Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
Something that seems relevant to this trope, but I’m not sure where to put it: it’s fairly common for Horror Comedy Musical Theatre to involve a realistic or slightly-exaggerated villain who comes across as more cartoonish purely because of genre conventions. Thinking of police brutality in The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, domestic abuse in Little Shop of Horrors, and predatory medical insurance in Repo! The Genetic Opera - a common fandom joke I’ve heard about all of them is that they’re actually an improvement over their real-life equivalents, because their exaggerated actions are more typical than you might think and at least the fictional characters do it while being amazing singers. (I’ve heard the more revival of Little Shop a few years ago deliberately made Orin’s abusiveness quieter and more sinister to clarify that it wasn’t meant to be funny.) I’m not sure if that might qualify as an invoked trope (or some other variant) here, or if it’s better discussed as another trope or a fan reaction.
Edited by Noaqiyeum The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
Would an entry on Goku getting sick from the heart virus in the Android Saga qualify? Seeing the strongest fighter on the planet brought to his knees and struggling to breathe by a disease in the main timeline and outright killed by it in Trunk's timeline is a fear that no demon, alien, or android could replicate.