History Main / PoisonedWeapons

* VideoGame/RuneScape'':

* Players in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' can create poisons to use on daggers, arrows, spears, and a few throwing weapons using the Herblore skill. There are three poisons, each stronger than the previous, and they're made from a herb and a dragon scale, a cactus spine and spider eggs, and poison ivy berries and belladonna respectively, from weakest to strongest. Belladonna is potent enough to strongly damage the player just when it's touched with bare hands.\\\
Additionally, a small octopus caught on a tropical island, and when somewhat heated it becomes as poisonous as the strongest poison - then it can be ground into a paste that can be applied to spears only, though. The reason of such a limitation? [[ObviousRulePatch There is no real one.]] Only the mentioned select few above weapons can be poisoned, too - many other bladed weapons can't be.

* [[KarmaMeter Possible]] hero example: [[Franchise/MassEffect Commander Shepard]] can equip his/her weapons with Polonium rounds (if you can handle enemies breaking down into [[NightmareFuel green vapor]] after death). Noticeably, polonium rounds are unavailable in the sequels due to them being banned by the [[FictionalGenevaConventions Citadel Conventions]].

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': In the episode "[[Recap/StargateAtlantisS02E15TheTower The Tower]]", Sheppard ends up with the EvilChancellor trying to kill him in the climax. When Sheppard disarms him, Otho is cut with his own poisoned dagger and dies in moments, after providing the quote up above.

** Another story involves an alleged case of vampirism, as a woman was caught sucking blood from the neck of her newborn baby. [[spoiler: There is no vampire, the baby was injured by a poisonous dart used by an Amazon tribe from a blowgun set hanging on the wall, and the mother was sucking the wound poison, she did not want to report the attack because the aggressor is the baby's teen half-brother.]]

* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': The villain of ''The Adventure of the Dying Detective'' is a doctor who has killed his nephew by surreptitiously injecting him with a deadly illness. He later on tries to do Holmes in the same way by sending him a package with secret spring-loaded, virus-tipped needles, but Holmes is able to see through his scheme. (Having a lot of enemies tends to make the detective overly cautious of the mail he receives.) Holmes pretends to be infected, and he soon manages to lure the evil doctor over to his apartment and trick him into a confession in front of witnesses.
** Another story involves an alleged case of vampirism, as a woman was caught sucking blood from the neck of her newborn baby. [[spoiler: There is no vampire, the baby was injured by a poisonous dart used by an Amazon tribe, and the mother was sucking the wound poison, she did not want to report the attack because the aggressor is the baby's teen half-brother brother.]]

* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', the Witch-King stabs Frodo with a Morgul-blade; not technically poisoned but with essentially the same effect. If Elrond hadn't cured him, a shard of the blade would have dug its way to his hear and turned him into a wraith. It's also mentioned in the books that orcs sometimes put poison on their blades.

* ''Series/NCIS''

* In ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', Gabrielle gets hit by a poisoned arrow. Xena has to look after her and find the antidote in time whilst fighting off an entire army.
* One episode of ''Series/GetSmart'' had some YellowPeril villain with long, poison coated fingernails. It probably best summarized that show, too, with him getting defeated because Agent 99 randomly had a bottled mosquito in her purse, which she used to get him to accidentally scratch himself upon swatting it.
* In ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' episode "[[Recap/StargateAtlantisS02E15TheTower The Tower]]", Sheppard ends up with the EvilChancellor trying to kill him in the climax. When Sheppard disarms him, Otho is cut with his own poisoned dagger and dies in moments, after providing the quote up above.

* [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Monroe]] uses an elephant gun with bullets coated in a special poison to take a [[OurOgresAreHungrier siegbarste]] in ''Series/{{Grimm}}''.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/TheHeroYoshihikoAndTheDevilKingsCastle'' where a random {{Mook|s}} [[LickingTheBlade licks]] ''[[http://i.imgur.com/G3qokFu.jpg his very own poisoned knife]]''. TooDumbToLive indeed.
* It's mentioned in ''Series/BabylonFive'' that the [[LizardFolk Drazi]] often poison their blade tips.
** Centauri actually have jeweled hypodermic needles. In other words, they treasure poisons the way humans treasure swords.
* In ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', darklighters are the only beings capable of killing whitelighters. They use arrows coated with a substance that is toxic only to whitelighters.
* In ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', Remy is shot by a Kromagg particle weapon. The wound isn't fatal, but the radiation poisoning that comes with being shot would have been had he not been healed by a friendly Kromagg half-breed.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has a futuristic variant. Dominion weapons carry an anti-coagulant with every shot. Anyone they don't kill bleeds to death unless they can get off the battlefield and to a doctor.

* Played with in ''Series/{{Norsemen}}''. It doesn't matter how deadly the poison on your sword is if you don't last long enough to touch your opponent.

* It's mentioned in ''Series/BabylonFive'' that the [[TheReptilians Drazi]] often poison their blade tips.

-->'''Creator/RobertEHoward''', ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' (''Black Colossus'')

* Taken UpToEleven with the God Warriors from ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', biomechanical HumongousMecha designed as [[NukeEm radiological weapons platforms]] to sterilize all industrialized nations in order to prevent GlobalWarming. Their main armament consists of what appears to be a Casaba Howitzer ([[WaveMotionGun a nuclear bomb whose blast is focused entirely in one direction]]) in their mouths, backed up by a pair of X-ray lasers in their foreheads. And the flashbacks depicting the apocalyptic war known as the Seven Days of Fire also show them carrying gigantic polearms made from naked fuel rods. It doesn't get much more poisonous than that.

* The main villain of the ''wuxia'' ''Film/TheIronBuddha'', Xiao Tian-zhun, uses a broadsword whose blade is coated with a seemingly endless supply of poison, which can maximize the suffering of his victims. Given Xiao being TheSadist, it's an appropriate choice for him.

** In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', poisoned weapons are used primarily by the more [[PoisonIsEvil evil races]] but are also a speciality of the close-as-you-get-to-good [[LizardFolk Lizardmen]].
** In the 5th Edition of ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'', models with the 'Weeping Dagger' Extraordinary Skill are armed with a hidden blade impregnated with [[GreenRocks warpstone]] that constantly drips a magical toxin that can incapacitate anyone. In-game, the Skill forces a Badly Hurt model that the player Blocked to miss the next game in League Play as they are recovering from the poisoning.

* Quite common in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', given that the protagonists are {{Ninja}}s: Sasori tips every weapon he has with poison (which is a lot of weapons), Shizune and one of Kankuro's puppets have poison needles, the Demon Brothers that Team 7 run into on the way to the Land of Waves used poison claws, Sakura once poisoned a kunai (and that she apparently learned to make it from Shizune), and [[PoisonousPerson Hanzo]] put some of his poison on his kusarigama.

* The [[OurElvesArebetter Dark Elves]] in ''Warlords Battlecry'' will use poisoned weapons.

->''"Tavius was right about one thing. I do have a fair knowledge of poisons."''
-->-- '''Otho''', ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', after [[HoistByHisOwnPetard getting nicked]] [[LastWords with his own knife]].

* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', the Witch-King stabs Frodo with a Morgul-blade. If Elrond hadn't cured him, the poison of the blade would have turned him into a wraith. It's also mentioned in the books that orcs sometimes put poison on their blades.