History Main / AllergicToLove

* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', the tough guy Yamcha is severely gynophobic and intends to use the dragon balls to wish away his affliction. [[spoiler: He doesn't get his wish, but he eventually gets cured when he realizes he just has to become familiar with a woman.]]

* Naeka of ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'' is like this initially, due to the fact that her LethalChef tendencies caused to her accidentally poison her first crush. She gets over it, with some help from Fubuki. The whole thing then backfires spectacularly when she finds out [[spoiler: that her secret admirer is a girl.]]

* Not only is [[Characters/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Laharl]] from ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' allergic (as in gets ''literally'' hurt by: his [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration stats get cut]]) women with sexy bodies, he is also allergic to optimistic sayings, especially "Eternal love".

** [[spoiler: A whole room full of women, including his beloved elder sister, died to protect him right before his eyes, and he got stuck under all the dead bodies for ''days'' until someone came to rescue him. He blotted this out of his memory, and could only subconsciously remember that "Girls=scary," thus leading to his gynophobia.]]

* ''Anime/MirumoDePon'': Saori sneezes whenever anyone brings up the topic of or ''something'' regarding romance.
* Xellos from ''Anime/{{Slayers}}'' is allergic to, in addition to love, any and all positive emotions.

* Alex Treveney from ''Manga/{{Nightschool}}: The Weirn Books''. If she says that she likes or loves something, it will explode.
* Sunako from ''Manga/TheWallflower''. She completely freaks out, nosebleeds to the point of hemorrhage, and passes out whenever she sees "bright creatures." In a slight subversion, this applies to females as well as males, but is usually centered on her {{Bishounen}} ...housemates.

** In the anime adaptation of the manga, instead of breaking out into hives she instead turns red as a beet, sweats profusely and then ''screams at the top of her lungs'' so loudly that she gives all the students out at the front entrance a JumpScare!
* The lead of the manga series ''Manga/GirlsSaurus'' and its sequel ''Girls Saurus DX'' is a "healthy" young boy... until he receives a beating from an [[{{Gonk}} overweight high school girl]], severe enough to send him to the hospital for a few weeks; afterward he develops gynophobia and has an [[TheUnwantedHarem unwanted harem]] form around him. HilarityEnsues.
* The ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' have played bodyguard to boys with allergies to women ''twice'' (once on the TV series, once in ''DP Flash''). Both boys were also extremely rich. HilarityEnsues, of course.

* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', the tough guy Yamcha is severely gynophobic and intends to use the dragon balls to wish away his affliction. [[spoiler: He doesn't get his wish, but he eventually gets cured when he realizes he just has to become familiar with a woman.]]
* In the first ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' anime, [[ShrinkingViolet Nodoka]] starts out this way - she can't stand being anywhere near a man, seemingly becoming downright terrified just by the thought, and physically recoiling at the sight of a BoysLove manga. Since she goes to an all-girls school, she can usually avoid such contact, but her friends warn her that once she leaves the school, half the world is men... and fortunately, [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Negi]] is just what she needs to get over her fears. This trope is absent in the manga itself, though: Nodoka is just generically shy, which she makes a serious effort to get over quite early on and is actually one of the most honest about her feelings by the end.

