History Main / PoisonIsCorrosive

*** MC13 ''Al-Qadim Monstrous Compendium Appendix''. The bite of a Winged Serpent injects a corrosive, acidic poison that does 2-16 HitPoints of damage.

* Acid attacks and spells (like Acid Splash) in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' counts as poison.

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

* In some places, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_throwing various strong acids are thrown on people]] (usually girls and women, in acts of HonorRelatedAbuse) with the intent not necessarily of ''killing'' them [[note]] Although sometimes that ''is'' the intended result.[[/note]], but of leaving them permanently disfigured so that they'll be ostracized or unmarriageable. (The usual target for these types of attacks is the face, and many victims do survive.) Naturally, however, many victims of acid-throwing ''do'' die from their injuries. The most common acids used for this purpose are sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and (less frequently) hydrochloric acid.

** Salandit plays this completely straight as it's ability (called "Corrosive") negates Steel-types immunity to poison (and also lets it poison Poison-types).

* In-name-only in the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series. There are prefixes like "Pestilent", "Vitriolic" and so on, but corrosive effects only work as HollywoodAcid and even deal ''less'' damage against fleshy enemies as opposed to armor (which it's very strong against), including robots that obviously cannot be poisoned.

* ''TabletopGame/RuneQuest'' supplement ''Dorastor: Land of Doom''. The claws of the powerful evil Chaos being Cacodemon inject a potent corrosive venom that can inflict up to 114 HitPoints of damage. The claws of his Fiend minions inject a similar poison that can do up to 20 HitPoints of damage.

* In the ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' DLC ''Dead Money'', the Sierra Madre Hotel and Casino is blanketed by a cloud of metal-corroding toxic smog. Possibly {{justified}}: [[spoiler: The Cloud's purpose was to force people to use the experimental auto-docs that were on-site to test their surgical programming;]] it makes sense that it would be more corrosive than poisonous.

* In one of the ClassicDisneyShorts (''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r45taz9Boi0 Mickey's Garden,]]'' 1935), Mickey prepared an insecticide at his backyard and the broom he was using to stir it "burned" from being inside it.

* In ''ComicBook/LastDaysOfTheJusticeSociety'', the Midgard Serpent spews powerful venom on Johnny Thunder, which kills him on contact.

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' has a small vial of poison melt a huge monster and the floor it is standing on.

* In-name-only in the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series. There are prefixes like "Pestilent", "Toxic", and so on, but corrosive effects only work as HollywoodAcid and even deal ''less'' damage against fleshy enemies as opposed to armor (which it's very strong against), including robots that obviously cannot be poisoned.

* In some places, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_throwing various strong acids are thrown on people]] (usually girls and women, in acts of HonorRelatedAbuse) with the intent not necessarily of ''killing'' them [[note]] Although sometimes that ''is'' the intended result.[[/note]], but of leaving them permanently disfigured so that they'll be ostracized or unmarriageable. Naturally, however, many victims of acid-throwing ''do'' die from their injuries. The most common acids used for this purpose are sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and (less frequently) hydrochloric acid.

*** ''DarkSun'' Monstrous Compendium Appendix 1 ''Terrors of the Desert''. The So-ut's claws secrete an acidic poison that damages targets and their armor.

* ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans'' (1981). The Stygian Witches say that Medusa's blood is a deadly poison, and after Perseus cuts off her head her blood spews out and melts Perseus' shield, which was a gift from the gods.

* Both ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''TomAndJerry'': The stirring something, then lifting the spoon and watching it dissolve is a repeated gag. Most often with horrible poisons, but also mysterious brews like the JekyllAndHyde variety, and {{Gargle Blaster}}s.

