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I *cough* can't Describe Hypochondria Here. I, I think I have Rigelian Fever. I can tell because I blew my nose three times today! This trope is the tendency for people who too often, if not outright chronically, think they are coming down with diseases based on vague symptoms. This is usually Played for Laughs in fiction, showing these people as whiny, lazy, and/or paranoid. This is especially common among Jews making fun of themselves for being like this. These are extra funny when the disease in question isn't even real (or it's extinct), even in the work of fiction. This can be Played for Drama though if someone is actually debilitated by this, but it's rare. And in shows with Abusive Parents or Comedic Sociopathy, a character's genuine illness may be brusquely dismissed with accusations of this. "Pneumonia, my ass. You're just lazy!" This can lead to a "Boy who cried 'Wolf'" moment when the hypochondriac actually does get sick. These days, using the internet for self-diagnosis has become a new tool for this trope. A Sickly Neurotic Geek is more likely to be this than actually sickly. A Super-Trope to Induced Hypochondria. Compare Terrified of Germs, Playing Sick, Hysterical Woman, Münchausen Syndrome (both when characters know they aren't actually sick), You Don't Want to Catch This (which is faking an illness for other reasons), Mistaken for Dying, Jewish Complaining (which often involves something that might get them sick). Examples |
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In one episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Fin Tutuola mentions that John Munch called in sick today. Olivia Benson says, "He's such a hypochondriac. How many times has he had anthrax this week?" | |
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One of the students in Moving Violations is a woman with a severe case of this. She was sent to traffic school after running a red light while panicking that she was three seconds late to take her pills. | |
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Sir Bernard Cutting in Carry On Matron. He starts to believe that he's got everything from Asian Flu to a mutation in his body that's turning him into a woman. | |
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Melman from Madagascar is a hypochondriac giraffe who often even worries that he has brown spots on his neck (which for a giraffe, are obviously natural). | |
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Sookie in Gilmore Girls has a strain of hypochondria that makes her think she has whatever anyone else has. She's cured of Michel's ennui by Lorelai's "off-ui," and Lorelai once had to explain to her she didn't have a prostate. | |
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House: A guy was convinced he was getting diabetes because of his family history, and when he did get sick it turned out to be caused by the "special diet" he made his wife make him. House was much displeased. One example that is from the main case and not clinic duty is half of the Death in the Clouds episode. |
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Thaddeus Sholto from The Sign of the Four rattles on and on about his health issues, and pesters Dr. Watson to check his vital signs. Watson never discerns any indications of illness in him, aside from this trope (although, being distracted by the presence of the lovely Miss Morstan, he ends up recommending Sholto take large amounts of strychnine as a sedative while warning of the dangers of more than two spoons of castor oil). | |
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Often appears in the Miss Marple novels and short stories. One notable case is in the story, "The Perfect Maid." A character named Emily Skinner claims to be ill and spends all her time lying in on a couch in a dark room while her sister Lavinia waits on her hand and foot. The entire village is convinced that Emily is a hypochondriac, as evidenced by the fact that she never goes to the doctor, figuring that deep down she knows the doctor would tell her that there was nothing wrong with her. It's actually this fact that convinced Miss Marple that Emily wasn't a hypochondriac, because in her experience hypochondriacs love going to the doctor. Indeed, Emily wasn't a hypochondriac, she was a thief, and the whole point of the "spend all day on a couch in a dark room" was to prevent anyone from ever getting a good look at her. | |
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In Parks and Recreation, Chris was born with a blood disease and it was predicted that he would die within days. As an adult, he's a health nut in ridiculously good shape but becomes a hypochondriac and germaphobe when there's a chance of his becoming sick. This is played for both humor and drama. | |
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Warner Bros.' Claude Cat is the titular "Hypochondri-Cat." The two mice Hubie and Bertie use this to their advantage. | |
