An index for all tropes related to poisons, toxins, and venoms (and their cures).
Tropes:
- Acid Attack
- Acquired Poison Immunity: A character has been exposed to so many poisonous substances that they've developed an immunity to being poisoned.
- Aerosol Spray Backfire: A sprayed substance accidentally winds up affecting the user too.
- Ate the Spoon: A substance is shown to be highly corrosive by having it destroy a spoon being used on it.
- Bad Powers, Good People: A good character has powers that are usually associated with villains, such as generating and releasing deadly toxins at will.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Stinger tails can be Poisoned Weapons.
- Bits of Me Keep Passing Out
- Bitter Almonds
- Carrying the Antidote
- Clean Food, Poisoned Fork: The food or drink itself isn't dangerous, but the utensils included with it are.
- The Corruption: A force of evil that gives its victim(s) superpowers.
- Cyanide Pill
- Deadly Gas
- Deceased and Diseased
- Drugged Lipstick
- Enemy to All Living Things: This character's powers/aura hurt everything that breathes.
- Evolutionary Pressure Cooker: Classical gu
or kodoku was described in folklore as an attempt to create a strong poison (or alternatively, a curse).
- Find the Cure!
- Finger-Licking Poison
- The Food Poisoning Incident
- Garden of Evil: An evil garden, often filled with poisonous plants.
- Goo It Up
- Grimy Water
- Hollywood Acid
- Improbable Antidote
- Instant Fish Kill
- Instant Sedation: A character is drugged and is instantly knocked out.
- Kiss of Death
- Knockout Gas
- Know Your Vines: A harmless plant can look very similar to one that's quite dangerous to touch or eat, so you'd better be careful if you don't know the difference.
- Laxative Prank: Tricking a person into consuming a laxative.
- Lethal Eatery: A place where you are likely to get food poisoning.
- Magic Antidote: Unlike real medicines, which require time, patience and ample testing beforehand, this incredible antidote shuts down poisoning decisively, efficiently, and almost instantly.
- Make Them Rot: The power to make material decay.
- Master Poisoner
- Medication Tampering
- One Dose Fits All
- The Paralyzer
- Perfect Poison: A poison that is undetectable and can cause instant death in low doses.
- Poison and Cure Gambit: Coercing people into doing what you want them to by poisoning them and withholding the antidote until they've done as you've ordered them to.
- Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: Foiling an attempt at poisoning you by swapping your drink with the one of the person trying to poison you.
- Poisoned Drink Drop
- Poisoned Weapons
- Poison Is Corrosive
- Poison Is Evil
- Poisonous Person
- Poison Ring
- Polluted Wasteland
- Self-Poisoning Gambit: A character deliberately gets themselves poisoned as part of their plan.
- Stalling the Sip: A character's spiked a drink with a chemical compound, intended to either sicken them, incapacitate them, or do something else, but either they have a change of heart, or someone unintended is about to take a sip! Whatever shall they do?
- Suck Out the Poison
- Tainted Tobacco
- Tampering with Food and Drink
- Technicolor Science: Chemicals of all kinds (including dangerous ones) can be recognized by being brightly coloured.
- Technicolor Toxin: Poison can be recognized by its sickening, abnormal or bright color; green and purple are particularly common choices.
- That Poor Plant: A plant withers and dies after having a toxic substance poured into it.
- Toxic Dinosaur
- Toxic, Inc.: A company that pollutes heavily.
- Toxic Phlebotinum
- Toxic Waste Can Do Anything: Mutations and super powers caused by exposure to toxic waste.
- Tranquillizer Dart
- Universal Poison
- Walking Wasteland: A being whose very presence causes the land around them to become withered and corrupted.
- Water Source Tampering
- Withholding the Cure
