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CANCER. LEPROSY. HERPES. TUBERCULOSIS. SYPHILIS. AIDS. EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA. There are some illnesses that we don't like talking about. Today, we are much more open about it, but once, not too long ago really, the names of these illnesses were verboten. You did not mention them. Doctors might not tell the patient what they were suffering from. Media would avoid saying their names. You used a nickname or euphemism if you have to talk about them, avoiding the dreaded name. You just never brought them up. They tended to be illnesses that cannot be cured and/or are transmitted sexually. As medical science has advanced and public attitudes to sex have loosened, they have become more acceptable, but some, most often AIDS, are still treated as taboo. Another variant are diseases that involve some embarrassing biological function or body part, such as diarrhea on the list abovenote although it also kills thousands of people each year, despite being treatable even in the worst case for under a dollar, or pretty much any other ailment involving the backside or groin. Cancer is a special case. There was a time, back before anesthesia and asepsis, when most cancers were never diagnosed. Doctors could easily recognize breast, cervical, and vaginal cancers from an external examination, but without surgery, X-rays, or medical laboratories, they couldn't detect internal cancers. Because of this, cancer was seen as mainly a woman's disease, and one that could affect any woman: certainly nothing to be ashamed about in any event. By the early 20th century, however, X-rays and surgery had made it possible to diagnose almost any cancer. Unfortunately, it didn't allow them to do anything about most cancers since patients often didn't see their doctors until the condition was terminal. Cancer, therefore, became synonymous with "death sentence" and the word gained a sinister reputation. Even now, when half of all cancers can be cured, the word is considered much more malevolent than it would have been in the early 1800s, possibly due to the fact that, while half of all cancers can be cured, the treatment itself, usually involving surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and other painful procedures, can be pretty hellish in its own right. This is why modern readers of Anthony Trollope's novel Doctor Thorne from The Chronicles of Barsetshire are often shocked when Trollope steps away from the church politics for a moment to frankly describe a woman dying of breast cancer, described as such. In his time, it wouldn't have been shocking. An example of how unpalatable even the use of the word "cancer" in other contexts is the practice of published horoscopes substituting the name "Moon Child" for the astrolgical sign of Cancer. It's also a way for an artist to hedge their bets in case they got something wrong, as they can't portray [X] Condition wrong if they never say it's [X] Condition. Another aspect of the taboo is that many people consider it Tempting Fate to talk about diseases, in the same sense as Speak of the Devil and The Scottish Trope. And as the close associates of the asbestos miner who died of cancer also died of cancer after talking about the fact that he had cancer, and plague victims died after going to the same rat-infested market and talking to people about who had the plague, and everyone who gossiped about Phil having cholera as they drew water from the well next to the dump came down with cholera...cue centuries of the Association Fallacy. In some languages, like Dutch, names of diseases make up most of the language's profanity. If someone tells you to "kanker op", it's because he really doesn't want to see you, not because he wants you to get cancer. Similarly, if a Polish person kicks their toe painfully, dropping a bag full of eggs and destroying their best Sunday outfit in the process, they are quite likely to shout out "Cholera!!!" in despair. Contrast Incurable Cough of Death and Soap Opera Disease, where the illness consists of symptoms that are ill-defined and vague (and oddly convenient to the plot). In this trope, the work could identify the illness, but won't due to cultural or ethical restrictions. Compare Disease by Any Other Name, which is a disease which isn't known to the characters, but is by the audience. Contrast The Topic of Cancer and Tragic AIDS Story for the respective awkwardness and tension that mentioning such diseases by name can cause. See also Secretly Dying (which this trope often entails), Never Say "Die", Victorian Novel Disease, Delicate and Sickly, Littlest Cancer Patient, The Scottish Trope, and Good Victims, Bad Victims. See also Diagnosed by the Audience, where the audience decides what a character has for themselves. Examples |
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On Happy Days when Chachi asked for Mrs. Cunningham's blessing for he and Joanie to get married he said he "had to" marry her, so Mrs. C thought he and Joanie were "in trouble" — that he had knocked her up. But no, he "had to" because he loved her so much. | |
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An interesting variation occurs in the Rurouni Kenshin: Seishohen OVA, in which Kenshin and later Kaoru suffer from an unknown disease. It's likely either a specific unmentionable or one they just made up. In either case, what exactly it is never gets brought up, but seeing as it's set in late 1800s Japan this may be justified by the setting. Also, while Souji Okita collapsed during the Ikeda-ya raid, it was never mentioned why. Real-life Okita died in 1868 from tuberculosis, and while the symptoms did reveal themselves during the raid, in reality, he didn't collapse until the raid in question was over. | |
