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== Comic Books ==
* Three [[Donald Duck]] stories by [[Don Rosa]] involved a liquid called "The Universal Solvent". It was capable of dissolving pretty much
** Technically the Universal Solvent in the stories doesn't dissolve anything. It compresses the atoms of anything it comes in contact with, turning all matter into a superdense powder. Granted, this is only mentioned in the first story.
* [[Batman]] loves this stuff; it's used to kill the villain in his very first story, ''The Case of the Chemical Syndicate'', and is the comic-book source of Harvey Dent's scars as Two-Face. Deconstructed in Dr. Scott's [http://www.politedissent.com/archives/893#comments article] on an issue where Batman counteracts The Joker's acid by spraying the target with a strong base. Hello exothermic reaction!
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* The goop that Jack Napier falls into in Tim Burton's ''[[Batman]]'' is puke-green and has the consistency of a milkshake. Its later described as "acid". Later in the same film, the Joker's trick flower squirts acid strong enough to eat through thick metal in seconds (when he sprays it on the bolts holding up the church bell).
* The same fate befalls some nameless extras in ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy 1999]]'' as well. Rick even identifies the substance as "Salt acid. Pressurized salt acid." ('Salt acid' is the period-authentic name for [[wikipedia:Hydrochloric acid|Hydrochloric acid]].) Although, in a subversion, the acid here burns the extras rather than dissolving their skin.
* The DIP in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' pretty much acts like
** Slightly justified. The mix of paint-thinners may very well have a green appearance, and it's not unreasonable to have it heated by the motion and such. More pain for the toon, and less viscosity.
* Averted in ''Runaway'', in which the acid sprayed by Gene Simmons' insectoid robots causes ugly black burns on the hero's skin rather than dissolving his tissues.
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** Similarly, Superman's Anti-Kryptonite suit is supposed to be designed to resist corrosion by acid, yet is destroyed by it anyway.
* In ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Jimmy's "[[Call a Smeerp a Rabbit|dog]]" Cerbee actually has acid as waste, which dissolves anything he relieves himself on.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Radioactive Man's actor is [[Memetic Mutation|famous on the Internet for]] getting washed away by a sea of
** Homer was also about to quaff a beaker of acid, but it was knocked out of his hand by Frank Grimes. It splashed all over the wall, creating a hole big enough to drive a car through. Grimes was then chewed out by Mr. Burns for destroying the wall.
*** And for wasting his precious acid.
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