'''Basic Trope''': REALLY spicy sauce.
* '''Straight''': Awesome Sauce is spicy enough to be really painful and cause [[FireBreathingDiner those who eat it to breathe flames]].
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Awesome Sauce can a) [[HollywoodAcid eat through solid rock]] and/or b) cause objects to go up in flames just by being near it. It is made with exotic peppers from deep in the jungles of South or Central America, and said peppers are illegal in several countries.
** Awesome Sauce is so spicy that it causes you to spontaneously combust.
** One drop of Awesome Sauce causes your [[YourHeadAsplode head to explode]]!
** Awesome Sauce causes your mouth to burn [[BrownNote just by looking at it]].
* '''Downplayed''': Awesome Sauce doesn't have any unrealistic effects, but it's still enough to send even veteran spice hounds running for the milk.
* '''Justified''':
** Awesome Sauce is the brainchild of a CloudCuckoolander with too much time on his/her hands...and too many chili peppers.
** Awesome Sauce is an industrial acid that just happens to be edible.
** Awesome Sauce is made with ghost peppers, [[TruthInTelevision which are indeed obscenely spicy]].
** Awesome Sauce is brewed to the acidity of an industrial solvent and the spiciness of some kind of chemical weapon because [[IndestructibleEdible it's meant more as a preservative than as a flavouring.]] The acid and spiciness kills the bacteria on meat for storage in the hot climate AS was invented in, not unlike pickling brine. It also "cooks" the meat through chemical action by denaturing its proteins. The sauce itself is meant to be discarded afterwards. As a side-effect, it's a handy way of showing people [[MasochistsMeal how tough/sorry the eater is,]] so it's usually eaten by 1) bored teenagers trying to impress each other, 2) penitents, and 3) dumb tourists (and it's certainly funny watching the [[EagleLand obnoxious Americans]] try to choke it down).
* '''Inverted'''
** : Awesome Sauce freezes everything it comes in contact with, not unlike liquid nitrogen.
*** Awesome Sauce is so cold that it gives you frostbite ''[[TongueTrauma on your tongue]]''.
** Looking at a bottle of Awesome Sauce will cause ''the bottle'' to blow up in flames.
** Awesome Sauce is only mildly hot, but the bottle it's contained in is superheated, requiring protection to handle safely.
* '''Subverted''': Awesome Sauce gives off smoke and eats through the table and plates, but [[FridgeLogic the diners eat it with no ill effects whatsoever.]]
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Then they get stomach ulcers or spontaneously combust.
** Unknown to them, the diners have mutations that allow them to tolerate the Awesome Sauce. TheReveal occurs when the MuggleBestFriend takes a bite and nearly dies of indigestion.
* '''Parodied''':
** In order to handle Awesome Sauce, one has to wear a full Hazmat suit and be certified in the proper handling and disposal of hazardous material.
** Before requesting Awesome Sauce (or anything made with it), one has to sign a waiver. With a lawyer and two witnesses present.
** [[ExtremeOmnivore Bob]] eats Awesome Sauce, is horribly burned from the inside out, to the point where his organs and tissues begin to melt (a la the atomic-bomb victims in ''Manga/BarefootGen''), and he ''comments on how great the sauce is''.
** The effects of Awesome Sauce on an individual are not fully explored (mostly because Bob and friends are too tough for it) but everybody in the dining room hears Bob asking for Awesome Sauce and act like Bob just yelled that he is going to kill himself (they cross themselves, children cry, [[ForDoomTheBellTolls a church bell tolls ominously in the distance]], one of them gives Bob a "young man, there's still so much food worth living to eat!" spiel, etc.)
** All of the super-hot sauces in the pantry have punny names. "Awesome Sauce" is the most normal of them, while the rest are [[GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath overtly-"ex-treeeeemmmmeee!" warnings of death and doom and skulls and crossbones galore]].
** "Awesome Sauce" is the Anglicized name for it. The original name directly translates to "Hey, let's see if we can trick that JerkAss American into eating ''this!''"
* '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes Awesome Sauce has the effects of BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce (aka Hollywood Hot Sauce), other times, it's treated like normal hot sauce.
