Line #23 Main/IndexSyndrome


1	Trope names that reference some sort of sickness, whether real or not.
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3	Not to be confused with {{Indexitis}}.
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5	!! Website/TVTropes has been diagnosed with the following:
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7	* AesopAmnesia: Characters learn an important lesson, and then forget it to maintain the status quo.
8	* {{Altitis}}: YMMV; players keep creating a new characters to see what odd combinations of skills, abilities and appearances they can discover.
9	* AsianCleaverFever: A character preparing Asian food incorporates knife acrobatics and general theatrics into the process of cooking and serving patrons.
10	* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: Trivia; a creator working on a lot of projects at the same time.
11	* {{Bedheaditis}}: A sick character's illness is indicated by messy hair.
12	* BeneficialDisease: Diseases with positive effects.
13	* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: TheBigGuy is the most likely to die out of the heroic party.
14	* BishonenJumpSyndrome: YMMV; works aimed at guys attempt to appeal to girls by making PrettyBoy male characters.
15	* TheBlackDeath: A plague which killed many people in history, most notably the 1348-1350 pandemic spanning Europe and Asia.
16	* BrainFever: A sickness in the brain caused by shock or stress.
17	* ButNowIMustGo: Also known as MaryPoppinsSyndrome; a hero leaves their team of heroes to go somewhere else.
18	* BystanderSyndrome: People ignore a crisis because they're not personally involved in it.
19	* CabinFever: Going mad from being in an isolated area without outside contact for an extended period.
20	* CareerEndingInjury: Someone unexpectedly suffers an illness/injury or one they already knew about abruptly worsens, making them unable to pursue their goals or career.
21	* CerebusSyndrome: A comedic work shifts towards more dramatic and serious storylines.
22	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: A character regularly betrays their allies.
23	* ChronicHeroSyndrome: A character feels the need to help everyone, oftentimes to their own detriment.
24	* ChronicVillainy: A villain always reverts to evil ways, despite numerous attempts to reform.
25	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: A character disappears from a series/franchise without an in-universe explanation and is nowhere to be seen or mentioned again.
26	* ColonCancer: Titles with two or more colons.
27	* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: YMMV; players select the same character/strategy over and over.
28	* ConvenientTerminalIllness: A character makes a HeroicSacrifice based on the reasoning that they're going to die soon anyway, typically from terminal illness.
29	* CureForCancer: A miracle cure for a terminal, incurable disease, typically cancer.
30	* DeceasedAndDiseased: Zombies and other undead creatures are portrayed as poisonous or filled with disease, and they may spread death wherever they go.
31	* DefaultSettingSyndrome: YMMV; the game offers a variety of options, but everyone just picks the defaults.
32	* DefinitelyJustACold: A character has a serious disease but insists it's nothing.
33	* DiagnosedByTheAudience: YMMV; the audience speculates that a character has a disorder.
34	* DisappointingLastLevel: Formerly "[[VideoGame/HalfLife1 Xen]] Syndrome"; an otherwise good game has a bad final level.
35	* DiseaseBleach: Prolonged stresses, typically an illness, turn someone's hair white.
36	* DiseaseByAnyOtherName: A known disease or disorder in modern times is referred to by a different term in the past or in another universe.
37	* DiseasedName: A character is named after a disease.
38	* DiseasePreventionAesop: The moral of the story is about preventing getting sick and/or preventing getting others sick.
39	* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Aversion to mentioning a disease by name, typically due to social taboos.
40	* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Characters talk with the 'L's and 'R's replaced with 'W's in their words.
41	* FakingAnotherPersonsIllness: Pretending someone other than oneself is sick.
42	* FangThpeak: A fanged character, often a vampire, has a speech impediment which causes them to mispronounce 'S' as 'TH' or 'SH'.
43	* FeverDreamEpisode: A whole episode is taken through the perspective of someone's fever-induced hallucinations or nightmares.
44	* FictionalDisability: A character who has some sort of disability that doesn't exist in the real world, often related to fantasy/supernatural elements or more advanced technology.
45	* FloatingHeadSyndrome: A generic film poster or DVD cover art that features multiple characters from the shoulders-up.
46	* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: A character gains a good trait or loses a bad one, but the changes disappear after some time has passed.
