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* Used in the book series Year of Rogue Dragons(a [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] novel) by the BigBad to force dragons to become dracoliches. He messed with an ancient curse meant to keep dragon's numbers down by driving them insane, and since undead are immune to MindControl, they had to take his offer to become liches or die.
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* The whole point of worshiping Nurgle in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'': if you are already covered in diseases and rotting flesh, you can't get old, and you won't feel pain. You also have the patronage of the only [[AffablyEvil kind]] [[{{GodIsEvil}} god]] in the entire [[CrapsackWorld galaxy]].
** Beyond that, Uncle Nurgle genuinely loves you.
** Beyond that, Uncle Nurgle genuinely loves you.
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* The whole point of worshiping Nurgle in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'': if you are already covered in diseases and rotting flesh, you can't get old, and you won't feel pain. You also have the patronage and love (yes, actual, unconditional paternal love) of the only [[AffablyEvil kind]] [[{{GodIsEvil}} god]] in the entire [[CrapsackWorld galaxy]].
** Beyond that, Uncle Nurgle genuinely loves you.galaxy]].
** Beyond that, Uncle Nurgle genuinely loves you.
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* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Scott loses his asthma once bitten. A minor upside to being low man on the FoodChainOfEvil, getting an EnemyWithin and a target of VanHelsingHateCrimes.
** In season two, Gerard Argent wants to use this trope to survive cancer.
** Also, Erica had severe epilepsy which required anti-seizure medications with pretty bad side effects themselves, which didn't always work for her anyway. The bite took care of all of that, leaving her healthy, beautiful and confident.
** In season two, Gerard Argent wants to use this trope to survive cancer.
** Also, Erica had severe epilepsy which required anti-seizure medications with pretty bad side effects themselves, which didn't always work for her anyway. The bite took care of all of that, leaving her healthy, beautiful and confident.
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* According to legend, acupuncture was discovered after a soldier took an arrow in the knee[[note]]sorry, couldn't resist[[/note]], then discovered that he no longer suffered from a chronic pain from a prior injury.
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* According to legend, acupuncture was discovered after a soldier took an arrow in the knee[[note]]sorry, knee [[note]]sorry, couldn't resist[[/note]], then discovered that he no longer suffered from a chronic pain from a prior injury.
* The protist responsible for malaria lives and breeds in blood cells. Certain genetic blood disorders, like sickle-cell anemia, will interfere with this, functionally giving people malaria resistance/immunity. This is why native peoples in malaria-infested areas tend to have a higher incidence of sickle-cell.
* The protist responsible for malaria lives and breeds in blood cells. Certain genetic blood disorders, like sickle-cell anemia, will interfere with this, functionally giving people malaria resistance/immunity. This is why native peoples in malaria-infested areas tend to have a higher incidence of sickle-cell.
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* One of the ''NightWorld'' books is about a girl with cancer whose vampire boyfriend offers to turn her to save her life.
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* One of the ''NightWorld'' ''Literature/NightWorld'' books is about a girl with cancer whose vampire boyfriend offers to turn her to save her life.
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* Refferenced in 'Literature/TheMisenchantedSword', where a Wizard tells the progaginist about a man who came to him after being cursed with a horrific stench, and when they couldn't undo the curse, they instead put another curse on him that supressed the sense of smell of everyone within 100 feet of him.
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* In ''Daybreakers'', becoming a vampire, like 95% of the population has already done, cures cancer and any other illnesses one had as a human, in exchange for not being able to go out in the sunlight and becoming dependent upon consuming human blood to survive. Too bad they're running out of humans to give blood.
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* In ''Daybreakers'', ''Film/{{Daybreakers}}'', becoming a vampire, like 95% of the population has already done, cures cancer and any other illnesses one had as a human, in exchange for not being able to go out in the sunlight and becoming dependent upon consuming human blood to survive. Too bad they're running out of humans to give blood.
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* In ''Daybreakers'', becoming a vampire, like 95% of the population has already done, cures cancer and any other illnesses one had as a human, in exchange for not being able to go out in the sunlight and becoming dependent upon consuming human blood to survive. Too bad they're running out of humans to give blood.
