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Almost always the finale of [[Find the Cure]] episodes.
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== Anime
* Averted in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', where Goku takes the antidote to his disease almost immediately after exhibiting symptoms and still spends several episodes in bed.
* ''[[Ranma ½]]''
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* In ''[[The Draco Trilogy]]'', Draco is literally about three seconds from death when his saviour runs into the room, tips some antidote down his throat, and promptly collapses into a coma herself. When she wakes up a few hours later, he's fine.
== Film ==
* In ''[[Outbreak]],'' one of the CDC doctors contracts the disease (a hemorrhagic fever with a near-100% fatality rate), and is hanging on by a thread when she's given the antiserum. Barely a day later, the splotches on her skin have disappeared, and she's looking tired but otherwise perfectly fine. FYI, hemorrhagic fever causes massive internal bleeding and organ damage. Much of this damage should be permanent even if the disease was arrested, and certainly would not be healed in a single day.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek First Contact]]'' uses the scientifically laughable idea of an inoculation against radiation.
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* In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'', Indy is double-crossed and poisoned by Lao Che, so the former would return a diamond to the latter in exchange for the antidote. Chaos ensues, and all the while Indiana becomes progressively dizzier, hotter, and has difficulty breathing. When he swallows the antidote, all these symptoms disappear almost immediately.
* ''[[Batman Begins]]''. The antidote to the fear poison took mere seconds to not only undo its effects, but also conferred resistance for days. This might be a bit justified, as some drugs which counteract psychoactive substances have a very quick onset.
* In ''[[
== Gamebooks ==▼
* In the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' series, Oede Herb is the rarest and most expensive medicinal plant on the whole Magnamund. But it can cure many diseases and poisons, and its effects are nearly instantaneous. In Book 5, ''Shadow on the Sand'', the hero recovers the usage of an arm paralyzed by infectious bacteria in mere seconds. How rare is it? There are only two doses of Oede in the ''entire series''. And you can only get the one in Book 5 if your arm gets infected.▼
== Literature ==
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* Averted in the ''[[Belgariad|Malloreon]]''—it takes Zakath several days to recover from [[Perfect Poison|thalot poisoning]].
* In the ''[[Time Scout]]'', lots of [[Snake Oil Salesman|Snake Oil Salesmen]] sell these on Shangri La. Skeeter starts such a scam but gets interrupted. Ianira may just make the real thing. Skeeter's scheme was based on a [[Sacred Pool]] believed to have such properties near Marcus's childhood home.
* A
== Live-Action TV ==
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*** It's a British show. Of ''course'' tea is the Magic Antidote. There's a large chunk of the British population who would argue that this is true in [[Real Life]].
** ''Doctor Who'' has been using this trope all the way back since its ''first'' season with "The Sensorites".
== Tabletop Games ==
▲=== Gamebooks ===
* Subverted in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. Curing poison or a disease will stop things getting worse, but damaged attributes need to be restored separately. Natural healing is fairly slow and can be accelerated with expert care and bed rest—and some particularly nasty kinds of damage (generally from supernatural sources) can never be naturally healed, requiring magical intervention to repair.▼
▲* In the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' series, Oede Herb is the rarest and most expensive medicinal plant on the whole Magnamund. But it can cure many diseases and poisons, and its effects are nearly instantaneous. In Book 5, ''Shadow on the Sand'', the hero recovers the usage of an arm paralyzed by infectious bacteria in mere seconds. How rare is it? There are only two doses of Oede in the ''entire series''. And you can only get the one in Book 5 if your arm gets infected.
=== Tabletop RPG ===
▲* Subverted in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. Curing poison or a disease will stop things getting worse, but damaged attributes need to be restored separately. Natural healing is fairly slow and can be accelerated with expert care and bed rest—and some particularly nasty kinds of damage (generally from supernatural sources) can never be naturally healed, requiring magical intervention to repair.
== Video Games ==
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* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', ailments can last an inconveniently long time, leading to an adventurer's "[[Nobody Can Die|Beaten Up]]". But the anti-anti-antidote un-un-unpoisons you in a jiffy!
* Subverted in ''Dawn of War II'', the mighty Space Marine Captain Davian Thule is poisoned by the Tyrannids and you must develop an antidote. The antidote stops further damage and keeps Thule from dying, but the organ damage done already is so extensive that he must be put in a Dreadnought sarcophagus to survive.
== Web Comics ==
* Subverted in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''. Varsuvius gets hit by a poisoned arrow which penalizes his/her Strength. Elan [[Chekhov's Skill|Neutralizes the Poison]]. That stops the Strength drain, but V is still weakened by the toxin.
== Western Animation ==
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* Averted in ''[[Korgoth of Barbaria]]'', where Korgoth must take the antidote for several seasons for it to work.
* Possibly [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in a [[Find the Cure]] episode of ''[[Generator Rex]]''. The individuals affected by the poison are shown on IV drips after the cure is found, implied to have been there overnight, and it's never said quite how long they had to find it.
== Real Life ==
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* The [[Placebo Effect]] plays a part in Real Life examples mild enough to be believable. Where no irreparable damage has taken place, administration of a curative (or believed curative) relieves the distress of the symptoms enough to function as if they were already gone.
* Good old [[wikipedia:Aspirin|Aspirin]]. It's one of mankind's oldest and simplest medicines, but the uses to which it can be put are quite startling, with new ones being found on an almost monthly basis. Notable examples include prevention against lots of clot-related diseases, including heart attack, deep venous thrombosis, and stroke.
** This month's{{when}} new use: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15475553 Bowel cancer treatment]
* Magnesium sulfate is one of the only effective treatments for a specific arrhythmia, ''torsades de pointes'' (a very nasty form of ventricular fibrillation that isn't responsive to the usual combo of [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]] and [[Magical Defibrillator]] treatment). It's also quite handy for rapidly breaking severe asthma attacks, as well as stopping premature labor and seizures in eclampsia.
* TPA, a powerful decoagulant, can (in fortunate cases) reverse many of the effects of a stroke remarkably quickly, by breaking up the clot in the brain. However, in order to have this effect, it has to be given within 3 or 4 hours of the stroke. Also, it is risky and not appropriate for everyone, and some strokes are caused by bleeding not clotting, in which case TPA would be fatal.
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