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Perfect Health

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Perfect Health	comment	Characters never sneeze, cough, belch, blow their noses, or in any way display less than perfect health unless it is central to the plot (as in Annoying Patient or Nurse with Good Intentions). A simple cough might warrant a subplot to handle the ramifications if it is not itself a symptom of terminal disease. If ever such symptoms have no plot significance, it's probably because the actor is actually sick. However, they'll usually try to work around that. Occasionally either justified or subverted when it turns out that the fact the character has perfect health is significant — it may be due to a superpower (often a Healing Factor), or they may be a robot. One of the few exceptions is Catch Your Death of Cold, where temporary illness is a harmless effect of going out in cold weather. This is a fairly modern development, however; the same situation was once a popular way for fragile young ladies to catch an Incurable Cough of Death. Sort of a medical incarnation of The Law of Conservation of Detail. Compare: Soap Opera Disease. See also Ideal Illness Immunity, where never getting sick is justified with fantastic means, and We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future, where it's justified by Science Marching On.
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Perfect Health / int_12b2b8a6	comment	David Dunn's perfect health is a key plot point in Unbreakable.
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Perfect Health / int_133f0a53	comment	Shiori, from Kanon, initially hand waves her skipping of classes and lack of energy as "a cold". While this excuse rapidly wears thin, the heartbreaking revelation is somewhat spoiled by the audience being well aware it could only be a fatal condition.
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Perfect Health / int_14cf013a	comment	Contradicted in the "Killed by Death" episode, where Buffy has a severe flu which is not directly life-threatening, but nearly makes her lose a fight. Her high temperature does make her able to see an otherwise invisible killer though. It's lampshaded and justified at the same time, within the same episode when it's mentioned that Buffy very rarely gets sick; the same magic that gives her super-strength and abnormal reflexes also boosts her immune system to increase the speed at which she heals.
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Perfect Health / int_164f5129	comment	Illya Kuryakin catches a cold about halfway through the The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The King of Diamonds Affair." ("I've been fighting a headache and a cold. Personally, I prefer THRUSH.") It's not important to the plot in any way, and it doesn't impede his later Big Damn Heroes rescue of Napoleon Solo; its only apparent purpose is to make him miserable. Russian Guy Suffers Most...
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Perfect Health / int_2275c659	comment	Averted on House where the main character occasionally has a cold, a headache, or some other minor health issue without it impacting the plot. This comes from being around sick people constantly.
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Perfect Health / int_2b82b95f	comment	In iCarly a minor character named Jeremy is an almost perfect inversion. He sneezes every few seconds, all day, every day (at least when he appears), to the point that he is nicknamed "Germy."
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Perfect Health / int_309d7300	comment	Sonic in Sonic and the Secret Rings has a cold in the very first cutscene and wishes for handkerchiefs. The cold is never referenced for the rest of the game but his first wish is referenced at the very end when he wishes for a mountain of them for Shahra due to her tears.
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Perfect Health / int_39c30cc	comment	Averted with Bear from Franklin. On the day of Halloween, Bear came down with a cold with a stuffy nose and sneezes. He couldn’t make it to the Halloween party that night. Considering that his mother is a doctor and some episodes focus on doctors and health care, the show averts Perfect Health by having the doctor treat characters’ illnesses.
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Perfect Health / int_3e0ce028	comment	Also averted in 12 Angry Men. Juror #10 has a head cold. It's not a plot point or anything. He just has a head cold. It's one of many distractions that cause some jurors to want to rush through the deliberation and go back to their lives.
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Perfect Health / int_4fb9c0c0	comment	Beka Cooper: In the first book, Beka comes down with a nasty head cold. Her journal writing suffers as a result, with one brief entry about how she hates having to drag her sniffling, hacking, wheezing bum through duty. Unfortunately for Beka, her mage friend's healing expertise stops at brewing expectorants, so Beka suffers for the duration, but it clears up.
