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See PlayingSick for when a person merely pretends to be sick to get out of an obligation. See also SkippingSchool, where a character uses an excuse to avoid a day of school. Compare IntentionalWeightGain. Contrast with MunchausenSyndrome. See also SelfPoisoningGambit and DeliberateInjuryGambit.
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See PlayingSick for when a person merely pretends to be sick to get out of an obligation. See also SkippingSchool, where a character uses an excuse to avoid a day of school. Compare IntentionalWeightGain. Compare/Contrast ShareTheSickness for characters who try to spread their disease to other people. Contrast with MunchausenSyndrome. See also SelfPoisoningGambit and DeliberateInjuryGambit.
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* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'': One episode has La Chilindrina pretending that she's sick with chickenpox and scaring everyone into spreading it to them. El Chavo is the only one who wants to get sick as that would mean getting three meals a day. [[spoiler:At the end, turns out La Chilindrina did have chickenpox for real, and everyone gets it, ''except'' El Chavo]].
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* In the days before there was a vaccine, parents would sometimes hold 'chicken pox parties' to get their young children infected with chicken pox, since it was considered inevitable that people would get the disease at some point (before the vaccine was developed roughly 90 percent of people would get chickenpox before age 20) and it is almost always relatively mild in young children, and often much more serious in adolescents and adults, and a single infection is usually enough to prevent a person from getting it again.
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* In the days before there was a vaccine, parents would sometimes hold 'chicken pox parties' to get their young children infected with chicken pox, since it was considered inevitable that people would get the disease at some point (before the vaccine was developed roughly 90 percent of people would get chickenpox before age 20) and it is almost always relatively mild in young children, and often much more serious in adolescents and adults, and a single infection is usually enough to prevent a person from getting it again. Anti-vaxxers ''still'' use pox parties instead of just getting the vaccine, but it is now severely frowned upon now that there is a much safer alternative.
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See PlayingSick for when a person merely pretends to be sick to get out of an obligation. See also SkippingSchool, where a character uses an excuse to avoid a day of school. Contrast with MunchausenSyndrome. See also SelfPoisoningGambit and DeliberateInjuryGambit.
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See PlayingSick for when a person merely pretends to be sick to get out of an obligation. See also SkippingSchool, where a character uses an excuse to avoid a day of school. Compare IntentionalWeightGain. Contrast with MunchausenSyndrome. See also SelfPoisoningGambit and DeliberateInjuryGambit.
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* In the ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'', Vanyel sympathizes with his nephew Medren's difficulty in sword fighting practice and thinks the instructor is too hard on him. He deliberately weakens Medren's immune system and has him hang out in the family nursery so he can get "spots" from one of the young children, getting him out of training for a while.
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* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E29AFeasibilityStudy A Feasibility Study]]" and [[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E17FeasibilityStudy its 1997 remake]] from [[Series/TheOuterLimits1995 the revival series]] use a HeroicSacrifice version of this trope. In both versions, a human neighbourhood is [[AlienAbduction abducted]] by an alien species who are considering using humans as a SlaveRace. If the current "experiment" succeeds, the aliens will enslave all humanity. The abductees foil the plot by willingly infecting themselves with the same disease, demonstrating that humans would [[IDieFree choose death over enslavement]], thus saving all of Earth.
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* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E29AFeasibilityStudy A Feasibility Study]]" and [[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E17FeasibilityStudy its 1997 remake]] from [[Series/TheOuterLimits1995 the revival series]] use a HeroicSacrifice version of this trope. In both versions, a human neighbourhood is [[AlienAbduction abducted]] by an alien species who are considering using humans as a SlaveRace. If the current "experiment" succeeds, the aliens will enslave all humanity. The abductees foil the plot by willingly infecting themselves with the same a fatal alien disease, demonstrating that humans would [[IDieFree choose death over enslavement]], thus saving all of Earth.
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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' released a sketch parodying medicine commercials advising people to give themselves [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] so they can get out of social obligations, complete with a glossed-over SideEffectsInclude bit that having COVID isn't actually as mild as one may think, even in 2023.
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* One ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' strip have Nobisuke Nobi having a terrible cold during one autumn morning but insists on going to work because of an important business meeting, resulting in Doraemon bringing out the gadget-of-the-week, the Sickness-Transferring Phone, which allows a sickly person to swap their illness with a healthy one. Nobita volunteers to get sick in his father's place, with intentions of spreading the disease to either one of his bullies, but ultimately couldn't get himself to do so when Gian - Nobita's usual bully and intended target - ''actually'' expresses concern over Nobita for once. Doraemon and Nobita (borderline delirious because of his fever) eventually runs into one of their neighbors who's strolling around bare-chested and in shorts despite the cold weather - it turns out, said neighbor was trying to get sick on purpose in order to get himself close to a nurse he had a crush on, so Nobita transfers his fever to the neighbor instead.
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* One ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' strip have Nobisuke Nobi having a terrible cold during one autumn morning but insists on going to work because of an important business meeting, resulting in Doraemon bringing out the gadget-of-the-week, the Sickness-Transferring Phone, which allows [[EmpathicHealer a sickly person to swap their illness with a healthy one.one]]. Nobita volunteers to get sick in his father's place, with intentions of spreading the disease to either one of his bullies, but ultimately couldn't get himself to do so when Gian - Nobita's usual bully and intended target - ''actually'' expresses concern over Nobita for once. Doraemon and Nobita (borderline delirious because of his fever) eventually runs into one of their neighbors who's strolling around bare-chested and in shorts despite the cold weather - it turns out, said neighbor was trying to get sick on purpose in order to get himself close to a nurse he had a crush on, so Nobita transfers his fever to the neighbor instead.
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