History Main / PepperSneeze

* ''VideoGame/DeathRoadToCanada'' has an event where a character has to sneeze. One option is to make s/he open a bag of spicy crisps and take a big whiff off of that, whereupon s/he sneeze inside the bag and has to eat it. At least you get a {{morale|Mechanic}} increase.

* Used in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', in the episode, ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E09TheIndestructibleMan The Indestructible Man]]''; during a host segment, Joel and the Bots hold their "Undersea Kingdom" parade. Gypsy sneezes when the Pepper Institute float (a giant pepper shaker) passes under her, causing Tom Servo to burst into flames.

** Viking Sam's elephant in "Prince Violent" (or "Prince Varmint," based on who aired it) has this happen. Sam is using him to fire boulders with his trunk at the castle Bugs is guarding. Bugs sprinkles pepper at the elephant which causes his next shot to go directly at Sam.

* Viking Sam's elephant in "Prince Violent" (or "Prince Varmint," based on who aired it) has this happen. Sam is using him to fire boulders with his trunk at the castle Bugs is guarding. Bugs sprinkles pepper at the elephant which causes his next shot to go directly at Sam.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasTheLegendOfTheSunKing'' have Doraemon and gang facing one of Ledina's minions, the Medicine Master, who specializes in using [[MasterOfIllusion his illusions]] to fool the heroes into believing they're being attacked by gigantic monsters. But after locating the Medicine Master who is hiding on a tall ledge above them, Doraemon then puts his automatic antenna on a nearby stone hand, place a pepper shaker on it, and gave the controls to Suneo, the RC expert, who then makes the stone hand fly towards the Medicine Master and blast his face with pepper. Cue the villain sneezing uncontrollably before losing his footing and falling off a ledge. (This happens only in the anime adaptation, the manga uses a different tactic.)

* In Creator/JohnWCampbell's story "Literature/TheBrainStealersOfMars", Rod Blake sneezes when exposed to pepper. This clues Ted Penton into the fact that [[SpotTheImposter he is the real Rod Blake]], since he figures that the {{shapeshifting}} aliens couldn't have spontaneously imitated such a complicated reflex as sneezing.

* In Creator/GKChesterton's ''Literature/FatherBrown'' mystery story "The Salad of Colonel Cray", a key clue to the mystery is some unexplained sneezes heard near the scene of the crime. It is eventually explained that the criminal sneezed when throwing away to the dustbin the pepper that could have been used to counter the action of the poison he was planning to use.

* In ''The Small Bachelor'' by Creator/PGWodehouse, Officer Garroway finds himself unable to stop sneezing after Mrs Waddington throws the contents of a pepperpot in his face.
* In Creator/NaomiNovik's ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' novels, guns that shoot pepper are used to keep dragons from getting too close to the ground during battles.
* In ''[[Literature/ThePusadianSeries The Tritonian Ring'']], when an EvilSorcerer is about to kill the hero and his servant with a summoned fire elemental, the servant throws a satchel of pepper in his face, causing him to sneeze uncontrollably, losing the required concentration and finding himself on the wrong end of the elemental's wrath.

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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasTheLegendOfTheSunKing'' have Doraemon and gang facing one of Ledina's minions, the Medicine Master, who specializes in using [[MasterOfIllusion his illusions]] to fool the heroes into believing they're being attacked by gigantic monsters. But after locating the Medicine Master who is hiding on a tall ledge above them, Doraemon then puts his automatic antenna on a nearby stone hand, place a pepper shaker on it, and gave the controls to Suneo, the RC expert, who then makes the stone hand fly towards the Medicine Master and blast his face with pepper. Cue the villain sneezing uncontrollably before losing his footing and falling off a ledge. (This happens only in the anime adaptation, the manga uses a different tactic)

* Usopp from ''Manga/OnePiece'' has his Pepper Star, which explodes into a huge cloud of pepper causing the enemy to sneeze. Usually goes hand-in-hand with his Caltrops Hell.
* Sansho-kun from ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' is a living pepper container (filled with sansho, a mild green peppercorn commonly sprinkled on barbecued eel). He's managed to weaponize using this by sprinkling his pepper onto Baikinman, leaving him sneezing for enough time to distract him from the other heroes.
* A filler scene in ''Manga/DragonBall'' has Krillin accidentally do this to Lunch, causing her violent alternate personality come out.
* At the beginning of ''Literature/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevil'', Basara rescues Mio from a group of delinquents and uses pepper to cover their escape, causing them to sneeze.
* In episode 46 of ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle'', Kaiya uses magic to create a big pepper sprinkler and use it to make Akari and Ruby sneeze. Akari and Ruby, who are pretending to be a cloud to catch a sleeping Flora, wind up plummeting to the ground after sneezing.

* In the comic book variation of the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' story "Free Wheeling to Wheeling" (Gold Key #3, May 1971), the racers have to tread carefully through a canyon where giant boulders are delicately balanced. Dick Dastardly sends Muttley up in a balloon to sprinkle pepper on the other racers so they'll sneeze and disrupt the boulders' balance. Muttley lets the canister of pepper slip out and it lands on Dastardly. You can guess what happens next.

