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7 | Sometimes, characters get [[{{Indexitis}} sick]] or [[InjuryTropes injured]]. These tropes come to the rescue! |
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9 | [[index]] |
10 | [floatboxright: |
11 | '''Related indexes:''' |
12 | + ArtisticLicenseMedicine |
13 | + DoctorIndex |
14 | + HospitalTropes |
15 | + {{Indexitis}} |
16 | + InjuryTropes |
17 | + MedicalTreatmentTropes |
18 | + PharmacologyTropes |
19 | ] |
20 | * AfraidOfNeedles: Someone is scared of getting injections. |
21 | * AfterActionHealingDrama: Someone is seriously injured and needs healing after an action scene. |
22 | * AfterActionPatchup: Someone is injured and gets treated after an action scene, but their injuries weren't serious. |
23 | * AfterCombatRecovery: Video game characters who get injured in fights automatically heal when they go out of combat mode. |
24 | * AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing: Aliens have no clue how to heal a human. |
25 | * AntiRegeneration: Someone's healing powers are nullified. |
26 | * AppetiteEqualsHealth: Having no appetite means the character is ill, and being hungry again and starting to eat signifies they're getting well. |
27 | * {{Autodoc}}: Machines that heal. |
28 | * BandageWince: Someone winces at being bandaged up. |
29 | * CalmingTea: Facing shock, trauma, or jittery nerves? Tea would help with that. |
30 | * CarnivorousHealingFactor: The ability to heal quickly by eating flesh. |
31 | * CasualCrucifixion: Being crucified is a lot easier to recover from than it should be. |
32 | * CloningBodyParts: Doctors can clone body parts if patients need them replaced. |
33 | * ComicallyIneptHealing: Someone tries to heal another person despite having no idea how. |
34 | * CrisisPointHospital: A hospital overwhelmed and failing in the face of a crisis - or maybe just by nature. |
35 | * CureForCancer: Cures for real-life terminal illnesses. |
36 | * DelayedDiagnosis: A character shows signs of an illness or disability, but isn't diagnosed until later. |
37 | * DeterminedDoctor: A doctor who refuses to give up on helping their patients, no matter what. |
38 | * DisabilityNegatingSuperpower: A disabled character develops superpowers that, while active, negate their disability. |
39 | * DiseaseByAnyOtherName: The characters don't know what a sick character has, but the viewers can get a pretty good idea. |
40 | * EmpathicHealer: Someone who can heal others but in the process, they become afflicted with what's bothering the people getting healed. |
41 | * EnergyDonation: One character gives their life energy to another. |
42 | * FakeFaithHealer: Pretends to offer faith-based healing services. |
43 | * FantasticallyChallengingPatient: When a human doctor is faced with the challenge of a non-human patient. |
44 | * FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct: A creature's body part has healing properties. |
45 | * FingerSuckHealing: Sucking on someone else's sore finger to heal it. |
46 | * FindTheCure: A plot focused on finding a cure for something. |
47 | * FootBathTreatment: A hot foot bath as a treatment for the cold. |
48 | * FoulMedicine: Medicine that smells, and/or tastes, horrible. |
49 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: A character with healing powers is seriously injured. |
50 | * HarmfulHealing: Medical methods that actually make things worse. |
51 | * HeadbuttThermometer: Touching foreheads to check someone's temperature. |
52 | * HealerGod: A deity who specializes in healing. |
53 | * HealerSignsOnEarly: In video games, a healer will join the player's party early on. |
54 | * HealingBoss: When the ability to heal is used by the boss. |
55 | * HealingFactor: Someone can heal themselves instantly. |
56 | * HealingHands: Someone with the ability to heal others. |
57 | * HealingHerb: Plants that can cure. |
58 | * HealingLoop: The possibility of a (near-)invincible enemy due to their ability to heal. |
59 | * HealingMagicIsTheHardest: Most things can be done easily via magic, but healing others is difficult to do magically. |
60 | * HealingPotion: A potion with healing properties. |
61 | * HealingSerpent: Snakes and snake-linked entities related to healing, either literally or as a symbol. |
62 | * HealingShiv: Someone is healed by a weapon. |
63 | * HealingSpring: A body of water with healing powers. |
64 | * HealingVat: Someone is healed by being put in a tank of fluid. |
65 | * HealingWinds: Wind or air have healing properties. |
66 | * HealItWithBlood: Blood is used to heal ailments. |
67 | * HealItWithBooze: Healing wounds with alcohol or using it as anasthaesia. |
68 | * HealItWithFire: Fire is used to heal wounds. |
69 | * HealItWithNature: Nature magic is used to heal wounds. |
70 | * HealItWithWater: Water has healing properties. |
