Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24662533-20141220153720/@comment-25987771-20150124174024

Banningk1979 wrote:

-Vomiting from fear. This is a common trend, and so unrealistic that it just seems like a cheap attempt to throw a quick and shallow plot device out there. The line in Squidward's Suicide, where the character says "I vomited on the floor." Just ruined the story for me right then and there. Unless the character is mentioned of having a stomach flu at the start of the story, or happens to be drunk at the time of the horror, there really is no reason for them to vomit.

Vomiting from fear actually does happen, but it's very uncommon. It generally only happens when someone knows that they're about to die. The same can be said about soiling oneself.

That said, I don't think most situations in Creepypastas deserve to have a character who barfs due to seeing spooky imagery or something, I think it should only happen if the character is either about to be killed or is in the middle of being killed. That, or the character his hemophobic and vomits at the sight of blood.