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17->''"You swim in that, you'll be the soup in no time flat! Boneless, too!"''
18-->-- '''Yomi''', ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}''
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20The pool filled with HollywoodAcid is the go-to DeathTrap for any MadScientist that doesn't have access to a LavaPit - usually bubbling a [[TechnicolorScience sickly green color]], it will melt the flesh off your bones and leave nothing but a bleached skeleton, if that. Can be used both for moats near precarious bridges and lowering heroes into. Acid pools are generally treated as green variants of the LavaPit and used in a similar manner as obstacles or execution methods.
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22Highly impractical in RealLife due to the nature of acid, particularly if bubbling. Acid is often produced when highly corrosive positive ions are dissolved in water, and they are quite capable of escaping, particularly if in high enough concentrations as to remove flesh from the bone. These remain corrosive and are quite likely to harm anyone nearby, almost like a chemical variant of ConvectionSchmonvection.
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24Strong acid is also extremely poisonous to breathe, so the air would be fatal long before its first victim could fall into it, unless it was from a substantial height; and even then it would have a substantial stench even from a great distance, which would drive anyone away if they had a choice.
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26The counterpart on the opposite end of the [=pH=] scale is the pool of lye, which shows up typically in industrial vat form.
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28May overlap in video games with GrimyWater. See also SharkPool. Not to be confused with the band ''Music/AcidBath''.
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35* ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'': Amazeey slowly lowers Pian and Mr. Jamie, both blindfolded, tied-up, and upside-down, towards a pool of acid that replaces the gym's stage. Mechamato must get through Amazeey's Athletic Agony challenge in a minute to rescue them.
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39* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/Acid_Trap_Hole Acid Trap Hole.]] The artwork depicts a knight plummeting to his death in a green bubbling liquid.
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43* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
44** In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler: Joker tries to drop Harley Quinn in one. She escapes, and Joker almost falls into it himself]]!
45** Earlier, in ''Batman'' #451 Joker II, a sadistic but rational psychopath, decides to attempt to drive himself insane by diving into the Ace Chemical vats where the original Joker went through. To Batman's horror and a quick chuckle from Joker, whatever is in there has been switched to a ''significantly'' more corrosive formula.
46* The futuristic version of Lexcorp Tower following the Y2K storyline in ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics has one, as described in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #765. The chairs in the conference room all have {{Trap Door}}s leading to it.
47* ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'': One of the many {{Booby Trap}}s [[Creator/DonRosa Scrooge McDuck]] has to protect his money bin is an acid pool.
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51* In ''Fanfic/AndIfThatDontWork'', Matarael (the acid dripping, a-joke-in-canon Angel) actually got to the pilot's entry plug and turned it into an acid bath.
52* ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'' has one of these in Gothmarik Citadel, at the center of which is a treasure chest on a pedestal. Paul, [[NighInvulnerable immune to the acid]], easily fetches it, but everyone else wonders why the golem-making guy who's inhabiting the place didn't send one of his {{Golem}}s to safely retrieve it. Oh, and it stinks, too, making everyone else cough and retreat from it.
53* ''Fanfic/SonicManiaTheNovelization'': In the Chemical Plant, Eggman captures Tails and Knuckles and suspends them over a tank of acidic Mega Mack, forcing Sonic to beat him in a game of [[VideoGame/DoctorRobotniksMeanBeanMachine Mean Bean Machine]] to save them.
54* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': The khenra barbarians force Haara to jump into a highly-acidic hot springs to retrieve a gem they lost.
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58* Shows up in the inside of Unicron in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie''. A few unlucky Transformers are even thrown in!
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62* The Pacific Ocean in ''Film/AlienNation'' served this purpose for the aliens, and the climax, due to their BizarreAlienBiology.
63* Professor Zero's lair in the old spy film, ''Film/TheBrainStealers'', contains a pool of acid under a mechanized trapdoor which dissolves victims [[StrippedToTheBone to the bones]] within seconds. Firstly used to dispose of a henchwoman who disobeyed his orders, and later in the final battle Zero's henchman, Peter ends up in the same pool while struggling against the heroes.
64* Creator/ChristopherLee's Frankenstein Monster dies by falling into one in ''Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein''.
