Joy Virus

The Joy Virus is the main antagonist of the episode The Joy. It is a highly contagious virus that is rather similar to a zombie virus.

Terminology
The virus gets it's name because it causes the infected person to become extraordinarily opptimistic.

Cause
The virus is triggered when a "Wonder Hug", or a hug filled with all of the love and happiness in the world, is given. It is unknown if it affects the person who gives the hug, but the person(s) who gets hugged becomes "patient zero". The Wonder Hug will cause a rainbow-colored mushroom cloud to appear.

Stages of infection (patient zero)
When the patient zero wakes back up, they are now fully infected, and are in a zombie-like state, known as a "hugger".
 * Stage 1: Smiling: The infected individual will being to smile continously. The face will remain this way, and any way to change it usually results with the face graphically returning to the smile. An alternative is the heel-clicking, but the heel-clicking will eventually become smiling.
 * Stage 2: Singing: The infected individual will then start to sing in an auto-tuned voice. (This is not to be confused with Compulsive Singing Disorder). The individual will then begin to laugh hysterically for short periods of time, and they will begin to cough up a rainbow-colored fluid from their lungs.
 * Stage 3: Hallucinations: At this point, the individual begins to hallucinate and see everything as positive things (like candy and stuffed animals). The individual's eyes grow very large, which shows they are in the middle of the infection.
 * Stage 4: Hugging and kissing: Shortly after Stage 3 occurs, the individual will feel a dominant need to hug and kiss people. This is how the infection spreads.
 * Stage 5: Final Moments: This is the end of the infecting. The individual will begin to laugh ver hysterically, then cough up the rainbow fluid, then pass out for a short period of time.

Huggers
A hugger is any infected individual who has gone through all five stages of infection. They are mindless, zombie-like, and HIGHLY contagious. Anyone can become a hugger.

Physical traits
These traits can denote a hugger physically.
 * The huge grin
 * The rainbow fluid, which the infected individual would continously cough up before passing out, will now ooze out of their mouth.
 * The large eyes
 * The arms heldout in front of them
 * The most noticeable trait is the hysterical laughter.CrazyDar.png

Mental traits
These can denote a hugger mentally A hugger hugs any individual in its sight (unfortunately, that is a rather wide range, because of the huge eyes). Any normal hugger is not very strong, yet an entire horde is enough to rip a room apart board by board.
 * Huggers lose most of their intelligence and memory when they pass out. They remember basic skills, such as running and hugging, and have retained some memory, as when Gumball hugged (and infected) Penny, then kicked away an infected Joe.TheJoyITSSPREADING9.png
 * They are easily fooled. If one acts like a hugger, the person can get through an entire horde with ease. However, they are attracted to yelling, discipline, and unhappiness.
 * They will not attack any multi-colored people, as they believe the person is already infected.

Speading the Virus and Infection for the Hugged
A hugger infects people rather quickly. The more huggers, the quicker the infection will spread. Following this rule, one or two huggers can infect an entire school within five minutes.

The infection for people hugged by a hugger goes way faster. The infection stages are sped up by 100%, causing a hugged person to become a hugger by five seconds. The only difference is there is no heel-clicking, no singing, and the pass-out period is just a blink.

Cure
Nobody is immune to the Joy virus at first. Even miserable people can be infected. But there is a cure. The cure is to play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Because of the musics dark and depressing music, this combats the virus. When a hugger hears the song, they will gasp. They will then turn back to normal, then run away crying. It is likely that once a hugger is cured, they cannot be infected again.