This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Is this really all that common? I was under the impression that it was strictly Max Lord's gimmick.
Scifantasy: I've seen it fairly often. I can't remember any specific examples, of course...
Seth: The invisible woman from Fantastic Four did this when she strained herself too much, Johnny from The Dead Zone did it at least once and i can remember other situations but cant name them.
Semiapies: It's actually a comic trope the writer of Polite Dissent (a blog that focuses on, among other things, the accuracy of medical depictions in comics) points out whenever he notices it. Someone actually linked to this page in the comments of http://politedissent.com/archives/1581
- where Scott cites Scanners as the earliest example of the trope he knows.
Corona: In western culture, nose bleeds are a sign of sickness, brain damage of some sort. Generally a brain tumor. Psychic nosebleeds seems to be a subset of this.
Mith: Removed the first example for lack of source. This sound familiar to anyone?
"Depending on how Time Travel works this can also happen when someone with mostly Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory gets an 'update' on the new timeline and the mental stress from trying to contain memories from a large number of lifetimes in this way causes immense physical stress on the person's physical body. This might happen even if memories are the only thing that carry over from shift to shift and the time traveler is no longer in his or her original body."
Scaedura: the only example that sounds familiar when I read that is the Butterfly Effect, but I don't think it's all that common. Probably better left off then.
Man Without A Body: Why did someone attach that "He's already lost" caption to the picture? It makes no sense.
