Tampering with Food and Drink: Difference between revisions

* At one point in ''[[Sakura Gari]]'' [[Yandere|Sakurako]] feeds Masataka a piece of sushi. He quickly spits it out, revealing that Sakurako had snuck in a piece of glass.

** Later, [[Depraved Bisexual|Katsuragi]] invites Masataka over to his home and gives him a cup of tea laced with a sleeping drug. [[It Gets Worse]] in a span of minutes.

** In another scene, Keiichi talks with Dr. Irie who becomes convinced that Keiichi is mentally disturbed and leaves the room to “make some black tea”. Keiichi starts to head towards the restroom, when he overhears Irie speaking to one of his employees, requesting he mix “isomytal and brovarin” (sedatives) into the black tea, hiding it under the taste of milk and sugar.

* Kodachi Kuno of ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]]'' is a good cook who prepares elaborate meals, and she often uses culinary expertise to her advantage by placing poisons, toxins, serums, and other strange substances in her victims' food to attain something she wants from them.

* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'': Bianchi, known as "Poison Scorpion Bianchi" in the Mafia underground, specializes in poison cooking; food items that contain poison and have a nasty color to them.

** Her food also has a tendency to ''melt'' its surroundings.

** Also, when {{spoiler|Princess Charlotte de Orleans aka}} Tabitha was younger, she was at a party with her family where a strange man gave her a glass of wine. Tabitha's mother, meanwhile, saw the man smirk as he walked away. She immediately recognized a potion in the wine and took the glass Tabitha held; [[Heroic Sacrifice|she drank the potion in order to save Tabitha]], [[The Ophelia|and she became mentally ill.]] {{spoiler|She regained sanity at the end, though.}}

** An example where this trope is used to actually '''save''' someone and not harm him/her includes Saito slipping sleeping potion into Louise's wine at their supposed "marriage ceremony" to make her run away and not face the danger {{spoiler|of 7,000 Zombie soldiers. He had his own [[Moment of Awesome]] that day, when he faced them himslef.}}

** Candy that was not only wrapped, but in a SEALED BAG.

* In ''[[Saiunkoku Monogatari]]'', Shuurei is the subject of repeated poisoning attempts during her time as Imperial Concubine. In the most notable instance she's presented with a cup of poisoned sake during a banquet; immediately suspicious but aware that refusing the offer would be a grave insult, Ryuuki drinks it in her place, counting on his better constitution and [[Acquired Poison Immunity]] to get him through it. It still makes him quite sick for a while, and when Shuurei finally finds out, she's torn between being impressed that he basically [[Taking the Bullet|took the bullet]] for her, and being angry at him for taking such a risk. (Not because she's got ''feelings'' for him, or anything - it's just that the civil war that would result from his death would be really bad for the people. [[Tsundere|That's all, really!]])

* In ''[[Pumpkin Scissors]]'', one episode features a visiting princess from a neighboring country, with a particularly draconian rule of succession: Whichever royal child survives, takes the throne. Poison is a favored means of sibling rivalry, and she reveals that on her 10th birthday, the cake was poisoned, causing the death of her favorite maid. The fear of poison is so in-grown in her, that even when eating a hot-dog at a street-stand, where nobody knows who or what she is, she can't take a bite until somebody has tasted it for her first.

== Films -- Animated ==

* In ''[[Shrek]]'' 2 the Fairy Godmother orders the King to slip Fiona a love potion so that she'll fall in love with her son, Prince Charming. The King places the potion in Fiona's tea but finds that he can't go through with it, and gives his daughter a cup of tea that wasn't laced with the love potion instead.

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* In the early Peter Falk flick ''The Bloody Brood,'' Falk plays a psychotic beatnik who feeds some poor kid a hamburger filled with broken glass to watch him die...[[For the Evulz|just for kicks.]]

* ''[[The Court Jester]]'' combines this with [[Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo]].

