Line #16 LethalChef/WebComics


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12	* Two appear in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''. There was the restaurant with biscuits made out of "solid goddamned lead," and then came Red Mage's shoe sandwiches:
13	-->'''Red Mage:''' ''And'' they didn't kill us! You guys never thanked me for that.
14	* In the older archives for the webcomic ''Webcomic/AbsurdNotions'' the horror of the dining hall is only hinted at, but the author's notes go into great detail. Suffice it to say that their spaghetti sauce was ''legally actionable.''
15	* Pat from ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}'' may not be a completely lethal chef, but the vegan meals he serves to the other characters aren't all that tasty, either. In one strip, he offers them some of his homemade chocolate-covered cherries -- which turn out to be stewed prunes covered in carob. For this injustice, Todd shanks him in the leg with a toothpick.
16	* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfPudding'' features a [[http://siapudding.blogspot.com/2007/09/baking-song.html collective effort]]. There's always someone...
17	* ''Webcomic/AllOverTheHouse'' regularly features the unfortunate results of Tesrin's attempts to cook.%%, such as in [[http://www.alloverthehouse.net/?p=53 this strip]] and [[http://www.alloverthehouse.net/?p=66 this strip]].
18	%%* The [[http://www.bogleech.com/awfulhospital/124 Harmburger]] of Webcomic/AwfulHospital.
19	* In ''WebComic/BatmanWayneFamilyAdventures'', Damian tells Duke that Bruce is the only person banned from the kitchen by Alfred, implying the same terrible cooking skills Bruce has over in the Comic Book section still applies here. Indeed, a later comic has Bruce trying to cook by himself while talking to Clark on the phone and promptly burns the food.
20	-->'''Clark:''' Now I see why you have a lifetime ban.\
21	'''Bruce:''' I don't want to talk about it.
22	** In a later strip ([[Recap/BatmanWayneFamilyAdventuresEpisode102BadDay "Bad Day"]]), Bruce and other Bat-Family members, unable to do their usual patrols due to injuries, make food for a sick Alfred. Turns out when Bruce pays as much attention to cooking as he does crimefighting he's pretty good.
23	* Elliot of ''Webcomic/BloodStain'' temporarily works at a bakery as one of the many jobs she tries to hold. Her creations turn out incredibly crusty and ashy -- and it's implied that's why she is fired. Her older sister gives the single upside that she didn't have to fear food poisoning for the next week due to the charcoal.
24	* ''Webcomic/{{Bruno}}'' had the title character staying in an isolated house with the writer Stanley, who managed to ruin everything he cooked for her. Subverted at the end of the storyline, where he reveals that he's an excellent cook; he initially made inedible food because he wanted to be left alone, and kept doing it because Bruno's reaction was so hilarious.
25	* In ''Webcomic/ChampionsOfFaraus'' the goddess Leilusa is shown through her off-panel dialogue to be this after basically becoming the [[spoiler: ''second'']] ParentalSubstitute for a young Will alongside the god Hyperion. She needs Will to check the food she made for him, as she can't remember if what she put in will ''poison him or not'', and personally admits that ''she has no clue what she is doing''.
26	* This trope was a RunningGag for the college strip ''Webcomic/TheClassMenagerie'', with the dorm cafeteria food being a frequent target. Scott and Kevin managed to bribe RulesLawyer and RA Dani with junk food just by pointing out the crappy menu for the evening (Okra Surprise). Another strip had the cast being forced to literally fight their dinner when the beef stew turned out to be so undercooked it was still putting up a fight.
27	%%** Tony is also this trope, though due to his clumsiness and being very absentminded rather than actual incompetence.
28	* ''Webcomic/CollegeRoomiesFromHell'' Marsha is a {{webcomic}} lethal chef, causing stomachs to be pumped and a single bite from one of her cakes sending someone to the hospital. Mike doesn't dare say anything, suspecting (correctly) that she'd dump him for it; her roommates openly complain and go to great lengths to keep her away from the kitchen, but she seems to think this is just spite. This is partly because her father is a master chef; she insists that being a good cook is in her blood.
29	* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', Mab's brownies are repeatedly mentioned to be "the stuff of nightmares" and haunt the dreams of Jyrras even years after trying them. She also has the apparent ability to make ovens explode just by trying to use them, but that might be an [[WalkingTechbane usual reaction between Faes and technology]], according to some filler strips...