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In Carry On: Kenneth Connor's character in Carry On, Sergeant is this to a tee until the MO takes him to a psychiatrist. Sir Bernard Cutting in Carry On Matron. He starts to believe that he's got everything from Asian Flu to a mutation in his body that's turning him into a woman. |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "What Will the Neighbors Think?", Mona Bailey is a severe hypochondriac to the point that she uses a wheelchair when she is completely able-bodied. After checking her Physicians' Deck Reference, she comes to the conclusion that she has Lyme disease in spite of her husband Ned's reassurances that she would have to have been bitten by a tick to have contracted it. She is also convinced that there is radon in her apartment building, the Clackson Arms, which she has not left for six months. After she begins hearing voices, Mona worries that she may be either hallucinating or have a brain tumor, but it turns out that she is hearing the thoughts of the other residents. In "Nest", Marcy Newhall, who works at the Peary University Research Station in the Arctic, has severe hypochondria and checks her blood pressure every day to ensure that it remains stable. When William Grimes and Lou Wolsky become infested with polar mites and go insane, Marcy is so afraid that the same thing will happen to her that she convinces herself that it already has. She stabs herself in the stomach and soon dies as a result. The autopsy later determines that she was never infested with the mites in the first place. |
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Camp Candy: Iggy is so convinced there's something wrong that he visits the infirmary more than anyone else. His parents are much worse. | |
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In The Little Shop of Horrors, Seymour Krelboin's mother is such a hypochondriac that when Audrey fixes him a meal, he is completely surprised that none of the food items she serves him have medicinal properties, because everything his mother has ever served him have them. She also asks him to give her an iron lung as a gift. | |
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Scrubs has a minor recurring hypochondriac. Doctors dread taking his case. Once he did actually have something wrong with him, but due to that only being discovered after being subjected to a painful test because Dr. Cox found him annoying, he ended up giving a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Dr. Cox. Whether it was wholly deserved or not depends on the viewer. | |
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Doctor in Trouble: Dr. Burke tries to claim Basil is a hypochondriac as he believes he is only in the hospital for publicity reasons. When Dr. Burke tells Dr. Houston that he's suffering from Hepatitis Africonia, he believes him and begins to break out in spots. |
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Filburt from Rocko's Modern Life frequently thinks that he may be sick. He once checked himself into a hospital for a series of tests, convinced it was something serious, his wife Doctor Hutchison, however, knew it was just a rash. He ended up getting upset when the doctors found nothing wrong. ("Fools!") In another episode, when he actually did have an illness, he got so excited, he fell down the stairs and knocked himself out. | |
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SCP Foundation SCP-1025, a medical book that was thought to induce diseases upon anyone who reads it, when in reality it induces extreme hypochondria by proxy. A rare case of the trope not being played entirely for laughs, because the book ends up causing a panic in the site which caused the death of one agent. Apparently, SCP-978 (the camera that photographs Your Heart's Desire) is a hypochondriac, at least according to SCP-890 (the doctor who only operates on machines). 978's photograph of 890 depicts the latter telling it to Get Out!. 890's reaction to the photo is to claim he wouldn't be that rude with his patients, but has no patience for hypochondria. |
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In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the Shivering Isles expansion, there is a Breton innkeeper in Crucible named Sickly Bernice. She is convinced that she's deathly ill, and the only cure is a special healing water found only in a cave. She will ask you to get this water from the cave in exchange for a magical ring. After that, she'll ask you to get it again, this time for just gold. Of course there is no way to convince her she's fine. Because it's the Shivering Isles. | |
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In The Citadel, a deeply unethical medical practice makes money bilking rich old hypochondriac ladies. The bad doctor introducing idealistic Dr. Manson to the practice has to pull him away from a patient before he tells her that there's nothing wrong with her. | |
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Sheldon of The Big Bang Theory is Terrified of Germs and prone to occasional hypochondria. In one episode, he gets a stomach ache from eating too many brussel sprouts and thinks it's cholera. | |
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Ultraman Zearth: The titular Ultra is deathly afraid of dirt and slime, and freaks out from merely touching even a little bit of dust. Naturally he needs to spend the entire movie getting over his fear of dirt, and the villain Alien Benzene exploits his weakness by challenging Zearth to fight him in the middle of a sludge pool. | |
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In Castle Hangnail, the goldfish is a hypochondriac and swims around her bowl in a sweater and scarf to ward off the chills. It's a sign of how serious things have become at the climax when she stops worrying about her health, and a sign of things returning to normal when she starts again. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): "Escape Clause" features a hypochondriac who makes a Deal with the Devil for immortality and perfect health. He becomes a thrill-seeker and eventually kills his wife in the hopes of a ride in the electric chair after getting bored with everything else, only to get life in prison instead. Said "escape clause" turns out to be a heart attack. In "The Masks", Emily Harper is a severe hypochondriac. After she arrives at her dying father Jason Foster's home, the first thing that she does is complain to his doctor Sam Thorne about a pain in her arm. Over the last 25 years, Emily has claimed to be suffering from a different ailment practically every month. Jason comments that she has been at death's door so often, she must have worn a hole in the welcome mat. |