* Hinata from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has some extreme reactions when in the presence of the only guy she loves, Naruto. It gets less severe over time until [[spoiler:she finally confesses her love to him]].
* While Daisuke from ''Manga/DNAngel'' doesn't get ill when he's around his love interest, experiencing the feelings of love sets off a "genetic condition" that [[ThePowerOfLove turns him into]] his alter ego, PhantomThief Dark. This leads to Daisuke constantly running away from the girl he has a crush on.
* Naeka of ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'' is like this initially, due to the fact that her LethalChef tendencies caused to her accidentally poison her first crush. She gets over it, with some help from Fubuki. The whole thing then backfires spectacularly when she finds out [[spoiler: that her secret admirer is a girl.]]
* Inverted in ''Manga/MariaHolic''. The protagonist is a lesbian but breaks out in hives whenever she's touched by a boy. HilarityEnsues, being that the antagonist is a cross-dressing boy.
* Fuko in ''Gilgamesh'' sneezes when in proximity to her (current) crush.
* Yukina in ''Seraphim Call'' passes out whenever confronted by men (even over the vidphone). It is so bad that she lives in isolation, and wears a special suit that inflates as a cushion whenever she is passing out.
* Shogo from ''Manga/ApollosSong'' might count, except his reaction is "violent revulsion and pathological hatred" instead of "fear". He had a history of killing animals he saw mating and clearly would have graduated to killing human couples if he didn't get institutionalized first. The godess Athena punishes him for all eternity by putting him in scenarios where he falls in love that end tragically. He certainly learns the value of human intimacy!
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'''s Haruhi has this affliction in the manga for a brief period of time. She has all these 'symptoms' such as heart palpitations and feeling feverish around Tamaki after he opens up to her more about his past and then kisses her on the head when he left. She thinks she has some sort of illness or that her heart is rejecting her. She got better a chapter or two later.
* The protagonist of ''Manga/DragonsRioting'', Rintaro Tachibana, has a disease where if he sees anything related to {{Fanservice}}, his illness will trigger and if it gets to be too much, he'll die.
* In ''Franchise/OnePiece'', this is ''literally'' the reason why several empresses of the Kuja Tribe on Amazon Lily died of illness; they all contracted "Love Sickness" by falling in love with a man and died of "Love Burn" due to being unable to pursue their object of affection since men are forbidden on Amazon Lily. The only reason why Elder Nyon managed to survive is that she left the island. Hence, when [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Boa Hancock]] contracts the disease when she falls in love with Luffy, she's only cured when she aids him [[spoiler:in his attempt to rescue Ace.]]
* ''Manga/{{Himenospia}}'' has Mizu Adachi, a girl who was raised by a deeply neglectful mother who treated her with contempt. Due to her wretched upbringing, she became someoen who thrives solely in a negative environment and becomes violently ill when shown anything resembling positive emotions. She ends up opposing the protagonist Himeno when the latter uses her abilities to [[HeelFaceBrainwashing forcibly condition Mizu's mother to be nicer]] since she cannot handle the idea of her mother showing anything resembling affection.

* For an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', J.D. had to deal with an element of this, when he couldn't get some of the ugly scenes from work out of his head and looking at any part of his would-be girlfriend ended up making him think of some scene involving that part of the body (throat cancer when he looked at her neck, etc). He was able to move past it with some "help" from Drs. Cox and Turk.
** And really, Elliot was much more ''helpful''...
** Speaking of Elliot, she also has been known to throw up when she's nervous- one notable occasion occurring in front of her ex-boyfriend Sean when his incredibly hot new girlfriend shows up out of the blue.
* An early episode of ''Series/NorthernExposure'' had Chris struck dumb by meeting a beautiful woman. This prompted many of the citizens of the town to reflect that they felt sick when they met their partner; the one man that felt happy was dumped by his girlfriend 3 weeks later.
* Played with in ''Series/NoahsArc''. At the start of one episode, Ricky looks unusually pale, and Noah asks if he's sick. Ricky says he thinks he's "falling in love", implied to be thinking about Junito, and then passes out. He wakes up later in a hospital (come to find out, it was a Staph infection).

* In Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "Aneurysm", the line "Love you so much, it makes me sick" was inspired by Cobain pretty much having Stan Marsh syndrome around Tobi Vail before they became a couple.

* Apricot from ''Anime/GalaxyAngelRune'' and ''[[VideoGame/GalaxyAngel Galaxy Angel II]]'' is a female example, whose [[DoesNotLikeMen androphobia]] is so strong that it manifests into SuperStrength and she [[MegatonPunch hurls any man that touches her several meters into the air]] -- the exception being the game's lead, Kazuya. Oddly enough this affectation is also in the television series, despite the [[ImprobablyFemaleCast lack of fodder]].

* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', this is the aftermath of Tytti Noorbuck after witnessing [[spoiler:her would-be lover, Ricardo Silvera, protects her by TakingTheBullet directed to her from her ArchNemesis]]. After that, she was scared to form any relationship with another man.
* A rare example that is as much dramatic as comedic: in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', party member Guy suffers from severe gynophobia, specifically being touched by women. Its origins, rather than funny, prove to be quite horrific.
** [[spoiler: A whole room full of women, including his beloved elder sister, died to protect him right before his eyes, and he got stuck under all the dead bodies for ''days'' until someone came to rescue him. He blotted this out of his memory, and could only subconsciously remember that "Girls=scary," thus leading to his gynophobia.]]
* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has Chihiro Fushimi, the student council treasurer, who starts off as being nervous about talking to men. As you progress her Social Link more, she starts becoming more confident.

* Cultist in the TowerDefense Game ''Leave [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] Alone!'' states that "hugs make me break out in [[{{Squick}} huge]] [[BodyHorror cysts]]."