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*** ...Then he discovers that he can no longer taste food. Now his only pleasure is making people suffer. Which he proceeds to do non-stop.
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** He also happily notes that becoming undead has cured his arthritis (he became undead at about age 80).
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* The whole point of worshiping Nurgle in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'': if you are already covered in diseases and rotting flesh, you can't get old, and you won't feel pain. You also have the patronage of the only kind [[{{GodIsEvil}} god]] in the entire [[CrapsackWorld galaxy]].
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* The whole point of worshiping Nurgle in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'': if you are already covered in diseases and rotting flesh, you can't get old, and you won't feel pain. You also have the patronage of the only kind [[AffablyEvil kind]] [[{{GodIsEvil}} god]] in the entire [[CrapsackWorld galaxy]].
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* In ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', Rico is a cyborg, [[CareerKiller Professional Killer]], ChildSoldier, and for all practical purposes, a slave owned by a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction... and she loves her job despite actually remembering her previous life. Why? Because it beats being a quadraplegic. The same could be said for practically all of the girls, who would have been dead if it weren't for the Welfare Agency.
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* In ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', Rico is a cyborg, [[CareerKiller Professional Killer]], ProfessionalKiller, ChildSoldier, and for all practical purposes, a slave owned by a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction... and she loves her job despite actually remembering her previous life. Why? Because it beats being a quadraplegic. The same could be said for practically all of the girls, who would have been dead if it weren't for the Welfare Agency.
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* The whole point of worshipping Nurgle in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'', if you are already covered in diseases and rotting flesh, you can't get old, and you won't feel pain. You also have a the patronage of the only kind [[{{GodIsEvil}} god]] in the entire [[CrapsackWorld galaxy]].
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* The whole point of worshipping worshiping Nurgle in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'': if you are already covered in diseases and rotting flesh, you can't get old, and you won't feel pain. You also have a the patronage of the only kind [[{{GodIsEvil}} god]] in the entire [[CrapsackWorld galaxy]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', while being dead isn't exactly a picnic what with the gradual decomposition the dead suffer, it has it's upsides. Mainly that any pains felt in life are completely gone. Mayhew, who died of a coughing related illness, actually was fairly happy at the turnaround.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', while being dead isn't exactly a picnic what with the gradual decomposition the dead suffer, it has it's its upsides. Mainly that any pains felt in life are completely gone. Mayhew, who died of a coughing related illness, actually was fairly happy at the turnaround.
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* Invoked with a dose of HeroicSacrifice in the KateDaniels series. Being turned into a vampire is a fatal process, and there's no sentience on the other side. If you're infected and you can't fight the virus off, you die and leave a blood-crazed, berserking corpse behind. But The People, an international corporation dedicated to studying undeath and vampires [[spoiler: and taking over the world.]] will pay certain individuals to be infected, if they can have the vampire once it's been made. Basically, if you were going to die anyways, it's a way to leave your family with some extra money.
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* Invoked with a dose of HeroicSacrifice in the KateDaniels series. Being turned into a vampire is a fatal process, and there's no sentience on the other side. If you're infected and you can't fight the virus off, you die and leave a blood-crazed, berserking corpse behind. But The People, an international corporation dedicated to studying undeath and vampires [[spoiler: and taking over the world.]] world]] will pay certain individuals to be infected, if they can have the vampire once it's been made. Basically, if you were going to die anyways, it's a way to leave your family with some extra money.
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* According to legend, acupuncture was discovered after a soldier took an arrow in the knee[[note]]sorry, couldn't resist[[/note]], then discovered that he no longer suffered from a chronic pain from a prior injury.
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* In ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', Rico is a cyborg, [[CareerKiller Professional Killer]], ChildSoldier, and for all practical purposes, a slave owned by a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction... and she loves her job. Why? Because it beats being a quadraplegic. The same could be said for practically all of the girls, who would have been dead if it weren't for the Welfare Agency.
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* In ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', Rico is a cyborg, [[CareerKiller Professional Killer]], ChildSoldier, and for all practical purposes, a slave owned by a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction... and she loves her job.job despite actually remembering her previous life. Why? Because it beats being a quadraplegic. The same could be said for practically all of the girls, who would have been dead if it weren't for the Welfare Agency.
