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== Films -- Animated ==
* In ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' Sneezy ''is'' this Trope (as is his voice actor,
* In ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'', while the Beatles and Jeremy are in the Sea of Giant Heads, John lets out a big sneeze. This causes all the Heads in response to sneeze, which blows everyone into the Sea of Holes.
* In ''[[The Sword in the Stone]]'', Merlin turns himself into a virus and enters the dragon body of Mad Madame Mim, making her sick with the made-up disease malignalitaloptereosis. When Merlin mentions [[Sequential Symptom Syndrome|the final symptom]], sneezing, she emits fire from a monstrous sneeze that forces Arthur and Archimedes to duck and cover.
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* One of Andy Griffiths' short stories has Andy and Danny competing to see who can fit the most marshmallows in their mouth. They are tied at 20 when Andy's crush Lisa declares (based on a palm reading book Andy had given her for her birthday) that Andy is her soul mate. Andy is suddenly showered with glitter and called on to kiss Lisa. Unfortunately, the glitter gets up his nose, and he sneezes, spraying marshmallows all over the floor, and seemingly ruining his chances with Lisa (until she challenges him to the same competition).
* Used once in Morris Gleitzman's ''Teacher's Pet'', (surprising, as the main character is allergic to cats). Ginger climbs a tree to escape from what she thinks is a savage dog (it isn't) but ends up with her nose too close to a fig flower. The resulting sneeze causes her to fall off the branch landing flat on her back.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[Harry Potter and
* A literal instance, for the archaic meaning of "doom" (i.e. fate), comes from Xenophon's ''[[Anabasis]]''.<ref>On which ''[[The Warriors (film)|The Warriors]]'' is loosely based</ref> After winning the Battle of Cunaxa but ultimately losing because Cyrus the Younger up and got himself killed, and then losing their leadership to a Persian trap, the army of 10,000 Greek mercenaries decides to hold a meeting about what to do. Everyone's sure that they're screwed, but during a quiet moment, somebody sneezes. Loudly. Everyone [[Pose of Supplication|drops to the ground in supplication]] (the Greeks considered a sneeze to be a sign from the gods). Then they get up, elect ten new officers, and decide to start marching their way back to Greece. (They make it, in case you were wondering.)
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* Both [[Inspector Gadget]] and his [[Spinoff Babies|kid]] [[Expy]] [[Gadget Boy and Heather|Gadget Boy]]'s gadgets have a tendency to pop out and cause mischief when they sneeze. [[Accidental Hero|Not that]] [[Swiss Army Appendage|their gadgets]] [[Useless Protagonist|don't normally]] [[Rule of Funny|act up anyway]].
* In ''[[Toxic Crusaders]]'', the aptly-named hero Nozone has this as his superpower.
* Glitter, the cast's little fairy friend in ''[[Kidd Video]]'' can gain [[Super Strength]] whenever she sneezes. In one episode, this "super sneeze" is enough for her to lift a skyscraper and use it like a hammer to pound several other skyscrapers into the ground. Unfortunately, she ''genuinely'' has to sneeze to activate it, meaning she and her friends have to look for something to use as an irritant (like pepper, pollen, or flour) if it's needed.
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[[Category:Nose Tropes]]
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