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* Early on in ''LightNovel/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'', [[TheHero Maple]] manages to defeat a poisonous three-headed dragon by abusing her absurd Vitality stat and gratuitous healing potion use to tank its poison breath until she gained AcquiredPoisonImmunity and then [[EatingTheEnemy eating it]] since she had no other attacks that could damage it. Defeating it this way gives her access to all its skills, including its poison breath, which she makes a staple in her repretoire since it doesn't rely on her abysmal other stats.

** Also, one of their RoguesGallery, Duke Nukem ([[NamesTheSame no, not]] [[VideoGame/DukeNukem that one]]) is a WalkingWasteland of radiation damage. His trusty sidekick has to wear a radiation suit just to be around him.

** Vishkanya, which come from the setting's India-analogue, are based upon the mythological Vish Kanya, only with mild reflavoring -- they come in both sexes, and they are a very subtle form of SnakePeople (snake-like eyes, serpentine forked tongues, and subtly scaled skin). One of their iconic racial class archetypes is the "Deadly Courtesan", a Rogue based on the FemmeFataleSpy archetype, which specializes in disguising itself as an entertainer or prostitute to spy, steal and slay with impunity.

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* Ophelia Landlufen in ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'' is an artificially created [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Genestella]] who generates a poisonous miasma around her, which she can use to fight. It's indicated that her powers are also slowly killing her due to PowerIncontinence.

** In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', Eternatus being part Poison is played up in comparison to ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' and ''Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries'' as it's able to use its poison to brainwash Henry Sword and gives several people like Nessa and even [[TheAce Leon]] a hard time in trying to recover from its poison, to the point where Henry (who's no longer affected by Eternatus's poison) and Casey and their friends have to find a special medicine to cure them.

** Pisces [[DudeLooksLikeALady Aphrodite]] of the original manga and anime had the stairs from his Temple to Athena's littered with thousands of his Royal Demon Roses, and their poisonous polen was able to knock out [[{{Determinator}} Seiya]], and would've likely killed him had it not been for Marin saving him.

* ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'', based on the novel ''Kouga Ninja Scrolls'', as was ''Anime/NinjaScroll'' below, also has a Kagerou with the same poisonous body. In this version, she is [[BrokenBird a tragic figure]] who is desperately in love with a man she can never have because [[DeathBySex consummating that love would kill him]] and he's the future clan chief, and she's forced to watch him fall in love and with [[StarCrossedLovers another woman from an enemy clan]]. And poor Kagerou ends up subjected to a BreakTheCutie process that's bad [[CrapsackWorld even by this VERY dark series's standards]]. [[MurderTheHypotenuse She doesn't handle it well.]] [[MurderSuicide Not well]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy at all]].

Not a PoisonousFriend (though giving a character both tropes would be all sorts of appropriate). Differs from MasterPoisoner in that the master poisoner knows his way around toxins, although the two can overlap if the Poisonous Person is sufficiently smart and well in control of their own toxins. See also WalkingWasteland, EnemyToAllLivingThings, TechnicolorToxin, BrownNoteBeing, {{Plaguemaster}}, and TyphoidMary.

This is one of those "powers" that [[WhyAmITicking are difficult to miss]] when they first manifest, sometimes resulting in a DeadLittleSister weighing on their conscience. Is it any wonder that they come to embrace BadPowersBadPeople and become villains? Of course [[PersonalityPowers they probably weren't nice to begin with]], since PoisonIsEvil. This kind of villain isn't just difficult to fight, but also ''very'' versatile in applying their power. They'll use the sweat from their brow to salt a field, fill darts with their poisonous tears, turn a bloody wound [[DefensiveFeintTrap into their enemy's demise]] by [[CombatSadomasochist cutting themselves]] to poison their blade. Some of them may even have [[PoisonIsCorrosive their poison be corrosive,]] [[HollywoodAcid if not throwing actual acidic stuff.]] Sometimes they may use [[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive poisoning]]. If their power is disease based, they make an excellent {{Plaguemaster}}. Or they might end up as a hapless TyphoidMary.

* ''VideoGame/{{Crimsonland}}'': This is one of the perks. It ''also'' has a [[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive variety]].

* ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'', based on the same ''Kouga Ninja Scrolls'' as ''Anime/NinjaScroll'' below, also has a Kagerou with the same poisonous body. In this version, she is [[BrokenBird a tragic figure]] who is desperately in love with a man she can never have because [[DeathBySex consummating that love would kill him]] and he's the future clan chief, and she's forced to watch him fall in love and with [[StarCrossedLovers another woman from an enemy clan]]. And poor Kagerou ends up subjected to a BreakTheCutie process that's bad [[CrapsackWorld even by this VERY dark series's standards]]. [[MurderTheHypotenuse She doesn't handle it well.]] [[MurderSuicide Not well]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy at all]].

* Wiki/TheOtherWiki has lists for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_venomous_animals venomous]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poisonous_animals poisonous]] organisms (no, they're not the same thing).