30	* ''Webcomic/DeanNalaVinny'': Nala makes oatmeal cookies for Dean, claiming they will help him cycle better to Thailand. Vinny has his doubts, based on ingredients: Irn-Bru[[note]]Scottish carbonated soft drink[[/note]], marmalade, and heather sprigs with a scoop of Scotch broth:
31	-->'''Nala:''' These cookies will remind him of his [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} home]]...\
32	'''Vinny:''' ...and why he left it.
33	* Two examples from ''Webcomic/DorkTower'':
34	** One three-part story featured an "Series/IronChef Ramen Noodle" cook-off between [[TheLoonie Igor]] and [[IAmNotWeasel Carson the muskrat]]. Carson's entry consisted of flavouring and generic tofu dogs, and prompted the question "This used to be organic?" from the judges. [[spoiler: He wins anyway, despite Igor's entry being "like tasting clouds" because his entry reminds the judges of college dorm food -- "The best years of our lives!"]]
35	** Earlier Igor purposefully invoked this trope with his [[http://www.dorktower.com/2005/01/05/comics-archive-634/ Igor Bars]]
36	* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', Chirinide attempts to cook a bird for her faithful bodyguard Shan'naal. She fails to realize that you have to pluck and gut the bird ''before'' you put it in the oven. She also tries to start said (non-magical) oven with an enormous [[PlayingWithFire fireball]]. Tur'geis says he'd eat it anyway, and Ariel actually remarks it smells ''good''. This leads Nuru'lara to conclude that Sarghress-born have no taste.
37	* ''Webcomic/ErikaAndThePrincesInDistress'':
38	** Pita is a terrible, terrible cook. The very first recipe of hers that she has Erika try out is a cookie made from [[IAteWhat larvae, horse placenta, tree moss, and crushed toenails clippings]]. Her favourite dish also happens to be mud soup. Of course, you shouldn't ever point it out to her [[BerserkButton if you value your life]].
39	** The book-exclusive chapter of Volume 1 shows that Pita's father shares her awful sense of cooking, and reveals that they developed it mostly as a result of [[spoiler:not being able to afford ''actual'' food due to being poor]].
40	* ''Webcomic/EvilPlanTheWebcomic'': Problem: Little sister Kristen's food kills. Solution: Elder, mad scientist brother Stanley uses it to kill his foes. By filling a vat with it and dropping them in.
41	* Webcomic/{{Evon}} tends to burn anything she tries to cook over a campfire, her "stew" was closer to a black sludge. However, she's pretty good on a stove.
42	* Early in ''Webcomic/ExploitationNow'', Bimbo made some clam chowder that was not only inedible but, when flushed down the toilet, summoned an EldritchAbomination that destroyed her apartment building.
43	* ''Webcomic/FireEmblemHeroesADayInTheLife'': In "[[https://fire-emblem-heroes.com/en/manga/part/index.html#part210217 Forging Bonds: Mortal Soup]]", [[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem the Krises]] bring their extremely bad cooking skills with them. After their previous attempt almost killed Fjorm, they try to make soup, but it turns out to not even be a liquid. Hel is not amused and threatens to kill the Krises, while the Death Knight of all people actually ''enjoys'' the awful cooking, as he says the soup is "death itself".
44	* ''Webcomic/FoxesInLove'': Green is apparently a terrible chef.
45	** [[https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/182316800705/happy-birthday-sweetie His attempt at baking Blue a birthday cake]] looks more like a rock. At least Green is aware that it's not edible and doesn't take offense when Blue declines eating it.
46	---> '''Blue''': Is that a dead spider?\
47	'''Green''': I'm bad at baking, too.\
48	'''Blue''': Do you mind if I don't eat it?\
49	'''Green''': No, I like you alive.
50	** When the foxes get an air quality meter, they notice that it skips over red and turns [[BrokeTheRatingScale purple with a picture of a gas mask]] whenever Green is cooking.
51	* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' has several:
52	** Helix takes OvenLogic to the extreme. Since cooking is just the application of heat and pressure, [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00017.htm he cooks with explosions.]]
53	** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00217.htm The Golden Trough]] is an all-you-can-eat restaurant staffed by lethal chefs who cook with low-quality ingredients in an unhygienic and poorly ventilated environment. Parents take their children there as punishment. [[BizarreTasteInFood Sam just takes it as a challenge]].
54	--->'''Florence:''' Sam, that ''cockroach'' just nibbled your food and ''died''.
55	--->'''Sam:''' Ha! Survival of the fittest!
