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** Some MadScientist had the idea to cull human overpopulation with a deliberate pandemic.

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** Some MadScientist had the idea to cull human overpopulation with a deliberate pandemic. Whether or not he expected it to cull off a specific part of the human population or the entirety of humanity is DependingOnTheWriter.

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** A SpreadingDisasterGraphicMap shows an army lab as ThePlague's ground zero.

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** A SpreadingDisasterGraphicMap SpreadingDisasterMapGraphic shows an army lab as ThePlague's ground zero.zero.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Troperitis was made by some nerds and turns anyone infected into other nerds. Finally they have some company.
* '''Played for Drama''': Humans not just have to deal with a deadly disease, but also with the knowledge that they now factually caused their own demise.

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* '''Exaggerated''': It turns out that any disease humanity ever knew was in fact made by them.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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It turns out that any disease humanity ever knew was in fact made by them.them.
** Troperitis was not just man-made, but even its spread around the world is steered by people.



* '''Justified''': Troperitis was intended for biological warfare. Then some idiot just had to bring it out to the world.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Troperitis was intended for biological warfare. Then some idiot just had to bring it out to the world.world.
** Some MadScientist had the idea to cull human overpopulation with a deliberate pandemic.



* '''Averted''': Troperitis is just a disease that crossed the species bareer or came from the wilderness in some other way.

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* '''Averted''': Troperitis is just a disease that crossed the species bareer barrier or came from the wilderness in some other way.



* '''Conversed''': "Damn scary...and this virus could be developed somewhere '''right now'''."

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* '''Conversed''': "Damn scary...and this virus could be developed somewhere '''right now'''.""
* '''Deconstructed''': Man-made plague means that there are already people who know everything about it, and can develop a vaccine quite easily. Maybe it was even part of the plan.
* '''Reconstructed''': There was no time to develop the vaccine yet. And Troperitis killed [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters its own developers first]].
* '''Implied''':
** PatientZero worked in a bio-weapon lab.
** A SpreadingDisasterGraphicMap shows an army lab as ThePlague's ground zero.
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* '''Justified''': Troperitis was intended for biological warfare.

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* '''Justified''': Troperitis was intended for biological warfare. Then some idiot just had to bring it out to the world.



* '''Defied''': TheGovernment stops the bio-weapon project since they rethought and deemed it too unplannable and dangerous at second thought.

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* '''Defied''': TheGovernment stops the bio-weapon project since they rethought and deemed it too unplannable and dangerous at second thought.thought, not to mention the possible consequences if this bio-weapon actually gets out and is spread throughout society.
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* '''Averted''': Troperitis is just a disease that JumpedTheSpeciesBarrier or came from the wilderness in some other way.

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* '''Averted''': Troperitis is just a disease that JumpedTheSpeciesBarrier crossed the species bareer or came from the wilderness in some other way.
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'''Basic Trope Description''': A deadly disease created by humans.

* '''Straight''': Troperitis, ThePlague, was created as a bio-weapon in an army lab.
* '''Exaggerated''': It turns out that any disease humanity ever knew was in fact made by them.
* '''Downplayed''': Troperitis was created by humans as something much milder, but mutated into something deadly after it EscapedFromTheLab.
* '''Justified''': Troperitis was intended for biological warfare.
* '''Inverted''': MysticalPlague
* '''Subverted''': Troperitis is said to have been created in a lab - but it wasn't a human lab, it was created by [[AliensAreBastards aliens]] to support their [[AlienInvasion invasion]] of Earth.
* '''Double Subverted''': But then we find out that the aliens just stole human plans for a bio-weapon after all, and enslaved some human scientists to work on it in their labs.
* '''Enforced''': The writer aims for AnAesop about the dangers of genetic engineering and weapons of mass destruction.
* '''Averted''': Troperitis is just a disease that JumpedTheSpeciesBarrier or came from the wilderness in some other way.
* '''Parodied''': [[MonstrousGerms Bio-weapons in an army lab]] are secretly plotting how to flee and eradicate humanity.
* '''Zigzagged''': There are always new ideas about how Troperitis came over us: first, it looks like EscapedFromTheLab, then infected monkeys are caught, then they turn out to have escaped from the bio-weapon lab, later pathogens are found in the water far away...
* '''Invoked''': Dr. Evil deliberately creates Troperitis as a plague to decimate humanity.
* '''Exploited''': To get his EvilPlan in motion, Emperor Evulz causes a containment breach in a bio-weapon lab to trigger a deadly pandemic.
* '''Defied''': TheGovernment stops the bio-weapon project since they rethought and deemed it too unplannable and dangerous at second thought.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Everything apparently began in Tropetown - of course! They have this army lab close by!"
* '''Discussed''': "Do you think we humans are now killed by our own creation?" "Well, first cases reported from this town with the army lab and so on...I think it could be true."
* '''Conversed''': "Damn scary...and this virus could be developed somewhere '''right now'''."

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