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{{quote|''"The first [witch], by name Asha, was sick of a malady no Healer could cure. She hoped that the Fountain would banish her symptoms and grant her a long and happy life."''|''[[The Tales of Beedle the Bard]]''}}

The ill girl is almost inevitably a [[The Woobie|sympathetically cute girl]].<ref>though lately, more and more handsome males are taking up the role</ref>. The disease can be anything from anemia to organ failure. Smart writers avoid such specifics, making it a [[Soap Opera Disease]]. It will never disfigure or impair her cuteness, [[Healthcare Motivation|but usually prompts an older brother or sister figure into shady business to help pay the medical bills]]. Or prompts them to rush into some dangerous/brave deed while she cheers them on.

* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'': Sayo Mutou aka Magdaria, the younger sister and [[Morality Pet]] of Shougo Amakusa, has an [[Incurable Cough of Death]] (and some [[Blood From the Mouth]]). Unlike other cases, though, we know what she has: it's tuberculosis, Magdaria's had since she was a little girl, and she even "inherited" it from her [[Missing Mom]], also an [[Ill Girl]]. {{spoiler|That's not what kills the poor girl, though. She [[Taking the Bullet|takes the bullet]] for a person who's willing to help her brother and his followers and dies in Sanosuke's arms. Even if she didn't, [[Diabolus Ex Machina|Sayo was almost in the terminal stage so she would've died anyway]].}}

* An episode of ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' has an ill Mint in a hospital while watching the leaves on a tree -- shetree—she hopes to live long enough to watch a leaf fall off -- andoff—and it promptly does, at which point she notes she was referring to ''another'' leaf, which also falls off. As she tries to refer to a ''third'' leaf, ''all'' the leaves are blown off by a strong wind. Another character, Chitose, is an obvious parody, claiming to have been confined to a hospital most of her life. More likely it's another product of her attention whoring; she was enough of a [[The Scrappy|Scrappy]] in [[Galaxy Angel (video game)|the game]] that even the anime writers didn't like her, and her personality was exaggerated to that of a [[Wangst|wangstywangst]]y histrionic (although to be fair, everyone else was exaggerated too).

* Hayate Yagami in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AsA's]]''. {{spoiler|1=However, in the sequel series ''StrikerS'', she is completely healthy. This because her "illness" was actually the curse of the Book of Darkness, so once the Book was destroyed she was able to recover.}}

* Hyatt in ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'' is a particularly over-the-top parody of this, as she tries to go about her duties as an agent of ACROSS despite her tendencies to [[Death by Falling Over|collapse]], cough up contaminated blood (which kills small birds and sickens humans), faint, or even drop dead and then spontaneously come back to life. She ''always'' comes back to life, once even being charred to a decent crisp only to sit up later, as if nothing had happened.<br /><br />This appears to be an empathetic illness, at least in the manga. For several volumes Hyatt went some time without her usual blood and death routine, but the revelation that the competent Excel was an impostor brought it back.

* ''[[Angelic Layer]]'': The mother of the main character, Shuuko, is an adult [[Ill Girl]] who abandoned her daughter because she "[[Heroic Self-Deprecation|didn't want to be a burden]]" and feared Misaki would be ostracized for [[Values Dissonance|having a "useless" mother]]. This gives her somewhat of an excuse for literal [[Parental Abandonment]], leaving Misaki in the "more capable" care of her aunt. (Meanwhile, {{spoiler|the entire Angelic Layer game is an elaborate plan coming from her friend Icchan to get enough data on human neurophysiology to cure this disease.}}) Curiously, this is not in the manga at all.

