History Main / HollyWoodAcid

* Three ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' stories by Creator/DonRosa involved a liquid called "The Universal Solvent" that compresses the atoms of anything it comes in contact with, turning all matter into a superdense powder, with one important exception: diamond. This of course means that the solvent has to be kept in a jar carved from diamond and can only be handled with tools coated in diamond dust. In real life, [[PhilosophersStone unless you're an alchemist]], the term "Universal Solvent" usually refers to ''water''. Of course, since it destroys absolutely everything except diamond, including ''other'' acids, it's more like ThePowerOfTheVoid.

* Three ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' stories by Creator/DonRosa involved a liquid called "The Universal Solvent" that compresses the atoms of anything it comes in contact with, turning all matter into a superdense powder, with one important exception: diamond. This of course means that the solvent has to be kept in a jar carved from diamond and can only be handled with tools coated in diamond dust. In real life, [[PhilosophersStone unless you're an alchemist]], the term "Universal Solvent" usually refers to ''water''...

* ''Film/TheFly1986'': Jeff Goldblum's character Seth Brundle uses his stomach acid in the Cronenberg remake, both to externally digest food and, in one stomach-turning scene, as a weapon. It's actually specified as containing digestive enzymes.

* One ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch entails an individual [[Franchise/Alien Xenomorph's]] acid melting through multiple floors, resulting in it fallling through several stories before hitting the pavment.

* One ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch entails an individual Xenomorph's acid melting through multiple floors, resulting in it fallling through several stories before hitting the pavment.

* One ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' entails an individual Xenomorph's acid melting through multiple floors, resulting in it fall through several stories before hitting the pavment.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' loves this stuff; it's used to kill the villain in the very first story, ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsNumber27'', and is the source of Harvey Dent's scars as Two-Face. The most popular origin for the Joker is also that he fell in a tank of acid and came out with his skin bleached, and [[TraumaCongaLine insane]]. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in Dr. Scott's [[http://www.politedissent.com/archives/893#comments article]] on an issue in which Batman counteracts the Joker's acid [[ArtisticLicenseChemistry by spraying the target with a strong base]]. Realistically, mixing a strong acid and a strong base together would result in a violently exothermic reaction.

* In ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'', Atropos (Taylor with a souped-up Path to Victory that lets her know how to end anything) kills [[spoiler: Lung]] by inserting a couple of capsules containing fluoroantimonic acid (possibly the closest thing to this trope in RealLife) into his brain and chest, letting his regeneration break them open so the acid can react with his body water. [[Understatement The results aren't pretty.]]

** The same applies to the simple riddle-type puzzles, where some inventor claims to invent a universal acid, and is told to leave as the other person knows it would dissolve the container it's contained in.
** The same problem exists with using {{antimatter}} for fuel. In the case of antimatter, you can use only positive or negative particles and keep them in one place magnetically, which wouldn't work for a "universal acid" because normal nuclear matter is pretty much neutral.
** There actually is a solution to this riddle. The student can then say that they'd use a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passivation_(chemistry) passivating material]] to store the universal acid. Sure, it means that some of the acid and container material will be lost, but the resultant compound will prevent further reactions from eating through the container. Even a "universal acid" will inevitably follow the laws of stoichiometry - its dissolving of materials will inevitably create resultant products.
** Clever, but no, my young apprentice. Universal acid eats through everything, including the passive layer. That's the point. Whether this is actually ''possible'' in the real world... erm, no. The passivating material would work in practice, but this is a riddle meant to ZenSlap people.
** There actually ''is'' a solution to this riddle. Several even. A) Just because the universal acid would dissolve everything, doesn't mean its ''components'' would. They could be stored separately and mixed immediately before application like you do with a two-component glue. B) Just because the ''liquid'' universal acid would dissolve everything, doesn't mean it cannot be safe while frozen or powdered. C) If the liquid acid is magnetized, it could be stored in a suspended state inside a magnetic field.
** A) You still need to mix them in ''some'' container, which will get dissolved as soon as the acid is formed. B) Sure, but in that case, you need to thaw it when you want to use it, which takes you back to the beginning. C) This riddle is at least a thousand years old and they didn't know a lot about magnetic fields back then. Still, ZenSlap.
** A) The container still holds the acid in its entirety, regardless of semantics. B) It’s still stored in its container, still regardless of semantics. C) That’s like saying Smallpox is incurable because we didn’t have a vaccine in the 1700’s. [[ZenSlap Zen Slap]] thoroughly averted.