* In ''Literature/{{Tasakeru}},'' the skunk Death God Aconite was cursed with this for the [[ValuesDissonance heinous crime of]] [[spoiler:[[AllWomenAreDomsAllMenAreSubs not being sexually dominant]]]]. By her own sisters, no less. Ironically, this makes her the least toxic person in their mythology-including their nameless paramour, who went along with it.

** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter3Tri'': Gigginox is a strange-looking Flying Wyvern that inhabits the Tundra, and is the KingMook of the Giggi. During combat, it can either shoot projectiles imbued with poison, or emit a toxic mist around its body. Also, from the same organ where it deposits its Giggi eggs, it can excrete a sac made of poison that explodes after a while.

-->-- '''[[http://mspfa.com/?s=7068&p=128 Dawn Hopkins,]]''' ''{{WebComic/Chiasmata}}''

There are some people no one wants to be around, either due to [[SmugSnake smarminess]] or poor hygiene (or both!) they seem to ooze from every pore and make the air around them noxious, and anyone they touch will feel like immediately disinfecting the area. For the Poisonous Person, that is exactly the case. They are [[HarmfulToTouch lethal to touch]] because their body naturally produces [[UniversalPoison universally lethal toxins]], emits radiation or carries a host of dangerous diseases. Of course, ''they'' are [[TheImmune immune]] to these hazards, but not so everyone else.

* ''Manga/MusukoGaKawaikuteShikataganaiMazokuNoHahaoya'': Zeke's ability as a demon is to create a nonlethal poison that can prevent other demons from using their abilities. It makes him very valuable to C.A.T.T., a human organization that fought demons during the war and became something of a demon specialized police force in peace, but has hampered his ability to connect with other demons since his mere presence can prevent them from using their powers. [[spoiler: It's later revealed his poison was the basis for the Anti-Demonification gas that humans used to secure victory in the war]].

* Self-inflicted version in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': [[spoiler: the [[NoNameGiven unnamed Lady Doctor]] aka Yusuke's other ancestor. She was a "shaman cannibal" who willingly consumed the flesh of people who died of illness so her body would develop antibodies and eventual cures. This doubled as self-defense against human-devouring demons: if any demon had a piece of her, they'd die painfully and slowly since her flesh was ''ripe'' with disease.]]

* In ''Fanfic/{{The Games We Play|TheGamerRWBY}}'', later in the story Jaune has to fight [[spoiler: his father, who has been infected by Conquest, basically a Grimm virus who infects everything he touches. Conquest gets all the memories of the people he infects, as well as their body, which means their fighting style as well. Jaune's father uses bombs.]] Before fighting Conquest, Jaune's mother was holding him off. The readers lose sight of them for a few chapters but when we get back, Jaune's mother is nearly dead and missing limbs, not from Conquest's attacks, but from incinerating any part of her body touched by Conquest's attacks, keeping her from being infected.

* Naruto/Menma in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11227546/1/The-Forgotten-Doctor The Forgotten Doctor]]'' becomes a powerful poison-user through [[spoiler: discovering one of Orochimaru's abandoned labs after being abandoned by his family]]

* Also in ''A Prayer For The Dying'', by Steward O'Nan, [[spoiler: the sheriff (as well as the pastor and undertaker) of the town discovers that he is the one carrying the deadly plague to everyone. Disturbing for him, but maybe even more so for the reader who slowly learns that he has an uncomfortable obsession with death, and is a necrophile and cannibal.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Tasakeru}},'' the skunk Death God Aconite was cursed with this for the [[ValuesDissonance heinous crime of]] [[spoiler: [[AllWomenAreDomsAllMenAreSubs not being sexually dominant]]]]. By her own sisters, no less. Ironically, this makes her the least toxic person in their mythology-including their nameless paramour, who went along with it.

** For that matter, [[spoiler: Danny]] is a borderline example. His power was to essentially infect anyone around him with Promicin, which had a 50/50 chance of either giving them new abilities or killing them. [[spoiler: Eventually, Shawn has to kill him.]]

* In [[Creator/{{HBO}} HBO's]] Series/{{Chernobyl}}, the first responders and some of the surviving power plant workers become this due to the massive dosis of radiation they took after the reactor exploded and caught fire. In the Moscow hospital, firefighter Vasily Iganatenko is kept inside a plastic capsule so that [[BodyHorror his necrotic body]] won't contaminate the rest of the wing, when his wife goes inside the capsule so that he can caress her belly, which has their unborn child, one of the scientists investigating the disaster angrily berates her for exposing herself to such massive radiation. At the burial of the first responders, workers wearing heavy protective gear place the wooden caskets inside lead-lined steel canisters that are then welded shut, and they are then entombed beneath tons of concrete.

* ''Series/UchuuSentaiKyuranger'' has Stinger, HumanoidAlien from Scorpius System. He can poison people by stinging them with his scorpion tail. While his poison has not killed anyone [[spoiler: yet]], it incapacitates the person with pain and fever. Scorpio, Stinger's brother commonly uses a poison that makes anyone affected into a zombie, which then turns into Poisonous People themselves as they can spread the poison.