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* Invoked with a dose of HeroicSacrifice in the KateDaniels series. Being turned into a vampire is a fatal process, and there's no sentience on the other side. If you're infected and you can't fight the virus off, you die and leave a blood-crazed, berserking corpse behind. But The People, an international corporation dedicated to studying undeath and vampires [[spoiler: and taking over the world.]] will pay certain individuals to be infected, if they can have the vampire once it's been made. Basically, if you were going to die anyways, it's a way to leave your family with some extra money.
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* In WorldOfWarcraft human refugees from the area of Hillsbrad willingly accept being cursed with werewolfism (the Worgen Curse, it is called) because doing so will prevent them from being raised as undead should they be killed. On the other hand, several humans from Gilneas accept being raised as undead to prevent themselves from contracting the Worgen curse.
* In WorldOfWarcraft human refugees from the area of Hillsbrad willingly accept being cursed with werewolfism (the Worgen Curse, it is called) because doing so will prevent them from being raised as undead should they be killed. On the other hand, several humans from Gilneas accept being raised as undead to prevent themselves from contracting the Worgen curse.
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* StargateSG1: This is how Colonel O'Neill views blending with a Tok'ra to cure himself of a fatal disease. Initially, he refuses vehemently and repeatedly, but finally gives his consent. Turns out he had good reason to refuse since the symbiote completely took over his body like a Goa'uld instead of sharing with the host as the Tok'ra usually do. By contrast, Jacob Carter takes finding out about the stargate...and aliens...and the idea of sharing his body with an alien parasite very much in stride and views it as kind of an adventure, in addition to being a necessity.
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**Beyond that, Uncle Nurgle genuinely loves you.
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* This is the backstory to ''Nyanpire'': a dying kitty is saved by a vampire, who turns him into a vampire by feeding him blood.
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* The manga ''Franchise/OnePiece'' has an interesting version of this trope. Brook ate the Yomi Yomi no Mi, which meant that when he died, he'd be able to come back and live a second life. It took him a year to find his body, by which time it was a skeleton.
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* The manga ''Franchise/OnePiece'' has an interesting version of this trope. Brook ate the Yomi Yomi no Mi, Revive-Revive Fruit, which meant that when he died, he'd be able to come back and live a second life. It took him a year to find his body, by which time it was a skeleton.
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->Sadly science doesn't have a cure for cancer. The ''supernatural'' however...
--> -- '''[[spoiler:Gerard Argent]]''', ''Series/TeenWolf'' 2.12, "Master Plan"
--> -- '''[[spoiler:Gerard Argent]]''', ''Series/TeenWolf'' 2.12, "Master Plan"
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->Sadly science doesn't have a cure for cancer. The ''supernatural'' however...
-->however...\\
-- '''[[spoiler:Gerard Argent]]''', ''Series/TeenWolf'' 2.12, "Master Plan"
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-- '''[[spoiler:Gerard Argent]]''', ''Series/TeenWolf'' 2.12, "Master Plan"
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* This is how Edward views vampirism in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' - on the bright side, he was saved from a horrible, wasting death from Spanish flu and is now [[TheBeautifulPeople impossibly beautiful]]. On the negative side, he is hard as rock, dead, can't go out in direct sunlight, constantly thirsts to kill people and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has to go to high school for the rest of his life]] ([[{{Immortality}} which is forever]]). This is why he is unwilling to make Bella a vampire, despite the fact that she wants to be one.
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* This is how Edward views vampirism in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' - on the bright side, he was saved from a horrible, wasting death from Spanish flu and is now [[TheBeautifulPeople [[TheBeautifulElite impossibly beautiful]]. On the negative side, he is hard as rock, dead, can't go out in direct sunlight, constantly thirsts to kill people and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has to go to high school for the rest of his life]] ([[{{Immortality}} which is forever]]). This is why he is unwilling to make Bella a vampire, despite the fact that she wants to be one.
