Incurable Cough of Death: Difference between revisions

* Raquel Applegate of ''[[Wild ARMs 4]]'', {{spoiler|due to suffering from an unknown, incurable disease that's implied to be radiation poisoning}}. This doesn't stop her from being the most powerful character in the game, though it does explain why her HP and speed are so low. {{spoiler|She eventually dies in the [[Distant Finale]] epilogue, having never found a cure for her sickness.}}

** Subverted in ''[[Wild ARMs 5]]'', by the ''same character'', but in a [[The Cameo|cameo]] [[Continuity Nod|appearance]]. Although she still has the cough, the player can go on an obnoxiously long [[Irrelevant Sidequest]] to cure her and give her a happier ending. Ironically, the thing you use is the same cure-all that had no effect on her in ''[[Wild ARMs 4]]''.

* In the manga ''[[Emerging]]'', a heavy cough that sometimes [[Blood From the Mouth|produces blood]] is one of the first signs that a character may have contracted the extremely deadly [[The Plague|mystery illness]] that is spreading across Tokyo.

* Takiko from ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' Genbu Kaiden continuously coughs during her journey. When she's back in the Real World, it's revealed that she {{spoiler|caught the consumption of her late mother}}. Then again, {{spoiler|it's already revealed by Miaka that she originally died at the hand of her father}}.

*** Ruby Gillis, Anne's childhood friend, does die of "galloping consumption" in the same novel, but there is no issue of this being hinted with a cough, as Anne does not learn of Ruby's illness until just before the latter's death.

* Averted and parodied in the Fourth Wall-abusing novel ''The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun'''. In one scene near the beginning Philip Roth—yes, that Philip Roth—coughs, and [[Lampshade Hanging|remarks]] that means he'll be dead by the end of the novel. The protagonist tells him that it's a parody and he shouldn't worry. {{spoiler|As you've probably guessed, it's played straight in the end. Roth knew he was dying all along, and furthermore, had killed Lilian Jackson Braun himself, out of a deep-seated hatred of her books}}.

* In ''[[The House of Night]]'' series, once a fledgling vampyre starts coughing, this means they are rejecting the change and will die. [[Blood From the Mouth]] often occurs as well.

* In ''A Dream of Red Mansions'', Lin Tai-yu has one from her introduction. It escalates considerably after she makes a certain discovery.