed her land, Sicily, with crude and tragic images in black and white, denouncing the activities of Mafia with brave and incisive reportages for Palermo's left-wing daily paper L'Ora.
L'arresto del feroce boss mafioso Leoluca Bagarella, Palermo, 1980
Omicidio Targato Palermo, 1988
Convinced of the validity of civic commitment as a factor of change, over the course of the years she has put her talent and passion as a photographer at the service of diverse causes, from women's issues to environmental problems. The comprehensive retrospective held at MAXXI in Rome last year, Letizia Battaglia: Just for Passion, testifies to just this.
Born in Sicily in 1935, Letizia Battaglia began her photography career in the early 1970s and started photographing the Sicilian Mafia in 1974. As the photography director of L'Ora, she was present at every major crime scene in the city until shortly before the paper folded in 1990. From these assignments, Battaglia produced many of the iconic photographs that have come to represent Sicily and the Mafia throughout the world.
Trial of Mafiosi, 1980
Like an Italian Diane Arbus, Battaglia's look on Cosa Nostra and the political and social situation was unflinching. She was someone not willing to 'look away' and stay silent in front of the bloody war for power and control the clans were pestering the island with. She even received death threats from Cosa Nostra. Cosa Nostra – literal translation: "Our Thing". This is the name of the Sicilian Mafia, as opposed to the Mafia from Calabria, aka 'Ndrangheta, and the one from Naples, aka Camorra.
I due Cristi (The two Christs), Palermo, 1982
I only saw one body of a person killed by you-know-who in my hometown. Drug matter, I believe. I was 6 and I was on my way to school. This was just a very tiny piece of the puzzle though, as — mind you! — the part of Sicily where I come from is the one with the lowest Mafia concentration of all. But Cosa Nostra killed hundreds of people in the past decades and in a myriad of fashions: gunned down on the streets or in their own apartments, dissolved in acid, blown up in the middle of a highway.
I know that when thinking about Mafia, the majority of the people have in mind the very iconic scene from Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, when a dude wakes up in his bed with a horse's head next to him. I am not sure whether this is a myth or not, but a dead person is a dead person, and you can hardly wash that image from your head. On top of that, what people fail to understand today is that the Mafia is a very smart organisation, which evolves with time and adapts accordingly. Get this: these days, Cosa Nostra is recruiting people via social media — what's smarter than that?
In Battaglia's own words:
"The situation today is even more complex and saddening. The mafia no longer kills judges, police officers and anti-mafia activists. Because many 'friends of the mafia' have been democratically elected, they now directly manage public affairs, government, and institutions. The repercussions are visible everywhere. Many magistrates who have worked against this system have been jailed, and honest prosecutors have been threatened – in the same way my dear friends Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were, before their assassinations in 1992."
Michele Reina, Secretary of the Sicilian Christian Democratic Party, killed by the Mafia, 1979 (Gift of the Photographer to the W. Eugene Smith Legacy Collection)
In years when the word 'Mafia' was barely whispered in public, Ms. Battaglia was chronicling its brutal activities for all to witness. And just figure this: in 1979, she boldly set up oversized photographs of Mafia victims in the main square of Corleone, the domain of Sicily's most notorious and ruthless Mafia clan (Godfather again, anyone?). She was aware of the potential consequences. "I did exhibits against the Mafia, in Palermo, on the streets, in Corleone. I was afraid," she conceded in an interview with The Guardian. "There, I said it, I was afraid. It was true. At the time, I was offered a security detail but I refused it because I would have lost my freedom," she added. "It was too important. I felt the duty to continue, the duty not to be afraid."
A prostitute and two of her friends killed by the Mafia, 1983 (Gift of the Photographer to the W. Eugene Smith Legacy Collection)
"It turned out all right in the end because they didn't kill me," she said matter-of-factly. What's more hard-core and kick-ass than this ladies?
If you want really to know what Cosa Nostra is, you would like to stop confusing it with 'Ndrangheta and Camorra, then you should dive into Battaglia's visual world. It will be an enlightening and eye-opening experience.
If you'd like to approach your discovery and understanding of Mafia, I can highly recommend reading the book FAQ MAFIA, by Attilio Bolzoni. The best place to start.
Feel free to shoot me any questions you may have in the comments below.
…To my art bae Annie, for the inspiration, support and enthusiasm.
…To my Sicilian reader Francesco Bonomo, for sending me the beautiful portraits of Letizia.
…To Letizia, for being such a brave, uncompromising, inspirational model.
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Santiago Maior is een plaats (freguesia) in de Portugese gemeente Alandroal en telt 2 557 inwoners (2001).

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So, just when you think your brain couldn't possible force in any more glorious Charlie Sheen winning, the internet goddess shines upon those of us who really don't have much to do and from her tantalizing nether-regions squeezes out a golden game-changing egg filled with awesome like this.Charlie Sheen's comparison of himself to the warlock community has set off a fiery seed within these harbinger's of might and magic. Nay, shall they tolerate the insolence of someone who does not understand what it is to control the cosmos that goes around saying things that make "REAL" warlocks look silly!
Well, little do they know..that Charlie Sheen is not only a real warlock… he is one of the mightiest warlocks in the galaxy. Fueled by enough cocaine tiger's blood to obliterate three solar systems.
Charlie Sheen continues his centuries long march across the sands of time to fulfill the curse placed upon his head by some mightier warlock…probably Gary Busey. This curse that sentenced Charlie to an insatiable zombie-like desire to bang as many prostitutes as possible while on the search for the ultimate state of mind.