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Averted in RENT, where characters that have AIDS are pretty frank about it. In the film version, however, Roger and Mimi recognize each other's affliction through the medication without mentioning the name of the disease; it's still averted in the case of Angel and Collins, who speak about it frankly and by name. | |
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13th squad captain Jushiro Ukitake from Bleach has a never-named illness that may have caused his hair to lose its color (his eyebrows are black, the rest is white), leads to him laying in bed sick a lot, and occasionally makes him cough up blood. | |
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In Black Jack's backstory, Black Jack broke this taboo to straightforwardly tell a fellow medical student she had ovarian cancer. Overall, he tends to be very blunt about the patient's chances. | |
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Spoofed when Tommy of Rescue Me confesses to a fellow firefighter he thinks he caught the "big C" from a woman. He's quickly corrected that chlamydia is the "little c". | |
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Rebecca was revealed to be dying of a tumor in her ovaries, which meant that she couldn't have children. | |
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Hyatt from Excel♡Saga suffers from some unknown disease that causes her to vomit blood and die on a regular basis. She always gets better, though. | |
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In Passion by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, nobody, not even the doctor, explains what Fosca's disease is. | |
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My Cousin Rachel (1952): Ambrose's father died of a tumor in the brain, and Rachel and Guido attribute both Ambrose's death and the terrifying letters he sent to Phillip to a tumor in his brain that affected his mental state. The word "cancer" is not used. | |
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There was a sketch in The Kids in the Hall where Scott Thompson played a celebrity who denied rumors that he was gay. The narrator claims that he kept denying the rumors up until the day he died of AIDS. The camera shows his body at the funeral and his corpse says out of the side of his mouth, "It was cancer." | |
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In Tokyo Godfathers, Hana's foster mother hears that Hana lost her boyfriend and asks (albeit under her breath) if he died of AIDS. Hana clarifies that he slipped on the soap in the shower. | |
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Non-disease example: on Sex and the City, Charlotte mentions that her Jewish boyfriend has relatives who died in the Holocaust, a word she says at least 20 decibels lower than the rest of the sentence. She may have also done the same about Samantha's cancer. | |
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Naruto: Itachi dies of a disease that causes fits of coughing and Blood from the Mouth, that he was receiving treatment for. Most fans think it was tuberculosis or something along those lines, but the disease itself is never actually named. Kimimaro dies of a very similar disease, which may or may not be the same thing. |
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In MirrorMask, it's never said outright what is afflicting Helena's mother, but the implication is pretty clear that it's a brain tumor (it's also stated explicitly in the companion book). | |
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In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the doctors never tell Big Daddy or his wife that he has cancer, telling them instead that he has a spastic colon. | |
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Community does its best to imply Abed is autistic, and known to be by the others characters, without ever actually using the word. For instance, another man "like Abed" contrasts themselves with "neurotypical" people. Another scene is clearly about Abed mocking his friends for expecting the Hollywood Autism in procedural TV shows. | |
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When Women Were Dragons: Alex's mother is dying of cancer, but nobody names the disease aloud. In a more fantasy sense, nobody wants to discuss dragoning, which is treated as something between a disease and a sin. | |
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Towards the end of GLOW's second season, Bash finds out his friend Florian has died. The disease is never specified but since Florian was known to go gay bars, and the hospital tells him his diagnosis is "technically" pneumonia and that many funeral homes won't take the body, the implication is obvious. | |
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In Kill la Kill AU, Room 002108, we have this with Ryuuko's illness, then again, she was mentioned be hospitalized for tests, in which case, this may be justified in that what she has is unknown (to both the reader and anyone that isn't hospital staff). However, it is subverted when Nonon (called Nonie) tries to avoid saying the taboo word which is, true to the trope, cancer and that, when she said it, it was treated as though she had said a swear or uttering it could be Tempting Fate, but mentions that may be what Ryuuko has and as to why she was hospitalized "for tests". Earlier, this was also averted when it was stated Satsuki was severely ill with tuberculosis. | |
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In My Neighbor Totoro, Mrs. Kusakabi is hospitalized, though what for is never stated outright. It is thought to be tuberculosis because the film is based on Hayao Miyazaki's childhood, and his mother had it. | |
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Refreshingly averted in the South African Sesame Street, which features Kami, an HIV positive Muppet. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV: The White Mage questline for the Stormblood expansion centers around a mother living with her child in the woods just past the border between Gridania and Ala Mhigo, who finds herself keeling over in pain several times from a heart condition. Nothing is discussed about what that condition actually is or what caused it — only that it's going to eventually kill her, and even white magic can do nothing to fix it. | |
