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6	->''A Frenchman, a German, and a Jew walk into a bar. "I'm tired and thirsty," says the Frenchman. "I must have wine." "I'm tired and thirsty," says the German. "I must have beer." "I'm tired and thirsty," says the Jew. "I must have diabetes."''
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8	''I cough can't [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe Hypochondria Here]]. I, I think I have [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Rigelian Fever]]. I can tell because I blew my nose three times today!''
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10	This trope is the tendency for people who too often, if not outright chronically, [[BaffledByOwnBiology think they are coming down with diseases based on vague symptoms]].
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12	This is usually PlayedForLaughs in fiction, showing these people as whiny, [[LazyBum lazy]], and/or paranoid. This is especially common among Jews [[SelfDeprecation making fun of themselves for being like this]]. These are extra funny when the disease in question isn't even real (or it's extinct), even in the work of fiction.
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14	This can be PlayedForDrama though if someone is actually debilitated by this, but it's rare. And in shows with AbusiveParents or ComedicSociopathy, a character's genuine illness may be brusquely dismissed with accusations of this. "Pneumonia, my ass. You're just lazy!"
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16	This can lead to a "[[CryingWolf Boy who cried 'Wolf']]" moment when the hypochondriac actually ''does'' get sick.
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18	These days, using the internet for self-diagnosis has become a new tool for this trope.
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20	A SicklyNeuroticGeek is more likely to be this than actually sickly.
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22	A SuperTrope to InducedHypochondria.
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24	Compare TerrifiedOfGerms, PlayingSick, HystericalWoman, MunchausenSyndrome (both when characters know they aren't actually sick), YouDontWantToCatchThis (which is faking an illness for other reasons), MistakenForDying, JewishComplaining (which often involves something that might get them sick).
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31	* Parodied in ''Manga/OnePiece'', where LovableCoward Usopp frequently claims to come down with Better-Not-Do-This-Dangerous-Thing Disease and other variants.
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35	* In ''ComicStrip/LibertyMeadows'', Leslie the frog is a hypochondriac who diagnoses himself with anything from lead poisoning (from a pencil) to "ovarian cysts" (Leslie is male), much to Frank's frustration.
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39	* ''Fanfic/ADifferentPointOfView'': Buster's mother Bitzi is very health-conscious, especially about her son. She used to be more brash but she changed after [[spoiler:getting beat up by a friend (which potentially led to her miscarriage)]] and getting a concussion.
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43	* Creator/WoodyAllen is more than likely to play this character.
44	* In ''Film/{{Amelie}}'', Georgette, a coworker of Amélie's, is shown constantly taking medications of various kinds, even inhalers and eyedrops.
45	* In ''Film/{{Bandits}}'', Billy Bob Thornton plays a bank robber whose hypochondria is triggered by hearing about medical conditions. So much so that his brother (played by Bruce Willis) is able to temporarily incapacitate him by suggesting that he has paralysis on one side of his body.
46	* In ''Film/CarryOn'':
47	** Creator/KennethConnor's character in ''Film/CarryOnSergeant'' is this to a tee [[spoiler:until the MO takes him to a psychiatrist]].
48	** Sir Bernard Cutting in ''Film/CarryOnMatron''. He starts to believe that he's got everything from Asian Flu to a mutation in his body [[GenderBender that's turning him into a woman]].
49	* In ''Film/TheCitadel'', a deeply unethical medical practice makes money bilking rich old hypochondriac ladies. The bad doctor introducing idealistic Dr. Manson to the practice has to pull him away from a patient before he tells her that there's nothing wrong with her.
50	* ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'':
51	** Dr. Burke tries to claim Basil is a hypochondriac as he believes he is only in the hospital for publicity reasons.
52	** When Dr. Burke tells Dr. Houston that he's suffering from Hepatitis Africonia, he believes him and begins to break out in spots.