Many people who use Facebook for personal and work reasons struggle to find the balance between sharing somewhat personal info with friends and sharing with the world. Creating and maintaining a separate page is a boatload of work and, depending on the size of your following, may not be worth it.
In the past, you pretty much had to make the decision do I make my life public? or do I just shut out everyone I don't actually know? Most people elected to keep their friend list to those individuals that were close friends and thus, they were not able to enjoy some of the business benefits of growing your network and personally branding yourself.
Facebook has made keeping your public/private posts and activity has become much cleaner over the past six months or so. Personally, I have become much more lax in accepting friend requests because I have placed a few safeguards in place to ensure my privacy is protected.
When you post an update, you'll see a drop-down next to the 'post' button. Use this to select if you want your post seen by everyone or just your friends. When used in conjunction with the measures below, this option is very powerful and liberating, just be sure to check it when you post to make sure posts are going where you want them to go.
A subscription is a feed of your public posts and activity, thus when someone subscribes to your profile, they will see whatever you post publicly (see #1). Subscriptions are available to any Facebook user and can be enabled here.
Once you have subscriptions enabled, you can generate a subscribe button to post wherever your content appears, including a Wordpress blog.
Friend lists are a very powerful, and hugely underutilized, Facebook tool. Lists give you the ability to organize your friends in a number of different ways by creating and customizing whatever list you'd like. I have been using two pre-built lists religiously since I started opening up my friend list- Restricted and Close Friends.
The Restricted list basically makes that friend a subscriber. Friends on your Restricted list only see your public posts and activity (see #1). Whenever I add someone I don't know as a friend, they immediately are added to my restricted list as well. It's nothing personal. I just don't really know them yet.
I use the Close Friends list for my small circle of very close friends and immediate family. You can send posts only to those people by using the drop down described in #1. I use this option when sending out family updates, special invites, pics of my son, etc.
Facebook's privacy settings are your friends. Use them! The setting I've customized is 'Who can see posts by others in your timeline,' which is found under 'How you connect.' I never know what personal information my friends and family might post about me or tag me in, so I like to keep this feature somewhat private to be safe.
There you have it. You CAN be public and private on Facebook at the same time. It takes a little more work, but is well worth it and will allow you to continue to expand your network. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions of privacy settings that you like to use.