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* At least one person with severe allergies has deliberately given himself hookworm, which distracts his immune system enough to free him of his allergies, with the downside being that he does, after all, have a hookworm infection.
* At least one person with severe allergies has deliberately given himself hookworm, which distracts his immune system enough to free him of his allergies, with the downside being that he does, after all, have a hookworm infection.
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Still, this silver lining is actually significant enough that at least some will rationally and calmly consider taking the "Emergency" out of EmergencyTransformation fully knowing the '''many''' downsides it carries. In fact, vampires, werewolves, cyborgs, transhumans and the like may well try to sell a potential victim-- err, ''converts'' with the fringe benefits while soft-pedaling the flaws. On the other hand, this trope can be paired with TranshumanTreachery if the convert knows the curse involves doing a FaceHeelTurn.
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Still, this silver lining is actually significant enough that at least some will rationally and calmly consider taking the "Emergency" out of EmergencyTransformation fully knowing the '''many''' downsides it carries. In fact, vampires, werewolves, cyborgs, transhumans and the like may well try to sell a potential victim-- err, victim--err, ''converts'' with the fringe benefits while soft-pedaling the flaws. On the other hand, this trope can be paired with TranshumanTreachery if the convert knows the curse involves doing a FaceHeelTurn.
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* One of the reasons Gerald Tarrant from ''[[ColdfireTrilogy the Coldfire Trilogy]]'' turned to TheDarkSide and become a [[EmotionEater vampire]]-equivalent was because of a congenital heart defect that would have cut short his illustrious life. [[spoiler:It comes back and nearly kills him when he becomes human again in ''Crown of Shadows''; it leaves him weakened for the rest of the book.]]
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* In ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', Rico is a cyborg, [[CareerKiller Professional Killer]], ChildSoldier, and for all practical purposes, a slave owned by a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction... and she loves her job. Why? Because it beats being a quadraplegic. The same could be said for practically all of the girls, who would have been dead if it weren't for the Welfare Agency.
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* In ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', Rico is a cyborg, [[CareerKiller Professional Killer]], ChildSoldier, and for all practical purposes, a slave owned by a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction... and she loves her job. Why? Because it beats being a quadraplegic. The same could be said for practically all of the girls, who would have been dead if it weren't for the Welfare Agency.
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* In ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', Rico is a cyborg, [[CareerKiller Professional Killer]], ChildSoldier, and for all practical purposes, a slave owned by a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction... and she loves her job. Why? Because it beats being a quadraplegic.
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* In ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', Rico is a cyborg, [[CareerKiller Professional Killer]], ChildSoldier, and for all practical purposes, a slave owned by a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction... and she loves her job. Why? Because it beats being a quadraplegic. The same could be said for practically all of the girls, who would have been dead if it weren't for the Welfare Agency.
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* In ''{{Anime/Nightwalker}}'', [[spoiler: Mr. Shido's secretary Riho]] is bitten by a nightbreed, which, given that the nightbreed killed her parents, is a FateWorseThanDeath. Mr. Shido, knowing this, turns her into a vampire as an act of compassion.
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* In ''{{Anime/Nightwalker}}'', [[spoiler: Mr. Shido's secretary Riho]] is bitten Riho ends up mortally wounded by a nightbreed, which, given that the nightbreed killed her parents, is a FateWorseThanDeath. Mr. Shido, knowing this, turns Shido's nemesis Cain. She asks Shido to turn her into a vampire as an act of compassion.
vampire, and he obliges.]]
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Despite the obvious downsides, a {{Curse}} or [[ViralTransformation inhuman transformation]] has one or two redeeming features that, to be frank, can make it a ''very'' tempting offer to someone already in the grips of an injury or disease. For example, [[TheUndead undeath]] has the palpable upside of curing vast swaths of ailments and maladies... sure, it's by virtue of ''killing you'' and thus making the asthma/cancer/stubbed toe irrelevant, and it saddles you with a HorrorHunger, but hey! At least no more IncurableCoughOfDeath!
