Fictional Poisons
This is the list for fictional poisons. Fictional poisons are the toxins that are used to hurt or kill on an individual scale.
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| Name | Source | Uses and effects |
|---|---|---|
| Akpaloli | Clark Ashton Smith's The Plutonian Drug | A poison derived from a yellow weed that grows in Martian oases, it is odorless, tasteless, and colorless. It is almost immediately lethal, producing symptoms resembling those of heart disease. In small doses it can be used as a stimulant. |
| Amaranthine Gas | Super Smash Bros. Brawl | Amaranthine Gas is a dangerous gaseous substance found in some caves. When characters enter the purple mist, they quickly start taking poison damage at about 2% every half-second. |
| Apoptoxin 4869 (APTX4869) | Case Closed"Detective Conan" | Developed by biochemist Miyano Shiho, Apoptoxin 4869 (APTX4869) was intended to be used by a secretive criminal syndicate to commit murders, but not leave any trace of the toxin behind in the corpse. Unbeknownst to her and the organization, APTX4869 does not kill 100% of the time, but occasionally causes the human body's cellular structure to physically regress to a younger state, thereby making a victim significantly younger (making them 10 years younger). Aspiring high school student detective Jimmy Kudo was the first victim of this toxin. However, Shiho was the second victim of the toxin when she attempted to escape the organization. |
| Anzid | Barbara Hambly's novel The Ladies of Mandrigyn | A toxin used for assassination. Its effects are extremely painful. Victims who are strong have been able to survive as much as two days of the agony. |
| ATP Decoupler | Creatures 3 | A toxin that converts ATP, the universal source of energy for all living things, into its depleted form, ADP. The cure is an injection called Medicine One. |
| Atroquinine | Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney | A manmade poison that has a lethal dose of 0.002 mg. There is a reactor chemical that turns blue in the presence of atroquinine. Atroquinine is slow-acting, so it takes 15 minutes after ingestion to do harm, and it attacks the central nervous system. The only recorded case of someone surviving atroquinine poisoning is the case of Vera Misham. |
| Beijing Cocktail | Crank | A Chinese synthetic chemical that slows vital organ function until eventually those organs stop. Approximate time to live after injection is one hour. Symptoms include severe grogginess, blurred vision, and chest pain. To prolong life, the victim must do things that will increase his adrenaline, eat candy and go pills such as caffeine pills, energy pills, speed, fat burner pills, metabolism increasing pills, etc., and drink caffeinated and energy drinks. Also, synthetic epinephrine acts as a competing inhibitor to hold off the poison and can be put into an insulin pump, however, these only stave off the inevitable organ failure and death, as no antidote exists. |
| Basilisk Venom | J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | The venom of a Basilisk, the creature in Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets. The only stated cure for Basilisk venom in Harry Potter's world is the tears of a phoenix. |
| Bloat | Terry Pratchett's Pyramids | A poison extracted from a blowfish, which when ingested by a human, causes every cell to expand by 2,000 times - a process both "fatal and loud". Used by the Assassins' Guild. |
| Darestim | David Eddings's The Elenium | A rare and extremely virulent poison found in the deserts of Rendor. As symptoms seem very similar to those of the falling-sickness, deaths by Darestim are frequently ascribed to this illness. It is so virulent that there is no natural cure for it, and only certain magical objects, such as the Bhelliom, can cure it. The only people known to have been cured of Darestim are the King of Rendor and his family, and Queen Ehlana of Elenia. |
| Daturon | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Poison Belt | This toxic agent is an unhealthy variant of the all-encompassing "ether" of space. It poisons all life into a deathlike stupor when the Earth passes through a belt of it. Daturon possesses some traits of a gas that's heavier than air: it concentrates first in lower regions like valleys or plains and inhalation of oxygen-superenriched air works as antidote. Daturon also has some traits of radiation: it can pass through hermetically sealed rooms and containers. |
| Despair Squid Venom | Red Dwarf | A potent toxin secreted by a giant squid-like alien that causes its victims to commit suicide by inducing vivid hallucinations of scenes and situations where they are revealed to be embodiments of principles and character traits that they despise. |