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Ambiguous Disorder
This character's behaviour is so bizarre, so clearly outside the norm, that Real Life psychologists would be scrambling for the diagnostic manual to try to figure out what to diagnose them with. It's way beyond mere ordinary quirkiness. No reasons are given for the strange behaviour. No specific diagnosis is ever mentioned in the story. In fact, any resemblance to any real disorder is likely accidental; the character's symptoms are exactly those symptoms the writer wants them to have. It is a case of Ambiguous Disorder.
The disordered behaviour will almost always be Played for Laughs. This technique is generally used to avoid writing yet another Patient of the Week about some specific disorder and to focus in on the comedic elements without having to deal with the serious issues associated with real disorders.
Compare Soap Opera Disease and G-Rated Mental Illness.
No real life examples, please; as mentioned above, any resemblance to any real disorder is likely accidental.
Examples of Ambiguous Disorder include:
1 Anime and Manga
2 Comic Books
4 Literature
5 Live-Action TV
6 Video Games
7 Western Animation
Osaka from Azumanga Daioh thinks in ways so completely different from other people that it's easy to think she might be mentally disabled. She's dreamy and inattentive, prone to weird misunderstandings, has very poor motor control, and occasionally seems to suffer from actual hallucinations. But although she seems mentally slow, she gets only slightly below average grades at a regular school and manages to socialize more-or-less normally. She even has some Genius Ditz tendencies: she's prone to penetrating insights that escape all the other characters, she's surprisingly well-versed in some obscure topics like marine biology, and her odd way of looking at the world makes her extremely good at certain kinds of riddles.
The joke here — which can easily escape Western viewers — is that Osaka's spacey, laid-back personality makes her a humorous inversion of the stereotypical brash, loudmouthed, Hot-Blooded Idiot From Osaka.
Apachai Hopachai of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple acts childlike to a degree that goes way beyond the usual Man Child level.
Inspector Lunge from Monster. Absent staring, hand-tics, Spock Speak, socially clumsy, isolated, compulsively obsessive. It's especially weird that nobody ever mentions any possible diagnosis, considering the manga's protagonist is a doctor and several characters who are psychologists, though mostly of the forensic variety, also feature prominently.
Death Note:
L, the master detective and profiler. Despite his incredible analytical skills and the social finesse he shows in interacting with his nemesis Light, he's extremely eccentric and seems to have serious trouble intuitively grasping normal social interplay. Prominent entries on his long list of quirks include weird and awkward body language, total obliviousness to the idea that blue jeans and a pajama top might not be appropriate attire for every possible situation, and a really extreme sweet tooth.
L's successor Near is very similar, maybe even more so.
Bakuman。: Eiji Niizuma has extremely odd sitting patterns, demonstrates some trouble with social conventions and nonverbal clues, and has an obsessive interest and talent in a particular subject.
Ice Queen Aiko Iwase also qualifies.
Edward from Cowboy Bebop is ludicrously intelligent, but shows absolutely no ability (or inclination) to socialize in a remotely normal fashion for even brief periods. She almost always skips, cartwheels or dances instead of walking, and she sings improvised songs about whatever she's doing, often as a substitute for normal conversation. Her closest friend is a hyperintelligent, non-talking dog.
In Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Maria has bizarre reactions (or a notable lack of the same) to events around her, and she never seems to be able to avoid hitting her mother's Berserk Button when she really should know better.
White from Tekkon Kinkreet: there's definitely something mentally different about him, but it's impossible to distinctly tell what. He's exceedingly childish for his age, refusing to bathe unless prompted, and is unable to tie his own shoes at age ten. Yet at the same time White has a... vivid imagination and occasionally a strange, almost cosmic insight.
Detective Conan:
Hattori Heiji's really thick about other people's feelings, bad at picking up social cues, and extremely awkward a lot of the time. He can't lie without stuttering and giggling like an idiot, and he latches onto ideas or interests and does not let them go. For example, when he first became friends with Conan, he talked about Shinichi SO incessantly that his childhood friend believes him to have a girlfriend in Tokyo with the last name Kudo. He's also extremely adept at remembering little details and noticing anything out of the ordinary, no matter how minor.
The protagonist, Shinichi Kudo/Conan: In the first episode, he does not know when to stop rambling on about Holmes and Conan Doyle, and talks to Ran about it the entire time they are at the roller coaster. Even whenever he dates her and starts off wanting to tell her his feelings, instead he ends up gabbing about Holmes again. He is not very social, and it is implied that many of his teachers and classmates believed him to be arrogant and self-absorbed. Also, he seems to be quite blunt and unaware of social tact.
Considering how quirky most of the characters in Eyeshield 21 are, the fact that both Shin and Tetsuma are both considered a little "off" by both the other characters and standards of the series says something:
Shin speaks in monotone with textbook level formality, has an encyclopedic knowledge of everything related to physical fitness (he maintains a VERY strict nutrition plan and seems to be very well-read on human anatomy), and absolute devotion to improving himself as a football player. At the same time, he speaks his mind in the most direct way possible (both positively and negatively), has no interpersonal skills or awareness of social norms (he doesn't see anything wrong with walking around shirtless), and is completely oblivious about anything that's not football or school related (when his teammate Sakuraba grows a beard, gets a crew-cut, and starts training harder, the only thing Shin notices is that Sakuraba's muscle tone has improved). Nonetheless, he's very respectful and always means well, so the few friends he has seem to take his many idiosyncrasies in stride.
Tetsuma is very literal-minded, even more oblivious to social norms then Shin (as well as being an expert on his position), and can't seem to function normally without his best friend to tell him what to do. When he does speak (which he'll only do if someone specifically tells him to speak), it's very robotic and formal. Most likely because of his difficulty in interacting with people, he dearly treasures his friendship with Kid, who accepts him regardless.
Lain in her initial appearances within Serial Experiments Lain; she shows impairment in the use of nonverbal behaviors, has developed few peer relationships, and the ties with two of her friends are very weak. She does not show enthusiasm to seek enjoyment or socialization with others, and lacks social or emotional reciprocity. She also rarely speaks, and cannot converse well or start/hold a prolonged conversation. Finally, she becomes unusually enthralled by computer/technological objects and their construction as the series goes on. Never mind the loss of sense of time and space, vivid hallucinations(?), moments of amnesia, hearing voices... All possibly justified from being an Artificial Human. Or the Anthropomorphic Personification of the Internet. Or something.
Jirarudan/Lawrence III from Pokémon 2000: He's an art collector of a ridiculously high magnitude who seems to have learned social skills entirely by rote; has a narrow and fixed attention span; wears a long coat with an undershirt to tropical islands in the middle of summer; has almost no change in facial expression or vocal intonation despite living by his passions; seems to have difficulty recognizing cues from others; and takes everything, including the legend and Misty screaming at him, only by the words presented without considering tone or alternate meaning.
Almost every mage in the Nasuverse who isn't a Complete Monster could qualify for this at some level. They're socially distant, obsessed with their own singular interests (their magic fields, their Origins and the Akashic Records in this case), and frequently have special repeated tics or actions associated with activating magecraft.
Nozomu "Mr. Despair" Itoshiki of Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei. Focuses on one topic for an incredible amount of time; depressive and paranoid to a nearly delusional degree (although it's Played for Laughs); and is a self-proclaimed master of not looking people in the eye.
Yuuki Rieko of 14Juicy displays a limited emotional range and seems to have no interest in, or aptitude for, anything but soccer.
Sawako from Kimi ni Todoke. At the age of fifteen she's never made a single friend, and frequently misinterprets social cues with hilarious results. She doesn't seem to find this at all weird.
Durarara!!'s Shizuo Heiwajima is such a textbook case of intermittent explosive disorder (albeit a very exaggerated example) that one has to wonder if Narita had the DSM-IV in hand while he was thinking up his character. His brother Kasuka also qualifies for this trope.
Amuro Ray of the original Mobile Suit Gundam is capable of social interaction, but absolutely hates it. He's paranoid, prone to focusing on himself, and in his Establishing Character Moment, is shown sitting in his room in his underwear, not having eaten in a day, and looking at a computer chip through a microscope while studiously ignoring the evacuation siren blaring outside. His friend Frau specifically states that this isn't uncommon behaviour, and that his neighbour was supposed to come in and tell him if the siren was going off. Needless to say, there are some debates in the fandom as to just what, if anything, he might have.