While this can be analogous to the "Awesome" part of CursedWithAwesome, the "Curse" part is not to be underestimated. It's basically the difference between "[[BigNo Nooooo]]! I don't wanna be a vampire! ... Of course it DOES give me a superpower I could use to defeat the BigBad," whereas this trope is more "I don't wanna be a vampire... but if I have to choose between dying of AIDS, or becoming a Vampire... I'm gonna go with vampire." What's more, while CursedWithAwesome is about a "curse" that is actually pretty cool and useful, the CurseThatCures is at best an even trade and ''usually'' the one silver lining in an actually pretty crappy case of cursing.
Still, this silver lining is actually significant enough that at least some will rationally and calmly consider taking the "Emergency" out of EmergencyTransformation fully knowing the '''many''' downsides it carries. In fact, vampires, werewolves, cyborgs, transhumans and the like may well try to sell a potential victim-- err, ''converts'' with the fringe benefits while soft-pedaling the flaws. On the other hand, this trope can be paired with TranshumanTreachery if the convert knows the curse involves doing a FaceHeelTurn.
Compare DisabilityImmunity, where an existing disability gives a character immunity to a harmful effect. Also compare BeneficialDisease, which (though possibly fatal) gives a character a power or immunity to something else. Contrast OneCurseLimit, where attempting to put a second curse on someone fails because they're already cursed.
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* The manga ''Franchise/OnePiece'' has an interesting version of this trope. Brook ate the Yomi Yomi no Mi, which meant that when he died, he'd be able to come back and live a second life. It took him a year to find his body, by which time it was a skeleton.
* In ''Manga/BlackBloodBrothers'', Chan was made a vampire using Kelly Wong's blood to save her life at her mother's request.
* In ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', Rico is a cyborg, [[CareerKiller Professional Killer]], ChildSoldier, and for all practical purposes, a slave owned by a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction... and she loves her job. Why? Because it beats being a quadraplegic.
* At the start of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Seras is being held hostage by an enemy vampire when she finds herself between her captor and the business end of Alucard's pistol. Alucard asks her if she will agree to help him. When she nods, he [[ShootTheHostage mortally wounds both Seras and her captor]]. Alucard keeps his word and converts Seras to save her.
* In ''{{Anime/Nightwalker}}'', [[spoiler: Mr. Shido's secretary Riho]] is bitten by a nightbreed, which, given that the nightbreed killed her parents, is a FateWorseThanDeath. Mr. Shido, knowing this, turns her into a vampire as an act of compassion.
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* The comic book ''Blood + Water'' has two vampires turn a friend dying of Hepatitis C for this reason. The change even completely undoes all of the physical damage he had suffered over the years of the disease. Interestingly, he confronts them over waiting those years before turning him, and they reveal it was because [[spoiler: their SpiderSense warned them doing so would have a dark consequence. In this case, awakening the ancient FoodChainOfEvil that were prehistoric super vampires.]] They had chosen to ignore it because they cared too much about him to continue to watch him suffer.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', while being dead isn't exactly a picnic what with the gradual decomposition the dead suffer, it has it's upsides. Mainly that any pains felt in life are completely gone. Mayhew, who died of a coughing related illness, actually was fairly happy at the turnaround.
-->'''Victor:''' Mayhew! How nice to see... [notices he's dead] I'm so sorry.
-->'''Mayhew:''' Oh, yeah. Actually, though, I feel great.
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* One of the ''NightWorld'' books is about a girl with cancer whose vampire boyfriend offers to turn her to save her life.
* In one ''Literature/MercyThompson'' book a werewolf talks his father into getting infected, to save him from cancer. It does cure the disease but the father fears his werewolf side, which ironically only gets him more unstable (since he doesn't even try to get in tune with his animal side, he can't control his rage)
* Claudia from ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire''. Louis and Lestat find her almost dead of the plague; they turn her into a vampire.
* This is how Edward views vampirism in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' - on the bright side, he was saved from a horrible, wasting death from Spanish flu and is now [[TheBeautifulPeople impossibly beautiful]]. On the negative side, he is hard as rock, dead, can't go out in direct sunlight, constantly thirsts to kill people and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has to go to high school for the rest of his life]] ([[{{Immortality}} which is forever]]). This is why he is unwilling to make Bella a vampire, despite the fact that she wants to be one.
