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* Played straight in ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'', Kay'la is swamped by white blood cells while exploring the king's body, and later 'outswims' them to reach his heart safely.

* White blood cells in ''[[WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois Once Upon a Time… Life]]'' are depicted as comical-looking policemen who chase bacteria and viruses to phagocyte them.
* During the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode [[Recap/TeenTitansS3E4Crash "Crash"]], Cyborg gets infected with a virus, so Gizmo and Beast Boy go micro and fight the virus. One scene shows white blood cells chasing them.

* White blood cells in ''[[WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois Once Upon a Time… Life]]'' are depicted as comic-looking policemen who chase bacteria and viruses to phagocyte them.

* Although it's not a physical example, Censors in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' are a mental equivalent. Censors roam the psyche and censor out anything that doesn't belong, including hallucinations, paranoias... and visiting Psychonauts. In fact, one of the first signs that Boyd's mind isn't doing so well is that ''there are no Censors whatsoever in there.''

* A variation in ''Druuna: Aphrodisia'' where Captain Williamson goes into a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind to find Druuna, but runs into antibodies which manifest themselves as insectoid monsters crawling out of the ground. He injected himself with a serum that causes them to ignore him at first, but later on it loses its effect and he has to make a break for it.

* ''Film/FantasticVoyage'': White blood cells are mentioned but not seen until the near end, antibodies make an earlier appearance.

In RealLife, white blood cells usually don't chase pathogens, they just float around and eat any threats that they bump into. Chemicals such as bacterial wastes or inflammatory secretions do attract them to the general ''area'' of infection, but they don't actively chase any threats they find there.

In RealLife, white blood cells usually don't chase pathogens, they just float around and eat any threats that they bump into.

* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'' (and by extension its {{spinoff}}s such as ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBlack'') personifies white blood cells as highly-trained pathogen killing machines.

* Although it's not a physical example, Censors in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' are a mental equivalent. Censors roam the psyche and censor out anything that doesn't belong, including hallucinations, paranoias... and visiting Psychonauts. In fact, one of the first signs that Boyd's mind [[{{Understatement}} isn't doing so well]] is that ''there are no Censors whatsoever in there.''

* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'' personifies white blood cells as highly-trained pathogen killing machines.

* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'' personifies white blood cells as highly trained pathogen killing machines.

* ''Film/FantasticVoyage'': White blood cells are mentioned but not seen until the near end, antibodies make a earlier appearance.
* ''Film/OsmosisJones'' anthropomorphisizes the entire human body, giving all the various cells and such names and allowing them to speak and develop friendships with other cells. The white blood cells are treated like the police, so they get a lot of chase scenes with equally anthropomorphic pathogens.

** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek Into the Dalek]]'' they... well, see they title. A Dalek's machinery has the equivalent of white blood cells: little seeker robot things that fly around and blast anything that causes damage, such as shrunken people.

** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek]]'' they... well, see they title. A Dalek's machinery has the equivalent of white blood cells: little seeker robot things that fly around and blast anything that causes damage, such as shrunken people.

* ''[[Manga/CellsAtWork Hataraku Saibou]]'' personifies white blood cells as highly trained pathogen killing machines.

** In the story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E2TheInvisibleEnemy "The Invisible Enemy"]], the Doctor and Leela travel inside the Doctor's body [[note]]Yes, the Doctor travels inside his own body. ItMakesSenseInContext.[[/note]] to deal with an alien infection. At one point, they're attacked by white blood cells, but the Doctor uses a nearby nerve cluster to send them a fake message summoning them to a different part of the body. (This wouldn't work in a human body, where white blood cells just wander aimlessly and deal with whatever they happen to come across, but maybe a Time Lord's immune system [[BizarreAlienBiology works differently]].)
** In "Into the Dalek," they... well, see they title. A Dalek's machinery has the equivalent of white blood cells: little seeker robot things that fly around and blast anything that causes damage, such as shrunken people.

* ''Hataraku Saibou'' personifies white blood cells as highly trained pathogen killing machines.

* Avoided completely in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when the Planet Express crew go inside Fry's body with nanomachines and are never attacked by any part of his immune system. Though the sentient parasite worms that got there first and remodeled his body to their liking may have something to do with that. If so, FridgeHorror since they are forced to leave at the end of the episode...