65* Paul Kersey's final kill in ''Film/DeathWishVTheFaceOfDeath'' (and his final kill of the series in general) has him shoving mob boss Tommy O'Shea into a vat of acid.
66* In ''Film/HorrorsOfTheBlackMuseum'', Bancroft keeps a vat of HollywoodAcid in his laboratory for disposing of the bodies of pesky snoopers who come too close to uncovering his secrets.
67* In the Creator/VincentPrice movie ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959'', the house had an acid pit in the basement. (But it was OK because there was a lid on it.)
68* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife''. PandorasBox floats in a bubbling black pool of concentrated acid.
69* In the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', BigBad Safin has a "farm" of the deadly bio-technological virus Heracles in his base. The liquid in said farm is acidic enough for the workers to wear {{hazmat suit}}s, and the body of a {{mook|s}} as well as the film's resident [[MoreDespicableMinion despicable]] MadScientist get a deadly bath in it.
70* In ''Film/ScreamAndScreamAgain'', Dr. Browning keeps a vat of extraordinarily powerful HollywoodAcid in a barn on his property that he uses to dispose of samples from his experiments. Keith commits suicide by jumping into it. Later, [[spoiler:Dr. Browning kills Konratz by pushing him into it. Fremont then kills Browning the same way]].
71* Shirley's death in ''Film/SlaughterHigh''. She [[StrippedToTheBone melts to the bone]] in a bathtub filled with HollywoodAcid.
72* ''Film/WebOfDeath'' have the lairs of the Venoms Clan, which, true to their names, are surrounded by moats of acids, their interiors accessible only through platforms from under the acid pool's surface (activated by hitting a lever, which raises them). In one lengthy fight scene, a few unfortunate mooks get knocked into the pool and dissolve into mist instantly.
73* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Toons are known for their durability, [[AmusingInjuries shaking off any kind of injuries.]] But [[BigBad Doom]] invented a concoction called 'Dip', and is the only known way to [[KilledOffForReal permanently]] kill a Toon. Makes sense when you realize it's made of turpentine, acetone, and benzene; solvents used to clean cels.
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77* When ''Literature/AbleTeam'' are first briefed on Neo-Nazi CorruptCorporateExecutive Unomondo (the closest thing that series had to a reoccurring BigBad) they're told how one of his accountants who turned state's evidence got a big set of pictures -- his wife and children being lowered one inch at a time, one picture at a time, into tubs of acid. The man killed himself the next day.
78* Subverted in the sci-fi story ''Acid Bath'' by Vaseleos Garson. Hostile alien robots capture our hero and force him to drink corrosive substances; as they're made of metal, this turns out to be water.
79* ''Literature/BabylonBabies''. Russian mobster Gorsky captures a laboratory and uses the threat of this to force a scientist to work for them. His colleagues end up in the bath anyway once he's done the required work, though by that stage the scientist is not inclined to disobey.
80* ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'': The criminal mastermind Lakington has a secret room in his house containing a large bath and a collection of corrosive substances to fill it with. He is first seen using it to dispose of an inconvenient body without leaving any identifiable traces and later threatens to dump the hero in it still living. He ends up being pushed into the acid bath himself.
81* In the ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' book ''The Worst Day of Your Life,'' the protagonist/reader, while wearing handcuffs, comes across a toxic swamp that is a dumping ground for nuclear waste. If they try to use the acid to get rid of their handcuffs, the fumes make them dizzy when they get too close. They fall into the swamp and are dissolved alive.
82-->It's not a bad way to go. There's no pain. There's no time to scream. And seconds later, there's no you.
83* ''Literature/JediApprentice:'' One book features natural pools that have been polluted to the extent that they can dissolve an adult human in moments. Naturally, nobody has any problems ''breathing'' around them and only discover the danger after a piece of cloth accidentally falls in when one character leans directly over.
84* One of the ''Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt'' novels includes an acid pool just sitting around in the Underdark. Because the Underdark is [[EverythingTryingToKillYou just nasty that way.]]
