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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Inuyasha]]'' there are several, including Sango, Yakorou Dokusen and Mukotsu from the Band of Seven who almost succeeded {{spoiler|in killing half the titular character's team}}.
* Himeko of ''[[Get BackersGetBackers]]'', and also her brother.
* Abe no Kaii in the ''[[Lone Wolf and Cub]]''.
* The herbalist Pink, of the [[Sibling Team]] of Pink & Link, from ''[[Ranma One Half]]''. The former specializes in plant-based poisons, the latter, in medicines, but both of them are deadly at their craft. Kodachi Kuno is a lesser example.
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* Mejai from ''[[Le Scorpion]]''
* This was Poison Ivy's original schtick in the ''[[Batman]]'' comics, before she became a Poisonous Person.
** Another ''Batman'' villain, [[The Joker]], was a prodigy at this. In both the [[Batman (Filmfilm)|1989 movie]] and the [[Batman: theThe Animated Series|animated series]], he developed "binary compounds" by which he could succeed in murdering victims with the ''second'' exposure, thus appearing not to have been directly responsible for their deaths. The man's chemistry skill is such he can create incredibly toxic compounds out of nothing but the contents of a janitor's closet.
** Yet '''another''' ''Batman'' villain, Scarecrow, concocts fear toxins to give targets nightmarish hallucinations.
* Doctor Poison from ''[[Wonder Woman]]''.
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* Lord Downey, head of the Assassins' Guild in ''[[Discworld]]'', is rumoured to be this. There is no record of anyone Lord Downey may have wanted to inhume ever being poisoned, however. Which may just indicate that he's ''really good at it''.
* Sadi of Nyissa in ''[[The Malloreon]]''. In fact, most Nyissans, though Sadi is a standout. He's also a master pharmacologist, a drug-dealer, and an all around useful guy, who has weaponised a wide variety of toxins and chemical concoctions, and fights with [[Poisoned Weapons]]. Surprisingly, he's one of the protagonists, and one of the rare fictional examples of a truly [[Badass]] eunuch.
* The poisoner from ''[[Best Served Cold (Literaturenovel)|Best Served Cold]]'' by Joe Abercrombie, Morveer.
* This is a large part of Fitz's training in ''Assassin's Apprentice'', the first book of the ''[[Realm of the Elderlings (Literature)|Realm of the Elderlings]]'' series.
* In ''[[Dune]]'' poison is almost an accepted science.
* Farran the Poisoner in the ''[[Redwall]]'' series. He [[The Voiceless|never speaks,]] [[The Stoic|never shows any emotion]] ([[Not So Stoic|except at his death]]) and ends up causing a bit of havoc (being responsible for the deaths of two hares and poisoning the entire food and drink supply of Salamandastron, before being [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]] when Lord Urthstripe crams all of the various poisons he carries down his throat.
* In ''[[The Demon Princes (Literature)|The Demon Princes]]'', the planet Sarkovy's [[Planet of Hats|Hat]] is brewing and finding creative ways to administer poisons. The higher ranks of their grand masters can be [[Poisonous Person|Poisonous Persons]], although in a touch of realism, these people tend to die rapidly themselves. Hero Kirth Gersen spent several instructive years there, to the point of being able to outwit and infect a rival Master Poisoner.
* Durzo Blint, of the ''[[Night Angel Trilogy]]'' is a wetboy ("Wetboys are to assassins like a tiger is to a kitten.") who excels at poisoning.
* One of [[Fu Manchu]]'s numerous nefarious talents.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Livia, and later Agrippina, from ''[[I, Claudius]]''. Livia's simple "Don't touch the figs" will send ''chills up your spine''.
** A one-scene wonder has Livia talking shop - [[Don't Explain the Joke|by which we mean multiple murder by chemical means]] - with Martina, another Master Poisoner, played by the same actress who portrayed the cheerfully insane Nursie in [[Black AdderBlackadder]]. The two debate the relative merits of different poisons and their antidotes over dinner, only for Martina to go white with fear at the sudden thought that Livia might have poisoned her. Livia laughs it off, but the viewer expects Martina to drop dead at any moment, and her ultimate fate is left unspecified.
* Locusta in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S2 E4 The Romans|The Romans]]".
 
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' [[Professional Killer|Assassins]] in all editions that has them as a class or kit.
** [[Dragon Magazine(magazine)]] #39 has an article titled "The Anti-Paladin [[NPC]]". The Anti-Paladin is an aficionado of the art of poisoning, who considers poisoning to be an esthetic pleasure and a means of artistic expression. They have collections of poisons that they use on a regular basis.
** ''[[Dark Sun]]'' bards are known for such a practice and learn to prepare and use more poisons with the level advancement.
* In the D&D lawyer friendly spinoff ''[[Pathfinder]]'', a number of classes such as rogues, assassins and the currently experimental ninjas are proficient poisoners, but it's the [[The Red Mage|Alchemist]], which can not only make poisons, but becomes completely immune to them, can refine them into a more deadly, harder to resist form, make them last longer on the weapon and make them in a fraction of the time with reduced material costs.
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Axe Cop (Webcomic)|Axe Cop]]'' is a rare heroic example.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]]'': The inevitable showdown between the [[Rogues Gallery]]'s two master poisoners occurred in "Harley and Ivy", when [[The Joker]] came looking for Harley Quinn after she had [[Ambiguously Gay|gone to live with Poison Ivy]]. Joker had his goons grab Ivy and sprayed a mist from his poisonous lapel flower in her face. Being a [[Poisonous Person]], of course, Ivy was completely immune.
 
 
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