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A Day of Fallen Night: Prioress Saghul dies after a sudden quick decline, shocking the other sisters because there was no warning beforehand. The sister who cared for her explains that there was a malignant growth in her stomach and that such things can grow for years before their symptoms herald a swift death — in other words, stomach cancer. Though not a disease, the description of the paler patches on Saghul's brown skin sounds like vitiglio. Glorian frets about the possibility of her family's penchant for "grievoushead" and the particular variety that can strike after giving birth. The description of her mother's periods in this mood (as well as the previous book's depiction of her descendant's sufferings) matches clinical depression and post-partum depression. |
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In Rubyfruit Jungle Molly's adopted mother Carrie bluntly points out that her husband Carl contracted syphilis while sleeping around behind her back. It's implied this may be why they ended up adopting Molly if it left one or both of them infertile. | |
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Under Heaven has "the sugar sickness", otherwise known as diabetes. An Li suffers from it, and one of his political opponents had a plan to use it against him. | |
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In Persona 4, it's fairly clear that Hisano's husband suffered from dementia, largely through her story harshly averting Easy Amnesia. | |
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Subverted in an episode of American Dad!: | |
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Call the Midwife: Defied. When Chummy's mother is in her final illness, she mentions that people often refuse to mention its name. She more or less says that's for people with no backbone, says she has cancer, and says, "The beast is named." | |
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In And the Band Played On, about the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, this is a plot point. When Richard Gere's character, a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Michael Bennett, dies, his obituary reads that he died after a "long illness", leading Dr. Don Francis, the protagonist, to object that "This could be the first deadly epidemic in history of which nobody officially died." | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: In Buu Bits, Videl mentions that her mother died of 'The Big C,' which Gohan initially misunderstands as her being killed by Cell. | |
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Similarly, Facebook is known to put "misinformation" warnings under posts that simply mention the virus or disease. Or vaccines. | |
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The "Mars Rays disease" from Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, which is terminal and can strike anyone living on Mars, is basically cancer. In the show, it's supposedly caused by "rays" from Mars's magnetic field, but in Real Life a strong magnetic field shields a planet from being scoured by radiation, and one major difference between Earth and Mars is that the latter has no magnetic field. This is why in most other stories that involve Mars colonization, a major concern is preventing everyone from dying of radiation poisoning and cancer. | |
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The first use of the word "condom" and what it's for on a (US) fiction TV show was in a Very Special Episode during the series' second season (episode titled "Bad Timing," when Valerie told David to use a condom if he had sex with his girlfriend. The episode aired with a content warning. | |
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Subverted in AdventureQuest. Alternate Ryuusei Cartwright's ambiguous disease is revealed to be terminal cancer and that he had been Secretly Dying all along since he and Gaiden had begun travelling between realities in search of his analogue. | |
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Funky Winkerbean has had several plots and events based around characters dying from cancer and never held back about what it was. | |
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A Doll's House is similarly quiet on Dr. Rank's disease (he has spinal tuberculosis which is implied to be caused by congenital syphilis), and in Hedda Gabler her pregnancy is never made explicit. | |
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As mentioned above Arthur played this trope straight once, but they've also averted it when Mrs. MacGrady was diagnosed with cancer. | |
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In Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden, Mrs. Okuda is suffering from tuberculosis at the beginning of the story, though it is usually referred to as "consumption" instead of by its proper name. She and Takiko's governess wish to keep the illness a secret because the social stigma might jeopardize 17-year-old Takiko's ability to get married. (Takiko's classmates seem to know that the Okuda family moved to Morioka from Tokyo because of an illness, though they don't know all the details, and gossip constantly about it.) | |
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No one wants to talk about AIDS in Tell the Wolves I'm Home, although justified due to it being set in The '80s. | |
