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* Half-Dragons from {{ADOM}} can vomit acid at the cost of Satiety.

* Half-Dragons from ADOM can vomit acid at the cost of Satiety.

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* Flies spit digestive fluids onto things then scoop it all back up. No chewing required.
* Spitting Cobras can spray their venom into the eyes of predators, blinding them. Unlike many of the fictional examples above, the poison-spit is a purely defensive attack; when hunting, it bites like a standard cobra.
* Vultures and certain seabirds spew their acidic gut-contents at enemies as a defense mechanism.
* Llamas, alpacas, and camels are well-known for their prowess at spitting.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archerfish Archerfish]], fish that hunt insects and land animals by spitting at them.

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* Flies spit digestive fluids onto things then scoop it all back up. No chewing required.
* Spitting Cobras can spray their venom into the eyes of predators, blinding them. Unlike many of the fictional examples above, the poison-spit is a purely defensive attack; when hunting, it bites like a standard cobra.
* Vultures and certain seabirds spew their acidic gut-contents at enemies as a defense mechanism.
* Llamas, alpacas, and camels are well-known for their prowess at spitting.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archerfish Archerfish]], fish that hunt insects and land animals by spitting at them.

* MetalGear Ray spits a beam of high-pressure water with enough force to cut ship hulls and tank armor.

* In ''RealityOnTheNorm'', the local superhero Phil "Llamaman" Nihilist has the power of corrosive spit.

** Dragon magazine #55 article "The Missing Dragons". The Orange dragon could spit out a stream of liquid sodium. The sodium is bad enough as is (it bursts into flames when exposed to air), but if it is sprayed into water it causes a devastating explosion.

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** Spit acid: anhkheg (30 feet), dracolisk (30 feet), black dragon (60 feet), giant slug (60 feet), hordling (10 feet), thessalhydra (30 feet)

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* The lizard-like Enforcers from ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' have a spit attack which, apart from doing damage, also colors the screen green and blinds the player for a moment.

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* Flies spit digestive fluids onto things then scoop it all back up. No chewing required.
* Spitting Cobras can spray their venom into the eyes of predators, blinding them. Unlike many of the fictional examples above, the poison-spit is a purely defensive attack; when hunting, it bites like a standard cobra.
* Vultures and certain seabirds spew their acidic gut-contents at enemies as a defense mechanism.
* Llamas, alpacas, and camels are well-known for their prowess at spitting.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archerfish Archerfish]], fish that hunt insects and land animals by spitting at them.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Boomer can spit the best out of the three Rowdy Ruff Boys, to the point it's considered his special ability, comparable to Butch's force field or Brick's lack of one.

* In ''Franchise/OnePiece'' the Younger Boa sisters can spit poison and Chief Warden Magellan spits bubbles that explode into toxic gas. One of Arlong's luitanants could break trees by spitting water at high pressure.

* One ''Arabian Nights'' miniseries featured a ShapeshifterShowdown between dijin who transformed into camels and elephants to counter a dragon's fire breath.

** Some dragons' [[BreathWeapon Breath Weapons]] come closer to this - for instance, Iron Dragons "breathe" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin molten iron]].

* Metal Gear Ray spits a beam of high-pressure water with enough force to cut ship hulls and tank armor.
* Kirby's main form of offense, puzzle solving and obstacle removal from his first game was sucking up and spitting out objects.

* Spyro the Dragon can launch chunks of earth if he scoops them up in his mouth beforehand. It's not a breath weapon, it's just spitting.
* There is an interesting variant in ''Psychonauts''. The Giant Lungfish boss attacks by belching some boxes, anchors(!) and other heavy stuff at you and then by sucking the air in an attempt to swallow you (temporarily).

* There are several units in ''Warcraft 3'' and ''Starcraft 2'', like the Roach, that have the ability to spit corrosive substances as their primary attack.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Upchuck]], who can swallow and spit back virtually anything he can get hit with.

* ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' foe Mammomax is an acid spitting man-elephant hybrid.

* RoaldDahl's ''TheGiraffeAndThePellyAndMe'' features a magical sweet shop. Among the many delicacies available are Willy Wonka Rainbow Drops -- "suck them and you can [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_willywonkasrainbowdrops_1034.png spit in seven different colors]]".

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Boomer can spit the best out of the three Rowdy Ruff Boys, to the point it's considered his special ability, comparable to Butch's force field or Brick's lack of one.

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* Llamas, alpacas, and camels are well-known for their prowess at spitting.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archerfish Archerfish]], fish that hunt insects and land animals by spitting at them.

* Llamas and alpacas are well-known for their prowess at spitting. So are camels.

* Camels, Llamas and alpacas are well-known for their prowess at spitting.

If you can do all you'd have Super Spit.

Pretty much everyone can spit. Some of you can do so better than others. But can you spit one hundred meters? What about for miles? Wouldn't that be useful. What if you could spit copious amounts of liquid or corrosive materials? Or if your expectorations could ricochet precisely in unexpected directions with exceptional accuracy?

Well, if you can do that, that, that or that...that would be Super Spit.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' the Trolls have stomach acid strong enough to dissolve stone and steel, and will not hesitate to "pre-digest" you in battle.
** Most Trolls use this as a melee attack, which seems reasonable; then there's the Troll King, whose attack has the same range as a throwing axe. Projectile vomit, anyone?
* Many Tyranids from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' sport bio-plasma attacks, which are basically vomiting hellfire. Some Daemons and Daemonhosts literally vomit hellfire.
** And if the Deamons are aligned to Nurgle, they just vomit. Of course their vomit is highly corrosive and will probably infect you with every nasty disease know to man (and a few we missed), but in the end of the day you died because a Daemon puked on you.

** 1st/2nd Edition
*** Spit acid: anhkheg (30 feet), dracolisk (30 feet), black dragon (60 feet), giant slug (60 feet), hordling (10 feet), thessalhydra (30 feet)
*** Spit poison: guardian naga (30 feet), giant spitting snake (30 feet)
*** Blinding spittle: Cat Lord (until magically cured), nereid (20 feet, 2-12 minutes), muckdweller (squirt stream of muddy water 10 feet).
*** If it hits a hard, cold surface, a gibbering mouther's spittle will create a bright flare of light that can blind opponents for 1 minute.
*** Soldier termites could spit an irritating substance similar to kerosene up to 10 feet away which could blind any creature for 5-20 minutes. If the fluid was ignited it could burn the target as well.

*** More specifically, the ''Draconomicon'' teaches that the magical energy of a D&D dragon's breath weapon is stored in the stomach, not in the lungs; this is what is meant by "vomit weapon". The expelled effect is explicitly magical, though—it is mystical energy, and not a biological by-product as found in some other D&D creatures.

* Llamas and alpacas are well-known for their prowess at spitting.
** So are camels.

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RealLife: camels are famous for their spitting abilities.

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Discussed in an episode of ''{{Seinfeld}}'' parodying OliverStone's film ''{{Film/JFK}}'', where Kramer & Newman think that Yankees player Keith Hernandez spit at them after a game.
-->Jerry:According to your story Keith passes you and starts walking up the ramp. Then you say you were struck on the right temple. The spit then proceeds to ricochet off the temple striking Newman between the third and forth rib. The spit then came off the rib turned and hit Newman in the right wrist causing him to drop his baseball cap. The spit then splashed off the wrist, pauses - in mid air mind you- makes a left turn and lands on Newman's left thigh. That is one [[MagicBullets magic loogie]].

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* In ''Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho'', Sir Max's spit turns into an acidic contact poison ([[RequiredSecondaryPowers which he is immune to]]) as a side effect of a curse cast upon him by an ancient undead Magister in book one.

