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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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