Tampering with Food and Drink: Difference between revisions

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

 

 

The non-lethal version of food tampering would be putting a love potion, sleeping potion/drug, etc. in food or more commonly, drinks; also known as [[Slipping a Mickey]].

 

== Anime & Manga ==

** 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.

* Played with in the Onikakushi-ken arc of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''. Rena and Mion visit Keiichi and give him a box of ohagi as part of a club activity; however, upon biting into one of them Keiichi discovers a needle, convincing him that Rena and Mion are out to get him. It's later revealed that {{spoiler|Keiichi was delusional and hallucinated that there was a needle in the ohagi when Mion had actually put tabasco sauce in the ohagi as a prank.}}

* In ''[[Gankutsuou]]'' Heloise receives a ring that contains poison from the Count. She uses it to poison some water she tried to give to Valentine but Albert ends up drinking it instead. She also poisoned some lemonade which one of the household staff ends up drinking. She later mentions that she wanted to poison more people this way as well.

* ''[[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.

* 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.

* John Carpenter's ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'' has the characters being [[Properly Paranoid]] about this- one single cell could be enough to turn anyone into a Thing. "I think everyone had better prepare their own food from now on..."

* ''[[Wedding Crashers]]'': At dinner in one scene John proceeds to spike Zach's water with eye-drops, which makes him sick, thereby letting John connect with Claire, Zach's fiance.

* Done twice in Disney's ''[[The Haunted Mansion (film)|The Haunted Mansion]]'' with poison being put into goblets of wine.

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

** In ''Mysterious Affair At The Styles'' {{spoiler|it's subverted. One of the characters believes poison was put into the first victim's drink and tries to cover up any clues that would led Poirot to this conclusion}}.

 

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* 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...

* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "The Conscience of the King". Someone tries to murder Kevin Riley by putting tetralubisol (a shipboard lubricant) in his milk.

** 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.

 

== Music ==

 

 

** ''[[Ceville]]'', for example, entails slipping Tabasco sauce into coffee.

** A bizarre example occur in ''[[Sam and Max|Sam and Max: Night of the Raving Dead]]'': Max, knowing that he will be bitten by a vampire, drinks holy water beforehand, thereby spiking his own blood with vampire poison.

* 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]].

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

* 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 ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'', your party gets poisoned around the time you get into the eponymous city, and you have to do a quest to get an antidote. In the sequel, when you reach the Asylum, you find out that {{spoiler|Yoshimo, or Saemon if you don't have Yoshimo}} poisoned your food, {{spoiler|enabling Irenicus to capture you}}.

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

 

 

== [[Web Original]] ==