* ''[[Code Geass]]'': Nunnally Lamperouge/vi Britannia, the younger sister of the main character, is both blind and contained in a wheelchair after she witnessed and barely survived their mother's brutal murder. He promises her that by the time she gets well, the world will be a better place. He never mentions ''how'' -- to—to him, [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|it doesn't matter how many people have to die or be manipulated]] to destroy the [[The Empire]]. Further, {{spoiler|she didn't actually see it, having been a false witness due to a memory-altering Geass. Also, she gets better with time: in the series, she stays in a wheelchair but regains her sight ''and'' becomes the Empress of Britannia, and in the [[Nightmare of Nunnally]] manga she heals completely and stays under the wing of Empress Euphemia Li Britannia.}}

** Also, fellow student and revolutionary Kallen Stadtfeld/Kozuki uses the ''image'' of the [[Ill Girl]] to cover up her frequent absences from school so she can go play revolutionary. Maintaining the illusion limits her somewhat, but fortunately there's usually a distraction around to keep others from asking when she makes an unexpected display of physical prowess. Lampshaded in the 2nd picture drama, where Shirley [[Skinship Grope|grabs a naked Kallen from behind]] while they're bathing and comments on how Kallen is ''much'' stronger and athletic than she's supposed to be.

* In ''[[Fafner in The Azure Dead Aggressor]]'' Shouko Kazama is the ultimate [[Ill Girl]] who suffers from some incapacitating disease that makes her a recluse of sorts. The trope is subverted though since {{spoiler|her death is not caused by her illness, instead Shouko sacrifices herself for the sake of the island in a grand [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}. This also qualifies as her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* Otohime Mutsumi from ''[[Love Hina]]'', who has a severe case of aenemia and passes out almost everywhere. During her [[Crash Into Hello]] with Keitaro, she fell over, with [[Blank White Eyes]] ''and'' [[Blood From the Mouth]]. Keitaro checks for a pulse...and there isn't one. Cue [[Freak-Out]]. She got better, of course, but it seems her fainting spells are closer to actually dying then "normal" fainting. Read about it [https://web.archive.org/web/20090227173715/http://manga.animea.net/love-hina-chapter-21-page-3.html here.]

** Naru ''used'' to be an [[Ill Girl]] as a child. She has asthma, and in her childhood her attacks were very serious -- herserious—her parents {{spoiler|sent her to Hinata Sou hoping that she'd recover due to the zone's benign climate. That was the time when she befriended Keitarou and Mutsumi, and the three made [[The Promise]].}}

* Hisami Hisaishi from the ''[[Read or Die|Read Or Dream]]'' manga and ''[[RODR.O.D the TV]]''.

** {{spoiler|Rico}} turns out to have been an [[Ill Girl]] prior to becoming a cyborg, languishing away in an hospital after [[Parental Neglect|her parents simply abandon her there to her luck]] until she's taken in by the organization; meanwhile, {{spoiler|Angelica}} eventually becomes one due to the side effects of the "conditioning" the girls go through. Eventually though, ''all'' girls will meet the same fate, since their lifespan is immensely shortened due to their cybernetic implants.

** Kanata, Konata's mom and Soujiro's wife, apparently died in a very [[Ill Girl]] way early. That, and the couple being [[Childhood Friend|childhood friends]], Kanata being [[Older Than They Look|older than she looked]], made [[Genre Savvy|Konata]] wonder if the whole thing is a [[Dating Sim]] plot. One has to note that Kanata's [[Older Than They Look|older than she looked]] ''is'' related to the disease in concerned, so [[Older Than They Look|Konata]] ''may'' fall victim to the same disease... At least one rather absurd [[Dark Fic]] [[Doujinshi]] had her develop into a suicidally depressed college student living in fear of her possible demise.

** [[Cheerful Child|Yutaka]], Konata's ''paternal'' cousin, has recurring (albeit mild) health problems that make it difficult for her to keep up with her friends-- shefriends—she was nearly rendered a [[Broken Bird]] from the social isolation caused. And her case of [[Older Than They Look]] is even more severe than Kanata's...

* {{spoiler|Sora}} from ''[[Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora]]'' seems to be mostly in good health, having little trouble with physical exercise or performing straining magical rituals--untilrituals—until she suddenly appears to have been suffering from a terminal heart condition for a while already, leading to a severe [[Mood Whiplash]] in the series.