* In the first ''Film/RoboCop1987'' movie, Boddicker's henchman Emil attempts to crush Murphy with his car, only to miss Murphy and drive straight into a tank full of corrosive toxic waste. He survives... [[BodyHorror kind of]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' features corrosive weapons that fire acid-filled rounds that are especially good at dissolving armor. "Caustic" is a valid prefix, even though it usually refers to corrosive ''bases'', not acids. [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}} The]] [[VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel sequels]] also feature alkaline shields that negate corrosive DamageOverTime, despite the fact that alkalis are also corrosive and only neutralize acids. Also, given some prefixes, PoisonIsCorrosive in the series as well.
* ''VideoGame/BricksOfEgypt2'': The Acid Eye is colored green and sheds acid tears that can destroy every block that can be found (except for the Key blocks).
* ''Videogame/CavesOfQud:'' The DeadlyGas created by the Corrosive Gas Generation mutation fits the trope to a T. These bright green clouds will eat through ''anything'' that isn't Acid-resistant, [[RequiredSecondaryPowers you]] or [[AntiFrustrationFeatures an item]], up to and including the walls; it'll eat through solid rock and even Fulcrete in ''seconds''.

* In ''VideoGame/FindTheCure!'' the player character uses acid to burn a lock off a door.

* In ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', you must contend with black slime. The end result of Ivo Shandor's rituals, this nasty concoction is both TheCorruption and Hollywood Acid (it's labeled "Caustic Seep" in your Paragoggles). Stepping in ''any'' amount deals damage, and falling into it on Shandor Island is instant death. Oh, and...apparently it's the body fluids of a Juvenile Giant Sloar.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'': In the animated shorts, White Pikmin -- which are generally only depicted as poisonous in the games -- are shown to be able to spit small jets of acid capable of swiftly dissolving metal.

* ''VideoGame/RedAlert 2'' has radiation, but the effect is very much the same. Infantry Units killed by radiation are covered in gunk and melts away after a second or two.
* In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestI'', the acid in Kerona's underground caves is so powerful that one drop of it falling on you is enough to dissolve your body.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' and ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'', several zerg units (most notably Mutalisks) use "acid" attacks which, as shown in some cutscenes, are corrosive enough to go through depleted uranium starship armor. For some reason, it also causes protoss [[DeflectorShields plasma shields]] to short out.

* ''Videogame/{{X}}'': In the ''Xtended'' mod for ''X3: Terran Conflict'', the Panos MobileFactory mines asteroid ore through the use of acid. It scans for ore, then uses its transporter to teleport powerful acid into ore deposits, then beams the slurry back on board for processing. A [=GalNet=] news article mentions a horrific accident where a Panos with a malfunctioning communications system unknowingly began mine an occupied mining site, causing several workers to die when acid started to materialize mid-air in the chamber they were excavating before the Panos operator realized what was going on.

In films, on TV, and in comic books, an "acid" is any liquid that can eat away at and completely dissolve skin and muscle, [[StrippedToTheBone leaving only bone]] and sometimes not even that. Even stronger "acids" will dissolve steel, glass (which doesn't react with acids[[note]]there's one exception, but it's complicated[[/note]]), plastics (which also don't react with acids, most of the time), concrete (ditto), and ultimately everything it comes into contact with... except whatever container it is stored in. Such liquids are almost always either a [[TechnicolorScience bright green or sickly yellow]] color. They bubble and fizz on the counter or floor when you spill them, give off visible, smoky fumes (which [[FridgeLogic never seem to be harmful in their own right]][[labelnote:*]]DontTryThisAtHome. Fumes are perhaps the most dangerous thing about real-world acids, since they're hard to contain, and don't tend to get along with the lungs.[[/labelnote]]), and they never dissipate. If a drop of acid eats through the floor, it will continue to eat through things on the next level down, and so on. There are even some video games where puddles of this stuff can move around and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou try to kill you]].

