Basic Trope: Someone refuses to eat because they're feeling upset.
- Straight: Danny's best friend, Charles, dies, causing him to enter a Heroic BSoD. Emma offers him food, but he turns it down.
- Exaggerated:
- Danny has a horrible Trauma Conga Line in which Charles and many of his other friends die, he gets severely injured in a car accident, and the commercial he hates played on TV again. He stops eating and eventually starves to death.
- Every time Danny gets upset, he stops eating for a period of time.
- Downplayed:
- Danny is feeling a bit down. Emma offers him some food, and he eats a little bit of it, but not very much.
- Danny accepts the offer, but doesn't actually eat the food, he just saves it for later.
- Justified:
- Truth in Television, for some people - negative emotions can cause them to stop feeling hungry.
- Danny has a tendency to forget to do most things when severely upset, which includes eating.
- Danny has an eating disorder such as anorexia.
- Danny wasn't really hungry even before he got upset.
- Danny is also feeling sick during this moment, and believes that eating could aggravate his condition.
- Inverted: Danny eats a lot more than he normally does when he feels upset.
- Subverted: Danny is about to refuse Emma's food offer, but ends up taking the food anyway.
- Double Subverted: It's to save for later.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody declines food when they're experiencing negative emotion.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Danny is forced into eating something.
- Discussed: "Is something wrong with Danny? He won't even eat his Trademark Favorite Food."
- Conversed: "Why do characters tend to refuse to eat when they're feeling down?"
- Implied: When the other characters check in on Danny while he's in his Heroic BSoD, a plate of food that seems to have been there for a period of time can be seen in his room.
- Played for Drama:
- This is a sign that O.O.C. Is Serious Business, as Danny is ordinarily a Big Eater.
- Danny does this because he has an eating disorder.
- Danny ends up malnourished as a result of doing this.
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