Tampering with Food and Drink: Difference between revisions

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''It's only getting worse from here''|'''[[King Diamond]]''', "More Than Pain"}}

 

* In ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' an Arab working for the Nazis pours poison on dates in Sallah's house in the hope that Sallah and/or Indy will eat them. (The monkey steals the poisoned dates instead.)

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

No! The Flagon with the Dragon holds the pellet with the poison, the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true. }}

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

* In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'' an Agatean courtier tries this on Cohen The Barbarian. It doesn't work and the courtier finds himself having a terminal case of indigestion when the tables are turned.

** A similar thing happens in [[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]. The [[Grand Vizier]] tries to poison the Emperor, but he tries to do it in a very elaborate way: he claims he found the poisonous object in his ''own'' food, but that only the Emperor is worthy of it. They go back and forth on who should eat it for quite some time (Mort, because he can't leave until someone dies, even [[Lampshade Hanging|says]] "Would ''someone'' just eat it?"), but finally the Grand Vizier has to eat it, then tries to leave, leading to this:

'''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.

** 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}}

* 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.)

* In ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'' you are required to drug yourself by [[Don't Try This At Home|mixing hangover medicine with alcohol]].

* In ''[[Mitsumete Knight]]'', {{spoiler|Raizze Haimer}} tries to kill [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess Priscilla]] by giving her a poisoned drink at the Princess' Birthday Party : depending on your choices as the main Protagonist, the Asian, it ends with either : Priscilla's {{spoiler|near-}}death, the Asian's near-death (as {{spoiler|Raizze}} will give him the antidote), or {{spoiler|Raizze}} spilling the drink to avoid the Asian being accidentally poisoned.

* 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.