{{quote| The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.<br />

* In ''[[Kill Bill]] Volume II'', Elle Driver reveals that {{spoiler|she murdered Pai Mei by poisoning his fish heads}}.

* In ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' one of the [[It Was His Sled|dead people the kid sees]] was a small girl poisoned by her stepmother putting cleaning fluid in her soup.

* In ''[[Blind Date]]'', [[Bruce Willis (Creator)|Walter]] uses a tiny syringe to put alcohol in chocolates he has delivered to Nadia because she has an extreme allergic reaction to alcohol.

* The horror movie ''[[Night of the Demons]]'' features a mean old man who puts razor blades in apples on Halloween to do [[Moral Event Horizon|terrible things to children.]] At the end of the movie, {{spoiler|his wife makes an apple pie out of the leftover apples, which he eats. The blades slash through his throat and leave him dead.}}

* ''[[Murder By Death]]''. Lionel Twain arranges for one of the cups of wine served to the guests to have a tasteless, odorless [[Poison Is Corrosive|acidic poison]] in it. It turns out to be a subversion: Twain made sure the cup with the poisoned wine was served to the one guest who could identify it.

* In [[The Three Stooges]] short "Who Done It?", the villainess prepares two drinks and slips poison in Shemp's drink. The two distract each other while they [[Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo|switch the goblets]]. Finally, Shemp drinks down the poison and goes through some hysterical death throes. Naturally, he recovered.

* In ''[[The Assassination Bureau]]'', Eleanora first poisons {{spoiler|her husband Cesare, the Italian assassin}}, then prepares drinks for herself and Dragomiloff, slipping poison in his drink. Dragomiloff spins the table until it stops, picks up the goblet in front of him, drinks down the contents, and falls to the floor. {{spoiler|Of course, he was faking it.}}

* Double Subverted in ''[[Wild Things]]''. When he and {{spoiler|Suzie}} are on the sailboat at the end, {{spoiler|Sam Lombardo}} is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to expect the drink to be poisoned, but is dissuaded when {{spoiler|Suzie}} assures him that she would be an idiot to try something like that, since she can't pilot the boat, and they're all out in the middle of nowhere. It is in fact poisoned, and {{spoiler|Suzie}} is perfectly capable of piloting it by herself. Still, this is not what kills {{spoiler|Lombardo}} - {{spoiler|Suzie}} then releases one of the booms to knock him into the water to drown.

* In the first book of ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' Violet believes Count Olaf poisoned the oatmeal he serves to her and her siblings one morning because he's frankly a horrible guardian who was never nice to them in the entire time they've known him. He quickly proves them wrong by eating one of the raspberries on top of the oatmeal convincing the siblings that it's safe to eat.

** Earlier Violet was thinking miserably that she should've poisoned the sauce she's serving with the pasta for Count Olaf and his troupe considering how they are acting rude and refuse to eat the food the siblings made for them because they wanted roast beef instead.

{{quote| '''Grand Vizier''': Urgent matters of state, my lord.<br />

'''Emperor''': Would these be the urgent matters of state in a little bottle marked "Antidote" on your dresser? }}

** Tampering with food and drink was also a popular tactic of the wizards in the early books (before they mellowed out and became a satire of modern academia). There was even a saying: When a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, he is tired of life.

* This trope is the reason members of the [[Belgariad|Nyissan]] court take poison antidotes daily. Sadi appears to be as good as any full-time assassin at it -- he muses once about having poisoned the soup course in front of his victims without being caught, and in the Malloreon he slips knockout drugs to ''an entire army''.

* In ''Summers At Castle Auburn'', the Crown Prince is poisoned at his wedding feast, despite his using a taste tester and without anyone else at the feast dying. Only two people figured out who did it, and only one of them figured out how: The poisoner put the poison in the main course, which the prince was certain to have a large helping. The poisoner then put the antidote for the poison in the water pitchers. Since the prince never drank water (due to a paranoid belief that someone had tried to poison the well years previous, despite considerable evidence to the contrary), he was the only person at the feast who took the poison but did not take the antidote as well.

