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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