Search/Recent Changes
DBTropes
...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Prone to Vomiting

 Prone to Vomiting
type
FeatureClass
 Prone to Vomiting
label
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting
page
ProneToVomiting
 Prone to Vomiting
comment
This trope is about the poor saps who vomit whenever there's even a slightly logical reason to. When they're disgusted, when they're in a vehicle, when they're on a roller coaster, you name it. Sometimes, if they're about six or younger or a dog, they might vomit for no reason at all.
This trope is usually played for laughs. You might say it puts the "gag" in Running Gag. It might also be a way to portray a character as gross (as in, "Eww, I have to sit on the bus next to the kid who barfs a lot!"). It's also inexplicably associated with nerds and with neurotic people (while nervousness can cause vomiting, many of these characters vomit for unrelated reasons and just happen to have a nervy personality). If a character Prone to Vomiting is a nerd and neurotic, you get a Sickly Neurotic Geek.
If the character is an animal or a baby, the trope is often played to portray them as annoying. It's also useful for the writers to have one of these characters around if they need to quickly have something disgusting happen or for a place to be off-limits (e.g. "Don't go in there, Alice threw up again!"). They'll also be the focus of any motion sickness joke whenever the characters go on a trip.
To qualify as this trope, it's not enough for the character to just have one thing that makes them vomit. For instance, if Alice is seasick, that's probably not this trope, but if she's seasick, airsick, and carsick, it probably is.
Compare Vomit Discretion Shot, Vomit Indiscretion Shot, Morning Sickness, Vomiting Cop, Character Tics, and Hairball Humor. Contrast Nausea Dissonance. Despite the name similarity, Prone to Tears isn't really related.
 Prone to Vomiting
fetched
2023-09-27T06:46:21Z
 Prone to Vomiting
parsed
2023-09-27T06:46:21Z
 Prone to Vomiting
processingComment
Dropped link to DFrag: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
 Prone to Vomiting
processingComment
Dropped link to KidsInTheHall: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
 Prone to Vomiting
processingComment
Dropped link to MadamAndEve: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
 Prone to Vomiting
processingComment
Dropped link to NobodyPoops: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Prone to Vomiting
processingComment
Dropped link to OpenSeason2: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
 Prone to Vomiting
processingComment
Dropped link to TrainingFromHell: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Prone to Vomiting
processingComment
Dropped link to VomitingCop: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Prone to Vomiting
processingUnknown
DFrag
 Prone to Vomiting
processingUnknown
Madam & Eve (Comic Strip)
 Prone to Vomiting
processingUnknown
KidsInTheHall
 Prone to Vomiting
processingUnknown
OpenSeason2
 Prone to Vomiting
isPartOf
DBTropes
 Prone to Vomiting / int_2477688c
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_2477688c
comment
The Baby-Sitters Club: Mallory's little sister Margo is known for her weak stomach and tends to throw up easily.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_2477688c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_2477688c
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Baby-Sitters Club
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_2477688c
 Prone to Vomiting / int_261c8d3f
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_261c8d3f
comment
The Simpsons has Wendell Borton, the sickly little pale kid at Springfield Elementary. In "Homer's Odyssey", Bart is afraid of sitting next to him on the bus because of his tendency to get car sick. (Otto driving like crazy certainly doesn't help.) When they make it without Wendell barfing, Bart gives him a congratulatory slap on the back... and that's when he throws up.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_261c8d3f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_261c8d3f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Simpsons
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_261c8d3f
 Prone to Vomiting / int_2f79d4ce
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_2f79d4ce
comment
In La Cité de la peur, Simon Jérémi vomits every time he is happy. And he is often happy.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_2f79d4ce
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_2f79d4ce
featureConfidence
1.0
 La Cité de la peur
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_2f79d4ce
 Prone to Vomiting / int_334120fc
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_334120fc
comment
8-Bit Theater: Black Mage tends to react to anything he finds disgusting by projectile vomiting. Then he discovers Matoya and Bahamut's Interspecies Romance, which causes him to puke so hard that he throws up things he hasn't even eaten yet. Note that Black Mage's mind is a very strange place, so while he nearly vomits from hearing about Fighter putting his dirty hands in the cereal, he's completely unfazed by brutally stabbing people to death and then mutilating their corpses.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_334120fc
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_334120fc
featureConfidence
1.0
 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_334120fc
 Prone to Vomiting / int_400469e
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_400469e
comment
Calvin and Hobbes: This doesn't apply to Calvin now, but when he asks what he was like as a baby, Hobbes responds that he spent most of his time spitting up.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_400469e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_400469e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip)
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_400469e
 Prone to Vomiting / int_42c05590
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_42c05590
comment
Rocko's Modern Life: Implied in Filburt's case, as he is known to get nauseous at the drop of a hat. At one point, he gets nauseous in a submarine, leading Rocko and Heffer to guess that he's nauseous before he can even announce it. Filburt tells them that they're right and proceeds to vomit.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_42c05590
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_42c05590
featureConfidence
1.0
 Rocko's Modern Life
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_42c05590
 Prone to Vomiting / int_492240cf
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_492240cf