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In the Frozen (2013) fanfic Darkness Burning, after an Interrupted Suicide attempt Elsa is described as "ill" instead of specifying that she suffers from depression. This causes people outside her family to speculate exactly what the illness is. Elsa herself refers to her depression as being a "darkness". It's also worth noting that the term "depression" being used to refer to Major Depression didn't become commonplace until the 1860s, and Frozen takes place in the 1840s, so it's possible that the characters don't have a word to describe Elsa's illness. | |
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Mildred in Of Human Bondage is strongly implied to be a prostitute and dies, almost certainly of syphilis. | |
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Secrets & Lies: The cause of Monica's infertility is never mentioned, although some have speculated that it might have been endometriosis. | |
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From Team America: World Police, "Everyone has AIDS!" (Which is a parody of RENT, discussed in the Theatre folder below.) | |
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In Cardcaptor Sakura, Nadeshiko Kinomoto (the mother of The Protagonist) is mentioned to have died at the age of 27 from an unspecified illness. | |
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In the 1909 film The Country Doctor, the doctor's daughter and a neighbor girl both fall ill. It's not mentioned what they are ill with. The neighbor girl writhes around in discomfort in bed, while the doctor's daughter (who also has dark undereyes) simply lies on her side the entire film. The neighbor girl gets better but the doctor's daughter dies. | |
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Onward: Ian and Barley's dad died from a terminal illness when the former wasn't even born yet and the latter was a toddler, but it's never stated what exactly it was. | |
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O-Lan in Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth became sick later in the book. Her illness was never named, but she described it as "a fire in my vitals," which sounds like cancer. | |
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Played with Meet the Feebles: the doctor ominously tells Harry he's caught "The Big One". We find out near the end of the movie that he meant myxomatosis—a real disease, but one specific to rabbits like Harry. | |
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In The Wind Rises, it's specifically stated that protagonist Jiro's wife Naoko has TB. He marries her knowing that she's in the final stages and she dies at the end. | |
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Bob's Burgers — Bob tells Tina to keep quiet about an insurance scam, pointing out that Linda (his wife) can't keep a secret — cut to the two of them entering a cocktail party and Linda cheerfully shouting "Hi, sorry we're late, Bob had diarrhea!" | |
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One of the children terrorized by Kamara the Monkey-King in Saga of the Swamp Thing has some very frightening ideas about "cancer", as a relative had subjected the kid to dire warnings about it without actually explaining what it was. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, there is a lot of characters who have vaguely described medical conditions. This is a medieval world where the local doctors just do not have the knowledge to identify diseases as we do, so all we have is symptoms. Nevertheless, the disease from which Lord Hoster Tully is dying is heavily hinted to be cancer and King Viserys I's symptoms before death match those of untreated diabetes. | |
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In an SBS of One Piece, Oda Eiichiro was asked if a disease he had mentioned in the series was real. He noted that, yes, it definitely is real, but the name and general idea was tweaked a bit to sound fictional. Apparently, in the manga business, some terms/diseases are frowned upon for being "too real". | |
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In The Shootist, J.B. Books is explicitly said to have cancer. This may have something to do with the fact that the actor, John Wayne, had previously struggled with lung cancer and done several PSAs about the disease. He would be diagnosed with stomach cancer shortly after the movie's release; this would be his last film. Played straight as well, to a degree — it is never explicitly stated that Books has prostate cancer. | |
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In The Bible, a woman seeks healing from Jesus for an affliction that caused bleeding, that she had been suffering from for 12 years. (Incidentally, Jesus was on his way to heal a 12-year-old girl who was suffering at death's door from another unnamed illness. The young girl and the older woman may or may not be related in some way.) We don't know what the affliction of the bleeding woman was, only that she had suffered from it for a long time, and that bleeding made her ritually impure (and thus a social outcast). (It may have been endometriosis, or something like ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, all of which are now treatable.) She reaches out and touches Jesus' clothing, and He stops walking and asks who touched Him. When she reveals what she did, He commends her faith, and she is healed from her affliction. As for the young girl He was on His way to see, she died before He got there, but He brings her Back from the Dead and cures her sickness. In another incident, a young boy is healed from Convulsive Seizures, which were chalked up to Demonic Possession, but are now thought to be Epilepsy or some other seizure disorder. Somewhat justified in that neuroscience wasn't a thing yet, so many mental disorders and neurological disorders were thought by people of that time to be caused by demons, rather than flaws in a person's nervous system or brain chemistry. |