53	* ''Film/TheFall'': Walt keeps complaining to his doctor about vague symptoms and feeling unwell. The doctor humors him and prescribes "morphine" which is actually just sugar pills.
54	* In ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors'', Seymour Krelboin's mother is such a hypochondriac that when Audrey fixes him a meal, he is completely surprised that none of the food items she serves him have medicinal properties, because everything his mother has ever served him have them. She also asks him to give her an iron lung as a gift.
55	* One of the students in ''Film/MovingViolations'' is a woman with a severe case of this. She was sent to traffic school after running a red light while panicking that she was ''three seconds late'' to take her pills.
56	* In ''Film/LaughterInParadise'', Mr. Webb is a terrible hypochondriac who plays the role of a bedridden invalid and makes life hell for his longsuffering daughter and any staff she manages to employ. Agnes, despite the fact she desperately needs to keep the job, is finally driven to stand up to him, with surprising results.
57	* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes1932'', Alice's father is a hypochondriac and spends much of his time onscreen bemoaning his various supposed ailments.
58	* ''Film/UltramanZearth'': The titular Ultra is deathly afraid of dirt and slime, and freaks out from merely touching even a little bit of dust. Naturally he needs to spend the entire movie getting over his fear of dirt, and the villain Alien Benzene exploits his weakness by challenging Zearth to fight him in the middle of a sludge pool.
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62	* In ''Literature/CastleHangnail'', the goldfish is a hypochondriac and swims around her bowl in a sweater and scarf to ward off the chills. It's [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness a sign of how serious things have become at the climax when she stops worrying about her health]], and a sign of things returning to normal when she starts again.
63	* Fairly common in the period romances of Creator/GeorgetteHeyer, especially among ladies of a certain age. From ''Literature/BlackSheep'':
64	-->"Abby, does my aunt ''like'' to be ill?"\
65	"Yes, certainly she does. Why not? She has very little to divert her, after all! It makes her the centre of attention, too, and how unkind it would be to grudge it to her! The melancholy truth is, my love, that single females of her age are almost compelled to adopt dangerous diseases, if they wish to be objects of interest."
66	* This is Zena's problem in ''Literature/EthanFrome''. It is one reason (along with her nagging and complaining) why Ethan wants to leave her.
67	* Eddie Kaspbrak from ''Literature/{{It}}'' is a frail and asthmatic hypochondriac, who carries his inhaler with him everywhere. His father died when he was very young, and his mother is domineering and constantly worries about his health, encouraging his fears around his poor health and deliberately instilling hypochondria in him.
68	* Often appears in the ''Literature/MissMarple'' novels and short stories. One notable case is in the story, "The Perfect Maid." A character named Emily Skinner claims to be ill and spends all her time lying in on a couch in a dark room while her sister Lavinia waits on her hand and foot. The entire village is convinced that Emily is a hypochondriac, as evidenced by the fact that she never goes to the doctor, figuring that deep down she knows the doctor would tell her that there was nothing wrong with her. [[spoiler: It's actually this fact that convinced Miss Marple that Emily wasn't a hypochondriac, because in her experience hypochondriacs love going to the doctor. Indeed, Emily wasn't a hypochondriac, she was a thief, and the whole point of the "spend all day on a couch in a dark room" was to prevent anyone from ever getting a good look at her.]]
69	* Cassie Stephens, the narrator of ''The Pistachio Prescription'' by Paula Danziger, has a genuine medical condition (asthma). However, she is also a hypochondriac who thinks that any mild physical complaint is caused by a serious disease. For example, she suspects that a stress-induced stomach ache is an ulcer or botulism, a headache is a brain tumor, and a small blotch on her hand is a "contagious, fatal rash."
70	* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': In “Stay at Home, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys thinks he has Covid-19 after getting a snotty nose and being out of breath. Actually, he was fine. There was no particular reason for his snotty nose and he was out of breath because he’d been running.