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* In the movie ''{{Shrek}}'', when gazing at the stars, Shrek points out a constellation to Donkey - Throwback, the only ogre to spit over three wheat fields.

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You might want to seed your examples by stealing ones from the BeamingGrin page which fit this trope, assuming the consensus is that this trope isn't just TheSameButMoreSpecific to BeamingGrin.

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* ''[[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Largo LaGrande]]''.

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Related to BulletSeed.
* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'': "In a spitting match nobody spits like Gaston!"
-->I'm especially good at [[ExpospeakGag expectorating]].

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BOFH, I'm going to need more details.

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One of the basic weapons in ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'''s creature stage allows spitting, the only ranged attack available.

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I'm surprised we don't have this.

In ''MortalKombat'', Reptile uses an Acid Spit move for his projectiles.

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* ''BuckarooBanzai''. Red Lectroids can spit a small starfish-like alien that inflicts a lethal poison on the target. Not only that, but when the starfish hits, the victim can be BlownAcrossTheRoom.

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* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' really liked this trope.
** 1st/2nd Edition
*** Spit acid: anhkheg (30 feet), dracolisk (30 feet), black dragon (60 feet), giant slug (60 feet), hordling (10 feet), thessalhydra (30 feet)
*** Spit poison: guardian naga (30 feet), giant spitting snake (30 feet)
*** Blinding spittle: Cat Lord (until magically cured), nereid (20 feet, 2-12 minutes), muckdweller (squirt stream of muddy water 10 feet).
*** If it hits a hard, cold surface, a gibbering mouther's spittle will create a bright flare of light that can blind opponents for 1 minute.
*** Soldier termites could spit an irritating substance similar to kerosene up to 10 feet away which could blind any creature for 5-20 minutes. If the fluid was ignited it could burn the target as well.

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This one isn't about distance or using it as a weapon, but I think it's an example. The picture could be the page image, though short wide images aren't my favourite on articles.

* RoaldDahl's ''TheGiraffeAndThePellyAndMe'' features a magical sweet shop. Among the many delicacies available are Willy Wonka Rainbow Drops -- "suck them and you can [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_willywonkasrainbowdrops_1034.png spit in seven different colors]]".

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One of the freshmen in ''SkyHigh'' has this ability.

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Okay, now we have more than the required number of examples, lets talk about the proposed split.

Originally BeamingGrin described the ability to shoot lasers or energy beams from your mouth, the name partially based on the "Firin My Laser" "Shoopdawoop" meme from Dragon Ball. It's then mutated into anything at all coming from anyone's mouth and got renamed to "breath weapon". MakeMeWannaShout and BulletSeed were deemed different enough to be split off, is this?

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* In DragonballZ, Dabura's spittle turned things to stone
* There is a spell in D&D that allows a druid to blind her opponents with caustic goo. There are also two spells that allow the user to spit vipers.

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* In OnePiece, one of the Gorgon Sisters can spit corrosive poison in her half-snake form. Chief Warden Magellan spits bubbles that explode into toxic gas. One of Arlong's luitanants could break trees by spitting water at high pressure. (I think Franky can attack by spitting rivets. Could someone confirm?)

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The xenomorph in the Film/{{Alien}} franchise has the ability to spit an extremely potent acid, assumed to be its own acidic blood.

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There are several units in [[Warcraft Warcraft 3]] and [[VideoGame/StarcraftII Starcraft 2]], like the Roach, that have the ability to spit corrosive substances as their primary attack.

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* ''Film/StarshipTroopers''. The giant Tanker Bug can spray a flammable substance from its mouth which is ignited by an electrical spark, thus making it a living flamethrower.

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* In ''PowerpuffGirls'', Boomer can spit the best out of the three Rowdy Ruff Boys, to the point its considered his special ability, comparable to Butch's force field or Brick's lack of one.