Kira Yamato of Gundam Seed shares many of Amuro's personality traits; the main difference is that he tries to be social (despite sucking at it) while Amuro deliberately avoids other people at all times.
Zeta Gundam's Kamille Biden is what you get when you take a very Amuro-esque personality (love of machinery, poor social skills, mild paranoia) and combine it with some serious daddy issues. Big Bad Paptimus Scirocco shares many of these personality traits, and compensates for them with his Psychic Powers.
Shu Ouma from Guilty Crown is an Extreme Doormat with No Social Skills who admits to himself that his mind might be out of step with everyone else's, and has only made "friends" by going along with what other people say. When he makes a carelessly cold remark about someone else and is reprimanded for it, he can only think about his own feelings that were hurt, rather than feeling bad about what he said. He also has trouble with making eye contact with other people.
Marv from Sin City is often considered stupid and insane, an opinion that he shares. He did poorly in school, has No Social Skills, gets "confused" a lot, and often has violent blackouts. In his first story, he mentions that he has always been good at puzzles, implying that he's capable of solving complex mysteries. He was certainly intelligent enough to go up against a powerful crime family. He also cares a lot about his friends and family, is friendly towards complete strangers, and is something of an awkward gentleman with women. On the other hand, he often displays bizarre emotional responses, most prominently a near-sociopathic Lack of Empathy—there have been multiple instances of him remaining genuinely perfectly calm during moments of intense chaotic violence, and he's capable of cool, calculated cruelty and a complete lack of queasiness or discomfort while casually torturing people to death.
Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes: Highly intelligent for his age but performs poorly in school, prefers associating with his (possibly) Imaginary Friend to socializing with real people, tends to retreat into an unusually rich fantasy life, has many strange Cloudcuckoolander quirks, can be a stickler for his own personal schedules and standards of behavior, and doesn't understand why people act the way they do.
At the beginning of The Stupiders we are told that everyone has at least one problem or quirk, but what exactly those problems are is left up to the reader to discern.
Every Batman villain, as well as Batman himself in some interpretations.
Brian of Knights of the Dinner Table. He has a job that involves running an online service from his home (which he is said to not clean) and painting model figurines. He has a savant-like memory of obscure roleplaying game rules, yet sometimes forgets his own phone number. He is stated to become very uncomfortable when any social group exceeds four to six people, especially when it happens away from the context of a shared interest. He rarely speaks unless dealing with gaming, and has a face and body language that is usually unreadable. And finally, some things that would annoy other people seem to have no effect on him at all, while something that others would take in stride can send him into a sudden and brutal fury, typically involving flipping over the gaming table in rage.
The Wizard (film): Jimmy, by way of The Rainman with the way he plays video games.
The Social Network: Zuckerberg. He cannot hold down a single topic in a conversation. He shows very little tact as well, as an offhand comment he makes to his girlfriend causes her to break up with him. In short, he is much more at home with his computers and code than he is with other human beings.
Sherlock Holmes: Robert Downey Jr.'s portrayal in the 2009 film and its 2011 sequel was more socially challenged than usual, had some weird eye contact moments, and was implied to have issues with sensory integration.
Martian Child: The titular character is a young boy who doesn't understand facial expressions (he takes pictures of other people's facial expressions to try and puzzle them out at his leisure) and has multiple sensory issues (he wears a weight belt all the time to keep from "floating away", is overly fond of seat belts, and can't stand sunlight).
Denny in The Room seems completely ignorant of social norms and generally acts much younger than his apparent age, at one point leaping into bed with Johnny and Lisa as they are about to have sex. In an interview, director Tommy Wiseau admitted that Denny is "retarded, a little bit," but he failed to tell the actor that or spell it out in the script, so the performance is confused.
Napoleon Dynamite: Napoleon, Kip, Pedro and Deb all display really, really severe social awkwardness and fixations on various unusual subjects (e.g. ligers).
Seance: A character is antisocial and awkward, and takes an unnamed medication that he claims is supposed to make him "normal".
Garth from Wayne's World. His speech is stilted, he doesn't eat anything that isn't brightly coloured and fruity (to the point of eating a jelly donut with a straw), goes off on some extremely bizarre tangents in conversations, and spends hours obsessing over strange mechanical gadgets.
Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces. He's a hoarder, a massive conspiracy theorist, and an extreme luddite and creature of habit.
Lisbeth Salander of The Millennium Trilogy. She exhibits several oddities, including Photographic Memory, extremely selective interests (mathematics and computer hacking), and very few changes in expression or vocal tone. The author said he envisioned her as somebody who has turned into "somewhat of a sociopath" from incredibly traumatic experiences, or how a modern-day Pippi Longstocking might turn out after growing up as an mentally odd orphan handled by the somewhat infamous Swedish bureaucratic system.
In the book Changeling by Delia Sherman, it's strongly implied that Changeling has been diagnosed with something, but it's never stated what.
Colin from An Abundance of Katherines—his social skills are a mess. His only real friend in high school actually needs to tell him when his conversation topics are boring. They become friends after he thinks it is funny to refer to his eye as a "pupillary sphincter." His friend, who was home-schooled up until that point, remarks something along the lines of, "I've only been in public school for 2 days, and I know that your sphincter is not something you talk about."
In Peter F. Hamilton's The Dreaming Void, implants giving people their own built-in "heads-up display" are ubiquitous, but only Troblum is described as having or needing a "protocol behaviour program" to prompt him through ordinary social situations. He's got an obsessive interest in a thousand-years-past war (that just so happens to be the subject of the two previous books set in that universe) and is explicitly stated to have no real ties to anyone in the Commonwealth.
Sherlock Holmes as portrayed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Later depictions of the character can differ, but the original stories make it fairly clear that it's not just that Holmes is incredibly smart—his brain works in a different way from most people. He's got a hefty dose of social awkwardness and assorted weird behavioral quirks to go along with the extreme intelligence and perspicacity, as well.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: the main character is clearly non-neurotypical, and readers almost invariably assume he's autistic, but no diagnosis is stated in the book—and in fact the author has said he didn't intentionally base the character's behaviour on any specific disorder.
Daymar the wizard from the Dragaera books is truly brilliant, but also extremely Literal-Minded, and oblivious to social cues unless they're explicitly spelled out—and after they are explicitly spelled out, he never shows even a trace of embarrassment about how awkward his own behavior was.
Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a more serious example of this. He was held back for being "emotionally damaged", but the disorder is never named. He seems to have trouble in social situations and seems to be very sheltered from normal life.
Bella from Twilight. By her own admission, she has trouble connecting with people in general. Apparently her only friend in Phoenix was her mother, who she still forgets to write to when in Forks. She becomes extremely obsessed with things like becoming a vampire, while making no plans for things like college or a career. She becomes so unhealthily obsessed with Edward that when he leaves her, she first is catatonic and then makes no effort to move on with her life, instead choosing to spend her college money on motorcycles and nearly killing herself cliff diving. She gives very little thought to the consequences of her actions, and tends to not understand why people react the way they do. A lot of her traits (her lack of desire to have an adult life, her general Lack of Empathy, her repeated lack of regard for her father's house rules, etc) hit all of Dr. Hare's checklist points for sociopathy.
The narrator of Oh, the Humanity!: A Gentle Guide to Social Interaction for the Feeble Young Introvert has a pretty spectacular one, mixed with generous doses of denial and Know-Nothing Know-It-All. Traits include an obsession with germs, total disinterest in other people's lives ("I meant to call you to tell you you have so much to live for...I'm sorry, I've just been doing so much gardening lately"), a grasp on human interaction that can at best be called fumble-fingered, an inability to focus or prioritise (at one point delaying a pub crawl for two hours because he forgot to give his parakeet its ear medication, and didn't like to wake it up), and massive, hubristic pride in the social skills he does not in fact possess. It's unclear how much of this emerged from his Hilariously Abusive Childhood.