85* In the first of the Literature/GereonRath novels, a crime boss expecting a shipment of gold smuggled out of Russian just gets three tank-wagons of hydrochloric acid and another of nitric acid. He speculates that when combined the acid was meant to dissolve the gold so it could be smuggled. [[spoiler:Turns out the gold is lining the inside of the tank-wagons, which he only discovers after a stray bullet breaks a valve and causes a DirtyCop to be sprayed with the contents.]]
86* ''Nomads of Literature/{{Gor}}'' had a pool that was alive, and digested its victims.
87* In ''A Study in Murder'' by Robert Ryan, prisoners in [=WW1=] German POW camp are paying huge bribes to escape. Their deaths are faked, and a coffin with a hinged bottom is lowered into a grave connected to a disused gold-mining tunnel. [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Dr. Watson]] suspects the escapees are actually being murdered, and sure enough finds two members of the Escape Committee pushing a large tub of sulphuric acid (used for gold extraction) under the shaft where the escapee is supposed to drop out of his coffin.
88* ''Literature/WisePhuul:'' The Imperial Capital, Kuolinako, uses a Death Pool of corrosive acid for executions. The fumes are such that the victims are provided with gas masks so they don't die before they hit the pool.
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92* In ''Series/BreakingBad'', Walter White instructed Jesse to dispose of a body using one of these. He specifically told him to get a plastic barrel that is resistant to the type of acid they'll use, but this part is then ignored and the acid and body are simply dumped in a bathtub. However, Jesse got the material of the bathtub all wrong, and the acid ate right through the bathtub and the floor that it stood on.
93-->'''Walter White''': [[DeadpanSnarker I'm sorry, what were you asking me?]] Oh, yes, that stupid plastic container I asked you to buy. You see, hydrofluoric acid won't eat through plastic. It will, however, dissolve metal, rock, glass, ''ceramic''. So there's that.
94* In ''Series/CSIMiami'', a guy falls into a pool filled with sodium hydroxide. Technically a base, rather than an acid, but for dramatic purposes the effect is the same.
95* Used in Irathient funerals in ''Series/{{Defiance}}'', [[spoiler: Sukar gets back up after his "corpse" is lowered into one.]]
96* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
97** The Sixth Doctor story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance of Varos]]" gained instant notoriety for a scene in which the Doctor is fighting a pair of mooks and (accidentally, though it's hard to see the way it was filmed and cut) tips one of them into a bubbling acid pool, only to watch in horror as the mook he knocked in ''grabs the other mook and pulls him in too''.
98** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown Boom Town]]", it's mentioned that the Raxacoricofallapatorians use this as an execution method: criminals are lowered into a vat of acetic acid (their WeaksauceWeakness), which is balanced specifically to be just barely strong enough to dissolve the skin [[CruelAndUnusualDeath while keeping the victim alive for an extended period of time]].
99* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. In "The Maltese Crichton", after being [[TakenForGranite turned into a statue]] John Crichton is [[LiterallyShatteredLives decapitated]] by a VillainOfTheWeek, who then dumps his head into a pool of foundry acid. Fortunately, the statue was meant to survive 80 cycles of airborne corrosion--someone fishes out the head before there's any lasting damage, reassembles John, and de-petrifies him. In order to lure Crichton out the villain then kidnaps Chiana and has her BoundAndGagged above the acid pool. He suffers a lampshaded KarmicDeath when he's thrown into the pool instead.
100* ''Series/KamenRiderV3'': Marshall Armor tried to eliminate his rival Joji Yuki with one of these, but the scientists loyal to Yuki intervened and saved his life. Unfortunately, his right arm had already been destroyed by the acid by the time they got to him, so they ended up making him a [[ArtificialLimbs mechanical replacement]].
101* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/KungFu1972'', where young Kwai-Chang is ordered by Master Po to cross a plank over an acid pit full of human skeletons, and blind Master Po demonstrates by walking across it himself. Kwai-Chang obeys and walks across the plank, but falls into the pit halfway across -- only to find that it's only full of warm water, and the skeletons were made of paper; the "test" was simply a lesson to teach him that "fear is like a magnet" that pulls a man in its direction.
102* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' a vampire-specific one is created by simply scattering vervain into the water. Any vampire that entered it would have their powers drained, then their skin burn.
103* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': [[TheMafia The Ferrelli Crime Family]] in Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E14SaturdayNight Saturday Night]]" uses this method of torture against anyone who refuses to do business with them. A bookie named Ollie Olmedo becomes its first victim during the prologue of the episode, but became the third victim of the pool that month overall, Trivette nearly ends up in it while disguised as a pimp named Luther while the real Luther flees Dallas to Miami (lucky thing one of the enforcers, Eddie Coburn, doesn’t know what Luther looks like, and much to Trivette’s chagrin, his gun was dropped in it), and a possible fourth victim overall nearly ends up taking an acid bath until he is rescued by Gage and Sydney and Eddie Coburn is arrested, but he refuses to talk.
104* ''Series/TheWildWildWest'': The villain of "The Night of the Bubbling Death" has stolen the original Constitution of the United States and hides it in his labyrinthic ElaborateUndergroundBase. The last obstacle before the room he's put the precious document in is a long corridor the bottom of which is a pool filled with boiling red acid. James West uses a gadget zipline conceived by Artemus Gordon to cross it the second time (for his first time there, he was brought there {{blindfolded|Trip}} using a removable bridge) to retrieve the Constitution. As expected, the villain dies by falling in the pool.
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108* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
109** Adventures have had a lot of these over the years. For example, [=WG5=] ''Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure'' had an Acid Pool so concentrated that anyone jumping in would be instantly killed.
110** Third edition averts the "harmless fumes" -- if you approach a large vat of acid, you can suffer constitution damage from inhaling the toxic mist.
111* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Tyranids use "digestion pools" to absorb the biomass of planets, as well as their no longer needed forces.
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115* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'':
116** There's a villain (a Makuta named Gorast) who has the title "Queen of the Acid Falls," so apparently there is an entire ''river'' of acid running through her domain.
117** [[SentientPhlebotinum Energized protodermis]] comes into contact with it means either you mutate in a random (and not necessarily helpful) fashion or you swiftly disintegrate in a painful manner.
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121* Plenty of acid drains show up in the later levels of ''VideoGame/AkujiTheHeartless'', where the titular hero must jump on floating platforms to cross. Falling into the acid will drain Akuji's life away until he finds a way out, or else he gets dissolved when his life is washed away by the acid and must respawn from the previous checkpoint.
122* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'': Luminous green pools of acid are frequent in Grunty Industries. The one on the second floor merely make Banjo and Kazooie jump in pain, but the ones in the basement will bounce them back to the bank at their border (this happens to prevent either character from using damage boost to get the Jiggies that are intended to be collected with later worlds' abilities).
123* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'':
124** At the beginning of the Giant Statue stage, this acid pool will form under the ground tiles Lance is standing on, and if you wait too long, they will wobble and collapse under his weight and cause him to ''fall in and drown!''
125** There is also another acid pool in the fountain, and he will fall in if he can't find something to grab onto, like a gargoyle statue. He will also fall into the same pool in other death scenes.
126* The fourth ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'' game, ''Secret of the Oracle'', has two vats of this in the first level, and they show up sporadically throughout. Glowing green goo variety.
127* In ''Videogame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough'', the body of [[spoiler:Rachel Priest]] is found floating in a pool full of acid inside of an underground laboratory, having been dissolved to the bone after being murdered with a deadly experiment.
128* ''Videogame/{{Deltarune}}:'' The Queen's castle in Chapter 2 has some massive pits of (battery) acid, that you thankfully cannot fall into but still need a special pedalo and bridges to cross. Part of why the Queen's doing this is because she herself drinks battery acid like it's wine and greatly enjoys it, so this has measures of ConspicuousConsumption.
129* All over the place in ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'', in addition to {{lava|IsBoilingKoolAid}}. There are lab coats that give Doomguy full protection against them, but only for a limited time.
130* In ''VideoGame/{{Gyossait}}'', these appear as purple pools that will even kill enemies if they fall in (though they have to be completely onscreen in order to die).
131* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' - Norman Jayden can investigate one and find a skeleton floating in it.
132* In ''VideoGame/HeroesRise'', this is how [[spoiler: the Meek finally manage to kill Miss Artillery.]]
133* Generate randomly underground on planet Xeno in ''VideoGame/{{JunkJack}}''. A favorite of many multiplayer users for making death traps to kill other players.
134* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has one just before the goal in the Sith academy exam.
135* Several are littered throughout Acid Man's level in ''VideoGame/MegaMan11''. Certain enemies can turn the water so corrosive that Mega Man will take damage trying to swim in it.
136* ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'' for the MSX had acid pools that could be neutralized with chocolate.
137* Several of the areas in ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' (for example, Brinstar in the [[VideoGame/{{Metroid1}} original game]]) have acid pools which only damage Samus should she fall in. Perhaps justified because of her PoweredArmor.
138* ''VideoGame/MegaMan11'' has Acid Man's stage. There are pools of liquid that get progressively more acidic until they become harmful to Mega Man.
139* In ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'', Guybrush and Wally are [[UnwillingSuspension unwillingly suspended]] above a pool of acid while caught in [=LeChuck=]'s DeathTrap.
140* The Dead Pool in the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series, which you can knock your opponent into [[FinishingMove at the end of a match]], or to end a round by RingOut in ''Deception''.
141* The liquid pits in several areas in ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
142* Acid pools appear in World 2 fortress in ''VideoGame/{{Purple}}''.
143* ''[[VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}} Scribblenauts Unmasked]]'', Maxwell is threatened with one of these by Doppleganger and Scarecrow in the Arkham Asylum level.
144* Appears instead of lava pools in some particularly nasty places in ''VideoGame/SeveranceBladeOfDarkness''.
145* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsSkateboarding'': One of the locations in Itchy and Scratchy Land is called the "Acid Bath," a ramp suspended over a pool of green liquid representing acid.
146* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'':
147** The cave in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestITheSarienEncounter'' has a pool of acid with a few stupid actions you can take that result in Roger's death. Fortunately, messing around with this pool is entirely optional.
148** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIVohaulsRevenge'', there's a {{death trap}} in Vohaul's SpaceBase where the door locks and the floor slowly retracts to drop you into an acid pit.
149* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManVsTheKingpin'', Mary Jane is kidnapped mid-game and hung over one of these and the player has to defeat the Kingpin before she's killed. Leading to two ([[TheHeroDies three]] in the Sega CD version) endings depending on if you saved her.
150* Acid pools are plentiful in ''VideoGame/SplosionMan''.
151* [[BigBad The Sorceress]] from ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' is killed when she falls into a pit of purple acid.
152* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'':
153** The [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Brinstar]] level in the series is set over a gigantic pool of acid that periodically rises up to singe anyone who's too slow to retreat to higher ground. However, you generally can't sink into it. Instead you'll take damage and bounce off the surface (which can be fatal at higher damage percentages, especially in 64).
154** The [[WombLevel Master Fortress]] form of Master Core in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Smash Bros. for the Wii U]]'' is filled with these, and they're actually one of only two things in there that can cost you a life; the other being the acid-oozing walls. Touching either at 100% or higher results in an instant KO, though getting hit even at low percentages can be deadly due to the potential for you to get bounced between the pools and walls repeatedly like a ping-pong ball.
155* The LevelEditor in some installments of the ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'' series allows the player to put down pools of acid as they please. They function the same as water or lava pits, counting as an out-of-bounds/bail zone.
156* These appear in ''[[VideoGame/TriOfFriendshipAndMadness TRI: Of Friendship and Madness]]'', and they're instant death if you fall into them. Particularly jarring as nothing else in the chapters could kill you before.
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160* Early in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', Garland and Evil Princess Sara capture the Light Warriors and attempt to dunk them in a vat of acid. [[spoiler:It's actually Mountain Dew.]]
161* ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'': Hitlerella once tried getting rid of Wonderella with a cauldron full of an acid that will dissolve anything, even the super-durable Wonderella. The acid ends up eating through the cauldron and spills onto Hitlerella's rug, then continues through the floor.
162* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' had [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0541.html that little incident with O-chul]] getting dunked into an acid pool with spikes at the bottom and [[SharkPool an acid-breathing shark swimming in it]]. Interestingly, the D&D 3.5 supplement [=DungeonScape=] actually includes rules for an acid-breathing shark. (The comic's author, Rich Burlew, was co-author of [=DungeonScape=]).
