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Asthma Peril

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Asthma is a convenient condition for fiction. It's both extremely dangerous and yet not (in most cases, anyway) an impediment to living a relatively normal life. It also often has no obvious physical effects except making the sufferer wheeze and struggle for breath, which helps them to appear Delicate and Sickly (often a subtrope).
Expect the need for an inhaler to wax and wane regarding what's most convenient for the plot. There will usually be no warning sign that an asthma attack is about to come on (which is not the case in real life). Often, characters will badly need their inhaler at the moment that it's most inconvenient and will have to bravely go back to the source of the danger to save their own lives (or someone else will have to do it for them). There are also usually no medications to combat asthma except inhalers in fictional worlds.
It may overlap with Nerdy Inhaler if the character in question is either very intelligent (which is also possible, because it means disabling the group's main source of intellectual support) or weak, or some combination of both. Especially in newer media, this is not required.
The asthma version of Plot Allergy, which produces similar symptoms but from a more obvious cause. A sister trope to Plot-Induced Illness.

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Downplayed in Lord of the Flies. Piggy has asthma. Though it's unlikely that he would've earned any respect anyway, this makes him incapable of blowing the conch like Ralph and Jack, and so rules him out of any leadership competition immediately despite being the most intelligent team member.
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The Joys and Sorrows of Young Charles Finster: In "Charles Is Breathless", a younger Chas coughs a lot after reading some dusty scripts for a school play and is sent to a hospital, where it's revealed that he has asthma. His confidence falters due to this, but he comes to accept his condition when he realizes he can still do some of the things he's always loved to do.
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In The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Mrs. Mott, who has gotten a job as Claire's nanny as part of a vengeful plan, weaponizes this. First she empties all of Claire's inhalers. Then she turns Claire's greenhouse into a death trap that kills Claire's best friend and makes sure that Claire finds the body. The stress triggers an asthma attack as planned and Claire nearly suffocates to death, needing hospitalization.
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Invoked and Exploited in CSI: NY: The second victim in "Time's Up" is an asthmatic who dies after the Alpha Bitch in the sorority she's pledging replaces the canister in her inhaler with an experimental sexual enhancement drug and exposes her to flower pollen to deliberately trigger her asthma so she'll use it. She just wanted the girl to loosen up and lose her virginity, but the heavy breathing the sex drug triggers, combined with getting no relief from the asthma, causes her to basically choke to death from a massive orgasm.
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Subverted in The Goonies by way of Throwing Off the Disability. Mikey has asthma and uses an inhaler. His mother insists that he not leave the house due to how bad it is. However, his asthma never causes any problems during the kids' adventure.
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In The Baby-Sitters Club, Abby Stevenson has asthma. Soon after she joins the club, she has an attack while babysitting when one of her charges panics her by running out into the street, and has to go to the hospital. This temporarily causes Kristy to doubt whether Abby is cut out to be a BSC member or not.
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Downplayed in the iCarly episode "iWanna Stay with Spencer". Just as Carly is about to move to Yakima with her Granddad, Spencer remembers she forgot her asthma inhaler and brings it to him, even though she hasn't had an attack since she was seven. This display of responsibility is what leads to Granddad cancelling the move and letting Carly stay.
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The Innkeepers: Sara has severe asthma, and drops her inhaler in the laundry room when things start getting spooky at the hotel. She decides to go back for it down the basement steps after alerting Luke and getting him out of the hotel. She gets locked in the basement and killed by Madeline.
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Enforced in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. Black and Nerdy Sheila is marked out as vulnerable because of her asthma (and her glasses). After Freddy kisses her in her dream, she dies of an asthma attack in the real world.
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Tatort: The episode "Das Verhör" mostly consists of a lengthy interrogation of a suspicious Bundeswehr officer, who suffers from asthma as it turns out. Lena Odenthal, the policewoman who is interrogating him, uses this to withhold his inhalator in one scene as he refuses to answer her questions.
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The Boy Next Door: Kevin has asthma, and nearly dies from an asthma attack in gym class after he's being bullied. Noah manages to help Kevin by giving him an EpiPen, which magically saves him.
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* Respire: Charlie has asthma. She pushes herself too hard while running after Sarah on the track and collapses. The really perilous part is that Sarah watches Charlie pass out with no obvious emotion.
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One Missed Call:
Invoked in the sound that every victim hears before they die. It turns out to be Mimiko/Ellie's inhaler.
Enforced in the original, when Mimiko's mother knew she was having an asthma attack and removed her inhaler because she found out Mimiko had abused her younger sister.
Happens in the remake, when Ellie's mother just happens to leave her shut in her room. She has an asthma attack and dies.
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The Devil in Me: Erin is the smallest and youngest of the documentary crew, and her character's special survival mechanic involves knowing when to conserve or use her inhaler since her asthma is very severe. At one point in the game, she becomes trapped in an extremely dark and dusty room and drops it, triggering an attack during her Escape Sequence. A mysterious figure then approaches and holds the inhaler up to her, at which point the player can decide whether to take it or not.
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Intolerable Cruelty: Played with by Wheezy Joe. He's an antagonist, but he has an asthma attack while he's fighting with Miles. He then mistakes his gun for his inhaler...and shoots himself in the mouth.
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Yakuza 3: One of the kids, Taichi, suddenly starts to display symptoms while playing with Mitsuo, passing out in the process, with the doctor diagnosing it as asthma. Due to this asthma attack, the doctor recommends that he refrain from strenuous activities, making him worry that his dream of becoming a pro wrestler is over before it even begins. It ends up being subverted, where it turns out he had an allergic reaction to buckwheat. The orphanage had ordered soba for lunch, and buckwheat is a key ingredient in soba noodles. The only reason he presents symptoms at all is that he ate a lot more soba than he usually did beforehand.