* ''Film/DantesPeak'': Subverted. A lake of volcanic sulfuric acid takes several minutes to cause a metal boat to start leaking and eat away the prop. Played straight when the grandmother jumps in the water and is severely burned with a relatively short exposure to it.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Reptile. His fatality in ''Ultimate VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' has him vomit a gallon of "acid" on his opponent, melting their flesh clear off their skeleton. He also has acid fatalities in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'', ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'', and ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX''. There's also the recurring stage the Dead Pool, which you can knock your opponent into to melt them down to the bone. By ''VideoGame/Mortalkombat11'', [[TheGunslinger Erron Black]] also carries around bottles of acid as part of his moveset. One of his fatalities in the game, aptly named "Melted", has him send his opponent face-first into a puddle of it, before stomping on the softened head and breaking it into pieces.

In films, on TV, and in comic books, an "acid" is any liquid that can eat away at and completely dissolve skin and muscle, [[StrippedToTheBone leaving only bone]] and sometimes not even that. Even stronger "acids" will dissolve steel, glass (which doesn't react with acids[[note]]there's one exception, but it's complicated[[/note]]), plastic (which also don't react with acids, most of the time), concrete (ditto), and ultimately everything it comes into contact with... except whatever container it is stored in. Such liquids are almost always either a [[TechnicolorScience bright green or sickly yellow]] color. They bubble and fizz on the counter or floor when you spill them, give off visible, smoky fumes (which [[FridgeLogic never seem to be harmful in their own right]][[labelnote:*]]DontTryThisAtHome. Fumes are perhaps the most dangerous thing about real-world acids, since they're hard to contain, and don't tend to get along with the lungs.[[/labelnote]]), and they never dissipate. If a drop of acid eats through the floor, it will continue to eat through things on the next level down, and so on. There are even some video games where puddles of this stuff can move around and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou try to kill you]].

In films, on TV, and in comic books, an "acid" is any liquid that can eat away at and completely dissolve skin and muscle, [[StrippedToTheBone leaving only bone]] and sometimes not even that. Even stronger "acids" will dissolve steel, glass, plastic (even though it's ''nearly impossible'' for plastic to be dissolved by an acid), concrete, and ultimately everything it comes into contact with... except whatever container it is stored in. Such liquids are almost always either a [[TechnicolorScience bright green or sickly yellow]] color. They bubble and fizz on the counter or floor when you spill them, give off visible, smoky fumes (which [[FridgeLogic never seem to be harmful in their own right]][[labelnote:*]]DontTryThisAtHome. Fumes are perhaps the most dangerous thing about real-world acids, since they're hard to contain, and don't tend to get along with the lungs.[[/labelnote]]), and they never dissipate. If a drop of acid eats through the floor, it will continue to eat through things on the next level down, and so on. There are even some video games where puddles of this stuff can move around and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou try to kill you]].

In films, on TV, and in comic books, an "acid" is any liquid that can eat away at and completely dissolve skin and muscle, [[StrippedToTheBone leaving only bone]] and sometimes not even that. Even stronger "acids" will dissolve steel, glass, plastic (even though it's ''nearly impossible'' for plastic to be dissolved by an acid), concrete, and ultimately everything it comes into contact with... except whatever container it is stored in. Such liquids are almost always either a [[TechnicolorScience bright green or sickly yellow]] color. They bubble and fizz on the counter or floor when you spill them, give off visible, smoky fumes (which [[FridgeLogic never seem to be harmful in their own right]][[labelnote:*]]DontTryThisAtHome. Fumes are perhaps the most dangerous thing about real world acids, since they're hard to contain, and don't tend to get along with the lungs.[[/labelnote]]), and they never dissipate. If a drop of acid eats through the floor, it will continue to eat through things on the next level down, and so on. There are even some video games where puddles of this stuff can move around and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou try to kill you]].

A {{subtrope}} of HollywoodScience. Compare AcidAttack, PoisonIsCorrosive and AcidPool (when this is applied to a DeathTrap). Has nothing to do with those [[MarijuanaIsLSD other]] [[DisneyAcidSequence kinds]] of acid. Compare BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce, which is almost always PlayedForLaughs.