A side story in The Dresden Files, told from Murphy's point of view, makes Harry Dresden an in-universe example of this: From most Muggles' viewpoint, Dresden, a self-declared wizard, has a tendency to poke around crime scenes, looking or asking for things like toenail clippings or hair straws, mumbling to himself and never looking people in the eyes. In addition to this is his at time dubious personal hygiene, Man Child personality, near-pathological need to snark at and gainsay authority figures, and Nerves of Steel that makes it unnerving when he seldom shows outwards reactions to things normal people would lose their wits over. The end result is that it makes him seem, at best, a high-functioning but very eccentric autistic. By reading most of the books (which are from Harry's point of view), most of these behaviour patterns are explained logically, but that doesn't make him seem any less weird to the muggles he must uphold The Masquerade to.
Gracie Milne, a minor character in Tipping the Velvet, is a bit like this. She doesn't really have any identifiable symptoms, but she's definitely more than a little odd, acts rather young for her age, and she may have sensory processing differences considering her fixation with colors.
Coronation Street: has Roy Cropper who is simply seen as odd by his neighbours with his bizarre lectures on really trivial subjects, fascination with details, and that little bag he carries everywhere.
CSI: Gil Grissom. His level of social understanding fluctuates between episodes, along with his attention to trivial details and love of bugs.
Law and Order: Criminal Intent: Detective Robert Goren; it's suggested he simply never learned proper social skills growing up because his entire family suffered from one mental illness or another. Goren is what happens when the genetic dice are loaded to roll Snake-Eyes and come up Lucky 7 anyway.
The Big Bang Theory:
Sheldon is socially challenged, has fairly monotonous speech, and exhibits heavily ritualized behavior.[1] He even has hypersensitive hearing; the others refer to it as "Vulcan hearing" and are usually cursing it due to his overhearing things they wish he didn't.
Another example is Sheldon's Distaff Counterpart Amy Farrah Fowler.
Abed from Community. He is incredibly fascinated with films and television and is a bit obsessed with projecting their tropes onto real life. He also has a strange, somewhat sterile demeanor, doesn't seem to know (or even when corrected, care about) how to go about certain social situations, and is face-blind.
Lampshaded in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons when he is referred to as "Abed The Undiagnosable".
In one deleted scene, a drunk Abed was speaking only in a neverending string of self-describing movie quotes, but randomly grunted "high-functioning" in the middle of his rant.
One of his lines in the Regional Holiday Music Christmas rap song Jehovah's Secret Witness is "On the spectrum? None of your business."
Abed's "mental issues" have been present since his introductory scene in the pilot, where he rattles off everything he knows about Britta from their one conversation including that she has a brother who "works with children with a disorder I might want to look up".
Matthew Gray Gubler claims that he plays Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds as autistic, something that's never been confirmed. The only time that the possibility did get a mention in the show is when a villain described Reid as having autistic leanings, but this was part of an extremely inaccurate Hannibal Lecture delivered to this entire team. (Reid's issues may, however, stem more from his difficult childhood and equally difficult job.)
Spinelli on General Hospital. Nicknames everyone, Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness...but when Dr. Matt Hunter suggests undergoing tests for autism, he refuses, saying "I am me".
Reginald Barclay from Star Trek: The Next Generation shows severe social anxiety, along with an obsessive streak and a compulsive tendency to retreat into fantasy.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Anya—at first viewers are led to believe her complete lack of social skills is a result of having been a demon for centuries, but eventually it's revealed that she acted exactly the same before she became a demon. The flashback showing this is extremely silly, however—one might chalk it up to Rule of Funny.
Michael Scott of The Office -- No Social Skills, near-total inability to understand metaphors, sarcasm or hyperbole, savant-like skills in regards to sales, very strong indications that he has never had any friends, and overall behavior that no normal person would believe was acceptable. This pops up in a lot Steve Carell roles.
Cal Lightman of Lie to Me. Quite socially uncomfortable, with a very fixated interest on lies and facial expressions as well as psychology. He destroyed his own marriage because he couldn't switch off.
Dr. Walter Bishop of Fringe started like this, but this is Jossed in a Cerebus Retcon where Walter got William Bell to perform brain surgery on him to stop him becoming evil like Walternate.
All indications are he was already an eccentric genius before the elective brain surgery, though.
Alternate Astrid is highly intelligent, gravitates toward Spock Speak but makes realistic exceptions to it, and doesn't look at anyone when she talks. In her A Day in the Limelight episode, we learn that she is fully aware that she isn't "normal" and feels incredibly sad and frustrated that she couldn't relate to her father the way she wanted to.
Bernard Black of Black Books. Very socially awkward and uncomfortable with changes in an extremely repetitive routine.
NCIS: Lab Rat Abby Sciuto. She is very good at what she does and shows a childlike sense of joy while working, she will often give long-winded and highly technical speeches when explaining something, she is extremely attached to and protective of those she cares about, and she becomes almost unable to function both professionally and personally if she has to dress in anything other than her typical goth style or can't listen to her music while working.
Chloe O'Brien of Twenty Four. It's not mentioned as any sort of possible mental illness in the show; other characters just vaguely refer to her as having an odd personality. She is often blunt to the point of rudeness, easily irritated, especially when she is in the middle of something, and is generally dismissive of other people. She is, however, not without empathy. She usually isn't aware she's engaging in behavior most would find odd or annoying until she notices the way people are looking at her. It's just that most of the time, she doesn't care.
RO from Sea Patrol has a very black and white view of the world, and when asked if this was true he responded "I'm not racist." Then there's his believing Bomber fancied him after she gave him a peck on the cheek, and him not wanting to take credit for saving her life because she told him not to go near her.
Renfield Turnbull from Due South is just odd, even compared with Bunny Ears Mountie extraordinaire Benton Fraser. Some fans have wondered how someone with his apparent emotional volatility and clumsiness ever made it into law enforcement.
In Bones, both Temperance Brennan and Zach Addy display a lot of problems with social skills and other issues.
In Raw Philip displays poor social skills, is incredibly awkward at making small talk, likes to keep orderly lists and cooking is his big obsession.
Leon from Tucker is obsessed with Mexican wrestling and sea creatures (even sponsoring an octopus) and has a strange collection of human hair.
Brick Heck on The Middle. He has the Verbal Tic of, at least once each episode, repeating what he just said in a whisper while looking downward. He's in a special social skills class at his school. He is obsessive about reading almost continually, to the point that he's delighted to get a toy robot for his birthday ... because the instructions are in different languages, and he hopes to learn Japanese that way.
Saga Norén of Bron Broen has No Social Skills to an extreme degree, is shockingly lacking in apparent empathy and compassion, and has an extremely rule-bound attitude to life. The actor and creators have said that she probably is somewhere on the autistic spectrum, but that they deliberately didn't state it explicitly or work from a list of recognised symptoms because they wanted to write her as they wished without misleading or offending people.
Sherlock, much like the source character, is obsessively detail-oriented, generally displays a lack of affect, needs to be mentally stimulated at all times, seems to have very little regard for or understanding of others' emotions (but can manipulate them very capably when he really wants to), and tends to be astonishingly self-centred. People who dislike him describe him as "a psychopath," his best friend half-jokingly refers to his "autism," and Sherlock describes himself as "a high-functioning sociopath." All these diagnoses seem to come pretty close, but none of them quite entirely fits.
Oracle of Tao: Ambrosia has a Sugar and Ice Personality, coupled with dramatic Tsundere moments, and occasionally has rather dramatic depressive episodes. You'd probably say she's bipolar, except her down periods are more flat, like a schizoid. She also has serious fears that she doesn't exist, and that she's hallucinating the entire game events. Add a few Axe Crazy episodes, and you get a very strange picture.
The Tales (series) has quite a few examples.
Tales of Symphonia has Raine Sage: a cold and calculating, but incredibly intelligent young woman who normally acts like an aloof mentor who always has to be right... and who devolves into a child-like state the moment she discovers a temple ruin, an ancient weapon or anything to do with the civilisations of past eras. She's also shown to have difficulty relating to the other party members, especially in the anime where her Ice Queen elements are really played up. It's mostly treated as comedic, as her similarly-bright sibling Genis is just plain embarrassed by her enthusiasm (at one point, she even descends into maniacal laughter over the insides of an old temple). Her mother left her and Genis at a ruin that transported them to the world of Sylvarant when they were very young, terrified at the possibility that they would grow up as lab rats or labourers like most half-elves. Raine's obsession with ruins developed from a wish to be reunited with her family.