comment
Recurring MADtv (1995) character Trina Moss, played by Mo Collins, almost always gets emotionally overwhelmed toward the end of her sketches—which prompts her to vomit. Her love interest, Michael McDonald's Jim Cockhurts, displays the same behavior. It's revealed at their wedding that they are brother and sister, and after the full realization hits, they vomit... and so does their dad.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_492240cf
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_492240cf
featureConfidence
1.0
 MADtv (1995)
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_492240cf
 Prone to Vomiting / int_4c56381b
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_4c56381b
comment
The Binding of Isaac has Hornfel, one of the new bosses introduced in Repentance. He seems to have a problem with motion sickness, which is odd seeing as he chooses to attack you from a minecart. In his solo fight he accidentally makes himself throw up from looping around the same section of track too many times. Then as part of The Horny Boys he throws up again when Loki shakes him about during his Bullet Hell attack, while Loki himself is completely unaffected.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_4c56381b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_4c56381b
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Binding of Isaac (Video Game)
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_4c56381b
 Prone to Vomiting / int_5feb5688
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_5feb5688
comment
In John Dies at the End, Amy's pain medication makes her vomit easily, which as a teenager earned her the nickname 'Cucumber' in reference to the way that certain species of sea cucumber will throw up when threatened.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_5feb5688
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_5feb5688
featureConfidence
1.0
 John Dies at the End
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_5feb5688
 Prone to Vomiting / int_7e4805b6
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_7e4805b6
comment
In Knives Out, Marta Cabrera's compulsion to vomit whenever she lies is made into a Running Gag.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_7e4805b6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_7e4805b6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Knives Out
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_7e4805b6
 Prone to Vomiting / int_892a1541
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_892a1541
comment
One episode of My Family and Other Animals miniseries involves Mrs. Durrell adopting a dog named Dodo who throws up a lot, but unlike one of the humans, doesn't get seasick.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_892a1541
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_892a1541
featureConfidence
1.0
 My Family and Other Animals
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_892a1541
 Prone to Vomiting / int_8f36f969
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_8f36f969
comment
The Loud House: Downplayed for Lincoln Loud who throws up when he eats something gross (as seen in "Brawl in the Family" with a dirty bagel and "Not a Loud" with worms) and when on the teacup ride (as seen in a Licensed Game) but is fine otherwise, even with seemingly more intense rides.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_8f36f969
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_8f36f969
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Loud House
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_8f36f969
 Prone to Vomiting / int_976efc02
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_976efc02
comment
On Mystery Science Theater 3000, when they watch the short The Story of Home Economics, the main character Kay, a female high school student, gets called to an assembly. The narrator says she picks out a seat in the gym right next to the aisle, causing Crow to mst, "In case she barfs. She has a tender tummy."
 Prone to Vomiting / int_976efc02
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_976efc02
featureConfidence
1.0
 Mystery Science Theater 3000
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_976efc02
 Prone to Vomiting / int_99d779d3
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_99d779d3
comment
Titeuf: This is the defining trait of Hervé which is even reflected in his nickname, Vomito.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_99d779d3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_99d779d3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Titeuf (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_99d779d3
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a0500a06
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a0500a06
comment
Rugrats:
Dil, being three months old, sometimes randomly spits up on things.
Downplayed for Chuckie, who doesn't throw up as much as Dil, but he does when watching a swing move (as seen in "A Dose of Dil") and when on a roller coaster (mentioned in "Accidents Happen").
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a0500a06
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a0500a06
featureConfidence
1.0
 Rugrats
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_a0500a06
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a183d57f
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a183d57f
comment
Futurama: Fry isn't this now, but he mentions in "The Series Has Landed" that he threw up a lot as a child.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a183d57f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a183d57f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Futurama
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_a183d57f
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a1a4b035
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a1a4b035
comment
Battle for Dream Island: Rocky's vomiting is his defining character trait. He rarely speaks and rarely contributes to challenges in any way that doesn't involve using vomit to his advantage.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a1a4b035
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a1a4b035
featureConfidence
1.0
 Battle for Dream Island (Web Animation)
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_a1a4b035
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a5f98cbf
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a5f98cbf
comment
Mr Creosote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life vomits periodically. When he swallows a mint, he explodes and covers everyone in vomit (and guts).
