Cyanide Pill: Difference between revisions

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* This was used for humor in a commercial for Dockers pants. The commercial showed a shifty looking fellow grabbing some papers and quickly walking his way through the corridors of a building, shadowy men in sunglasses following him all the while, just behind him. One slips into the elevator with him just as the door closes, prompting him to pop something into his mouth and audibly gulp it down. The shadowy figure leans over and says, "Nice pants." Cut to dumbfounded spy's face and the commercial ends.

* In a chapter of ''[[Black Jack]]'', Pinoko swallows a cyanide pill that she found in the surgeon's bag, thinking it was ordinary medicine. Black Jack then has to desperately operate on Pinoko to get the pill out before its outer shell melts.

* [[Night of the Living Mooks|The Mariages]] from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'' [[All There in the Manual|Sound Stage X]] will liquefy its body into a combustible liquid and immolate themselves ([[Taking You with Me|and hopefully all nearby enemies]]) when unable to complete a mission.

* In ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'', the hitman that tries to kill Adrian Veidt takes one of these after his attack fails. {{spoiler|Except not really, as Veidt had secretly hired him (trusting in his own skills to keep him alive). In order to silence the unfortunate [[Mook]], Veidt forces a cyanide pill into the his mouth while pretending he is trying to stop him committing suicide.}}

* A ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures]]'' (the Archie comics) story features [[Mook]]s taking suicide pills that set their heads on fire, burning the flesh off. No reason not to do it with style...

* In ''[[Contact (film)|Contact]]'', Jodie Foster's character is given a cyanide pill to use on herself in case anything goes wrong with her spacecraft — according to the film, every NASA astronaut and test pilot is given one of these, for emergencies where dying quickly would be a mercy. In his book ''[[Apollo 13|Lost Moon]]'', Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell mentioned that this had been a rumor for some time, and that it was not true — it would be much easier simply to open the main hatch and depressurize the spacecraft.

* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', film version: in the very beginning, one of the enemy [[Mook]]s kills himself this way after being caught by Alan Quartermain.

* ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' is supplied with a cyanide pill hidden in his briefcase o' tricks in the book ''[[From Russia with Love]]''. He flushes it down the toilet.

** In the first of the films, ''[[Dr. No]]'', the enemy driver kills himself with a cyanide cigarette.