History Main / AilmentInducedCruelty

* Creator/GamesWorkshop: {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', and ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' by worshipers of the Chaos god Nurgle. They are ravaged with diseases and pestilence, but they view their afflictions as gifts from Nurgle that show his favor to them, and those that aren't insensate zombies are usually jovial and friendly and want nothing more than to share Nurgle's love to everyone around them...which just ends up spreading the diseases they're infected with.

* ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'': Veronica Cage was infected with the Rosalia virus, which caused her excruciating pain and made her emotionally unstable. She eventually snapped, turning violent and repeatedly assaulting her parents. Terrified by the increasing severity of her outbursts, her parents locked her in her bedroom rather than seeking medical help, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath leaving her to die screaming for them while vomiting blood and clawing at the door until her fingers bled]].

* {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars''. Augustus' former girlfriend Caroline had brain cancer, and what he calls the Asshole Tumor. Lacking any sort of filter between her thoughts and her mouth, she'd often be rude and even downright mean to everyone, including Augustus. He admits that because he only met her after she got sick, he can't actually be sure if her behavior was due to the tumor, general pain and bitterness, or just her personality.

* In ''Literature/WutheringHeights'', Mr. Earnshaw was always a stern parent who favored the foundling Heathcliff over his biological children Hindley and Cathy. But during his final illness he becomes far more irritable, intolerant of any rebellion against his authority, and especially verbally abusive to the wild, young Cathy. This is made even worse by the fact that the weaker he becomes, the more his religious bigot servant Joseph is able to influence him and encourage him to "rule his children rigidly."

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': {{Inverted|Trope}} in both this game and its futuristic spinoff ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' by worshipers of the Chaos god Nurgle. They are ravaged with diseases and pestilence, but they view their afflictions as gifts from Nurgle that show his favor to them, and those that aren't insensate zombies are usually jovial and friendly and want nothing more than to share Nurgle's love to everyone around them...which just ends up spreading the diseases they're infected with.

* ''Literature/NowhereStars'': {{Dowplayed|Trope}} by the main character. Liadain isn't ''cruel'', but she is bitter, cynical, and snarky. Being diagnosed with a terminal immune disease at thirteen and knowing you probably won't live to see fourteen will do that to a girl, but even then she manages to at least be polite and is rarely ever ''openly'' rude or insulting to people who haven't done anything to her. However, it's also why she's willing to engage in some morally dubious actions, like using her LifeDrain magic on sleeping civilians (something [[MagicalGirl Keepers]] are ''really'' not supposed to do) to fend off her worst symptoms. This doesn't help her reputation as a DarkMagicalGirl.

* An InvokedTrope in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' episode "Escape Velocity" when President Roslin is dying of cancer while Gaius Baltar and his cult of followers are stirring up trouble.
-->'''Roslin:''' I'm going to be slipping away from this life very soon. And I've gotten kind of curious as to what that's going to be like, and so, I did some research. And there are some people who say that when people are getting closer to their death, they just don't care as much about rules and laws and conventional morality.
-->'''Baltar:''' [[IsThatAThreat Are you threatening me?]]
-->'''Roslin:''' No, no, I'm just saying have a quiet life, and I'll die a quiet little death. And everyone will be happy. It's just that I'm not in the mood any longer to indulge you.

* In one episode of ''Series/Seinfeld'', George Costanza goes to visit a young man who, due to a rare immune disorder, is confined to a plastic bubble. Said Bubble Boy is nasty, demanding, foul-mouthed, and aggressive.

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* The male protagonist of the movie ''Film/MeBeforeYou'' spends much of the first few minutes being a jerk to his caretaker Louisa, bitter about being left a quadriplegic following an accident. When his ex-girlfriend visits, she tells her "I tried for ''months''. He just pushed me away, didn't want me here", revealing that he was one to her too.

* ''Literature/NowhereStars'': [[DowplayedTrope Downplayed]] by the main character; Liadain isn't ''cruel'', but she is bitter, cynical, and snarky. Being diagnosed with a terminal immune disease at thirteen and knowing you probably won't live to see fourteen will do that to a girl, but even then she manages to at least be polite is rarely ever ''openly'' rude or insulting to people who haven't done anything to her. However, it's also why she's willing to engage in some morally dubious actions, like using her LifeDrain magic on sleeping civilians (something [[MagicalGirl Keepers]] are ''really'' not supposed to do) to fend off her worst symptoms. This doesn't help her reputation as a DarkMagicalGirl.

* ''Literature/NowhereStars'': [[Dowplayed Trope Downplayed]] by the main character; Liadain isn't ''cruel'', but she is bitter, cynical, and snarky. Being diagnosed with a terminal immune disease at thirteen and knowing you probably won't live to see fourteen will do that to a girl. It's why she's willing go engage in some morally dubious actions, like using her LifeDrain magic on sleeping civilians (something [[MagicalGirl Keepers]] are ''really'' not supposed to do) to fend off her worst symptoms. This doesn't help her reputation as a DarkMagicalGirl.