History Main / PhlebotinumOverdose

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%%* This is how the BigBad is defeated in the second ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' movie.

* The Literature/MagicTheGathering novel ''Time Spiral'', Radha uses this to defeat Greht. She breaks his hold on his horde, he gets it back by starting a ridiculously powerful spell, and Radha starts feeding him more mana. This doesn't end well for him.

* In one of the future's in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', three different Sentinels overload Bishop with too much energy to absorb, causing him to explode into a fireball.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode featuring Bane, Batman defeats Bane by sabotaging his Venom pump, causing a massive overdose. This is repeated in two ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episodes: in one episode, "The Winning Edge", Bane's doctor adapts the venom formula into slap-on dermal patches, only to be defeated when Terry knocks him into an entire box of them (followed by an explosion to knock him out); in another episode, "Splicers", a scientist marketing LegoGenetics to create animal people [[OneWingedAngel turns himself into a chimera]] to fight Batman, only to be defeated when Batman doses him with even more of the stuff, causing him to go turn into a [[BodyHorror horrible blob monster]] that [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman can safely be blown apart on a Saturday morning cartoon]].

* The MagicTheGathering novel ''Time Spiral'', Radha uses this to defeat Greht. She breaks his hold on his horde, he gets it back by starting a ridiculously powerful spell, and Radha starts feeding him more mana. This doesn't end well for him.

* Played with in ''{{VideoGame/TAGAP}}''. Normally, the titular drug allows increased combat prowess and regenerative capabilities, at the cost of lower intelligence and higher vulnaribility to brainwashing; however, protagonist Pablo has been altered to resist the drug's drawbacks while keeping all the benefits. It's still possible for him to temporarily "overdose" on the pill, but this just results in a mild MushroomSamba and a very useful BulletTime.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' had an episode ("Too Short a Season") where an old diplomat takes his wife's share of age-reversing medication as well as his own.

* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "Last Supper", a scientist pursues an immortal woman to unlock the secret of eternal life. He injected a tiny bit of her blood into a rat, which was still alive decades later. As his age had caught up with him, he decided to attempt the same on himself. He drew a little too much blood, however, causing him to de-age into a pre-fetal puddle of human tissue.

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' [[McNinja Smoke Knights]] use [[PsychoSerum combat stimulants they call "MoveIt"]]. The highest level Violetta [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090211 dared to use on a wounded Tarvek]] was #6, which him run around as new...but as a side effect it made a person that's normally a [[MagnificentBastard subtle schemer]] act [[SuicidalOverconfidence suicidally "heroic"]]. And he didn't look pretty when this stuff wore out. Then [[spoiler:Zola]] drank a dose of #11. That level can be lethal for unprepared people as it is, so Violetta decided she'd have a better chance injecting [[spoiler:Zola]] with an overdose rather than trying any other poisons.

** ForgottenRealms had a few. Too many strong spells released at once tend to interact abnormally until they form one "spell-storm" on the scale up to FantasticNuke or overload and warp [[TheForce the Weave]] powering them. This way several civil wars among the Drow caused total destruction of their cities, supposedly including the creation of Great Rift -- geographical feature about 170 miles long and 1000 feet deep. [[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rl/20060628a Myth Drannor had]] large [[BiggerOnTheInside extradimensional pockets]] built too densely -- enough that they began to interfere, distort magic all around and compromised an originally impenetrable city-scale teleport denial ward -- which becomes Very Bad News during an attack by [[TheLegionsOfHell a whole army of fiends]].

* A gameplay example in the VideoGame/MetalSlug serie: being hit by certain substances will cause your character to transform into a mummy, zombie or ape, the latter two having some advantages (such as subverting OneHitPointWonder and being able to climb on railings). A second dose is however fatal.

* In ''TheWitcher'', you suffer poisoning when you drink potions. This prevents you from taking too many powerups at once. A justified trope since they ''are'' poisons, many of which are lethal to non-mutated humans, but not to the resistant [[SuperSoldiers Witchers]].

* On ''{{Hero 108}}'', Mystique Sonia can grow [[PowerUpFood magic bean buns]] that give the consumer super strength, but in the episode "Lion Castle" she ate too many and just ended up fat and out of shape.

%% * In one ''FantasyIsland'' a woman was given a potion to become beautiful for a time (an hour??) if she took one drop. Complications ensued and she was forcibly made to drink the whole bottle on the grounds that "if one drop is good the whole bottle is better!" She became a harridan.

* While the ''MetroidPrime'' series has the already ToxicPhlebotinum Phazon, ''Corruption'' gives Samus a way to harness it as [[SuperMode Hypermode]]. If Samus is exposed to large amounts of Phazon or she stays in Hypermode for too long, it overloads and she must dump all of the Phazon in the system or she will [[NonstandardGameOver turn into another]] [[EvilTwin Dark Samus]].

** ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': lowers Essence, losing too much causes death
** ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2020'': lowers Humanity, losing too much causes Cyberpsychosis

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' had an episode where an old diplomat takes his wife's share of age-reversing medication as well as his own.

* In one ''FantasyIsland'' a woman was given a potion to become beautiful for a time (an hour??) if she took one drop. Complications ensued and she was forcibly made to drink the whole bottle on the grounds that "if one drop is good the whole bottle is better!" She became a harridan.

* This is how the BigBad is defeated in the second {{Hoodwinked}} movie.

* Spoofed by [[http://www.theonion.com/content/news/sci_fi_writer_attributes this]] [[TheOnion Onion]] article.

* The MagicTheGathering novel Time Spiral, Radha uses this to defeat Greht. She breaks his hold on his horde, he gets if back by starting a ridiculously powerful spell, and Radha starts feeding him more mana. This doesn't end well for him.

* Pictured at the top is Bizarro from ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', who reacts in the opposite manner to kryptonite that Clark does. He gains strength from green kryptonite, which depowers and poisons Clark. When exposed to blue kryptonite, which strips Clark of his powers for as long as it's in contact, he gains a massive power boost and explodes.