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The Twilight Zone (2002): The episode "The Placebo Effect", where a hospital patient becomes convinced he has a fictional alien disease from a novel he read. The patient's belief soon manifests in reality, causing the illness to spread around the hospital. The doctors eventually give the man a placebo cure, allegedly created from a fallen meteor-only for the patient's paranoia about the meteor strike to create a new ice age... | |
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Dag in The Sharing Knife doesn't worry much about his own health (fortunately, given his status as Designated Victim), but he gets a little too solicitous in the first book after Fawn's malice injuries and miscarriage, and he gets really nervous in the fourth book when she gets pregnant. | |
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Beryl from No Appointment Necessary (1977) is a chronic hypochondriac and always thinks she's coming down with something. | |
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In Kath & Kim, Sharon seems to be dealing with some new allergy or illness Once an Episode, and while most are very real, some probably aren't, and she mentions at one point that her doctor put her on 'broad spectrum placebo.' | |
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One of the many flaws of George in Seinfeld: he is such a hypochondriac that he can't even read about symptoms or watching documentaries about a disease without thinking he has it. | |
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In Amélie, Georgette, a coworker of Amélie's, is shown constantly taking medications of various kinds, even inhalers and eyedrops. | |
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The Beverly Hillbillies: Mrs. Drysdale was originally such a hypochondriac, she had even made her poodle Claude a hypochondriac as well! However, this trait disappeared after the first couple seasons. | |
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Better Call Saul: Chuck suffers from Electromagnetic hypersensitivity, a psychosomatic illness where being near any electromagnetic fields causes someone pain. In season 1, a doctor turns on an electric medical device without Chuck's knowledge to determine that the illness is just in his head. In season 3, Jimmy proves it again in his disbarment hearing by slipping a battery into Chuck's pocket without Chuck suffering any ill effects. After this, Chuck begins to consider whether he's ruined his life for nothing. He finally admits he's mentally ill and begins treatment for it. Part of the thing about it is that Chuck is right that he has an illness, but it's generally implied that he's wrong about the cause: he thinks it's an irreversible physical condition, but it actually seems to be a mental condition that produces physical symptoms and could probably be treated if he'd put in the work, but by the time he realizes this, it's much too late for him. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Next Generation actually predicted something happening before it was reality: hypochondriacs diagnosing themselves over the internet! In the episode "Realm of Fear", Reg Barclay looks up symptoms for various diseases, including transporter psychosis. Star Trek: Voyager: In the episode "Good Shepherd", Crewman Telfer is revealed to be a major hypochondriac who visits Sickbay about once a week complaining of illness, only for the doctor to find nothing wrong (although his fears do become reality later in the episode when an alien briefly invades his body). In the episode "Author, Author", the EMH wrote a holonovel called Photons be Free which featured characters that were thinly disguised expies of the Voyager crew. When Harry Kim ran the program, he encountered his character Kymble, who was worrying about the possibility of their decompiling the fictional EMH because there were probably millions of new viruses in the Delta Quadrant and he'd probably end up catching half of them. "Great," grumbled the real Harry Kim, "my character's a hypochondriac." |
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A Different Point of View: Buster's mother Bitzi is very health-conscious, especially about her son. She used to be more brash but she changed after getting beat up by a friend (which potentially led to her miscarriage) and getting a concussion. | |
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The Who song "Doctor, Doctor" (by John Entwistle) takes this to ludicrous extremes: | |
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In The Odd Couple, on top of being a neat freak, Felix is also a hypochondriac. He frequently keeps treating himself of ailments that he may or may not have. It was also noted that on New Years, he chugged a bottle of Pepto Bismol. It's just another trait that adds to his neurosis. | |
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Parodied in One Piece, where Lovable Coward Usopp frequently claims to come down with Better-Not-Do-This-Dangerous-Thing Disease and other variants. | |
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In Laughter in Paradise, Mr. Webb is a terrible hypochondriac who plays the role of a bedridden invalid and makes life hell for his longsuffering daughter and any staff she manages to employ. Agnes, despite the fact she desperately needs to keep the job, is finally driven to stand up to him, with surprising results. | |
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In Questionable Content, Hannelore becomes convinced she has cancer after discovering a bleeding mole. This happens in a comic called "It's Not A Tumor"; The Rant for the comic is "This is not a storyline about cancer." | |