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Gundam 00]]'': {{spoiler|Louise Halevy}} in the second season. {{spoiler|To start, Louise lost her left hand in the bombing incident that decimated her family in the first season. She got said hand back through an undisclosed medical treatment and [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] that led her to become a [[Dark Action Girl]], but she also had some very ugly seizures and had to pop some pills. Her sanity continued slipping as the series advanced, but luckily, by the end she starts getting better. In [[The Movie]], she's still in recovery.}}

* Subverted in ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'': {{spoiler|Ryoufou Housen}} is dying of an illness, but she's still a fearsome [[Dark Action Girl]] {{spoiler|and actually goes down fighting rather than of illness. In the anime, she [[Death Is Cheap|gets]] [[Back Fromfrom the Dead|better later]], though that also included some [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] ''and dying again'' in the end.}}

* [[Deconstructed]] in a ''[[Detective Conan]]'' case: our Villain of the Week had a bad heart, but it was her who killed the loanshark who [[Driven to Suicide|drove her boyfriend to suicide]] over the money for "that operation" (see [[Finger-Licking Poison]] for the murder itself). God, is she a bitchy ''chain smoker''. In her confession, she mentions that her boyfriend was her [[Morality Pet]] and the only one who ever loved her after her parents's deaths. Be careful when threatening an [[Ill Girl]]'s loved ones: if she gets better, she'll kill you!

** Played [[Tear Jerker|heartbreakingly straight]] in the [[Filler|fillersfiller]]s, with a girl named Kaori whose older brother Todakuro is the ghost writer to a murdered novelist, Daisuke Torakura, who paid for her hospital bills in exchange for the guy's hard work. {{spoiler|We later learn the horrible truth: Kaori actually died a year ago because [[Complete Monster]] Torakura actually ''bribed her doctor into keeping her on '''painkillers only''' instead of paying for '''crucial''' and expensive treatment abroad (as per his end of the bargain)'', so Todakuro would remain indefinitely time as his subordinate, which ultimately killed her. Then, Torakura mantained the lie via keeping Todakuro pretty much locked in his countryside villa, telling him that Kaori (supposed to be in an American hospital) was just about to get better. When poor Todakuro found out the truth from the guilt-ridden nurse who used to tend to Kaori, he went nuts with pain and murdered Torakura. [[Asshole Victim]] seems a bit lenient.}}

* Inori's older sister Seri in ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka de]]''; Inori even has the [[Big Brother Instinct]] towards her because of this, despite him actually being younger. A flashback in the ''Hachiyou Shou'' TV anime reveals that this is part of the reason Seri got close with Iktidar, who saved her when she was threatened by several men while helpless from her condition. {{spoiler|Somehow, being an [[Ill Girl]] didn't stop Seri from having Ikutidaru's baby.}}

* In the second season fo ''[[GetBackers]]'', one of Ban and Ginji's missions is to get a very rare type of blood (named the "Bombay Blood") for an [[Ill Girl]] named Yumiko, who needs an urgent transfusion or she'll die in few days. It turns out that Akabane has a dose of it and they have to fight him and his partner Maguruma. {{spoiler|It's also revealed that Ginji [[Dead Little Sister|had an Ill Girl friend]] in the Infinite Fortress days and she died due to lack of treatment, so he's determined to not fail again for Yumiko's sake}}. They get the Bombay Blood, and Yumiko is saved.

=== [[Comic Books]] ===

* {{spoiler|Cheryl Blossom}} in [[Archie Comics]], [http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/03/06/archie-cheryl-blossom-breast-cancer/#ixzz1oMquJ4CK according to recent issues.]{{when}} {{spoiler|She has cancer.}}

* ''[[The Hand That Rocks the Cradle]]'': Claire (Annabella Sciorra) is an adult [[Ill Girl]] who suffers of chronic asthma. {{spoiler|And Payton (Rebecca De Monray), the [[Cute and Psycho]] [[Villain Protagonist]], uses said illness to her advantage... among ''other'' things. She still loses in the end.}}

** Seeing as how ''October Sky'' was based off of the autobiography ''Rocket Boys'' (complete with the actual aforementioned [[Ill Girl]]), that automatically makes this trope into [[Truth in Television]].

