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Now, you may be a [[Nice Guy]] or girl. You may be someone who's [[The Chick|sweet]], [[Prince Charming|charming]], and [[The Heart|always nice to everyone]]. But, see, here's the thing: wherever you go, people and things tend to wither and die.
It's usually not any fault of your own, of course. In fact, it's probably the fault of the [[Applied Phlebotinum|Phlebotinum]]; you may have got hit with a [[Psycho Serum|bad dose]], or there's something about it that's just [[Bad Powers, Bad People|inherently flawed.]] Either way, you've got an effect around you that makes plants curl up, [[Enemy to All Living Things|animals run screaming]] and, in time, [[Poisonous Person|men and women keel over]]. This isn't quite a [[Touch of Death]]; in role-playing game terms, it would be categorized as an Always On, Area of Effect power centered on you. And generally, it's a power that makes things die horribly.
But, hey. At least you're taking it like a <s>troper</s> trooper. And you've got a great personality, too...
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Of course, sometimes you get Wastelanders who aren't so mistreated. Perhaps they're the [[Walking Wasteland]] ''because'' they're evil. Sometimes, they wouldn't normally care about the disasters they bring if it wasn't for the fact that they themselves are impaired by the fact they destroy things around them or kill people by being near them. On some occasions, the [[Walking Wasteland]] actually ''likes'' what they are. Of course, this more evil version is rarer and usually tends to be the second type (or the first mixed with the second) when it appears, simply because it's very hard to portray anyone as being capable of believing that "everyone around you dies" is some kind of [[Cursed With Awesome]]. Contrast with [[Fertile Feet]]
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* In ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'', the Winchester brothers encountered a girl who had been resurrected and [[Came Back Wrong]]. This particular zombie wilted plants everywhere it went; the girl's grave, where she had been resurrected, had a good ten to fifteen foot radius of trees, grass and flowers that were dead. However, this was a side effect of the zombification status. The ''really'' bad part comes in where she's [[Implacable Man|implacably]] [[Axe Crazy]].
* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' had a running joke about this, playing on former Vice President Dick Cheney's insistence that his residence (One Observatory Circle) be [[Pixellation|pixellated]] on Google Earth (while [[The White House]] wasn't).
{{quote| '''Jon Stewart:''' [[Could Say It, But...|I'm not saying]] Dick Cheney absorbs light. Or that if he were to brush by a plant, that plant would three days later die.}}
* In an episode of ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', a group of scientists created a highly advanced group of humans that are telepathic and could never get sick. The main problem is that their immune systems are so agressive that anyone who gets close to them starts aging rapidly and dies. They had to be kept in isloation forever.
* ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' has Abaddon, a colossal [[Our Demons Are Different|demon]] whose shadow instantly kills anything it falls upon.
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