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* '''Reconstructed''': The virus specifically targets the host's immune system as its infection vector so that the main means of fighting it off is compromised from the start.



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* '''Averted''': [[EldritchAbomination A human-sized amoeba]] kills Bob. The amoeba eats Bob, and converts his mass into more amoeba. The amoeba [[SelfDuplication splits into two]] organisms that are completely unrelated to Bob whatsoever.

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[[EldritchAbomination A human-sized amoeba]] kills Bob. The amoeba eats Bob, and converts his mass into more amoeba. The amoeba [[SelfDuplication splits into two]] organisms that are completely unrelated to Bob whatsoever.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is bitten by a zombie. He transforms into a zombie, and then [[SelfDuplication duplicates himself 9 times, becoming 10 zombies.]] He bites Alice, Carol, David, Emma, Finn, George, Hilda, Isaac, John, and Kim, and they also transform into 10 zombies each.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is bitten by a zombie. He transforms into a zombie, and then [[SelfDuplication duplicates himself 9 nine times, becoming 10 zombies.]] ten zombies]]. He bites Alice, Carol, David, Emma, Finn, George, Hilda, Isaac, John, and Kim, and they also transform into 10 ten zombies each.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob gets bitten by a zombie, and while he has impaired cognition and a slight craving for meat for a few days, eventually his immune system successfully fights off the infection and he makes a full recovery.
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* '''Played For Laughs''':
** Bob gets bitten by a zombie. [[SubvertedTrope He was]] [[NoSell immune]] to the zombie virus, [[DoubleSubversion but]] [[BlackComedy not to herpes.]]
** Bob gets bitten by a werewolf. [[HollywoodJehovahsWitness The werewolf he got bitten by immediately tries to recruit him into a werewolf religion/cult]] while Bob is trying to survive a PainfulTransformation.
** Bob [[LazyBum is so lazy]] that he doesn't notice that he became a vampire after [[NoodleIncident that bar fight]], as he didn't go out in the sun much anyways.
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob, as a zombie, is a TragicMonster with a dose of AndIMustScream.

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* '''Double Subverted''': Then a werewolf bites Alice, and she turns.

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Then a werewolf bites Alice, and she turns.
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** It’s later revealed that Bob reanimated. He just took longer to turn.
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* '''Invoked''':

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* '''Invoked''':'''Invoked''': The resident MadScientist creates an organism that infects humans, and spreads through the bloodstream - inflicting a wound, for example a bite, was the natural course of action for the virus to take, so that it can enter the target's bloodstream.
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* '''Exaggerated''':
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* '''Exaggerated''':
'''Exaggerated''': Bob is bitten by a zombie. He transforms into a zombie, and then [[SelfDuplication duplicates himself 9 times, becoming 10 zombies.]] He bites Alice, Carol, David, Emma, Finn, George, Hilda, Isaac, John, and Kim, and they also transform into 10 zombies each.
* '''Downplayed''':'''Downplayed''': Bob is bitten by a zombie. He dies, but the corpse is contagious and may infect others, turning them into zombies.

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* '''Defied''': ResistTheBeast

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* '''Defied''': ResistTheBeast'''Defied''':
** ResistTheBeast
** Upon infection, Bob dons a gas mask so that he can't bite anyone when he turns.
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* '''Defied''': [[ResistTheBeast]]

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* '''Defied''': [[ResistTheBeast]]ResistTheBeast

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* '''Inverted''': Undead skeletons spread a virus that only affects undead. Living people are unaffected.
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Undead skeletons spread a virus that only affects undead. Living people are unaffected.
** Bob is a zombie, and is bitten by a human. He transforms into a human, and bites Alice. Alice becomes a human, too.
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'''Subverted''': Bob is bitten by a zombie, but he doesn't transform - he just dies.
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Subverted''': Then a werewolf bites Alice, and she turns.
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'''Parodied''': Bob is bitten by a chicken. He turns into a turkey, and bites Alice. Alice becomes a peahen.
* '''Zig-Zagged''':'''Zig-Zagged''': Bob is bitten by a zombie, but he doesn't turn. Then a werewolf bites Alice, and she becomes a werewolf - but only at night. A zombie bites her in broad daylight, and it turns out that werewolves are susceptible to the transformation. However, because she is now a zombie werewolf, she only eats werewolves, and she remains an ally and friend to Bob... until a werewolf bites Bob.



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'''Basic Trope''': Something that turns others [[TheAssimilator into itself or into entities subservient to itself]].
* '''Straight''': Bob is bitten by a zombie. He transforms into a zombie, and bites Alice. Alice becomes a zombie, too.
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* '''Justified''': A pathogen would become extinct if it cannot spread from host to host.
* '''Inverted''': Undead skeletons spread a virus that only affects undead. Living people are unaffected.
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* '''Averted''': [[EldritchAbomination A human-sized amoeba]] kills Bob. The amoeba eats Bob, and converts his mass into more amoeba. The amoeba [[SelfDuplication splits into two]] organisms that are completely unrelated to Bob whatsoever.
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