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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[A Distant Soil]]'': Colleen Doran uses this early on in her comic. Jason is offered some wine by the seemingly-kind Sere. He asks her to drink hers first, which she does. He then takes a few sips of his. One of Sere's servants then enters with a small metal tube, which Sere injects into her
* In a flashback in ''[[Batman]] R.I.P'', we see Bruce Wayne drinking with a little Asian man in the Far East. The man then reveals he poisoned Bruce's cup. However, {{spoiler|the man himself begins to fall victim to the poison. Turns out, according to Bruce, "You blinked. I switched the cups. [[Crazy Prepared|Force of habit]]."}}
* The very first ''[[Spy vs. Spy]]'' cartoon in ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' featured the black spy and white spy both subtly disposing of the tea they were supposed to be having by tipping it onto the floor. Two cats see the tea and lap it up, and are shown dead in the final panel.
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* ''[[The Assassination Bureau]]'': Ivan Dragomiloff sees the countess pour poison into his chalice. He spins both chalices on a rotating table and the countess refuses to drink since she does not know where the poison is. Dragomiloff drinks the non-poisoned wine and fakes death. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assassination_Bureau\]
* Not so much a switcheroo in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]'', as much as Yzma's underling Kronk simply ''forgetting'' which chalice he poisoned. He deals with it by mixing the drinks in all the cups together, then frantically signaling to Yzma not to drink hers.
* ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' features a subversion. After going through a long [[I Know You Know I Know]], Vizzini [[Look Over There|distracts]] the Man In Black and switches the goblets, then carefully waits for his opponent to drink first (since presumably the Man In Black would try to weasel out of drinking if he thought he was about to drink from the poisoned cup). Turns out {{spoiler|the Man In Black [[Take a Third Option|poisoned]] ''[[Take a Third Option|both]]'' [[Take a Third Option|chalices]], revealing to Buttercup afterward that [[Acquired Poison Immunity|he had built up a tolerance to the poison used]]}}. Ironically, ''both'' sides of his [[I Know You Know I Know]] were correct -- "I cannot choose the wine in front of you" and "I cannot choose the wine in front of me"
* ''[[Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind]]'' had a fairly straight use of the trope. Patricia brings Chuck Barris a tray with two drinks; Chuck's is poisoned. She loses her attention for a moment, then comes back and notices the tray has been reversed. While Chuck isn't looking, she reverses it again. {{spoiler|And she winds up choking to death on poison. Chuck hadn't reversed the tray, he just moved the objects on the tray around to make it look like he had.}}
* ''[[The Court Jester]]'' has an early parody of this trope, although it was trying to remember which cup was poisoned, rather than switching them.
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** Turned [[Up to Eleven]] in ''[[The Naughty Nineties]]'', where Costello's character ends up having a drink with the [[Big Bad]]. At one point Costello loses track of who has the poison, so he dumps it into a potted plant. [[That Poor Plant]] whithers away and dies, prompting Costello to wipe his glass out ''very thouroughly.''
** Happens to Lou again in Pardon My Sarong, when he and the island chief are having a "friendly" drink. Lou comes out on top of for this one.
* Subverted in a terrifically cool way in the Hong Kong movie ''Color of the Truth''. Evil Mob Boss visits Hired Mooks in their hideout bearing celebratory bottles of wine. Head Hired Mook suspects
* Used in multiple ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' shorts. In one notable instance, Shemp and the villainess take turns distracting each other and swapping their wine glasses. The [[Genre Savvy]] villainess, however, simply taps the glasses together when it's her turn, causing Shemp to swap the glasses around again and give himself the poison.
* Another variant appeared in Bob Guccione's ''[[Caligula]]''. Emperor Tiberius warns young Caligula that somebody is going to kill Caligula, and hands him a goblet of wine. Caligula hesitates and hands the glass to his brother. Tiberius intercepts the goblet and passes it to a slave, who takes a drink and promptly dies.
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* In the [[Agatha Christie]] short story ''Accident'', a man suspects a woman of being a murderer. Before he can be certain, he must take a drink she offers him. He waits for her to drink first {{spoiler|but doesn't notice that she pours her drink into a plant}}.
** In ''Curtain'', {{spoiler|20th century Iago Stephen Norton has manipulated Barbara Franklin into trying to poison her husband. While everyone else is looking at meteors, Hastings, completely unsuspecting, swivels the table around to get at a book, and Barbara drinks the poisoned coffee.}}
* ''[[In Death]]'': Non-lethal drug example. Whenever [[Determinator|Eve]] goes too long without sleep in the middle of a case, Roarke will usually try to push food and sedatives on her. On one occasion, she switches their bowls of soup with a snarky comment and starts to
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== Western Animation ==
* Done in a ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short where Bugs and Yosemite Sam keep swapping drinks. Bugs eventually starts the whole table spinning. Sam stops the table and forces Bugs to drink at gunpoint. He still gets the wrong glass.
* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'', Yzma tries to kill Kuzco by having his drink poisoned. During the meal, Kronk, the one to initially poison it, gets the drinks confused and ends up putting the poison in all three of them (and informs Yzma of this fact so she won't drink hers - Kronk pretends to drink but actually holds the glass just on the other side of his mouth and pours it onto his shoulder while making gulping noises while Yzma throws the drink into a nearby plant), but it turns out none of the drinks were poisoned in the first
* In an episode of ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'', Obi-Wan and Anakin use [[The Force]] to pull this trick off on a gang of pirates. But then they get knocked out anyway [[All There in the Manual|between episodes]]. Because the lead pirate's pet sees them and uses a gas to knock out ''everyone''.
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