'''Basic Trope''': A character feigns illness in order to scare someone off.
* '''Straight''': Newsman Pete fakes a highly contagious disease in order to scare away a guard.
* '''Exaggerated''': Newsman Pete scares away an entire army by faking the common cold.
* '''Downplayed''': Newsman Pete actually ''has'' a disease, but deliberately plays up the symptoms to put the guard on edge.
* '''Justified''': There has been an epidemic recently and Pete is able to perfectly fake some of the symptoms.
* '''Inverted''':
** Newsman Pete scares away a sick person by being healthy.
** Newsman Pete pretends that the ''guard'' is sick as part of a head game.
** Newsman Pete [[SickCaptiveScam pretends he's sick to lure the guard into checking on him]] so he can get close enough to swipe his keys.
* '''Subverted''':
** Newsman Pete starts clutching his stomach as if he's about to fake a disease, but when the guard calls him on it, Pete punches him out.
** Newsman Pete turns out to actually ''be'' sick, and collapses.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** After which he blames that attack on his highly contagious disease.
** But it's only a cold, and he's actually faking a more serious disease.
* '''Parodied''': Pete starts listing ailments for the disease that he obviously doesn't have (multicolored hair, missing limbs, etc.) and the guard still falls for it.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Newsman Pete does not fake a disease.
* '''Enforced''': "Have him act sick. That'll be funny."
* '''Lampshaded''': "I can't believe he fell for that."
* '''Invoked''': Pete decides to paint fake boils all over his arms and chest in case he has to scare away some guards.
* '''Exploited''': The guards use Pete's “disease” as an excuse to have him quarantined, preventing him from carrying out his mission.
* '''Defied''':
** Pete considers using the fake illness excuse, but decides that it's quicker to just knock out the guard himself.
** The guard tells Pete that he has no rights, and he doesn't care if he dies horribly from sickness so long as he does it in his cell. A put-out Pete stops faking sickness and pouts.
* '''Discussed''': "A guard's coming. Maybe we can pretend to be sick like in that one movie."
* '''Conversed''': "These Newsman Pete novels keep getting more sketchy. That tactic wouldn't work in real life."
* '''Deconstructed''': Newsman Pete fakes a highly contagious disease. The guard immediately declares a quarantine and seals off the area, trapping Pete until medical staff arrive to run tests on him that will expose his lie.
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(cough) Get (wheeze) away...(hacking cough) YouDontWantToCatchThis.
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