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Basic Trope: Someone is allergic to something that most people are not.

  • Played Straight: Alice is allergic to desk fans.
  • Exaggerated: Alice is allergic to everything but the “normal” allergies of pollen, cats, dogs, peanuts, etc
  • Downplayed: Alice is allergic to desk fans but only for one episode, then it’s never brought up again.
  • Justified: Alice lives in an abstract world where this is probably the most normal thing.
  • Inverted: Alice is allergic to peanuts.
  • Subverted: Alice has an allergic reaction to what she thinks is desk fans but it’s actually just peanuts.
  • Double Subverted: It turns out she was right the first time.
  • Parodied: Alice is allergic to quite literally everything.
  • Zig-Zagged: Alice swaps between being allergic to desk fans and not being allergic throughout the show’s length
  • Averted:
    • Alice isn’t allergic to anything.
    • Alice is allergic to peanuts or another
  • Enforced: Alice is a Sickly Neurotic Geek, and so the creators give her a lot of allergies, including desk fans.
  • Lampshaded: “Did I tell you I’m allergic to desk fans?”
  • Invoked: Bob is looking for Alice, and uses a desk fan to make her sneeze and reveal her hiding spot
  • Exploited: See Invoked.
  • Defied: Alice takes allergy medication to suppress her allergies.
  • Discussed: “ ???
  • Conversed: "We already know Alice is supposed to be the sickly character. But desk fans? Really?"
  • Deconstructed: ???

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