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* Literary example: ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' features a scene with the Duchess, a sneezing boy, pepper and the verse: "Speak roughly to your little boy / And beat him when he sneezes. / He only does it to annoy / Because he knows it teases."
** In ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'', the Duchess can actually turn into a cloud of pepper to move rapidly around the arena, and wields a pepper mill as a weapon. When defeated, she gets a terrible sneezing fit which ''makes her head explode''.

* Another literary example: in Creator/GKChesterton's ''Literature/FatherBrown'' mystery story "The Salad of Colonel Cray", a key clue to the mystery is some unexplained sneezes heard near the scene of the crime. It is eventually explained that the criminal sneezed when throwing away to the dustbin the pepper that could have been used to counter the action of the poison he was planning to use.
* In ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'' novel ''The King's Buccaneer'', Nakor and Anthony defeat the villain, an evil sorceress, by throwing pepper in her face and then hitting her with a sack of apples. They then run like hell.
* In Creator/JohnWCampbell's story "Literature/TheBrainStealersOfMars", Rod Blake sneezes when exposed to pepper. This clues Ted Penton into the fact that [[SpotTheImposter he is the real Rod Blake]], since he figures that the {{shapeshifting}} aliens couldn't have spontaneously imitated such a complicated reflex as sneezing.
* In ''The Small Bachelor'' by Creator/PGWodehouse, Officer Garroway finds himself unable to stop sneezing after Mrs Waddington throws the contents of a pepperpot in his face.
* In ''The Littles'' whenever the title family has to go anywhere armed the middle child, Lucy, carries a pepper shaker to cause this to happen to any creature that might attack them.
* In Karma Wilson's picture book ''Bear Snores On'', the titular Bear sleeps as other forest animals take shelter from the snow and have a party in his lair. But then the pepper from the stew they're making causes him to sneeze himself awake.
* John Taylor of the ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' series has weaponized this trope to such a degree that he uses it against gangsters, sorcerers, supervillains and all other manner of Nightside riffraff. Never leave home without condiments.
* Played for laughs in Creator/ShelSilverstein's poem "Always Sprinkle Pepper". Why should you always sprinkle pepper in your hair? [[SpoofAesop Because if a hag tries to eat you, when she sniffs your head to see if you smell good, she'll sneeze because of the pepper, decide you're not worth it, and let you go.]]
* In ''Literature/TheGirlWhoNeverMadeMistakes'', the titular girl's first mistake (besides falling down earlier) is accidentally grabbing a pepper shaker to juggle instead of a salt shaker. When juggling the shaker, her pet hamster Hubert, and a water balloon, the pepper makes Humbert sneeze, which startles him into grabbing, and so popping, the water balloon.
* Discussed in ''How to Eat Fried Worms''. Joe tells Alan how fun it would be to pepper a worm that Billy's going to eat. The sneezing fit would render Billy unable to finish the worm. Ultimately, they don't go through with it.
* In ''[[Literature/ThePusadianSeries The Tritonian Ring'']], when an EvilSorcerer is about to kill the hero and his servant with a summoned fire elemental, the servant throws a satchel of pepper in his face, causing him to sneeze incontrollably, losing the required concentration and finding himself on the wrong end of the elemental's wrath.

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''. The mad General Melchett is shown rehearsing his pickup lines in the mirror, including the line; "Darling, I want to cover you in pepper and sneeze all over you!"

* The second episode of ''Series/UltramanTaro'' has Kohtaro, with a young boy and a boy's puppy, being SwallowedWhole by the MonsterOfTheWeek, Live King. The ZAT managed to come up with a rescue plan by dumping a ''ton'' of pepper from atop their planes on the monster, causing Live King to sneeze out both Kohtaro, the child and the puppy.

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* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'': In "Smellorama", when Bear describes the episode's subject of smells, he mentions that spicy smells like pepper make him sneeze. As this happens, an animated pepper shaker sprinkles pepper on his nose, causing him to sneeze.
* Referenced in ''Series/MuppetsTonight'', with Miss Piggy and Billy Crystal parodying ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally''. When Piggy demonstrates how a woman can [[{{Parental Bonus}} fake a sneeze]] to get out of a date, the woman at the next table says "I'll have what she's having ... but with less pepper."
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* In WebComic/CommanderKitty, after CK ends up with [[CloudCuckooLander Fluffy]] [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2012/11/25/up-your-nose/ up his nose]] after a TeleporterAccident, Mittens employs this to [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2013/01/27/graceful-exits-2/ get her out]].

* A ''WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle'' cartoon had Heckle unscrewing the top of Chesty the bulldog's nose and pouring pepper in it to make him sneeze and make hey various objects he was balancing come crashing to the ground.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Bedevilled Rabbit," the Tasmanian Devil captures Bugs Bunny and prepares to cook him, trussing him up like a pig with an apple in his mouth, then shaking salt and pepper all over him. But the pepper makes Bugs sneeze the apple out of his mouth, which lets him talk to Taz and, of course, con him into setting him free.

** In "Porky's Hare Hunt," Happy Rabbit sprinkles pepper over the barrels of Porky's rifle, causing to sneeze. It blows the rabbit's hiding place (a tree) as a result.

** In "Early to Bet," a cat is made to perform a series of penalties after losing to a bulldog at gin rummy. One is "The Gesundheit," where he is forced to chew some bubble gum, blow a huge bubble, then have pepper sprayed in his face he'll sneeze and pop the bubble causing him to be covered in gum.