71	* This is Colin's biggest issue, in ''Literature/TheSecretGarden''. He's actually far more healthy than he thinks, but he's heard the servants whisper for most of his life how he has a hunchback and some wasting disease and weak legs that he constantly talks about how he's so ill and can't leave his room. He starts to get over it when Mary has enough, examines his back herself, and verifies that he has no lumps that shouldn't be there.
72	* Dag in ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'' doesn't worry much about his own health (fortunately, given his status as DesignatedVictim), but he gets a little too solicitous in the first book after Fawn's malice injuries and [[spoiler:miscarriage]], and he gets ''really'' nervous in the fourth book when she gets [[spoiler:[[PanickyExpectantFather pregnant]].]]
73	-->'''Arkady:''' Almost all apprentices go through a phase where they're convinced they're coming down with every new disease they've just learned about. I thought you were going to be the notable exception. I suppose I didn't think it through quite far enough.
74	* Thaddeus Sholto from ''Literature/TheSignOfTheFour'' rattles on and on about his health issues, and pesters Dr. Watson to check his vital signs. Watson never discerns any indications of illness in him, aside from this trope (although, being distracted by the presence of the lovely Miss Morstan, he ends up recommending Sholto take large amounts of ''strychnine'' as a sedative while warning of the dangers of more than two spoons of castor oil).
75	* In ''Literature/ThreeMenInABoat'', the narrator reads a medical textbook and concludes that he has every known disease except housemaid's knee. He rushes to his doctor, who gives him a NonStandardPrescription for a good meal, a long walk, a good night's sleep, and to stop reading medical textbooks.
76	* ''Literature/TheHalfLifeOfPlanets'': Every few months, Liana's dad will panic over some minor pain and go to the hospital for a bunch of tests. It always turns out to be nothing. [[spoiler:Until he's finally diagnosed with heart problems that he needs surgery for.]]
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80	* ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'': Mrs. Drysdale was originally such a hypochondriac, she had even made her poodle Claude a hypochondriac as well! However, this trait disappeared after the first couple seasons.
81	* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': Chuck suffers from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity Electromagnetic hypersensitivity]], a psychosomatic illness where being near any electromagnetic fields causes someone pain. In season 1, a doctor turns on an electric medical device without Chuck's knowledge to determine that the illness is just in his head. In season 3, [[spoiler: Jimmy proves it again in his disbarment hearing by slipping a battery into Chuck's pocket without Chuck suffering any ill effects. After this, Chuck begins to consider whether he's ruined his life for nothing. He finally admits he's mentally ill and begins treatment for it]]. Part of the thing about it is that Chuck is right that he has an illness, but it's generally implied that he's wrong about the cause: he thinks it's an irreversible physical condition, but it actually seems to be a mental condition that produces physical symptoms and could probably be treated if he'd put in the work, but by the time he realizes this, it's much too late for him.
82	* Sheldon of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' is TerrifiedOfGerms and prone to occasional hypochondria. In one episode, he gets a stomach ache from eating too many brussel sprouts and thinks it's cholera.
83	-->'''Leonard:''' There's no cholera in Pasadena. Just like last summer, when there was no malaria in Pasadena.
84	* Michael's mom in ''Series/BurnNotice'' is a hypochondriac for [[CharacterizationMarchesOn just the first episode]].
85	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': The unsub of "The Good Earth" is a hypochondriac. She did have a bad skin condition at one point, which resolved itself around the time her husband died and they scattered his ashes in the farm. Implicitly due to the stress of his death and now caring for the farm and their daughter herself, she keeps hallucinating that she (and later, her daughter) still has the condition, getting her dubbed a "frequent flier" at the local hospital. Very much played for drama, as she decides her husband's ashes are what cured her, but now that they're gone, she needs to find a substitution....
86	* PlayedForLaughs in an off-the-cuff joke on ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'' in 2011. Jon had had a glass shatter during a faked press conference, slicing his wrist so badly he wound up requiring multiple stitches. John Oliver made the scheduled takeover at the faux conference but made this quip.
