Basic Trope: A character has an allergy that contradicts some aspect of themselves.
- Straight:
- Steve is a baker who regularly makes nut products and has nuts as his Trademark Favorite Food, despite being allergic to nuts himself.
- Steve is a Funny Animal squirrel with a nut allergy, despite nuts being part of squirrels' Stock Animal Diet.
- Exaggerated:
- Steve has a potentially lethal allergy to nuts, despite working with them every day.
- Steve has an Abnormal Allergy to baking itself.
- Steve is somehow allergic to himself.
- Downplayed: Steve has a mild intolerance for nuts, despite enjoying many varieties of nuts.
- Justified:
- Steve became a baker before he found out that he had a nut allergy.
- Steve developed a nut allergy later in life.
- Catherine the cat is lactose intolerant, despite milk being a part of cats' Stock Animal Diet. However, this is actually Truth in Television — many adult mammals really are lactose intolerant.
- Inverted: Steve is allergic to his least favorite food.
- Subverted:
- It turns out that Steve doesn't really have a nut allergy — he just dislikes nuts and claims he's allergic so he doesn't have to eat them.
- Steve claims he has a nut allergy... but then he's seen eating peanuts.
- Double Subverted:
- But then Steve develops a nut allergy later in his life.
- Steve really does have a nut allergy. However, he can still eat peanuts, because peanuts aren't actually true nuts, but legumes.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Steve is only allergic to some kinds of nuts.
- Averted:
- Steve doesn't have any allergies.
- None of Steve's allergies contradict him.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Upon finding out that he's allergic to nuts, Steve stops eating them and quits his job as a baker.
- Steve undergoes medical treatment in order to prevent him from having an allergic reaction.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed:
- "Steve the squirrel from that one cartoon is allergic to nuts... how does that poor guy live?" "Squirrels are omnivores, maybe he mostly eats seeds."
- "If Steve is allergic to nuts... how come he works in a job where he has to make nut products?!" "Maybe he found out he was allergic sometime after getting the job, or he developed the allergy later in life."
Back to Ironic Allergy. I'm actually allergic to Playing With pages, and now I can't stop sneezing.
