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* Three [[Donald Duck]] stories by [[Don Rosa]] involved a liquid called "The Universal Solvent". It was capable of dissolving pretty much anything—except diamonds. In real life, unless you're an alchemist, the term 'Universal Solvent' usually refers to ''water''...
** Technically the Universal Solvent in the stories doesn't dissolve anything. It compresses the atoms of anything it comes in contact with, turning all matter into a superdense powder. Granted, this is only mentioned in the first story.
* [[Batman]] loves this stuff; it's used to kill the villain in his very first story, ''The Case of the Chemical Syndicate'', and is the comic-book source of Harvey Dent's scars as Two-Face. Deconstructed in Dr. Scott's [https://web.archive.org/web/20131115171351/http://www.politedissent.com/archives/893#comments article] on an issue where Batman counteracts The Joker's acid by spraying the target with a strong base. Hello exothermic reaction!
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== Western Animation ==
* The Batman/Superman episode ''World's Finest'' both subverts this and plays it straight, kinda. When the Joker leaves Superman and Batman trapped in one of Luthor's laboratories (with a chunk of kryptonite slowly killing Superman), Batman begins looking for ways to escape. He finds a container of hydrochloric acid. Batman notes that while it will take a week for the acid to eat through the wall of the room they're in, it will [[Artistic License Chemistry|destroy the kryptonite]] almost immediately.
** To be fair, what the acid did was dissolve the kryptonite... and thus allow it to flow down the drain and out of the room.
** Similarly, Superman's Anti-Kryptonite suit is supposed to be designed to resist corrosion by acid, yet is destroyed by it anyway.
* In ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Jimmy's "[[Call a Smeerp a Rabbit|dog]]" Cerbee actually has acid as waste, which dissolves anything he relieves himself on.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Radioactive Man's actor is [[Memetic Mutation|famous on the Internet for]] getting washed away by a sea of Hollywood Acid while [[Goggles Do Nothing|(understandably) complaining that his protective eyewear is not serving its ostensible function]].
** Homer was also about to quaff a beaker of acid, but it was knocked out of his hand by Frank Grimes. It splashed all over the wall, creating a hole big enough to drive a car through. Grimes was then chewed out by Mr. Burns for destroying the wall.
*** And for wasting his precious acid.
== Real Life ==
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