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Teri in The Amazing World of Gumball is a hypochondriac with serious germophobia. It's implied it's the result of her mother (who is a doctor who also has a website with graphic images on various diseases and conditions, so she likely was raised with an... overtly cautious mentality.) The irony is that she is also a paper bear (as in a living paper cutout of a bear) so she probably wouldn't deal with any diseases. This was shown off in her Day in the Limelight episode, spending the day with Darwin and Gumball. The school nurse is severely annoyed by her due to her hypochondria and both Gumball and Darwin grow annoyed with her about this (and her somewhat smug attitude). Ironically enough, she is somewhat right in this episode as Gumball not cleaning his hand for weeks led to the birth of a super-virus (though her forcing to wash his hand drowned all but one virus, who vengefully chases the three down to infect them and later the world). | |
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SuperMarioLogan: Each time Bowser watches a Charleyyy and Friends skit where Charleyyy catches a disease of any sort, he winds up believing that he has the aforementioned disease. | |
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The Fall: Walt keeps complaining to his doctor about vague symptoms and feeling unwell. The doctor humors him and prescribes "morphine" which is actually just sugar pills. | |
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Northern Exposure: Eve, one of Joel's least favorite patients, had a habit of showing up at his practice claiming she was suffering some terrible self-diagnosed illness. Though she got a little better after she got pregnant (the one thing she didn't suspect she had.) | |
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Roys Bedoys: In “Stay at Home, Roys Bedoys!�, Roys thinks he has Covid-19 after getting a snotty nose and being out of breath. Actually, he was fine. There was no particular reason for his snotty nose and he was out of breath because he’d been running. | |
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In The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, Wonderella once thought she'd come down with bird flu. | |
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In Guys and Dolls, Nathan Detroit's fiancee Adelaide is a hypochondriac, as shown in the song "Adelaide's Lament." | |
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An episode of Little House on the Prairie has Harriet Oleson convinced she's ill with this Victorian Novel Disease like the heroine in a romantic book she's been reading. Identifying it as "the vapors," she describes the symptoms to Dr. Baker, who quickly comes up with a proper diagnosis. Only they don't call it "the vapors" anymore, he explains. What is plaguing Mrs. Oleson? Gas. | |
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One case of Caso Cerrado revolves around an extreme mysophobe who claims he received hepatitis A after eating at a restaurant. | |
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Medieval II: Total War has a whole line of traits reflecting this, from "Feeling Poorly" to "Delusions of Illness" to full-blown "Hypochondriac." Characters unfortunate enough to develop them will suffer increasing debuffs to their Hit Points, troop morale, and Command ability, making them liabilities on the battlefield. | |
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Criminal Minds: The unsub of "The Good Earth" is a hypochondriac. She did have a bad skin condition at one point, which resolved itself around the time her husband died and they scattered his ashes in the farm. Implicitly due to the stress of his death and now caring for the farm and their daughter herself, she keeps hallucinating that she (and later, her daughter) still has the condition, getting her dubbed a "frequent flier" at the local hospital. Very much played for drama, as she decides her husband's ashes are what cured her, but now that they're gone, she needs to find a substitution.... | |
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George from Inside George Webley will believe he has every illness and ailment under the sun. In "Get Well Soon", he believes he is dying, and his doctor, Dr. Horniman, is just as much of a hypochondriac as he is, making matters worse. | |
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Kyle's east coast cousin (also named Kyle) in South Park is like this. | |
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Bruno the Bandit: "Great Uncle" Lucius, an ancient old man who scammed his way into the household and never left, though the characters decide that he's so old that throwing him out would be rotten even to their standards even after they realize he's not actually related to any of them (ironically, the punchline to that strip showed Lucius alive well into Bruno's own old age). He's outlived several of his doctors and even subscribes to Hypochondriac Monthly which gives their readers advice on how to fake symptoms of disease. | |
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What A Cartoon! Show: In "Snoot's New Squat", Snoot is a tiny alien who settles on the body of a neurotic, hypochondriac dog named Al, who annoys his doctor by worrying about things like his nose being too wet or his tail wagging abnormally. When Al tries to call his doctor about "alien fleas" infesting him, the doc thinks Al has finally cracked up and prepares to have him committed and lobotomized. | |