* '''Averted''':
** Awesome Sauce is only moderately spicy.
** Awesome Sauce is a [[BuffySpeak sauce that isn't a hot sauce]].
* '''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny, wanting to show that this is REALLY hot sauce.
* '''Lampshaded''': "EEEEEEEEYYYYOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! That is one spicy sauce!"
* '''Invoked''': The maker of Awesome Sauce adds in the hottest kinds of chili peppers known to mankind (and a few known to demons), burning primal rage, plutonium, fresh lava from Mt. Kilauea, uranium, and...[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking one whole peppercorn.]]
* '''Exploited''':
** An assassin uses the sauce to hide poison, knowing that his victim won't be able [[BitterAlmonds to taste the poison over the burning.]]
** The local CombatPragmatist uses Awesome Sauce as a poor man's pepper spray.
** Alice tricks Bob into eating food with Awesome Sauce, then demands large amounts of money in exchange for milk.
* '''Defied''':
** The maker of Awesome Sauce doesn't want to cause mass destruction or medical problems with his/her product, and so does not add in anything crazy, and does not use large amounts of incredibly hot peppers.
** "And I want normal-person barbecue sauce, not that psycho warcrime death sauce you serve to crazy people who don't want their tongues any more."
** The food laws of the CityOfAdventure make perfectly clear that hot sauces can't get so far up the Scoville scale that eaters will suffer the side-effects that are standard to this trope. Awesome Sauce, as a result, is a well-made sauce, but that is all there is "Awesome" about it.
* '''Discussed''': "How can they eat that stuff?!"
* '''Conversed''': "I know...you'd think something like that would be deadly..."
* '''Implied''':
** The sauce bottle has an "[--E--]" in the otherwise illegible Scoville number.[[note]]Which doesn't help readability until one reaches 1[--E--]5… or 6[[/note]]
** A very hot chili has only a small amount of Awesome Sauce for a very large batch.
* '''Deconstructed''': If the sauce is that spicy, it can cause serious health problems in those who consume it.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** The makers of Awesome Sauce use only enough spice to give a pleasant heat, not sear off the diners' taste buds and mucous membranes. People like it, and they can continue to eat it because it doesn't burn their insides. They like it better because they can actually, you know, taste something besides pain!
** It's [[AppliedPhlebotinum used for purposes other than food]], such as a weapon.
* '''Played For Laughs''': While playing video games one afternoon, [[StrawMisogynist Bob]] [[StayInTheKitchen orders his girlfriend, Alice]] to go [[MemeticMutation "make me a sammich!"]]. Alice, not appreciating the sexism inherent in being ordered around as such, decides that she'll get back at him... by [[TakeThat adding a douse of Awesome Sauce to the sandwich.]] Unfortunately for Alice, it turns out that Bob really likes it.
* '''Played For Drama''':
** The sauce causes injury or death.
** Alice pranks Bob by dousing his sandwich in Awesome Sauce, knowing he hates spicy food. After eating the sandwich, Bob is in horrible pain for the entire day, while Alice gets a DudeNotFunny reaction from her friends.
* '''Played For Horror''':
** Bob's body is highly susceptible to Awesome Sauce in some fashion (like having an ulcer or being allergic to its ingredients) and eating a whole sandwich's worth ends with him getting a violent reaction [[DeadlyPrank and dying]].
** Bob's senses are completely [[BodyHorror and literally]] mutilated from eating Awesome Sauce. The doctor who checks him out even turns around to Bob's friends and demands to know who was the funny guy who gave him or let him drink battery acid.
** It turns out that all of that propaganda about how Awesome Sauce was made by the Devil was not hyperbolic - the manufacturers sold their souls for the recipe and the secret ingredient is demonic ichor, which damns the soul of all who ingest the Sauce. At least half of that absurd heat is the sympathetic feeling of said souls being DraggedOffToHell.
** Bob eats Awesome Sauce. We then cut to the diner five hours later as firefighters put down a fire that killed Bob and another 50 people and arson investigators believe was caused by either a fire breather act gone horribly wrong or spontaneous human combustion.
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