87	-->'''John Oliver''': You're fine! Stop being so fucking [[JewishComplaining Jewish]] about it! (''Jon [[ActuallyPrettyFunny starts cracking up]]'')
88	** Later on, Jon asks whether he should be Catholic and [[RussianReversal turn his blood into wine]].
89	* ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' had a couple of patients like this. At least one turned out to really be sick on one call.
90	** Another is a precocious boy who is overreacting to a minor ailment by thinking he has a critical condition because he was reading too many medical books. Dr. Brackett suggests to the boy's father that since the boy has such impressive medical knowledge, he should carefully nurtured in studying medicine to keep him too busy to do such antics again.
91	* Sookie in ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' has a strain of hypochondria that makes her think she has whatever anyone else has. She's cured of Michel's ennui by Lorelai's "off-ui," and Lorelai once had to explain to her she didn't have a prostate.
92	* ''Series/{{House}}'':
93	** A guy was convinced he was getting diabetes because of his family history, and when he did get sick it turned out to be caused by the "special diet" he made his wife make him. House was much displeased.
94	** One example that is from the main case and not clinic duty is [[spoiler:half of the DeathInTheClouds]] episode.
95	* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', Fin Tutuola mentions that John Munch called in sick today. Olivia Benson says, "He's such a hypochondriac. How many times has he had anthrax this week?"
96	* An episode of ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' has Harriet Oleson convinced she's ill with this VictorianNovelDisease like the heroine in a romantic book she's been reading. Identifying it as "the vapors," she describes the symptoms to Dr. Baker, who quickly comes up with a proper diagnosis. Only they don't call it "the vapors" anymore, he explains. What is plaguing Mrs. Oleson? Gas.
97	* Beryl from ''Series/NoAppointmentNecessary1977'' is a chronic hypochondriac and always thinks she's coming down with something.
98	* ''Series/NorthernExposure'': Eve, one of Joel's least favorite patients, had a habit of showing up at his practice claiming she was suffering some terrible self-diagnosed illness. Though she got a little better after she got pregnant (the one thing she didn't suspect she had.)
99	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
100	** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E9WhatWillTheNeighborsThink What Will the Neighbors Think?]]", Mona Bailey is a severe hypochondriac to the point that she uses a wheelchair when she is completely able-bodied. After checking her Physicians' Deck Reference, she comes to the conclusion that she has Lyme disease in spite of her husband Ned's reassurances that she would have to have been bitten by a tick to have contracted it. She is also convinced that there is radon in her apartment building, the Clackson Arms, which she has not left for six months. After she begins hearing voices, Mona worries that she may be either hallucinating or have a brain tumor, but it turns out that she is hearing the thoughts of the other residents.
101	** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E20Nest Nest]]", Marcy Newhall, who works at the Peary University Research Station in the Arctic, has severe hypochondria and checks her blood pressure every day to ensure that it remains stable. When William Grimes and Lou Wolsky become infested with polar mites and go insane, Marcy is so afraid that the same thing will happen to her that she convinces herself that it already has. She stabs herself in the stomach and soon dies as a result. The autopsy later determines that she was never infested with the mites in the first place.
102	* In ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', Chris was born with a blood disease and it was predicted that he would die within days. As an adult, he's a health nut in ridiculously good shape but becomes a hypochondriac and germaphobe when there's a chance of his becoming sick. This is played for both humor and drama.
103	* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' has a minor recurring hypochondriac. Doctors dread taking his case. Once he ''did'' actually have something wrong with him, but due to that only being discovered after being subjected to a painful test because Dr. Cox found him annoying, he ended up giving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Dr. Cox. Whether it was wholly deserved or not depends on the viewer.
104	* One of the ''many'' flaws of George in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': he is such a hypochondriac that he can't even read about symptoms or watching documentaries about a disease without thinking he has it.
105	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
106	** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' actually predicted something happening before it was reality: hypochondriacs diagnosing themselves over the internet! In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E2RealmOfFear Realm of Fear]]", Reg Barclay looks up symptoms for various diseases, including transporter psychosis.