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Eddie Kaspbrak from It is a frail and asthmatic hypochondriac, who carries his inhaler with him everywhere. His father died when he was very young, and his mother is domineering and constantly worries about his health, encouraging his fears around his poor health and deliberately instilling hypochondria in him. | |
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This is Colin's biggest issue, in The Secret Garden. He's actually far more healthy than he thinks, but he's heard the servants whisper for most of his life how he has a hunchback and some wasting disease and weak legs that he constantly talks about how he's so ill and can't leave his room. He starts to get over it when Mary has enough, examines his back herself, and verifies that he has no lumps that shouldn't be there. | |
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In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, while it isn't a defining aspect of her personality, Ivy has a strained relationship with the school nurses due to her tendency to believe that she has an imaginary illness. | |
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In Liberty Meadows, Leslie the frog is a hypochondriac who diagnoses himself with anything from lead poisoning (from a pencil) to "ovarian cysts" (Leslie is male), much to Frank's frustration. | |
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This is Zena's problem in Ethan Frome. It is one reason (along with her nagging and complaining) why Ethan wants to leave her. | |
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Emergency! had a couple of patients like this. At least one turned out to really be sick on one call. Another is a precocious boy who is overreacting to a minor ailment by thinking he has a critical condition because he was reading too many medical books. Dr. Brackett suggests to the boy's father that since the boy has such impressive medical knowledge, he should carefully nurtured in studying medicine to keep him too busy to do such antics again. |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In the episode "Good Shepherd", Crewman Telfer is revealed to be a major hypochondriac who visits Sickbay about once a week complaining of illness, only for the doctor to find nothing wrong (although his fears do become reality later in the episode when an alien briefly invades his body). In the episode "Author, Author", the EMH wrote a holonovel called Photons be Free which featured characters that were thinly disguised expies of the Voyager crew. When Harry Kim ran the program, he encountered his character Kymble, who was worrying about the possibility of their decompiling the fictional EMH because there were probably millions of new viruses in the Delta Quadrant and he'd probably end up catching half of them. "Great," grumbled the real Harry Kim, "my character's a hypochondriac." |
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Mexican comedy "Una familia de diez" has an example with Licha, the main character´s sister, for comedic reasons that are up to eleven due to be the Overdramatic woman of the family: | |
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In Three Men in a Boat, the narrator reads a medical textbook and concludes that he has every known disease except housemaid's knee. He rushes to his doctor, who gives him a Non Standard Prescription for a good meal, a long walk, a good night's sleep, and to stop reading medical textbooks. | |
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Michael's mom in Burn Notice is a hypochondriac for just the first episode. | |
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Implied with Saku Hotakainen in the Stand Still, Stay Silent prologue. His introduction blurb describes him as "usually 'dying' from something" and he is true to that description when he seems to think his current bout of seasickness is going to kill him. He appears in the prologue segment confirming the Rash to be deadly and not just the fast-spreading but non-lethal sickness that it was presented as in the previous segments. This reveal is made via a newscast watched (alone) by Saku's young nephew, whose first reflex is to tell Saku about it. Saku's response to the information is hoping he actually has the Rash. He's shown to be fine two weeks later, which is the incubation time of the disease. In addition to this, when Saku's brother-in-law considers having him sleep in a tent instead of the cabin so he won't get seasick on his carpet, Saku's wife protests on the basis that he could become sick "for real". | |
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In Bandits, Billy Bob Thornton plays a bank robber whose hypochondria is triggered by hearing about medical conditions. So much so that his brother (played by Bruce Willis) is able to temporarily incapacitate him by suggesting that he has paralysis on one side of his body. | |
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The Half-Life of Planets: Every few months, Liana's dad will panic over some minor pain and go to the hospital for a bunch of tests. It always turns out to be nothing. Until he's finally diagnosed with heart problems that he needs surgery for. | |
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In Surviving Mars, colonists with the hypochondria trait will regularly try to visit medical facilities and take sanity damage if they're unable to. Worth noting that there's typically no restrictions on which colonists get which traits, so it's entirely possible to have a hypochondriac medic. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation actually predicted something happening before it was reality: hypochondriacs diagnosing themselves over the internet! In the episode "Realm of Fear", Reg Barclay looks up symptoms for various diseases, including transporter psychosis. | |
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