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* '''Implied''': Alice is the first one ever who shows symptoms of Troperitis.
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* '''Conversed''': "You were the one who made everyone sick. Imagine living with that knowledge."

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* '''Conversed''': "You were the one who made everyone sick. Imagine living with that knowledge.""
* '''Deconstructed''': Even in Alice's body, the virus isn't the unmutated strain anymore. So it is pretty useless to know that she was PatientZero.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice allows to be researched on anyway, what gives away valuable clues about the virus.
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** Alice was personally selected for being the Troperitis test subject, but the scientists experimenting on her made the mistake of accidentally exposing her to society. Cue the mass disease!
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'''Basic Trope Description''': The first infectee of ThePlague or TheVirus.

* '''Straight''': Alice was the first person to ever get infected with Troperitis.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** In a world with no disease up until now, Alice is the first person to ever get sick.
** There is more than one PatientZero.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice wasn't the first person infected with Troperitis, but the first one to spread the virus to others.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice worked on Troperitis, a SyntheticPlague, and caused the lab accident that made it escape due to being TheKlutz.
** Alice was out in the rainforest as a scientist and happened to get bitten by an infected bat.
* '''Inverted''': Alice is the last person ever to be infected with Troperitis.
* '''Subverted''': Alice is believed to have been the first one to be infected. But the bat that bit her and gave her the virus was a human once.
* '''Double Subverted''': The virus as it is known came to be in Alice's body due to a mutation.
* '''Enforced''': The writers are setting up a FindTheCure plot.
* '''Averted''': It is never known who the first Troperitis patient was.
* '''Zigzagged''': Due to a very variable incubation period, it is hard to trace the infection chain back. Alice is believed to have been PatientZero...but no, she got it from Bob, who is a TyphoidMary. But Bob got it originally from Alice, and Alice has met another bat scientist the week before she fell sick, who got sick some days later...
* '''Parodied''': Alice has to wear a sign spelling "I am the one who infected everyone" around her neck.
* '''Lampshaded''': "You were the first, Alice. You are maybe carrying the unmutated strain."
* '''Discussed''': You say I was the first?" "Yes, and that is the reason your cooperation could help us finding the cure."
* '''Conversed''': "You were the one who made everyone sick. Imagine living with that knowledge."

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