| Dragon Sand | Stephen King's The Eyes of the Dragon | A toxin that makes the user feel better than they have ever felt except that three days later, the victim bursts into flames. It creates toxic vapor when it comes into contact with any solid substance. |
| Fear gas | Batman | A powerful cocktail of toxins used by Scarecrow to create an irrational fear in his victims who hallucinate about their phobias coming to life. |
| Fex-M3 | Star Wars | Deadly nerve toxin used that kills its victim in under 10 seconds. Fex-M3 is often delivered through dart-weapons for silent elimination. It was also used in Lady Gaga's "Cook 'N Kill" recipe in her music video "Telephone" |
| Glove Cleaner | The Twilight Zone; The Chaser | A powerful poison that is virtually untraceable. Street value is $1000 a bottle, which is enough for only one use. |
| Hebenon | Hamlet | It courses through the natural gates and alleys of the body; and with a sudden vigour it doth posset and curd, like eager droppings into milk, the thin and wholesome blood |
| Hum | Hunter: The Reckoning | A deadly poison spread via a water supply. |
| Iocane powder | The Princess Bride by William Goldman | A deadly Australian poison, odorless, tasteless and highly soluble, used by the hero Westley in his 'battle of wits to the death' with Vizzini. Is available in a powder form, which Westley used. Although it takes a few years, the human body is capable of building an immunity to the poison. |
| Krayt Dragon Poison | Star Wars | A deadly toxin from the Krayt Dragon. Said to be in possession of Bib Fortuna. |
| Luminous Toxin | D.O.A. | A radioactive toxin with no antidote, it attacks internal organs and kills within one to two weeks. It is detected via blood test—in a darkened room the victim's blood glows with an eerie luminescence. Easily slipped into liquor, especially during wild, alcohol-crazed nights in San Francisco "jive" clubs. Apparently concocted by shadowy black market figures in the radioactive materials business during the Cold War. See also Radium Girls. |
| Malkite themfar | Star Wars | The signature poison used by the Malkite Poisoners, a group of assassins in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. |
| Merasha | Deryni novels | A yellowish liquid which has a sedative effect in humans, but in those with Deryni powers (including the human Haldane kings), it disrupts those powers and causes excruciating pain. It is intended for use against Deryni who abuse their powers, but is preempted by the corrupt Regents of Gwynnedd led by Archbishop Hubert MacInnis as a means of detecting and enforcing persecution of Deryni (including tainting sacramental wine at the ordination of priests to keep Deryni out of the clergy). It can be mixed with drinks or used as a coating for sharp implements, such as the human-controlled church's "Deryni pricker." The substance reacts with the Deryni's powers—as evidenced by the fact that Deryni whose powers have been blocked show no ill effects except for the humans' sedative reaction. |
| Meta-cyanide | Dune | Fatal toxin contained within and delivered by the gom jabbar, a small needle. It is "The high-handed enemy; that specific poison needle tipped with meta-cyanide used by Bene Gesserit Proctors in the death-alternative test of human awareness." It was also used in Lady Gaga's "Cook 'N Kill" recipe in her music video "Telephone" |
| Mirror's wrath | Ansem Retort (web comic) | A brutal neurotoxin first used in the Crusades that "causes the victim to see the beast they truly are." Causes one's blood vessels to strangle one's own brain. Survival of injection of mirror's wrath can expose "werepire". |
| Mosfungus | Final Fantasy Tactics | A toxin derived from a fungus of the same name. It slowly kills the person over time in small doses and can be spread by air. The effects typically include a nagging cough and other undetectable, common symptoms. When a person dies of Mosfungus poisoning, Mosfungus will grow on the person's grave. It's said to be a sign of the end of the person's family name. |
| Nightbane | 8-Bit Theatre | A hallucinogen poison that causes its victim to experience increasingly horrible nightmares every time they sleep until an antidote is administered. |
| Nightlock | The Hunger Games | A poisonous berry from which toxins may be extracted. Ingestion causes death within seconds. |
| Passion Flower | The Return of the Condor Heroes | A flower with hidden needles capable of poisoning the casual investigator. The poison causes severe pain any time the victim thinks about love. A small dose wears off after 3 days or so, but if one falls into a field of the flowers, they will die slowly over a period of 36 days. Although there is an antidote, the recipe has been lost for years. |
