History PlayingWith / WithholdingTheCure

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Troperon is hiding it cancer cure because it "works too well" and "want it to be a viable treatment". This isn't greed but [[GoneHorriblyRight the drugs destroy cancer so rapidly the patient dies trying to clean up the remains of cancer]]. Furthermore [[CantStopTheSignal leaking the drug and production methodology]] would [[NiceJobBreakingItHero cause desperate people to get themselves killed on both dodgy imitators and authentic reproductions.]]

* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Tropereon's CEO snaps at the suggestion to withhold it in an extended TakeThat rant about everything wrong with the idea on a practical, moral, and profitable level. Tropereon goes on to corner the world cancer drug market.
* '''Implied''': In an AfterTheEnd setting where pre-disaster tech is usually the top tier and very difficult to produce new, the cure for cancer is accessible several tiers lower. It isn't due to something only created by the conditions but perhaps having to [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist work in so many fields]] is what allowed it where the precursors [[CripplingOverspecialization specialized too much to spot it.]]

* '''Played for Horror''': Tropereon discovers the cure to cancer after one of their scientests [[PoweredByAForsakenChild went beyond the pale]] to achieve it then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone felt remorse]] [[DrivenToSuicide and committed suicide]]. The upper management have a legitimate and an unenviable moral dilemma regarding the cure at a serious cost. They can cover up the sorrid thing to protect their reputation and themselves. They can release it and let the public decide if it should be banned or produced, but still at the risk of a black market if they chose the previous. Or they can [[WellIntentionedExtremist produce it keeping the real methods secret.]]

* '''Averted''': Tropereon is mentioned to keep a small but substantial percentage of their research department on moonshot drugs like cancer cures.

** By burying it to avoid cannibalizing their existing treatment drug lines it winds up being independently rediscovered by another company.
** Scientists in their organization are understandably displeased with their work never getting properly used. They ensure that it winds up used properly.

* '''Played for Horror''': Tropereon discovers the cure to cancer after one of their scientests [[PoweredByAForsakenChild went beyond the pale]] to achieve it then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone felt remorse]] [[DrivenToSuicide and committed suicide]]. The upper management have a legitimate an unenviable moral dilemma regarding the cure at a serious cost. They can cover up the sorrid thing to protect their reputation and themselves. They can release it and let the public decide if it should be banned or produced, but still at the risk of a black market. Or they can [[WellIntentionedExtremist produce it keeping the real methods secret.]]

* '''Downplayed''': Tropeon Pharmaceuticals puts more R&D funding into treatments rather than cures, and the cures they do create are kept underwraps for no less than a decade.

* '''Justified''': Tropeon Pharmaceuticals puts their cures through years of rigorous and highly controlled testing to make sure they don't harm the people who take them.

* '''Double Subverted''': Except Troperon later conceals [[RequiredSecondarySuperpowers a medical device that can allow a patient to survive the excess of dead cells]].

* '''Subverted''': Troperon is hiding it cancer cure because it "works too well" and "want it to be a viable treatment". This isn't greed but [[GoneHorriblyRight the drugs destroy cancer so rapidly the patient dies trying to clean up the remains of cancer]]. Furthermore [[CantStopTheSignal leaking the drug and production methodology]] would [[NiceJobBreakingItHero cause desperate people to get themselves killed on both dodgy imitators and authenic reproductions.]]
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

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* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Troperon is hiding it cancer cure because it "works too well" and "want it to be a viable treatment". This isn't greed but [[GoneHorriblyRight the drugs destroy cancer so rapidly the patient dies trying to clean up the remains of cancer]].

* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Averted''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''': Tropeon Pharmaceuticals has created cures for every known disease, but won't sell them to anyone.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': ???