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The trope is invoked in-universe to correct period effect in The Crown (2016) when King George's illness is described as "structural alterations" in his lungs. Winston Churchill, who is only the prime minister of the country, has to give this medical report to a doctor friend for translation — cancer. | |
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Chick Tracts: The tract "Wounded Children" contains an odd variant: A Depraved Homosexual speaks of his lover dying of "cancer", which a footnote tells us means "AIDS". This is actually Accidentally-Correct Writing: It wasn't unusual in the '80s and '90s for people with AIDS to say that they had cancer to avoid the stigma. In many cases, it's not a total lie, since Kaposi's Sarcoma is an opportunistic skin cancer (the infamous black lesions) which AIDS victims often die from. In fact, in the early '80s, before it was identified and named, AIDS was often colloquially called "gay cancer" (within gay communities). | |
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Cries and Whispers: Agnes' terminal disease that gets her killed halfway through the film. The disease's name is never stated outright but is strongly implied to be uterine cancer because of her pained writhing and how the doctor examines her. | |
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Angels in America uses the aforementioned Roy Cohn inversion. Prior occasionally plays the trope straight by saying that he's "sick" and "diseased". While he is able to admit to his boyfriend what he has, he does fuss around before spitting it out. | |
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The Brothers Lionheart: Skorpan died of tuberculosis, but the disease is never named in the book. | |
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Oddly inverted, along with just about everything else, in The Room (2003). Lisa's mother says off-handedly that "I got the results of the test back. I definitely have breast cancer." This sets it up as a possible plot point. However, it is never mentioned again, and Lisa herself doesn't seem particularly affected by the news. | |
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In A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim's disease comes across this way to modern readers. Modern literary experts believe it was most likely intended to be either a kidney problem or rickets, but it's never explicitly identified in the narrative; all we get is Scrooge asking the Ghost of Christmas Present what's wrong with the boy, and receiving the answer of "Much, I'm afraid." | |
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Averted in Forrest Gump for Mama Gump, if not for Jenny. Forrest says outright that "she had got the cancer, and died on a Tuesday." | |
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The 1990 Peanuts special Why, Charlie Brown, Why? is about Linus befriending and helping a girl with leukemia. This made Peanuts the first animated series to ever directly talk about cancer. | |
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Digory's mother in The Magician's Nephew, until she is cured by a magic fruit. In Real Life, author C.S. Lewis' mother died of cancer when he was ten years old. | |
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: In the series’ first episode, prostitute Myra comes to see Dr. Mike about a "female problem". Later, Dr. Mike tells Hank, owner of the local brothel, that Myra needs to be "chaste" for several weeks. When he complains about the loss of revenue, she warns him that he'll lose a lot more if she has to treat his customers as well. In a later episode, Hank asks why Dr. Mike has been oblivious to the fact that her sister Marjorie is ill—"That husband of hers left her with more than anyone suspects". Mike realizes what the problem is and gently tells her sister, "It's not your fault, he gave it to you", then offers to give her an injection of silver nitrate in order to clear up the infection. Given the treatment mentioned, it's obvious that Marjorie's unfaithful husband has given her gonorrhea. |
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Even pregnancy can fall to this. In one of the Benji movies, Tiffany (the dog) was referred to as being "ill" when they meant "about to have puppies". | |
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is set in Botswana, and the recent AIDS epidemic is occasionally mentioned, but referred to only as "the terrible disease" or similar. | |
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In the second Flashman book, Royal Flash, a character is described as suffering from a "social disease". Flashman immediately responds, "You mean he's got the clap?" | |
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YouTube demonetized videos for simply alluding to COVID-19, so many content creators skirt around it, either by not referring to it at all, or calling it The Pandemic. Some, like iilluminaughtii, had fun with it and referred to it as 'the beer'. | |
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In a Monty Python's Flying Circus animation sequence, we have an enchanted prince who gets a spot on his face, ignores it and dies of cancer, but the word "gangrene" was very obviously dubbed over "cancer" in a very different (as in, male as opposed to female) voice. It can be heard as intended in And Now for Something Completely Different. | |
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Also averted with Endless Numbered Days and Satsuki being ill with lung cancer, which later on progresses to terminal. | |
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In La Traviata, Violetta's tuberculosis is only mentioned by name once, in the last act, while in La Bohème, MimÃ's TB is never mentioned by name at all. In both cases, the audience is supposed to recognize the disease just from the symptoms, and possibly from familiarity with the sources, La dame aux camélias and Scenes de la vie de bohéme. | |