* ''Webcomic/FurryExperience'': Whenever Hunter, a husky, attempts to ask Cat out, she [[RunningGag runs off in a panic]]. It doesn't help that she was already quite wary of him as he's actually the nude model for her advanced art class; being a freshman, she really had to pull some strings to get into that class as freshmen normally weren't allowed, and being so naive as a result of her very conservative upbringing, she had ''no'' idea what she was in for. It doesn't help that ''he'' falls in love with her during her first lesson in the class, and asks her on a lunch date right after class is over. That's only the first time she bolts from him. [[spoiler:Later, he ends up moving into the same apartment building as Cat and her roommates, and his roommate Luke helps Cat emerge from her shell, encouraging her to reciprocate if she likes Hunter back]].

* In early seasons of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Stan vomited uncontrollably when his love interest Wendy Testaburger so much as talked to him.
** This seems to have started all over again at the end of the episode ''The List''. Though in ''Super Fun Time'', he holds her hand through most of the episode with no ill effects. Then in ''Elementary School Musical'', she kissed him without Stan puking on her.

* In the season 1 finale of ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'', Moxxie and Millie celebrate their anniversary at a fancy restaurant in the Lust Ring of {{Hell}}. When Moxxie tries to perform a love song for her he ends up drawing the ire of {{Asmodeus}}, [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils the ruler of the Lust Ring (and owner of the restaurant)]] who breaks into an AntiLoveSong mocking their affection for one another. In a creative spin on the trope, his BlueAndOrangeMorality stemming from his [[HornyDevils demonic nature]] causes him to be disgusted by genuine love and romance while seeing lust, no matter the consequences, as a good thing. Once the singing ends he promptly tells them to GetOut

** In the anime adaptation of the manga, instead of breaking out into hives she instead turns read as a beet, sweats profusely and then ''screams at the top of her lungs'' so loudly that she gives all the students out at the front entrance a JumpScare!

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** And don't forget optimistic sayings said ''by'' women with sexy bodies. "A ray of hope" isn't overly much for Laharl when said this way.

* ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam''. In the first series, Taro changes colors and sometimes collapses whenever women (except Mariel) touch him. This was toned down in the show's remake, probably because he literally had no other problems interacting with girls.

* Inverted in ''Manga/MariaHolic''. The protagonist is a [[SchoolgirlLesbians lesbian]] but breaks out in hives whenever she's touched by a boy. HilarityEnsues, being that the antagonist is a cross-dressing boy.

* In the season 1 finale of ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'', Moxxie and Millie celebrate their anniversary at a fancy restaurant in the Lust Ring of {{Hell}}. When Moxxie tries to perform a love song for her he ends up drawing the ire of {{Asmodeus}},[[DemonLordsAndArchdevils the ruler of the Lust Ring (and owner of the restaurant)]] who breaks into an AntiLoveSong mocking their affection for one another. In a creative spin on the trope, his BlueAndOrangeMorality stemming from his [[HornyDevils demonic nature]] causes him to be disgusted by genuine love and romance while seeing lust, no matter the consequences, as a good thing. Once the singing ends he promptly tells them to GetOut

* In the season 1 finale of ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'', Moxxie and Millie celebrate their anniversary at a fancy restaurant in the Lust Ring of {{Hell}}. When Moxxie tries to perform a love song for her he ends up drawing the ire of [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Asmodeus, the ruler of the Lust Ring (and owner of the restaurant)]] who breaks into an AntiLoveSong mocking their affection for one another. In a creative spin on the trope, his BlueAndOrangeMorality stemming from his [[HornyDevils demonic nature]] causes him to be disgusted by genuine love and romance while seeing lust, no matter the consequences, as a good thing. Once the singing ends he promptly tells them to GetOut