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''Pokemon'': Besides BulletSeed, there's Gastro Acid, which, as its name suggests, involves spitting stomach acid at the opponent. Acid Spray is quite similar. Spit Up involves spitting up whatver the Pokemon swallowed and shooting it at the opponent, often after the move Stockpile or Swallow. I'm not sure if moves like Flame Thrower count or not.

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* Zeitgeist from X-Men has the ability to vomit acid on his enemies. He discovers his ability after getting drunk and disfiguring a girl by accidentally barfing on her.

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One of the implants Space Marines in {{Warhammer40000}} receive is a gland thta lets them generate acid spit. The FantasyFlightGames RPG has rules for using it as a close range shooting attack.

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All my attempts to add to the examples end with everything under literature deleted...help.

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{{Ben10}} has Upchuck, who can swallow and spit back virtually anything he can get hit with.

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* The trope namer would be ''Film/SkyHigh''.
-->'''Boomer:''' Super spit? [[BillBillJunkBill Sidekick]]...
-->'''Kid:''' ''[taps his shoulder and points]''
-->'''Boomer:''' ''Acid'' spit. Hero!

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* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', the "Magic Cyrokit" - containing the personality of the company's deceased MadDoctor - [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilds]] [[{{Cyborg}} Doythaban]] after a Schlock-induced [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] with a variety of [[IncrediblyLamePun secreted weapons]], including explosive saliva, acid urine, and even "[[SolidGoldPoop shaped charges]]".

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I screwed up that Pokemon one. Stockpile comes first, *then* either Spit Up (this trope) or Swallow (regains health).

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In Rogues to Riches, a pair of rogues stage a spitting contest as a distraction to get them out of a rather uncomfortable situation.

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I believe this is [[JustLaunchItAlready go for launch]].

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* On ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' an Alpha had the power to spit acid. He used this to blind his opponents in an underground fighting ring.

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* ''DungeonsAndDragons''
** Spit poison: {{Ravenloft}} supplement ''Chilling Tales'', adventure "The Surgeon's Blade". The MadScientist Emil Bollenbach created a hybrid monster with the body of a hog and the head of a snake. It can spit poison up to 30 feet.
** Some dragons' [[BreathWeapon Breath Weapons]] come closer to this - for instance, Iron Dragons "breathe" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin molten iron]].
** 4th edition dragon breath weapons are technically ''vomit'' weapons. The edition also adds the Dragonborn as a core PlayerCharacter race, who possess their namesakes' signature attack.
*** More specifically, the ''Draconomicon'' teaches that the magical energy of a D&D dragon's breath weapon is stored in the stomach, not in the lungs; this is what is meant by "vomit weapon". The expelled effect is explicitly magical, though—it is mystical energy, and not a biological by-product as found in some other D&D creatures.

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* Besides ''{{Pokemon}}'''s BulletSeed, there's Gastro Acid, which, as its name suggests, involves spitting stomach acid at the opponent. Acid Spray is quite similar. Spit Up involves spitting up whatever the Pokemon swallowed and shooting it at the opponent, often after the move Stockpile.
* In ''MortalKombat'', Reptile uses an Acid Spit move for his projectiles.
* One of the basic weapons in ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'''s creature stage allows spitting, the only ranged attack available.

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* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', the "Magic Cyrokit" - [[BrainUploading containing the personality]] of the company's deceased MadDoctor - [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilds]] [[{{Cyborg}} Doythaban]] after a Schlock-induced [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] with a variety of [[IncrediblyLamePun secreted weapons]], including explosive saliva, acid urine, and even "[[SolidGoldPoop shaped charges]]".

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Upchuck]], who can swallow and spit back virtually anything he can get hit with.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Boomer can spit the best out of the three Rowdy Ruff Boys, to the point it's considered his special ability, comparable to Butch's force field or Brick's lack of one.

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* Llamas and alpacas are well-known for their prowess at spitting.
** So are camels.