71 | * HealThyself: A video game character heals themselves with a first aid kit. |
72 | * HealthyCountryAir: The country is good for the ill, especially those with respiratory-based illnesses. |
73 | * HollywoodHealing: Heroes never get scars, even if they logically should. |
74 | * HotDrinkCure: Giving a sick, injured, hoarse, or hypothermic character a hot drink. |
75 | * HyperactiveMetabolism: Health is gained back just by eating food. |
76 | * IllnessBlanket: Ill people sit wrapped up in blankets. |
77 | * ImprobableAntidote: Something weird works as an antidote. |
78 | * ImprovisedBandage: Patching up a wound or injury with uncoventional objects. |
79 | ** FromDressToDressing: Using parts of clothes as a bandage. |
80 | * InconvenientHippocraticOath: Someone with medical training is in some situation where revealing their abilities could put them at risk—maybe they're on the run from the law, or a time traveller trying to blend in to a less advanced era—but they come across someone in desperate need of medical attention that they feel duty-bound to provide. |
81 | * InjectionPlot: A character needs to get a shot such as a vaccine. |
82 | * InjuryBookend: A repeat of what caused an injury gets rid of it. |
83 | * IntimateHealing: Healing someone in a romantic or sexual way. |
84 | * IntimateLotionApplication: Applying lotion on another character as a way to create sexual tension, romantic intimacy, awkwardness, or humor. |
85 | * IntimatePsychotherapy: Sex cures psychological problems. |
86 | * IsThereADoctorInTheHouse: {{Stock Phrase|s}} said when medical attention is needed. |
87 | * LifeDrain: An attack that does damage, as is normal, but also heals the user. |
88 | * LikeASurgeon: Any situation other than a real surgery is treated like one. |
89 | * MagicAntidote: An antidote or vaccination that works instantly. |
90 | * MedicalGame: A game about administering medical treatment. |
91 | * MedicalMonarch: A king or queen who has the power to heal others. |
92 | * MedicinalCuisine: When food is used to treat illness or improve general health. |
93 | * MedicineShow: A traveling wagon show with a medical theme. |
94 | * MentalHealthRecoveryArc: A character arc revolving around mental illness or trauma recovery. |
95 | * MistakenForDisease: Strange events are incorrectly assumed to be caused by a communicable disease. |
96 | * MountaintopHealthcare: A medical facility set on or atop a mountain. |
97 | * NoCureForEvil: Bad guys cannot do healing magic. |
98 | * NurseWithGoodIntentions: Someone tries to care for their sick or injured friend, but causes more problems than success. |
99 | * {{Panacea}}: A substance that can cure anything. |
100 | * PlaceboEffect: It only works because they ''think'' it works. |
101 | * PoisonAndCureGambit: A plot that involves poisoning someone and making them find the antidote. |
102 | * PostTreatmentLollipop: After an unpleasant treatment, doctors reward good patients with candy. |
103 | * PuttingTheMedicInComedic: Laughter is the only medicine when you go to this hospital. |
104 | * RegeneratingHealth: Walking cures wounds. |
105 | * RestingRecovery: Sleeping cures video game characters. |
106 | * RoadsideSurgery: Operating outside of an operating room. |
107 | * SavedByThePhlebotinum: A character's life is saved thanks to phlebotinum. |
108 | * ScaryStitches: Stitch work leaving ugly scars. |
109 | * SelfRecoverySurprise: Someone hurts a villain, who reveals that they have healing powers. |
110 | * SelfSurgery: Someone operates, or tries to operate, on themselves. |
111 | * SoupIsMedicine: A character who is ill is given some soup. |
112 | * SwissArmyTears: Tears with curative properties used to heal. |
113 | * ThatOldTimePrescription: Primitive medicines that sort of work. |
114 | * ThrowingOffTheDisability: A character who used to be disabled now isn't. |
115 | * TraumaInn: Staying at an inn heals the stayer. |
116 | * UndeathIsCheap: Zombification or vampirism than can be cured easily through medicines or other treatments. |
117 | * UndressingTheUnconscious: A unconscious character needs to have their clothes removed for their health. |
118 | * VampiricDraining: The superpower to pull life force out of other people and use it to repair the user. |
119 | * VillainousMedicalCare: An injured/sick/poisoned hero is treated/cured by a villain. |
120 | * WhiteMagicianGirl: A healing specialist whose role is the party's resident healer, nurturer and source of feminine wisdom. |
121 | * WithholdingTheCure: Someone prevents the cure for a disease from getting to the sick people for selfish reasons. |
122 | * WoundedHeroWeakerHelper: Someone is hurt and must be treated by someone who's more hurt or is inexperienced. |
123 | [[/index]] |
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