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* ''Film/{{Fireproof}}'' contains a scene where Caleb, the captain of a firefighting crew, challenges a newbie, Wayne, to a contest of drinking a bottle of "Wrath of God" hot sauce. Caleb downs it easily, but Wayne fails. Only afterward does Caleb reveal that [[spoiler:his own bottle was actually filled with tomato juice.]]

* In ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise'', John Hodgman notes that he tried to write a review of these sort of sauces, but after he tried eating one on the low end on the scale on a small cracker, he had to lie down on the couch and cry for the rest of the day. The column was rejected for being "overly gay."

* At one point in ''Literature/TheMalloreon'', during a state banquet, the heroes try a seemingly-inoffensive rice dish. Turns out it's from their world's answer to India, populated primarily by elephant herders who even treat mealtime as tests of personal courage, and "spend the rainy season trying to build bonfires in each other's stomachs". As most of the cast lunge for the water decanter, Sadi calmly keeps eating the stuff. He's not affected because he's used to being ''poisoned''.

* ''Literature/SecretCity'''s Navish Shurk' consists of three sorts of [[RealMenEatMeat meat]], finely chopped [[note]]"(to) chop (someone) to Navish Shurk'" is a local proverb referring to gratitous violence[[/note]], fried, then boiled in one such sauce. To top it all, it's served on a double-decker dish, the top contains the meal itself and the bottom is filled with ''burning alcohol to keep it boiling while you eat it''. However, it's also so delicious that, when a policeman not aware (yet) of TheMasquerade accidentally ordered and tasted it, he immediately ordered more for himself and his wife. As he told his superior next day while drinking sixth bottle of water, it was WorthIt.

* In Janet Kagan's Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel ''Literature/UhurasSong'', the catlike Sivaoans use the berry of a native bush as a spice. They call it a "tail-kinker" and a favorite prank is to slip a few of the fresh berries into a dish rather than the processed version. Think getting something you think contains a bit of red chili flakes but instead has whole Sichuan peppers in it.

* In the season 6 finale of ''Series/{{Bones}}'' ("Change in the Game"), at the beginning of the episode, Hodgins and Angela are eating at the diner. Angela is heavily pregnant and past her due date. Feeling a bit annoyed at this, she liberally douses her food (fries and soup) with habanero sauce because she says she heard spicy food can induce labor. When Hodgins remarks that she might be using a bit too much hot sauce, Angela replies " Oh, no, this isn't that hot." and starts eating happily. Hodgins shrugs, puts a splash of the sauce on his fries and takes a bite. Cue gasping, coughing, and calling out desperately for milk.
* ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' – The list of spices Richie reels off in his '''Sprouts Mexicane''', to cover any "embarrassment" due the core ingredient being "frisky". [[labelnote:**]]Said ingredient were leftover from Christmas Dinner. They are now being served at a '''Hallowe'en''' Party.[[/labelnote]]
--> '''Richie''': Well it's... sprouts, pinch of chili powder, jar of curry powder, hint of tobasco sauce – well, three bottles actually. Not so much a hint, more a Party Political Broadcast – and the secret ingredient: gunpowder!

* ''Series/DeathInParadise'': In "Ye of Little Faith," Humphrey accidentally eats a Scotch bonnet pepper, thinking it is a tomato. He ends up being force-fed a large quantity of milk, as this the only alternative to taking him to the hospital.
* The Observers in ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' apparently have very little sense of taste. In one episode, an Observer has a rare roast beef sandwich covered in jalapeños, an entire shaker of pepper and most of a bottle of Tabasco sauce. In season 2, we see that Observers like to meet in an Indian restaurant and chow down on Naga Jolokia peppers.

* ''Series/ItsAboutTime'': In "Stone Age Diplomats", the food that Shad and Gronk prepare for the astronauts and the "Ambassador of Nordania". It's a mixture of everything with a generous helping of hot sauces mixed in. Naturally, the astronauts, the ambassador and the landlord choke or gulp down water. Shad and Gronk love it.

* The short-lived series ''Series/MannAndMachine'' had an episode where Eve challenged a suspect to a chili pepper eating contest. The suspect was willing to confess to his crimes in exchange for some water after trying the habaneros. Eve, being a gynoid, was totally unaffected by the peppers.

** A burger has "the four horsemen" of the chilies on it: jalapeños, serrano, habanero, and the ''Bhut Jolokia'' (also called the Naga Jolokia).
** A ''Man V. Food Nation'' episode in Tulsa had a pizza with two times the jalapenos and habeneros and a "death sauce" that mixes in Thai Sriracha hot sauce and ''Naga Bhut Jolokia'' ghost chili peppers.

* In an episode of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'', Ned and his classmates get their lunch ruined by a voracious kid nicknamed "One Bite", who takes a ponderous bite off of every other students' food. Ned comes up with the idea to spice up a sandwich with all sorts of spicy food to prompt One Bite to never take one bite out of anyone else's food again. This works.
* ''Series/TheOrville'': in the episode "Krill", Bortus eats an entire ball of wasabi without flinching; Alara remarks that if she'd eaten that amount she'd have been left crying and throwing up.

* In one episode of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'', Red mixes up a batch for a lodge barbecue. It consisted mostly of ketchup, with some various hot peppers thrown in and some other ingredients, including the "secret ingredient", which was some blue goop in an unlabelled container (later found out to be jet fuel). To demonstrate how hot it is, Dalton tastes a little bit on a toothpick and nearly doubles over in pain from the heat. Then Harold tastes a big spoonful -- and is reduced to [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming his head off]] with his tongue hanging out as he runs around looking for some way of putting out the heat in his mouth.