107	** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
108	*** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E20GoodShepherd Good Shepherd]]", Crewman Telfer is revealed to be a major hypochondriac who visits Sickbay about once a week complaining of illness, only for the doctor to find nothing wrong (although his fears do become reality later in the episode when [[spoiler:an alien briefly invades his body]]).
109	---->'''Crewman Harren:''' ''[after Telfer makes a mistake that almost injures him]'' What's wrong with you!?\
110	'''Crewman Telfer:''' ''[scanning himself with a medical tricoder]'' Everything!
111	*** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E18AuthorAuthor Author, Author]]", the EMH wrote a holonovel called ''Photons be Free'' which featured characters that were thinly disguised [[{{Expy}} expies]] of the ''Voyager'' crew. When Harry Kim ran the program, he encountered his character Kymble, who was worrying about the possibility of their decompiling the fictional EMH because there were probably millions of new viruses in the Delta Quadrant and he'd probably end up catching half of them. "Great," grumbled the real Harry Kim, "my character's a hypochondriac."
112	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
113	** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E6EscapeClause Escape Clause]]" features a hypochondriac who makes a DealWithTheDevil for immortality and perfect health. [[spoiler:He becomes a thrill-seeker and eventually kills his wife in the hopes of a ride in the electric chair after getting bored with everything else, only to get life in prison instead. Said "escape clause" turns out to be a heart attack.]]
114	** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E25TheMasks The Masks]]", Emily Harper is a severe hypochondriac. After she arrives at her dying father Jason Foster's home, the first thing that she does is complain to his doctor Sam Thorne about a pain in her arm. Over the last 25 years, Emily has claimed to be suffering from a different ailment practically every month. Jason comments that she has been at death's door so often, she must have worn a hole in the welcome mat.
115	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'': The episode "The Placebo Effect", where a hospital patient becomes convinced he has a fictional alien disease from a novel he read. The patient's belief soon manifests in reality, causing the illness to spread around the hospital. The doctors eventually give the man a placebo cure, allegedly created from a fallen meteor-only for the patient's paranoia about the meteor strike to create a new ice age...
116	* In ''Series/KathAndKim'', Sharon seems to be dealing with some new allergy or illness OnceAnEpisode, and while most are very real, some probably aren't, and she mentions at one point that her doctor put her on 'broad spectrum placebo.'
117	* Mexican comedy "Series/UnaFamiliaDeDiez" has an example with Licha, the main character´s sister, for comedic reasons that are up to eleven due to be the Overdramatic woman of the family:
118	-> "Tengo un dolor de cabeza como de cruda de gorda borracha" [[note]]I have a headache like a fat drunken lady´s hangover![[/note]
119	-> "Tengo migraña de yucateco" [[note]]I have a big head migraine! - People from Yucatan are noted to have big heads[[/note]]
120	-> "Siento que me esta dejando de funcionar un riñon" [[note]]I feel that one of my kidneys is not working anymore![[/note]]
121	-> At some point she asked her daughter to bring a medicine that cures the conditions given by another medicine that is curing another condition provoked by the original medicine (the loop sometimes goes to 7 different medicines, including injections, supositories and pills).
122	* One case of ''Series/CasoCerrado'' revolves around an extreme mysophobe who claims he received hepatitis A after eating at a restaurant.
123	* George from ''Series/InsideGeorgeWebley'' will believe he has every illness and ailment under the sun. In "Get Well Soon", he believes he is dying, and his doctor, Dr. Horniman, is just as much of a hypochondriac as he is, making matters worse.
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127	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h57PBqLzRpU&feature=related This song]] from the musical revue ''Out Of My Head.''
