Other or Unspecified
Snake oils can be found here. Also for compounds whose properties are not known.
| Name | Source | Uses and effects |
|---|---|---|
| Aglaophotis | Silent Hill | A red, blood-like liquid used in exorcism taken from the plant of the same name (see Aglaophotis). Base to make White Claudia. |
| Alkadexabenzathera- podazalamide |
How to Murder Your Wife | Also known in the movie as "goof balls" which, when taken in combination with alcohol produce an effect of "Ziiiiiip, Flop". "Goof balls" is also a street name for the non-fictional pentobarbital. |
| Blue Nine | Neuromancer | An outlawed psychoactive agent that had been shown to produce acute paranoia and homicidal psychosis in eighty-five percent of experimental subjects. |
| Chuinjuatin | Consider Her Ways | Used by a tribe of Venezuelan Indians, apparently enables the user's mind to travel through time and space. |
| Conversion Gel | Portal 2 | Despite his company's financial insolvency, Aperture Science CEO Cave Johnson bought $7,000,000 worth of moon rocks and had them ground up into a gel. What benefit he intended to gain from the gel's consumption is unknown, but the "lunar poison" led to his becoming terminally ill. It turned out, however, that the toxic gel was an excellent portal conductor, allowing a user of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device to put a portal opening on surfaces normally not compatible after covering them in the gel. |
| Dragon's Breath | Wet | A new and dangerous designer drug being distributed around the world. Specific properties are unknown, although one character describes it as "brutal shit." |
| Fast Penta | Vorkosigan Saga | A truth serum. Causes the recipient to answer any questions asked without resistance. No side effects. Espionage agencies can induce an artificial allergy in their agents to cause them to go into anaphylactic shock if given this drug to protect their secrets. |
| Flashback | Hyperion | Addictive, Causes user to experience flash backs to previous life experiences. Requires a brain implant to use. |
| Frying Pan Antidote | Family Guy | In one episode, Peter said that if his wife found out he was going to skip their anniversary to play golf she will hit him with a frying pan, "which is why I'm going to drink this frying pan antidote". Peter drinks a green liquid and tells Brian to hit him with a frying pan; he does and Peter collapses onto the table. |
| Gladstones | Warhammer 40,000 | Rocks that are slightly psychically reactive. They are be held in the users palm of either hand, or held under the tongue. They provide a sense of well-being (described as a warm, blissful sensation) and sublime for days, possibly weeks on a single use. They are usually a pale stone (commonly yellowish in color), of small form, smooth sided, rounded and warm to the touch. |
| Green powder | The Silver Chair | When burned, it creates a pleasant, drowsy feeling in people who inhale the smoke, and dulls their thinking. Used by the Lady of the Green Kirtle in an attempt to brainwash Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Puddleglum, and Prince Rilian into thinking that Narnia, the sun, and Aslan are just fantasies. |
| Habafropzipulops | Church of the SubGenius | Also known as Frop, this unknown substance (which is specified is not a drug) is in the pipe of Church figurehead J. R. "Bob" Dobbs. The substance is said to possibly contain either mystical, hallucinogenic, or Divine powers, or nothing at all. "Frop" is an effective brain coolant. |
| Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative | The Cabinet of Curiosities | A tonic sold by Hezekiah Pendergast in the 1800s. The tonic was eventually exposed as a lethal blend of cocaine, acetanilid, and alkaloid botanicals. It was the cause of uncounted addictions and deaths, including that of Hezekiah's wife. |
| LCL | Neon Genesis Evangelion | An oxygenated fluid, breathable by humans, which allows a pilot's nervous system to synchronize with that of an Evangelion mecha. Often erroneously thought to stand for 'Link Connect Liquid', though Gainax states this is wrong. |
| Metroid Vaccine | Metroid Fusion | A neon green, faintly luminescent substance containing Metroid cells, the only cure for X-Parasite infestation. Induces Metroid characteristics in those injected with it, including extreme vulnerability to cold and the ability to absorb X parasites for energy in their raw form. It does not, however, visibly alter the injectee's physical appearance. |
| Mickey Rooney's Crazy Pills | Family Guy | Generic-looking red and white pills that induce insanity, sponsored by Mickey Rooney. Possible effects include defecating in a chimney and screaming at mice shirtless. |
| Mutagenic Serum | Fallout 2 | An attempt to reverse the effects of the Forced Evolutionary Virus and restore Super Mutants to their human forms. It fails miserably, instead reducing the mutant to a grisly puddle. |
| Nigel West Dickens' Elixer | Red Dead Redemption | A snake oil sold by con man Nigel West Dickens. According to Dickens, it cures rheumatism, lumbago, acute, chronic, sciatic, neurologic and inflammatory pain, headaches, neuralgia, earache, toothaches, backaches, swellings, sprains, sore chest, throat swelling, contracted chords, contracted muscles, anxiety, ravaged nerves, stiff joints, wrenches, dislocations, cuts, bruises, as well as providing vigor, vitality, superhuman strength, sight, and accuracy, as well as the ability to chew through steel. But all it does is cause a bad case of diarrhea. |
| Nitrobarb | Family D'Alembert series | Truth serum. Once injected, the subject falls unconscious for 20–30 minutes, then reawakens in a state in which he/she will be compelled to answer any questions asked fully and truthfully. 50% of subjects die after use; possession and use of nitrobarb without Imperial permission is a capital offense. |
