Basic Trope: A character sneezes from being cold.
- Straight: Alice is in the show without winter clothes. She feels cold and starts sneezing.
- Exaggerated: Alice has a sneezing fit whenever she feels a slightly cool breeze.
- Downplayed: Alice has an itchy nose, but doesn't sneeze.
- Justified: Alice has a sensitive sneeze reflex and the cold weather was irritating her nose.
- Inverted:
- Alice sneezes when she feels hot.
- Alice is sneezing, but then the air conditioning comes on and she stops.
- Subverted: It is revealed that Alice's sneezing was not actually from the cold.
- Double Subverted: But she sneezes from being cold later in the episode.
- Parodied:
- In this work's universe, the only symptom of hypothermia is sneezing.
- The temperature drops by 1°C, and every single character has a huge sneezing fit.
- Alice and Bob are together in the snow. He's slightly underdressed for the weather and sneezing, while she's nude and not sneezing.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice is out in the snow, and sneezing, but it is unclear whether she's sick, allergic to something, or is sneezing from the cold.
- Averted: The setting never gets cold, or Alice never sneezes.
- Enforced: It's an educational work about the causes of nasal irritation.
- Lampshaded: "Achoo! ... I always sneeze when I'm cold."
- Invoked: Bob locks Alice, who has a sensitive nose, out in the snow.
- Exploited: Alice has got lost in the snow, and Bob tracks her down by listening for her sneezing.
- Defied:
- Alice refuses to go out in the cold.
- Alice takes one or more sneeze-suppressing medications before she goes out in the cold.
- Discussed: Alice asks why she sneezes when it's cold and she and Bob have a conversation about it.
- Conversed: "Why does that character always sneeze when it's cold?"
- Implied: Bob mentions a Noodle Incident "Remember when it was so cold it made you sneeze and X happened?"
- Played for Laughs: Alice's sneeze makes her fall over backward.
- Played for Drama: Alice's sneeze is the first sign of her Convenient Terminal Illness.
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