Basic Trope: Fainting from too much emotion/surprise.
- Straight: Alice faints in a moment of great surprise or stress.
- Exaggerated: Angst Coma
- Downplayed: Alice gets woozy, but doesn't pass out.
- Justified: Alice's heart gives out from the amount of blood pumping because of the stress.
- Inverted: Shocking news makes Alice very awake when she was previously groggy.
- Subverted: Alice faints in a dramatic moment. This is attributed to the stress, but when Bob seeks medical care for her, he learns it's because she's diabetic, her blood sugar got low, and she had a hypoglycemic attack. The context was just coincidental.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nerves of Steel
- Enforced: ??
- Lampshaded: Alice faints in a moment of great surprise or stress. Bob scoffs and calls Alice a "swooning Victorian heroine." Charlie (a nurse) scolds him for being insensitive and explains that it's a real phenomenon, the medical term is "vasovagal syncope."
- Invoked: Fake Faint
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob asks Alice to sit down before telling her shocking news.
- Implied: ???
Back to Faint in Shock.
