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* In ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]'' {{spoiler|President Snow tried to build up a resistance to all of the poisons used to kill his opponents, but wasn't always successful, hence the smell of blood}}.
* In 'The Journey of The Catechist" Etjole Ehomba can talk to animals, and a snake puts a very slight poison into his waterskin due to his politeness. He then shrugs off a poisoned dart after having built up an immunity. At which point the dart shooter decides to switch to much more effective magic, and kills Etjole outright.
* The [[Disgaea]] [[Disgaea Novels|novels]] gives an explanation as to why [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness/Characters|Laharl]] survived being poisoned by [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness/Characters|Etna]] in the [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness|game]], the reason was that his crazy aunt [[Disgaea Novels/Characters|Yasurl]] gave him the same poison when he was little and in her care.
* In ''[[Best Served Cold (novel)|Best Served Cold]]'' by Joe Abercrombie, poison-master Morveer keeps himself resistant to many of his own poisons by regularly consuming them.
* In the ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts|Gaunts Ghosts]]'' novel ''Traitor General'' it is mentioned that the Nihtgane partisans have built up immunity to the poisons in the Untill fauna.
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* Christopher Walken's ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' [[Casanova Wannabe|smooth-talking ladies' man]] character "The Continental" has been maced so many times he's built up an immunity to it.
* In ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' Katherine has built up an immunity to vervain, she can still get disabled by it if taken by surprise by a large enough dose but she gets over it much faster. Stefan uses this technique to get over his addiction to human blood.
* In the ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S1
* In the ''[[Psych]]'' episode "This Episode Sucks", Lassiter is put to sleep with chloroform and then wakes up saying he's been building up an immunity to chloroform over the years.
* ''[[The Cape (2010 TV series)|The Cape]]'', a 2010-2011 series, used it when the titular character, learning he was dealing with a poisoner, took it upon himself to work up an immunity to everything the guy was likely to utilize. {{spoiler|We didn't get to see if the immunities actually HELD, [[Subverted Trope|because the guy just tried to run him through.]] }}
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