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* The Australian Show ''[[Review with Myles Barlow]]'' has Myles reviewing sympathy in the second season. In search of sympathy, Myles lies and hurts himself.
* The mother in "The Masks" episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' was implied have Munchausen Syndrome. She complained about how she was braving through a serious illness to visit her dying father, and many other instances in the past were implied.
=== [[Music]] ===
* In the ''[[BTS (band)|BTS]] Universe'', this is revealed to be one of {{Spoiler|Hoseok}} problems, as shown in a [[Freeze-Frame Bonus|easily missable shot]] of the ''WINGS'' short films. {{Spoiler|He initially seems to have narcolepsy and has had numerous collapses that had put him in dangerous situations, but, as he reveals in ''The Notes'', he just has a habit of taking sleep pills indiscriminately, not so much to fake an illness and get attention for it but to stay sleep as long as possible to escape his abandonment trauma}}.
== Munchausen's by Proxy ==
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' had the ghost of a little girl who had died after being poisoned by her mother in order to gain sympathy from outsiders. After her death, the mother turned her attentions
* ''[[One Missed Call]]'' has Munchausen's By Proxy as the [[Dark Secret]] of one character.
* In ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'', it is revealed that Nathan poisoned Shilo to ensure that she wouldn't be able to leave him, subverting her status as the [[Ill Girl]].
* ''Love You to Death'', a [[Lifetime]] [[Lifetime Movie of the Week|Movie of the Week]] about a young woman who after living all her life incapacitating ill discovers that she is in truth victim of Munchausen by Proxy and murders her mother in retaliation. It was inspired by the real-life case of Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy Rose.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]''. Eddie's mother uses Munchausen by Proxy to keep him under control.
* Another Stephen King example: ''[[Misery]].'' Annie's treatment of Paul (and the babies she murdered as a nurse) has shades of this.
* In the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] short story "Monsters", one of the eponymous monsters is the protagonist's mother, who has Munchausen
* A particularly chilling example is [[Patricia Cornwell]]'s ''The Body Farm'', in which a teenage boy is murdered and {{spoiler|a woman, instead of feeling sympathy for his parents, is jealous of the attention they get and thus kills her own daughter in order to get the same attention and sympathy.}}
* A large plot point in ''Sharp Objects'' by Gillian Flynn.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Scrubs]]''. "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OClhuzy6d2o Don't smother your kids]".
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' had an episode where the unsub used his manipulation over his wife's health to prove that he had control over her living or dying.
** Another episode had an Unsub who forced his own son to
* Scully initially suspects the mother of a murdered child of this in ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "The Calusari."
* ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' had this exposed in a case that actually centered on a thinly-veiled Michael Jackson analogue. The parental figure of the accuser is the one proven to commit abuse of the child.
* [[Hulu]] miniseries ''The Act'' is a more straightforward dramatization of the Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard case.
=== [[Web Original]] ===
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