56	** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2200/fc02131.htm The Mayor's mom]] was a demolitions engineer, not a baker. Her attempt at pancakes is never shown, but it gave the mayor shrapnel wounds.
57	* Maurice Kinski from ''[[http://www.agameoffools.com A Game of Fools]]'', with an emphasis on the lethal part.
58	* In ''[[http://gingerdead.com/ GingerDead and Friends]]'', Ennui/Lenoir is a Lethal Chef less because she's bad at cooking (she doesn't appear to be), and more because she forgets that living people don't usually ''like'' poison in their food (she is quite probably [[NotUsingTheZWord dead]], and the poisons don't affect her anyway).
59	* Several characters in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' seem to fit this trope.
60	** Moloch's cooking is so bad that a fellow inmate claims that she would rather eat his engines -- he only has the job because the job goes to the newest guy since no one wants to stay in the evil sentient kitchen built for a ''literal'' Lethal Chef.
61	** Theo mixes Gilgamesh a drink that actually causes him to stop breathing for a time (though this might have more to do with Theo preferring his liquor to be 200 proof or higher, based on dialogue).
62	** Gil himself apparently has made a drink out of toothpaste and hedgehogs (that's actually quite good).
63	** Oddly enough, Agatha seems to be a lethally ''good'' cook -- at one point she makes a cup of coffee so "perfect" that more or less put the drinkers into stoned euphoria. Also referenced when Agatha first enters Castle Heterodyne, where [[TheAlcatraz all of the Empire's worst criminals are sent]]. When asked what she's in for, she replies "I poisoned 37 people who complained about my cooking" in order to avoid kitchen duty (it doesn't work).
64	** Zola, if we'll believe Gil:
65	--->'''Agatha''': ''She uses poison?!''\
66	'''Gil''': Well, ''I'' always thought she just ''couldn't make coffee''. But ''now'' I'm ''not so sure''.
67	* In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', [[UnaffectedBySpice Sydney Scoville]] proposes to showoff her "[[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-364-they-like-us-the-mostly-really-like-us/ mean weapons grade spaghetti sauce]]" for a TV show:
68	-->'''Maxima''': Hands up, everyone. Who wants to see Creator/KellyRipa burn her face off on Sydney's cooking? ''(all hands go up)''
69	* Merv from ''Webcomic/HeadDoctorProductions'' makes food with magic. The problem isn't so much the taste or edibility of his meals as their tendency to bleed, or to be possessed, or to open up [[{{Hellgate}} portals into the minds of disturbed people.]] Yum.
70	* In ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', Keane is driven to recreate the taste of food in heaven, despite not remembering it clearly or really knowing how to duplicate it with mortal ingredients. His experiments are so unsuccessful that he orders pizza before he starts, to save time.
71	* In ''Webcomic/JupiterMen'', Bea brings carrot cake to Arrio's birthday party. Said cake is unevenly iced, has raw carrots sticking out of it, and carrot skin shavings all around it as sprinkles. Arrio is visibly unnerved by it and his dad assures him that he has a store-bought cake in the fridge. According to the author, Bea has always struggled to cook well, which is likely why she's often shown buying takeout for the twins.
72	* Ana from ''Webcomic/{{Kurami}}'' is this. In [[https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/t31.0-8/12094769_792666447506451_3713600113315212322_o.jpg one strip]] she [[EpicFail somehow]] manages to burn a cake ''before baking it''.
73	-->'''Ana''': [[{{Understatement}} The cake will be a little delayed.]]
74	* Buckaress in ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'' takes this to a bizarre extreme. Whenever she cooks, whatever she cooks spontaneously combusts. Including boiling water and (untoasted) ham sandwiches. She can trigger this by removing pickles from a sandwich ''someone else'' made. She can trigger this by ''walking past'' someone who is cooking. This has even happened when a person who is cooking ''talks about her'' while she isn't anywhere near the kitchen in question. Fans of the comic have speculated that Buckaress has some kind of food-based pyrokinesis.
75	* Megaman in ''Webcomic/{{Megamanspritecomic}}'' has deadly cooking skills when it comes to making b-ball pasta. He first [[http://megamanspritecomic.tumblr.com/post/15186795662/megaman-makes-the-first-steps-on-the-path-to-a causes his brother Zero to choke to death on it]], then later ''weaponizes'' his lack of chef skills in [[http://megamanspritecomic.tumblr.com/post/15187268115/megaman-sabotages-zeros-only-chance-at-love this strip]].