* In the [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] novel ''Strong Poison'' the victim died of arsenic poisoning. {{spoiler|It was put into the cracked egg that was made into an omelette, which he shared with his cousin (the murderer, who had built up an immunity to it over time so he could vouch that the poison wasn't in that particular meal)}}.

** ''Crooked House'', one of the two murder victims is poisoned by spiking a cup of cocoa with digitalis.

** The victim of ''Five Little Pigs'' had poison put in his drink.

* In ''[[Oz]]'' Nino Schibetta ate grounded glass that Ryan and Adebisi secretly put into his food for months until he dies from internal hemorrhaging, suddenly realizing one day that he's bleeding from the ears, nose, mouth...

** Also done to Supreme Allah in a more organic fashion. Once it's discovered that he's fatally allergic to eggs and must have his food cooked separately... Yeah, no more Supreme Allah.

** The ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' episode ''Babel'' had a [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|terrorist]] device that spiked the food and drink replicators with an aphasia virus.

* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', Londo makes a request of Lord Refa:

** In the end, it's left unclear if it was truly poisoned, or if Londo was bluffing, as Refa dies from other means.

* Both played straight and faked in ''[[Persons Unknown]]''. Erika gets Joe to confess this way; later {{spoiler|Joe helps Janet fake her death by pretending to do this to a liquor bottle}}

* Pops up a few times in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''. In "Foul Play In the Sky", Rita learns that Kimberly will be going for a plane ride with her uncle Steve. Seeing an opportunity to be rid of a Ranger, Rita sends Squatt and Baboo to spike Steve's soda with a delayed-action sleeping potion so that he'll fall asleep while the plane is in the air and it'll crash. In "Power Ranger Punks", Baboo spikes the Rangers' after-game fruit juice with a personality-altering potion that turns Billy and Kimberly (who drink first) into slacker punks with no interest in attending to their Ranger duties. In "Rita's Pita", Rita observes Tommy advise a kid he's teaching martial arts to to eat healthier foods and not binge eat. She puts a shrunken monster in Tommy's pita that will make him start binging on junk food, banking on the Rangers bringing Tommy to the command center ASAP to find out what caused the sudden 180 and unwittingly taking the monster with them.

* ''[[CSI]]'' did it at least once, as did ''[[CSI: NY]]''. The CSI one was a juror wanting to induce an allergic reaction in another juror but she decided not to at the last minute. The NY one was also an allergic reaction kind of thing.

* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' uses this in ''Trials and Tribulations.'' {{spoiler|Furio Tigre}} poisons Glen Elg by slipping poison into his coffee, inadvertently duplicating the actions of {{spoiler|Dahlia Hawthorne's near-murder of Diego Armando several years earlier.}}

* One of the many methods of killing in the ''[[Hitman]]'' series is to inject poison into food that gets delivered to the victim. (In one of the missions you can also put aphrodisiacs into a martini to make your mark move into a more remote location.)

{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' This makes the drink ''oh'' so much more appealing.}}

* In ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', Princess Garnet spiked a banquet with sleeping potion in order to knock Zidane, Vivi, Freya and Cid unconscious so they wouldn't try to stop her and Steiner from traveling alone.

* In ''[[Heroes Of Might And Magic III]]'', this is how King Gryphonheart was killed.

== Western Animation ==

* In ''[[Asterix]] and Cleopatra'', Edifice frames the Gauls by sending a poisoned cake to Cleopatra in the Gaul's name, which is quickly detected as being poisoned. Strangely, the cake was made without eggs or flour - the only non-toxic ingredient in the entire recipe was orange juice (for flavoring).

* ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'': Yumi's opponent in an [[Eating Contest]] sneaks into the arena the night before and dumps a bunch of iron horseshoes into her food to guarantee his victory. It almost works too, until Ami realizes that watching a baseball game makes Yumi [[Extreme Omnivore|eat anything you put in front of her]] out of sheer boredom.