* A straighter version from the ''Some Days are Bloodier than Others'' PublicServiceAnnouncement series involves a health inspector who accidentally dumps a bottle of cleaner in her face, which eats big fuckoff holes in it. While bathroom cleaner can be caustic, you've usually got a minute or so to wash up before you develop chemical burns. She forgets all her training and tries to wipe it off with kleenex instead of washing, too, which of course exacerbates the problem (and elicits a fresh round of [[HellIsThatNoise screeching]]).

* In ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'', the Thousand Arms Buddha statue carries a vial full of acid corrosive enough to completely liquefy a person in the blink of an eye, ''[[OhCrap even if he's wearing the protective Gantz suit]]''. [[spoiler: This actually worked in the hunters' advantage, as it was the acid spilled by Sei Sakuraoka that eventually disabled the Buddha statue's regenerative ability. (Although this didn't happen until Kei Kishimoto, among others, had met their fate because of the same acid.)]]

** Xenomorph blood is made of a "concentrated molecular acid" (sic) that can eat through a starship's hull but not through the body of the xenomorph itself, due to their being SiliconBasedLife. In the first film this is to explain [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim why the crew doesn't just shoot the alien]] given as they are out in deep space. It seems to have less effect on human flesh when convenient. In ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', Private Hudson gets some splashed on his arm when Corporal Hicks shoots a xenomorph in the head at point-blank range, causing little more than painful burns. Drake isn't so lucky when Vasquez attempts to shoot a xenomorph off of him. Its potency freaks ''everyone'' out; one character makes noises about "[[TechnoBabble molecular acid]]" in ''Film/{{Alien}}'', and an executive speaks of "concentrated acid" in a patronizing manner in the second -- they're saying, "Umm... acid '''isn't''' supposed to '''''do''''' that!"

* ''Film/PhantasmII'': The Tall Man is killed when the fluid he uses to reanimate corpses is tainted with hydrochloric acid and then injected into him, melting him from the inside-out. If that wasn't improbable enough to bother all of you chemists, this somehow causes his [[EyeScream eyeballs to explode]]. This may be justified as the Tall Man's physiology is alien.

* In ''Film/SeedOfChucky'', John Waters's character dies when Glen accidentally scares him, causing him to back up into a shelf in his red room, sending photo developing chemicals crashing down on him and melting his face. It's even more egregious in that the photo developing process uses very weak acids, most commonly a citric acid or diluted vinegar. No chemicals used in small-scale photography are corrosive (although some can be quite toxic).

* A chemistry student explains to his professor: ''I have invented an universal acid which will dissolve just anything -- glass, metal, plastics, anything!'' The professor answers: ''Very well. Now where are you going to store it?''
** The same applies the simple riddle-type puzzles, where some inventor claims to invent a universal acid, and is told to leave as the other person knows it would dissolve the container it's contained in.

** There actually ''is'' a solution to this riddle. Several even. A) Just because the universal acid would dissolve everything, doesn't mean its ''components'' would. They could be stored separately and mixed immediately before application, like you do with a two-component glue. B) Just because the ''liquid'' universal acid would dissolve everything, doesn't mean it cannot be safe while frozen or powdered. C) If the liquid acid is magnetized, it could be stored in suspended state inside magnetic field.

* In the Creator/HPLovecraft[=/=] C.M. Eddy collaborative story "Ashes" has a professor with a bottle of clear colorless liquid that he uses to dissolve a few animals into a white ash. He claims that it reduces anything it touches (aside from glass) into a fine ash. Later in the story has the professor attempt one last test on a human, only to be dissolved in the same fashion.

* In ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'', the villain Lakington has invented a mixture of corrosive chemicals that can completely dissolve a human body in minutes. He is first seen using it to dispose of an inconvenient corpse, and later threatens to dip the hero in it without killing him first.

* ''Literature/{{Ghoul}}'': One of the murder victims is disposed of in a bathtub full of sulphuric acid, leaving only the victim's gallstones behind (for some reason). This is possibly a reference to John Haigh. A real life killer that used acid to dispose of bodies and who was only tied to the murder of one suspect because of the few bodily parts not even the strongest acid can dissolve: teeth and gallstones.

