Basic Trope: Characters only show signs of sickness if it is central to the plot.
- Straight: Alice only sneezes to show that she's getting sick.
- Exaggerated: Alice sneezing is a sign of her eminent death.
- Downplayed: Alice sneezing means she might be at a strength disadvantage.
- Justified:
- Alice is a robot and shouldn't be able to sneeze in the first place.
- Alice has Ideal Illness Immunity that goes away after a curse is placed on her.
- Inverted: Alice only stops sneezing when she gets sick.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Alice has the hiccups so everyone thinks she is about to die.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice randomly gets sick with no bearing on the plot.
- Enforced: The writers don't want to risk confusing the audience on whether or not someone is getting sick.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice doesn't bother packing medicine for trips where a Sick Episode is unlikely to take place.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "You just sneezed. Do you have a cold?"
- Conversed: "You ever notice how nobody in this show seems to cough or sneeze unless they're sick?"
- Implied: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: ???
- Played for Horror: ???
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