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== Films -- Live-Action ==

* In ''[[Outbreak]],'' one of the CDC doctors contracts the disease (a hemorrhagic fever with a near-100% fatality rate), and is hanging on by a thread when she's given the antiserum. Barely a day later, the splotches on her skin have disappeared, and she's looking tired but otherwise perfectly fine. FYI, hemorrhagic fever causes massive internal bleeding and organ damage. Much of this damage should be permanent even if the disease was arrested, and certainly would not be healed in a single day.

* ''[[Batman Begins]]''. The antidote to the fear poison took mere seconds to not only undo its effects, but also conferred resistance for days. This might be a bit justified, as some drugs which counteract psychoactive substances have a very quick onset.

 

{{quote| ''Bleeding and weak I reached my women, who, accustomed to such happenings, dressed my wounds, applying the wonderful healing and remedial agents which make only the most instantaneous of death blows fatal. Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat. They soon had me patched up so that, except for weakness from loss of blood and a little soreness around the wound, I suffered no great distress from this thrust which, under earthly treatment, undoubtedly would have put me flat on my back for days.''}}

* Averted in the ''[[Belgariad|Malloreon]]'' -- it takes Zakath several days to recover from [[Perfect Poison|thalot poisoning]].

 

 

* In the 2000s ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', receiving an infusion of blood from a half-Cylon fetus spontaneously caused President Roslyn's cancer to go in remission, at a point where she was ''hours'' away from death. {{spoiler|Though the cancer does come back a year and a half later.}}

** Averted hard during the Kobol arc, one of Tyrol's men is wounded and his lungs are slowly filling with fluid. They used the last of the medication to treat this in one of their medkits, and they left the other medkit by the Raptor crash site in their haste to evacuate the area. Tyrol, Cally and a [[Red Shirt]] [[Find the Cure|have to go back for the medkit]] before the wounded man dies. {{spoiler|After losing the [[Red Shirt]] they finally get back to the wounded man with the medkit - except now it's too late. Even though the man is still alive and concious, there's nothing they can do with any of the material in either of their medkits now, except to grant the wounded man a peaceful death}}

** The most bizarre example is probably season two's "Euphoria". How on earth can {{spoiler|Foreman recover with no lasting symptoms after having been infected with a parasite that literally eats his brain cells? The only side-effects he suffers come from the "lobotomy" Cameron gave him.}}

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Angel is approaching his final moments due to a nasty poison, yet he was still able to pick up an unconscious Buffy and carry her to a hospital immediately after getting the antidote. Of course, he's already dead, so it's not clear what kind of damage the poison was doing in the first place. It's explicitly a magical poison, and the antidote, a Slayer's blood, doesn't cure him so much as magically eradicate it.

 

== Web Comics ==

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* Zoom in the ''[[Hot Wheels Battle Force 5]]'' episode "Man Down" fits this trope to a "T".

* Averted in ''[[Korgoth of Barbaria]]'', where Korgoth must take the antidote for several seasons for it to work.

* Possibly [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in a [[Find the Cure]] episode of ''[[Generator Rex]]''. The individuals affected by the poison are shown on IV drips after the cure is found, implied to have been there overnight, and it's never said quite how long they had to find it.