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| 14 | In films, on TV, and in comic books, an "acid" is any liquid that can eat away at and completely dissolve skin and muscle, [[StrippedToTheBone leaving only bone]] and sometimes not even that. Even stronger "acids" will dissolve steel, glass (which doesn't react with acids[[note]]there's one exception, but it's complicated[[/note]]), plastics (which also don't react with acids, most of the time), concrete (ditto), and ultimately everything it comes into contact with... except whatever container it is stored in. Such liquids are almost always either a [[TechnicolorScience bright green or sickly yellow]] color. They bubble and fizz on the counter or floor when you spill them, give off visible, smoky fumes (which [[FridgeLogic never seem to be harmful in their own right]][[note]]DontTryThisAtHome. Fumes are perhaps the most dangerous thing about real-world acids, since they're hard to contain, and don't tend to get along with the lungs.[[/note]]), and they never dissipate. If a drop of acid eats through the floor, it will continue to eat through things on the next level down, and so on. There are even some video games where puddles of this stuff can move around and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou try to kill you]]. |
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| 16 | This stuff will usually be referred to as either "acid", "toxic waste", "poison", or simply "chemicals", unless it's given some [[{{Technobabble}} highly scientific]] name at its introduction, after which it will simply be called one of the names above. Don't expect to ever see bases used in the same role as acids, despite being equally dangerous in reality (perhaps they just don't [[RuleOfCool sound as cool]]). If it's ''glowing'' rather than giving off fumes, you're probably looking at TechnicolorToxin, which will otherwise [[PoisonIsCorrosive behave exactly the same]]. Expect it to show up at least once in any work involving a MadScientist. If this stuff is ever spilled on a person or other living creature, say hello to the NightmareFuel. |
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| 18 | A {{subtrope}} of HollywoodScience. Compare AcidAttack, PoisonIsCorrosive, and AcidPool (when this is applied to a DeathTrap). Has nothing to do with those [[MarijuanaIsLSD other]] [[DisneyAcidSequence kinds]] of acid. Compare BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce, which is almost always PlayedForLaughs. |
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| 22 | !!Examples: |
| 23 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 25 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 26 | * A gout medication ad features a man walking around with a giant flask of fluid, which shrinks to illustrate how his uric acid levels fall once he tries the medicine. Uric acid is colorless in solution or yellow when crystallized, yet the flask's contents are a sickly greenish hue. If you don't pay attention it appears that he has quite a love for his homemade Mt Dew. This may also be related to BlueLiquidAbsorbent in the sense that bodily fluids actually colored like bodily fluids seem to be a no-no in ads. |
| 27 | * A straighter version from the ''Some Days are Bloodier than Others'' PublicServiceAnnouncement series involves a health inspector who accidentally dumps a bottle of cleaner in her face, which eats big fuckoff holes in it. While bathroom cleaner can be caustic, you've usually got a minute or so to wash up before you develop chemical burns. She forgets all her training and tries to wipe it off with Kleenex instead of washing, too, which of course exacerbates the problem (and elicits a fresh round of [[HellIsThatNoise screeching]]). |
| 28 | [[/folder]] |
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| 30 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 31 | * In ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'', the Thousand Arms Buddha statue carries a vial full of acid corrosive enough to completely liquefy a person in the blink of an eye, ''[[OhCrap even if he's wearing the protective Gantz suit]]''. [[spoiler: This actually worked to the hunters' advantage, as it was the acid spilled by Sei Sakuraoka that eventually disabled the Buddha statue's regenerative ability. (Although this didn't happen until Kei Kishimoto, among others, had met their fate because of the same acid.)]] |
| 32 | * In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Mina Ashido has [[AcidAttack the ability to generate acid of this type from her body]]. Fortunately, she has the ability to control the corrosiveness and viscosity. |
| 33 | [[/folder]] |
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| 35 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 36 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' loves this stuff; it's used to kill the villain in the very first story, ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsNumber27'', and is the source of Harvey Dent's scars as Two-Face. The most popular origin for the Joker is also that he fell in a tank of acid and came out with his skin bleached, and [[TraumaCongaLine insane]]. In one issue, Batman counteracts the Joker's acid [[ArtisticLicenseChemistry by spraying the target with a strong base]]. Realistically, mixing a strong acid and a strong base together would result in a violently exothermic reaction. |
| 37 | * {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'': while the title character makes strong use of some unspecified acid, it simply acts like a ''real'' acid, if a powerful one. The closest it gets to Hollywood Acid is when Diabolik breaks out the more powerful acids, but even these act realistically and, like the usual ones, have encountered metal safes that are unaffected ([[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome a natural consequence of the presence of a thief who makes heavy use of acids]]). |
| 38 | * Three ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' stories by Creator/DonRosa involved a liquid called "The Universal Solvent" that compresses the atoms of anything it comes in contact with, turning all matter into a superdense powder, with one important exception: diamond. This of course means that the solvent has to be kept in a jar carved from diamond and can only be handled with tools coated in diamond dust. In real life, [[PhilosophersStone unless you're an alchemist]], the term "Universal Solvent" usually refers to ''water''. Of course, since it destroys absolutely everything except diamond, including ''other'' acids, it's more like ThePowerOfTheVoid. Also, it has limitless potency, making it a WeaponOfMassDestruction as well: the problem in the first story it's featured in is caused by Scrooge spilling it all on the ground in front of the Money Bin. The Universal Solvent immediately proceeds to eat a path to the center of the Earth, where it could potentially destroy the entire planet. |
| 39 | * ''ComicBook/ManThing'' is scary enough for the unwary as a shambling plant monster, but the fact that he secretes a deadly corrosive when he encounters fear scares the hell out of people who know about him too. |
| 40 | * In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' comic, after the tribbles are reintroduced to the future; the cast finds that the creatures produce a "universal solvent" which somehow eats through ''force fields''. It takes about a panel for a character to ask what they could store it in. |
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| 43 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 44 | * ''Fanfic/BeingFemale'' manages to use water as this. At one point, various heroes are trapped in [[RonTheDeathEater Ron Raper]]'s lair, and are rescued by a reformed Barty Crouch Junior, who melts the bars on a window by using what is referred to as "the dangerous chemical dihydrogen monoxide". |
