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: |
6 | [[index]] |
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. |
130 | [[/index]] |
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