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Arthur: In the episode "Buster's Breathless", Buster has asthma and has to take his inhaler. He gets an asthma attack during a game of broom soccer and his asthma has an impact on his friends. Arthur starts to become overprotective of Buster's condition and Francine thinks that asthma is a contagious disease. Buster tells his class about asthma as a show-and-tell presentation; they learn more about asthma.
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Rocket Power: Sam suffers from asthma. This trope comes into play in the episode "Big Air" when he suffers an asthma attack during a hiking trip, and his inhaler turns out to be empty. Thankfully Raymundo was with the kids and quickly gets Sam to the hospital, but the ordeal naturally scares Sam's friends, who realize how bad this could have turned out had they been without adult supervision (which happens a lot in this show). For the rest of the episode, they treat Sam very cautiously to prevent him from suffering another asthma attack.
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Cracks: The swim team attacks Fiamma, causing her to have an asthma attack. Miss G then enforces it by leaving Fiamma to die of her asthma attack to ensure that she can't report anybody for what they'd done (the swim team's attack or the fact that Miss G had molested Fiamma).
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Bob's Burgers: In "Carpe Museum," Rudy suffers from an asthma attack after he sneaks into an off-limits museum exhibit with Louise and a reluctant Bob. Bob and Louise retrieve his missing backpack (which contains his inhaler) and save his life.
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Your Honor: Adam has an asthma attack and is looking for his inhaler when he hits Jimmy's son, killing him, and starting the whole plot of the series. The asthma inhaler becomes a Macguffin when Jimmy's henchmen find the asthma pump, linking Adam to the crime.
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Scream (2022): After Sam gets her from the hospital, Tara realizes she doesn't have her inhaler. As there are no pharmacies around and they want to leave Woodsboro, they have to go to Tara's best friend, Amber's, house to get Tara's spare inhaler. Amber raises the possibility that Tara faked losing it in order to get Sam and Richie to her house to try and kill them. She didn't, though; Amber is one of the killers. Despite Tara's asthma, though, she survives fighting with the killers and being Bound and Gagged in a closet during her asthma attack with apparently no ill effects whatsoever.
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Played with in Signs. Morgan has an asthma attack while locked in the family's basement hiding from the aliens, as they forgot his medication. However, this prevents him from inhaling the alien's gas and saves his life. Despite the fact that he stopped breathing, he survives the night unharmed.
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Tesis: Angela's advisor Figueora dies of an asthma attack caused by the violent horrors he saw on the snuff tape, and provides Angela with her motive to keep looking for whoever filmed it.
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HuniePop 2: Lillian's Asthma Baggage makes any big move with her (multiple matches or four of a kind or higher) take an additional one stamina, ostensibly because she's having an asthma attack and left her inhaler in her hotel room.
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Are We There Yet?: Kevin has asthma and keeps his inhaler inside a large superhero action figure. After they reach Vancouver, Kevin has an asthma attack while at the ice rink and Nick saves him by administering his inhaler, proving to Suzanne that Nick really cares for her kids.
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Office Killer: Enforced and exploited. Dorine kills Virginia by replacing her asthma medication with butane and placing her in a stressful situation.
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Warrior Cats: Two characters have asthma, and they tend to have attacks at the worst possible time:
Gray Wing developed it after a fire, and afterward cannot exert himself much. His worst - and final - attack comes in Path of Stars when his son is kidnapped, so he cannot rescue him. Thankfully his friends go in his stead, and he's able to see his son safe and say goodbye to his family before he passes.
Nightpelt had to retire early due to his asthma. In the graphic novel Exile from ShadowClan, he struggles with it a lot, but the worst moment is when Poolcloud is badly injured by a fox and he ends up getting an asthma attack while trying to run to get a medicine cat. She dies, and he blames himself for not bringing help fast enough.
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Knock Knock (2015): Louis has an asthma attack after finding Evan tied up and Genesis and Bell smashing his statue. As Genesis and Bell have taken his inhaler, he dies, and they torment Evan further by making it look as though Evan killed Louis after discovering that Louis was having an affair with his wife.
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A deadly version occurs at the start of the second episode of Phoenix Nights, when the Captain (an elderly, one-eyed WWII veteran who acts as the Phoenix Club's doorman) ends up in the same room as Ray Von the DJ when his smoke machine malfunctions and fills the room with... smoke, obviously. The Captain stays in the room until the next morning, where Paddy the bouncer only finds out he's dead when he tries shaking him awake, and the cigarette falls out of his mouth. As club owner Brian Potter reveals, the Captain was asthmatic, which means he most likely had a lethal reaction to the smoke. He then instructs the rest of the staff to move the Captain's body into the Pennine Suite to make sure people don't know about his Accidental Murder.
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It: Eddie thinks he has asthma, but that's only because his mother continually tells him that, and gives him an inhaler to use. She thinks that if he thinks he has asthma he won't take risks or venture far from home. His asthma attacks are a minor plot point, and even into adulthood (after he's learned his mother lied to him), he still uses an inhaler.
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Survivor: Fire: At one point the Player Character's sister has an asthma attack while the family is escaping the fire, and you must hand her an inhaler or she'll pass out.
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Keys to the Kingdom: Arthur Penhaligon suffers from severe asthma. In fact, the only reason he is selected as the Rightful Heir is because he is about to die of an asthma attack (the idea being that, once he dies, the Cosmic Keystone he's supposed to inherit will be free for the villain to take). The Key turns out to save his life instead, and he spends most of the series in the House, where mortal limitations such as the requirement to breathe don't apply.
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EarthBound Beginnings: Ninten suffers from asthma, and it becomes a health-draining status effect if he's hit by truck smog. An inhaler is a purchasable item to help remedy this.
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