History Main / ItsSnowingCocaine

---> '''Kami''': I tried to make French Toast the other day, and it was a ''bad time''. I mean, first it was a good time. Very productive. But then... it wasn't.
--> '''Garlic Jr''': ...[[NotSoAboveItAll I want some Coke toast.]]

-->''"[[MadnessMantra All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle.]]"''

--> '''Kami''': I tried to make French Toast the other day, and it was a ''bad time''. I mean, first it was a good time. Very productive. But then... it wasn't.

* ''Film/TheCrow'': Top Dollar is seen with a ludicrously large pile of coke from which he occasionally snorts as he gives directions to his underlings. Although not delved into in much detail, since Top Dollar is the de facto crimelord of Detroit, it's reasonable to assume that he also runs the drug trade.

-->--'''Mike Nelson''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E22OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank Overdrawn at the Memory Bank]]''

Can be a case of bad research on the writer's part -- not knowing the actual street value of the amount they are showing and how little it takes to get high, or suffer an overdose, and getting carried away by RuleOfCool.[[note]]Cocaine is ~$120 per gram in the US as of 2019. Recreational use usually is in the range less than a gram. In real life, we can't quite get it TestedOnHumans for obvious ethical reasons, but the LD 50 of cocaine taken by mouse orally is 95.1 mg/kg. Assuming this applies to humans, this means just 5.7 grams have a 50% chance of killing a 60kg person.[[/note]]

** In "DBZ Kai 3'', which adapts the ''Return Of Garlic Jr'' Saga (rather than the joke version from Episode 30 where Mr Popo kills them all as a side-gag), it turns out that the brainwashing Black Water Mists is actually just cocaine Garlic Jr and the Spice Boys found on the Lookout and overdosed Piccolo with. According to the trapped Kami, Mr Popo leaves literal piles of it just lying around.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' with Dr. Rockzo's "I'm Just A Rock 'N Roll Clown" video, which features piles of cocaine the size of snowdrifts. Dr. Rockzo is even shown ''skiing'' on one of them.

* ''WebVideo/DragonballZAbridged'': Mr Popo supposedly consumes a gallon of LSD ([[NotHyperbole which Kami is pretty sure about since he watched Popo drink it out of a milk jug]]), which is enough to get an entire city tripping and even manages to severely affect him, giving him (a ruthless and immensely powerful PersonOfMassDestruction that briefly turned the sun off with a thought) a fairly bad trip and causing even more erratic behavior than usual.

* ''ComicBook/TheNewGuardians'' features the memorable one-shot supervillain [[AddictionPowered Snowflame]], a TalkativeLoon who monologues at length about his devotion to cocaine and is in fact powered by the stuff. He is shown shoveling heaping handfuls of cocaine into his face, with the hilarious implication that he somehow snorts pounds of the stuff in mere seconds.

* ''ComicBook/TheNewGuardians'' features the memorable one-shot supervillain Snowflame, a TalkativeLoon who monologues at length about his devotion to cocaine and is in fact powered by the stuff. He is the poster boy and page image for AddictionPowered, where you can see him shoveling heaping handfuls of cocaine into his face, with the hilarious implication that he somehow snorts pounds of the stuff in mere seconds.

* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey'': When Harley gets attacked in the police station's evidence room, she takes cover behind a pallet of cocaine bundles. The gunfire breaks multiple bundles open, blasting it into the air in the process, thus making a near literal version of this trope. (The DVD commentary claims its 452 bricks of cocaine, worth nearly $82,892,000 in total.) Harley inadvertently inhales a large amount of it, and the resulting rush lets her easily take down her attackers.

-->--'''Mike Nelson''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ''Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.''

* ''ComicBook/TheNewGuardians'' features the memorable one-shot supervillain Snowflame, a TalkativeLoon who monologues at length about his devotion to cocaine, and is in fact powered by the stuff. He is the poster boy and page image for AddictionPowered, where you can see him shoveling heaping handfuls of cocaine into his face, with the hilarious implication that he somehow snorts pounds of the stuff in mere seconds.

* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': Brian Cullin, an immortal who was famous as the best swordsman in Europe, eventually cracked under the pressure of constantly being challenged to duels by both other immortals and regular people, and by present day, he's become an AddledAddict whose erratic and paranoid behavior causes several civilian deaths. At one point, he buries his entire face in a pile of cocaine, promptly overdoses, and dies... only to revive again, since he's immortal. Shortly afterwards, he causes a bus crash that kills 25 people.

* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey'': When Harley gets attacked in the police station's evidence room, she takes cover behind a pallet of cocaine bundles. The gunfire breaks multiple bundles open, blasting it into the air in the process, thus making a near literal version of this trope. (The DVD commentary claims it's 452 bricks of cocaine, worth nearly $82,892,000 in total.) Harley inadvertently inhales a large amount of it, and the resulting rush lets her easily take down her attackers.

* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': Brian Cullin, an immortal who was famous as the best swordsman in Europe, eventually cracked under the pressure of constantly being challenged to duels by both other immortals and regular people, and by present day, he's become an AddledAddict who's erratic and paranoid behavior causes several civilian deaths. At one point, he buries his entire face in a pile of cocaine, promptly overdoses, and dies... only to revive again, since he's immortal. Shortly afterwards, he causes a bus crash that kills 25 people.

A scene where drug use is depicted/described but the amount shown/said is insanely large for personal use. Something like someone suggests doing some cocaine and someone brings out a restaurant cloche (one of those huge metal plates with the large domed covers) and removes the lid to show a pile of cocaine two foot across and one foot high. Or someone says they smoked six ounces of dope last night.

Generally barring exceptional cases this doesn't happen in real life. Illegal drugs are by definition... well, illegal, and anything illicit, illegal or otherwise prohibited that is nonetheless still in demand tends to multiply in cost accordingly.

* ''WebVideo/DragonballZAbridged'': Mr Popo supposedly consumes a gallon of LSD ([[NotHyperbole which Kami is pretty sure about, since he watched Popo drink it out of a milk jug]]), which is enough to get an entire city tripping and even manages to severely affect him, giving him (a ruthless and immensely powerful PersonOfMassDestruction that briefly turned the sun off with a thought) a fairly bad trip and causing even more erratic behavior than usual.

* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': Brian Cullin, an immortal who was famous as the best swordsman in Europe, eventually cracked under the pressure of constantly being challenged to duels by both other immortals and regular people, and by present day, he's become an AddledAddict who's erratic and paranoid behavior causes several civilian deaths. At one point, he buries his entire face in a pile of cocaine, promptly overdoses and dies... only to revive again, since he's immortal. Shortly afterwards, he causes a bus crash that kills 25 people.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In the episode, "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV", Calculon's "awesome" party on ''[[ShowWithinAShow All My Circuits]]'' has, among other elements of ConspicuousConsumption, large piles of what Monique assumes is talcum powder. It might actually ''be'' talcum powder, since robots can't smell, and sometimes they just do things humans do because it amuses them.

* ''WebVideo/DragonballZAbridged'': Mr Popo supposedly consumes a gallon of LSD, which is enough to get an entire city tripping and even manages to severely affect him, giving him (a ruthless and immensely powerful PersonOfMassDestruction that briefly turned the sun off with a thought) a fairly bad trip and causing even more erratic behavior than usual.

* ''ComicBook/TheNewGuardians'' features the memorable one-shot supervillain Snowflame, an TalkativeLoon who monologues at length about his devotion to cocaine, and is in fact powered by the stuff. He is the poster boy and page image for AddictionPowered, where you can see him shoveling heaping handfuls of cocaine into his face, with the hilarious implication that he somehow snorts pounds of the stuff in mere seconds.

* ''Film/TheCrow'': Top Dollar is seen with a ludicrously large pile of coke from which he occasionally snorts as he gives directions to his underlings.

''Series/Highlander'': Brian Cullin, an immortal who was famous as the best swordsman in Europe, eventually cracked under the pressure of constantly being challenged to duels by both other immortals and regular people, and by present day, he's become an AddledAddict who's erratic and paranoid behavior causes several civilian deaths. At one point, he buries his entire face in a pile of cocaine, promptly overdoses and dies... only to revive again, since he's immortal. Shortly afterwards, he causes a bus crash that kills 25 people.

* [[https://kyforky.com/blogs/journal/cocaine-bear The infamous case of the Cocaine Bear]], in which $15 million worth of cocaine was dumped from a plane over the state of Georgia, that was found by a bear that gorged itself on the drug then died. Perhaps the closest example that the world knows of cocaine literally snowing.

* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey'': When Harley gets attacked in the police station's evidence room, she takes cover behind a pallet of cocaine bundles. The gunfire breaks multiple bundles open, blasting it into the air in the process, thus making a near literal version of this trope. Harley inadvertently inhales a large amount of it, and the resulting rush lets her easily take down her attackers.