* Devil's Blowout Sauce in ''Series/TheMuppetsMayhem''. Penny is a fan of the stuff, but Dr Teeth tries one chip flavoured with it and is sent into a "blazing, chip-induced hellscape".

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In the episode "Mr. Boynton's Barbeque", Mr. Boynton prepares a "mild" hot sauce for his cookout as he believes his usual sauce would be too much for his guests. [[spoiler:Miss Brooks and Walter Denton cook up a blazing mixture of tabasco and horseradish to spring on Miss Brooks' rival Miss Enright. However, a mix-up results in Miss Brooks receiving her own doctored dish. No matter, Miss Brooks can hold her hot sauce. She eats calmly and remains a DeadpanSnarker throughout. The same can't be said be Miss Enright and Mr. Conklin. They eat Mr. Boynton's supposedly minor sauce and run away practically screaming for water!]]

* ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' has the spicy chicken wings carried by Kentucky Kennies, found in the Oregano Desert level. Should they toss one at Peppino, he'll end up swallowing it and have his mouth set ablaze. In this state, he becomes slightly harder to control, but can kill enemies on contact and do an air dash in midair.

* [[GreenThumb Camo]] from ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' uses this trope as an attack. He can unleash vines with aptly-named Firecracker Peppers on them and make them explode. These peppers are some of the hottest in Skylands, and are so spicy that after [[LivingLava Eruptor]] had one of them (he's the only to have ever done so), he was left bedridden in a dark room for a week and even now, he can't bear to look at spicy food.

* ''VideoGame/TrinityUniverse'': In a few story scenes, Rizelia is known to add tons of hot stuff to her food. One particular batch was potent enough to knock Kanata out cold, and got Tsubaki on her case for it.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' the crew receive a contract to go to the asteroid belt and Niomi suggests bringing along lots of hot sauce and wasabi, along with plants to grow more as space food tends to be rather bland. In [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3300/fc03249.htm this]] strip they are taste testing the first batch of hot sauce with varied reactions. Niomi is fanning her mouth, implying the dish is coming along well. Florence is a wolf and thus wearing a gas mask to avoid setting her nose on fire ([[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3300/fc03230.htm about which]] she is TaughtByExperience). Sam's species apparently doesn't have the receptors for capsaicin, and so he plans to win a lot of bar bets when they arrive.

** Sydney eventually discovers the ultimate in spicy food off-planet, [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-685-things-are-looking-up-the-scoville-scale grakx.]] Going in, it's spicy but not intolerably so. [[ToiletHumor Going out]] it's ten times as hot! [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-712-turn-on-your-fart-light/ And it glows!]] (She ends up requesting "a poet, a priest, and a medic".)
** While on a flight, Anvil sees that Sydney is [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1140-air-borne-travel/ carrying a hip flask]], reprimanding her for carrying it on-duty before asking for a sip. Unfortunately, the flask isn't alcohol, but this trope, and the resulting SpitTake forces the plane to be evacuated!

* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'': In [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/08/22/a-proprietary-blend this strip]], Tycho recives a hot sauce he crowdfunded on Kickstarter, and immediatly wants to try it. [[ExaggeratedTrope It then cuts to his funeral]]...because [[SubvertedTrope said hot sauce was actually]] a mix of battery acid, rubber cement, and ''semen!'' Turns out crowdfunding ingestible items might be a bit of a mixed bag.

* WebVideo/{{Markiplier}} hates hot sauce, but Markiplier loves to entertain the peoples. He's done at least three videos on his own channel where he drinks hot sauce and then tries to play a game while freaking out. In one case, he did it while sick, to "clear his sinuses" by drinking the smallest amount possible of an extremely powerful hot sauce (5 million scovilles, versus a habanero pepper at about 250,000 scovilles). The resulting freak out is hilarious, as is the fact that when he finishes, [[AllForNothing his sinuses are still clogged]].

** This is a real thing, from [[http://www.mychunkysburgers.com/ Chunky's Burgers]] in San Antonio, Texas. The "four horsemen" name comes from roasted green chiles, habanero peppers, Serrano peppers, and ghost chilis. The challenge is to eat it within 25 minutes. After consumption, no milk or ice cream can be used to put out the fire for five minutes.

* In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyXIV'', Zero's preferred curry blend is searingly hot even by the standards of the Hannish people, a FantasyCounterpartCulture to India that loves its spices. It's so spicy that one patron with a sensitive nose instantly faints when he catches a whiff of it. A braver patron who digs in has his face turn red and steam coming out of his ears. Even the Warrior of Light, a MadeOfIron badass who throws down with gods on the regular, can remark that their life flashed before their eyes while eating it.

For the sake of comparison, at the bottom of the scale is the bell pepper, with a Scoville rating of 0; the jalapeño pepper has a Scoville rating of 2500-8000; the tabasco pepper is rated at 30,000 to 50,000, and the habanero pepper has a rating of 100,000 to 350,000. The crown for "hottest chili pepper" has, in recent years, been in a state of flux. Up to February of 2011, it was the Ghost Chili. The Ghost Chili claim was usurped by the Naga Viper Chili, which, at 1,359,000 is more than 1/4 the hotness of police-grade pepper spray (5,000,000). In March of that year, the [[http://thepepperseed.com/peppers/the-worlds-hottest-chilli-pepper-trinidad-scorpion-butch-t/ the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T chili,]] which clocks in at 1,463,700 SHU unseated the Naga Viper. In 2012, the [[http://thepepperseed.com/peppers/trinidad-scorpion-moruga-the-worlds-hottest-chilli-pepper the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion,]] which hits a blistering 2,009,231 SHU, unseated the Butch T. Then, in 2013, The Scorpion was trounced by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Reaper the Carolina Reaper,]] which can peak over 2,200,000 SHU.