76	* In ''Webcomic/MSFHigh'' there are at least two, Alouette and Lana. While their food may technically be edible, it tends to become alive and hunger for flesh.
77	* Two examples from ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'':
78	** Professor Madblood does not know the first thing about cooking. His rice-a-Roni contains jagged metal.
79	** Mell and Artie in A Brief Moment of Culture (first part): Not only does their yoghurt rise up and try to eat them, but apparently they burned it.
80	* ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'': Piffany is [[SupremeChef an inversion]], and is so good at baking that ''cosmic war can be averted by giving the gods her brownie recipe''. Yeagar, on the other hand...
81	-->'''Artax:''' Don't touch that! It's a deadly mould!\
82	'''Yeagar:''' How do you know ''that''?\
83	'''Artax:''' It looks like your cooking!
84	* Ma-ri and her entire family in ''Webcomic/OrangeMarmalade'' are this with any food outside of pork, justified because they're vampires who can't eat anything besides pork.
85	* ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'' has Pauline. One such instance involved a dead bird Angelika was going to throw in Julie's tent as a prank and the other involved 'things that are like Chicken' and 'things that are like vegetables.'
86	* In the MegaCrossover {{Fan Webcomic\|s}} ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' [[Theatre/LesMiserables Javert's]] mother [[spoiler: [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Morgan the Healer]]]]. Her pies rival [[Film/{{SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet}} Mrs. Lovett's]]. Worst pies in London? Worst. Pies. In. FRANCE! This 'verse (so the SpinOff s ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'' and ''Webcomic/DownTheStreet'' included) also has [[Film/{{SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet}} Mrs. Lovett]], who actually [[OneNoteCook isn't as lethal]] as her reputation makes her out to be, and [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Christine Daae]], who couldn't bake an edible cookie if her life depended on it.
87	%%* For ''Blog/SliceOfLife,'' since it is set in a bakery, everypony falls prey to this trope sooner or later.
88	* Crystal from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' is apparently a lethal ''bartender''. There's her infamous "Survivor Nights" (in which her patrons vote off her various alcoholic concoctions from the menu), and the fact she's created drinks such as Prince Charles (tastes like ear) and Cheeseburger Margarita ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]]).
89	* Peejee from ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''. At one point Davan is teaching her to make a cake, and while talking on the phone to his mom, says, "I gotta go, Peejee finally took something out of the oven that isn't on fire."
90	* Anne in ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' apparently has a [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20021129.html reputation]] among her roommates for having horrendous cooking skills, her homemade wine is [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20011207.html particularly dangerous]].
91	* In ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'', Mikkel is the CampCook. In order to extend the group's rations during the first adventure, he is implied to have dissolved fat from candles in the stew. In protest at the cooking, another character drops a whole dead squirrel in the pot. Mikkel pulls it out, shrugs, and puts it back in.
92	* [[http://www.stationv3.com/d/20030511.html The Chef]] on ''Webcomic/StationV3'' "is an expert in the preparation of what can loosely be termed 'food' on a good day."
93	* Ace from ''Webcomic/TooMuchInformation2005'' is in all other ways TheAce, but he likes hot food. ''Really'' hot food. As in, puts hot sauce on his pancakes. His housemates won't let him share in the cooking duties. Anything he fixes is bright red from all the hot sauce and is edible only to him and some kittens with black holes for digestive systems.
94	* Yeon from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' has only cooked for the team once. When she wanted to try again for Viole's sake, the rest of the team tried their best to dissuade her, a dark background of doom appeared, and [[TokenMiniMoe Miseng]] even started to cry.
95	* Richard "Vinci" Nicolaides, half of the titular couple of ''Webcomic/VinciAndArty'', at one point made cookies that got mistaken for fish when the character had a {{crossover}} with another [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Furry Webcomic]], ''[[http://www.doemain.com A Doemain of Our Own]]'' (ended). However, it's later suggested that he can make edible food if provided with a recipe in his native Greek.
96	* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'': Sandy describes Swampy's cooking "...But it shouldn't actually be lethal." [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3380.html 3380]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3381.html 3381]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3382.html 3382]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3383.html Clearly Swampy doesn't belong in the Kitchen]].
97	* Esper Girl in comic #37 of ''Webcomic/YuGiOhCardGameGustoFanComic''. Cooking a Worm's corpse over a campfire created a noxious odor in the Gusto Swamp-lands.

Context LethalChef / WebComics