History Main / SelfInducedAllergicReaction

* In ''Film/StarTrek'' Bones uses a variant of this to sneak Kirk onto the Enterprise. He injects Kirk with a vaccine whose side effects cause him to become quickly and visibly sick, allowing Bones to fast-talk a guard.

When a character induces an allergic reaction in himself. Perhaps to get out of a bad situation, to stall for time or some other reason. This is usually PlayedForLaughs.

[[IThoughtItMeant Has surprisingly little to do with]] CoughSnarkCough.

* Zipzee does this with flowers repeatedly in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony'': ''[[MyLittlePonyG3 The Princess Promenade]]''. Not for any strategic reason like the above examples, she just really likes the smell of flowers and Spring, and refuses to let her allergies get in the way of it.

* The first chapter of "Lumpy's Sneezy Adventure" has Lumpy discover a rare flower and sniff it. It not only [[SneezeOfDoom causes him to sneeze, but causes him to sneeze for the rest of the fanfic]]. In the second chapter, [[TheSmartGuy Sniffles]] advises him [[DefiedTrope not to try this again for his own safety]].

* In ''[[TheThrawnTrilogy Heir to the Empire]]'', Mara Jade devises a plan to disguise Luke from Imperial patrols while they're on Myrkr: she rubs the leaves of a poisonous plant all over his face and he breaks out in hives. Now, these aren't your everyday hives, mind you; its more like the result of blister beetle venom.

* In ''[[TheThrawnTrilogy Heir to the Empire]]'', Mara Jade devises a plan to disguise Luke from Imperial patrols while they're on Myrkr: she rubs the leaves of a poisonous plant all over his face and he breaks out in hives.

-->--'''Lemony Snicket''', ''[[Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents The Wide Window]]''

* Pam from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' willingly eats a vegan buffet mainly composed of soy (which she is allergic to) because she wants to eat something. The guy on charge of it inmediately tells her to stop eating but Pam just asks if he has Epinephrine. He nods and she ''continues eating'' assuming that injecting her with an [=EpiPen=] would save her life no matter how much she ate.

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** This is a citation from RealLife: in 1920's Dublin, there was a self-scourging religious manic called Matty Hislop, who in addition to delf-denial and literally wearing a hairshirt, was seriously allergic to cats and who did indeed take to carrying a kitten to provoke an asthmatic reaction. There was, and maybe still is, a religious movement dedicated to Hislop being elevated to sainthood, although most people of his time thought he was a nutjob. BrendanBehan described him as dangerous, dissapprovingly citing of his doing unpaid 14 hour working days for no doubt grateful bosses, noting he was doing some other fella out of a paying job in a time of want, and how bloody Christian was ''that''?

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* Penny's allergy to strawberries is invoked in the denouement of ''Literature/{{Edenborn}}'' where she used it to fake a deadly disease and make a LastRequest.[[spoiler:..to murder the rest of her family for perceived injustices.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'', a criminal on death row requests a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for his last meal (having requested steak when his sentence was suspended). It turns out he was allergic and wanted to die on his own terms.

* ''VeronicaMars'': A suspect eats peanut butter cookies in order to trigger his nut allergy and escape from jail.
* In an episode of ''{{CSI}}'', a criminal on death row requests a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for his last meal (having requested steak when his sentence was suspended). It turns out he was allergic and wanted to die on his own terms.

* ''That70sShow'': When Kelso starts training for police academy, he decides to drink raw eggs like Rocky does. He [[NotNowKiddo shushs Jackie's attempts to speak]] until ''after'' he's finished drinking the eggs, at which point she reminds him he's allergic to them.
* In ''FatherTed'', Ted mentions a priest called Matty Hislop who, despite being allergic to cats used to carry a kitten with him and "sniff it from time to time". His reason for doing this was that he was part of a religious sect that involved self-punishment.

* In the ''NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' episode "Excuses", Cookie tries to impress Vanessa's grandmother by eating walnuts (which she likes), and HilarityEnsues.

* Katherine of ''WapsiSquare'' considers [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/anaphylaxisexcuse/ taking advantage of her strawberry allergy to get herself hospitalized and avoid a difficult situation at work.]]