* Fuko in ''Manga/{{Gilgamesh}}'' sneezes when in proximity to her (current) crush.
* Yukina in ''Manga/SeraphimCall'' passes out whenever confronted by men (even over the vidphone). It is so bad that she lives in isolation, and wears a special suit that inflates as a cushion whenever she is passing out.
* Shogo from ''Manga/ApollosSong'' might count, except his reaction is "violent revulsion and pathological hatred" instead of "fear". He had a history of killing animals he saw mating and clearly would have graduated go killing human couples if he didn't get institutionalized first. The godess Athena punishes him for all eternity by putting him in scenarios where he falls in love that end tragically. He certainly learns the value of human intimacy!
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'''s Haruhi has this affliction in the manga for a brief period of time. She has all these 'symptoms' such as heart palpitations and feeling feverish around Tamaki after he had opened up to her more about his past and then kissed her on the head when he left. She thinks she has some sort of illness or that her heart is rejecting her. She got better a chapter or two later.
* The protagonist of ''Manga/DragonsRioting'', Rintaro Tachibana, has a disease where if he sees anything related to {{Fanservice}}, his illness would go bad and if he gets too much, he'll die.
* In ''Franchise/OnePiece'', this is ''literally'' the reason why several empresses of the Kuja Tribe on Amazon Lily died of illness; they all contracted "Love Sickness" by falling in love with a man and died of "Love Burn" due to being unable to pursue their object of affection since men are forbidden on Amazon Lily. The only reason why Elder Nyon managed to survive is that she left the island. Hence, [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Boa Hancock]] contracted the disease when she fell in love with Luffy and was only cured when she aided him [[spoiler:in his attempt to rescue Ace.]]

* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', the tough guy Yamcha is severely gynophobic and intends to use the dragon balls to wish away his affliction.
** [[spoiler: He doesn't get his wish, but he eventually gets cured when he realizes he just has to become familiar with a woman.]]

* The lead of the manga series ''Manga/GirlsSaurus'' and its sequel ''Girls Saurus DX'' is a "healthy" young boy... until he receives a beating from an [[{{Gonk}} overweight high school girl]], severe enough to send him to the hospital for a few weeks; afterward he develops gynophobia and has an [[TheUnwantedHarem unwanted harem]] forms around him. HilarityEnsues.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'',
** [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-12-29 some language]] [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-12-30 has some harmful effects]].
** "[[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-10-29 Yech! Ick!]]" This includes angel-glitter and (of course) "[[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-11-01 father-son thing]]".
** Lil' E -- [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-12-11 Or says so]]. Still fails at not being cute in process. [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-09-24 Angel-glitter too]].

** Laharl isn't as straight an example as he'd want you to think. He clearly loved his mother at the very least and has quite a bit of running UST with Flonne.

* Sunako from ''Manga/TheWallflower''. She completely freaks out, nosebleeds to the point of hemorrhage and passes out whenever she sees "bright creatures." In a slight subversion, this applies to females as well as males, but is usually centered on her {{Bishounen}} ...housemates.
* Junta, the lead from ''Manga/DNA2'', vomits uncontrollably around ''any'' girl that arouse him, not just his love interest.

* ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam''. In the first series Taro changes colors and sometimes collapses whenever women (except Mariel) touch him. This was toned down in the show's remake, probably because he literally had no other problems interacting with girls.

* The lead of the manga series ''Manga/GirlsSaurus'' and its sequel ''Girls Saurus DX'' is a "healthy" young boy... until he receives a beating from an [[{{Gonk}} overweight high school girl]], severe enough to send him to the hospital for a few weeks; afterward he develops gynophobia, and has an [[TheUnwantedHarem unwanted harem]] forms around him. HilarityEnsues.

* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', the tough guy Yamcha is severely gynophobic, and intends to use the dragon balls to wish away his affliction.

* In the first ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' anime, [[ShrinkingViolet Nodoka]] starts out this way - she can't stand being anywhere near a man, seemingly becoming downright terrified just by the thought, and physically recoiling at the sight of a BoysLove manga. Since she goes to an all-girl school, she can usually avoid such contact, but her friends warn her that once she leaves the school, half the world is men... and fortunately, [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Negi]] is just what she needs to get over her fears. This trope is absent in the manga itself, though: Nodoka is just generically shy, which she makes a serious effort to get over quite early on and is actually one of the most honest about her feelings by the end.

* While Daisuke from ''Manga/DNAngel'' doesn't get ill when he's around his love interest, experiencing the feelings of love sets off an "genetic condition" that [[ThePowerOfLove turns him into]] his alter ego, PhantomThief Dark. This leads to Daisuke constantly running away from the girl he has a crush on.

* In ''Franchise/OnePiece'', this is ''literally'' the reason why several empresses of the Kuja Tribe on Amazon Lily died of illness; they all contracted "Love Sickness" by falling in love with a man and died of "Love Burn" due to being unable to pursue their object of affection since men are forbidden on Amazon Lily. The only reason why Elder Nyon managed to survive is because she left the island. Hence, [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Boa Hancock]] contracted the disease when she fell in love with Luffy and was only cured when she aided him [[spoiler:in his attempt to rescue Ace.]]

