Insane Fictional Diseases From Movies And TV

In real life, symptoms of most mass illnesses tend to be rather similar. Not so in fiction, where imagination's the limit, leading to superbugs that do anything from disrupt the space/time continuum to make people give birth to dinosaurs. These are the craziest fictional diseases from movies and TV.


The world depicted in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books, adapted into the hit HBO series Game of Thrones, is chock full of scary, ugly, and disturbing things, from wrongful beheadings to hellish weddings. In this land of dark magic and deception, though, one of the most disturbing ailments is greyscale, a highly infectious disease that slowly turns a person's skin hard, cracked, and stone-like.


Just the slightest touch from someone's infected skin will rub off, meaning that all patients must be strictly quarantined to prevent a greyscale pandemic. To make matters worse, the maesters believe that while a person can live with greyscale for a few decades, it'll only takes around six months for the infection to creep into a person's mind, rendering them psychotic.


So, if you're creeping around Essos and catch this horrifying ailment on, say, your arm, what's a person to do? Immediate treatment from the right doc seems to have some effect, as seen with Shireen Baratheon, who managed to get away with only half her face being damaged. The standard treatment, on the other hand, is The Walking Dead approach of just severing the infected area. That said, the bright and brilliant Samwell Tarly did eventually figure out a way to completely cure this "incurable" disease, to the relief of every germaphobe in Westeros.

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Game of Thrones’ Greyscale | 0:16
The rage virus | 1:30
Time traveling Chrono-Displacement Disorder | 2:43
The Enterprise's Barclay's Protomorphosis outbreak | 3:50
Stephen King wipes out humanity | 4:56
Futurama's boneitis gets you fast | 6:06
Killer Croc's multiple diagnoses | 7:10
Infertility pandemic | 8:13
ALZ-113, aka the Simian Flu | 9:05
Creation of vicious dino babies | 10:03
Transformers' cosmic rust | 11:00

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