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In Michael Crichton's novel State of Fear, an eco-terrorist group uses blue-ringed octopuses as a difficult-to-detect assassination technique, by placing an octopus kept in a plastic bag full of water on their victims and allowing the octopus to bite, killing the victim a few minutes later. Several victims of the group are dispatched in this way.
In the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy, Bond is seduced by Magda, who has a blue-ringed octopus tattoo symbolizing her alliance with Octopussy's Octopus cult.
The anime One Piece features Hyouzou, a blue-ringed octopus Fish-Man pirate who uses poison in addition to his swordsmanship in its Fishman Island arc.
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