History Main / CatchYourDeathOfCold

* Almost happens to [[spoiler:Dr. Wily]] in ''Game/MegaMan 10''.
* Phoenix himself in ''PhoenixWright AceAttorney: Trials and Tribulations'' catches a cold after falling to a river in a very cold mountain, the sudden shift in temperature caused his immune system to weaken.

* During his visit to the Western Isles of Scotland in 1773, SamuelJohnson was told that everyone on a certain island normally caught colds shortly after the quarterly ferry boat arrived. He thought the story unlikely because the contemporary understanding was that the common cold was caused by exposure to cold. The story was eventually referenced as evidence to support the germ theory of disease.

* Averted in ''{{Persona 3}}'': the main character can come down with a cold if fatigued by studying too late or spending too much time in Tartarus. Because daytime is being spent in a crowded school and the fatigue weakens his immune system, this is in fact more realistic than characters getting colds due to cold weather.

* Averted in ''Persona 3'': the main character can come down with a cold if fatigued by studying too late or spending too much time in Tartarus. Because daytime is being spent in a crowded school and the fatigue weakens his immune system, this is in fact more realistic than characters getting colds due to cold weather.

* A StockPhrase since 1969 is "we can put a man on the moon, but we can't cure the common cold."

--> ''Come out of the garden, baby -- you'll catch your death in the fog...''
--> --David Bowie, Diamond Dogs

* ''[=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]'': After getting caught in "The Storm", Katara and Sokka both come down with severe colds. Aang, who is of stronger constitution, remains healthy and has to undertake the FetchQuest to get their cure. They're an inversion because they're from a frozen climate but were not acclimated to a warmer climate.

* In the ''{{Pokemon}}'' anime episode "The Ice Cave!", Team Rocket doused Ash and his friends with cold water inside the title icy cave, causing Brock to come down with symptoms similar to influenza.

* Potential MostTriumphantExample here. In an episode of ''TheMagicSchoolBus'', when Arnold takes his helmet off on Pluto, his head freezes over. Back on Earth, he's just got a cold. Just so everyone's clear, the estimated warmest temperature on the surface of this little ball of ice is just about a skip above absolute zero.

* ''[=~Kiki's Delivery Service~=]'': Kiki ends up sick in bed after getting caught in a storm doing a * In ''HidamariSketch'', when Yoshinoya-sensei (and a number of students) is out sick, the principal advices the other students to take care of themselves, specifically warning them not to go out with wet hair on a cold day just because "you think it looks cool" (implying that that's how Yoshinoya-sensei got sick).

* ''[=~Kiki's Delivery Service~=]'': Kiki ends up sick in bed after getting caught in a storm doing a delivery.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since she's shown spending a considerable length of time struggling to get to and from the job during the storm and is stated to have arrived back at the bakery soaked to the bone.
* In ''HidamariSketch'', when Yoshinoya-sensei (and a number of students) is out sick, the principal advices the other students to take care of themselves, specifically warning them not to go out with wet hair on a cold day just because "you think it looks cool" (implying that that's how Yoshinoya-sensei got sick).

* In one ''LooneyTunes'' short, a dog trying to find shelter from the snow trespasses into a skunk's house. The skunk runs him out and he falls into a frozen pond, catching a cold in the process... which works to his advantage, as his nose is now too stuffed up to be affected by the skunk's [[EverythingsSmellierWithSkunks odious smell]].

The Common Cold is a very mild disease (in first world countries) caused by a number of different viruses that largely have nothing in common other than most of the symptoms they cause. It has been around as long as anyone can remember, but has yet to be stamped out mainly because it isn't dangerous enough to justify the very strict quarantine procedures necessary to do so, especially when there are much worse diseases running around.

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* The ''{{Earthdawn}}'' supplement ''Earthdawn Survival Guide'' had a game mechanic for catching a cold after being caught in the rain.

* Potential MostTriumphantExample here. In an episode of TheMagicSchoolBus, when Arnold takes his helmet off on Pluto, his head freezes over. Back on Earth, he's just got a cold. Just so everyone's clear, the estimated warmest temperature on the surface of this little ball of ice is just about a skip above absolute zero.

* Phoenix himself in ''PhoenixWright AceAttorney: Trials and Tribulations'' catches a cold after falling to a river in a very cold mountain.

* Almost happens to [[spoiler: Dr. Wily]] in ''MegaMan 10''.