![]() ![]() This happens with Gloria in episode 9 of Daphne in the Brilliant Blue - after a group check-up the cast believes she has advanced terminal cancer that will kill her in a week, but in the end it turns out to have been caused by a series of coincidences. ![]() Although the end of the mini-arc strongly implies that he died soon after helping the Straw Hats break through a Marine blockade. He ended up having so much fun that he got better, somehow. The old guy was diagnosed with a fatal heart condition by the crew's resident doctor and everyone joined in to make his last days more comfortable. Used as a filler episode in One Piece.Of course, he had nothing to worry about, but this didn't stop him from getting his house cleaned up, dinner at an expensive inn, and sake from a deathtrap mountain, and so on, as his dying wishes. They only learn at the end that he simply thought he was going to be the next in a string of murdered monks. This was a plot of one episode of Inuyasha, when the group believed Miroku's teacher when he said was about to die, after one of the characters saw him coughing up blood (he was actually choking on a sharp fishbone, not suffering from a terminal illness).Though why she believed the medical diagnosis of a doctor whose primary specialty is giant speakers mounted on jet fighters. In the end, it turns out she has the flu. ![]() A central theme of one episode of Macross 7, though in this case the "victim", Miriya, is convinced that she's dying due to a diagnosis from Doctor Chiba, and spends the episode completing her "last objectives".(Of course, Iwata was only mostly dead they save his brain and turn him into an Artificial Human - after sticking it into the body of the Robot Girl for a few chapters.) The next chapter started with the team's mentor Kabapu announcing that Iwata had died the doctor had only exaggerated the symptoms to try to get the case into a medical journal. Manga subversion: The manga version of Excel♡Saga had Iwata (a subversion of the Sentai Hero) go through this trope in one chapter, which ended by revealing that his doctor (and Sitcom Arch-Nemesis) had faked his diagnosis.A well played/comical version of this was on High School Girls when the "Dying" person thought her friends were helping her audition for a role and played along with it! This was subject to a Snap Back at the end with a spot of Lampshade Hanging in the next episode: "Weren't you dying of a terminal illness?".Not to be confused with Mistaken for Dyed. In comedic versions, the "blaze of glory" will include giving vent to long-repressed opinions, quitting a hated job, and the like, forcing the character to eat crow when it turns out that he'll have to live with the consequences after all.Ĭompare Disney Death, Last Day to Live, Hypochondria, Mistaken for Undead, No Longer with Us, and Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated. His flash of relief is immediately replaced with mortal terror as he realizes that he has unnecessarily placed himself in mortal danger and has to be rescued. ![]() Often times, the other characters tell him in the midst of one of the dares that he is in perfect health. As a result, he decides to take suicidally risky dares in order to go out in a blaze of glory (and, in some cases, to avoid the ravages of the imagined disease). Alternatively, the "dying" character might take advantage of the situation, leading to an inevitable comeuppance once his friends discover the truth.Īnother example is when the focus character mistakenly believes himself to be dying. The other character(s) may avoid telling them because just talking about the terminal illness might kill the poor victim from "shock". Usually the supposedly dying character has no idea what is going on. In such a case, the characters may feel like they have to be especially nice to the "dying" person, or they may attempt to "cure" them somehow. One character mistakenly thinks that another is terminally ill, whether as the result of an amateur diagnosis, a File Mixup in the hospital, or something else. ![]()
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