Love Potion / Comic Books

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• Alan Ford: In www.trippazza.trip, Bob Rock ends up in possession of an extremely stinky elixir which makes the user irresistible to all women, regardless of age. However, the potion is faulty and has a secondary effect: if a woman who felt the smell the first time feels it again, she doesn't feel love, but burning hatred instead.
• Aquila: Locusta the witch controls her lover Emperor Nero through a love potion that she's convinced him will boost his powers.
• Archie Comics:
  • Jughead Jones has a special button he can put on his crown that makes him irresistible to women. Considering his lack of interest in romance, however, he doesn't really have any use for it.
  • In one story, Dilton makes one for Betty to use on Archie. She declines using it, but because she dumped the stuff down the sink and into the town's water supply, this caused every guy in the high school to fall for her. Luckily, the water diluted its effects, meaning it would wear off.
• Black Panther: Nakia (a.k.a. Malice) uses a forbidden herb called Jufeiro to make men fall madly in love with her to the point of slavish devotion. She doesn't have too many qualms about using the herb on T'Challa, the target of her obsession, either.
• A variant shows up in, of all places, Crisis on Infinite Earths. In order to get the Ax-Crazy Killer Frost to work with her archfoe Firestorm, Psycho-Pirate used his emotion powers to make her fall in love with Firestorm. By the time Firestorm has gotten used to her acting like a Clingy Jealous Girl, she's reverted back to her crazy self.
• In Eight Billion Genies, Daisy immediately spends her wish to try and get Brian to fall madly in love with her. Unfortunately for her and luckily for Brian, the owner of the bar they're in made his wish to shield the bar and its inhabitants from all wishes, nullifying it. Brian is horrified when he learns what she tried to do, as it would've denied his freedom to choose who he loved. Alex, who was nursing a crush on her, quickly gives up on it after learning this.
• Ironwood: As a student, Suliman Canto slipped a love potion disguised as perfume to the object of his affections. His plan backfired when she ended up having sex with her half-snake female roommate.
• Jonesy: The title character has the power to make people fall in love with...well whatever she commands. Sometimes it's people, sometimes with food or just making jackasses of themselves if they get her riled. Of course, this can end up leading to consequences that she must rectify.
• Nemesis the Warlock: Nemesis uses a spell on Torquemada to make him fall in love with Purity Brown so she can act as a spy for Nemesis. While it works at first, Torquemada's evil will is so strong that he eventually realizes what's been done to him and subconsciously manages to sic a monster on Purity.
• The Sandman: Endless Nights story "What I've Tasted of Desire." When the protagonist tells a witch she doesn't believe her love potions work, the witch replies that "they don't not work," in that they give the user the confidence to make the first move instead of shyly pining away.
• In Squadron Supreme, the Squadron's "Utopia Project" developed a brainwashing device to eradicate criminal tendencies. Golden Archer misused it to make Lady Lark fall in love with him. Even the knowledge that it was the product of brainwashing was unable to shake her love, and the Squadron had specifically designed it to be ineradicable. She did eventually break free, but only after Golden Archer had died.
• Supergirl: In the comic-book adaptation of Supergirl (1984), the witch Selena brews a love potion which will cause Ethan to fall for the first person he sees. Selena manages to trick Ethan into drinking it, but unfortunately for her, Ethan sneaks out of her den as she is busy, and he stumbles into Linda Lee.
  Selena: Now he who drinks the water will fall in love with the first person he sees, as long as the spider is confined, or one day goes by!
  [later]
  Selena: No! NO! He looked at that little twerp and fell in love with her!
  Bianca: At least it proves your love potion works!
• Tales from the Crypt: In "Loved to Death", a man uses such a potion on a woman who hates him. It works far too well; she becomes so clingy that he ends up attempting to poison her. When he himself accidentally consumes the poisoned beverage and finds himself in the afterlife, he's nonetheless relieved that he's free of her... until she herself turns up almost immediately, having committed suicide when she found him dead.
• Teen Titans: Raven's empathic powers functioned this way a couple times. Once was deliberate (she got Kid Flash to join the Titans by making him fall in love with her and then erasing his memory of it), and once was by accident (she made Nightwing have feelings for her despite being in a committed relationship with Starfire). Neither scenario ended up lasting.
• In X-Men, Nightcrawler broke up with Amanda Sefton, a sorceress (and his adopted sister), the first time because he asked if her magic made him fall in love with her, and she couldn't directly say no.
• XXXenophile: One of these, accidentally administered, has unintended consequences in the "Overly Familiar". Unlike many examples of this trope, the effects were apparently permanent (but more of a lust potion), but since both of them already had feelings for each other, neither one had a problem with it.

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