Watching movies, we often find couples of characters that are incredibly odd. Their oddity comes to the point till you conclude those only happen in movies. There are no such things as that in real life.
What if the oddity occurs because you just lack knowledge about it? Believe it or not, some of these roles were a type of medical condition.
Let us check out types of medical conditions your favorite characters possibly suffering from.
Cannot Feel the pain
Remember Francis Freeman, Deadpool's enemy? In the Deadpool movie, he is a mutant who is impervious to pain. Deadpool stabbed him by a sword, and he still can walk steadily.
It seems lucky to have it. But, this is a medical condition called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain. You might catch fire and laughing at the same time. Perhaps, you get a stab in the chest like Francis and still wandering around looking for your favorite chips at the store.
Mutations in the NTRK1 gene cause this condition. Ashley Blocker is one of the people suffering from a medical condition called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain. She didn't cry when she was born. She used to reach her hand on the pot of boiling water just to pick a spoon slipped from her hand while stirring ramen noodles.
Blue Color.
In the X-Men film, we could not help but catch an eye at Mystique, the gorgeous mutant with blue skin color. We cannot deny the fact she looks stunning on that form. But, it is still weird when somebody is walking around in your neighborhood with blue color.
We've told so many times to be grateful for our skin tone and embrace it. Maybe today, they should add, "as long as it's not blue." Blue is not the right skin color.
This is called Blue Man Syndrome. It is caused by excessive exposure to chemical compounds of the element silver, or to silver dust. Paul Karason AKA Papa Smurf is a man, adopted this syndrome.
Stone Body.
In 2005, Fantastic Four was released. One of the main characters making an appearance in that film is Ben Grimm. Briefly, he is an average human, which later turns into a monstrous creature with great strengths.
His body developed into complete stone. Even his heartbeat in a stone form. This is due to the total cloud space exposure.
In reality, this is a disease called Stone Man Syndrome.
It slowly turns your muscle and tissue into bone. Unlike Ben, you cannot be a superhero with a superpower. Terrifyingly, it causes the individual to lose their ability to move, breathe, speak, and even eat.
Experiencing trauma to your muscles, even from a fall, can cause that area to be replaced by bone.
A 23-year-old woman lived in Missouri, Carly Henrotay, suffering from this condition. She is having movement difficulty. She can't raise her arms and performing other precise movements.
The Vampire.
Hearing the word 'vampire' makes our mind picturing some hot vampire actors. Robert is one of the most famous vampires during his role on Twilight.
In the film, he was an older man with a pale face look trapped inside a body of 17-year-old. He cannot die, according to the myth, a vampire lives forever.
Despite Robert's role as Edward as a vampire on Twilight, this condition is called Porphyria, or Vampire Disease. An individual suffering from it has pale skin like Edward, except they are not immune to death and probably without good looks.
This disease has two forms, Acute and Cutaneous. Acute affects the nervous system. Cutaneous affects the skin. They cannot be exposed to sunlight due to their sensitive skin from it. Their gums also shrunk, making the teeth look more prominent.
Laughing At The Wrong Situation.
Last but not least, Arthur Fleck in Joker's film. He has a peculiar character in it. There is a scene where he can laugh just after kills Randall. He is laughing so hard while crying.
Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) is the explanation of this freakish attitude. It is a system disorder that can make you laugh, cry, or become angry without being able to control when it happens. People who suffer from this disorder will experience sudden, intense fits of crying or laughing.
They may cry or laugh at an inappropriate moment. Their facial expression doesn't match their emotions. Also, frustration and anger could strike them.
Lisa Rowe
Girl, Interrupted
Though Winona Ryder's character was the protagonist of Girl, Interrupted, the suicide attempt that landed her in an all-female mental institution was the catalyst for more engrossing stories featuring her fellow patients. One of the most enigmatic patients she encountered was Lisa Rowe, played with volatile intensity by Angelina Jolie.
Lisa was a sociopath, characterized by a charismatic and manipulative nature she used to elicit close bonds from the patients surrounding her. When she didn't get her way, Lisa's seductive personality turned incredibly abusive, showing a sociopath's lack of remorse even when she drove a fellow patient to suicide.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
A Beautiful Mind
While there is the thought that a biographical drama about noted mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. (Russell Crowe) could evoke an exaggerated take on the mental illness that would tarnish his reputation, A Beautiful Mind doesn't do him a disservice.
