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{{quote|'''Garth:''' Wayne, what do you do when, every time you see a really hot girl, you feel like you're going to hurl?
Exaggeration of the nervousness and discomfort one feels at approaching someone cute to the point that they become physically sick (major turnoff). If the character is lucky, they might find the one person who doesn't trigger the reaction. Compare [[Love Makes You Crazy]], [[Does Not Like Men]] ([[He-Man Woman Hater|or women]]), and [[Chaste Hero]].
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Compare [[Cannot Talk to Women]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Xellos from [[Slayers]] is allergic to, in addition to love, any and all positive emotions.
* ''[[Ah!
* Alex Treveney from Nightschool: The Weirn Books. If she says that she likes or loves something, it will explode.
* Sunako from ''[[Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge]]''. She completely freaks out, nosebleeds to the point of hemorrhage and passes out whenever she sees "bright creatures." In a slight subversion, this applies to females as well as males, but is usually centered on her [[Bishounen]]...housemates.
* Junta, the lead from ''[[DNA
* Yukinari from ''[[
** It also turns out that the [[Big Bad]] ''is'' the [[Big Bad]] because {{spoiler|she's allergic to boys.}}
* Likewise Taro from ''[[
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'''s Ami has a near-allergic reaction to getting a love letter, among other much more extreme behaviors (''Ami-chan's First Love'' Special). This completely contradicted her relationship with Urawa in the first
* The lead of the manga series ''[[Girls Saurus]]'' and it's sequel ''Girls Saurus DX'' is a "healthy" young boy... until he receives a beating from an [[Gonk|overweight high school girl]], severe enough to send him to the hospital for a few weeks; afterward he develops gynophobia, and has an [[The Unwanted Harem|unwanted harem]] form around him. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* The ''[[
* Rito of [[To
* In the early episodes of ''[[
** {{spoiler|He doesn't get his wish, but he eventually gets cured when he realizes he just has to become familiar with a woman.}}
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Nodoka starts out this way - she can't stand being anywhere near a man, seemingly becoming downright terrified just by the thought, and physically recoiling at the sight of a [[Boys Love]] manga. Since she goes to an all-girl school, she can usually avoid such contact, but her friends warn her that once she leaves the school, half the world is men... and fortunately, [[Adorably Precocious Child|Negi]] is just what she needs to get over her fears.
** In the original manga, she's just a typical [[Shrinking Violet]].
* In the manga ''[[
* Hinata from ''[[Naruto]]'' has some extreme reactions when in the presence of the only guy she loves, Naruto.
** It gets less severe over time until {{spoiler|she finally confesses her love to him}}.
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* Fuko in ''[[Gilgamesh]]'' sneezes when in proximity to her (current) crush.
* Yukina in ''[[Seraphim Call]]'' passes out whenever confronted by men (even over the vidphone). It is so bad that she lives in isolation, and wears a special suit that inflates as a cushion whenever she is passing out.
* Shogo from ''[[
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'''s Haruhi has this affliction in the manga for a brief period of time. She has all these 'symptoms' such as heart palpitations and feeling feverish around Tamaki after he had opened up to her more about his past and then kissed her on the head when he left. She thinks she has some sort of illness or that her heart is rejecting her. She got better a chapter or two later.
== Literature ==
* In [[Jim Butcher]]'s ''[[
▲* In [[Jim Butcher]]'s ''[[The Dresden Files (Literature)|The Dresden Files]]'', the [[Our Vampires Are Different|White Court vampires]] of House Raith feed on sexual desire, but a person touched by true love can burn them like sunlight burns your ordinary vampire. The relationship between Thomas and his favorite toy, Justine, has slowly progressed from "mutually beneficial experience" (she gives him nourishment, he keeps her mental illness in order) in ''Grave Peril'' to "true love" in ''Blood Rites''. It can't end well.
** However, it only applies when the last person somebody was intimate with loved and was loved by them. As of Ghost Story, Thomas and Justine appear to have found a workaround. She's adventurous and her name is Mara.
== Live
* The early episodes of ''[[Smallville]]'' subverted this trope, as Clark Kent got weak and klutzy whenever he approached Lana Lang not because of his crush (which [[Love Makes You Dumb|only affects his judgement]]), but because of her kryptonite necklace.
* For an episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'', J.D. had to deal with an element of this, when he couldn't get some of the ugly scenes from work out of his head and looking at any part of his would-be girlfriend ended up making him think of some scene involving that part of the body (throat cancer when he looked at her neck, etc). He was able to move past it with some "help" from Drs. Cox and Turk.
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== Music ==
* The Shins have a song called ''Know Your Onion'' which mentions this
{{quote|
Shaking their heads
'What kind of life you dream of?
You're allergic to love!'" }}
== Video Games ==
* Not only is [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
▲* Not only is [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)/Characters|Laharl]] from ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)|Disgaea Hour of Darkness]]'' allergic (as in gets ''literally'' hurt by: his [[Gameplay and Story Integration|stats get cut]]) women with sexy bodies, he is also allergic to optimistic sayings, especially "Eternal love".
** And don't forget optimistic sayings said ''by'' women with sexy bodies. "A ray of hope" isn't overly much for Laharl when said this way.
* Apricot from ''[[Galaxy Angel Rune]]'' and ''[[Galaxy Angel (
* ''[[King's Quest IV]]'' takes this to the logical extreme: the villain Lolotte is so evil that when Rosella shoots her with one of Cupid's arrows, the love is so poisonous to her that she dies.
** Not that being ''shot with an arrow'' is healthy in any case...
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** {{spoiler|1=A whole room full of women, including his beloved elder sister, died to protect him right before of his eyes, and he got stuck under all the dead bodies for a while till someone came to rescue him. He blotted this out of his memory, and could only subconsciously remembered "Girls=scary," thus leading to his gynophobia.}}
* In ''[[Persona 3]]'', one of the potential social links is a girl who can barely look straight to a boy.
* Lord Dearche of the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
{{quote|
'''Dearche:''' E-Eeei! Will you stop that?! A chill is running through my skin! You! Have you forgotten that I was born a King of Darkness?!
'''Yuri:''' You're my important Dearche and everyone's King. I haven't forgotten and I'll keep on saying I love you no matter how many times.
'''Dearche:''' U-uwaaaAAA~!!! Shut up already!! Shut uuup!!! No, it doesn't matter if you don't! With my power as the King who rules over Darkness, I'll shut that loose mouth of yours to never say those again! }}
== Web Original ==
* Charlie, the main character in [
▲* Charlie, the main character in [http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2535577/1/Charlie_Daniels_Teenaged_Schmoe this story] is a fairly unique case of this trope. Whenever people start being mushy or making out near him (especially making out), he usually ends up with heartburn. He often uses this for comic effect (i.e. to weird people out)
== Western Animation ==
* In early seasons of ''[[South Park]]'', Stan vomited uncontrollably when his love interest Wendy Testaburger so much as talked to him.
** This seems to have started all over again at the end of the episode ''The List''. Though in ''Super Fun Time'', he holds her hand through most of the episode with no ill effects. Then in ''Elementary School Musical'', she kissed him without Stan puking on her.
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