Talk:List of fictional diseases

Youngblood's Disease

From Atop the Fourth Wall, mainly just a term used by Linkara for when comic book characters (particularly those from the pages of Youngblood) are drawn with blank, white spaces instead of eyes. While this mainly only affects comic book characters, in one episode a future Lee from Still Gaming comes back from a time where everyone has "The Disease," which apparently gives everyone white, blank eyes (and possibly oddly-colored hair). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.148.116.43 (talk) 21:35, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Unsure of the name,but..

I remember reading a novel with featured a disease that caused people to become permanently bonded with electronic equipment. I can't remember the title but one of the characters was called 'pixel face' and was bonded with his computer, with a screen for a face and a keyboard on his arm. The book suggested the disease had been manufactured by a medicine company. Mystery Correction (talk) 21:22, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Dammit

Damnit, I thought I was helping by making a table for the fictional diseases. But it turns out the table ends up on the bottom of the page.

I'm terribly sorry, guys.

(EDIT) I (finally) created an account and already tackled the problem.

Maverick Hunter 07:49, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Sonic Diarrhea

It can be said that Sonic Diarrhea (which Turanga Leela is made to sign a waiver for in the second episode of Futurama) is not a fictional disease; it can be associated with the infamous brown note, with exaggerated (in this case, deadly) results. Kewlio 03:04, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Red Water

Red Water Poisoning from Fullmetal Alchemist is a poison, not an bacterial/viral disease. It was already listed in the list of fictional toxins, so I removed it.

Rom65536

Should also contain a listing for "Beaver Fever", from the "Ren and Stimpy Show" episode "The Great Outdoors". It was a water-borne disease that caused those afflicted to turn into beavers. Typically caused by drinking water in which "beavers do their business". Not the same as the real disease "Beaver Fever".

Black Breath?

Wasn't this a sort of illness? From Lord of the Rings, Éowyn and Merry both have it until Aragorn heals them. Is this something that could be added? Morhange 04:50, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Suggest removing the entry on Black Breath: this is more like poisoning by sorcery, rather than a disease process resulting from exposure to some viral or bacterial pathogen. Moreover, as currently written the is a speculative leap not directly supported by the referenced work (i.e. Tolkien does not state that the damage done to Frodo with the Morgul Knife is is any way related to the Black Breath). Finally, Eowyn's illness was not explicitly related "the Black Breath." Strike? Lexy-lou 19:22, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

I am gonna go ahead and strike it. Will be happy to discuss and perhaps revise with others' input. Lexy-lou (talk) 05:00, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Never Nude

Tobias, from Arrested Development does NOT have a fictional disease, he has Gymnophobia... Gymnophobia is an irrational, abnormal and persistent fear or anxiety about being seen naked, and/or about seeing others naked, even when it is socially acceptable. Gymnophobes may experience their fear of nudity before all people, or only certain people.

Bulgaria

In an episode of Married... with Children, Kelly Bundy pretends she is ill having caught the disease Bulgaria. __meco 00:17, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Footballitis

During the 2002 FIFA World Cup, there were commercials by Adidas featuring this new 'disease' called footballitis. Would this be considered for this article, even though it is just from a television commercial? Any thoughts? Eclipsed soul 19:24, 9 October 2006 (UTC}

Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Wouldn't this be a possible candidate for this article? Maria Robotnik from Sonic the Hedgehog series has this syndrome. Even in her article, it states it's a fictional illness. Eclipsed soul 19:24, 9 October 2006 (UTC}

Sexual Interations?

In the S.T.O.R.M.S. entry, I don't think there's any such phrase as 'sexual interations.' ... I think the gist of what they intended has to do with gradual cross-breeding between robots, mutants, etc.

Antiheat

The effect of a human cold virus on members of Heat Blast's fire-based species. Changes their fire powers to ice. Not actually named in the episode.

