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Rise of Zitboy
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In Real Life, acne is a fairly common thing that people go through, usually when they reach a certain age during puberty. It's not uncommon to see pizzafaces left and right in the real world, and no one really makes a big deal out of acne unless it's really noticeable on someone. It's also not as time-limited as most people make it out to be; while your first brush with it does tend to occur in your teenage years, some people are just unlucky and can continue to get occasional bouts as adults. The world of fiction, however, didn't seem to get the memo. In fiction, especially shows and movies aimed at kids and teens, any character who develops acne (usually a girl, but there are male examples too) will treat it like it's the end of the world, even if it's just one pimple. Usually this is used as a plot device when a female character is preparing for a date, school dance or something similar. She is bubbly and excited that she'll finally be going out with the boy of her dreams and knows in her heart that it will be the best day of her life. But then, the night before her plans, she notices in the mirror that she has a huge zit that in many cases resembles a flashing LED light (except for the "flashing" part, of course, unless Rule of Funny is in play), usually right in the middle of her forehead. She will then spend the remainder of her time fretting over the fact that she doesn't have perfect skin and will usually take drastic measures to hide or remove the pimple. Her attempts usually fail and the acne is eventually revealed to her peers, who treat it like some kind of hilarious mutation the likes of which they've never seen. Often, though, her date will tell her that it doesn't matter to him if she has perfect skin or not, saying she's beautiful just the way she is. If a female character with bad acne succeeds in having it removed, it usually reveals that she was beautiful all along. With male characters, however, this is usually played completely for laughs and there is no sympathy shown to them by any of the other characters at all. There's also an urban legend that having sex will cure acne, so the implication that a guy with bad skin... Woe betide the character, male or female, to which this happens on school picture day, as the embarrassing incident stands to get memorialized in the year book. Strangely, most shows that use this trope depict the character as only having one pimple, with the rest of their face being completely clear. If a show is known for anything supernatural (like Wizards of Waverly Place) or the protagonist has a vivid imagination (like The Amanda Show), expect the zit to become a speaking sentient creature, and as such, it overlaps with a Garrulous Growth. This seems to be becoming a Discredited Trope these days, as it rarely turns up outside of parody. |
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In Episode 118, the Alpha Bitch Pretty gets a zit on her face, and Quack Quack takes a picture of it and posts it on the internet as revenge for her posting embarrassing photos of him earlier in the episode. | |
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Exaggerated in Scorpion Shards. Supernatural circumstances result in Tory being covered completely in horrible acne. Even her acne has acne. She is very shunned. And it's not funny. | |
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Kids Are Cruel | |
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The episode "Crater Face." Danny is hit with an acne problem, causing Amanda to distance herself out of embarrassment. | |
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"Members Only" has Amanda growing a nasty pimple, which is particularly distressing since Justin and a bunch of other dudes take it upon themselves to rate the girls as they're walking up or down the stairway, holding up their scores as they pass. | |
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The Trope Namer is the title of an episode of Invader Zim, in which Zim gets a giant, pus-filled pimple from having GIR's greasy pizza and bacon soap rubbed on his face. It starts out as a more typical example of this trope, with Zim using acne products (which actually make it worse, since he is an alien) to try and get rid of the blemish... until he discovers that the pimple has hypnotic powers. After GIR draws a face on it with a marker, Zim attaches a toy body to it, names it "Pustulio" and uses it to control the kids at Skool. | |
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Babysitter from Hell | |
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In "The Switch Glitch", a de-aged Vicky became Cosmo and Wanda's godchild as a consequence of being made miserable by Timmy indulging the opportunity of exchanging their positions as Babysitter from Hell and the babysitter's helpless victim to humiliate and torture Vicky. One of her wishes was for Timmy to have zits. | |
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In the episode, “Cream for a Day,� Kelly develops a small pimple on her nose right before Homecoming queen is going to be crowned. Coincidentally, a few days before in Freak Lab Accident, Zack develops a cream that clears away all acne. He sells this to all the students in the school, including Kelly, which at first clears their acne, but then turns their faces completely purple. Their faces all turn back to normal within a few days, with the lesson being not to be too obsessed over small imperfections. | |
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Taken to the extreme in the Malaysian 4-panel comic, Lawak Kampus, with Bepop, an acne-ridden teenager whose face is coated in a layer of zits 24-7. Him trying to get rid of his (endless) zits using exaggeratedly outlandish methods is a frequent Running Gag, and he even weaponizes his acne sometimes by squeezing it's contents at anyone who pisses him off. Bepop's zits even helps him in a few Mundane Utility ways, like one instance where Bepop cheats during an exam by squeezing out a cheatsheet hidden inside a particularly large acne. Yes, it's exactly the type of comic it sounds like. | |
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In one episode, Mr. Cat gets an outbreak of acne on his face, and the audience gets a Gross-Up Close-Up of the pulsating zit. Kaeloo says it's probably puberty. It's later revealed to be an effect of a disease that causes the person's face to temporarily break out in acne, meaning he hasn't hit puberty yet. | |
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