History LethalChef / Comicbooks

* ''{{Archie}}'' comics:

* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': One of the [[RunningGag Running Gags]] associated with Ofelia, with the aggravating factor that she believes herself to be a great cook. Mortadelo and Filemón would often ask for some of her homemade dishes, only to use it as rat poison or to purge their bowels.

* Olive from ''{{The Beano}}'' (she's a "School Dinner-lady", who is a Lethal Chef subtype of her own). Her "Tea" was actually a highly-reactive acid-like corrosive; her oxtail soup moos and flicks its tail; the skin on her custard couldn't be broken with a pickaxe, and so on.

* GreenArrow has a chili so legendarily bad (or maybe just [[MasochistsMeal insanely spicy]]) that even invulnerable superheroes refuse to eat it. [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili And you can make it at home!]]

* Calamity Jane from ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke''. The first time she attempts to cook cookies, she has to threaten her clients with a rifle to convince them to taste them. And even then one of them is willing to die rather than eat.

* Yosefa from the Israeli comic ''{{Zbeng}}!'' specializes in inedible, rock hard doughnuts. She once used a batch of radioactive yeast to make them extra fluffy, which created a gigantic mutant doughnut that threatened to crush the school.

* Bill Mauldin threw many jabs at Army cuisine in ''ComicStrip/WillieAndJoe.''

* Some examples from ''{{Foxtrot}}'':
** Paige has been shown to be able to cause boiling pasta to ''burst into flames''. Pasta that is ''submerged in water''.
-->''(while discussing Survivor's food challenges)''\\
'''Peter:''' That reminds me. I think Mom is letting Paige cook dinner tonight.\\
'''Jason:''' A perfect example. Have them eat something like ''that!''\\
'''Peter:''' But don't you need to ''have'' a survivor?
** Roger is also shown to be this, when he's grilling hamburgers or on the rare occasions when Andy's out and he's left to cook for the kids.
** Andy is somwhere between this and CordonBleughChef-- while she's capable of making perfectly edible food, because she's a health nut Andy usually makes meals out of tofu, lima beans, and whatever other sort of "healthy" foods that frequently make her family sick and they hate the taste of even if it doesn't. Her family constantly complains about her cooking and attempts to sabotage it, but she's either oblivious or doesn't care. One of the reasons Andy hates her own mother is because she's the [[SupremeChef direct opposite.]]
** In another series of strips, Paige tried to make Thanksgiving dinner all by herself. In the end she was the only one willing to try some of it.
-->'''Andy:''' Did you have to eat it?
-->'''Paige:''' Mother please, it hurts to talk.
* Two examples from ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** Irma's diner has notoriously bad food. The soup has hair in it with rollers, the coffee [[ItTastesLikeFeet tastes like turpentine]], there is a hoof in the meat loaf, the cows for the hamburgers are burned alive, and so on.
** Jon Arbuckle also qualifies. Garfield remarked that he's the [[EpicFail only cook who could ruin cereal]], right before Jon sets the bacon aflame.
** [[http://garfield.com/comic/2014-03-04 In this strip]], Jon potentially becomes a ''literal'' example.
* "Cookie", the military cook from ''BeetleBailey'' has a knack for bad cooking (a common stereotype of military cooks). Jokes about his meatballs are the most common. Thankfully, one of the soldiers he caters to is Sargent Snorkel, who will eat anything.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin is a bona fide Lethal Chef. In one strip, Calvin's Mom is sick so Calvin makes her breakfast in bed: orange juice, eggs and toast. Calvin delivers his mom the eggs smoldering and with a chisel to chip it out of the pan. When his mom asks about the orange juice and toast, Calvin replies "Dad said not to tell you about that until you're better".
** Calvin's mom herself could certainly qualify as well. Though Calvin is prone to gross exaggeration on how bad her food is (just as he is with everything else), there isn't much that goes on the family's dinner table that is visually identifiable as food. Most dinner plates are filled with what can only be described as "glop", which sometimes takes on colors that no food should ever be. Even Calvin's ''dad'' sometimes comments on this:
---> '''Dad''': I thought we were having stuffed peppers. Honey, what the heck IS this? Whatever it is, I'm not eating it![[labelnote:Context]]Mom got Calvin to eat by telling him they were monkey brains. Calvin talking about monkey brains at the dinner table is what gets this reaction from Dad.[[/labelnote]]
** His dad probably qualifies too. Once when his mom was sick and he claimed he could cook for them, having done so for himself in college, Calvin remembered his mom saying he had lived solely on canned soup and frozen waffles the entire four years.

* ''ComicBook/HagarTheHorrible'''s daughter, Honi, is such a horrible cook she even manages to mess up cooking water.

* Egon, the Foreign Legion chef in ''Comics/BeauPeep'', veers between this and CordonBleughChef, but is mostly this. Peep once ate the contents of an ashtray and thought it was only marginally worse than normal.

* ''HagarTheHorrible'''s daughter, Honi, is such a horrible cook she even manages to mess up cooking water.
* In ''{{Bone}}'', Gran'ma Ben/Rose's teacher tries to put stinky cheese on Smiley's quiche and serves up some disgusting green stew that practically everyone despises. Bartleby, on the other hand, loves it.
* The Cook from ''{{Sturmtruppen}}''. His spaghetti is known for strangling soldiers and he once turned the lunch in a living monster. When the Sergeant added motor oil to his soup, nobody noticed the difference until a motorist asked for his oil can back.
* Monica from Brazilian comic ''MonicasGang'' is prone to cooking awful things such as gumbo flan, yogurt pizza, or a "[[http://www.monica.com.br/ingles/comics/dino/images/p09-03.gif health juice]]"[[note]]in case you're wondering, the characters become dinosaurs because of a serum that fell on the juice, not the juice itself[[/note]].

