You Don't Want to Catch This/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character feigns illness in order to scare someone off.
 * Straight: Newsman Pete fakes a highly contagious disease in order to scare away a guard.
 * Exaggerated: Newsman Pete scares away an entire army by faking the common cold.
 * Downplayed: Newsman Pete actually has a disease, but deliberately plays up the symptoms to put the guard on edge.
 * Justified: There has been an epidemic recently and Pete is able to perfectly fake some of the symptoms.
 * Inverted: Newsman Pete scares away a sick person by being healthy.
 * Alternatively, Newsman Pete pretends that the guard is sick as part of a head game.
 * Subverted: Newsman Pete starts clutching his stomach as if he's about to fake a disease, but when the guard calls him on it, Pete punches him out.
 * Alternatively, Newsman Pete turns out to actually be sick, and collapses.
 * Double Subverted: After which he blames that attack on his highly contagious disease.
 * But it's only a cold, and he's actually faking a more serious disease.
 * Parodied: Pete starts listing ailments for the disease that he obviously doesn't have (multicolored hair, missing limbs, etc.) and the guard still falls for it.
 * Deconstructed: Newsman Pete fakes a highly contagious disease. The guard immediately declares a quarantine and seals off the area, trapping Pete until medical staff arrive to run tests on him that will expose his lie.
 * Reconstructed: ???
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: Newsman Pete does not fake a disease.
 * Enforced: "Have him act sick. That'll be funny."
 * Lampshaded: "I can't believe he fell for that."
 * Invoked: Pete decides to paint fake boils all over his arms and chest in case he has to scare away some guards.
 * Defied: Pete considers using the fake illness excuse, but decides that it's quicker to just knock out the guard himself.
 * Discussed: "A guard's coming. Maybe we can pretend to be sick like in that one movie."
 * Conversed: "These Newsman Pete novels keep getting more sketchy. That tactic wouldn't work in real life."

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