* Subverted in ''Blood Price'' by TanyaHuff. Victoria is slowly going blind from Retinitis Pigmentosa. But she refuses to allow Henry to turn her into a vampire.
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* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Lie To Me," a childhood friend of Buffy's sells her out to some vampires in exchange for being turned into a vampire to cure his fatal brain tumor. Buffy was quick to point out that the vampires in her 'verse don't have the {{Soul}} of the human the body belonged to; his body would move around, and a demon might have his memories, but "he" would still die.
* In one episode of ''ForeverKnight'' a blind woman regains her sight after being turned.
* ''{{Moonlight}}'': Beth asks Mick to do this for her fatally wounded fiance. He refuses. [[GenreSavvy He musta seen that ep of Forever Knight.]]
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* The whole point of worshipping Nurgle in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'', if you are already covered in diseases and rotting flesh, you can't get old, and you won't feel pain. You also have a the patronage of the only kind [[{{GodIsEvil}} god]] in the entire [[CrapsackWorld galaxy]].
* In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' when you are turned into a vampire all injuries, illnesses and disabilities disappear. However, now you are at the bottom of the pecking order surrounded by vampires who want to use you as a pawn and aren't shy of killing you if it helps them, must prey on humans to survive, can be smelled out by werewolves who will hunt you with prejudice and have to pretend you're human while dealing with the "burns in sunlight" thing.
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* Xykon from ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. It is revealed in the prequel ''StartOfDarkness'' that he became a lich, under Redcloak's suggestion, to escape a magical disease that was preventing him from using his sorcerer magic. Also, they were prisoners of a powerful druid and had little other options for escaping.
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--> -- '''[[spoiler:Gerard Argent]]''', ''Series/TeenWolf'' 2.12, "Master Plan"
Despite the obvious downsides, a {{Curse}} or [[ViralTransformation inhuman transformation]] has one or two redeeming features that, to be frank, can make it a ''very'' tempting offer to someone already in the grips of an injury or disease. For example, [[TheUndead undeath]] has the palpable upside of curing vast swaths of ailments and maladies... sure, it's by virtue of ''killing you'' and thus making the asthma/cancer/stubbed toe irrelevant, and it saddles you with a HorrorHunger, but hey! At least no more IncurableCoughOfDeath!
While this can be analogous to the "Awesome" part of CursedWithAwesome, the "Curse" part is not to be underestimated. It's basically the difference between "[[BigNo Nooooo]]! I don't wanna be a vampire! ... Of course it DOES give me a superpower I could use to defeat the BigBad," whereas this trope is more "I don't wanna be a vampire... but if I have to choose between dying of AIDS, or becoming a Vampire... I'm gonna go with vampire." What's more, while CursedWithAwesome is about a "curse" that is actually pretty cool and useful, the CurseThatCures is at best an even trade and ''usually'' the one silver lining in an actually pretty crappy case of cursing.
Still, this silver lining is actually significant enough that at least some will rationally and calmly consider taking the "Emergency" out of EmergencyTransformation fully knowing the '''many''' downsides it carries. In fact, vampires, werewolves, cyborgs, transhumans and the like may well try to sell a potential victim-- err, ''converts'' with the fringe benefits while soft-pedaling the flaws. On the other hand, this trope can be paired with TranshumanTreachery if the convert knows the curse involves doing a FaceHeelTurn.
Compare DisabilityImmunity, where an existing disability gives a character immunity to a harmful effect. Also compare BeneficialDisease, which (though possibly fatal) gives a character a power or immunity to something else. Contrast OneCurseLimit, where attempting to put a second curse on someone fails because they're already cursed.
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* The manga ''Franchise/OnePiece'' has an interesting version of this trope. Brook ate the Yomi Yomi no Mi, which meant that when he died, he'd be able to come back and live a second life. It took him a year to find his body, by which time it was a skeleton.
* In ''Manga/BlackBloodBrothers'', Chan was made a vampire using Kelly Wong's blood to save her life at her mother's request.
* In ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', Rico is a cyborg, [[CareerKiller Professional Killer]], ChildSoldier, and for all practical purposes, a slave owned by a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction... and she loves her job. Why? Because it beats being a quadraplegic.
