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* In the ''Film/BladeTrilogy'', Whistler specifically says, "Vampires are severely allergic to silver." ''Severely'' is a major understatement; if a vamp is stabbed or shot with silver, their body bursts into intense flame, leaving a charred skeleton that crumbles to ash. In the first film a vampire is sprayed in the mouth with silver mace and ''her head explodes.''

* In ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' movie, Morla, the Ancient One is allergic to youth.
* In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Kirk has to wear antique reading glasses, because he's allergic to the drug that most people take to correct their vision.

* ''Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture'': Discussed in ''Literature/TheWarWithLilliputians''. Alice's parents plan to send her to her aunt who grows prize-winning artichokes. Alice immediately claims she has had an incurable allergy to artichokes since birth.
* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': Rachel turns out to be allergic to crocodiles when she absorbs the DNA of one for morphing. The result is that she starts unexpectedly morphing whenever she has a strong emotion, whether angry, afraid, or even lovestruck. Her body curing her condition turns out to be even worse, as first she starts behaving like a crocodile while still in a human form, then the DNA is expelled from her in the form of a crocodile growing out of her body.
* In the ''Literature/ElephantAndPiggie'' book "Pigs Make Me Sneeze", Gerald thinks he's allergic to pigs. [[spoiler: He's not: he just has [[SickEpisode a cold]], which Piggie catches from him.]]
* In Creator/CraigShawGardner's ''Literature/TheExploitsOfEbenezum'', the title character is under a curse which makes him allergic to magic; he begins sneezing uncontrollably in its presence. Considering that he's a ''wizard'', and that one of his traveling companions is a warrior who has an enchanted club (he normally carries it in a sack to minimize the effect on Ebenezum), it causes all sorts of problems.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/GloryRoad''. When Oscar Gordon enters the Forest of Dragons he discovers that he is allergic to dragons. His eyes start watering, his sinuses clog up and he has to hold back a sneeze. Luckily his friend Star has an ointment that neutralizes his allergy.

* ''Literature/RedDwarf:'' In ''Last Human'', Rimmer insists he has an allergy to ''parachutes'', and if and when they get back to the ship he can even show them his medical records to prove it. Lister knows this is just another transparent attempt by Rimmer to get out of doing something, and is impressed by the sheer depths Rimmer is willing to sink to in order to save his hide.
* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': The Baudelaire siblings are allergic to peppermints, a fact often forgotten by their escort Mr. Poe, who keeps absentmindedly giving them some. In the third book, they deliberately eat them to give themselves an excuse to stay home, and their symptoms are quite ridiculous, with Violet breaking out in spots, Klaus's tongue swelling up too much to speak, and Sunny getting both.
* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': In ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', the magician Coriakin mentions that whenever he is under the invisibility spell, it always makes him feel sleepy.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold Threshold]]", Tom Paris's first symptom that he's changing [[spoiler: into a lizard thing]] is that he's now allergic to water.

* In ''VideoGame/LeatherGoddessesOfPhobos'', the mad scientist who switches the mind of the player character with the mind of a gorilla won't let the player character take a portable wormhole into his laboratory because he's allergic to portable wormholes.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' Awakened (magical) creatures have a variety of allergies appropriate to their monster type, including sunlight (banshee, barghest, ghoul, vampire, wendigo), silver (shapeshifter e.g. werewolves) and pollutants (unicorn).

* The player character in ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}'', the Journalist, is allergic to the titular Bugsnax, as eating one causes them to become violently ill. It explains why the player cannot customize themselves as they can the other residents of Snaxburg. [[spoiler: It turns out to be quite fortunate once the true nature of the Bugsnax is revealed.]]

* In Creator/CraigShawGardner's ''Literature/EbeneezumTrilogy'', the title character is under a curse which makes him allergic to magic; he begins sneezing uncontrollably in its presence. Considering that he's a ''wizard'', and that one of his traveling companions is a warrior who has an enchanted club (he normally carries it in a sack to minimize the effect on Ebeneezum) , it causes all sorts of problems.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': Tsumugi Shirogane the [[CosplayOtakuGirl Ultimate Cosplayer's]] love of cosplaying is so high that if she ever tries cosplaying as a non-fictional character, her whole body starts breaking out a rash in the form of a disease known as ''cospox.''

* In ''VisualNovel/WhenTheNightComes'', the demon Omen is allergic to chocolate, which makes his tongue tingle and swell. Chocolate may not seem like a very abnormal allergy, but a demon with any allergy to begin with seems to be abnormal, as remarked on by many characters. Other characters, especially Alkar and Ezra, urge him to take his allergy more seriously, but Omen argues that a swollen tongue does not affect his breathing the way it would a human, and they should let a demon have his indulgences.

* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Goku is allergic to the taste of grapes. In addition to grapes themselves, anything which happens to be grape-flavored will make him turn purple.

* There is a rare genetic condition called vibratory urticaria where a person is allergic repetitive motions like running or clapping their hands. It is caused by a certain protein the body being weakened enough to break when shaken, which triggers an immune response.

* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Sheldon the seahorse is allergic to water, or [[ExpospeakGag H20 intolerant as he says it]]. Given that he ''lives'' underwater, he's quite the sneezer.

* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Sheldon the seahorse is allergic to water. Given that he ''lives'' underwater, he's quite the sneezer.

* There is a rare genetic condition called vibratory urticaria where a person is allergic making repetitive motions like running or clapping their hands. It is caused by a certain protein the body being weakened enough to break when shaken, which triggers an immune response.

* There is also a rare allergy to the sun.

* There is a rare allergy to water, which will cause someone's skin to break out in hives, and typically occurs regardless of the type of water or its temperature.