* Bastian's mother is shown to be this in a flashback in ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]] 2]]''.

* [[Jonathan Strange and& Mr. Norrell|Lady Pole]], at least at first.

* [[Only Known by Their Nickname|Miss Sneezy]] in [[Haunted 2005(Palahniuk novel)|Haunted]].

** Marianne Dashwood, in ''[[Sense and Sensibility (novel)|Sense and Sensibility]]'', isn't normally an [[Ill Girl]] but becomes one when a nasty cold turns into a more severe illness.

* Queen Ehlana, in the ''[[Elenium]]'' trilogy by [[David Eddings]], is a variation on the trope. Under normal circumstances, she's perfectly healthy and energetic, but as it gets explained to her personal champion, she's been getting progressively more sick since her coronation, and her sickness isn't something that anyone's ever seen -- herseen—her symptoms contradict each other. They eventually work out that she's been poisoned, and the poison she was given has no known cure. {{spoiler|Except one.}}

* Mercy from ''[[The Witch of Blackbird Pond]]'' has a lame leg and poor health as a result of a fever she caught as a very small child.

* {{spoiler|Violet}} towards the end of ''[[Feed}}]]''.

* The book "[[Role Called|Maria Jesus: Un milagro de amor]]" ("Maria Jesus, a miracle of love") by Chilean author Ana Maria Figueroa is the biography of an Illgirl named Maria Jesus, gathering all kinds of testimonials about how she coped with the leukemia that ultimately killed her. This is either: [[Littlest Cancer Patient|a valid way]] [[Dead Little Sister|to cope with the death]] [[Tear Jerker|of a young child]], a creepy [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth|post-mortem]] [[Purity Sue|"sanctification"]] of said [[Ill Girl]], or even [[Kick the Dog|an attempt from her relatives and the writer to get profit by selling books about her life.]] (like Cassie Bernall's "martyrdom".) Though there's no doubt that [[The Woobie|it sucked to be Maria Jesus.]]

* Annie in [[Connie Willis]]'s ''[[LincolnsLincoln's Dreams]]'' is plagued by nightmares and {{spoiler|a heart condition}}.

* ''[[The Fault in Our Stars]]'' is practically centered arond this trope. Hazel is a prime example, although her disease is clearly known from the [[First Episode Spoiler|opening chapter.]]

** In true [[Ill Girl]] fashion, it is also implied that there's no ''real'' possibility for River to ever be cured of her insanity; the best that can be done is short-term chemical treatments, as the damage to her brain is extensive and her body eventually rejects any drugs used to help her. Even after the events of [[The Movie]], its not made clear whether she's fully healed or has only partially recovered.

** Juliet's sister is an [[Ill Girl]] whose cancer and resulting infertility is what drove Juliet to do some rather... illegal things as a fertility doctor. When Juliet goes to the island, she is afraid to leave her sister alone, but, with typical ill girl sweetness, her sister convinces her to go.

* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors|Audrey]]'': Audrey is never diagnosed with anything, but she "is not a healthy girl" and, thanks to being regularly [[Domestic Abuser|beaten senseless by her boyfriend]], has "a black eye...and several other medical problems." Just when it looks like she's getting better, {{spoiler|she's mortally wounded by a giant carnivorous plant}}.

* Subverted in ''[[Super Robot Wars]]: [[Original Generation]]'': Ryusei's mother is an adult [[Ill Girl]], but it's due to a military project she used to work on as a psychic destroying her body. Her son has ended up being "recruited" by the same project in exchange for paying for her hospital bills.

* Subverted by Raquel in ''[[Wild ArmsARMs 4]]''. While she's {{spoiler|slowly dying of an unknown disease in her body that's greatly implied to be radiation poisoning}}, it doesn't stop her from becoming a badass swordswoman and one of the most powerful characters in the game.