In a sidequest, you can learn that her mother also fits the bill. It's not clear what's the matter with her but she has very clearly gone insane from the pain of being forced to abandon her children, as she spends all of her time talking to a doll that she believes is Raine.
In Tales of the Abyss, most of the characters show some kind of dysfunction, but only one of them has the dysfunction as the cause of their backstory, instead of the result: Jade Curtiss. He's bizarre when you first meet him - highly intelligent and mixing traits of Stepford Smiler and Stepford Snarker into one darkly humorous mask of unreadability. You later learn that as a child, he never showed any outward emotion besides a confidence in his skill and intelligence that extended into arrogance, that he liked to kill even weak and harmless monsters, and that he's 'never understood what it means to die'. This attitude led to him killing his teacher with a spell he couldn't control when he was twelve, and spending the next decade or so trying to bring her back, creating clone after clone, until he nearly died at it and his best friend had to convince him to stop. He also shows some social awkwardness (in one skit, he joins Anise in tickling Guy as if he either doesn't understand or doesn't care that what's cute from a fourteen year old girl is weird from a thirty-five year old man) and obliviousness to his own emotions (in the Disc One Final Dungeon, Anise points out to him that he must like and respect the other party members, and Jade seems genuinely surprised to realize that she's right).
From the same game, Guy Cecil freaks out every time a woman makes physical contact with him as a result of post-traumatic stress from having his sister and all of the maids in his household sacrifice themselves to protect him; causing him to be buried under a mountain of female corpses for days.
Pascal in Tales of Graces seems to have rather strange obsessions and does not understand exactly how socially awkward she can be at times. Her immature behavior makes many players surprised to discover she's 22 years old (although the visual design for her character doesn't help).
Heavy Rain has Norman Jayden. He's shown to be socially awkward and has difficulty carrying on normal conversations, though these could be argued as symptoms of his abuse of Triptocaine and the ARI.
Otacon from Metal Gear Solid—socially awkward, rather Literal-Minded, obsessive, tends to retreat into fantasy, extremely emotional. This may all be explained by his traumatic childhood (which involved being sexually abused by his stepmother, which caused his father to attempt to kill his stepsister and commit suicide when he found out), however.
There's explicitly something wrong with the title character of American McGee's Alice, but the PTSD from her family's deaths doesn't explain the hallucinations, delusions, or episodes of mania and catatonia so severe she was institutionalized. When asked later on, American McGee confirmed that this game was a "natural extension" of the Alice series going under the assumption that the previous stories weren't either fantasies or real events, but hallucinations she honestly thought were real.
Although Yamaku Academy supposedly caters only to students with physical disabilities, Katawa Shoujo still has several examples:
Kenji is obsessed with delusional conspiracy theories to a degree that would probably have psychologists scrutinizing him for schizophrenic tendencies in Real Life, although unlike all the other disabilities in the game this is purely Played for Laughs.
Rin's behavior is just plain weird in a way that's hard to pin down: she definitely does not think like most people, and her behavior and comments can be socially inappropriate, not in the manner of someone who doesn't understand normal social interaction but more as if she simply doesn't care. In any case, having no arms may not be her biggest problem.
Misha is an inverted variant. She has no obvious disabilities, so many players are left wondering why exactly she's at Yamaku. She's a bit quirky (energetic, laughs a lot, has some volume control issues), but not to the point that she'd be considered seriously mentally unstable, and Yamaku is not supposed to cater to mental disabilities in any case. Certain scenes imply that she came to Yamaku for other reasons: namely, she wants to be a sign language instructor and Yamaku is one of the only schools that has sign language courses.
Steve Smith from American Dad. Several episodes prove that he's capable of extreme violence, self-abuse, and just plain undiagnosable problems for laughs. Roger even lampshades this with his response to Steve's plan to exact revenge on a bully by dressing up like a girl and seducing him: "Yes, let's keep that plan between you, me, and the string of therapists who won't be able to help you."
Cleveland, Jr. from The Cleveland Show. He's a teenager with the mentality of a child, and has a number of disturbing quirks, such as an obsession with cleanliness and order, and random bursts of violence (such as strangling a mannequin head for being "so pretty"). He also believes one of his stuffed animals is alive, to the point of hiring a nanny for it.
It seems to be hinted that Ed from Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy has some kind of a disability.
My Little Pony:
Draggle from the original shows signs of many disorders, and by default of her family life, Stockholm Syndrome. Also, her voice in "The End of Flutter Valley" indicates, erm, slowness due to Flanderization messing with her intelligence.
In the 2010 series, Friendship Is Magic, Pinkie Pie is a really eccentric Cloudcuckoolander who seems to inhabit normal reality only part-time and is almost pathologically cheerful and silly...except that when a wacky misunderstanding makes her believe her friends are excluding her, she immediately snaps into a state of paranoia and psychotic depression so severe that she becomes delusional and starts hallucinating. (This is vaguely hinted to have something to do with her rather dull and depressing childhood, but we don't know if the story about her childhood was true and in any case that doesn't really seem to be enough to explain it.).
With Cheese from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, you can't really pin down what's wrong with him. He clearly was imagined by a special needs child (this is made painfully obvious when he's introduced), but what exactly that special need was is left ambiguous. Most likely it's just an amalgam of general "mentally challenged".
King of the Hill: Dale is an awkward, paranoid Cloudcuckoolander whose conspiracy theories border on outright delusional—and yet despite his constant suspicion of everyone and everything, he's completely oblivious to actual conspiracies that are obvious to absolutely everyone else, such as his wife's affair with John Redcorn.
Worse than Dale is recurring antagonist Jimmy Wichard. Something's wrong with him that makes him aggressive, stupid, antisocial, and unstable, but it's not clear what. Dale claims this happened as a result of staring at the sun too long, but then also adds, "He couldn't have been too smart to do something like that in the first place. Kind of a chicken and egg thing."
Baljeet of Phineas and Ferb. Extremely dependent on routines and clear direction, socially introverted, observant but somewhat oblivious and emotionally stunted, able to focus for long periods on repetitive behaviors.
Invoked with the "Newton" disguise of Octus from Sym-Bionic Titan.
Ed the otter from Brandy and Mr. Whiskers has something. He has awkward speech patterns, uses big words, he's also a bit on the stoic side for the most part and is also physically clumsy when it comes to sports.
Nonny from Bubble Guppies is a smaller example. He rarely ever smiles, has a bored, monotone voice, and is quite awkward compared to the other guppies.
Lilo in Lilo and Stitch has a bad case of All of the Other Reindeer, but unlike many examples of that trope, she really is a genuinely strange little person who weirds out her "friends" with a strange mix of eccentricities, behavioral issues, social inappropriateness, and unusual interests (not many six-year-old girls these days are obsessed with Elvis).
Daffy Duck in The Looney Tunes Show (carried over somewhat from older cartoons in which he was clearly insane, but not debilitatingly so). Bugs Bunny guesses that he's "a sociopath, "a Narcissist" and "probably a psychopath". (He also sometimes seems to be unable to tell fantasy apart from reality—just see the music video for "The Wizard.")
Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons. He acts much younger than his age, has weird mood swings, is quite the Cloudcuckoolander, doesn't seem able to tell fantasy apart from reality, and it's implied that he hears voices. He's also implied to be on meds.
Clarence's grandmother Dilliss appears to have Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and Dementia. This has been shown in "Hurricane Dilliss" when she: judges Mary's new boyfriend Chad, possesses dozens of items[please verify], disrupting everyone's sleep while trying to help Clarence with his school project[please verify], rudely enters the bathroom while her daughter is using the shower, and makes the house a huge mess at night.
↑ So much so that his roommate actually kept takeout boxes in the trunk of his car to forestall the inevitable flipout when Sheldon discovered that the Chinese joint he thought his dinner was coming from had gone out of business (some two years before he ends up actually getting the news)
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        parent="parent_value",
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    )