| 45 | * In ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'', Atropos (Taylor with a souped-up Path to Victory that lets her know how to end anything) kills [[spoiler: Lung]] by inserting a couple of capsules containing fluoroantimonic acid (possibly the closest thing to this trope in RealLife) into his brain and chest, letting his regeneration break them open so the acid can react with his body water. [[{{Understatement}} The results aren't pretty.]] |
| 46 | * ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'': Gniders, the [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant spiders]] that live in Irk's wilderness, have ''drool'' that's a potent enough acid that it can eat through Irken body armor in seconds. |
| 47 | * ''Fanfic/TheNextFrontier'' briefly talks about chlorine trifluoride, which [[VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram the Kerbals]] briefly investigated as a potential oxidiser in their rockets before giving up on it as just too damn dangerous. The description of their experiences with it was taken directly from the source of the quote in the RealLife section below. |
| 48 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', "corrosive" elemental guns carry the trope as per the game. Furthermore, an army of clones is constructed that utilize this to avoid being used by {{Parasite Zombie}}s -- if infected, the clone simply dissolves while [[ImMelting leaving nothing behind]]. |
| 49 | * In ''Fanfic/IronTouch'', [[MusicalThemeNaming Bad Sneakers]] secretes this from its feet. It's even strong enough to damage Out of Touch's cannons, something that no other Stand is shown to be capable of. |
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| 52 | [[folder:Film -- Animated]] |
| 53 | * ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'': TheAlcoholic mouse politician Honest John is seen sloshing around a trail of alcohol from his glass as he gesticulates drunkenly. This alcohol is so strong that it ''burns holes in the floor'' where it lands, yet seems to have no lasting effect on Honest John other than ''moderate'' drunkenness. |
| 54 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' features an AcidPool that is ''so'' powerful that it dissolves a transformer in a few seconds. |
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| 57 | [[folder:Film -- Live Action]] |
| 58 | * Subverted in ''Film/AIsForAcid'', based on the life of serial killer John George Haigh, who dissolved his victims' bodies in acid. The process of destroying the bodies is shown to take a long period of time with Haigh checking back on the acid's progress until the bodies are completely destroyed. A number of miscellaneous body parts are later discovered to have not been completely destroyed, leading to Haigh's arrest. Also, as the movie progresses and Haigh becomes more confident in what he is doing, he is shown to take further precautions such as wearing a gas mask. |
| 59 | * ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'': |
| 60 | ** Xenomorph blood is made of a "concentrated molecular acid" (sic) that can eat through a starship's hull but not through the body of the xenomorph itself, due to their being SiliconBasedLife. In the first film, this is to explain [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim why the crew doesn't just shoot the alien]] given as they are out in deep space. It seems to have less effect on human flesh when convenient. In ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', Private Hudson gets some splashed on his arm when Corporal Hicks shoots a xenomorph in the head at point-blank range, causing little more than painful burns. Drake isn't so lucky when Vasquez attempts to shoot a xenomorph off of him. Its potency freaks ''everyone'' out; one character makes noises about "[[{{Technobabble}} molecular acid]]" in ''Film/{{Alien}}'', and an executive speaks of "concentrated acid" in a patronizing manner in the second -- they're saying, "Umm... acid '''isn't''' supposed to '''''do''''' that!" |
| 61 | ** ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator'' and ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'' are inconsistent with the lethality of xenomorph blood. A hunter's arm is seared off by a splash of facehugger blood, and another unfortunate human has his skull melted by a blast of xenomorph blood to the face. However, the first film also presents it as mild enough to use for body scarification. This is actually a nod to the previous ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' fluff, where the predators are said to have antacid blood that neutralizes the xenomorphs' acid blood. It damages their skin but stops once it reaches their blood. Also, in ''Requiem'', the predator carries vials of a blue substance that can dissolve even xenomorph bodies, which it uses to dispose of xenomorph corpses. |
| 62 | ** Expanded material posits the theory that the acidic blood in a Xenomorph is similar to the acid in a battery. Essentially, the Xenomorph runs off of energy that is generated by chemical reactions within their bodies, meaning that they don't need sustenance or respiration. This could also explain why various castes of Xenomorph can remain dormant for long periods of time, such as the Ovomorph. |
| 63 | * The 1957 film ''Film/TheAstoundingSheMonster'' has the protagonists (such as they are) use acid to burn away the alien's spacesuit, killing it instantly. |
| 64 | * The 1985 B-grade horror flick ''Film/AttackOfTheBeastCreatures'' features a whole ''river'' made of acid, which coincidentally looks exactly like normal water. When one person tries to cross it, his body gets dissolved until only the skeleton remains. It's never made clear how such a large body of highly corrosive acid came to exist, nor how the tropical rainforest on the river bank manages to prosper. |
| 65 | * ''Film/Batman1989'': The goop that Jack Napier falls into is astroturf-green and has the consistency of a milkshake. It's later casually described as "acid". Later in the same film, the Joker's trick flower squirts acid strong enough to eat through thick metal in seconds (when he sprays it on the bolts holding up the church bell). |
| 66 | * ''Film/BlackMask'' has a bunch, including a scene where the titular protagonist causes a jeep to crash into a vat of acid causing the liquid to rain everywhere and melting a bunch of mooks, and a BoobyTrap activated by some unlucky agents resulting in acid coming through sprinklers turning their skin into green ooze. |
| 67 | * ''Film/TheBlob1988'': The Blob's body secretes digestive enzymes able to completely dissolve any organic matter in seconds, leaving no bodies behind. A drop of its slime falls on a wooden table and almost instantly eats a smoking hole through it (in reality, they did in fact use real acid for the scene, but the table was a piece of styrofoam painted to look like wood). For perspective, the nastiest acids in existence such as hydrofluoric acid or piranha solution would take at least hours to dissolve through human flesh, and even longer to get through the bone. |
| 68 | * ''Film/{{Cube}}'' has one of the characters meet his end when a trap splashes acid in his face. |
| 69 | * ''Film/DantesPeak'': Subverted. A lake of volcanic sulfuric acid takes several minutes to cause a metal boat to start leaking and eat away the prop. Played straight when the grandmother jumps in the water and is severely burned with a relatively short exposure to it, though that is justified as sulfuric acid really does burn flesh a lot faster than it does fiberglass. |
| 70 | * ''Film/TheDayOfTheTriffids'' treats [[KillItWithWater sea water]] as this. Although it's only used to dissolve the triffids and win the day, the big warning sign next to a hose saying "Sea water -- highly corrosive" suggests that the writers really believed sea water acts this way on everything. |
| 71 | * ''Film/DeepRising'' features giant worms with stomach acids so strong that they get their nutrition by merely engulfing and digesting their prey alive. The acting effects of this are shown in one particularly gory sequence appropriately known as [[CruelAndUnusualDeath "half-digested Billy"]]. |
| 72 | * In ''Film/TheEroticRitesOfFrankenstein'', Inspector Tanner throws a carboy of sulfuric acid over the reanimated Dr. Frankenstein. It is so powerful that it dissolves his hands off at the wrists. |
| 73 | * In ''Film/EscapeRoom2017'', [[spoiler:Conrad and Tabby]] are killed by an acidic gas that causes their flesh to dissolve. Amazingly, they do not even notice till their flesh starts to slough off. |
| 74 | * ''Film/TheFly1986'': Seth Brundle uses his stomach acid both to externally digest food and, in one stomach-turning scene, as a weapon. It's actually specified as containing digestive enzymes. |
| 75 | * ''Film/Funhouse2020'': For breaking the rules and trying to escape, Furcas murders [[spoiler:Dex]] by forcing him to bathe in fluoroantimonic acid. While [=H2FSbF6=] is indeed the most corrosive superacid that can be created on Earth, it's also so exothermic that it would be highly impractical as a murder weapon. |
| 76 | * In ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'', there is a bit with a beaker of acid labeled "Acid: Do Not Throw In Face". One gremlin throws it in the face of another, who then assumes a ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''-esque mask and cape. |
| 77 | * In ''Film/HorrorsOfTheBlackMuseum'', Bancroft disposes of Dr. Ballan's body by lowering it into a vat of acid that strips the flesh from the bones in a matter of seconds. |
| 78 | * ''Film/HospitalMassacre'': A janitor is killed by having his head dunked in a sink that was randomly full of acid (or some kind of corrosive chemical). |
| 79 | * ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959'': The titular house has a tank full of acid in the basement as big as a swimming pool, still caustic enough to reduce human bodies to skeletons. |
| 80 | * ''Film/{{Innerspace}}'': ''Stomach acid'' serves as this trope in the final battle, [[spoiler:when Tuck Pendleton drops his pod into Jack Putter's stomach with [[TheDragon Mr. Igoe]] clinging to the side. The pod survives; [[StrippedToTheBone Mr. Igoe doesn't]]]]. |
| 81 | * In ''Film/{{Mindhunters}}'', a quantity of acid small enough to be concealed undetectably in a cigarette is sufficient to kill the FBI trainee who smokes it. While her death might be reasonable under the circumstances, her entire body emitting vapor from, at most, a few mL of acid isn't, nor is the dropped cigarette melting its way into the ground beneath it. |
| 82 | * ''Film/TheMummy1999'': This fate befalls some nameless extras, although the acid burns them rather than dissolving their skin. Rick even identifies the substance as "Salt acid. Pressurized salt acid." ("Salt acid" is the period-authentic name for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrochloric_acid Hydrochloric acid]].) |
| 83 | * In ''Film/MurdersInTheRueMorgue1971'', Marot's [[FacialHorror face was destroyed]] by acid in a NotSoFakePropWeapon incident, and he later uses similar acid as his murder weapon. |
| 84 | * ''Film/PacificRim'': [[{{Kaiju}} Otachi]] can spit a corrosive blue acid that makes short work of any type of metal, which it uses to [[spoiler:help kill the Russian jaeger]]. |
| 85 | * In ''Film/{{Phantasm}} II'', the Tall Man is killed when the fluid he uses to reanimate corpses is tainted with hydrochloric acid and then injected into him, melting him from the inside out. If that wasn't improbable enough to bother all of you chemists, this somehow causes his [[EyeScream eyeballs to explode]]. This may be justified, as the Tall Man's physiology is alien. |
| 86 | * In ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', one of the zombies gets blinded by a faceful of nitric acid, which audibly ''sizzles'' on contact with dead flesh. |
| 87 | * ''Film/RichieRich'': The {{Technobabble}} version is used when Richie and his estate's GadgeteerGenius use a thick, foamy white experimental corrosive, "hydrochloric dioxic nucleic carbodium", disguised as a tube of toothpaste to help break Cadbury, his {{b|attleButler}}utler, out of jail. |
| 88 | * ''Film/RoboCop1987'': Boddicker's henchman Emil attempts to crush Murphy with his car, only to miss Murphy and drive straight into a tank full of corrosive toxic waste. He survives, [[BodyHorror but is severely agonizing due to his skin having eroded]], and is later killed when run over by another bad guy anyway. |
| 89 | * In ''Film/TheRock'', VX nerve gas is shown to be a corrosive acid. Crosses over with PoisonIsCorrosive. |
| 90 | * Averted in ''Film/{{Runaway}}'', in which the acid sprayed by the insectoid robots causes ugly black burns on the hero's skin rather than dissolving his tissues. |
| 91 | * ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': |
| 92 | ** In the infamous "Angel Trap" scene of ''Film/SawIII'', Kerry has one minute to grab a key (which, contrary to Jigsaw's warning, never actually dissolves) inside a beaker of highly corrosive acid and free herself from a harness before it tears open her ribcage. By the time she finally retrieves said key, her hand is horribly mangled and the acid is dark red. [[spoiler:What makes the scene even scarier is that the key actually doesn't free her, so she still dies.]] |
| 93 | ** The acid in ''Film/SawVI'', which dissolves a man from the inside out in about ten seconds. While the victim was injected with a large carboy full of hydrofluoric acid, which is '''extremely''' corrosive and can also cause cardiac arrest by interfering with calcium levels in the blood, it would not take effect nearly that quickly or be quite so dramatic. |
| 94 | * In ''Film/ScreamAndScreamAgain'', Dr. Browning keeps a vat of extraordinarily powerful acid 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]]. |
| 95 | * In ''Film/SeedOfChucky'', Pete dies when Glen accidentally scares him, causing him to back up into a shelf in his red room, sending photo-developing chemicals crashing down on him and melting his face. It's even more egregious in that the photo-developing process uses very weak acids, most commonly citric acid or diluted vinegar. No chemicals used in small-scale photography are corrosive (although some can be quite toxic). |
| 96 | * ''Film/{{Signs}}'': [[WeaksauceWeakness Ordinary water]] acts like this to the aliens. |
| 97 | * ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': Silva reveals that he's missing part of his jaw and palate, the result of biting a defective [[CyanidePill hydrogen cyanide pill]]. Hydrogen cyanide doesn't produce that effect, but the writers may have assumed otherwise from its alternate name: prussic acid. |
| 98 | * ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'': Harley Quinn jumps onto a vat of goop labeled "acid". In a subversion, it only causes minor damage (most notably the skin bleach that also happened to the Joker). |
| 99 | * ''Film/SupermanIII'' features "beltric acid", which becomes super-corrosive if it heated up far enough. It ends up as a ChekhovsGun in the final fight against the rogue computer. There's also a completely unguarded pit filled with some kind of roiling acid present at the junkyard battle, seemingly [[RuleOfCool just because]]. |
| 100 | * In ''Manga/{{Tomie}}: Replay'', Tomie pushes Yumi, the protagonist, out of the wheelchair she's in onto a floor covered in acid. |
| 101 | * In ''Film/{{Vlog}}'', the killer disposes of Brandon's body by dissolving his body in hydrochloric acid in his bathtub. |
| 102 | * The DIP in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' acts like Hollywood Acid, though it only works on Toons. It's essentially made of the solution used to clean cels (which is to say, it's a blend of powerful paint thinners), but it still is colored green and is constantly steaming. |
| 103 | * In the 1986 film version of ''Series/WhoopsApocalypse'', Foreign Secretary Lipman and Defence Secretary Sumpter attempt to assassinate insane British Prime Minister Sir Mortimer Chris with, "Concentrated trioxalic acid - dissolves solid steel in 15 seconds." |
| 104 | * ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}'': The torture chair in El Nebuloso's dungeon is surrounded by a moat of acid that instantaneously dissolves flesh and bone. |
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| 107 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 108 | * A chemistry student explains to his professor: ''I have invented a universal acid which will dissolve just anything -- glass, metal, plastics, anything!'' The professor answers: ''Very well. Now where are you going to store it?'' |
| 109 | [[/folder]] |
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| 111 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 112 | * In the Creator/HPLovecraft[=/=] C.M. Eddy collaborative story "Ashes" has a professor with a bottle of clear colorless liquid that he uses to dissolve a few animals into a white ash. He claims that it reduces anything it touches (aside from glass) into a fine ash. Later in the story, the professor attempts one last test on a human, only to be dissolved in the same fashion. |
| 113 | * In Creator/KurdLasswitz' ''Auf zwei Planeten'', the Martian airships are protected by being encased in Nihilite, a substance that simply dissolves anything shot at them. This can also be used offensively, e. g. when a Martian ship rams the biggest British battleship. A chemical process is involved, as during the Battle of Portsmouth the Martian airships take breaks to replenish their stocks of Nihilite from supply vessels. |
| 114 | * In ''Literature/BulldogDrummond'', the villain Lakington has invented a mixture of corrosive chemicals that can completely dissolve a human body in minutes. He is first seen using it to dispose of an inconvenient corpse and later threatens to dip the hero in it without killing him first. |
| 115 | * Creator/AlanDeanFoster's [[Literature/HumanxCommonwealth Flinx]] novels feature Pip, a minidrag that spits an extremely powerful acid that's also [[PoisonIsCorrosive an extremely potent neurotoxin]]. The acid eats through flesh in seconds, getting the toxin into the victim's bloodstream for a swift, painful death. |
| 116 | * ''Literature/{{Ghoul}}'': One of the murder victims is disposed of in a bathtub full of sulphuric acid, leaving only the victim's gallstones behind (for some reason). This is possibly a reference to John Haigh, a real-life killer that used acid to dispose of bodies and who was only tied to the murder of one suspect because of the few bodily parts not even the strongest acid can dissolve: teeth and gallstones. |
| 117 | * In the novel of ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'', one of the Temple of Pandora's boobytraps is a tripwire that spills a substance so powerful that it turns the room into a ''sinkhole''. The fumes also burn Kratos on contact. |
| 118 | * ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': Seithr oil, primarily used by the Ra'zac. Usually a harmless liquid used to preserve pearls, but with the application of BloodMagic it will eat through living or recently dead organic material. However, the most unique quality is leaving inorganic material (such as its own containers) unharmed, making it useful for assassinations. It's also highly explosive, as it was used to blow Garrow's farmhouse apart and kill several villagers when the Ra'zac attacked Carvahall in ''Eldest''. |
| 119 | * In ''Literature/{{Middlegame}}'' by Creator/SeananMcGuire, the {{alchem|yIsMagic}}ical "universal solvent" alkahest quickly dissolves effectively anything it touches, other than a specially prepared receptacle, including even ''abstract concepts''. [[spoiler:It melts a {{Super Tough|ness}} {{Golem}} in seconds.]] |
| 120 | * In "Literature/NoNeedForACore", magic powers many forms of acids/corrosives, including certain draconic breath weapons. |
| 121 | * ''Literature/ThePowerOfFive'': In ''Raven's Gate'', TheDragon is pushed into a tub of incredibly concentrated liquid boric acid at a nuclear power plant. By the end of her ordeal, there is nothing left of her. |
| 122 | * ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'': An inversion occurs in ''A Darkness at Sethanon'' -- the Tsurani Empire's homeworld has very little metal, so they have had to find other means of torture, which consist of using caustic ''bases'' to blister the skin, not acid. |
| 123 | * In ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'', a character stages a [[GreatEscape prison break]] with an acid that dissolves precise lines through the metal ceiling of the cell like a cutting torch. He does warn the inmate not to touch the edges of the hole on the way up, though. |
| 124 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': |
| 125 | ** In ''Literature/NewJediOrder'', the Jedi-hunting ''voxyn'' beasts can vomit acid (which is, unusually, not depicted as stereotypical acid, but rather mucus that happens to be strong enough to [[BodyHorror burn through faces]]), and their blood is [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill both acidic and a neurotoxin]]. |
| 126 | ** ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: The Doomsday Ship'': The rogue cleaner droids can squirt acidic cleaner. No one is ever actually killed by this directly, but when [[spoiler: TheCaptain]] is climbing and needs both hands, they attack his face, and when he tries to paw them away frantically he falls to his death. |
| 127 | * ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': The Longwing dragons' acidic BreathWeapon is so potent that even a single stray drop needs to be carefully neutralized, as the liquid can eat through a ship from top to bottom. The ability was created by [[SuperBreedingProgram selectively breeding]] venomous dragons for [[PoisonIsCorrosive extra potency]]. |
| 128 | * Comes shaped as a CoolSword in Stuart Hopen's ''Warp Angel'', the setting has a gladiatorial weapon known as an 'acid sword'. An acid sword is a force-field projecting hilt that shapes an extremely corrosive pool of acid into a blade. Getting hit by one tends to result in limbs getting melted off and large gouges getting burnt into flesh. The acid sword is so corrosive that, with the exception of the force field of another acid sword, the blade will dissolve through anything in the story setting including hardened far-future alloys. |
| 129 | * Justified in ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'': Moss and Stoker can both use their powers to create super-concentrated, soul-strengthened acid which will eat through almost anything. Without soul power, it would still take minutes or hours, but with it, it takes mere seconds. |
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| 132 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 133 | * ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'': Several episodes play this trope straight with various degrees of accuracy, particularly "Deep Fried", "Fools Russian", and "Caught In A Lye". |
| 134 | * Played with in ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'': A skeleton is found in a bathtub full of acid. [[spoiler:The skeleton was a fake, left by the supposed victim to fake his own death.]] But despite only sitting about waist deep in the acid tub, the entire body is bones, [[spoiler:which in retrospect is an early clue that it was staged]]. |
| 135 | * ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfSupermanS6E12ThePerilsOfSuperman The Perils of Superman]]", Clark Kent is lowered into an enormous vat of acid by chortling villains, who then walk out to arrange their next evil deed. Naturally, Superman then emerges, his costume soaked, but unharmed. Presumably, Kent’s glasses and clothes were dissolved. |
| 136 | * The live-action ''Series/Batman1966'' has an inspired variant in a Riddler story where the villain gets a special wax. It is the perfect safe-cracking tool: a powerful corrosive potent enough that a pocketful of the stuff will quickly and silently penetrate thick steel doors or concrete walls in minutes and yet is perfectly safe to handle until you expose it to direct flame. In fact, you'd almost wonder why Riddler didn't [[CutLexLuthorACheck make a bundle simply auctioning the stuff to other criminals]]. |
| 137 | * ''Series/BetterOffTed'': One episode features a biocomputer that leaks an "acid-like goo", or "ass-goo" for short, that burns through several floors and desks. |
| 138 | * ''Series/BreakingBad'': In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS1E2TheCatsInTheBag The Cat's in the Bag]]". [[TheSmartGuy Walter White]] and his partner Jesse Pinkman need to get rid of a body. Walt tells Jesse -- who at this point has not yet learned to follow Walt's instructions regarding chemistry to the letter at all times -- to pick up a specific type of plastic tub, because the hydrofluoric acid they're using will dissolve any other container. So what does Jesse do? Takes a shortcut and dumps it in a ceramic bathtub. The result is a very... messy hole in the ceiling (the tub being on the second floor). Since the body, at this point, is no longer recognizable as human, the result, for those who are not [[{{Squick}} completely disgusted]], is BloodyHilarious. |
| 139 | * ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': |
| 140 | ** One episode in Season 4 had a an innocent woman, who could spray a form of acidic energy from her hands. This caused severe burns on Paige's arms and eventually melted a computer desktop. |
| 141 | ** Another episode featured the so called "Scabbar Demons". These nasty beings could vomit a highly corrosive acid from their mouths, which had the power to melt a wooden table and also disintegrate a human in mere seconds. |
| 142 | * The ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode "Mind Over Mayhem" features a killer who disposes of certain key bits of evidence -- a wallet, file folder with papers, and a metal can containing heroin -- in a vat labeled "contaminated acid". It looks like water until the items drop in and starts to boil. Which may be a case of TruthInTelevision since many acids look exactly like water and items dropped into the acid often give off bubbles of gas as they dissolve (albeit not usually fast enough to produce a truly "boiling" effect). |
| 143 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 144 | ** The two-parter "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh The Rebel Flesh]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople The Almost People]]" is set in a facility that mines this substance, which is simply called "acid", used for unknown (but likely military) purposes. Because it's so dangerous, the actual miners are remotely-operated {{Expendable Clone}}s. |
| 145 | ** The Christmas Special "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" involves something called "acid rain", which is a lot less like real acid rain than it is like this. |
| 146 | ** Half-averted with the planet Vortis's naturally occurring {{Acid Pool}}s and rivers in the 1st Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet The Web Planet]]". Although the acid is highly corrosive and instantly eats away at everything it touches (excluding the local terrain, for some reason), it's completely transparent and easily mistaken for water. Ian comes very close to scooping up a handful to drink when he first encounters it, which would have ended very badly had the Doctor not stopped him, noting that his tie had dissolved. That makes sense in that, for some reason, the entire planet had an imbalance of protons to electrons. This evens out among the surface matter, resulting in pooled acid in equilibrium with the surrounding substances. Everything that could be oxidized by the acid already had been, except things brought into the place. |
| 147 | ** The acid sea in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E5TheKeysOfMarinus The Keys of Marinus.]]" An alien called a "Voord" attempts to surmount it in a wetsuit, but his suit had a tiny tear in it. |
| 148 | ** Subverted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath The Seeds of Death.]]" Sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, ''any'' kind of acid, [[NoSell nothing affects the Martian seed pods]]...but water does. |
| 149 | * ''Series/{{Eureka}}'': One episode has the town plagued by bats that shit Super Acid -- see RealLife section below, they got this right that it protonates matter. Over the course of the episode, a cow is reduced to black and white goo, a jeep is rendered into a puddle, and a bunch of wires in a wall start dripping like water. |
| 150 | * In the ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPTDP1LHqg4 Crippled Inside]]" a teenaged attempted rapist backs away from his apparently cured victim into a rack of various chemicals. BodyHorror ensues, and one must assume that his surviving family will be getting a wrongful death settlement. |
| 151 | * On ''Series/GoodEats'', Alton subverts a variant: namely, the idea that cooking anything acidic in an aluminum vessel (unless it's been specially treated) is harmful, both to the vessel and to anyone who might eat the food. While acid from, say, tomato ''will'' react with aluminum, it would take ''way'' longer than most normal home cooking before that took place. |
| 152 | * The Spanish game show ''Series/ElGranJuegoDeLaOca'' featured a challenge wherein the contestant had to unshackle himself before "acid" poured from above by a ScaryBlackMan ate through the layers of Styrofoam and reached him. (The "acid" was more than likely a harmless substance such as nail polish remover -- acetone readily melts Styrofoam.) |
| 153 | * ''Series/TheLucyShow'': Averted. Creator/LucilleBall and Vivian Vance attend a night-school chemistry class, and Lucy panics when she gets splashed with a very weak acid... until the instructor tells her that the stuff she got covered in was effectively harmless. |
| 154 | * ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Krayt dragons can spit gouts of greenish acid that dissolve living flesh on contact. Yeah, the Krayt Dragon in the episode "The Marshal" gushes outs enough acid to fill a swimming pool, but that acid was so strong that when the Tusken Raiders got doused with it, their bodies and clothes near-instantly collapsed into mush. |
| 155 | * In ''Series/MooneBoy'', Martin's vagabond uncle warns him to "never take Hungarian acid" (as in LSD). Martin replies he wouldn't want to since acid burns through everything. |
| 156 | * A 2013 episode of ''Series/MythBusters'' revealed that the trope had been played straight in the ''Breaking Bad'' scene in "The Cat's in the Bag". Adam and Jamie found that hydrofluoric acid wouldn't completely destroy organic tissues, so they switched to sulfuric acid with a dose of (what appeared to be) hydrogen peroxide (AKA [[AndSomeOtherStuff special sauce]]) to boost its corrosive power (this combination is often called "piranha solution" in real life, because the aforementioned Caro's acid is formed when mixing these two chemicals, and is used for cleaning stubborn organic matter off of glassware). They put 35 pounds of pig carcass parts and 6 gallons of their acid mixture in a ceramic-coated cast iron tub; the acid destroyed most of the carcass but did not eat through the tub or the floor below it. When they used 36 gallons of acid in a fiberglass tub, the carcass was reduced to a black organic sludge in a spectacularly smoky and violent reaction -- but again, neither the tub nor the floor gave way under the acid's effects. |
| 157 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': In "Detour", having been kidnapped by the bad guys of the week, Jimmy and Ducky free themselves from their bonds by using the victim's stomach acid to dissolve the chains holding them. |
| 158 | * The [[SiliconBasedLife Horta]] from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' produces a chemical that easily burns both rocks and {{Red Shirt}}s. Spock describes it as "an extremely corrosive acid". |
| 159 | * In the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "99 & 44/100% Pure Horror", a woman murders her soap magnate husband and disposes of the body by putting it through the machine at his factory and turning it into soap. She takes the soap home with her and uses it when she takes a shower, but to her horror, the acid from his stomach starts eating away at her skin... never mind that the manufacture of soap involves adding enough lye to give the mixture a neutral to slightly ''alkaline'' pH, so the soap-making process itself should've rendered the acid harmless. (The fact that one of her husband's eyeballs was in the soap and still moving and looking at her as she died suggests that the effect is more supernatural than chemical). |
| 160 | * A ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' villain gets rid of his victims this way. |
| 161 | * ''Series/TheWildWildWest'' has two examples. |
| 162 | ** In "[[Recap/TheWildWildWestS3E1TheNightOfTheBubblingDeath The Night of the Bubbling Death]]", a terrorist steals the U.S. Constitution, then protects it with a DeathCourse which includes a large pool of acid (depicted as cherry red instead of the usual green or yellow) that dissolves anything it touches without a trace. |
| 163 | ** In "[[Recap/TheWildWildWestS3E21TheNightOfTheUndead The Night of the Undead]]", a MadScientist uses acid as part of his MindControl serum. As in "Bubbling Death", the episode ends with the villain dying by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard falling into his own acid pool]]. |
| 164 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'' gets the bit about acid vapors right. The aliens have acid blood similar to the Xenomorphs, but most of their victims die from inhaling the stuff. This may have something to do with the fact it's cheaper to film than acid eating through people's bodies. The blood emits toxic vapors which cause swelling and reddening around the eyes and death by coagulation. It may be acidic, but that is incidental to its effectiveness. This effect was based on the real-life, and as yet unexplained, case of Gloria Ramirez -- whose blood wasn't corrosive, but fumes which apparently came off her did cause similar and acute symptoms in the hospital staff which was treating her. |
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| 167 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 168 | * ''TabletopGame/TheAwfulGreenThingsFromOuterSpace'': One of the weapons available to the crew of the spaceship Znutar as they battle the titular awful green things. |
| 169 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has this as a damage type, as seen on a few magical items, spells such as acid arrow and acid fog, and the acid breath of the Copper and Black dragons. Notably it's one of the few ways to put down a troll for good. Whenever the stuff is illustrated, expect it to be a bright green. One fluid ounce of ''ultimate solution'' from the 1e ''Unearthed Arcana'' book can dissolve up to a cubic foot of adhesive (glue, cement, etc.); however, if it is carefully distilled to one-third of its original volume, an ounce of the resulting liquid can dissolve a cubic foot of ''any'' substance. |
| 170 | * ''TabletopGame/RogueTrader'' has two separate chemicals available that work like this. One is a substance that will dissolve anything except pure silica glass, although the reaction causes it to quickly become inert in process. The other is a Dark Eldar {{poison|IsCorrosive}} created from a Stryxis-made "universal solvent", weaponized through a clever use of containment fields. |
| 171 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'' has taken alchemy to great heights. Among the substances created, there's an alchemically-made acid called Alcahest which can dissolve almost any material and needs to be contained in bottles made from the supernaturally inert substance called Amberglass. |
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| 174 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 175 | * ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' has you combining aqua regia, orpiment, cuprite, and calamine to make a mysterious unnamed "acid". Note that aqua regia is a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid ''in the first place'', yet inexplicably can't be used on its own in the game. |
| 176 | * ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'' features corrosive weapons that fire acid-filled rounds that are especially good at dissolving armor. "Caustic" is a valid prefix, even though it usually refers to corrosive ''bases'', not acids. [[VideoGame/Borderlands2 The]] [[VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel sequels]] also feature alkaline shields that negate corrosive DamageOverTime, despite the fact that alkalis are also corrosive and only neutralize acids. Also, given some prefixes, PoisonIsCorrosive in the series as well. |
| 177 | * ''VideoGame/BricksOfSeries'': In ''Bricks of Egypt 2'', the Acid Eye is colored green and sheds acid tears that can destroy every block that can be found (except for the Key blocks). |
| 178 | * ''Videogame/CavesOfQud'': The DeadlyGas created by the Corrosive Gas Generation mutation fits the trope to a T. These bright green clouds will eat through ''anything'' that isn't Acid-resistant, [[RequiredSecondaryPowers you]] or [[AntiFrustrationFeatures an item]], up to and including the walls; it'll eat through solid rock and even Fulcrete in ''seconds''. |
| 179 | * ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' has radiation, but the effect is very much the same. Infantry Units killed by radiation are covered in gunk and melts away after a second or two. |
| 180 | * In the Flash game ''VideoGame/{{Crush the Castle}} 2'', acid projectiles play the trope 100% straight. They are green and hissing, will completely dissolve almost any substance the acid touches, and will leak down, dissolving any objects beneath that the target point directly contacts. This can create a chain reaction that can bring down entire structures by itself. Oddly, although it can disintegrate solid iron, it will not eat through the much softer earth once it reaches down that far, and a few kinds of rock walls are impervious to it. Human targets are naturally dissolved. |
| 181 | * ''VideoGame/Diablo3'' has the Witch Doctor skill of Acid Cloud. A spirit is conjured in the sky and it vomits a stream of acid that will quickly melt your foes regardless if they're demon, undead, or other. The Acid Cloud can be modified further with runes learnt during the Nephilim's adventures. |
| 182 | * ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'': The acid from Toxic Tower is bright lime green, acts exactly like rising water, and instantly kills anything it touches. |
| 183 | * ''Videogame/{{Evolve}}'': Gorgon has an acid spray attack. This is one of its most damaging attacks, rapidly melting through the health of anything caught by it. |
| 184 | * In ''VideoGame/FindTheCure'', the player character uses acid to burn a lock off a door. |
| 185 | * Several ''VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}}'' games have puddles of green acid as enemies. |
| 186 | * In ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', you must contend with black slime. The end result of Ivo Shandor's rituals, this nasty concoction is both TheCorruption and Hollywood Acid (it's labeled "Caustic Seep" in your Paragoggles). Stepping in ''any'' amount deals damage, and falling into it on Shandor Island is instant death. Oh, and... apparently, it's the body fluids of a Juvenile Giant Sloar. |