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Perfect Health / int_5283bd72	comment	Protector of the Small: Kel is rarely sick, but she wakes up with a cold in this book. It annoys her for a few hours, but a healer burns it off for her and makes her drink nasty-tasting teas. Magical healers being pretty common in this world, minor sicknesses are usually ended as quickly as that.
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Perfect Health / int_54277b38	comment	Deadwood Averts this a few times: Al Swearengen getting kidney stones is a major plot point in the second season. As a Running Gag, the socially awkward A.W. Merrick always manages to have a cold during funerals and interrupts the proceedings with his thunderous sneezes.
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Perfect Health / int_696b75c2	comment	Perfect health has some significance in A Brother's Price; the fact that Jerin is healthy and his father and grandfather died of "normal" disease and an accident, respectively, means that his genes are likely good. Men are rare in his world and negotiating marriage contracts is a tricky business; a family history of weak hearts and easy susceptibility to illness would lower his potential value.
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Perfect Health / int_6f734712	comment	In Smallville, Lex Luthor has the meteor-granted power of a superhuman immune system. Being Superman, so does Clark (the one time he gets sick in "Sneeze", it's because he went into the Phantom Zone; however this illness causes him to develop his Super-Breath).
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Perfect Health / int_74258c0c	comment	Averted in James Robinson's Starman from DC Comics. The dad, the original Starman, far older in mind than body, has a couple moments of coughing. In the odd way of narrating Robinson tends to do, dad reveals it was a cough, nothing else, not an incurable old man disease. And indeed it wasn't.
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Perfect Health / int_74fb542e	comment	Parodied in a That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch with The Man Who Has A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine.
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Perfect Health / int_767bd4d8	comment	Averted in Cerebus the Aardvark (also notorious for a four-page Nobody Poops aversion showing him urinating); Cerebus has a cold at least once but it isn't a big deal, plot-wise.
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Perfect Health / int_79ab0b3c	comment	The Tortall Universe subverts this a couple of times. Protector of the Small: Kel is rarely sick, but she wakes up with a cold in this book. It annoys her for a few hours, but a healer burns it off for her and makes her drink nasty-tasting teas. Magical healers being pretty common in this world, minor sicknesses are usually ended as quickly as that. Beka Cooper: In the first book, Beka comes down with a nasty head cold. Her journal writing suffers as a result, with one brief entry about how she hates having to drag her sniffling, hacking, wheezing bum through duty. Unfortunately for Beka, her mage friend's healing expertise stops at brewing expectorants, so Beka suffers for the duration, but it clears up.
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Perfect Health / int_854344f9	comment	Averted in Schindler's List, in which sadistic camp commandant Amon Goeth does appear to have a cold, and doesn't drop dead of consumption at the end of the film. It's to set up the mind-bending irony of an extermination camp commander telling one of the inmates not to get too close to him so she won't catch his cold.
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Perfect Health / int_8ee278fb	comment	Averted in one episode of ChalkZone, in which Rudy has the flu, and is home sick in bed with a fever, in the middle of July.
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Perfect Health / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In One Piece, Mr. 4's weapon, a gun which can become a dog by the name of Lassoo, has a cold during the fight for no particular reason. It mostly causes a comic effect when his sneezes also fire bombs. This is a turning point twice in the fight when Chopper forces the dog to sneeze bombs into the tunnels used by Ms. Merry Christmas, and when a knocked out Lassoo sneezes one last ball which blows up him and his owners. Also, Nami's falling ill was the central plot of the Drum Arc, where it was also mentioned that Luffy, Sanji, and Usopp have never been sick before.
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Perfect Health / int_ac719b97	comment	Avoided in the original Stargate movie (and early first season of Stargate SG-1) in which Daniel Jackson is stated to have allergies and he sneezes constantly. He mentioned once that he always sneezes when he travels. The movie-based novels turn this into the manifestation of a phobia caused by a childhood tragedy. Every incarnation of Dr. Jackson is The Woobie. Daniel Jackson also missed an episode because he had to have his appendix removed. Originally he was going to be in that episode, except Michael Shanks had to have HIS appendix removed and the writers apparently weren't feeling especially creative.