Where is it named Antiheat in the list, then? If there's another valid source for the name that's fine, I just want to avoid fan creations. JayMars 15:42, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I think it should be renamed "Common cold," but I'm a lazy man. Teflon Don 08:45, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Bloaty Head, Invisibility, Alien DNA, King Complex

Fictional diseases from Theme Hospital - added to the list. There's a whole swathe of diseases in this game that would apply here, each with their own description: especially "Slack Tongue", caused by "chronic overdiscussion of soap operas" which causes the patient's tongue to swell... LudBob 00:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

New categories

I'm noticing a lot of diseases in the wrong categories (Flictonic Clipple Waver Syndrome comes to mind). Moreover, quite a lot of diseases on this list come from Star Trek, Star Wars, and other space-opera type shows. I'm considering reorganizing this list in order to clean up the first issue; in the process, I think I might make another category for extraterrestrial diseases. Does anyone have any objections? It's not like I'd do this tomorrow or anything; just when I feel like it. Teflon Don 08:54, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

I also have noticed the seemingly random placement of Star Trek diseases. ʐ

Ever17

There are two diseases in the Ever17 visual novel, Teif Blau and Cure Virus. I think those would be appropriate to add to the list. Jon Fawkes 16:52, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Why reduced?

I would vote for not deleting this page, considering it useful: I could not find similar information anywhere on web. Fictional elements (persons, creatures, stories etc. and so diseases) have the influence on this world and form the common cultural knowledge and cognitive background. For this fictional elements, including fictional diseases, should have its place in Wikipedia.

I could find this page in google's archive with much more information about many diseases, but now the current version of the page is dramatically reduced. Why? Could we get back to the previous version? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.42.206.230 (talk) 20:36, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I have to agree. The "anticruft" edits made over the past few days appear to be far too sweeping in scope, and many removals don't seem to jibe with the introduced comments into the article template with respect to reasoning. D. Brodale 21:18, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Well-intended efforts to appease AfD concerns. If content fits the article guidelines then go for it, if not you may want to wait until after AfD has resolved and then sort out how to re-add material. Benjiboi 21:38, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I grasp that, but there is such a thing as throwing the baby out with the bathwater. D. Brodale 22:00, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Completely agree but sadly other editors decided to AfD article despite our concerns so the process has to play out. Benjiboi 22:48, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Literature section

It would be a bit better if the author's of each work could be added to the source rather than in the symptoms section. Benjiboi 09:28, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Done, looks better. Benjiboi 00:30, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

post AFD "to be added" v. To Do list

Assuming article survives AfD a "to be added" section should probably not be reintroduced in favor of the to do list I put at the top of the page. Simply add and remove items as needed. Benjiboi 00:34, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Ugh...the other format was better

I think the other format was better, where it was organized on how it was created, i.e, evolved, engineered, etc. Not only that, but like more than half of the diseases are gone. I'm just wondering who decided to be king and remove all of them... Eridani 03:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I liked the other format better as well (mostly because it was my idea and I implemented it). But I understand the rationale for using this format: one of the biggest problems with fiction-related content on Wikipedia is that it's written in-universe. Categorizing these diseases by their source material as opposed to their fictional origin is a way to combat that issue here. I am glad that a lot of minor diseases were removed from this list, as the "important" ones were starting to get lost in the mess. A lot of diseases were in the wrong categories, too. Perhaps we can start adding some of the removed-but-important diseases...responsibly. Teflon Don (talk) 23:57, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

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Rage Virus

Rage virus is a mutation of Ebola not rabbies —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.202.7.166 (talk) 22:51, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

"cleanup"

this page was screwed up, not "cleaned up". It is nothing like the other "list of fictional..." on this site. Bioform 1234 18:38, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Heroes

What was the name of the virus in the tv series Heroes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.253.64.213 (talk) 23:39, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Bowden's Malady

The term "Bowden's Malady" (referring to the disease mentioned in "The Train Job" in the Firefly television series - disease of the bone and muscle tissue, degenerative, treatable with Pescaline) directs here, but it's absent from the table - was it deleted, or just never added?

Pokerus

Just wondering: does Pokerus count as a valid disease for the video games category?

Simonalexander2005 23:28, 27 June 2008 (BST)

146.165.148.188 (talk) 20:31, 20 June 2008 (UTC) It might, but it's not a disease, more of a condition? Fictional viruses would be better, because it's called a virus in the game.SCIAG (talk) 09:06, 18 August 2008 (UTC) pokerus is pokemon and virus put together, but bulbpedia defines it as a "status condition". What do think it is? Breawycker (talk) 12:34, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Spattergroit (Harry Potter) and petrifold regression (Doctor Who)

Is spattergroit notable enough to be included? It plays an "important" role in the plot of Deathly Hallows, and allows Ron to go with Harry.