* ''FamilyGuy'': Meg threatens this in the middle of a rant to her parents about how terrible they are, saying that she's just gonna go upstairs and eat a whole bowl of peanuts. It has no effect on Peter and Lois, because they don't even remember that she's allergic to peanuts.
* In ''KiddVideo'', the fairy Glitter becomes super-strong when she sneezes, leading the band to find new sneeze stimuli for her [[OnceAnEpisode whenever they're in a tight spot]].
* In one episode of ''RegularShow'', Rigby attempts to eat a huge plate of eggs to win a trucker's hat, but ends up in the hospital after only two bites.
* ''ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': In "The Creeping Creatures", Daphne uses her allergy to synthetic animal skin to prove that a shipment of gator skin products are counterfeits.
* Zipzee does this with flowers repeatedly in ''MyLittlePony'': ''[[MyLittlePonyG3 The Princess Promenade]]''. Not for any strategic reason like the above examples, she just really likes the smell of flowers and Spring, and refuses to let her allergies get in the way of it.

* At the end of ''{{Innerspace}}'', Tuck is running out of air in his pod and needs to get out of Jack's body soon or he'll die. Currently he is in Jack's lungs, but can't get to a handy orifice in time. Somebody remembers that a human sneeze travels at roughly 300 miles per hour - leading Jack to induce a sneeze by huffing hairspray, as he was diagnosed with an allergy to same at the beginning of the movie.

* In ''WarcraftIII'', the Druid of the Talon is able to transform into a bird, and one of his joke quotes is sneezing and hoping that he's not allergic to feathers.

-->--'''Lemony Snicket''', ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' [[note]]''The Wide Window''[[/note]]

* Used in [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/2720/ this]] ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness''. Peanut Allergy, Bitches!

* ''That70sShow'' has Kelso doing this, while Jackie watches in silence after being told to wait to tell him something until after he drinks some eggs, she was trying to tell him that he is allergic to eggs.
* In ''FatherTed'', Ted mentions a priest called Matty Hislop who, despite being allergic to cats used to carry a kitten with him and 'sniff it from time to time'. His reason for doing this was that he was part of a religious sect that involved self-punishment.

* In one episode of ''RegularShow'', Rigby attempts to eat a huge plate of eggs to win a truckers hat. But ends in the hospital after only two bites.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': To keep from telling Stan and Kyle where the ballots are, Butters eats an almond M&M. Since Butters is allergic to almonds he goes to a hospital.

* Happens with Robin on HowIMetYourMother, in flashback. After being told she can no longer have lobster, she decides to go on a binge. Realizing that after this, she no longer craved lobster, she decided she would do the same thing when it came to the one man she couldn't stop thinking romantically about, [[spoiler:Barney]].

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->''"If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if that thing is cats."''

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** This is a citation from RealLife: in 1920's Dublin, there was a self-scourging religious manic called Matty Hislop, who in addition to delf-denial and literally wearing a hairshirt, was seriously allergic to cats and who did indeed take to carrying a kitten to provoke an asthmatic reaction. There was, and maybe still is, a religious movement dedicated to Hislop being elevated to sainthood, although most people of his time thought he was a nutjob. BrendanBehan described him as dangerous, dissapprovingly citing of his doing unpaid 14 hour working days for no doubt grateful bosses, noting he was doing some other fella out of a paying job in a time of want, and how bloody Christian was ''that''?

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* ''[[ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents The Wide Window]]'': The Baudelaire siblings eat peppermints so they have an excuse to escape from dinner and decode a secret message.

* In ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Hermione uses a jinx on Harry to make his face swell up, hiding him from the Snatchers. It doesn't entirely work, though, and he has to rely on Draco Malfoy's sympathy to keep up the disguise when the trio are brought to Malfoy Manor.

* In ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Hermione uses a jinx on Harry to make his face swell up, hiding from the Snatchers. It doesn't entirely work, though, and he has to rely on Draco Malfoy's sympathy to keep up the disguise when the trio are brought to Malfoy Manor.

* In ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Hermione uses a similar strategy to the previous example to hide Harry from the Snatchers. It doesn't entirely work, though, and he has to rely on Draco Malfoy's sympathy to keep up the disguise when the trio are brought to Malfoy Manor.

-->--'''Lemony Snicket''', ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' [[hottip:*:''The Wide Window'']]

* Used in [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/2720/ this]] ''CyanideAndHappiness''. Peanut Allergy, Bitches!

* There is a children's book in which a horse is extremely allergic to roses and sneezes loudly when he smells one. At the end, he deliberately sniffs a rose to muster a huge sneeze to stop a robbery in progress. [[spoiler:It turns out that this final sneeze somehow cured him of the allergy.]]