* ''Franchise/DragonAge'': The Darkspawn's very blood is poisonous and those who survive infection by its taint become thralls of the Darkspawn and the Old Gods that call to them. The Grey Wardens' Joining inoculates the survivors against the more immediate and nasty effects of the Taint; however, their version of the Taint still allows other Darkspawn to sense their presence, and in thirty or so years the Taint will overwhelm them anyway. The disease they spread affects wildlife and the environment as well leaving wastelands populated by blighted horrors in their wake. [[spoiler: In ''Awakening'', should you choose to spare a Darkspawn Messenger and give him a chance to prove his good intentions, he will end up accidentally infecting people with the blight while acting as a GoodSamaritan.]]

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter:

** There's also [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-811 SCP-811]], a swamp-dwelling woman whose containment procedures require anyone entering her enclosure to wear a full hazmat suit and for good reason: she is a walking biohazard. She secretes mucus from the palms of her hands and soles of her feet that [[PoisonIsCorrosive corrode organic tissue into black goo]] (which she then absorbs into her skin for nourishment), she [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomits]] black tar that contains various infectious bacteria, she gives off [[DeadlyGas large amounts of methane]], and surgery cannot be safely performed on her because it's impossible to maintain a sterile operating environment. Even her sweat is a "mild skin irritant".

Not a PoisonousFriend (though giving a character both tropes would be all sorts of appropriate). Differs from MasterPoisoner in that the master poisoner knows his way around toxins, although the two can overlap if the Poisonous Person is sufficiently smart and well in control of their own toxins. See also WalkingWasteland, EnemyToAllLivingThings, TechnicolorToxin, BrownNoteBeing, PlagueMaster, and TyphoidMary.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Askin's powers include being able to calculate the perfect lethal dosage of any substance and alter it at will, even making things that shouldn't be toxic, like a person's blood, lethal above a certain dosage. In other words ''he'' isn't a poisonous person, but ''can transform you into one''.

* The big schtick of Servant Assassin [[spoiler: aka Hassan of Serenity]] in Anime/FatePrototype. Her entire body is so toxic that merely ''touching'' her is an almost instant death to humans.

* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has Foul Ole Ron.... a homeless beggar so nasty that his smell alone can incapacitate werewolves. His stink has, over time, [[UpToEleven developed into a semi-independent life form]], probably more intelligent and certainly far more cultured than Ron himself. The stink has been known to leave Ron entirely to spend an evening in its reserved box at the opera.

* Albafica Pisces in ''Anime/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas''. And his mentor, Pisces Rugonis.
** Also, Specter Basilisk Sylphid.

* ''ComicBook/AnyaCorazon'' Issue #7: Lady Chi of Clan Fei, a [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] crimelord, has poisonous skin. Her father doesn't share the power but he is immune, making him the only person that can safely touch her.

** Plasmus, a ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' villain, looks like radioactive sludge and can [[ImMelting melt people]] [[TouchOfDeath with a touch]].

* ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'', based on the same ''Kouga Ninja Scrolls'' as ''Anime/NinjaScroll'' below, also has a Kagerou with the same poisonous body. In this version, she is [[BrokenBird a tragic figure]] who is desperately in love with a man she can never have because [[DeathBySex consummating that love would kill him]] and he's the future clan chief, and she's forced to watch him fall in love and with [[StarCrossedLovers another woman from an enemy clan]]. And not to mention, poor Kagerou ends up subjected to a BreakTheCutie process that's bad [[CrapsackWorld even by this VERY dark series's standards]]. [[MurderTheHypotenuse She doesn't handle it well.]] [[MurderSuicide Not well]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy at all]].

* {{Subverted|Trope}} with Muk in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. Despite being living poison, it pretty much smothers Ash every time they meet and is also seen smothering Professor Oak frequently, yet neither suffers after effects.

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' gives us Coco, one of the Four Kings, who has such an AcquiredPoisonImmunity that he can generate poison to fight enemies. He can even create new poisons should the need arise, although this takes a bit out of him. He starts out with just creating globs to throw, but as the series goes on he learns to fashion weapons, armor, even duplicates made of poison!

** The ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' villain the Wanderer's current abilities seem to stem from a horrifying combination of a latent healing ability with what was almost a horribly painful death from multiple Brazilian wandering spider bites. Skin contact with her is near instantaneously fatal, and she considers killing and finding challenging targets to be just about the only thing she enjoys.

*** The expansion pass for [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Sword]] introduces Klara, a girl who values being cute and popular, but hides a calculating mind behind her frilly exterior.

** Hell, just about ''every single Pokemon'' can qualify due to being able to learn Toxic via TM, which is the only move besides Poison Fang to inflict the badly poisoned status. Not to forget, the first-listed Pokémon in the National [=PokéDex=] is the Bulbasaur line, who are ''Grass/Poison-type dinosaurs''!