* Tyler Chase's little sister Amy is infected with the Deftera GUILT two years prior to the first ''[[Trauma Center]]'', and {{spoiler|eventually goes into critical condition in Chapter 3. Derek operates on her and cures her, thus removing her status as [[Ill Girl]].}}

* Mary/Maki Sonomura in ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' is introduced as an [[Ill Girl]], but when demons arrive to the scene, she suddenly got back up. {{spoiler|Turns out this healthy Mary is the 'Ideal Mary', imagined by the real, ill Mary, who dreamed of her own world where one of the aspects there is that she's healthy, and by some complicated means, it's coming to take over reality.}}

* Jessica from ''[[Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al -Revis]]''. One alchemist, {{spoiler|who turns out to be [[The Hero]]'s "father", sort of}}, tried treating her, and it only made the condition ''worse''...

* Ameena from ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'', who's also an Expy of [[Final Fantasy VII|another flower-selling girl]]. It ends [[Diabolus Ex Machina|even worse than this implies]].

* In ''[[Mitsumete Knight]]'', the [[Spiritual Successor]] of ''Tokimeki Memorial'', the resident [[Ill Girl]] is [[Meganekko|Sarah]] [[Hot for Student|Pixis]] ; she suffers from a heart disease that prevents her to go outside, and the Asian (the player avatar) gets to meet her as his private teacher. Other [[Ill Girl|Ill Girls]] are [[The Woobie|Sophia's]] [[The Unfavourite|estranged mother]] and little brother, Dolphan's Queen, as well as {{spoiler|[[Hospital Hottie|Teddie Adelaide]], Sarah's nurse and friend, who suffers from the same heart disease as her and thus why the two are close}}.

* Yonah from ''[[Nie RNieR]]'', who is infected with the Black Scrawl Virus, prompting her [[Papa Wolf|father]]/[[Knight Templar Big Brother|brother]] (depending on which version you buy) to go out and fight his way to finding a cure. Later on, it is revealed that {{spoiler|Kaine}} is also infected.

* Patchouli Knowledge from ''[[Touhou]]'' is really sick. She suffers from asthma, anemia, and Vitamin A deficiency because of her refusal to leave the library she lives in for ''centuries''.<ref>and also because of all the poisonous chemicals that she uses for her magic</ref>. This is used to justify her occasionally-differing power level; when she's an Extra Boss in one game, she explains beforehand that her asthma has cleared up.

* In the JRPG [[Lost Odyssey]] the player can acquire an ingame codex entry of the maincharacters past experiences. One in particular centers around an [[Ill Girl]] whom liked to hear his stories of far off places when ever he stopped by. The codex ends with the last encounter with this [[Ill Girl]] has her comatosed and on the brink of dying when he arrives to tell her one last final story.

* Occurs a couple of times in the ''[[Growlanser]]'' series:

** ''Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice'' includes Charlone's younger brother in this role.

* Every single character in ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]''; in fact, the game started out as an attempt by [[The Imageboard That Must Not Be Named]] to create the videogame with the highest [[Ill Girl]] count possible. Though [[Subverted Trope|ironically enough]], only the male protagonist's condition is actually life-threatening.

** ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' has Nagisa {{spoiler|and Fuko}}.

** In short: Chihiro is an [[Ill Girl]] turning into a [[Bandage Babe]] when she got better.

* ''[[Da Capo II]]'':

* ''[[Canvas 2]]'' gives the role to Tomoko{{spoiler|, but she stopped being one by the end of her route}}.

* ''[[eden*: theyThey were only two, on the planet]]'' centers around a [[Older Than They Look|100 year old genetically engineered]] sick girl Sion.

** This is the reason why Victor Fries, better known as Mr. Freeze, constantly has to commit crimes in most of his appearances in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' and related media: His wife, Nora Fries, is suffering from a terminal disease, causing him to put her in cryogenic stasis until his research allows him to develop a cure for her ailment. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he ended up having to illegally appropriate research materials from Ferris Boyle, the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] of GothCorp, resulting in him being kicked into his own formula and deformed into Mr. Freeze. In his next appearance, he was taken by a deranged theme park person and has to help this person in exchange for allowing him to get Nora's miraculously survived cryogenic tank. He only stopped serving him when Batman points out that this is not what Nora would have wanted.

