Idiots Cannot Catch Colds: Difference between revisions

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'''[[Idiot Hero|Bang]]:''' That's an excellent idea, but I've never been sick. I don't even know how to ''get'' sick...|''[[Blaz Blue]]: Calamity Trigger''}}

 

* Hanajima says this about herself in ''[[Fruits Basket]]''.

* Mentioned on ''[[Bunny Drop]]'' when Rin catches a cold. Daikichi mutters to himself that he's lucky he's an idiot.

* Kengo's older sister Mayu in ''Monochrome Factor'' is joyous when she catches a cold, proving that she is not an idiot (though her actions say otherwise).

* Subverted in [[Ouran High School Host Club]] in a (manga-only) particularly memorable arc when resident [[Idiot Hero]] [[Keet|Tamaki]] [[Bishonen|Suoh]] gets a fever, much to everybody's shock, gets delirious, and ends up kissing [[Bifauxnen|Haruhi]] on the forehead as a gesture of [[My Crush Is Oblivious|'parental affection']]. He, of course, forgets the entire exchange when he gets better.

* In ''[[Skip Beat]]'', Ren denies that he's coming down with a cold and brags that he's never been sick. Before the arc's over he's sick as a dog, proving his only stupidity deals with his romantic feelings. His unawareness of this trope is nice foreshadowing of {{spoiler|his having not grown up in Japan}}.

* This trope is hilariously played with in one episode (165) of ''[[Gintama]]'' when everybody (save for Shinpachi who's forced to take care of them) is sick with colds. When the air in his home is polluted by Hasegawa who's ''wearing'' numerous viruses, arrives the biggest idiot of them all, [[Cloudcuckoolander|Katsura]]. Yet somehow he doesn't even look like Katsura anymore. He has turned into Obama look-a-like "Ill Smith" for no apparent reason, who repeats the YES WE CAN at the end of his sentences and he can suck the diseases from everybody in a blink of an eye. He cures their colds, [[The Messiah]] has arrived! {{spoiler|Until Kondo jabbed him in the ass and all the viruses he had adsorded flooded out. Gee, thanks Kondo!}}

** Also in earlier episode when Gin is sick, Kagura gets jealous of him, claiming that she wants to be genius as well and he shouldn't get cocky just because he has a cold and she doesn't. Gintoki deadpans "an idiot. This girl truly is an idiot" to no one in particular at this comment. Several times. By the end of episode though, she and Shinpachi have caught colds too.

* Used as an early gag in [[Yaiba]]. Subverted when, after invoking this trope, Yaiba still catch a cold for playing in the snow.

* In a "Teach me, Miss Litchi!" segment in ''[[Blaz Blue]]'', [[Stalker with a Crush|Bang]] is planning to infiltrate Litchi's clinic so he can get closer to her. One of his subordinates suggests going in as a patient, but Bang is an [[Idiot Hero]]... see the quote at the top of this page.

* Referenced by Kyrie in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As Portable]]: The Gears of Destiny'' after her [[Idiot Hero]] sister somehow managed to resist the virus she gave her.

'''Kyrie''': That's the same as the saying "Idiots don't get colds"! }}