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Spark9 Gentleman Troper! from Castle Wulfenbach Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#1: Apr 14th 2014 at 5:25:40 PM

The trope Hollywood Acid is about how acid comes in big puddles and dissolves everything. However, its current pic is the warning label for actual acid, which is basically the opposite of the trope. That's not illustrative, the whole trope is about how film acid acts unlike real acid.

I suggest this pic from Roger Rabbit as a replacement.

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Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season
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#2: Apr 14th 2014 at 5:36:20 PM

The description says

"In films, on TV, and in comic books, an "acid" is any liquid that can eat away at and completely dissolve skin and muscle, leaving only bone and sometimes not even that. Even stronger "acids" will melt steel, glass, plastic, concrete, and ultimately everything it comes into contact with. Well, everything except the glass flask that it is stored in."
The only mention of puddles is the note that in some video games, there are puddles of it.

Which that image shows quite effectively — the hand and block of whatever are having pits dissolved out of them, but the test tubes the acid is being poured out of are fine.

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