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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the ''[[The Punisher|Punisher MAX]]'' storyline "6 Hours to Kill", Frank is blackmailed with a cure to assassinate someone. He instead decides to take down as many criminals as possible before dying.
* German comic ''[[Fix
* A heroic trickster variation. In an issue of [[Marvel Star Wars]], Luke told an imperial officer he had poisoned him, and would give him the antidote once he gave Luke access to computer records. Feeling stomach pains, the officer complied, and then Chewbacca knocked him out. Turns out Luke only put soap flakes in the officer's soup.
== [[Film]] ==
* This was the Big Bad's plan in the third ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' movie...
** And in the second one, it was more subtle than that: The [[Big Bad]] wanted stock-options of a company he sold the antidote to, allowing him to get his share when said company made big bucks.
* ...and ditto the second ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' movie.
* ''[[V for Vendetta]]'': The head of the local government gets to his position by spreading a plague through the area, blaming it on enemies, and then, once "elected", distributes a cure through a medical company he has stock in.
* [[Indiana Jones and
* In ''[[Escape From
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* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Vorkosigan]]'' series, Baron Fell of Jackson's Whole has this as the basis of most of his business, selling both traditional military weaponry and their defenses, as well as manufacturing chemical and biological weapons along with their cures.
* A variation occurs in John Collier's famous story ''The Chaser'': [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]] sells a [[Love Potion]] for a pittance which the owner strongly implies will turn the main character's beloved into a [[Love Freak]]. The antidote in this case is the "chaser" of the title, which is some sort of poison to "solve" that problem.
* Thomas of Magnus, the ''hero'' of Sigmund Brouwer's ''Wings of Dawn'', uses
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', Harry pulls a unique subversion by poisoning HIMSELF so that he can strong-arm a faerie with an interest in his survival into cooperating with his plan.
* In ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'' this gambit is used to ensure that Arya couldn't escape prison, as only her captors had the antidote.
* The [[Mega Corp|Corporations]] of ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', particularly HelthWyzer, made a business out of creating new diseases, inserting them into their vitamin supplements, and then selling the proprietary cures at high prices. This practice came back to bite the human race in the butt later, when [[The Chessmaster|Crake]] takes it to the next level.
* In William Gibson's ''[[Neuromancer]]'', protagonist Henry Case is controlled by his employer via sacs of poison placed into his blood vessels.
* The villainous corporation in ''Confessions of Super-Mom'' makes both insulin and cereal, and deliberately uses the cereal to give children diabetes.
* In ''[[Best Served Cold (
* [[Epic Fail|Fails epically]] in the first book of David Weber's ''[[Prince Roger]]'' series. Roger and his Marines are poisoned and ordered to fight for a tin-pot dictator with this gambit... which backfires amazingly because [[Bizarre Alien Biology|they're from a totally different planet]].
* [[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* River Song pulls one of these in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31
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'''Trader''': Interesting, what kind of explosives? *Takes a sip of wine*
'''River''': The kind I just put in your wine. }}
* The Doctor does this to a corrupt and compassionless [[Jerkass]] hospital administrator on an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''.
* Elizabeth does this to get Jim out of prison in the season finale of [[
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In the ''[[Magic:
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Used on a global scale in ''[[
* The original ''[[
* [[Mega Man (
* Eidolons of ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' start out by casting Doom on your party leader, leaving you with a time limit to defeat them. If you beat them, though, you get a fancy new summon!
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In one episode of ''[[Batman:
** And in an earlier one, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Roland Dagget has stray animals infected with an incredibly virulent new strain of rabies that he plans to sell the cure for.
* In ''[[
* One episode of ''[[Gargoyles]]'' double subverts this. Demona tries to pull a deal of this kind by shooting Elisa with a poisoned dart and coercing the gargoyles to help her, but unbeknownst to her [[Pocket Protector|Elisa's badge deflected the dart]]. The Gargoyles spring the trap anyway, out of curiosity, and so Demona will think she succeeded.
** An extra twist comes up in the end, [[I Lied|when Demona gloats that there]] ''[[I Lied|is]]'' [[I Lied|no antidote]] right before she gets away. Thank God for that badge...
* This launches the main plot in the [[One
==Web Comics==
* In ''[[Oglaf]]'' Sandoval poisons Ivan, then he drinks some of the antidote, and pours whats left on his penis. {{spoiler| He later says that the antidote was also poison.}}
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' got an plot line in which Martellus poisoned Agatha with something that stays put and made himself produce antidote to make sure she wants him to remain alive and nearby. Then she knocked him out (he's good at fighting, but overconfident) and applied the same to her pet weasel, since this was faster than trying to undo the problem… Since the authors don't subscribe to [[Magic Antidote]] laziness, this was a serious threat, but had a little side effect. Martellus stars in the next arc, but when we see him again, {{spoiler|he was comatose — almost killed by his own antitoxin, and needed ''her'' to neutralize it in turn}}. This happened very slowly, but by the time he realized what's up, he had no time to fix it, only tell his sister what to do and get himself on lifesupport.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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