** Ms. Beazly, the lunch lady. Students who eat at the cafeteria are inevitably shown later doubled over in poisoned agony. One case of stomach cramps she was blamed for, though, was actually the result of some stickers popular around the Riverdale High students; their glue was toxic enough to cause them. When Archie with Professor Flutesnoot's help proves this one time she was ''innocent'' Mr. Weatherbee is quick to reinstate her--and Ms. Beazly gives Archie a gourmet-level meal in thanks!

** Andy is the most frequent victim of this trope in the comics. While she's capable of making perfectly edible food, because she's a health nut Andy usually makes meals out of tofu, Lima beans, and whatever other sort of "healthy" foods that frequently make her family sick and they hate the taste of even if it doesn't. Her family constantly complains about her cooking and attempts to sabotage it, but she's either oblivious or doesn't care. One of the reasons Andy hates her own mother is because she's the [[SupremeChef direct opposite.]]

** Ms. Beazly, the lunch lady. Students who eat at the cafeteria are inevitably shown later doubled over in poisoned agony. One case of stomach cramps she was blamed for, though, was actually the result of some stickers popular around the Riverdale High students; their glue was toxic enough to cause them. When Archie with Professor Flutesnoot's help proves this one time she was ''innocent'' Mr. Weatherbee is quick to reinstate her--and Ms. Beazly gives Archie a gourmet-level meal in thanks for a chage.

** Ms. Beazly, the lunch lady. Students who eat from the high school caf0 are inevitably shown later doubled over in poisoned agony. One case of stomach cramps she was blamed for, though, was actually the result of some stickers popular around the Riverdale High students; their glue was toxic enough to cause them. When Archie with Professor Flutesnoot's help proves this one time she was ''innocent'' Mr. Weatherbee is quick to reinstate her--and Ms. Beazly gives Archie a gourmet-level meal in thanks for a chage.

** Orube, an alien friend who, when first arrived on Earth, mistook money for food (she complained it didn't taste well) and has apparently set on fire the kitchen the first time she tried to cook. Differently from Will, it's more about lack of familiarity with Earth cooking implements and ingredients (in a later special it's confirmed she never set the kitchen on fire again) and clumsiness when trying to cook for other people (she destroyed the water tap in her kitchen while preparing pasta due being in a hurry), even if she still has a long way to go (in that special she managed to [[EpicFail ''burn the pasta'']].

* ''GastonLagaffe'' is bad at cooking. Some examples:

* GreenArrow has a chili so legendarily bad that even invulnerable superheroes refuse to eat it. [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili And you can make it at home!]]

* GreenArrow has a chili so legendarily bad that even invunerable superheroes refuse to eat it. [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili And you can make it at home!]]

* Two examples from ''Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}'':

* ''Comicstrip/{{Calvin and Hobbes}}'': Calvin is a bona fide Lethal Chef. In one strip, Calvin's Mom is sick so Calvin makes her breakfast in bed: orange juice, eggs and toast. Calvin delivers his mom the eggs smoldering and with a chisel to chip it out of the pan. When his mom asks about the orange juice and toast, Calvin replies "Dad said not to tell you about that until you're better".

---> '''Dad''': I thought we were having stuffed peppers. Honey, what the heck IS this? Whatever it is, I'm not eating it! [[hottip:*:Context: Mom got Calvin to eat by telling him they were monkey brains. Calvin talking about monkey brains at the dinner table is what gets this reaction from Dad.]]

* Monica from Brazilian comic ''MonicasGang'' is prone to cooking awful things such as gumbo flan, yogurt pizza, or a "[[http://www.monica.com.br/ingles/comics/dino/images/p09-03.gif health juice]]"[[hottip:*:in case you're wondering, the characters become dinosaurs because of a serum that fell on the juice, not the juice itself]].

* Bill Mauldin threw many jabs at Army cuisine in ''Willie and Joe.''

* Some examples from ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'':
** Bruce Wayne. That's right, children, there's one skill Comicbook/{{Batman}} ''[[MemeticBadass entirely failed to master.]]'' It goes from ruining the kitchen as he attempts to prepare chicken soup to, well...

* Veronica Lodge in the ''{{Archie}}'' comics. Being the SpoiledBrat RichBitch that she is, [[BerserkButton don't even]] '''[[BerserkButton suggest]]''' [[BerserkButton that her cooking is less than superb.]]
** In one comic, Veronica was preparing what Archie called "rainbow cookies". Since they looked like ordinary cookies, Mr. Lodge asked what he meant by that. Archie responded with "[[{{Squick}} Sometimes they make you turn blue]], [[NauseaFuel sometimes they make you turn red]], [[RuleOfThree sometimes they make you turn green]]..." Later in the comic, the president of a food company tried her cookies, and the result prompted Archie to say, "Purple? Never seen that color before!"
*** Another comic shows Reggie eating some dinner Ronnie's cooked for him, but he finds it inedible; so he dumps the whole plateful into the dog's dish, [[BlatantLies then tells Ronnie that the food was superb]]. A moment later, the dog sniffs at the food in his dish--''and picks up his dish with one paw and empties the whole lot back into Reggie's plate''.
** Also Ms. Beazly, the lunch lady. Students who eat from the high school cafe are inevitably shown later doubled over in poisoned agony.
*** One case of stomach cramps she was blamed for, though, was actually the result of some stickers popular around the Riverdale High students; their glue was toxic enough to cause them. When Archie with Professor Flutesnoot's help proves this one time she was ''innocent'' Mr. Weatherbee is quick to reinstate her--and Ms. Beazly gives Archie a gourmet-level meal in thanks for a chage.

* Some examples from ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}''