* Janice, the main character of the ''[[Peanuts]]'' special ''Why, Charlie Brown, Why?'' She's a friend of Linus's who is diagnosed with leukemia.

** And also Lila, Snoopy's previous owner in "''[[Snoopy ComesCome Home]]''." AtuallyActually, the reason why Snoopy wants to come back to her is because he has learned that she's lonely and depressed in the hospital.

** [[Waif Prophet]] and [[The Chew Toy]] [[wikipedia:Gemma Galgani|Saint Gemma Carolina Galgani]]. To start, her mother Aurelia was an [[Ill Girl]] who died when she just seven years old. Young Gemma inherited her mom's bad health, which was so bad that she had to leave school and later was rejected by the Passionists when she wanted to become a nun. At age 20 she had spinal meningitis (which according to her was cured through prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the then-Venerable Saint Gabriel Of Our Lady Of Sorrows and Saint Marie Marguerite Alacoque) and died of [[Incurable Cough of Death|tuberculosis]] at age 25. Aside of that, her visions and bad health made her the victim of [[All of the Other Reindeer|bullying from lots of people]] (even from [[Annoying Younger Sibling|her little sister Angelina]], whose testimony was rejected during the canonization process since she was accused of [[Kick the Dog|trying to get monetary profit from Gemma's body relics]]): they thought that not only she was useless for her [[Ill Girl]] status, but that she also was a nutjob. [[The Woobie|WAH!]]

** A third ill seiyuu is [[Tomoko Kawakami]] ([[Bleach|Soifon]], [[Shoujo Kakumei Utena|Utena Tenjou]]), due to ovarian cancer. [http://www.animenewsnetwork.comcc//news/2011-06-10/utena-voice-actress-tomoko-kawakami-passes-away She has now passed away.]

* [[wikipedia:Kazuya Minekura|Kazuya Minekura]], the author of ''[[Saiyuki]]''. First she had an undiclosed illness that made her have to go through an hysterectomy, and later had a tumor removed from her jaw.

=== Male[[Anime]] Examplesand [[Manga]] ===

* Oddly enough, Mai Tokiha's brother Takumi from ''[[MaiMy-HiME]]'' and ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' manages to fit this trope while also being a domestic type (at least in the former show), and is inordinately fond of his older sibling.

* Rosette Christopher's brother Joshua in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' was plagued by constant seizures when he was a child -- madechild—made even more frustrating by the fact that they came alongside [[Healing Hands|healing abilities]] that were completely ineffective on himself. It's this that drove him to accept Chrono's horns from Aion, completely unaware that [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|they would drive him completely insane.]]

** Also, for some reason, [[Ai Orikasa]] played two [[One-Scene Wonder]] [[Ill Boy|Ill Boys]]s in this series:

*** [[Child Prodigy|Hiroki Sawada]] of the [[Non-Serial Movie]] ''The Phantom of Baker Street'' -- but—but [[Informed Flaw|not at all related to the plot]]. {{spoiler|And that's not what killed him, either.}}

=== [[Comic Books]] ===

=== [[Film]] Fan Fiction ===

* [[Tombstone|Doc Holliday]] and his friends were aware of his terminal condition (and the audience was reminded with his [[Incurable Cough of Death]],) but it was less often cause for depression than morbid jokes and [[Badass|badasserybadass]]ery. He also doubles as a [[Real Life]] example.

* Smike in Charles Dickens' ''[[Charles Dickens|Nicholas Nickleby]]'' eventually dies of tuberculosis, although the disease is never explicitly named.

* "The Boy" in ''[[The Borrowers]]'', to whom Sho of ''[[The Borrower Arrietty]]'' is based on, had rheumatic fever--whichfever—which, up to this day, was still pretty dangerous, as it causes inflammation...of the ''cardiac muscles''.