I agree that spattergroit be entered in, however I also think that Harry Potter has enough lore involving curses, diseases, etc,

to have its own page. --Nikolai508 (talk) 07:47, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Petrifold regression is mentioned in both New Earth and The Stone Rose SCIAG (talk) 09:10, 18 August 2008 (UTC) Notable enough?

Graphic Novels, webcomics, Etc.=

do we lump these in with the "liturature" section or create a new category?199.247.234.30 (talk) 21:27, 27 August 2008 (UTC) Graphic novels would make sense under literature, but not so sure about webcomics. Lsfoster (talk) 13:21, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Poliosis

Listed under television (from Jeff Dunham), Poliosis is a real condition (I myself happen to have it). I feel it should be removed. Any thoughts? --Seascic ^T/_C 03:59, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

It's been over a week. I'm going to take it down. --Seascic ^T/_C 21:53, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Stinky Toe

I submit that Stinky Toe (of S1E9 of The Angry Beavers "Stinky Toe/House Broken") be added to the list. 72.50.138.164 (talk) 21:53, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

In sports

You have to find a way to list fumbleitis and the injury bug in this article. --JAYMEDINC (talk) 05:32, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Satan Bug

There was another use of the 'Satan Bug' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satan_Bug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satan_Bug_%28novel%29

Also, in 'The Simpsons' there was 'Bonus Eruptus' coined by 'Dr' Nick Riveria that causes the victims skeleton to try to leap out of the mouth and escape the body. Treated with impromptu and improvised electric shocks

Medusoid Mycelium

Should the Medusoid Mycelium from A Series of Unfortunate Events go in the article? S*T*A*R*B*O*X (talk) 19:32, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

PSI-2000 Virus

I doubt that the PSI-2000 Virus (from Naked Time) should be listed as a 'Virus', as I recall, McCoy describes it as "It's water. Somehow on this planet water has changed to a complex chain of molecules," which does not describe a Virus. As such, I have changed it to (Unknown) as other diseases are listed and added a reference to the planet.Soluphobe (talk) 03:38, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

On the Memory Alpha Wiki, it was called polywater intoxication (sometimes referred to as the Psi 2000 intoxication, the Psi 2000 virus or the Tsiolkovsky infection).
Also it says, "The transmission of the affliction was water-based, caused by huge shifts in gravity, resulting in complex strings of water molecules that had the ability to propagate themselves, much like a very simple version of a virus."
And here is what the Memory Beta Wiki has about what it calls "Polywater"
Don't know if that helps in any way. 194.74.238.137 (talk) 13:39, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Super Aids?

TPS from South Park is on here. The Death of Eric Cartman refernces "Super AIDS" as a disease. Any reason why not to put it? Or should it be omitted because it is a variation of AIDS? Atari2 (talk) 22:02, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Imminent Death Syndrome

First identified on HBO's Mr. Show television program, IDS isn't new but it's rare. The victim is literally on the brink of death for 80 to 100 years -- a whole life time -- and it puts others in an awkward posistion. They want to make the victims final days rewarding but they feel taken advantage of when no one dies. Many famous cartoonists including the man who draws Ziggy and the man who draws Family Circus struggle with IDS.  Mr JM  20:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Conjoined Twin Myslexia

Another medical condition from South Park, whereby the person with the condition (in this case the school nurse) has a dead foetus attached to their head. Should an article for this subject be created, or is it a little too unpleasant? Mongoosander (talk) 19:31, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Legacy Virus (Marvel Comis)

Marvel Comics "Legacy Virus" should be on this list. Someone who has the motivation, please add this.

The Great Plague

"The Plague was 90% fatal for nearly all inhabitants of Middle-earth". 90% fatal? So... it almost killed almost everyone? Fantastic! Somehow, I don't think that's what the author intended. 203.83.193.114 (talk) 06:52, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Folk culture ?