* The synthetic [[DrugsAreBad narcotic]] [[http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/krokodil.asp "krokodil"]] (disturbing image warning). So called because the skin around the injection site often becomes dry and flaky, like the skin of a crocodile, because it is so [[HollywoodAcid acidic]]. (It's made by cooking up codeine with [[NoodleImplements gasoline, turpentine, and hydrochloric acid, just to name a few things]].)[[note]]It's cooked up usually by Russian heroin addicts who can no longer afford/easily acquire heroin. Hence the mishmash of rather unsavory ingredients. Conversely, since codeine-containing medications are much more tightly regulated in the US, and heroin is much more widely available/affordable, it's not likely for krokodil use to catch on in the US.[[/note]] [[NightmareFuel This stuff can result in flesh just rotting and corroding right off, right down to the bone]]. For more absolute horror, it is ''incredibly'' addictive, which means that using it once may prevent you from stopping even as your skin rots off. Most krokodil users don't live more than 3 years after they start using it, and those that do survive and manage to stop are often permanently disfigured. Note that the corrosivity of krokodil comes from the [[WhatAnIdiot half-assed chemical technology]] used by the uneducated, unskilled addicts. The pure desomorphine alkaloid that can be extracted from raw krokodil has no such effects, it's essentially the same thing as heroin. One of the problems of krokodil use is that the high just doesn't last very long, forcing users to just keep cooking and injecting it again and again, exacerbating the damage.

* During his song in ''/WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'', the sentient gas cloud Hexxus spits what he refers to as "poison sludge" onto a nearby pipe, causing it to hiss and release noxious fumes.

* The [[HollywoodAcid poison]] laced cigarette in ''Film/{{Mindhunters}}'', could arguably double as this trope, since it first eats through a metal floor and the victim's boot...with her foot still inside...before killing her. It's not until later that one character states it was "some kind of acid" rather than poison and even then it's based on assumption.

* ''Franchise/HarryPotter''. Venom from the Basilisk's fangs was a corrosive substance. {{Justified|Trope}} since the delivery method is through a bite.

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

* In an episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' [[LethalChef Bender]] drops some drinks he mixed and right after he leaves they eat through the floor.

** [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Chlorine trifluoride]] is used to process uranium and to make computer chips. It is worse than the pure halogens. It ''sets sand on fire'' - and often produces chlorine, fluorine, and hydrofluoric acid as byproducts of melting and burning its way through things. You handle it by keeping it inside specially-prepared metal containers. If the stuff gets loose, it will spontaneously react "with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers".

* The synthetic [[DrugsAreBad narcotic]] [[http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/krokodil.asp "krokodil."]] (Disturbing image warning) So called because the skin around the injection site often becomes dry and flaky, like the skin of a crocodile, because it is so [[HollywoodAcid acidic]]. (It's made by cooking up codeine with [[NoodleImplements gasoline, turpentine, and hydrochloric acid, just to name a few things]].)[[note]]It's cooked up usually by Russian heroin addicts who can no longer afford/easily acquire heroin. Hence the mishmash of rather unsavory ingredients. Conversely, since codeine-containing medications are much more tightly regulated in the US, and heroin is much more widely available/affordable, it's not likely for krokodil use to catch on in the US.[[/note]] [[NightmareFuel This stuff can result in flesh just rotting and corroding right off, right down to the bone]]. For more absolute horror, it is ''incredibly'' addictive, which means that using it once may prevent you from stopping even as your skin rots off. Most krokodil users don't live more than 3 years after they start using it, and those that do survive and manage to stop are often permanently disfigured.
** Note that the corrosivity of krokodil comes from the [[WhatAnIdiot half-assed chemical technology]] used by the uneducated, unskilled addicts. The pure desomorphine alkaloid that can be extracted from raw krokodil has no such effects, it's essentially the same thing as heroin.
** One of the problems of krokodil use is that the high just doesn't last very long, forcing users to just keep cooking and injecting it again and again, exacerbating the damage.
* Similar to the above, long-term methamphetamine use can damage teeth, cause skin lesions, and so on. These effects are generally not the result of pure methamphetamine--they are from the corrosive chemicals used to produce the methamphetamine that were not removed from the final product. (Methamphetamine itself, however, is neurotoxic and can cause nervous system damage.)

* Cashew nuts shells are saturated with skin-irritating, phenolic oil. Which is only corrosive to skin, not metal, as some people claim for cheap shocks. And one of its numerous uses is in medicine (Thus says Paracelsus: Everything is poison, and nothing is, for it's the dose that makes a poison).

* In the ''Literature/LoneWolf'' graphic novel ''The Skull of Agarash'', a giak throw a vial at Lone Wolf that he block with his axe, the weapon getting eaten up in the process. Despite this, Lone Wolf identifies it as poison and not acid. (It does seems to produces toxic fumes, though, forcing him to use his PsychicPowers to protect himself.)