47	* FoodComa: Falling asleep after eating a big meal.
48	* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: Also known as SuddenWealthSyndrome; a stock plot where a character has a huge and very sudden increase in expendable income, only to waste it all shortly thereafter.
49	* FootnoteFever: Generous use of footnotes in media that don't usually have them.
50	* FunnySchizophrenia: Mental illnesses and disorders being PlayedForLaughs.
51	* GISSyndrome: Full name 'Google Image Search Syndrome'; the use of stock images as backgrounds.
52	* GoldFever: Characters who come across a trove of gold (or silver, gems, cash or other treasure, but most often yellow gold) will almost inevitably become obsessed over it to the point of near lunacy.
53	* GRatedMentalIllness: Kid-friendly depictions of mental illness.
54	* GreenAroundTheGills: Nausea depicted in fiction as a character's face turning green.
55	* HanahakiDisease: A fictional disease where someone begins coughing up flower petals because they have unrequited feelings for someone.
56	* HatePlague: A plot where an unknown force causes characters to become angry and disagreeable with each other.
57	* IdealIllnessImmunity: A character who is somehow immune to all disease.
58	* IllnessBlanket: Illness is signaled by the character being wrapped in a blanket; does not include instances where the sick character is in bed.
59	* IncurableCoughOfDeath: A character with a chronic cough will die by the end of the work.
60	* InfectionScene: A scene that shows exactly how a person becomes infected with a disease.
61	* InstantIllness: Diseases in fiction take an unrealistically short time to develop.
62	* UsefulNotes/KnightFever: UsefulNotes page on British titles of nobility and honour.
63	* LateCharacterSyndrome: A video game party member introduced later than others sees little actual use.
64	* LeslieNielsenSyndrome: Trivia; a dramatic actor does comedy, sometimes temporarily.
65	* LimaSyndrome: An abductor feels sympathy for their captive.
66	* LittlestCancerPatient: A child with a terminal disease that can survive anything except the disease itself killing them.
67	* LondonEnglandSyndrome: Stating the city and country to avoid confusion with another location of the same name.
68	* TheMentallyDisturbed: Mental illnesses are treated as character flaws instead of the potentially debilitating conditions they really are.
69	* MerlinSickness: A character ages in reverse.
70	* MetallicarSyndrome: A distinctive vehicle is never searched by cops in fiction.
71	* MethuselahSyndrome: Humans living and staying able-bodied far longer than in real life, with little to no explanation.
72	* MiddleChildSyndrome: If someone is neither the eldest or youngest sibling, they will be TheUnfavourite.
73	* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: The news covers the murder, kidnapping, or disappearance for middle-to-upper class White women and girls more than missing persons from any other class, race, or gender.
74	* MistakenForDisease: An inexplicable mishap is incorrectly assumed to be the result of a disease.
75	* MorningSickness: Morning nausea as a shorthand or tell for pregnancy.
76	* MunchausenSyndrome: A psychological disorder that causes people to feign illness for attention and sympathy.
77	* MusicVideoSyndrome: Media that are not music videos are cut to resemble music videos.
78	* MysticalPlague: ThePlague created either by magic or divine powers.
79	* NauseaFuel: YMMV; scenes and events intentionally made to make the audience want to puke.
80	* OceanMadness: Being at sea for extended periods of time can drive a person insane. This may or may not involve drinking seawater.
81	* OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome: The OfficialCouple is put through Hell for the duration of the plot.
82	* OnlyChildSyndrome: Only children are stereotyped to be lonely, independent, selfish, or spoiled.
83	* PacManFever: All fictional video games are portrayed as 80s era games.
84	* {{Phlegmings}}: A character is depicted with saliva, phlegm, drool, or some other mucus dangling between their teeth, typically to show that they're a badass, creepy, or furious.
85	* ThePlague: A widespread contagious disease.
86	* PlagueDoctor: The stereotypical outfit of a doctor treating the Plague -- an ankle length overcoat, boots, thick gloves, a brim hat and a mask reminiscent of a raven's face, complete with a beak.
87	* {{Plaguemaster}}: A character who intentionally spreads disease, typically having supernatural powers over it.
