History Main / IdiotsCannotCatchColds

* In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', after the typhoon has passed, if you talk to Junpei, he'll make this comment:

* An episode of the ''Anime/{{Kirby|Right Back At Ya}}'' anime revolves around this when King Dedede is the only one in the land not to catch a cold, and desperately tries to to prove he's not an idiot. That episode had a few Japanese things that outsiders would find weird, such as everyone who got sick wearing a medical mask (starting to change due to a certain worldwide pandemic, though).

* ''Manga/HaventYouHeardImSakamoto'': Referenced when Kubota is in bed with a cold. His mother tells him: "It's a cold, all right. You caught it because you're not stupid."

* Sugi acted surprised in ''Manga/GirlFriends'' when she learned that Akko caught a cold. Sugi thought that the BookDumb GenkiGirl was immune to colds.

%%* ''Manga/PaniPoniDash''

* Kotetsu from ''UrayasuTekkinKazoku''. An idiot protagonist with bad grades never catches colds or allergies. An early chapter had him being the only few in school to not catch the flu. Until the remaining ones catch it, it leaves him the only one in school.

* One of the Male Warrior's personality types in ''[[{{VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten}} Disgaea 4]]'' will mention something about this, though he claims it's because he's too hot to catch a cold, instead of being an idiot.

* ''Manga/{{Kanon}}'' twists this into "Uguu~ never gets sick,"

* ''Manga/HaventYouHeardImSakamoto'': Subverted slightly when Kubota is in bed with a cold. His mother tells him: "It's a cold, all right. You caught it because you're not stupid."

* Also used in ''Manga/DetectiveConan''.

* An episode of the ''Anime/{{Kirby|Right Back At Ya}}'' anime revolves around this when King Dedede is the only one in the land not to catch a cold, and desperately tries to to prove he's not an idiot. That episode had a few Japanese things that outsiders would find weird, such as everyone who got sick wearing a medical mask.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'': America hasn't even HEARD of colds, so...
** Apparently retconned, though, to represent the current recession. Worse, America's "cold" is so bad that it ''spreads''.

* In ''Manga/{{Eyeshield21}}'', Otawara is the only one of the Ojou White Knights to never miss a single practice, because, well, idiots don't catch colds. In second place is [[TheStoic Shin]], and only because he broke the ticket machine at the airport.

* In Manga/KyouNoGoNoNi Ryota has all the symptoms, but has to be told by someone else that he has a cold, leading the others to speculate that the saying actually means that an idiot wouldn't realize if he caught a cold.

* Kengo's older sister Mayu in ''Monochrome Factor'' is joyous when she catches a cold, proving that she is not an idiot (though her actions say otherwise).

* Subverted in Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub in a (manga-only) particularly memorable arc when resident IdiotHero [[{{Keet}} Tamaki]] [[{{Bishonen}} Suoh]] gets a fever, much to everybody's shock, gets delirious, and ends up kissing [[{{Bifauxnen}} Haruhi]] on the forehead as a gesture of [[ObliviousToLove 'parental affection']]. He, of course, forgets the entire exchange when he gets better.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'':

-->--''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger''