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| 7 | ->''Love is in the air\ |
| 8 | Everywhere I look around\ |
| 9 | And I don't know if you're an illusion\ |
| 10 | Don't know if I see it true\ |
| 11 | But you're something that I must believe in\ |
| 12 | And you're there when I reach out for you'' |
| 13 | -->-- '''John Paul Young, "Love is In the Air"''' |
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| 15 | {{Love Potion}}s are finicky, delicate beasts. It should come as no surprise that especially poorly made or potent ones combine the far-reaching effects of the HatePlague and the LovePotion into a deadly smog that makes even the most ChasteHero and throngs of {{Innocent Bystander}}s fall for the drinker. |
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| 17 | When Love Is in the Air, you may see a decentralized "Love Flu" that makes everyone who comes in contact experience a rebirth of the sixties and free love. The other possibility is it acts as an amped up airborne LovePotion, making anyone of the opposite gender fall in love and sometimes those of the same enter a murderous jealous rage (or unexplainable attraction). |
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| 19 | Has a friend in SmellsSexy; and the role of sex {{Pheromones}}, the purpose of which (in RealLife, that is) is to communicate one's biological availability to other members of the same species (and only that species), primarily useful if you only go into heat for a few days per year and don't know whether you'll survive the other 364 days to get another chance later. Compare LivingAphrodisiac, when a character emits Love Is in the Air naturally, and {{Glamour}}, when this is caused by an alien or supernatural creature. Contrast HatePlague, which goes in the opposite emotional direction. |
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| 22 | !!Examples: |
| 23 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 26 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' used this trope in in the first volume of the manga. |
| 27 | * ''Manga/ToLoveRu'': |
| 28 | ** There was a chapter that featured Lala accidentally handing a LovePotion to everyone in her class. HilarityEnsues. |
| 29 | ** Celine can cause this anytime she drinks coke. |
| 30 | ** Spraying pollen in the air that seem to cause anyone to fall in love with Rito due to her own feelings for him. |
| 31 | * In the 2006 version of ''Anime/KujibikiUnbalance'', a love-inducing perfume used by Shinobu in order to get her brother Chihiro to love her ends up causing her to be chased by the entire school, and its zoo. |
| 32 | * In ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'', Nagasumi unwittingly drank a love potion that made him irresistible to any females... and also had the side effect of making him completely hated by any males. |
| 33 | * In ''Manga/AkazukinChacha'' a love potion accidentally gets mixed into a school lunch, dosing students and teachers alike. They chase the target person around and threaten to get into jealous fights until she hides and it wears off. |
| 34 | * In episode 2 of ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Kuroko tried ways to get Misaka to drink a love potion she ordered via delivery, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5QD3smwWns ended up drinking the potion herself by mistake]]. |
| 35 | * In Episode 15 of ''Literature/{{Inukami}}'', Keita obtained a "love" medicine that makes anyone he sees fall for him, but doesn't seem to work towards Yoko, his love interest. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/FrankenFran'' tries to make an actor more "charismatic" using {{Pheromones}} in chapter 36, but her calculations are a little off and the situation gets out of control. Notably, she acknowledges that pheromones don't normally have much of an effect on people, but [[{{Handwave}} somehow makes it work anyway]]. |
| 37 | * In the first arc featuring Peorth in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', she tries to convince Belldandy that she hasn't given Keiichi everything he wants by giving him a potion which causes every woman he locks eyes to fall in love with him, including his sister! The spell is broken when he makes eye contact with Belldandy herself. |
| 38 | * In Chapter 40 of ''Manga/TalesOfWeddingRings'', the elven Elder floods her lab with an aphrodisiac mist so that Satou and his wives (whom the Elder has locked up in said lab) will get in the mood, allowing her to [[DirtyOldWoman watch them go at it]]. Nothing comes of it, as Satou proves to be AboveTheInfluence and he finds a way to disperse the mist. |
| 39 | [[/folder]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 42 | * The ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' villainess [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]] secretes potent {{Pheromones}} from her skin. In her first canonical appearance, it's enough (combined with her generally desirable appearance) to make a man leave his wife on the spot to accept a hallucinatory kiss from her. Batman himself is affected, and later on in the Batcave he won't stop talking about how beautiful and sexy Ivy is... until Alfred turns the water in his shower freezing cold. |
| 43 | * Creator/MarvelComics has a surprisingly large number of characters who have this ability. |
| 44 | ** ''ComicBook/NewXMenAcademyX'' featured Wallflower, a mutant girl who could cause people to experience any variety of emotions through {{pheromone|s}} release. She inherited her powers from her father, who had used them to seduce her mother. The father was also introduced in the series, but Wallflower was killed off before the subplot could go anywhere. |
| 45 | ** Daken, the long-lost son of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, has the ability to emit hyper-arousing pheromones. Combined with his inherited SuperSenses allowing him to detect receptiveness, and he's incredibly adept at seducing [[DepravedBisexual anyone]] he desires, which he exploits shamelessly. |
| 46 | ** One of the oldest examples is the minor villain Zebediah Killgrave, also called "The Purple Man", because [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation a secondary mutation is that his skin, eyes and hair are all different shades of purple]]. Best known as an arch-enemy of ComicBook/JessicaJones, he largely drifts under the radar of most superheroes because he's incredibly unambitious; despite being able to affect MoreThanMindControl on a vast scale (in one story, ComicBook/DoctorDoom uses him as the key component in a device that lets him take over the minds of ''everyone on Earth''), he has no real goals beyond living the most comfortable life he can, which his powers enable him to do by sponging off of everyone he encounters. He shamelessly exploits this ability to sleep with any attractive woman he wants, and then wipes her memory of it -- this has led to him becoming the father to at least half a dozen children who have inherited his purple coloration and mental powers. The first of these offspring, Kara Killgrave "The Purple Girl", appeared in ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' #41 in 1986 and was introduced using her powers to mind control Northstar into going swimming with her. Five of her younger half-siblings, calling themselves "The Purple Children", appeared in ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' Vol. 4 #8 in 2014; they can only exert their pheromone powers when they are united in a group. |
| 47 | ** One of Marvel's {{squick}}ier examples is The Mandrill, a mutant who combines [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing the powers]] and [[BeastMan appearance of a humanoid ape]] with the secretion of mutated sex {{pheromones}}, which infatuate women exposed to them to the extent that they will unthinkingly kill, steal and even ''die'' for him. To make things worse, the effect is actually addictive, and Mandrill is such a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain misogynistic scumbag]] that he gladly takes sexual advantage of his infatuated minions in addition to using them as disposable mooks. |
| 48 | ** The Jessica Drew ComicBook/SpiderWoman was initially introduced with an uncontrollable pheromone generation power that made men attracted to her, and thus more compliant with her wishes, but which triggered a hostile reception from women that was only amplified if their husbands or boyfriends were the ones drooling over her. |
| 49 | * When the Dancing Master visits ComicBook/AstroCity, he has this effect on the citizens, stirring up the sparks of love in the hearts of those around him. |
| 50 | [[/folder]] |
| 51 | |
| 52 | [[folder:Fan Fiction]] |
| 53 | * The Anime Addventure features a {{hentai}} story thread where an actual [[TheVirus infection]] called the {{Lemon}} Flu infected the globe. Its effects include gifting [[GagPenis men]] and [[BreastExpansion women]] with perfect [[MrFanservice bodies]], and behaving like an [[LovePotion aphrodisiac]]. |
| 54 | * In the novelization of "Music/BannedFromArgo", the "green potion guaranteed to cause pon farr" is dumped in the water-distribution center of Argo Port, turning the massive political protests into a massive public orgy. |
| 55 | * ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'' has this as the effect of Lilith's Anti-AT Field: any men and women caught in it immediately feel compelled to make '''babies'''. It takes extreme willpower to resist (although repeated application of cold water can help). Family members are exempt from this, fortunately. HilarityEnsues when Shinji [[spoiler:accidentally starts projecting the same Field at his school]]. |
| 56 | * There's a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfiction out there somewhere that's based on the premise that ''Love Potion Number Nine'' (described below) is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, one that [[TheMasquerade the Ministry of Magic]] couldn't quite cover up. And then Neville [[EpicFail accidentally mixes it in Potions class]], and it turns out that if anything, the film ''understated'' just how powerful the stuff is. HilarityEnsues. |
| 57 | * In ''Fanfic/TheSwarmOfWar'', the entire royal family and the court are destroyed by [[spoiler:Alena’s {{Pheromones}}. And perhaps her psyker power as well.]] |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
| 59 | |
| 60 | [[folder:Film]] |
| 61 | * ''Film/LovePotionNumberNine'' starts with a basic LovePotion (although one that works continuously and can affect anyone with the right orientation that hears the imbiber's voice), but moves into this trope when a prostitute takes the concentrated version and empties a church just by clearing her throat. |
| 62 | * A variation was used in ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove''. The titular character and his friends ended up adding in animal {{pheromones}} into Principal Jindrake's mouthspray, so whenever he ends up using it, Animals will end up either crawling over him, biting him in the leg, pouncing and jumping on him, and ''chase'' him, and was primarily done to humiliate him. |
| 63 | * ''Film/Shivers1975'': A variation with the love plague being the result of a [[ParasiteZombie parasite that makes people lose all inhibitions]]. With very few exceptions (such as [[LipstickLesbian the lesbian couple]]), [[FanDisservice this is]] ''[[FanDisservice not]]'' [[FanDisservice sexy at all]]. Imagine people suddenly making out with everyone else, whether the other person wants to or not, and regardless of things like attractiveness, age, or relatedness. |
| 64 | * In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Poison Ivy uses her {{pheromone|s}} love dust to get anyone who smells it to fall in love with her. She conceals it in a small leaf hidden in her palm and blows it into the face of her victims. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 68 | * ''Literature/{{Perfume}}'' is about a sociopath who is trying to create the perfect smell. The catch? His perfume is made from the scents of murdered virgins. Once finished, the perfume is so potent and delightful that it induces a massive orgy in an enormous crowd with just few drops. |
| 69 | * ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' has a rather nightmarish example in the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Ringworld Vampires]], a species of non-sentient hominids which use {{Pheromones}} to draw in other hominids so that they can feed off of them. This gets [[{{Squick}} even more disturbing]] when it is revealed that they would have been destroyed long ago, except that every time there was a serious push to eradicate them, some City Builder with more lust than sense would keep a secret enclave of de-fanged vampires as sex toys, or in order to make perfume from their pheromones, and sooner or later a breeding pair would escape into the wild... |
| 70 | * ''[[Literature/TheIdhunsMemories Memorias de Idhún]]'': [[FertilityGod Life goddess]] Wina's manifestation [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm on the mortal world]] is essentially this, combined with [[RapidAging instant]] [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty maturity]] and [[ExpressDelivery accelerated pregnancy]]. |
| 71 | * The ''Franchise/StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse has at least two different alien species packing cross-species {{Pheromones}}. Both of them seem to have weird effects on people, and questionable ideas as to what constitutes consent. Oh yeah, and one of the two species can bottle pheromones and produce a LovePotion for anyone who can pay. Surely such things are always used responsibly. |
| 72 | ** One of the two species mentioned above is the Falleen. There is, against all reason, a Falleen Jedi. He does, in fact, use his pheromones to help on Jedi missions (it helps that this is the ''new'' Jedi Order) - but then, everybody else would just use the Mind Trick. And one of his squadmates threatens bodily harm if she ever finds out he's using it to "get dates". |
| 73 | ** The other species is the Zeltrons, a race of rosy-skinned near-human [[FreeLoveFuture hedonists]] with powerful pheromones. However, they also have strong receptive empathy, so it really is in their best interest to make sure everyone around them is truly happy and consenting. |
| 74 | * Creator/BruceCoville's book ''[[Literature/MagicShop Juliet Dove, Queen of Love]]'' had the protagonist Juliet Dove come into possession of a necklace formerly owned by Helen of Troy. The necklace causes every boy in her school to fall in love with her (and cause a commotion by piling up in front of her house), and [[ClingyMacGuffin cannot be removed after being put on]]. |
| 75 | * Henry Sackerman's novel ''The Love Bomb'' fits in here better than anywhere else: A {{Human Alien|s}} from a peaceful and uninhibited planet lands on earth, and is mystified and chagrined with how violent and prudish the natives are. So, after many misadventures, he ends up getting his buddy to drop a chemical weapon which neutralizes people's hostilities and inhibitions. (For example, two juvenile delinquents are fighting on account of [[MySisterIsOffLimits one of them having slept with the other's sister]]. They destroy their knives, talk the situation over like civilized young men, and [[AirHugging Air Hug]]. A man who [[AwfulWeddedLife despises his wife for a spiteful old cow—and is despised by her in return for a sorry old slacker—]]buys her roses before he comes home, convinced that the gesture will be lost on her. He finds her cooking his favorite dish—which, for that very reason, she'd previously vowed never to make again—and looking dewy-eyed. And so on.) In many cases, it acts as an aphrodisiac. |
| 76 | * On ''Literature/{{Darkover}}'', the ''kireseth'' pollen laden Ghost Winds have this effect. Another of the many effects is temporary amnesia, which can result in paternities being in doubt. |
| 77 | * In the second book of the ''Literature/SirAproposOfNothing'' series, Apropos comes into the possession of the "[[AffectionateParody One Thing to Rule Them All]]". This...thing...attaches itself to his...southern region...and once it does, he can't get it off. And every woman he comes into contact with jumps his bones. In fact, at one point ''they tie him down just so every woman can have a turn''. He's freed of the Thing by a set of adventurers and a quest he'd rather not go into. |
| 78 | * In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/GeorgeAndAzazel'' series, one of the stories is about a man whom the titular demon made emit a massive amount of {{Pheromones}}. The girls are all so jealous of each other that he ends up forced to marry the strongest one. |
| 79 | * ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': Blödhgarm gives off a scent that [[SmellsSexy attracts women]], which [[DistractedByTheSexy distracts Nasuada]] when they meet. She gets over this through [[ThinkUnsexyThoughts thinking about an acrid-tasting candy]] she once ate. |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 83 | * ''Series/YoungDracula'' in the second series; Vlad and Robin are wrestling over a bottle of the stuff and smash it, covering themselves with love potion... in the presence of a load of tween girls. HilarityEnsues. |
| 84 | * A few ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episodes do this over the various series, notably also causing drunkenness as a symptom. |
| 85 | ** The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime The Naked Time]]" has Sulu getting rather amorous for Uhura, though she isn't so interested in him. |
| 86 | *** Later, this is further hinted to have been a repressed desire of his all along in "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror, Mirror]]" with his decidedly uninhibited MirrorUniverse counterpart sexually harassing her outright: "Still no interest, Uhura? I could change your mind..." |
| 87 | ** The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E2TheNakedNow The Naked Now]]" follows up on this with a similar effect (on which the original cure from Kirk's time does not work, however), getting most of the crew drunk and horny to the point that Tasha Yar jumps Data (though he's also intoxicated at the time), and Dr. Crusher tries to seduce Picard in his office. |
| 88 | ** In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E10Fascination Fascination]]", a virus grossly magnifies everyone's attraction to each other. No actual horizontal lambada-ing is involved, by express order of the captain. |
| 89 | ** In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E15BloodFever Blood Fever]]", Vorik is undergoing [[MateOrDie pon farr]] and instinctively tries to mind-meld with B'Elanna Torres, the woman he's secretly attracted to. This causes her to start aggressively coming on to Tom Paris, the man she is secretly attracted to. This is played for drama rather than laughs, as Tom knows she's NotHerself and will hate him if [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything he takes advantage of her while her mind is impaired]]. |
| 90 | ** In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E12BrideOfChaotica Bride of Chaotica!]]", Captain Janeway is playing [[FemmeFatale Queen Arachnia]] in the holoprogram ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton'', and tries using her vial of "irresistible {{pheromones}}" to make [[BigBad Dr. Chaotica]] release her. Unfortunately, Chaotica moves out of sniffing range, leaving her to get slobbered over by his [[NumberTwoForBrains ugly henchman Lonzak]] instead. |
| 91 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 92 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E16BewitchedBotheredAndBewildered Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered]]", Xander tries to get Cordelia attracted to him again by casting a love spell; it backfires, and every female he gets near ''except'' Cordy starts throwing herself at him, including the person who cast the spell. Probably only 'didn't work' on Cordy because she already loved him. |
| 93 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E6Him Him]]", a guy has a magic jacket that makes any girl who sees him wearing it fall madly in love with him, making Xander [[ContinuityNod fondly remember]] his own adventure years before. Made even more amusing because by this point, Willow has come out as a lesbian, and ''[[IncompatibleOrientation still]]'' [[IncompatibleOrientation falls for the guy]]. When this is pointed out to her, she tries to use a spell to turn him into a girl. |
| 94 | * In ''Series/RedDwarf'', Rimmer tries some of the 'sexual magnetism' virus that causes every female to be smitten with him. He is later seen limping round the corridors after having injecting his groin with anesthetic (and smacking it with a hammer) with women still looking at him suggestively. In the same episode, Lister tries some as well as a test for his ex -- when she starts tearing his clothes off, he quickly (and inadvertently) has some of the 'luck' virus to cancel the effect. |
| 95 | * There was one episode of ''{{Series/Eureka}}'' where Sheriff Carter was exposed to some weird, [[spoiler:ancient spores in the sewer]] that made every woman in the town want to tackle him, rape him, and eat him. |
| 96 | -->'''Sexual Harassment Officer:''' I can't believe I did that.\ |
| 97 | '''Alison:''' It was horrifying.\ |
| 98 | '''[[MagnificentBastard Stark]]:''' I can imagine.\ |
| 99 | '''Carter:''' [''behind a glass wall''] ...[[ImStandingRightHere I can hear you]]! |
| 100 | * ''Series/LoisAndClarkTheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'' has the villain of the week, after causing limited chaos with her love potion, trying to invoke this trope by spreading a potent form of the potion over Metropolis in a crop duster. Fortunately, Superman is immune. |
| 101 | * In ''Series/The10thKingdom'', Kissing Town makes this trope quite literal, since not only are there magical hearts floating everywhere around every happy couple getting married, but every time Virginia seems ready to dismiss Wolf as a love interest, in swoop the hearts to change her mind and turn her into a hopeless romantic. They even form a gigantic heart over the pair's heads when they share their first kiss. |
| 102 | * The Creator/CirqueDuSoleil production ''Solstrom'' uses a variation on this concept as the premise for the episode "Wind of Romance". The "solar wind" blown about an Italian village has ''mostly'' positive effects, from bringing a bickering couple back together to bringing a painted poster of Columbine to life for a lonely fellow. |
| 103 | * Toby from ''Series/WickedScience'' creates [[{{Pheromones}} superpheromones]] in an episode aptly named "Love Potion Number 9". |
| 104 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'' villain Hathor does this, though she uses it (and in show, it's treated as) MindControl. |
| 105 | [[/folder]] |
| 106 | |
| 107 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 108 | * In [[Music/{{KylieMinogue}} Kyle Minogue]]'s music video for her song "All The Lovers", people in a large city interrupt what they are doing at the moment and suddenly begin to take off their clothes (but remain in underwear), then they search for any sexual partner to make out with. All the while, Kylie is singing the lyrics to the song, and a ''human pyramid'' of writhing, underwear-clad people begin to form under her, until it reaches the size of a skyscraper. |
| 109 | * In Music/{{Santana}}'s single "The Game of Love", from the album ''Music/{{Shaman}}'', feat. Michelle Branch, the singer wakes up on a sofa on the streets and wanders the streets. During her trip, several couples are seen in the background, some nuzzling, ''many'' making out: in the streets, on the bus, in the store, in a diner (while a waitress is pouring coffee on a customer's cup, and both start to kiss each other). |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 113 | * In ''Series/FraggleRock'', Wembley makes friends with a girl Fraggle named Lou. Mokey, convinced that Wembley is in love, takes him to the Trash Heap to ask how to make sure Lou returns the sentiment. The Trash Heap gives Wembley a bottle of Love Potion #9 to use on Lou. Unfortunately, it spills into the pond, producing a gas that everyone in the Great Hall inhales. They immediately go berserk, mobbing Wembley with amorous attention. Fortunately, the potion works for only twenty minutes. |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 117 | * [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Batrean women]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'' give off {{Pheromones}} that are just this side of mind control. Luckily, not only are most Batrean women nice people, but the pheromones can be countered by wearing nose plugs. |
| 118 | [[/folder]] |
| 119 | |
| 120 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 121 | * In ''VideoGame/ManaKhemia2FallOfAlchemy'', one of Chloe's side stories has her testing out a love potion on [[ButtMonkey Enna]], which causes any girl he meets to go completely psycho for him. |
| 122 | * Even ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Pokemon]]'' gets in on this with [[http://www.serebii.net/sunmoon/pokemon.shtml Salandit,]] a lizard whose females control males (any species) with {{Pheromones}}. |
| 123 | [[/folder]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 126 | * In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', some of the TransformationRay variants (especially Ellen's Venus Beam) cause the target to produce [[{{Pheromones}} super-pheromones]], which makes them attractive to ''everybody'' regardless of gender and sexual orientation. [[spoiler: The effect wears off after about 48 hours. One result of this was that Nanase acknowledged her feelings for Ellen by rationalizing them to be a result of the latter's pheromones, then found out that there were no such things. (Dan Shive has explained that he originally intended for Ellen to be a recurring villain, and that the pheromones were meant to make her a super-seductress; when this was dismissed as being far too silly, they were adapted into a part of a ComingOutStory.)]] |
| 127 | * In [[http://pbfcomics.com/168/ this]] ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' comic, Cupid stores his arrows improperly and accidentally sets them on fire, resulting in the acid rain from the love smoke washing the love potion all over a city. The result: massive orgy in the streets. |
| 128 | * While (thank DEITY NAME HERE) it's not love but rather unwavering loyalty, the Jägermonsters of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' apparently identify Agatha as a Heterodyne heir by her scent. |
| 129 | -->"She smells very nize" |
| 130 | * A Creator/PhilFoglio comic that ''does'' play this trope straight is ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'', in which [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold brothel-madam-porn-superstar Louisa Dem Five]] has apparently had a procedure done enabling her to produce massive amounts of pheromones on cue. To the point of being able to charm both Buck, who is of a genetically-altered {{Heavyworlder}} subspecies and explicitly shouldn't be capable of finding low-grav women attractive, and a cyborg space pirate, who is mostly machine and shouldn't be finding her attractive. [[spoiler: This becomes a plot point; she can't turn on anyone else on the Gallimaufrey, leading to the discovery of a motivation-sapping bioengineered virus on the station...]] |
| 131 | * Heartbreaker from ''Webcomic/DinoBoy'' uses this as her weapon du jour, brainwashing men into doing her bidding (which includes stealing, opening bank vaults for her, you get the picture). It works on the titular hero too, but this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because he is [[HalfHumanHybrid part-human]]. |
| 132 | * Janine from ''Webcomic/MurphysLaw'' drank a LovePotion which caused this effect. |
| 133 | * Marena from ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'', [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0121.html here]]. |
| 134 | * In ''Webcomic/TheChallengesOfZona'', Mentl, before realizing how powerful his [[ThePowerOfRock music-based magic]] really is, accidentally causes all the woman in a ballroom to fall for him by singing "Love Is All Around" by the Troggs. |
| 135 | * In ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'', [[http://dragondoctors.dhscomix.com/archives/comic/ch-2-page-24 The Capricious Spirit of Love suggests this was an effect of the Spell Gun]] -- although they claim it was [[EpilepticTrees nonsense]] right after. |
| 136 | [[/folder]] |
| 137 | |
| 138 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 139 | * ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': As Gutrot, Ben can generate pheromones powerful enough to make the target lose interest in whatever they were previously doing and chase after the smell. |
| 140 | * In an ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' Valentine's Day special, two cupids who resemble Sarah and Jimmy make Edd and May Kanker fall in love, and at one point defuse a food fight by making everyone in the room fall in love. This was finally counteracted by Rolf with dirty mop water: "The harsh realities of your miserable lives have been restored! Thank you." |
| 141 | * ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': In "A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special", Harley (hyped up on a sex spell) gives [[LivingAphrodisiac Poison Ivy]] the best orgasm she's ever had... resulting in Ivy's pheromone powers enveloping Gotham City and causing everyone to become horny for whoever's next to them. |
| 142 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries''... that one was the result of a Love Potion that was just a BIT too effective... |
| 143 | * The ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' episode, "Where Walks Aphrodite" has the whole town under a love spell. Animals ''(Like Scooby Doo)'' are the only one's unaffected by it. Interesting in the fact that other than being overly mushy with each other (and occasionally trying to kill Scooby on Aphrodite's command), the spell doesn't do much to affect people's personalities. |
| 144 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': The Love Potion Jimmy Neutron created on said series. Used not once, but twice. |
| 145 | * Cupid of ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' has been responsible for some unusual expressions of love, even among the Smurfs' enemies. |
| 146 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E10MuddsPassion Mudd's Passion]]", the crew of the ''Enterprise'' are affected by an airborne love potion. |
| 147 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 Rick Potion #9]]", Rick creates a sci-fi LovePotion for Morty (using Morty's own DNA as a template to target the attraction) that causes those affected by it to become obsessively in love with Morty to the point of wanting to have sex with him then and there. The problem, though, is that the person he uses it on -- his school-crush Jessica -- has the flu. The love potion somehow combines with the flu virus to become airborne and self-replicating, and before long, the entire town (except his blood-relations) is lusting after Morty, regardless of who they are, if they ever met Morty, or what their sexual orientation was before. |
| 148 | * Zig falls victim to this in the ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'' episode "The Scent of The Hyena", caused by a deodorant that attracts everyone around him whenever he raises his arms. |
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| 152 | * The US Army worked upon, but finally dropped, development of a weapon dubbed the "Gay Bomb" -- a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers [[HoYay fall for each other]]. The reasoning was that it would not only incapacitate them, but also embarrass them enough to lower their fighting potential afterwards. Apparently, they never thought about what might happen if they turned out like the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes Sacred Band of Thebes]]... |
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