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A season 4 episode of The Golden Girls has Sophia volunteering at the hospital. One of her favorite people to visit with is a young boy who is a patient. She encourages him by telling him, "One day, they'll find a cure." Considering that it's 1988, it could have been AIDS, or it could have been cancer, with a comment about his blood getting messed up by a bad transfusion heavily implies the former (the story took place right at the same time as the Ryan White story.) | |
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Played with in-universe in the John Putnam Thatcher novel Brewing Up a Storm. One of the suspects says he has an alibi but refuses to tell the cops what it is. He went out of town to get an HIV test, after learning a woman he'd dated had turned up positive. At the end of the novel, another character points out that the woman in question had been blabbing the news all over town for months to get sympathy. | |
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Discussed in Two Weeks with the Queen. Colin reflects on the fact that he's never heard anyone other than a doctor refer to his brother's condition as "cancer". When he meets Ted, he first warms to him when Ted openly refers to the disease by name, rather than shying away from it. | |
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Averted in South Park when Scott tells Terrence and Phillip that he hopes they both get cancer with special emphasis on "Can-saa!" AIDS especially is often joked about. With the episode "Jared Has Aides", it was noted that only South Park could do an episode that consists almost entirely of an AIDS pun and end up getting in trouble for something else. And then there's the episode where Cartman got AIDS: |
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In Moulin Rouge!, Satine has consumption (tuberculosis), but this is kept from her until near the end of the movie when she dies from it onstage. | |
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Good Times was the first time STD (then called VD) was mentioned in a (US) fiction TV show, but they never really said what it was or how it was spread, just that JJ's ex had VD and he should get tested, along with Anvilicious speeches about VD (given the time frame, they almost certainly meant gonorrhea). During the final season, Willona wants to protect little Penny from the facts of life, suggesting to her adopted daughter that her 12-year-old pregnant friend had simply contracted the "Stomach Mumps." Terms related to teen pregnancy are freely exchanged between Willona and Florida, as the two bitterly argue about whether to tell Penny the truth (Willona is forced to when Penny is nearly sexually assaulted in the hallway). |
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In Red Dead Redemption 2, the disease Arthur Morgan contracts (tuberculosis) is openly discussed. | |
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After Scott dumps Buffy Faith sees him with another girl. She gets a brainwave, goes up to him and claims the sexually transmitted diseases she got from him were clearing up, getting some measure of revenge for what he did to Buffy. | |
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The Hogan Family: The first use of the word "condom" and what it's for on a (US) fiction TV show was in a Very Special Episode during the series' second season (episode titled "Bad Timing," when Valerie told David to use a condom if he had sex with his girlfriend. The episode aired with a content warning. Unlike many other sitcoms, The Hogan Family also unashamedly addressed AIDS in one of the last episodes of the series, where David's best buddy Rich contracts AIDS. The episode shared Rich's last days and ends with his death. |
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Coco: Miguel mentions tactfully that Coco "has trouble remembering things". Her fading memory then becomes a major plot point, but it is never specifically stated whether it's Alzheimer's or just ordinary dementia. | |
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In The Turn of the Screw it's never specified what the previous governess died of, but given the context it's likely death by childbirth, suicide after becoming pregnant, or a botched abortion. | |
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Babylon 5 included an in-universe example with the disease which ultimately wiped out the Markab. Sufferers would not discuss it or seek treatment because most Markab believed the disease only struck the immoral and impure. At one point, Dr. Franklin lampshaded the fact that this resembled human behavior surrounding many plagues, including AIDS and the Black Plague. | |
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Only Fools and Horses: In "Sickness and Wealth," Del is worried that he might be suffering from a certain disease, and subsequent dialogue makes it obvious that he's talking about AIDS. The disease was still pretty taboo in 1989, hence why it isn't mentioned by name, but the episode shows quite a surprising degree of AIDS awareness, most notably the fact that it isn't—as was widely considered to be the case at the time—something that only gay men contract. | |
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In the opening scene of State of the Union, where Kay meets her dying father, he talks about something "eatin' my guts away", and he says a little bit later that he can't stand the pain anymore. The word "cancer" is not mentioned. | |
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In the Revolution episode “Captain Trips�, Rachel is listing off diseases that the patients have other than the manufactured one they're all suffering from, and in a real sign of what's accepted in modern society versus what's still not, she says in a normal voice that two of them have Bipolar and Epilepsy, but whispers when she says that the third woman is an Alcoholic. | |
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