Shouldn't there be a category about folk-related diseases? For example, I guess "cooties" was a part of child-lore before being a "literature-related" disease, wasn't it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.127.166.134 (talk) 08:12, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Chimera

A Russian scientist, molecular biologist, creates a super-virus named "Chimera" and an ultimate cure, "Bellerophon". Chimera virus is dormant for 20 hours, then causes destroys red blood cells, killing the victim in after 37 hours. The cure can only save the victim if used within the 20 hours. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aww0110 (talk • contribs) 20:05, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Where is "Aids" and "HIV"? theperthgroup.com The Emperor's New Virus — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.183.185.133 (talk) 20:12, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Dippydoodleitis

We need to mention Dippydoodleitis, remarkable for being fictional even in the work of fiction (Flintstones) that named it. --Thomasdelbert (talk) 03:44, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Should we create a zombie contagion-specific subsection

The idea of zombies as a biological, technological or supernatural contagion cause the dead, or near dead to become slow- or fast-moving feeders on non-infected living humans has a considerable cultural import manifesting in film, television, web video, comics, role-playing game, action games, and zombie flash mobs. Many of the diseases listed here fit within this category. Would it be worthwhile to create a zombie sub-section (possibly moving the appropriate entries there?). What do you think? Lexy-lou (talk) 06:38, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

What about "Ophiocordyceps unilateralis" from the book "The Girl with all the Gifts" by M.R. Carey? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.37.244.36 (talk) 00:58, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Add transporter psychosis

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Transporter_psychosis — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.175.170.75 (talk) 13:34, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

What happened to the funny stuff...

from Mad Magazine, like "recalcitrant plebney"? It used to be here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.242.72.225 (talk) 19:37, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Pathogen Vs. Disease

I haven't read any fictional psychological illnesses in this article, while one might contest that "zombie" viruses are in fact both physical and mental, there are also loads of fictional mental diseases and conditions that would be called "diseases", the present list only includes pathogens. Sincerely, --86.81.201.94 (talk) 19:24, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Orbital Dysfunctional Syndrome

What about adding "Orbital Dysfunctional Syndrome" (ODS for short)" from Pandorum? Esperluette (talk) 19:55, 18 August 2015 (UTC)esperluette

Doc McStuffins

Each episode invents at least one new toy-related diagnosis with unique vocabulary. This could greatly expand but also clutter the TV section here. They have both thematic importance and are the major plot point of the episodes, so they appear to belong here, but I wonder if there are ideas on how to deal with it. Should this series get its own subsection under television rather than merging the terms in with the others? 64.228.90.87 (talk) 15:03, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Ghancroid, fake disease

What is going on with this listing? The only relevant results I get for "ghancroid" on Google seem to be a single-post, three-sentence blog worded in the same strange way, and a Yahoo Answers page asking about it coming from a novelist named Arthur Vizar—who, as far as I can tell, doesn't exist—and with answers worded the same strange way by users who have each in two years only answered that question.

Does anyone else think this seems as if this is all one user's personal delusion, perhaps somehow about chancroid?

Anyway, I threw a "citation needed" at it, but I propose that it warrants simple removal. Saerain (talk) 16:27, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Deleted. Six months with no citation is more than long enough. Meters (talk) 20:22, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Shaun of the Dead

Was there ever a disease in Shaun of the Dead? Accordingly to the IMDb FAQ, it says that there were many theories as to how it was caused, but is never implied on what it was and thus left a mystery. If there was a disease in Shaun of the Dead about this "disease", where was it exactly mentioned in the film? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DawnGuardWolf (talk • contribs) 20:59, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Kharra

Too tired to do it right now but someone should add Kharra from Subnautica. Alien disease that infects people, weakens their immune system, puts big honking green spots on their skin, and eventually kills them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.177.58.107 (talk) 01:17, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

SCP-008 and SCP-217

Should SCP-008 and SCP-217 from the SCP Foundation wiki be on here? SCP-008 is a zombie virus and SCP-217 is a virus that causes people or animals that catch it to slowly turn into clockwork machines. 100.36.44.138 (talk) 23:30, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Plague in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Christopher dreams about a fatal disease that takes all neorotypicals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.116.89.165 (talk) 14:42, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Mold

https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Mold The Mold found on Resident Evil 7, is it count as disease, pathogen, bioweapon, or all of them? It can infect from people to people so also looks like disease/pathogen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.136.12.64 (talk) 11:54, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Slime Lung and others from Oxygen Not Included Computer game