| NZT-48 | Limitless movie | A clear pill that once taken makes the user smarter and able to focus on certain things better. Can be harmful if addiction occurs, the user must gradually stop taking the pill. |
| P-Base | Resident Evil Outbreak | An unknown compound necessary to create the anti-T-virus serum called Daylight (see above). |
| PurBlood | Mount Dragon | A blood substitute developed by the biotechnology company GeneDyne. It consists of human hemoglobin manufactured by altered E. coli, purified using GeneDyne's proprietary GEF purification and artificially encapsulated. Due to flaws in the GEF process, it also causes hemoglobin poisoning and insanity within months. |
| Propulsion Gel | Portal 2 | Originally developed as a dietetic pudding substitute, propulsion gel is "a sweeter, slightly less non-toxic form of fiberglass insulation". The original intent of the gel was to cause subsequently ingested food to speed through the eater's body before any calories could be absorbed by the digestive system. When spread in large quantities on a surface, it vastly reduces the surface's friction and increases the speed of any objects moving across it. |
| Protoblood | Lexx | A fluid secreted by the Gigashadow. Exposure to protoblood animates the dead. |
| Rage | Powermark | A drug that takes any hostile emotion, and turns it into full-blown Rage. |
| Re-Agent (presumably Reanimation Agent) | Re-Animator | Unnamed, unspecified glowing green chemical substance which is capable of resurrecting the dead, right down to the molecular level. In a deleted scene in the film, Herbert West is shown using it as a stimulant, and is apparently quite addicted to it. In the original novella, it must be tailored to the individual, who's corpse must be very fresh so brain degeneration doesn't drive them violently and canniballistically insane. |
| Repulsion Gel | Portal 2 | Originally developed as a dietetic pudding substitute, repulsion gel is "a sweeter, slightly less non-toxic form of fiberglass insulation". The original intent of the gel was to cause subsequently ingested food to bounce off the stomach walls and out of the eater. When spread in large quantities on a surface, it causes objects to bounce off it.
It is apparently inadvisable to become covered in the gel because, while the exact element comprising it is unknown, it is "a lively one, and it does NOT like the human skeleton". |
| Soy sauce | John Dies at the End | A supernatural drug which grants the user, among other things, superhuman cognitive ability, the ability to see beings invisible to normal humans, and the ability to see in to the future and past. It is lethal to many, resulting in effects ranging from instantaneous explosion to possession by evil beings. It seemingly chooses who will and will not take it, and what effects they will experience. |
| Spook | Warhammer 40,000 | Spook is an addictive and highly illegal drug that gives the user temporary psychic powers. Made from ancient human protein. Comes in lurid green powder and a liquid form. |
| Tono-Bungay | Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells | A tonic marketed as a "cure-all" but with no beneficial effects whatsoever. Based on Coca-Cola. |
| The Cure | X-Men: The Last Stand | A drug that reverses the evolutionary process and deactivates a mutant's superpower(s) |
| ThreeEye | Storm Front, a novel in The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. | Sold as a hallucinogenic street drug, ThreeEye temporarily grants a user The Sight, a wizard's ability to see into the NeverNever (the magical world) and see beings from the NeverNever as they actually are. Users who are not aware of the NeverNever believe that what they see are hallucinations. ThreeEye was also mentioned on The Dresden Files TV series. |
| Turkish Delight | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | A real confectionary, with no unusual properties. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, however, the White Witch used an enchanted, addictive form to lure Edmund Pevensie into her clutches. |
| White Chrism | Silent Hill | An opague white liquid, used by the cult of Silent Hill in several of their ceremonies, including the Ritual of the Holy Assumption, and the Crimson Ceremony (Resurrection Spell). |
| Yakov's Elixir | The Inspector General | A snake oil found within the film. |
| Infestation Antidote | StarCraft: Brood War | A drug that kills the Zerg Hyperevolutionary virus and reverses its effects. |
| Neurostim | StarCraft: Brood War | A drug administered to the Overmind to put it into stasis. |
| Lines | The Cranberries song "Salvation" | An addictive drug described in very minute detail in the song, apparently, it is not a drug at all. lyrics imply that it slowly takes over the soul as the addiction progresses, rather than the brain and body. Side effects include insomnia and bleeding scalp. It can be cured by something called "Liberty", however, since the drug consumes the soul, it may actually be Liberty, the idea of freedom. Most speculate that "Lines" refers to drugs such as cocaine which are snorted in "Lines" and that the idea of true freedom is better than fictional feeling of freedom created by drug abuse. |
| Valkyr | Max Payne (film) | An addictive blue liquid drug that was designed to either increase confidence or physical strength, but causes hallucinations that lead to suicide. Valkyr was developed for American soldiers fighting in the Middle East by the Aesir Company, but the project was shelved when 99% of all subjects suffered hallucinations. B.B., the head of Aesir's security, and Sergeant Lupino, one of the successful test subjects, recreated the formula and started selling it on the streets of New York City. |
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