It instead chronicles his years of professional genius, his downward mental spiral, and his eventual recovery in a tasteful way that isn't romanticized.
The public was gripped by the life of the Nobel Prize winner, who suddenly came to the horrific realization that many of the locations, events, and people that characterized his life never actually existed.
Nash emerged victorious over the paranoid delusions brought on by his schizophrenia by acknowledging that though they were there, they would not rule his life.
Charlie
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Unlike other teen movies featuring the polar extremes of bursting out into song or chronic drug addiction, The Perks of Being a Wallflower focuses on a boy named Charlie who's just trying to get through his teenage years while dealing with the overwhelming PTSD and anxiety that comes with trauma.
This coming-of-age comedy-drama features many of the tropes of teenage films (partying, first love, big exams), but through the lens of a boy dealing with mental illness.
His crushingly omnipresent sadness threatens to derail every social victory he attains for himself and will consume him if he doesn't find ways to maintain equilibrium despite innumerable triggers.
Cam Stuart
Infinitely Polar Bear
Mark is at his mercurial best depicting Cam, a single father suffering from manic depression, unsure of how to take care of himself let alone his two spirited daughters.
His family's support has always kept him able to go through life without ever facing his mental illness, but after a severe manic episode hospitalizes him, he's forced to have a wake-up call.
Having lost much of their resources, his wife attends Columbia University to get a better degree, and with it a better job. Cam spends the 18 months of her master's program coming to terms with his bipolar diagnosis and raising their two daughters. His struggles are both real, relatable, and inspiring because of his mental illness, not in spite of it.
Raymond Babbitt
Rain Man
Autism has a spectrum spanning the most high-functioning and the most severe alterations to behavior, and the further along the spectrum, the greater the chance of sensationalism.
Luckily, in Rain Man, this isn't the case, and the presentation of Raymond Babbitt's (Dustin Hoffman) autism is authentic and genuine.
He gets entrusted to his younger brother Charlie (Tom Cruise) after the death of their father, and has no idea that Charlie is an opportunist using Raymond to get at their father's fortune.
He initially copes with Raymond's outbursts for financial gain, not realizing that he's becoming the routine and stability that Raymond needs in his life. By the end of the film, the brothers grow to know a fraternal love unlike anything either has ever experienced.
Roy Waller,
Matchstick Men
With Nicolas Cage in the role of Roy, a con artist with obsessive-compulsive disorder, audiences might expect him to bring some of his grandiose showboating to Matchstick Men.
However, he portrays the mental illness with understated intensity, especially when it comes to bear on his vocation and his relationship with his teenage daughter, Angela (Alison).
Angela yearns to be closer to her father, as well as gain an insider perspective into the world of the con, so she asks to join his next big scheme.
While they get closer handling the family business, Roy has to understand that the methods he used to control his mental illness have to be adjusted to accommodate his new fatherly role.
Milo & Maggie Dean
The Skeleton Twins
When Milo (Bill Hader) attempts suicide, he reunites with his estranged twin sister Maggie (Kristen Wiig) in the hospital. Both suffering from severe depression and anxiety, they are forced to look at how their mental illnesses have shaped the course of their lives and affected the loved ones around them.
Aside from the usual cognitive behavioral therapy, they examine the romantic relationships in their lives to try to find areas of their unhappiness that they can alter.
Maggie is married to a loving husband but is unhappy, and Milo has always wondered if his first love is the one who got away. Accepting that depression will always be a part of their lives is the only way they are able to healthily move forward.
Melvin Udall
As Good As It Gets
Jack Nicholson's character in As Good as It Gets (for which Nicholson won the Academy Award for Best Actor), who wears gloves in public and won't step on cracks in the sidewalk, is so much more than an eccentric New Yorker.
He plays Melvin Udall, a best-selling author diagnosed with OCD, who performs obsessive rituals to combat his intrusively anxious thoughts.
He attempts to control his condition for a chance at a relationship with a waitress at his favorite diner, but he's rude, arrogant, and entitled.
His misanthropic personality, which seems exempt from social graces, is comprised of inappropriate emotional responses and forces him to avoid social situations, which is accurately indicative of a number of personality disorders, including narcissistic personality disorder.
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