* Selma Lagerlof's "Thy soul shall bear witness!" has, aside of [[Ill Girl]] Edith, {{spoiler|the main character David Holm, who has tuberculosis. (In fact, he's to blame for Edith being an [[Ill Girl]]). He dies of his [[Incurable Cough of Death]] and then his soul is forcibly bound to the Death Cart as [[Break the Haughty|punishment for being a total asshole bordering in]] [[Complete Monster]]. In the end, however, he's [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]], stops his [[Broken Bird]] wife [[Kill the Cutie|from killing herself]] [[Offing the Offspring|and their kids]] and [[Character Development|becomes a much kinder and humbler person]].}}

* ''[[The Fault in Our Stars]]'': Arguably Isaac. {{spoiler|also, Gus, when his cancer returns. Also doubles as a massive [[Tear Jerker]].}}

* Despite being a genius-level [[Badass Bookworm|dark magic user]], Prince Lyon of Grado from ''[[Fire Emblem: theThe Sacred Stones]]'' has a very weak health that causes him to think he's inferior compared to his best friends, Ephraim and Eirika, and his stern but gentle father Emperor Vigarde. And then [[It Got Worse]] for him.

* Earlier than all of them, {{spoiler|Prince Yurius of Velthomer/Grandbell}} from ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral|FEFire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu]]'' is revealed as one of these. In ''Thracia 776'' he catches a high fever, and a conversation between {{spoiler|his half-brother Cyas and Yurius's girlfriend Ishtar}} states that the guy used to be only a little delicate as a child, but his health declined more after {{spoiler|he became the vessel for the God Lopto.}}

* {{spoiler|Ryou's [[Second Love]] Kappei Hiiragi}} from ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'', who has bone cancer. {{spoiler|He either has to get his leg amputated or die.}}

* Akinari Kamiki, the Sun Arcana from ''[[Persona 3]]'', whose days have been numbered ever since he was born. Developing his S-Lin is about having him learn to enjoy his last days of life. {{spoiler|He will die before the game is over, leaving the children's book he wrote with the MC's help and encouragemente as a [[Tragic Keepsake]], and if his link is maxed his soul will cheer on you before you take on Nyx.}}

* Played with often in ''[[South Park]]'' with Kyle. In the 15fifteen seasons as of this writing he has needed a kidney transplant, said to suffer from type 1 diabetes, nearly died from an infected hemmroid and just generally is shown getting sick with a far greater frequency than the other boys, [[They Killed Kenny|Kenny included]].

** Strangely enough, usually averted with Kenny as he almost always died as a result of violent mishaps. The only times he succumbs to a disease when they nearly killed him off for real and an STD he picks up from the elementary school slut.

* [[Teddy Roosevelt]] was an ill boy, spending much of his childhood bedridden. But then by sheer force of will and vigorous exercise, he ended up becoming probably the most rugged and [[Badass]] of all presidents. There was only ''one'' thing that stopped him: [[Dead Little Sister|the death of his son Quentin]] in [[World War OneI]], which plunged the already old Teddy to a [[Death by Despair]].

* [[Ringo Starr]] of [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] was very ill as a boy, according to [[The Other Wiki]]. He contracted appendicitis, at six which put him in a coma, and had a bout with pleurisy at thirteen, which led to him being placed in a sanitorium. These setbacks led to many missed days in school, and his education suffered from it. He also fell ill during the Beatles' Australian tour of 1964, and [[The Other Darrin|Jimmy Nicol]] took his place temporarily. Later on, he had many allergies and sensitivities to food, and brought his own food with him to India in 1968.

* Japanese singer [http://www.animenewsnetwork.comcc//news/2011-10-04/digimon-singer-kouji-wada-puts-career-on-hold-due-to-cancer Kouji Wada], who recently had to put his career on hold to go through cancer treatment. To amke things worse, it's the ''second'' time it happens.

=== Mixed[[Anime]] Examplesand [[Manga]] ===

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