Well if space mumps from Red Dwarf makes the cut I'd have thought these should too. But I don't have the full list available. Think there's three or four different ones? 82.69.54.207 (talk) 19:31, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Question

Should the “illnesses” mentioned by Dr. Bones Cookie in the most recent Cookie Run Ovenbreak event (I forgot the name, but Dr. Bones and Pizza Cookie debuted in this one. Crunchy Cookie Hospital or something?) be mentioned here? Also, how do you not have Brain Drain yet?! That episode of The Book of Pooh is legendary among the YTP community. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Golden Cheez-it Bird (talk • contribs) 19:31, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Hanahaki

I've done research about the Hanahaki disease and I've become quite interested in it.

The Hanahaki disease is a fictional disease where the victim of the disease starts coughing up flower petals and more. The cause of the disease is when the victim suffers from one-sided love.

The only way for it to be cured is when the victims crush returns the feelings, ( it can only be romantic love, strong friendship is not enough to cure it ), another way to cure it is when the victim dies.

It can be cured through through a surgical removal, but, when the infection is removed, the victim will lose any romantic attraction towards their beloved.

Hana in Japanese means " Flower " and haku means " to vomit " which if you put it together it says " Flower to vomit "

If a victim of Hanahaki chooses not to get surgery for the disease to be removed then the flower petals will fill up the patients lungs and they will suffocate, there is no specific flower for the disease, although, it'll either be the crushes favourite type of flower or favourite colour.

We can only pray that the crushes favourite flower is not a type of rose.

The disease can last up to 2 or 3 months but sometimes, it can only last up to a couple of weeks. 2601:481:8600:E840:913F:9D2D:DAFA:808A (talk) 06:29, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Error Regarding The Summary For CBI (Cordyceps Brain Infection)

This is almost so trivial as to almost overlook, yet it has been this way for nearly a year and no efforts are made to correct. The paragraph explaining CBI refers to it in one instance as a virus when it is beyond painfully obvious CBI manifests from a pathogenic fungus. 2600:1004:B012:AF4F:48C5:45E2:3FEB:4274 (talk) 02:20, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

 Fixed  SchreiberBike | ⌨  23:32, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

GR-27/Devil's Breath

I'm surprised Devil's Breath isn't on the list considering how popular Marvel's Spider-man is. I know it was intended to be a cure for genetic diseases, but surely the fact it was lethal, highly infectious and viral in origin makes it a disease? 82.1.79.108 (talk) 12:08, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Recent edits to match Wikipedia style

I'm in the process of copy editing this whole list and I'm making lots of small changes. I'm doing my best to follow Wikipedia:Manual of Style and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction, but sometimes I can't tell if something is a proper noun or not. For example, if someone knows that "kharaa" in the Subnautica franchise, is named after a place or person, it should be capitalized, but I couldn't find that online. There may also be things which are debatable, and I'm not going to be a stickler about small things, but just generally following Wikipedia style. If anyone has other ideas, I'd love to discuss. Thank you, SchreiberBike | ⌨  23:31, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Based on MOS:ENGVAR, we should choose which variety of English to use in this list. My reading is that there are no strong national ties for this list, so we follow:

When no English variety has been established and discussion does not resolve the issue, use the variety found in the first post-stub revision that introduced an identifiable variety. The established variety in a given article can be documented by placing the appropriate variety of English template on its talk page.

The first use of a word I could find which is different in British and American English is necrotizing, here from 26 October 2004, six months after the list was created. As that is an American spelling, as opposed to the British necrotising, I propose putting up a {{Use American English}} template and changing to American spellings outside of titles, quotes, etc. If there are any other ideas, let's discuss. Thank you, SchreiberBike | ⌨  02:52, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

MTamashiro-66 Virus

It's been pointed out elsewhere that this virus is listed as existing in Halo, however there is no source or any reference online that this is true. Is anyone aware of the alleged book it is cited as being from? Otherwise, it should be removed. 71.182.138.20 (talk) 05:16, 7 October 2024 (UTC)