    # Make the request
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    print("Waiting for operation to complete...")

    response = await operation.result()

    # Handle the response
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# [END edgecontainer_v1_generated_EdgeContainer_CreateNodePool_async]


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Nago Mayor swears to end Henoko issue at first sunrise of 2015
Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine and citizens enjoy Kachashi dance at the first sunrise of 2015, at Matsudanuhama beach in Henoko, Nago.
January 3, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 1, about 200 people gathered at Matsuda Nuhama beach in Henoko, Nago, where the governments of Japan and the United States plan to construct a replacement base for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, to watch the first sunrise of 2015. Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine and other participants made offerings for the first sunrise. The mayor said, "I will end the Henoko issue this year."
At 7 a.m., when the light of the sun illuminated sandy beach and clouds, the participants joined their hands in prayer toward the morning sun. Citizens who are opposingthe construction of the new base performed Kagiyadefu, Tinsagu nu hana and other Ryukyu Classical music and folk songs to celebrate the New Year. At the end of the ceremony, all the participants enjoyed Kachashi dance.
Eiji Shimabukuro (third from right), a holder of the Important Intangible Cultural Property Kumiodori and his colleague musicians perform while watching the first sunrise on January 1, Henoko, Nago.
The mayor smiled as he spoke to the participants in Okinawan dialect, "A good new year." "2014 was the year when your will and effort blossomed in the elections, starting from Nago mayoral race and ending in the election of the House of Representatives. We want the year of 2015 to become the year when the flowers will bear fruits. I will end the Henoko issue. So shall we go forward together, side by side?" he asked the participants.
Rie Yogi, who took part in the gathering from Nakagusuku with her one-year-old son Ryota, said, "Here is a very beautiful beach, which remains still in its natural state. I would like to leave it for my son and future generations. This feeling has become strong in my mind."
Artists perform to wish peaceful year
At the gathering, Eiji Shimabukuro, 72, who is a holder of Kumiodori, designated as an Important Intangible Cultural Property by the government, performed Kagiyadefu to wish for a peaceful year. He is the nephew-in-law of Fumiko Shimabukuro, an elder sit-in leaders against the new base construction. Eiji said, "I was moved singing in front of the clean sea. I want to leave it to the next generations."
Eiji Shimabukuro has taken part in the sit-in protest three times. He supported Inamine's stance against the new U.S. air base in the mayoral election. After he played sanshin and songs, he said, "I boil over with rage thinking that nature will be destroyed to build a base. We should not permit such wonderful sea to be bought with money. "
Yoshiyasu Iha, an activist against the new U.S. base, asked his acquaintances and friends to take part in this music event.
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Next Article:New Year's Convention to promote Okinawan tourism worldwide
20 sanshin players perform, protesting against new US military base construction
People celebrate first sunrise of New Year in Henoko
Citizens opposing the new base shared New Year's resolution at Henoko
Mayor Inamine declares he will run in the upcoming Nago City mayoral election
Re-elected Nago Mayor Inamine asserts he will prevent Futenma relocation to Henoko
PAC3 missiles transferred from Kadena to Futenma and Camp Courtney


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Kaushal Yadav is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Nawada Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly as a member of the Janata Dal (United).

