8,054
edits
Razor Apples: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
HLIAA14YOG (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
|||
| (3 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:razor apple 6941.jpg|link=Visual Pun|frame|Now they've gone too far.]]
You just came home from trick-or-treating. You pour out your candy all over the floor, looking over your hoard.
Line 14 ⟶ 13:
It should be noted that there has ''never'' been a recorded straight instance of this happening; the [[World War II]] example below aside, it is ''entirely'' an [[Urban Legend]]. There ''are'' documented cases of persons attempting to invoke this trope, however.
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the first arc of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', Rena gives Keiichi a box of rice balls. The first one he bites into contains a sewing needle. {{spoiler|[[Unreliable Narrator|But not really.]] It's actually Tabasco sauce, but Keiichi's escalating paranoia has started screwing with his ([[Through the Eyes of Madness|and the viewer's]]) perceptions.}}
* In ''[[I Luv Halloween]]'', Finch fills an apple with razor blades after he and his friends were cheated out of their candy. He gives the apple to a cop. The result isn't pretty.
== [[
* One of the stories in ''[[Halloween]]: 30 Years of Terror'' had Michael put razor blades in candy, [[For the Evulz]].
* ''Odd is on Our Side'', a graphic novel based off the [[Odd Thomas]] series by Dean Koontz, has a miserly man sick of trick-or-treaters trampling his garden pass out candy laced with corn cockle seeds (a Class IV toxin). One kid dies. The worst part? The candy laced with said seeds: candy hearts, purchased on the cheap after Valentine's Day. He was such a bastard he didn't even poison ''good'' candy.
Line 39 ⟶ 38:
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In the beginning of the ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' episode "War Stories," the crew is indulging in a box of fresh apples Jayne bought for them, when Kaylee asks Zoe why she always cuts them with a knife instead of biting in. She relates a story from the war, where the Alliance and Independent armies had a standoff, got to talking, and the Independents mentioned they had no food. The Alliance soldiers tossed over apples—which had "Griswold" grenades in them and before anyone realized it, "[[Your Head Asplode|there's three guys just kind of end at the ribcage]]."
* In an episode of [[Monk]] a man plans to use poisoned candy bars to cover the murder of his wife. However, after the theft of the poison is discovered by his employers he attempts to recover all of the bars before people are killed and the poison is traced to him.
* In an episode of ''[[Leverage]]'', Sophie and Elliot are attempting to teach Parker the art of persuasion. She is told to persuade Elliot to give up his apple for her orange. She does so by claiming to have put a razor blade in the apple, just as Elliot takes a bite out of it, causing him to spit it out.
Line 48 ⟶ 47:
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Insane Clown Posse]] seem to [[Author Appeal|love]] this trope when mentioning Halloween. Check out "Mr. Rotten Treats" and "Halloween on Military Street" to name a couple.
* [[Stephen Lynch]]'s song Halloween contains the
{{quote|Razorblades hidden in Three Musketeers}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
| |||