Basic Trope: A character is sick in an episode.
- Straight: In an episode of Alice and Bob, Alice has a cold.
- Exaggerated: The whole cast is sick, each afflicted with a different disease.
- Downplayed:
- Alice's cold only lasts for the first few scenes.
- Alice's being sick is a sub-plot running alongside another.
- Justified: Alice caught her cold off Bob.
- Inverted: Alice is a Littlest Cancer Patient, but in one episode, her cancer or whatever temporarily goes away.
- Isaac, a human bioweapon, recovers from all of the viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites affecting him. With Isaac only able to use conventional weapons, the team in incapacitated for the remainder of the episode.
- Subverted: Alice is seen sneezing and looking bleary-eyed and Bob asks if she's got a cold. She says no.
- Double Subverted:
- She has the flu.
- She was lying.
- She had a cold but thought she didn't.
- She didn't have a cold, but she catches one later in the episode.
- Parodied: There's No Fourth Wall and Alice keeps complaining "Why must we always do the one where someone gets sick?!" or "Why does it have to be me?"
- Zig Zagged: Alice is seen sneezing and with irritated eyes. Bob asks her if she has a cold and she says no...she has the flu instead. Then she says that she was just joking and what's really bothering her is allergies. Then, she does get a cold...only to be cured instantly by a Healing Potion.
- Averted: Nobody gets sick.
- Lampshaded: "So, Alice is sick?"
- Enforced:
- Alice has a skill that would save the day, so they try to give a reason for her not doing it.
- It's an educational show, this episode is focused on healthcare.
- Invoked: When Bob has a cold, he tries to give it to Alice.
- Exploited: With Alice sick, the Big Bad can start working on their Evil Plan.
- Defied:
- Some Applied Phlebotinum that makes you immune to disease exists In-Universe. Alice takes it.
- Alice stays away from places that could be infectious.
- Alice vaccinates herself.
- Alice washes her hands after handling anything germy and wears a health mask if dangerous germs could be in the air.
- Discussed: "Who did Alice catch her cold off?"
- Conversed: "Why must there always be an episode where someone is sick?!"
- Implied: Alice is seen looking out of sorts, but she's never outright stated to be sick.
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs:
- Bob tries to do Alice's job while she's sick and has an Epic Fail.
- Alice's disease has wacky symptoms like only being able to speak Pig Latin or random levitation.
- Played for Drama: Alice is in danger of dying.
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