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* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' has a small vial of poison melt a huge monster and the floor it was standing on.

*** ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #46 adventure "The Temple of Poseidon''. Devil Wyrms can SuperSpit an acidic venom at a single target up to 30 feet away that does 3-18 HitPoints of damage.
*** ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #69 article "More Pages from the Mages". Belpren is a luminescent blue acidic poison that instantly does 1-12 HitPoints of damage upon contacting skin or internal tissues.

*** ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #223 article "Primal Rage". The monster Vertigo can spit a glob of poisonous acid up to 100 feet away. It affects a circular area with a radius of 20 feet, and causes up to 150 HitPoints of damage.

* Ares {{magazine}} #3 (July 1980). The Feedback section described ''Attack of the Giant Ants'', a board game that SPI was considering creating. Inspired by the 1950's B movie ''Them'', it had hordes of giant ants with "acidic ant venom", based on the formic acid in RealLife ant venom.

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* In ''{{Film/Skyfall}}'' an agent's malfunctioning cyanide suicide capsule somehow dissolves his teeth and upper jaw but fails to kill him.

* In ''[[Film/NineToFive 9 to 5]]'' Violet imagines poisoning her boss's coffee with something that dissolves the spoon. Averted when his coffee really is (accidentally) poisoned later.

* During his song in ''{{WesternAnimation/FernGully}}'', the sentient gas cloud Hexxus spits what he refers to as "poison sludge" onto a nearby pipe, causing it to hiss and release noxious fumes.
* In ''[[{{WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster}} The Pagemaster]]'', Dr. Jekyll offers Richard a bright green beverage which, when knocked out of his hand, dissolves through the wooden floorboards in a matter of seconds. Moments later, the liquid is revealed to be [[spoiler:the potion that turns Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde.]]

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** [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-875 SCP-875 ("War Criminals").]] SCP-875-1 are small flying insects about six centimeters long. They have a sting which injects a venom that is highly acidic and does serious damage to tendons and nerves.
** [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-955 SCP-955 ("Mr. Sillybug").]] If an example of SCP-955 is threatened or startled it will spray a corrosive mucus up to several meters away. The mucus contains a neurotoxin that causes severe pain on contact with flesh.
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* Animal venom

* Cashew nuts shells are saturated with skin-irritating, phenolic oil. Which is only corrosive to skin, not metal, as some people claim for cheap shocks. And one of its numerous uses is in medicine (Thus says Paracelsus: Everything is poison, and nothing, for it's the dose that makes a poison).

* ''Franchise/HarryPotter''. Poison from the Basilisk's fangs was a corrosive substance. {{Justified|Trope}} since the delivery method is through a bite.

* ''TheRealGhostbusters'': Overdone to the point of parody where a poisoned cup of milk eats through several floors. Given they were living through a mystery author's last novel, the surreality of it was intentional.

* Spider Bytez in the 2012 ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' spits globs of venom that quickly dissolve objects it hits (and greatly hurts one of his own legs thanks to Raphael).

* The synthetic [[DrugsAreBad narcotic]] [[http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/krokodil.asp "krokodil."]] (Disturbing image warning) So called because the skin around the injection site often becomes dry and flaky, like the skin of a crocodile, because it is so [[HollywoodAcid acidic]]. (It's made by cooking up codeine with [[NoodleImplements gasoline, turpentine, and hydrochloric acid, just to name a few things]].)[[note:]]It's cooked up usually by Russian heroin addicts who can no longer afford/easily acquire heroin. Hence the mishmash of rather unsavory ingredients. Conversely, since codeine-containing medications are much more tightly regulated in the US, and heroin is much more widely available/affordable, it's not likely for krokodil use to catch on in the US.[[/note]] [[NightmareFuel This stuff can result in flesh just rotting and corroding right off, right down to the bone]]. For more absolute horror, it is ''incredibly'' addictive, which means that using it once may prevent you from stopping even as your skin rots off. Most krokodil users don't live more than 3 years after they start using it, and those that do survive and manage to stop are often permanently disfigured.