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* '''Justified:''' ???Alice's heart gives out from the amount of blood pumping because of the stress.
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* '''Lampshaded:''' Alice faints in a moment of great surprise or stress. Bob scoffs and calls Alice a "swooning Victorian heroine." Charlie (a nurse) scolds him for being insensitive and explains that it's a real phenomenon, the medical term is "vasovagal syncope."

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* '''Lampshaded:''' Alice faints in a moment of great surprise or stress. Bob scoffs and calls Alice a "swooning Victorian heroine." Charlie (a nurse) scolds him for being insensitive and explains that it's a real phenomenon, the medical term is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncope_(medicine)#Vasovagal_syncope "vasovagal syncope.""]]
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* '''Lampshaded:''' ???Alice faints in a moment of great surprise or stress. Bob scoffs and calls Alice a "swooning Victorian heroine." Charlie (a nurse) scolds him for being insensitive and explains that it's a real phenomenon, the medical term is "vasovagal syncope."
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'''Basic Trope:''' Fainting from too much emotion/surprise.
* '''Straight:''' Alice faints in a moment of great surprise or stress.
* '''Exaggerated:''' AngstComa
* '''Downplayed:''' Alice gets woozy, but doesn't pass out.
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* '''Inverted:''' Shocking news makes Alice [[InstantWakingSkills very awake]] when she was previously groggy.
* '''Subverted:''' Alice faints in a dramatic moment. This is attributed to the stress, but when Bob seeks medical care for her, he learns it's because she's diabetic, her blood sugar got low, and she had a hypoglycemic attack. The context was just coincidental.
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* '''Averted:''' NervesOfSteel
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* '''Invoked:''' FakeFaint
* '''Exploited:''' ???
* '''Defied:''' [[BreakingBadNewsGently Bob asks Alice to sit down before telling her shocking news.]]
* '''Implied:''' ???
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