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Perfect Health / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man occasionally catches a cold from staying out too long in the rain wearing nothing but his costume. He rarely has the luxury of staying in bed until he gets better.
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Perfect Health / int_ba3d2160	comment	Averted in Locke, in which the character has a cold and occasionally blows his nose or chugs cold medicine during his drive. It has no pay-off. Actor Tom Hardy just had a cold during filming and it was written into the plot.
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Perfect Health / int_c43df4d8	comment	In the "Sontaran Strategem"/"Poison Sky" two-parter of Doctor Who, Donna uses her Magical Temp skills to deduce that no one in the factory has ever been sick, which becomes the first sign that something is quite wrong.
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Perfect Health / int_cbe46c83	comment	When Axl on The Almighty Johnsons gets sick, he does not think much of it initially. However, he is now the incarnation of the Norse god Odin and is not supposed to get sick. This makes his illness the equivalent of a Negative Space Wedgie. What seems like a simple cold ends up almost killing him and all the other gods lose their powers while he is ill.
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Perfect Health / int_cdae0b41	comment	Forever: Played with. When Henry reappears after dying, he's in perfect health, but not only can he still catch communicable diseases, he's apparently already caught most of them; Adam's blood contained antibodies to diseases that don't even exist anymore. No communicable illnesses are shown onscreen, though, for immortals or mortals, so the trope is played straight.
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Perfect Health / int_d308a781	comment	You Were Never Really Here: Averted in the case of Joe's handler John, who has a nosebleed when they meet about Joe's next job. John lays a few wadded up and blood-stained tissues on his desk. This is foreshadowing for when we next see John with his throat slit and blood pooling on his desk.
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Perfect Health / int_d9c602eb	comment	Averted twice in South Park. Once in "The Snuke," where Kyle has a cold, and once in "A Very Crappy Christmas," where Cartman has a cold. There's also one hilariously random moment in "Die, Hippie, Die!" when Cartman's summary of the plan is interrupted by the sudden onset of a sneeze.
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Perfect Health / int_e144ba19	comment	A random man in Dragon Age II complains that "Qunari don't never get sick" (Word of God is that this is due to better sanitation practices). While your companion Anders runs a clinic, the people there don't seem to be sick or injured - except for the already-dead ones to the side with sheets over their bodies.
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Perfect Health / int_e4732abc	comment	In Stargate Atlantis, Sheppard is shown to have a mild cold at the beginning of the episode "Irresistible". This turns out to be of use to him as it makes him immune to the airborne chemical that has the rest of Atlantis under its spell. This of course brings up the question of just what would have happened if he hadn't had that convenient cold. Obviously, the Ancients must be watching over him. A subversion: in one episode, a character's abnormally perfect health (as in, she wasn't just not sick, it seemed she'd never been sick ever) is cause for suspicion.
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Perfect Health / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Galaxy of Fear: Thirteen-year-old Tash insists that she's never been sick in her life, though her slightly younger brother has come down with things before. Might have to do with the Force. It's plot-important in The Planet Plague when she gets infected with The Virus and it works far more slowly than expected.
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Perfect Health / int_f0c816fb	comment	Averted in Breaking Bad when Walter White starts coughing blood, leading him to believe his cancer is getting worse, but it turns out it's an expected complication from his recent surgery.
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Perfect Health / int_f17cf66c	comment	The Goldfinch: Averted in the case of the main character, who, in the framing narrative, has a nasty flu and is stuck in his hotel room for over two weeks while he recovers and contemplates How We Got Here.
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Perfect Health / int_f67a0d24	comment	Ohno catching a cold on Genshiken is what forces Saki to perform cosplay. Much to the latter's regret.
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