* Justified in ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'': Moss and Stoker can both use their powers to create super-concentrated, soul-strengthened acid which will eat through almost anything. Without soul power, it would still take minutes or hours, but with it it takes mere seconds.

* The live action ''Series/Batman1966'' has an inspired variant in a Riddler story where the villain gets a special wax. It is the perfect safe-cracking tool: a powerful corrosive potent enough that a pocketful of the stuff will quickly and silently penetrate thick steel doors or concrete walls in minutes and yet is perfectly safe to handle until you expose it to direct flame. In fact, you'd almost wonder why Riddler didn't [[CutLexLuthorACheck make a bundle simply auctioning the stuff to other criminals]].

** Half-averted with the planet Vortis's naturally occurring {{Acid Pool}}s and rivers in the 1st Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet The Web Planet]]". Although the acid is highly corrosive and instantly eats away at everything it touches (excluding the local terrain, for some reason), its completely transparent and easily mistaken for water. Ian comes very close to scooping up a handful to drink when he first encounters it, which would have ended very badly had the Doctor not stopped him, noting that his tie had dissolved. That makes sense in that, for some reason, the entire planet had an imbalance of protons to electrons. This evens out among the surface matter, resulting in pooled acid in equilibrium with the surrounding substances. Everything that could be oxidized by the acid already had been, except things brought into the place.

* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'': One episode has the town plagued by bats that shit Super Acid -- see RealLife section below, they got this right that it protonates matter. Over the course of the episode a cow is reduced to black and white goo, a jeep is rendered into a puddle, and a bunch of wires in a wall start dripping like water.

* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Krayt dragons can spit gouts of greenish acid that dissolve living flesh on contact. Yeah the Krayt Dragon in the episode "The Marshal" gushs outs enough acid to fill a swimming pool, but that acid was so strong that when the Tusken Raiders got doused with it, their bodies and clothes near-instantly collapsed into mush.
* In ''Series/MooneBoy'', Martin's vagabond uncle warns him to "never take Hungarian acid" (as in LSD). Martin replies he wouldn't want to, since acid burns through everything.
* A 2013 episode of ''Series/MythBusters'' revealed that the trope had been played straight in the ''Breaking Bad'' scene in "The Cat's in the Bag". Adam and Jamie found that hydrofluoric acid wouldn't completely destroy organic tissues, so they switched to sulfuric acid with a dose of (what appeared to be) hydrogen peroxide (AKA [[AndSomeOtherStuff special sauce]]) to boost its corrosive power (this combination is often called "piranha solution" in real life, because the aforementioned Caro's acid is formed when mixing these two chemicals, and is used for cleaning stubborn organic matter off of glassware). They put 35 pounds of pig carcass parts and 6 gallons of their acid mixture in a ceramic-coated cast iron tub; the acid destroyed most of the carcass, but did not eat through the tub or the floor below it. When they used 36 gallons of acid in a fiberglass tub, the carcass was reduced to a black organic sludge in a spectacularly smoky and violent reaction -- but again, neither the tub nor the floor gave way under the acid's effects.

* In the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "99 & 44/100% Pure Horror" a woman murders her soap magnate husband and disposes the body by putting it through the machine at his factory and turning it into soap. She takes the soap home with her and uses it when she takes a shower, but to her horror the acid from his stomach starts eating away at her skin... never mind that the manufacture of soap involves adding enough lye to give the mixture a neutral to slightly ''alkaline'' pH, so the soap-making process itself should've rendered the acid harmless. (The fact that one of her husband's eyeballs was in the soap and still moving and looking at her as she died suggests that the effect is more supernatural than chemical).