128	* Music/TheWho song "Doctor, Doctor" (by John Entwistle) takes this to ludicrous extremes:
129	--> Doctor, thanks for seeing me today, I'm glad\
130	I've got every sickness there is to be had\
131	I had whooping cough last month\
132	And today I've got the mumps\
133	And tomorrow I'll catch chicken pox as well
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137	* In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', while it isn't a defining aspect of her personality, [[NervousWreck Ivy]] has a strained relationship with the school nurses due to her tendency to believe that she has an imaginary illness.
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141	* Mike Birbiglia admitted to being a hypochondriac, and at one point a malignant tumor was found inside of him. He says the best thing that can possibly happen to a hypochondriac is that they actually get cancer because it [[ProperlyParanoid confirms every fear they've ever had]] and makes them feel vindicated.
142	-->See? I told you! Remember last week when I was feeling overtired and thought I had rickets? I was probably right about ''that'' too!
143	* Creator/JeffFoxworthy describes his wife as a hypochondriac. He blames watching too many ''20/20'' and ''Dateline''-type shows featuring various diseases.
144	-->'''Wife:''' ''(look of dread)'' I've got it. I have every one of those symptoms.\
145	'''Jeff:''' You do ''not'' have testicular cancer! You don't even have ''testiculars''!
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149	* In ''Theatre/GuysAndDolls'', Nathan Detroit's fiancee Adelaide is a hypochondriac, as shown in the song "Adelaide's Lament."
150	* Argan, the title character in Creator/{{Moliere}}'s ''[[Theatre/TheImaginaryInvalid The Hypochondriac]] (Le Malade Imaginaire)''. According to his brother, Argan is actually a very healthy person, since he survived all the [[HarmfulHealing needless and harmful medical treatment]] he got.
151	** Ironically, Molière (who also plays the main role in most of his works, including this one) was very ill at this time. He collapsed on the scene at the end of a representation, then died at his home a few hours later.
152	* In ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'', on top of being a neat freak, Felix is also a hypochondriac. He frequently keeps treating himself of ailments that he may or may not have. It was also noted that on New Years, he chugged a bottle of Pepto Bismol. It's just another trait that adds to his neurosis.
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156	* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', the Shivering Isles expansion, there is a Breton innkeeper in Crucible named Sickly Bernice. She is convinced that she's deathly ill, and the only cure is a [[HealItWithWater special healing water]] found only in a cave. She will ask you to get this water from the cave in exchange for a [[RingofPower magical ring]]. After that, she'll ask you to get it again, this time for just gold. Of course there is no way to convince her she's fine. Because it's [[CloudCuckooland the Shivering Isles]].
157	* ''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'' has a whole line of traits reflecting this, from "Feeling Poorly" to "Delusions of Illness" to full-blown "Hypochondriac." Characters unfortunate enough to develop them will suffer increasing debuffs to their {{Hit Point}}s, troop [[MoraleMechanic morale]], and Command ability, making them liabilities on the battlefield.
158	* In ''VideoGame/SurvivingMars'', colonists with the hypochondria trait will regularly try to visit medical facilities and take sanity damage if they're unable to. Worth noting that there's typically no restrictions on which colonists get which traits, so it's entirely possible to have a hypochondriac ''medic''.
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162	* In ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'', Wonderella once thought she'd come down with bird flu.
163	* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', Hannelore becomes convinced she has cancer after discovering a bleeding mole. This happens in a comic called [[SpoilerTitle "It's Not A Tumor"]]; TheRant for the comic is "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment This is not a storyline about cancer.]]"
164	* Implied with Saku Hotakainen in the ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'' prologue. His introduction blurb describes him as "usually 'dying' from something" and he is true to that description when he seems to think his current bout of seasickness is going to kill him. He appears in the prologue segment confirming the Rash to be deadly and not just the fast-spreading but non-lethal sickness that it was presented as in the previous segments. This reveal is made via a newscast watched (alone) by Saku's young nephew, whose first reflex is to tell Saku about it. Saku's response to the information is hoping he actually has the Rash. He's shown to be fine two weeks later, which is the incubation time of the disease. In addition to this, when Saku's brother-in-law considers having him sleep in a tent instead of the cabin so he won't get seasick on his carpet, Saku's wife protests on the basis that he could become sick "for real".