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An arrested man barricaded himself into a police property storage room and used a helmet and a shield to try and fend off officers.
Dean Walton kicked off at Dewsbury Police Station after his solicitor told him that he would not be released on bail.
He knocked out an officer's contact lens as he attempted to gauge out his eye during the row on October 14.
Walton, of Falcon Street in Newsome, was taken to the police station following his arrest after a robbery at Tesco Express in Bradley.
He has admitted to the offence and faces sentencing at Leeds Crown Court next month.
Walton spoke to his solicitor but was unhappy when told he would not be granted bail, Kirklees magistrates heard.
He then threw the phone receiver over the custody desk and ran into the property storage room opposite and slammed the door shut, barricading himself inside.
Prosecutor Alex Bozman told Kirklees magistrates: "The officer went in and Walton grabbed hold of a police shield.
"Not wanting to risk him barricading himself into the room, the officer grabbed hold of the shield and Walton then took hold of a police helmet which was on top of the property lockers.
"The officer was worried that he'd use this as a weapon and so forced Walton against the lockers.
"There was a struggle where the defendant poked him in the left eye. This was believed to be deliberate as his contact lens came out.
The PC suffered scratches to his eye and ear during the unprovoked attack, the Huddersfield court was told.
Just four days earlier Walton caused £1,000 worth of damage while in detention at the same police station in Aldams Road.
He was observed throwing paper onto the floor and this was the PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act) codes of practice book.
The 27-year-old was then escorted into a medical room after complaining that he was unwell.
Mr Bozman said: "He swore and pulled the blood pressure monitor off his arm.
"When he was asked to leave the room he deliberately poured water over a laptop on the nurse's desk causing £1,000 worth of damage."
Walton, who appeared in court via a video link from HMP Leeds, pleaded guilty to criminal damage and assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty.
He is on remand after pleading guilty to the robbery and will be sentenced by a crown court judge on December 14.
Paul Blanchard, mitigating, explained that his client has always been supported by his dad, who has recently died.
He said: "This set him into a downward spiral and a complete break down.
"At the time he wasn't acting in accordance with his normal character.
"He appears to have been angry with everybody, the whole world.
Chairman of the bench Wayne Perriman described Walton's behaviour as "quite serious" and jailed him for eight weeks.
Walton will have to pay £115 victim surcharge upon his release.


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Whether it's cheat day or not, fried chicken always sounds like a good idea. Admit it, the mere thought of biting into that perfectly fried skin and still-juicy center already brings a smile to your face. Don't fret, because you are definitely not alone.
This list is for all chicken-lovers.
When Bad Bird first opened, there was a lot of hype surrounding the new umami joint in town. Years later and it's still one of our favorites.
Personalize the fried chicken based on your spice-level preference by going safe, spicy or chemical—and they do mean a burning sensation in your mouth. Choose the favorite side dish of waffles, corn and coleslaw or dirty rice and you've got yourself a meal you'll be thrilled to repeat over and over again.
In the busting streets of Poblacion lies Bucky's, which boasts serving "more than a brownie" baked goods. Oddly enough, we constantly find our mouths savoring for its simply named Fried Chicken, too. Served up with a generous serving of roasted garlic mashed potatoes and gravy, you actually won't be missing your standard white rice.
This list would not be complete without one of our favorite fast-food chains. Chickenjoy is seriously a staple for everyone—it's practically tradition. The term juicylicious is almost an understatement, because each bite is never dry. And when you top it off with some gravy and finish things out with a spoonful of rice, you'll be thanking yourself for walking into that Jollibee branch nearest you.
Then again, sometimes nothing hits the spot quite like KFC. The Colonel definitely knows what he's doing.
The original recipe is a classic at this point, but the fast-food giant has been keeping things interesting by adding in new flavors to the mix. Their chicken bowls, salted egg sauce and bite-sized options will keep you keep coming back.
Oddly enough, one of our favorite fried chicken dishes doesn't come from a restaurant at all. Convenience really is sometimes key, isn't it?
Mini Stop chicken is perfectly standard and always delivers the same taste every time. But what really sets it apart is its gravy—peppery, powerful and delicious.
When doing fried chicken, a lot of the taste relies on the batter—that's why most of us save the skin for last. And Pancake House Pan Friend Chicken offers a tangy difference that we constantly find ourselves yearning for.
For one of the best Chinese-style chicken around, head on over to Sincerity Café & Restaurant. The serving is generous, the skin is crispy and the meat inside is tender as it is succulent.
We will always have a soft spot for fried chicken. Fortunately, there's always a great place never too far away.


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#include <aws/core/utils/HashingUtils.h>
#include <aws/core/Globals.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/EnumParseOverflowContainer.h>

using namespace Aws::Utils;

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Den Urolige Mand er en kriminalroman af den svenske forfatter Henning Mankell, der udkom i 2009.

Handling
En vinterdag 2008 forsvinder en pensioneret søofficer, Håkan von Enke, under sin daglige gåtur i Lilljansskogen i Stokholm. For kriminalkommissær Kurt Wallander bliver det et personligt anliggende, da von Enke er hans datter Linda Wallanders svigerfar. Trådene leder tilbage i tiden til den kolde krig, højreekstreme foreninger og lejemordere fra det gamle Østeuropa.

Bogen er den næstsidste i serien om Kurt Wallander.

Romaner fra Sverige
Litteratur i 2009


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Anja Niemi (b. 1976, Oslo, Norway) is a creator of elaborate fictions. At once artist and subject, she reimagines the genre of self-portraiture through photographic tableaux-vivants. Building on a rich tradition within photography of constructing worlds where fantasies can be played out, Niemi exerts an exacting control over her characters and locations. Such precision and attention to detail grants a space of freedom, which she uses to pose challenging questions, about the nature of the self, wanting to be another, and about conformity.


At Magic Kingdom, beginning on Saturday, December 20th, the Festival of Fantasy Parade will take a break for the holiday season. It will be replaced by Mickey's Once Upon A Christmastime Parade! The Christmas parade has been offered twice nightly at every Mickey's Very Merry Christmas party and pictures of the parade a little difficult to capture (but I tried my best!).
Saturday, December 20th, the parade will be at 12:00 pm and 3:30 pm. This parade is one that I suggest not be missed! I saw it twice when I went to the party because it is so unique and magical! I even managed to snap a picture of Main Street USA as it 'snowed' during the parade. It will 'snow' twice daily during the parade starting tomorrow!.
The parade features many characters like Mickey and Minnie in their holiday attire, gingerbread men, toy soldiers, princesses and princes, and, of course, Santa Clause! Clara Bell the cow, also makes an appearance in the parade and she is a rare sighting!
What a perfect time for a tea party… no parade!
Something cool, unknown and overlooked, is the scents during the parade. Look for it, or rather, sniff for it! That's right, several floats have a distinct holiday smell associated with it to enhance our experience! A few distinct aromas were Christmas tree pine, sugar cookies, and candy! It is quite an experience and most people do not process the scents as they are mesmerized with the parade itself. I honestly did not notice it until I saw the parade a second time!
If you happen to be headed to the parade this year, again at noon and 3:30 (always check your times guide though!), enjoy this merry parade and let me know if you 'scented' the parade as well!