Basic Trope: Being shown love / affection makes a character literally sick.
- Straight: Chris breaks into hives whenever a girl tries to hug or kiss him.
- Exaggerated: Even the idea of being romantically involved with anyone is enough to give Chris a heart attack.
- Downplayed: Chris gets slightly queasy when a girl flirts with him, but he always manages to escape before his body can show any symptoms.
- Justified:
- Chris has overly sensitive senses that gets overwhelmed by the perfume and make-up that girls often wear.
- Chris has Soap Opera Disease that is triggered whenever he gets too nervous—which, due to his No Social Skills, is easily set off whenever people (especially girls) gets too close to his personal space.
- Chris has Philophobia (fear of love) and/or haphephobia (fear of being touched), so having people shower him with affection towards him trigger his phobia.
- Bob is apothiromantic (romance repulsed aromantic.)
- Inverted: Chris gets sick (or claims to be sick) if people ignore him for far too long.
- Subverted: Chris throws up after being glomped by Alice, but his illness turns out to be caused by food poisoning.
- Double Subverted: He was managing to hold up his illness just fine before. Alice glomping him somehow worsened the symptoms.
- Parodied: "Love allergy" is a very common sickness in the setting, and being a doctor who specialize in treating such conditions is one of the most high paying jobs in the market because, despite the prevalence of this allergy, the majority of the population are lovable sex maniacs.
- Zig Zagged: Chris breaks out hives when a girl hugs him, but that's because she had just cuddled her cat, and Christ is allergic to cat hair. Later, he throws up after being kissed by another girl, but only because she had just eaten garlic bread, which he can't stand. When asked about his strange reactions around girls, Chris finally admits that he's terrified of romance.
- Averted: Chris is completely unaffected by displays of affection.
- Enforced: Chris is a Harem Series protagonist, but the author doesn't want to resolve the Love Dodecahedron and needs an in-universe justification for Chris to choose none of his suitors.
- Lampshaded: "What's wrong with you, Chris? It's just a kiss."
- Invoked: As a child, Chris's Evil Mentor brainwashed him into believing that love and affection is harmful or even deadly.
- Exploited:
- Chris's enemies pays women to flirt with him in order to get him incapacitated.
- Chris is sent to deal with some sucubi because he is resistant to their usual tactic.
- Defied: Chris goes to a doctor or psychologist to try and cure his condition.
- Discussed: "No hugging or kissing, please. I'm allergic to overt displays of love and affection."
- Conversed: "How come Chris gets hives when being hugged or kissed, but is completely fine with wrestling? How does the biology even work?"
- Deconstructed: Most of Chris's friends and family find his extreme reaction towards the opposite sex as melodramatic and uncool. His parents are particularly concerned that he will never be able to settle down and have a family.
- Reconstructed: Chris is content to keep all his relationship as platonic. His friends accept his quirks, while keeping fangirls away from him to keep him from falling ill.
- Played For Laughs: Chris, a renown badass who runs on Rule of Cool, hilariously Screams Like a Little Girl upon the sight of a fangirl.
- Played For Drama: Chris actually wants to be in a relationship, and his condition causes him a lot of angst, as it deprives him from the love/affection he desperately needs. He does have a Love Interest, but she mistakes his illnesses as a sign that he hates her and keeps herself away.
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