163-->'''Demon cockroach #1:''' Is that an acid-breathing shark?!?\
164'''Demon cockroach #2:''' Yeah. [[SelfDeprecation They'll let any old hack write a sourcebook these days.]]
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168* ''Roleplay/WarrensOfOricTheAwesome'' has an acid pit. [[spoiler:Riltia falls in, and Al throws Wilford in for no reason.]]
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172* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
173** In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE51TheManWhoKilledBatman The Man Who Killed Batman]]", the Joker lowers Sid the Squid into one while locked in a casket. Batman saves him by opening the drain before it melts all the way through.
174** In "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE20BatgirlReturns Batgirl Returns]]", Batgirl and Catwoman are captured by Roland Daggett and taken near acid vats. One of them asks if they'll drop them in the acid, but he replies he'll [[NoNonsenseNemesis just shoot them]] and use the vats to [[DisposingOfABody dispose of their bodies]].
175* In the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'', titled "Revelations, Part 2", Duke knocks [[BigBad Cobra]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Commander]] into a pool of acid and escapes with his team before [[CollapsingLair the entire mansion]] [[LoadBearingBoss explodes]]. [[spoiler: TheStinger reveals that Cobra Commander had survived, however, and he vows revenge on the Joes.]]
176* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': PlayedForLaughs when [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] dunks [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]] into a tub of HollywoodAcid in the episode "Let's Play Prince Charming", which promptly dissolves half of his body.
177* In the episode “OK A.U.!” of ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'', [[RobotMe K-0]] is cleaning [[RobotMaster Lord Boxman’s]] vat of acid when his arm gets splashed (melting it beyond use).
178* The episode "Cop Out" of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' involves a corrupt ex-cop who captures them and tries to drop them in an acid pool. The good cops show up in time but aren't quite able to rescue them because they hit the wrong button. Fortunately, the girls turn out to be [[NighInvulnerability acid-proof]].
179* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': "The Vat of Acid Episode" obviously features one of these. However, the eponymous vat of acid is actually fake. It's a vat of a harmless green liquid implied to be Mountain Dew, with a breathing apparatus to make sure whoever falls in can stay in there until any witnesses are convinced of their death, and a supply of bones to help sell the illusion, as well as a laser for destroying any ladles that enter the vat to test its acidity. [[spoiler:A member of the SWAT Team is convinced he's acid-proof near the end of the episode after being splashed by the fake acid. In TheStinger, he goes on ''Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson'' (which was still on the air in that dimension) with a real vat of acid, lowering himself into it with [[TooDumbToLive predictable results.]]]]
180* In ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'' special "Truman X: Super Villain" Truman accurately predicts that Glowface will slowly lower the family into a vat of acid filled with robot [[SharkPool sharks]].
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184* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_solution "piranha solution"]] is made of a 3:1 ratio of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide. This mixture, plus some heat, will dissolve virtually any organic material and turn it into carbon gas. Eventually the acid will even run clear as long as it's heated and mixed. Not even bones will remain after it's been dissolved for long enough. [[https://youtu.be/CTVd_WxblGI Such as this chicken leg]].
185* John George Haigh, the "Acid Bath Killer", disposed of his victims' bodies by dumping them into acid. He also makes an appearance in ''VideoGame/ClockTower3'' as Corroder, the second Subordinate you fight.
186* Large-scale livestock farms often have large bodies of liquid known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_lagoon anaerobic lagoons]], which are used to store animal excrement. These lagoons are extremely toxic, and falling in one is pretty much instant death.
187* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit The Berkeley Pit]], an abandoned open-pit copper mine in Butte, Montana.
188* The water filling the crater at the summit of [[https://youtu.be/UOUN2hXvn6Y Kawah Ijen in Indonesia]].
189* Similarly, the water in some of the hot springs in and around Yellowstone National Park is easily capable of dissolving anyone unfortunate enough to fall in. (Or [[TooDumbToLive dumb enough]] to deliberately try taking a dip).
190* The Islamic State terrorist group reportedly [[http://sostrenews.com/mosul-iraq-isis-kills-25-prisoners-by-lowering-them-into-vat-of-acid/ executed 25 accused spies by lowering them into a vat of nitric acid]].
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