Basic Trope: One character vomits, causing multiple other people to do so as well.
- Straight: Alice throws up, causing Bob, Charlie, Dylan, and Evan to do so as well.
- Exaggerated: This eventually leads to everyone in the universe vomiting.
- Downplayed:
- Bob pukes after watching Alice do so.
- The vomiting happens, but is concealed via some sort of Vomit Discretion Shot.
- Justified:
- Can be Truth in Television - as the main page says, this is an instinct that people evolved to avoid poisoning.
- Alice's friends have emetophobia.
- Inverted: A literal version of Mass "Oh, Crap!" happens.
- Subverted: Alice throws up, causing her friends to start gagging, but they manage to get over it.
- Double Subverted: Then they all throw up later.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No one throws up.
- Enforced: A potential gross-out gag.
- Lampshaded: "And then everyone started puking all at once."
- Invoked: Everyone tries to make themselves throw up.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice decides to leave before she throws up.
- Discussed: "Oh wow, there's puke everywhere!"
- Conversed: "Why did they all puke at once?"
- Implied:
- Alice throws up, causing her friends to become disgusted and run off, with some of them covering their mouths and/or saying things like "Get me a bucket!"
- Alice mentions the time she got food poisoning while her friends were around, and it's rather heavily implied that the results were not pretty.
- Played for Drama: This is a way to reveal that Alice and her friends were poisoned or are otherwise seriously ill.
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