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' gets the bit about acid vapors right. The aliens have acid blood similar to the Xenomorphs, but most of their victims die from inhaling the stuff. This may have something to do with the fact it's cheaper to film than acid eating through people's bodies. The blood emits toxic vapors which cause swelling and reddening around the eyes and death by coagulation. It may be acidic, but that is incidental to its effectiveness. This effect was based on the real-life, and as yet unexplained case of Gloria Ramirez -- whose blood wasn't corrosive, but fumes which apparently came off her did cause similar and acute symptoms in the hospital staff which was treating her.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' features corrosive weapons that fire acid-filled rounds that is especally good at dissolving armor. "Caustic" is a valid prefix, even though it usually refers to corrosive ''bases'', not acids. [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}} The]] [[VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel sequels]] also feature alkaline shields that negate corrosive DamageOverTime, despite the fact that alkalis are also corrosive and only neutralize acids. Also, given some prefixes, PoisonIsCorrosive in the series as well.

* In the Flash game ''VideoGame/{{Crush the Castle}} 2'', acid projectiles play the trope 100% straight. They are green and hissing, will completely dissolve almost any substance the acid touches, and will leak down, dissolving any objects beneath that the target point directly contacts. This can create a chain reaction which can bring down entire structures by itself. Oddly, although it can disintegrate solid iron, it will not eat through the much softer earth once it reaches down that far, and a few kinds of rock walls are impervious to it. Human targets are naturally dissolved.
* ''VideoGame/Diablo3'' has the Witch Doctor skill of Acid Cloud. A spirit is conjured in the sky and it vomits a stream of acid that will quickly melt your foes regardless if they're demon, undead or other. The Acid Cloud can be modified further with runes learnt during the Nephilim's adventures.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'': The acid from Toxic Tower is bright lime green, acts exactly like rising water and instantly kills anything it touches.

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Kog'Maw attacks all involve spewing digestive fluids at his enemies which have variety of effects. Due to him originating from the void, they might not obey the laws of physics.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Reptile. His fatality in ''Ultimate VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' has him vomit a gallon of "acid" on his opponent, melting their flesh clear off their skeleton. He also has acid fatalities in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'', ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'', and ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX''. There's also the recurring stage the Dead Pool, which you can knock your opponent into to melt them down to the bone. By ''VideoGame/Mortalkombat11'', [[TheGunslinger Erron Black]] also carries around bottles of acid as part of his moveset. One of his fatalities in the game, aptly named "Melted", has him send his opponent face first into a puddle of it, before stomping on the softened head and breaking it into pieces.

** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Generation VII]]'' introduces Salandit, Salazzle and their signature ability Corrosion that allow them to inflict poison status on Poison-types and Steel-types Pokémon.

* ''VideoGame/{{Prodeus}}'' features bright green acid that damages the player on touch. One level centers around raising acid levels and the lowering them again.

* ''VideoGame/StyxMasterOfShadows'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/StyxShardsOfDarkness'' include vials of bright-green acid in the protagonist's toolkit. Using one near-instantly dissolves corpses into nothing, which is useful when you need to quickly dispose of a body. ''Shards of Darkness'' also has Acid Mines, essentially a land-mine that instantly kills and dissolves anyone who steps on it.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}'', the servant ghost kills you by engulfing you into his "misty form", which covers you in a thick, sticky goo that turns out to be acid that not only hurts, but turns you into a "lifeless lump of flesh".

* ''Webcomic/TheStrongestSuit'': The Thinner River is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a ''river'' of super-corrosive liquid. Although to be fair it is colorless rather than green or yellow, and doesn't bubble or fume.

* ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' has several of the giant monsters spit out acid that melt various materials, usually metal and plastic. How fast the acid eats away whatever it's spat on varies.

** In another episode heavy pollution cover Springfield in Hollywood Acid ''Rain'' which corrodes soft materials in seconds. The effects on human flesh ([[MagicPants and underwear]]) aren't so extreme, but according to Willie it still "stings like a Glasgow bikini wax!"

* In ''Manga/{{/Tomie}}: Replay'', Tomie pushes Yumi, the protagonist, out of the wheelchair she's in onto a floor covered in acid.

* In ''Film/TomieReplay'', Tomie pushes Yumi, the protagonist, out of the wheelchair she was in onto a floor covered in acid.

* ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': Silva reveals that he's missing part of his jaw and palate, the result of biting a defective hydrogen CyanidePill. Hydrogen cyanide doesn't produce that effect, but the writers may have assumed otherwise from its alternate name: prussic acid.