History Main / PoisonIsCorrosive

* In ''Webcomic/JungleJuice'', the poison of the Dragon Millipede is treated as this to the point where if not for the Insect Human facing them one wielding it having the strongest carapace, they would have likely have melted instantly.

* In "Webcomic/JungleJuice", the poison of the Dragon Millipede is treated as this to the point where if not for the Insect Human facing them one wielding it having the strongest carapace, they would have likely have melted instantly.

* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': Blight is all over the place. Some disease-based attacks such as Plague Grenade cause it, but so do poison-related ones like Poison Dart and a select few like Digestion that imply corrosive activity. [[PigMan The swine folk]] are said to resist it due to their filthy living conditions, implying a strong immune system[[note]]which generally isn't very effective at deterring corrosive agents[[/note]], while [[DemBones Animated skeletons]] are especially weak to blight despite having no living tissue to poison, and similarly, Husks from the Color of Madness {{DLC}} are very weak to Blight because it allegedly corrodes their stony shells, implying all manners of poison are reactive.

* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': Blight is all over the place. Some disease-based attacks such as Plague Grenade cause it, but so do poison-related ones like Poison Dart and a select few like Digestion that imply corrosive activity. [[DemBones Animated skeletons]] are especially weak to blight despite having no living tissue to poison, while [[PigMan the swine folk]] are said to resist it due to their filthy living conditions, implying a strong immune system[[note]]which generally isn't very effective at deterring corrosive agents[[/note]].

* ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'' has a generic green goo usually referred to as "poison" that can be dumped onto the floor in various ways -- green BlobMonsters and the Gorgun leave a trail of it behind them, mutant bullet kin puke it up, you can roll or break barrels of it, and various items let you emit some yourself. One of these, the Poison Vial, lampshades this in its description, as mentioned up top.

->A drop of venom fell on his naked thigh, and the feel of it was like a white-hot dagger driven into his flesh. Red jets of agony shot through Conan's brain, yet he held himself immovable; not by the twitching of a muscle or the flicker of an eyelash did he betray the pain of the hurt that left a scar he bore to the day of his death.
-->--''Literature/TheScarletCitadel''

** The Giant Pit on the Skypeia Arc bites trees and piramids, melting them with its "acid".

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has several examples of this, most notably [[spoiler:Magellan]], whose powers allow him to create any type of poison he pleases, especially the corrosive variety.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' plays with this. While moves such as Acid are classified as {{Poison| ous Person}}[[ElementalPowers -type attacks]], they are among the only Poison attacks that don't have a chance of poisoning the opponent. But [[DishingOutDirt Ground- and Rock-type Pokémon]] resist Poison-type attacks (Poison-type Pokémon are also weak to Ground-type attacks), and [[ExtraOreDinary Steel-types]] are completely immune to Poison.

* ''TabletopGame/HeartOfTheSunkenLands'': The Bombing Bird's droppings are a powerful acidic poison. Anyone hit by them is at risk of dying within 1-20 minutes. The birds deliberately use their droppings as weapons against prey they want to feed upon and against any creature attacking them.

** Averted with snakes and lizards: while their venoms contain a variety of powerful toxins that can damage cells (cytotoxins), nerves (neurotoxins), and blood vessels (hemotoxins), these are only effective against living tissue, and must be injected or get into an open wound, thus bypassing the epidermis (which is dead tissue), to do any long-term damage. Even the powerful venom of the infamous "spitting" cobras can't penetrate the skin; cobra venom is a powerful irritant when it gets in the eyes, but it rarely if ever does any permanent damage, and there are no known cases of cobra venom getting from the eyes into the rest of the body.

** The venom of many species of snake contain cytotoxins, which are enzymes that kick-start the digestive process. These are classified primarily as hemotoxic venoms (which break down blood vessels) and myotoxic venoms (which break down muscle cells). The Seps, [[http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast270.htm a small serpent described in a 1st Century CE bestiary]], had venom which could dissolve flesh and bone, making this Trope OlderThanFeudalism. In real life, cytotoxins are the primary component of the venom in pit vipers such as rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and vipers. Other venomous snakes, like cobras, also usually have cytotoxins in their venom but it's there as a secondary component to make digesting their prey easier and they use neurotoxins that paralyze the victim's heart or lungs to kill it.
** The Gila monster and Mexican beaded lizard also contain cytotoxins in their venom, but it isn't very strong and seems to be used primarily for defense, as both species mostly eat eggs.

* ''Litearture/ConanTheBarbarian'': In ''Literature/ThecarletCitadel'', Conan faces a giant snake with venom so acidic it burn without even breaking the skin, leaving a scar for life.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

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->''"For External Use Only"''
-->-- Description of the '''Poison Vial''', ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon''

* In ''ComicBook/LeScorpion'', Several of MasterPoisoner Mejai's poisons are shown to be acidic. Armando uses one to burn through the ropes holding him at one point.

* ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorrorTheCardGame'': The second obstacle for Group B is a room filled with highly corrosive poison capable of quickly dissolving human flesh, unless you have an antidote.

* According to ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'', Komodo dragon venom is corrosive, and this isn't even the half of the series' [[ArtisticLicenseBiology breaks from real-world biology]].

* A [[Comicbook/MonicasGang Chuck Billy]] story had the hillbilly visiting a MonsterMash that offers him poisoned coffee. Once he drops the cup following the werewolf startling him, [[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q9sHwKIiGIA/UnG1RI4eJvI/AAAAAAAABpA/vQj2Ac28agE/s1600/CHB_172+(7).jpg the coffee opens holes in the table]].

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* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''Asterix and Cleopatra'', the Special Iced Arsenic Cake make by Artifis is so toxic that the batter AteTheSpoon -- ''before'' he adds the acid.

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* In ''Film/NineToFive'', Violet imagines poisoning her boss's coffee with something that dissolves the spoon. Averted when his coffee really is (accidentally) poisoned later.

* ''Literature/DuneEncyclopedia''. The plant known as inkvine contains a liquid that is a mixture of hydrochloric acid and poison. When used as a whip, inkvine injects the liquid into the victim's body, causing long term pain and skin discoloration.
* The poison of Satha, the giant serpent from Creator/RobertEHoward's stories:
** In "The Valley of the Worm", Niord, in preparation for fighting the titular EldritchAbomination, slays a Satha to use enhance his arrows with [[PoisonedWeapons the poison]]. after a few hours of dipping, the bronze starts to show corrosion, and the shafts would have been eaten through outright had Niord not been careful to keep them out.
** In "Literature/TheScarletCitadel", a drop of poison drops on Conan's skin as he stands in front of it, not daring to move. The pain is described as fierce, and the scar remains for the rest of his life.