History Main / PhlebotinumPills

* Miraclo, the drug that gives {{Hourman}} superpowers for an hour in TheDCU.
* Panacea Pills that give Vita-Man (an AlternateCompanyEquivalent of Hourman) powers in ''BigBangComics''.

* The 'performance enhancers' that gave Demon superspeed and enhances strength and reflexes in ''JusticeMachine''.
* In the original SilverAge version of the ''SecretSix'', August Durand was kept alive by a daily pill that counteracted the deadly virus he had been infected with. Mockingbird was Durand's only source of these pills and kept Durand in line by threatening to cut off his supply.

* ''DropDeadFred:'' The green anti-imaginary-friend pills, explicitly stated as without side effects, when described by the doctor, followed by, "They just neutralize that part of the brain that is malfunctioning."
* ''{{Limitless}}'': A pill that unlocks your full potential. Nuff said.

* [[SpiceOfLife Spice]] pills are seen briefly in [[{{Dune}} Dune Messiah]], used by a Guild Navigator, as they rely on the spice for their limited prescience.

* QuintessenceTheBlightedVenom: Quintessence itself. While it does come in liquid form, the ''"consumable"'' (It's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin venom]] still.) kind the protagonists use is in pills.

* Early on, (Gi)AntMan and TheWasp in the MarvelUniverse took Pym Particle pills to grow or shrink. Now they can generate the particles at will. Animated versions of the two usually have belt or wrist devices that trigger size-changing. It should be noted that Pym Particles indeed power all versions; it's just the method of applying them that changes over the years/media.

->''"Ramjet claims his proton pills give him the strength of twenty atom bombs. Do you also take pills that give you the delusion of being a weapon of mass destruction?"''

* In the last chapter of Astrid Lindgren's ''Pippi in the South Seas'' Pippi gave Tommy and Annika "chililug pills" which she claimed would keep them from becoming adults if they swallowed them in the dark and then recited "Pretty little chililug,/I don't want to get bug." When Annika asked why it was "bug" and not "big," Pippi told them an anecdote about a boy who said the latter and ended up growing tremendously tall and thin.

* Venom, the powerful drug that grants its user incredible super-human strength and vitality, from the ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' series. [[ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} Bane]] is the one more commonly associated with it.

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* Venom, the powerful drug that grants its user incredible super-human strength and vitality, from the ''ComicBook/Batman'' series. [[ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} Bane]] is the one more commonly associated with it.

* ''TheMatrix'': "[That Red Pill] is part of a trace program." [[LaymansTerms In other words]], it allows you to get out of the Matrix.

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* [[SuperSerum Energy Steriods]] used by Hodi of ''OnePiece''.

* ''TotalRecall''. While Doug Quaid is on Mars, a psychiatrist tries to get him to take a pill which will cause him to wake up back at Rekall. Quaid ends up spitting it out. The movie doesn't make it clear whether Quaid is hallucinating or not, so we can't be sure whether it would have worked or if it was just one of Cohaagen's tricks.

* Miraclo, the drug that gives Hourman superpowers for an hour in TheDCU.

* Early on, (Gi)Ant Man and the Wasp in the MarvelUniverse took Pym Particle pills to grow or shrink. Now they can generate the particles at will. Animated versions of the two usually have belt or wrist devices that trigger size-changing. It should be noted that Pym Particles indeed power all versions; it's just the method of applying them that changes over the years/media.

* ''Battlestar Galactica (Reimagined)'' features magical pills, called chamalla, which are used by holy oracles and priests to induce visions-- and which are, somehow, also a kind of cancer treatment. When cancer-ridden President Roslin starts to take them, they proceed to trigger wild prophetic hallucinations which help to chart the course of the plot for several seasons.

* ''Battlestar Galactica'' features magical pills, called chamalla, which are used by holy oracles and priests to induce visions-- and which are, somehow, also a kind of cancer treatment. When cancer-ridden President Roslin starts to take them, they proceed to trigger wild prophetic hallucinations which help to chart the course of the plot for several seasons.