* At the start of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Seras is being held hostage by an enemy vampire when she finds herself between her captor and the business end of Alucard's pistol. Alucard asks her if she will agree to help him. When she nods, he [[ShootTheHostage mortally wounds both Seras and her captor]]. Alucard keeps his word and converts Seras to save her.
* In ''{{Anime/Nightwalker}}'', [[spoiler: Mr. Shido's secretary Riho]] is bitten by a nightbreed, which, given that the nightbreed killed her parents, is a FateWorseThanDeath. Mr. Shido, knowing this, turns her into a vampire as an act of compassion.
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* The comic book ''Blood + Water'' has two vampires turn a friend dying of Hepatitis C for this reason. The change even completely undoes all of the physical damage he had suffered over the years of the disease. Interestingly, he confronts them over waiting those years before turning him, and they reveal it was because [[spoiler: their SpiderSense warned them doing so would have a dark consequence. In this case, awakening the ancient FoodChainOfEvil that were prehistoric super vampires.]] They had chosen to ignore it because they cared too much about him to continue to watch him suffer.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', while being dead isn't exactly a picnic what with the gradual decomposition the dead suffer, it has it's upsides. Mainly that any pains felt in life are completely gone. Mayhew, who died of a coughing related illness, actually was fairly happy at the turnaround.
-->'''Victor:''' Mayhew! How nice to see... [notices he's dead] I'm so sorry.
-->'''Mayhew:''' Oh, yeah. Actually, though, I feel great.
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* One of the ''NightWorld'' books is about a girl with cancer whose vampire boyfriend offers to turn her to save her life.
* In one ''Literature/MercyThompson'' book a werewolf talks his father into getting infected, to save him from cancer. It does cure the disease but the father fears his werewolf side, which ironically only gets him more unstable (since he doesn't even try to get in tune with his animal side, he can't control his rage)
* Claudia from ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire''. Louis and Lestat find her almost dead of the plague; they turn her into a vampire.
* This is how Edward views vampirism in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' - on the bright side, he was saved from a horrible, wasting death from Spanish flu and is now [[TheBeautifulPeople impossibly beautiful]]. On the negative side, he is hard as rock, dead, can't go out in direct sunlight, constantly thirsts to kill people and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has to go to high school for the rest of his life]] ([[{{Immortality}} which is forever]]). This is why he is unwilling to make Bella a vampire, despite the fact that she wants to be one.
* Subverted in ''Blood Price'' by TanyaHuff. Victoria is slowly going blind from Retinitis Pigmentosa. But she refuses to allow Henry to turn her into a vampire.
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* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Lie To Me," a childhood friend of Buffy's sells her out to some vampires in exchange for being turned into a vampire to cure his fatal brain tumor. Buffy was quick to point out that the vampires in her 'verse don't have the {{Soul}} of the human the body belonged to; his body would move around, and a demon might have his memories, but "he" would still die.
* In one episode of ''ForeverKnight'' a blind woman regains her sight after being turned.
* ''{{Moonlight}}'': Beth asks Mick to do this for her fatally wounded fiance. He refuses. [[GenreSavvy He musta seen that ep of Forever Knight.]]
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* The whole point of worshipping Nurgle in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'', if you are already covered in diseases and rotting flesh, you can't get old, and you won't feel pain. You also have a the patronage of the only kind [[{{GodIsEvil}} god]] in the entire [[CrapsackWorld galaxy]].
* In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' when you are turned into a vampire all injuries, illnesses and disabilities disappear. However, now you are at the bottom of the pecking order surrounded by vampires who want to use you as a pawn and aren't shy of killing you if it helps them, must prey on humans to survive, can be smelled out by werewolves who will hunt you with prejudice and have to pretend you're human while dealing with the "burns in sunlight" thing.
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* Xykon from ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. It is revealed in the prequel ''StartOfDarkness'' that he became a lich, under Redcloak's suggestion, to escape a magical disease that was preventing him from using his sorcerer magic. Also, they were prisoners of a powerful druid and had little other options for escaping.
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