88	* PlagueOfGoodFortune: A character has an amazing series of good things happen to them, despite the fact that they don't want it to.
89	* PlagueZombie: Zombification is portrayed as an infectious disease in fiction, or is caused by one.
90	* PlayingSick: Pretending to be sick to avoid something unpleasant.
91	* PlotInducedIllness: Illness strikes when it's most convenient for the plot.
92	* PolkaDotDisease: A fictional disease that's characterized by having spots somewhere on the body.
93	* ProneToVomiting: Someone who throws up a lot.
94	* ResurrectionSickness: A character has various physical ailments after coming back to life.
95	* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: A serious work grows lighter and more comedic as it goes on.
96	* SamaritanSyndrome: Heroes feel guilty for every time they might have saved someone, but didn't.
97	* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: A psychological disorder which causes a character to act like a MadScientist.
98	* ScullySyndrome: Skeptical characters come up with convoluted ways to explain away a phenomenon that is blatantly supernatural in nature.
99	* {{Sequelitis}}: YMMV; a franchise or series gets worse with each new installment.
100	* SequentialSymptomSyndrome: A gag where someone lists the symptoms of a medical condition, and someone else nearby shows them as they're said.
101	* ShareTheSickness: A sick character tries to give their disease to others.
102	* SickEpisode: A character is sick for one episode.
103	* SicknessEqualsRedness: If a character is sick, typically with a cold, they are portrayed with red noses and/or cheeks.
104	* SoapOperaDisease: A vaguely-defined, deadly, chronic disease commonly seen in soap operas.
105	* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: A child character is suddenly older without explanation.
106	* {{Somethingitis}}: Using the suffix '-itis' as shorthand for disease or problem.
107	* SpaceMadness: Being in space for extended periods of time can drive a person insane.
108	* SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome: An RPG or other character is created with unusual traits or abilities for the setting, usually out of the player's desire for the character to stand out.
109	* SpringCleaningFever: Cleaning being treated as SeriousBusiness.
110	* SterilityPlague: For one reason or another, people can't give birth anymore.
111	* UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome: UsefulNotes page on a proposed psychological condition in which kidnapped victims develop loyalty, sympathy, or affection (sometimes even sexual attraction) for their captor.
112	* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Someone feels their more successful sibling overshadows them.
113	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: In a setting where AnyoneCanDie, a character survives the first installment, only to die early or suddenly in the sequel.
114	* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: A character who was on the good side in the first installment becomes evil early in the next one.
115	* SyntheticPlague: ThePlague is artificially created by humans instead of natural means.
116	* TallPoppySyndrome: Bringing an individual "better" than oneself (or the general population) down to their level, usually out of either envy or desire for conformity.
117	* TeleportationSickness: Teleportation has unpleasant side effects even when it functions normally.
118	* TelevisuallyTransmittedDisease: Rare diseases are disproportionately common in fiction.
119	* TemporalSickness: TimeTravel making someone physically ill.
120	* TomHanksSyndrome: Trivia; an actor mostly known for comedy switches to drama, either permanently or temporarily.
121	* TrippyFinaleSyndrome: The finale of a series takes place in some trippy and abstract realm.
122	* Administrivia/TropeNamerSyndrome: Administrivia; editors trying a little too hard to create a new TropeNamer.
123	* TyphoidMary: A character carries and spreads a deadly disease without showing symptoms; they may have no idea they have the disease at all and often refuse to accept they have it.
124	* VictorianNovelDisease: A woman is DelicateAndSickly, and the illness is said to be very serious, if not terminal, but she looks perfectly healthy if a bit pale, and she's generally still physically able.
125	* ViralTransformation: A transformation that can be spread through a virus and physically changes humans to non-humans.
126	* TheVirus: Something that turns others into itself or into entities subservient to itself.
127	* WeirdnessCensor: Formerly known as Sunnydale Syndrome; the {{Muggles}} see supernatural phenomena but refuse to believe they saw it.
128	* WorfHadTheFlu: A much stronger character is defeated during a fight against a lesser character due to an illness or some other handicap.
129	* ZombieInfectee: A character is infected with TheVirus during a ZombieApocalypse or some related scenario, and tries to hide their condition from their friends.
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