History Main / PhlebotinumPills

Alternative Title: Phlebotimol

* ''Film/{{Limitless}}'': A pill that unlocks your full potential. Nuff said.

* Miraclo, the drug that gives ComicBook/{{Hourman}} superpowers for an hour in Franchise/TheDCU. This was later played for drama as it became clear the pills were addictive, and he began to suffer withdrawal symptoms and other drug-related issues.

* Miraclo, the drug that gives ComicBook/{{Hourman}} superpowers for an hour in Franchise/TheDCU.

-->-- '''Buster Kincaid''', ''[[http://www.tomparisdorm.com/viewstory.php?sid=4084 Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space]]''

-->-- '''Buster Kincaid''', ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''

* ''OnePiece'':

* {{Naruto}} has the Akimichi clan's food pills. They rapidly convert a certain amount of a user's body fat into usable chakra, which is why their family tend be be on the heavy side. Taking all three at once [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique can be a death sentence.]]

Due to the stigma (it's hard to not imagine that Our Hero is basically using ''super 'roids''), heroes who start this way tend to wind up having the method of powering up changed. You will ''certainly'' never see a hero pop a pill to power up in an AnimatedAdaptation.

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', the three "Biological CPUs" - Clotho, Orga and Shani - used Gamma Glipheptin, a special drug that allowed them to pilot Mobile Suits at the same level as Coordinators, even allowing them to face SEED mode-performing Kira and Athrun. However, they have a horrible side-effect when the effects wear off.

* Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat takes pills for all kinds of things. The novels were [[EverybodyMustGetStoned did after all first written in]] TheSixties!

* Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat takes pills for all kinds of things. The novels were [[EveryoneMustGetStoned did after all first written in]] TheSixties!

* Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat takes pills for all kinds of things. The series did after all start in TheSixties.

* ''ElChapulinColorado'''s "Pastillas de Chiquitlina" (Smallinium/Shrink-o-line pills). Reduce its user to FunSize.

* ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' (1990). 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.

* Early on, [[ComicBook/AntMan (Gi)Ant Man]] 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.

* ''{{Champions}}'' adventure ''The Great Super Villain Contest''. One of the [=NPCs=], the Dash, had Energy Pills that increased his Endurance by 100 points. He needed them because his super powers had high Endurance costs.
* Classic ''{{Traveller}}'' had a number of wonder drugs in convenient pill form, including anagathics (stopped the aging process), fast drug (reduced speed and metabolism to 1/60th of normal), slow drug (act twice as fast as normal), truth drug (compelled truthfulness for 2 minutes), combat drug (improved Strength and Endurance) and several drugs that enhanced psionic ability.

* Miraclo, the drug that gives ComicBook/{{Hourman}} superpowers for an hour in TheDCU.

-->-- ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''

* [[DragonBall Senzu Beans]], which restore a person to full health.

* [[{{Naruto}} The Akimichi clan's]] food pills. They rapidly convert a certain amount of a user's body fat into usable chakra, which is why their family tend be be on the heavy side. Taking all three at once [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique can be a death sentence.]]

* The ''TraumaCenter'' series has this in two flavors: phlebotonium "antibiotic" gel which is used as an antiseptic, surgical glue, or for instantly healing small lasceration and other very minor wounds (the latter property of which is lampshaded to hell and back on it's first appearance); and a phlebotonium serum know as "stabilizer" that increases the patient's vitals instantly upon being injected. The issue of why they don't just put critical patients on a drip of the stuff is HandWaved by stating it "artificially" raises vitals and is actually dangerous to use over prolonger periods.

* VideoGame/{{Quintessence}} - The Blighted Venom: Quintessence itself. While it does come in liquid form, the ''"consumable"'' (It's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin venom]] still.) kind the protagonists use is in pills.

* {{InjusticeGodsAmongUs}} features pills made from Kryptonian nanotechnology that amplifies someone's strength and durability to something comparable to Superman. It acts as the justification for why all the heroes and villains of otherwise varying strengths (i.e. Joker vs. Hawkgirl) can fight on equal footing.

* ''RogerRamjet'''s Proton Pills, which give him the power of twenty atom bombs for twenty seconds.

-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

!!Examples

* [[SpiceOfLife Spice]] pills are seen briefly in ''Literature/DuneMessiah, used by a Guild Navigator, as they rely on the spice for their limited prescience.

* TheStainlessSteelRat takes pills for all kinds of things. The series did after all start in TheSixties.

* In the original SilverAge version of the ''ComicBook/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.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'' 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.