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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Baymax}}'': Mbita is a fish soup salesman. Unfortunately, he learns he's allergic to fish and panics he can't continue his family business because of it.

* One of the Temmies in ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'' is allergic to Temmies. [[PuffOfLogic When it mentions this]], it promptly breaks out into "hOIVS!"

* The "lactose-intolerant cow" example from ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' is TruthInTelevision. Cow's milk is only intended to be drunk by the calves, so they lose their ability to digest it as they grow up, just like other mammals. Humans are the weird ones in that we've developed a mutation that allows some of us to digest milk even as adults.

* Patrick, in ''Literature/TwoPercentPower'' derives his powers from milk. He's also lactose intolerant.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' franchise, whenever two immortals are close enough to each other, they get a kind of [[SpiderSense warning sensation]] (nicknamed "the Buzz") that another, potentially hostile, immortal is nearby. In one episode of the ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' TV series, main character Duncan had a friend who would break out into sneezing fits whenever the Buzz was triggered for him. Being allergic to a danger warning is bad enough, but even worse was the fact that the Buzz was explicitly shown to vary in terms of how far apart two immortals would be when it would go off. Sometimes it might be triggered when the other immortal would still be a fair distance away, sometimes they'd be right around the corner. Being incapacitated by a sneezing fit due to your warning system while someone who truly believes ThereCanBeOnlyOne is that close can be a very bad thing.

* The boss battle against [[WhenTreesAttack Whispy Woods]] in ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2'' has him wearing glasses and a face mask in his first phase, indicating that he has a pollen allergy, even though he's a tree.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Baymax}}'': Mbita is a fish soup salesman. Unfortunately, he learns he's allergic to fish and panics he can't continue his family business because of it.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Cheese is lactose-intolerant, but likes chocolate milk. Not to mention, he's [[IronicName named]] after a type of dairy.

* Creator/KiernanShipka is allergic to cats, unfortunate since she's cast as the titular character on ''Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' which means the character of Salem, played by a real cat this time, has to be downplayed in that adaptation.

* Rin Hoshizora from ''Anime/LoveLive'' is [[AnimalMotifs heavily associated with cats]] to the point that she [[VerbalTics frequently ends her sentences]] with "nya" (the Japanese sound effect for a cat's meowing), but supplementary materials reveal that she's actually allergic to them.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Baymax}}'': Mbita is a fish soup salesman. Unfortunately, he learns that he's allergic to fish and panics that he won't be able to continue his family business because of it.

** In a strip with four ducks, one of them horribly swollen and puffed up, with his wife saying "Oh, that's just Hank's little cross to bear... He's allergic to down and that's that."

* One of the Temmies in ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'' is allergic to Temmies. When it mentions this it promptly breaks out into "hOIVS!"

* The wizard Ebenzeum in ''[[Literature/TheExploitsOfEbenezum]]'' is allergic to magic.

* In one comic, ComicBook/TheJoker managed to kill an interviewer even from inside Arkham Asylum and not having any access to lethal weapons. The asylum let him bake some cookies, which they confirmed were completely non-toxic, but they didn't account for the ground peanuts in the flour. The interviewer ate the cookies and died from the allergic reaction. Joker did it entirely because he was amused that a man named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver George Carver]] had a peanut allergy.

* The boss battle against Whispy Woods in ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2'' has him wearing glasses and a face mask in his first phase, indicating that he has a pollen allergy, even though he's [[WhenTreesAttack a living tree]].

* For a long time, [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Superman's]] only weakness was to the radioactive remnants of his own home planet, Krypton, which cause him to lose access to his powers and become weak. While some writers have added a weakness to magic too, Kryptonite is still his most well-know weakness, becoming the TropeNamer for KryptoniteFactor.

* For a long time, [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Superman's]] only weakness was to the radioactive remnants of his own home planet, Krypton, which cause him to lose access to his powers and become weak. While some writers have added a weakness to magic on top of this, Kryptonite is still his most well-know weakness, becoming the TropeNamer for KryptoniteFactor.

* For a long time, [[Franchise/Superman Superman's]] only weakness was to the radioactive remnants of his own home planet, Krypton, which cause him to lose access to his powers and become weak. This is still his most well-know weakness, becoming the TropeNamer for KryptoniteFactor.

** She and her court nonetheless feast on rare animals, verging into CruellaToAnimals.[[note]] Made even worse by the fact that, AccordingToGod, she ''ate Bosco'' after her father's death. [[/note]]

* In ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', Hitchcock and Scully love to eat cheese, cheese pizzas, lasagna and pretty much anything with cheese on it, despite being lactose intolerant. [[{{Gasshole}} It has predictable effects, much to the dismay of everyone else in the precinct.]]

* In the ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' franchise, whenever two immortals are close enough to each other, they get a kind of [[SpiderSense warning sensation]] (nicknamed "the Buzz") that another, potentially hostile, immortal is nearby. On one episode of the ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' TV series, main character Duncan had a friend who would break out into sneezing fits whenever the Buzz was triggered for him. Being allergic to a danger warning is bad enough, but even worse was the fact that the Buzz was explicitly shown to vary in terms of how far apart two immortals would be when it would go off. Sometimes it might be triggered when the other immortal would still be a fair distance away, sometimes they'd be right around the corner. Being incapacitated by a sneezing fit due to your warning system while someone who truly believes ThereCanBeOnlyOne is that close can be a very bad thing.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': The Cucco Lady in Kakariko Village is allergic to cucoos and gets goosebumps when touching them. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with her specially bred Pocket Cuccos, saying she does not receive goosebumps from touching them.

* Creator/ClintEastwood became famous as a leading man in Westerns, and particularly iconic as "The Man with No Name" in the ''Film/DollarsTrilogy''. Despite being considered the quintessential film cowboy, Eastwood is actually allergic to horses and that allergy is the source of his famous ClintSquint.

* There is an UrbanLegend which claims that Creator/MelBlanc was allergic to the carrots he had to bite when voicing WesternAnimation/BugsBunny (in reality, he just didn't like the taste of carrots).

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