| 187 | * The bonus chapter of ''VideoGame/HiddenExpedition 8: Smithsonian Castle'' has you make your own sulfuric acid. It's bright lime green and takes only a few seconds to eat through the top of a wooden box it accidentally spills on. |
| 188 | * ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'' has a particular nightmarish level taking place in a sewer where the player finds dozens of bodies being dissolved in acid tubs. [[NothingIsScarier They're never brought up afterwards]]. |
| 189 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Kog'Maw attacks all involve spewing digestive fluids at his enemies which have a variety of effects. Due to him originating from the void, they might not obey the laws of physics. |
| 190 | * ''VideoGame/MarbleMadness'' features Oozies, living puddles of acid that ooze around the floor, ready to dissolve any marble immediately on contact. |
| 191 | * ''VideoGame/MegaMan11'' introduces Acid Man. Although most of the acid in his stage is quite harmless, it will damage Mega Man once it takes on a sickly green glow. |
| 192 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'', Brinstar is full of some kind of acid that depletes your energy by roughly twenty points per second of contact. Considering the sort of damage the power suit can endure, that makes it about as strong as 10-12M [=HCl=]. The acid is also ''boiling'', looking at its animation, which means that, if it ''is'' [=HCl=], [[FridgeLogic the air in Brinstar must be largely chlorine gas.]] The stuff is also a serious threat in the Metroid stages featured in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games; the lava fills the pit at the bottom of the stage and constantly rises, often to the point where the only available fighting space is a tiny platform. Any character who touches it is launched skyward. |
| 193 | * In the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' games, [[GargleBlaster grog]] is so acidic that it dissolves the pewter mugs it is served in, [[spoiler: as well as the locks on cell doors]]. |
| 194 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Reptile. His fatality in ''Ultimate VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' has him vomit a gallon of "acid" on his opponent, melting their flesh clear off their skeleton. He also has acid fatalities in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'', ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'', and ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX''. There's also the recurring stage the Dead Pool, which you can knock your opponent into to melt them down to the bone. By ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', [[TheGunslinger Erron Black]] also carries around bottles of acid as part of his moveset. One of his fatalities in the game, aptly named "Melted", has him send his opponent face-first into a puddle of it, before stomping on the softened head and breaking it into pieces. |
| 195 | * ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'': In the first game, [[ActionGirl Kate]] [[PlayerCharacter Archer]] is given (among other [[Film/JamesBond Bond]]-like gadgets) small bottles of an acidic substance that dissolves a dead human body in ''seconds'' without leaving a trace. This is claimed to be because someone of Kate's size can't be expected to be able to lug around dead bodies of large men. While this helps preserving stealth in some parts of the game, Kate only has a limited amount of uses for the acid. The sequel allows Kate to carry bodies (even though her size and strength haven't changed) to hide them, although she can still get the acid. {{Mooks}} in the sequel will also have an equivalent to dispose of their dead comrades (a Russian soldier will usually say something like "Sorry, comrade, there's less paperwork this way"). |
| 196 | * ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'': In the animated shorts, White Pikmin (which are generally only depicted as poisonous in the games) are shown to be able to spit small jets of acid capable of swiftly dissolving metal. |
| 197 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': |
| 198 | ** Gulpin and Swalot are Poison-types themed around digestion and gastric acids; according to Swalot's ''Pokémon Emerald'' Pokédex entry, they possess gastric acids powerful enough to dissolve anything, up to and including iron -- the only thing they can't digest is their own stomach. |
| 199 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' introduces Dragalge, a Dragon/Poison-type Pokémon living underwater, which the Pokédex claims can spit acid powerful enough to dissolve the hull of a tanker. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation In game]], Steel-types are still [[NoSell completely immune]] to its Poison-types moves. |
| 200 | ** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Generation VII]]'' introduces Salandit, Salazzle, and their signature ability Corrosion which allows them to inflict poison status on Poison-types and Steel-types Pokémon. |
| 201 | * In ''VideoGame/APlagueTaleInnocence'' Amicia is taught the alchemical formula for Devorantis, described at the workbench as "a nitric acid concentrate that is particularly aggressive with metals. The toxic vapors given off by the reaction add to the target's panic." It's ''bright'' green but otherwise tamer than most fictional acids - when facing enemies wearing helmets Amicia can [[AcidAttack sling it at their heads]], causing them to scream, reel, and tear their helmets off, but if they take any injury it's not enough to stop them from raising their weapons and going in search of her. |
| 202 | * ''VideoGame/ThePowderToy'' has this. It's pink, dissolves everything, and it's flammable. |
| 203 | * ''VideoGame/{{Prodeus}}'' features bright green acid that damages the player on touch. One level centers around raising acid levels and then lowering them again. |
| 204 | * In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestITheSarienEncounter'', the acid in Kerona's underground caves is so powerful that one drop of it falling on you is enough to dissolve your body. |
| 205 | * The Mac game ''VideoGame/SpinDoctor'' had droplets of bright green acid that activate when you passed over them and chase you. |
| 206 | * In ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' and ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', several zerg units (most notably Mutalisks) use "acid" attacks which, as shown in some cutscenes, are corrosive enough to go through depleted uranium starship armor. For some reason, it also causes protoss [[DeflectorShields plasma shields]] to short out. |
| 207 | * ''VideoGame/StyxMasterOfShadows'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/StyxShardsOfDarkness'' include vials of bright-green acid in the protagonist's toolkit. Using one near-instantly dissolves corpses into nothing, which is useful when you need to quickly dispose of a body. ''Shards of Darkness'' also has Acid Mines, essentially a landmine that instantly kills and dissolves anyone who steps on it. |
| 208 | * ''VideoGame/{{Trine}} 2'' has a number of puzzles that involve acid. It doesn't dissolve ''everything'' -- in particular, Pontius the knight had his shield conveniently acid-proofed before the game began--but it's still a bright green colour and destroys almost anything put in it. |
| 209 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}'', the servant ghost kills you by engulfing you into his "misty form", which covers you in a thick, sticky goo that turns out to be acid that not only hurts but turns you into a "lifeless lump of flesh". |
| 210 | * ''VideoGame/{{X}}'': In the ''Xtended'' mod for ''X3: Terran Conflict'', the Panos MobileFactory mines asteroid ore through the use of acid. It scans for ore, then uses its transporter to teleport powerful acid into ore deposits, then beams the slurry back on board for processing. A [=GalNet=] news article mentions a horrific accident where a Panos with a malfunctioning communications system unknowingly began mine an occupied mining site, causing several workers to die when acid started to materialize mid-air in the chamber they were excavating before the Panos operator realized what was going on. |
| 211 | * Acid in ''Videogame/XCOM2'' is a textbook example: it's green, it bubbles and hisses ominously and it'll melt even advanced alien materials to slag in a matter of seconds. |
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| 214 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 215 | * ''VisualNovel/CodeRealize'': Although the characters refer to it as "{{poison|IsCorrosive}}", the [[PoisonousPerson player character]]'s skin and blood act more like a fictionalized super-acid in the way that she burns and melts whatever she comes into contact with. After testing it on a variety of materials up to and including a sample of titanium, [[ScienceHero Victor]] concludes that the reaction is something more alchemical than natural. |
| 216 | [[/folder]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 219 | * Subverted in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''. Garland has the Light Warriors (plus White Mage) [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2002/03/15/episode-128-the-acid-would-be-healthier/ tied up over a cauldron full of a hissing, bubbling green liquid]] -- which turns out to be Mountain Dew, swapped with Garland's real acid by the Forest Imps. Note the comic's name: "[[TakeThat The Acid Would Be Healthier]]". |
| 220 | * In ''Webcomic/LittleRobotBigScaryWorld'', this type of acid is used to melt enemy troopers; BIP himself is almost immune to it. |
| 221 | * ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'': |
| 222 | ** In one strip, [[CaptainErsatz Jokerella]] threatens Wonderella with ''citric'' acid (which ''can'' be harmful in its pure form, but it's not exactly [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]]-level evil). |
| 223 | ** Either mocked or taken to its literal extreme [[http://nonadventures.com/2014/01/25/acid-splashback/ here]], where Hitlerella dangles the titular heroine over a cauldron of so-called "galactic" acid that will swiftly dissolve even the [[FlyingBrick invulnerable]] Wonderella. [[spoiler:Before anything can happen, the acid melts through the cauldron it's stored in and the floor beneath it.]] |
| 224 | --->'''Hitlerella:''' ''MY RUG!''\ |
| 225 | '''Wonderella:''' I've seen that rug. I was rooting for the acid. |
| 226 | * ''Webcomic/TheStrongestSuit'': The Thinner River is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a ''river'' of super-corrosive liquid. Although to be fair it is colorless rather than green or yellow and doesn't bubble or fume. |
| 227 | [[/folder]] |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 230 | * ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': |
| 231 | ** Cody can take out potion bottles filled with an unknown acidic black liquid. |
| 232 | ** The EvilLuddite Ashley's acid melts through anything quickly. |
| 233 | * In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Acidbath is a cell-block leader in [[TheAlcatraz the Birdcage]], with the ability to turn part or all of his body into Hollywood Acid to enhance his attacks or survive enemy attacks. |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 237 | * ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'': The changewing's [[SuperSpit acid spit]] takes the form of globs of shockingly green liquid capable of melting its way through a tree trunk in seconds. |
| 238 | * ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' has several of the giant monsters spit out acid that melts various materials, usually metal and plastic. How fast the acid eats away whatever it's spat on varies. |
| 239 | * In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Jimmy's "[[CallASmeerpARabbit dog]]" Cerbee actually has acid as waste, which dissolves anything he relieves himself on. |
| 240 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' episode "Let's Play Prince Charming" had [[JerkAss Mr. Cat]] dunk Quack Quack in a tub of this, dissolving half of his body. Fortunately, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Quack Quack can't die]]. |
| 241 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'', each of the characters wears a mask that grants them a superpower. [[BigBad Miles Mayhem's]] Viper mask allows him to shoot highly corrosive acid from an emblem on its forehead. It is even able to dissolve the metal of an alien spaceship. |
| 242 | * A ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' {{Alien}} sketch entails an individual Xenomorph's acid melting through multiple floors, resulting in it fallling through several stories before hitting the pavment. |
| 243 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 244 | ** Radioactive Man's actor is [[MemeticMutation famous on the Internet for]] getting washed away by a sea of acid while [[GogglesDoNothing (understandably) complaining that his protective eyewear is not serving its ostensible function]]. |
| 245 | ** Homer is in one episode about to quaff a beaker of acid, but it's knocked out of his hand by Frank Grimes. It splashes all over the wall, creating a hole big enough to drive a car through. Grimes is then chewed out by Mr. Burns for destroying the wall. And for wasting his priceless acid. |
| 246 | ** In another episode, heavy pollution covers Springfield in Hollywood Acid ''Rain'' which corrodes soft materials in seconds. The effects on human flesh ([[MagicPants and underwear]]) aren't so extreme, but according to Willie, it still "stings like a Glasgow bikini wax!" |
| 247 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/SpidermanTheAnimatedSeries'': The Scorpion has the power to shoot acid from his tail.%%Unrealistic how? |
| 248 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E03TemporalEdict Temporal Edict]]", the acid that spills in the cargo bay is a bright green liquid that completely dissolves a large section of the floor. |
| 249 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The acid geysers of Florrum, shown in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E12TheGunganGeneral The Gungan General]]", surprisingly avert this. The acidic expulsions from the geysers are clear, and while drops of it cause corrosion to the paint on the troopers' armor it doesn't just eat right through it. The characters are still careful to avoid getting hit by it. And being inside the geyser when it went off would be terrible even for real acid. [[HiddenDepths Jar Jar]] figures out how to predict when the geysers will go off by observing the behavior of the local wildlife, which only bother to run away from a geyser when it's about to go off, letting him and his squad of clone troopers safely navigate out of the geyser field. |
| 250 | * ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': The WesternAnimation/{{Batman|TheAnimatedSeries}}[=/=]WesternAnimation/{{Superman|TheAnimatedSeries}} episode [[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E16To18WorldsFinest "World's Finest"]] both subverts this and plays it straight, kinda. |
| 251 | ** When the Joker leaves Superman and Batman trapped in one of Luthor's laboratories (with a chunk of kryptonite slowly killing Superman), Batman begins looking for ways to escape. He finds a container of hydrochloric acid. Batman notes that while it will take a week for the acid to eat through the wall of the room they're in, it will [[ArtisticLicenseChemistry destroy the kryptonite]] almost immediately. |
| 252 | ** Superman's Anti-Kryptonite suit is supposed to be designed to resist corrosion by acid, as in acid he'll encounter while doing heroics, yet is destroyed by the Joker's squirting flower acid anyway. |
| 253 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', in the aptly-named "Vat of Acid Episode". |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
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