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** This is a sign that OOCMeansSeriousBusiness, as Danny is ordinarily a BigEater.

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** This is a sign that OOCMeansSeriousBusiness, OOCIsSeriousBusiness, as Danny is ordinarily a BigEater.
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'''Basic Trope''': Someone refuses to eat because they're feeling upset.
* '''Straight''': Danny's best friend, Charles, dies, causing him to enter a HeroicBSOD. Emma offers him food, but he turns it down.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Danny has a horrible TraumaCongaLine in which Charles and many of his other friends die, he gets severely injured in a car accident, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the commercial he hates played on TV again]]. He stops eating and eventually starves to death.
** Every time Danny gets upset, he stops eating for a period of time.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Danny is feeling a bit down. Emma offers him some food, and he eats a little bit of it, but not very much.
** Danny accepts the offer, but doesn't actually eat the food, he just saves it for later.
* '''Justified''':
** TruthInTelevision, for some people - negative emotions can cause them to stop feeling hungry.
** Danny has a tendency to forget to do most things when severely upset, which includes [[ForgetsToEat eating]].
** Danny has an eating disorder such as anorexia.
** Danny wasn't really hungry even before he got upset.
** Danny is also feeling sick during this moment, and believes that eating could aggravate his condition.
* '''Inverted''': Danny eats a lot more than he normally does when he feels upset.
* '''Subverted''': Danny is about to refuse Emma's food offer, but ends up taking the food anyway.
* '''Double Subverted''': It's to save for later.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Nobody declines food when they're experiencing negative emotion.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Danny is [[ForceFeeding forced into eating something]].
* '''Discussed''': "Is something wrong with Danny? He won't even eat his TrademarkFavoriteFood."
* '''Conversed''': "Why do characters tend to refuse to eat when they're feeling down?"
* '''Implied''': When the other characters check in on Danny while he's in his HeroicBSOD, a plate of food that seems to have been there for a period of time can be seen in his room.
* '''Played for Drama''':
** This is a sign that OOCMeansSeriousBusiness, as Danny is ordinarily a BigEater.
** Danny does this because he has an eating disorder.
** Danny ends up malnourished as a result of doing this.
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