Virus and Cure Names

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• Dr. STONE: The mysterious device that turned everyone on Earth to stone is dubbed the "Medusa", so Senku names the ship they build to travel across the world to find a cure the Perseus, after the hero who killed her in Classical Mythology.
• Reborn! (2004): Tsuna becomes afflicted with demonitis. The cure is its opposite, angelitis.

• Green Lantern: The Green Lantern Corps includes a sentient smallpox virus, Leezle Pon, who fights off the evil Sinestro Corps virus Despotellis.

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• Danganronpa, but Everyone Is Okay: In "Despair Alert! Hope's Peak Fetch Quest", Teruteru contracts the Despair Disease. To cure him, the other characters go retrieve a plant called Icedrop of Hope that grows in the snowy mountains of the the Hanamura state.

• Escape from L.A.: Subverted with the Plutoxin 7 virus. Its cure is nothing since it's just a common flu virus. Snake is tricked into believing otherwise.
• Logan: Zander Rice bioengineers a virus to sterilize and impair the mutants, whom he sees as a blight on humanity; he names it the Transigen virus. Transigen derives from the word 'transgenics', which describes organisms with foreign DNA in their genome. Of course, theX gene is not a disease that needs to be cured, but a genetic mutation that grants superpowers.
• Mission: Impossible II: Chimera (virus) and Bellerophon (cure) are named after a monster from Classical Mythology and its slayer. This is justified, as those are actually their codenames from the project that created them.

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• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: There is a pill called Wonka-Vite which makes people younger. The cure for those who are aged too young — that is to say, out of existence, which happened to the Oompa-Loompas he tested the prototypes on — is a Rapid Aging liquid called Vita-Wonk.
• Ender's Game: The descolada and recolada viruses translate as "un-glueing" and "re-glueing" because of their effect on DNA.
• Snow Crash: Snow Crash and Snow Melt.

• Battlestar Galactica (2003): Mellorak, cured by Bittamucin.
• Heroes (2006): The Shanti virus is cured using Mohinder's blood (in combination with Claire Bennett's, since her blood has a healing factor). The virus was named after the first person it infected, Shanti, who is also Mohinder's sister.
• Star Trek: The Original Series: The episode "Requiem for Methuselah" introduces the Rigellian Fever, a bacterium-caused disease similar to Earth's bubonic plage. It's cured by Ryetalyn.
• The X-Files: "The Erlenmeyer Flask" introduces the infectious, alien form Purity, also known as black oil. The same episode gives a putative name — Purity Control — to the vaccine that wouldn't be developed until several episodes later.

• Deus Ex:
  • Gray Death, cured by Ambrosia.
  • The "good" AI Daedalus and the "evil" AI Icarus. And they merge to form Helios.
• Fallout: The cure for the original strain of the Forced Evolutionary Virus is a retrovirus, sometimes referred to as the Retrovirus. While this is merely the taxonomy of the virus, akin to coronavirus and megavirus, it was picked because its etymology, 'retro-', means to go backward and thus runs counter to the idea of evolution, which for most people, means to move forward. Furthermore, the Forced Evolutionary Virus was bioengineered from the Pan-Immunity Virion. Virions are the viral particles as they exist outside of any host, while virus, the broader term, also refers to the pathogen in its infectious stages. This is a parallel to the Pan-Immunity Virion being conceived as a potential cure for the New Plague.
• Metal Gear: There's FOXDIE and FOXALIVE, reflecting the latter's purpose as a computer virus designed to destroy the Patriots and free the world of their control - essentially, the exact antithesis of FOXDIE's intended purpose.
• Moshi Monsters: The "Glumping Potion" turns Moshlings (essentially the game's equivalent to pet animals) into Glumps. Its antidote is the De-Glumping Potion.
• Resident Evil:
  • The T-Virus and its vaccine Daylight because in the daylight, you don't need an umbrella.
  • The G-Virus was named partly for Golgotha (the site at which Jesus was crucified) and partly for its creator's wish to create God-like Transhuman Abominations. Its cure was named DEVIL as a play on these factors, fitting with the religious theme of the two.
  • The Las Plaga parasites and the Las Plaga Removal Lazer.
  • The C-Virus has the Anti-C vaccine.
• Snatcher: "Lucifer-Alpha" ravages Eastern Europe, but mutates into a benign form by the present day. SD Snatcher follows more in line with the trope with "Lucifer-Beta" (the New and Improved virus) and "L-Angel" (the antidote).
• StarCraft I: Brood War brings the Hyperevolutionary virus, cured by Infestation Antidote.
• Uplink: The computer virus is called Revelation, while the cure is Faith. Both of them follow a religious theme.
• World of Warcraft: The Royal Apothecary Society is a Forsaken faction of alchemists intent on concocting an undead plague to wipe out the Scourge—an army of mind-controlled undead from whom the Forsaken broke off after being freed by Lady Sylvanas. This new plague is called Blight. Scourge and Blight are both words related to suffering and punishment; the former derives from the act of lashing, while the latter is the term for fungal plant diseases.

• 5 Elementos: Subverted. The Dawn Project isn't about creating a cure for the Dusk virus (the virus is implied to have been extinct back then), but about creating a Power Nullifier that would allow virus elementals to touch other people. Then again, the Dawn Project is a cover to recreate the Dusk virus.

• Neopets: Several of the medicines have the name of the disease or related words in their names:
  • Bubbles is cured with a Bubbles Herbal Drink.
  • Hoochie Coochies is cured with Hoochie Coochie Tablets.
  • Itchy Scratchies is cured with Itchy Scratchy Cream.
  • Kikoughela is cured with Kikoughela Drops.
  • Neezles is cured with a Neezles Jab.
  • Neggitus is cured with a Neggitus Injection, while NeoMites are cured with a NeoMites Injection.
  • NeoFlu is cured with NeoFlu Jelly Pills.
  • NeoPox is cured with NeoPox Pizza.
  • NeoWarts are cured with Neowart Fungus.
  • Shaky Flakies is cured with Shaky Flaky Cream.

• Metal Family: In "Poker", it's revealed that Dee uses a hacking software called SafeBrute to circumvent Glam's security system—which he installed with the express purpose of keeping shady websites off-limits to his sons.

• The Simpsons: In "Treehouse of Horror VII", Lisa invents a shrinking device called a "debigulator", and the device that reverses it is called a "rebigulator".
• Miraculous Ladybug: While not exactly a disease, Akumas are parasitic magical butterflies that feed on an individual's negative emotions, thus allowing the Butterfly Miraculous holder to turn them into monsters under their control. In Japanese, akuma means 'evil spirity'. The phrase used by the Ladybug Miraculous to purify the released Akumas includes the term "de-evilize".

• Old-school hackers had a taste for the dramatic that actually made this sort of thing reasonably common, e.g. "Creeper" vs. "Reaper".
• A genetic example: the sonic hedgehog protein is a major protein responsible for embryonic development. Given its namesake, it shouldn't be a surprise that its inhibitor is called Robotnikinin.