Hollywood Acid: Difference between revisions

** This is actually a nod to the previous AVP fluff, where the Predators are said to have antacid blood that neutralizes the Aliens' acid blood. It will damages their skin but stops once it reaches their blood.

*** Still inconsistent, though. In the first AVP comic Broken Tusk gives the 'scarification' ritual to Machiko Noguchi -- who is a human being -- and yet doesn't melt through her forehead when he slaps on some Xenomorph blood, straight from the gore-dripping severed limb of a recently-dead Xenomorph.

* In ''[[Gremlins]]'' 2, there is a bit with a beaker of acid labeled "Acid: Do Not Throw In Face". One gremlin throws it in the face of another, who then assumes a ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'' mask and cape.

* The goop that Jack Napier falls into in Tim Burton's ''[[Batman]]'' is puke-green and has the consistency of a milkshake. Its later described as "acid". Later in the same film, the Joker's trick flower squirts acid strong enough to eat through thick metal in seconds (when he sprays it on the bolts holding up the church bell).

* Played straight in ''[[Saw]] III''. In the infamous "Angel Trap" scene, Kerry has one minute to grab a key (which, contrary to Jigsaw's warning, never actually dissolves) inside a beaker of highly corrosive acid and free herself from a harness before it tears open her ribcage. By the time she finally retrieves said key, her hand is horribly mangled and the acid is dark red. {{spoiler|What makes the scene even scarier is that the key actually doesn't free her, so she still dies.}}

** An even more ridiculous usage of the substance tops off ''Saw VI'', dissolving a man from the inside out in about ten seconds.

* The Tall Man is killed in ''[[Phantasm II]]'' when the fluid he uses to reanimate corpses is tainted with hydrochloric acid and then injected into him, melting him from the inside-out. If that wasn't improbable enough to bother all of you chemists, this somehow causes his [[Eye Scream|eyeballs to explode.]] Of course, this may be justified as the Tall Man's physiology is alien.

* In ''[[The Rock (film)|The Rock]]'', VX nerve gas is shown to be a corrosive acid. Crosses over with [[Poison Is Corrosive]].

* ''The House on Haunted Hill'' in 1959 had a tank full of acid in the basement as big as a swimming pool, still caustic enough to reduce human bodies to skeletons.

* A janitor is killed by having his head dunked in a sink that was randomly full of acid (or some kind of corrosive chemical) in ''[[Hospital Massacre]]''.

* ''[[Alien]]'' knockoff flick ''[[Deep Rising]]'' features giant worms with stomach acids so strong that they get their nutrition by merely engulfing and digesting their prey alive. The acting effects of this are shown in one particularly gory sequence appropriately know as [[Body Horror|"half-digested Billy".]]

* The 1985 B-grade horror flick ''Attack of the Beast Creatures'' features a whole ''river'' made of acid, which coincidentally looks exactly like normal water. When one person tries to cross it, his body gets dissolved until only the skeleton remains. It's never made clear how such a large body of highly corrosive acid came to exist, nor how the tropical rainforest on the river bank manages to prosper.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** Earlier editions have it too, with spells such as Acid Fog, and a black dragon's Acid Breath. And whenever the stuff is illustrated, expect it to be a bright green.

* A very common damage type in [[Mortasheen]], as well as a more specific Corrosive type of damage that specifically does heavy damage to metal (Perfect for the [[Mecha-Mooks]] the game has as its main villains)

* In the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' games, grog is so acidic that it dissolves the pewter mugs it is served in {{spoiler|as well as the locks on cell doors.}}

* In ''[[Uninvited]]'', the servant ghost kills you by engulfing you into his "misty form", which covers you in a thick, sticky goo that turns out to be acid that not only hurts like hell, but turns you into a "lifeless lump of flesh".

* In the Flash game ''Crush the Castle 2'', acid projectiles play the trope 100% straight. They are green and hissing, will completely dissolve almost any substance it touches, and will leak down, dissolving any objects beneath that the target point directly contacts. This can create a chain reaction which can bring down entire structures by itself. Oddly, though it can disintegrate solid iron, it will not eat through the much softer earth once it reaches down that far, and a few kinds of rock walls are impervious to it. Human targets are naturally dissolved.

* Several ''[[Gauntlet (1985 video game)|Gauntlet]]'' games have puddles of green acid as enemies.