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a5f98cbf
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a5f98cbf
featureConfidence
1.0
 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_a5f98cbf
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a62ee4d2
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a62ee4d2
comment
Haikyuu!!: Hinata. Fans made a compilation video of it, missing the iconic scene from episode 4 where he throws up on his teammate Tanaka's lap during the bus ride to their match against Seijoh.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a62ee4d2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_a62ee4d2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Haikyuu!! (Manga)
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_a62ee4d2
 Prone to Vomiting / int_ac1e7cc7
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_ac1e7cc7
comment
Junta from DNA² vomits whenever he's sexually aroused.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_ac1e7cc7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_ac1e7cc7
featureConfidence
1.0
 DNA² (Manga)
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_ac1e7cc7
 Prone to Vomiting / int_bcb7921f
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_bcb7921f
comment
Bad Day L.A. has the aptly named The Sick Kid who vomits until he receives the cure for it at the end of the game.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_bcb7921f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_bcb7921f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bad Day L.A. (Video Game)
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_bcb7921f
 Prone to Vomiting / int_cceb25de
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_cceb25de
comment
The Locked Tomb: Harrow the Ninth: The events of the previous book destroys Harrowhark's psyche to the point that she vomits all the time at the beginning of the story.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_cceb25de
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_cceb25de
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Locked Tomb
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_cceb25de
 Prone to Vomiting / int_cf7739d0
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_cf7739d0
comment
In Ramona Quimby, when Roberta was two months old, she periodically spat up.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_cf7739d0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_cf7739d0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ramona Quimby
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_cf7739d0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d48a9539
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d48a9539
comment
Fairy Tail: Dragon Slayers all suffer from acute motion sickness once they reach a certain level of power (as characters like Gajeel and Wendy, who never had motion sickness, eventually developed that sickness in life later). In Natsu's case, he even got sick while on a stationary raft. Even one of the series' two Big Bads, Acnologia, isn't immune to motion sickness.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d48a9539
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d48a9539
featureConfidence
1.0
 FairyTail
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_d48a9539
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d9c602eb
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d9c602eb
comment
South Park had Stan Marsh throw up every time Wendy Testaburger would talk to him back in season 1. This went away not long after.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d9c602eb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d9c602eb
featureConfidence
1.0
 South Park
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_d9c602eb
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d9d367b3
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d9d367b3
comment
Little Misfortune has Misfortune Ramirez Hernandez, the young protagonist who vomits as a response to various player choices for her.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d9d367b3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_d9d367b3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Little Misfortune (Video Game)
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_d9d367b3
 Prone to Vomiting / int_e38eabea
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_e38eabea
comment
In Horrid Henry, Henry's one-year-old cousin Vera throws up so much he calls her "Vomiting Vera".
 Prone to Vomiting / int_e38eabea
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_e38eabea
featureConfidence
1.0
 Horrid Henry
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_e38eabea
 Prone to Vomiting / int_efccb9da
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_efccb9da
comment
Voltron: Legendary Defender's version of Hunk gets space-sick very easily, resulting in many incidents of messed up cockpits in the early episodes.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_efccb9da
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_efccb9da
featureConfidence
1.0
 Voltron: Legendary Defender
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_efccb9da
 Prone to Vomiting / int_f42befdb
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Prone to Vomiting / int_f42befdb
comment
In the second Captain Underpants spinoff "Ook and Gluk", the baby dinosaur Lily vomits when she's the slightest bit dizzy. She uses it to her advantage in one instance where she spins around in order to vomit into J. P. Goppernopper's mouth.
 Prone to Vomiting / int_f42befdb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Prone to Vomiting / int_f42befdb
featureConfidence
1.0
 Captain Underpants
hasFeature
Prone to Vomiting / int_f42befdb

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

 Prone to Vomiting
processingCategory2
Character Flaw Index
 Prone to Vomiting
processingCategory2
Disgust Tropes
 Prone to Vomiting
processingCategory2
Index Syndrome
 Prone to Vomiting
processingCategory2
Gushing About Characters You Like / Sugar Wiki
 Titeuf (Comic Book) / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Madam & Eve (Comic Strip) / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting
 La Cité de la peur / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Terror On Alcatraz / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Ramona Quimby / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting
 D-Frag! (Manga) / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Bad Day L.A. (Video Game) / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Little Misfortune (Video Game) / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Anarchy Dreamers (Webcomic) / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Horrid Henry / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting
 Open Season / int_675569dd
type
Prone to Vomiting