165	* ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'': "Great Uncle" Lucius, an ancient old man who scammed his way into the household and never left, though the characters decide that he's so old that throwing him out would be rotten even to their standards even after they realize he's not actually related to any of them (ironically, the punchline to that strip showed Lucius alive well into Bruno's own old age). He's outlived several of his doctors and even subscribes to ''Hypochondriac Monthly'' which gives their readers advice on how to fake symptoms of disease.
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169	* ''Website/SCPFoundation''
170	** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1025 SCP-1025]], a medical book that was thought to induce diseases upon anyone who reads it, when in reality it induces extreme hypochondria by proxy. A rare case of the trope not being played entirely for laughs, because the book ends up causing a panic in the site which caused the death of one agent.
171	** Apparently, [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-978 SCP-978]] (the camera that photographs YourHeartsDesire) is a hypochondriac, at least according to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-890 SCP-890]] (the doctor who only operates on machines). 978's photograph of 890 depicts the latter telling it to GetOut. 890's reaction to the photo is to claim he wouldn't be that rude with his patients, but has no patience for hypochondria.
172	* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': Each time Bowser watches a ''[[ShowWithinAShow Charleyyy and Friends]]'' skit where Charleyyy catches a disease of any sort, he winds up believing that he has the aforementioned disease.
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176	* Teri in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is a hypochondriac with serious germophobia. It's implied it's the result of her mother (who is a doctor who also has a website with graphic images on various diseases and conditions, so she likely was raised with an... overtly cautious mentality.) The irony is that she is also a paper bear (as in a living paper cutout of a bear) so she probably wouldn't deal with any diseases. This was shown off in her DayInTheLimelight episode, spending the day with Darwin and Gumball. The school nurse is '''severely''' annoyed by her due to her hypochondria and both Gumball and Darwin grow annoyed with her about this (and her somewhat smug attitude). Ironically enough, she is somewhat right in this episode as Gumball not cleaning his hand for weeks led to the birth of a super-virus (though her forcing to wash his hand drowned all but one virus, [[ItsPersonal who vengefully chases the three down to infect them and later the world]]).
177	* ''WesternAnimation/CampCandy'': Iggy is so convinced there's something wrong that he visits the infirmary more than anyone else. His parents are much worse.
178	* The [[Creator/DisneyChannel Disney Junior]] series ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'' features a hypochondriac snowman character who worries about such things as getting broken bones (he's a stuffed toy), being wet (he's a snowman), and catching various illnesses that aren't contagious.
179	* ''WesternAnimation/HowToCatchACold'': At the end, Common Sense assumes he is sick because of a single sneeze.
180	* Filburt from ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' frequently thinks that he may be sick. He once checked himself into a hospital for a series of tests, convinced it was something serious, his wife ''Doctor'' Hutchison, however, knew it was just a rash. He ended up getting upset when the doctors found nothing wrong. ("Fools!") In another episode, when he actually did have an illness, he got so excited, he fell down the stairs and knocked himself out.
181	* Kyle's east coast cousin (also named Kyle) in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is like this.
182	* ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow'': In "Snoot's New Squat", Snoot is a tiny alien who settles on the body of a neurotic, hypochondriac dog named Al, who annoys his doctor by worrying about things like his nose being too wet or his tail wagging abnormally. When Al tries to call his doctor about [[CassandraTruth "alien fleas" infesting him]], the doc thinks Al has finally cracked up and prepares to have him committed and ''lobotomized''.
183	* [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Warner Bros.']] Claude Cat is the titular "Hypochondri-Cat." The two mice Hubie and Bertie use this to their advantage.
184	* Melman from ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar1'' is a hypochondriac giraffe who often even worries that he has brown spots on his neck (which for a giraffe, are obviously natural).
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