| Poison Joke | My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode Bridle Gossip | The toxin of the blue flower called Poison Joke causes those infected to develop random physical changes, or "jokes". The only shown victims of poison joke are the six main characters of the show; Twilight Sparkle's unicorn horn becomes limp and specked with blue spots, Rarity's coat and mane grow out of control, Rainbow Dash's pegasus wings move to her stomach and she loses control of her flight powers, Fluttershy's voice become deep and manly, Pinkie Pie's tongue becomes swollen (and specked with more blue spots) and she becomes unable to talk normally, and Applejack shrinks and gains a high-pitched voice. They originally believed they were cursed by Zecora, but when the truth becomes known, they apologize and Zecora helps them develop the cure. |
| Rahkshi Poison | BIONICLE | The venom produced by Green Rahkshi and the Makuta. |
| Red Skull's Dust of Death | Marvel Comics | The "Dust of Death" is a red powder which kills a victim within seconds of skin contact. The powder causes the skin of the victim's head to shrivel, tighten, and take on a red discoloration, while causing the hair to fall out. Hence the victim's head resembles a "red skull". |
| Red Water | Fullmetal Alchemist | A highly toxic cocktail of alchemic catalysts. Its immediate effects, coughing and constant fatigue, are not extremely dangerous, but prolonged exposure can lead to death. Also, children of people poisoned by it often die soon after birth. Through chemical processing, it can be refined into a Red Stone, an alchemic amplifier. It was not completely invented out of the blue, however. It is derived from actual alchemical legends that have their roots in sulfur, which though yellow as solid, is a blood-red liquid when molten; early alchemists were impressed by this transformation and so thought it might be related to the key to transmuting other metals into gold. |
| Sandbat venom | Star Wars | The natural venom of a Tatooinan Sandbat. The Tusken Raiders milk the venom, coating their Gaderffi, making it more lethal. |
| Silverthorn | Silverthorn (novel) | Silverthorn is a shrub that grows on the edge of Moraelin, the Black Lake, in the Great Northern Mountains. The plant is made of light silver-green leaf of three lobes, red berries like holly berries, and branches covered in silvery thorns similar to that of rose branches. |
| Sennari | Star Wars | Fast-acting toxin delivered by a Kamino Saberdart and used by Jango Fett to eliminate Zam Wesell in Episode II. |
| Smilex | Batman (1989) | Poison created by The Joker, kills within minutes, leaves victims with a rictus grin on their faces. |
| The Strangler | George R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire | A fatal poison. Distributed as small crystals that can be dissolved into liquids. The poison's effects are immediate and cause the imbiber to choke and suffocate. |
| Suicide-inducing neurotoxin | The Happening | An airborne chemical toxin produced by plants. The first stage of exposure is confused speech, the second stage is physical disorientation, and the third stage is fatal. It is explained: "Our brains come equipped with a self-preservation mechanism to stop us from harmful actions. This is controlled by a combination of electrochemical signals in the brain. The blocking of neurotransmitters by certain toxins has been proven to cause hallucinations, asphyxiation, and paralysis. This new neurotoxin is basically flipping the preservation switch, blocking neurotransmitters in a specific order, causing specific self-damaging and catastrophic effects." Simply put, it makes a person kill themselves. |
| Tears of Lys | George R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire | A rare and expensive fatal poison. Can be dissolved into liquids without altering the taste. The poison's effects are delayed but damage the stomach and bowels resulting in a slow and painful death over several days. |
| Thalot | David Eddings's The Malloreon | A very virulent poison from Nyissa. Almost always fatal. |
| Tracker jacker venom | The Hunger Games | The poison from a tracker jacker that can cause extreme hallucinations and death. |
| V-Poison | Resident Evil Outbreak | An acidic variant of wasp venom carried by wasps infected with the T-Virus. Ironically, it is one of the components necessary to create the anti-T-virus serum called Daylight. |
| Ygramul's poison | The Neverending Story | A poison used by Ygramul, a sentient insect swarm dwelling the land of Dead Mountains. It kills its victim after one hour, but also provides an ability of teleportation. |
| Yozi Venom | Exalted | The venom of the Demons sealed beyond the Edge of the world |
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