** Speaking of Elliot, she also has been known to throw up when she's nervous- one notable occasion occurring in front of her ex-boyfriend Sean, when his incredibly hot new girlfriend shows up out of the blue.

* Played with in ''Series/NoahsArc''. At the start of one episode Ricky looks unusually pale, and Noah askes if hes sick. Ricky says he thinks hes "falling in love", implied to be thinking about Junito, and then passes out. He wakes up later in a hospital (come to find out, it was a Staph infection).

* ''Webcomic/FurryExperience'': Whenever Hunter, a husky, attempts to asks Cat out, she [[RunningGag runs off in a panic]]. It doesn't help that she was already quite wary of him as he's actually the nude model for her advanced art class; being a freshman, she really had to pull some strings to get into that class as freshmen normally weren't allowed, and being so naive as a result of her very conservative upbringing, she had ''no'' idea what she was in for. It doesn't help that ''he'' falls in love with her during her first lesson in the class, and asks her on a lunch date right after class is over. That's only the first time she bolts from him. [[spoiler:Later, he ends up moving into the same apartment building as Cat and her roommates, and his roommate Luke helps Cat emerge from her shell, encouraging her to reciprocate if she likes Hunter back]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}},'' one episode has the protagonist get a mysterious rash on her skin which turns out to be stress-related. She first gets it at the Zon when she and Jane are hanging out with her crush, Trent, and at the very end of the episode gets a suddenly relapse when Trent shows up on her front door.

* ''Manga/GirlsBravo''

* In ''Manga/{{Dragonball}}'', the tough guy Yamcha is severely gynophobic, and intends to use the dragon balls to wish away his affliction.

* In the first ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' anime, [[ShrinkingViolet Nodoka]] starts out this way - she can't stand being anywhere near a man, seemingly becoming downright terrified just by the thought, and physically recoiling at the sight of a BoysLove manga. Since she goes to an all-girl school, she can usually avoid such contact, but her friends warn her that once she leaves the school, half the world is men... and fortunately, [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Negi]] is just what she needs to get over her fears. This trope is absent in the manga itself, though: Nodoka is just generically shy, which she makes a serious effort to get over quite early on and is actually one of the most honest about her feelings by the end.

* [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]] in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7262795/1/Love-Sick Love Sick]] violently throws up even if he just SEES a girl. It varies, though, depending on age (girls closest to his age do the worst) and appearance (one girl looked so much like a guy he was unaffected until he realized "he" was a "she"). Kairi is labeled as the most dangerous girl he's ever encountered thanks to just a '''glance''' at her causing the most violent reactions in his '''life'''.

* ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai''. In the first series Taro changes colors and sometimes collapses whenever women (except Mariel) touch him. This was toned down in the show's remake, probably because he literally had no other problems interacting with girls.

* Sunako from ''Manga/TheWallflower''. She completely freaks out, nosebleeds to the point of hemorrhage and passes out whenever she sees "bright creatures." In a slight subversion, this applies to females as well as males, but is usually centered on her {{Bishounen}}...housemates.

* ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai''. In the first series Taro changed colors and sometimes collapsed whenever women (except Mariel) touched him.. This was toned down in the show's remake, probably because he literally had no other problems interacting with girls.

* The lead of the manga series ''Manga/GirlsSaurus'' and it's sequel ''Girls Saurus DX'' is a "healthy" young boy... until he receives a beating from an [[{{Gonk}} overweight high school girl]], severe enough to send him to the hospital for a few weeks; afterward he develops gynophobia, and has an [[TheUnwantedHarem unwanted harem]] form around him. HilarityEnsues.

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'''s Ami, along with other much more extreme and neurotic behaviors, reacts to getting a love letter by breaking out in ''hives'' in "Ami-chan's First Love," a [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] side-story adapted into an animated short preceding the ''[=SuperS=]'' NonSerialMovie. The short film version creates an AdaptationInducedPlothole, as the original [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]]'s continuity saw her in a relationship with CanonForeigner Ryo Urawa, with no previous indication of a love phobia.

->'''Wayne:''' I say hurl. If you spew and she comes back, she's yours. But if you blow chunks and she bolts, it was never meant to be.

Exaggeration of the nervousness and discomfort one feels at approaching someone cute to the point that they become physically sick (major turnoff). If the character is lucky, they might find the one person who doesn't trigger the reaction. Compare CannotTalkToWomen, LoveMakesYouCrazy, DoesNotLikeMen ([[HeManWomanHater or women]]), ParalyzingFearOfSexuality and ChasteHero. See also GirlsHaveCooties for the childish version.