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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|'''[[Man of Wealth and Taste\|Marcus]]:''' Curing cancer, Mr. Wyndam-Pryce? ~~<br~~ /> '''[[Knight in Sour Armor\|Wesley]]:''' Wouldn't be cost-effective. I'm sure we make a lot from cancer. ~~<br~~ /> '''Marcus:''' Yes, [[Occult Law Firm\|the patent holder is a client]].\|''[[~~Angel (TV)\|~~Angel]]'', "Time Bomb"}} A specific type of [[MacGuffin]], the [['''Cure for Cancer]]''' is something like a modern-day ''panacea''. It is the ultimate medical achievement that everyone is looking for. Some people will want to [[Money, Dear Boy\|sell it]], some will want to [[Information Wants to Be Free\|spread it for free]], and some will want to [[Withholding the Cure\|destroy it]]. For some reason (half [[Fantastic Aesop]] and half [[Status Quo Is God]]), the [['''Cure for Cancer]]''' often has some horrific side ~~effect--it~~effect—it [[I Am Legend\|causes zombies]], [[Human Resources\|is made from people]], or what have you. Often combined with [[Withholding the Cure]]. Note that the reason we don't have this in [[Real Life]] (and the reason it is so sought-after) is because "cancer" is an extremely general term for any number of diseases. Some of them ''have'' actually been cured, especially on individual cases, but no miracle cure is forthcoming. Line 16: == Comic Books == * During the "Dark Reign" storyline, [[Spider -Man\|Norman Osborne]] invented a cure for cancer... and immediately weaponized it in order to try to kill [[Deadpool]] - who had major blackmail material on him. * Wakanda in the ''[[Black Panther]]'' has had a cure for cancer for centuries, but they refuse to share it with the rest of the world because nowhere else deserves it. ** Note that this is part of [[Running the Asylum\|a particular writer's run]] that may not be canonical as it contradicts many already established [[Marvel Universe]] facts. Line 30: * ''[[Medicine Man]]''. Dr. Robert Campbell (Sean Connery) discovers a cure for cancer and then loses it. * In the Will Smith version of ''[[I Am Legend]]'', a cure for cancer had the itty-bitty side effect of causing a <s>Zombie</s> Vampire [[Zombie Apocalypse\|Apocalypse]]. * The T-Virus in the ''[[Resident Evil (~~Film~~film)\|Resident Evil]]'' Films was created to fix nerve damage. The end result of the virus was [[Zombie Apocalypse\|not what they'd envisioned.]] * The scientists in ''[[Deep Blue Sea]]'' were growing giant super-smart sharks to harvest chemicals from the sharks brains that could be used to cure Alzheimer. Unfortunately the process involved [[Too Dumb to Live\|GROWING GIANT SUPER SMART SHARKS!]] * And in ''[[Rise of the Planet of ~~The~~the Apes]]'' they were growing super-smart apes as test subjects to find a cure for Alzheimer's, only to find that their latest drug 1) kills humans and 2) MAKES APES EVEN MORE SUPER SMART! == Literature == * ''[[~~Succession (Literature)\|~~Succession]]'' mentions at one point that every time the main gun is fired, the crew develop "the simplest and most easily cured cancers" as a side effect. * In the novel ''[[The Child Garden]]'' by Geoff Ryman, cancer is ~~eradicated -- and~~eradicated—and it's discovered, too late, that it was the downside of an important part of the metabolism, which has also been eradicated in the process, drastically reducing human lifespan. * In the satirical book "Looking Backwards at the 80s (written in 1979) it's discovered that clubbing baby harp seals to death causes their brains to release a chemical that cures cancer. * 'Cancer cure=zombies' also appears in the [[Newsflesh]] series. Line 43: * In ''[[Never Let Me Go]]'' by Kazuo Ishiguro, {{spoiler\|the main characters are clones created to be used as unlimited organ donors for the cure for cancer}}. * In the [[Neil Gaiman]] short story ''Changes'', a cure for cancer known as "rebooting" is developed, which, while it cures any case of cancer overnight, also has the [[Side Effects Include\|minor side effect]] of switching the patient's biological sex. * One of [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s [[Berserker (Literature)\|Berserker]] stories had a damaged Berserker agree to negotiations with a human colony it couldn't be sure of killing in a straight fight. It took the opportunity to infect the human emissary with a bioweapon. But the weapon was tailored to this man's flesh, the only sample of human biochemistry the Berserker had, and ... [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain\|"I think it's killing off my cancer."]] == Live Action TV == * An episode of ''[[~~The Twilight Zone (TV)\|~~The Twilight Zone]]'' had an alien come to Earth, landing near a small Mexican town. The Mexicans distrusted him/it, and eventually killed it, but not before it tried to give them a gift in a book, which they burned. A nearby white scientist who had seen this happen but was held back from doing anything grabs the book and puts it out. He reads the inscription out loud. {{quote\| "To the people of Earth. As a gesture of our goodwill here is the formula for curing all forms of cancer." The rest is burned.}} * In ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'', the Goa'uld symbiont can cure cancer, among other diseases. Jacob Carter became a Tok'ra host for this reason. * The (initial) plot of ''[[Crusade]]'' revolved around a search for a cure for an alien plague. * In one episode of [[Seven Days]], the cure for cancer mutates into a plague that wipes out all life on earth. Line 66 ⟶ 67: == Webcomics == * In ''[[~~The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)\|~~The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Dracula discovered the cure for cancer and hid it on Mars. {{quote\| '''Dracula:''' It's really funny, when you figure it out it's going to seem so obvious. But I don't want to give it away. It'll be really funny.}} * ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' (an ''[[Exalted]]'' webcomic) has two demigods traveling Creation undercover. {{quote\| '''Marena:''' That means no curing cancer willy-nilly.~~<br />~~ '''Misho:''' Oh, but it's so easy once you know how to do it!~~<br />~~ '''Marena:''' It's still not [[Schizo-Tech\|period]], mister. }} == Western Animation == * Near the beginning of the animated "[[Superman: Doomsday]]" film Superman is shown hanging out in the Fortress of Solitude trying to find a cure for cancer. Unfortunately he can never quite get it, and he wonders aloud how he can build a robot that can see the future but fail at curing a regular human disease. * A ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch with the ''[[Popeye]]'' gang had a guardian angel show Wimpy [[Wonderful Life\|a world where he never lived]] ala ''[[~~Its~~It's a Wonderful Life]]'' - except it was a virtual paradise where a cure for cancer had been found... by Alice the Goon! == [[Real Life]] == * Cannabinoids. [[wikipedia:HU-331\|No, really.]] * [[Antimatter]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120802084517/http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2006/PR15.06E.html No, really.] {{reflist}} [[Category:Applied Phlebotinum]] [[Category:Cure ~~For~~for Cancer]] [[Category:Alliterative Trope Titles]]