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* In ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'', Elodie may be sent poisoned chocolates and die from eating them if she lacks the skills required to realize that there's something suspicious about them.

* Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 sets up a number of traps in preparation for the Battle of the Mounds, including one calculated to take advantage of Thorgrim's penchant for smashing enemies' heads in with his [[DropTheHammer big two-handed hammer]], which gets the dumb brute ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.

* ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'' once killed a giant Creature of Chaos (a.k.a. a Beholder) by using flour from Cow Girl's farm combined with one of Lizard Priest's skeletons and Priestess's Protection, setting things off by having High Elf Archer put an arrow into it to piss it off. It used its fire ray on the first thing it saw (the skeleton) and set off the flour, resulting in an explosion that obliterated the monster.

** A {{filler}} Valentine's Day episode had a mother try to collect insurance money by poisoning her {{Jerkass}}-ish adopted son's coffee. The antidote was in the cake's icing--the lad, being on his uni's tennis team [[RealMenHateSugar and professing hate for all kind of sweets]], didn't eat the cake.
** Failed: A "friend" of the victim tried to tamper with the guy's cigarettes via poisoning the filters, but he just cut said filters off on a whim and thus he failed.

* How the protagonists of ''Film/KangraooJack'' were going to be killed if they had delivered the envelope with the $50,000.

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* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Main Protagonist Tanjiro has a fight against one the lower-ranked Moons Enmu, a demon who can cause his foes to fall into an illusionary dream via the sounds he creates from the [[BodyHorror mouths he grows on his hands]]. Tanjiro takes Enmu off-guard by repeatedly recovering from the latter's attempts to force him into the [[LotusEaterMachine Illusions]], causing the demon to realise Tanjiro must be [[DreamEmergencyExit killing himself inside the dream]] to wake up and keep fighting him, allowing Tanjiro to decapitate Enmu. Enmu survives his apparent demise by merging with the train they're fight on top of to become a massive tentacled monstrosity that can grow [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes everywhere]], allowing him to keep putting Tanjiro into illusions simply by looking into them. This trope comes into effect when [[spoiler: Enmu subjects Tanjiro to a rapid barrage of illusions whilst attacking him and then ''stops'' doing so, almost tricking Tanjiro into cutting his own throat to 'wake up' from the dream. He's only saved because he's joined mid-fight by his companion Inosuke, who habitually wears a boar mask over his face all the time, meaning that Enmu can't tell which way he's looking to place him into a dream and prevent him from stopping Tanjiro from killing himself.]]

* In the early Peter Falk flick ''Film/TheBloodyBrood,'' Falk plays a psychotic beatnik who feeds some poor kid a hamburger filled with broken glass to watch him die...[[ForTheEvulz just for kicks.]]

* How the protagonists of ''Film/KangraooJack'' were going to be killed if they had delivered the envelope with the $50,000

* ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors'': When a robber asks Muchnick where his money is hidden, he says it is inside Audrey Jr, the man-eating plant. The robber walks inside the plant's mouth and is promptly eaten.

* Patrick Jane of ''Series/TheMentalist'' realizes James Panzer, a supposed expert on the San Joaquin Killer, [[spoiler: actually ''is'' said killer]]. Jane agrees to go on a live television show with Panzer, then manipulates him into making unfavorable comparisons between the SJK and series BigBad Red John. Despite such on-air remarks directly and famously resulting in Red John having murdered Jane's wife and daughter, as well as Red John having murdered an interviewer who called him a "beast" and left her interviewee catatonic, [[TooStupidToLive Panzer openly disparages Red John]], with predictable results.

** In ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'': it looks like [[spoiler: Vera Misham [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her father Drew]] by putting poison in his coffee]]... but in reality, [[spoiler: ''Kristoph Gavin'' poisoned a stamp that Drew licked few minutes before having the supposedly fatal drink]]. And later [[spoiler: he poisons Vera herself by poisoning ''her nail polish'', knowing that she has the habit of biting her nails when nervous.]]

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' once killed a giant Creature of Chaos (a.k.a. a Beholder) by using flour from Cow Girl's farm combined with one of Lizard Priest's skeletons and Priestess's Protection, setting things off by having High Elf Archer put an arrow into it to piss it off. It used its fire ray on the first thing it saw (the skeleton) and set off the flour, resulting in an explosion that obliterated the monster.

* ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes'': In "The House on Maple Street", four children discover that their house is slowly turning into an alien rocket ship that will blast off in the middle of the afternoon, when their abusive stepfather is usually at work and their beloved mother is usually at home. They go through a lot of trouble to make sure their father is in the house and their mother isn't when it blasts off into space.

* In ''Manga/{{Monster}}'' Director Heinemann, Dr. Oppenheim, and Dr. Boyer are found dead when the three of them were mysteriously poisoned by candy left by Johan Liebert.

** [[spoiler: Hisamichi]] slipped poison into the food and drink of Yoshimune's older sisters and the closest rival to the throne to ensure that Yoshimune got the shogunate.
** Tokugawa Harusada, mother of Shogun Ienari, is quite fond of poison to pick off rivals and control people. Her MoralEventHorizon was when she [[spoiler: slipped poison into her grandchildren's sweets to kill them and turn her son's wife (Shigu) and favorite concubine (O-Shiga) against each other.]]
** [[spoiler: However, Shigu and O-Shiga quickly figured out Harusada was behind those deaths and played a long game to poison Harusada in revenge. Part of that involved O-Shiga, now Harusada's taster, poisoning herself to ensure that Harusada would eat the poisoned food. She died not long after the poisoning finally incapacitated Harusada.]]

* In ''Anime/PumpkinScissors'', one episode features a visiting princess from a neighboring country, with a particularly draconian rule of succession: Whichever royal child survives, takes the throne. Poison is a favored means of sibling rivalry, and she reveals that on her 10th birthday, the cake was poisoned, causing the death of her favorite maid.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} has several contingency plans designed to do this to numerous members of the Justice League. For instance, he has a special nanite injection that would trick ComicBook/WonderWoman into fighting an endless gauntlet of virtual opponents until her heart gives out.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Main Protagonist Tanjiro has a fight against one the lower-ranked Moons Enmu, a demon who can cause his foes to fall into an illusionary dream via the sounds he creates from the [[BodyHorror mouths he grows on his hands]]. Tanjiro takes Enmu off-guard by repeatedly recovering from the latter's attempts to force him into the [[LotusEaterMachine Illusions]], causing the demon to realise Tanjiro must be [[DreamEmergencyExit killing himself inside the dream]] to wake up and keep fighting him, allowing Tanjiro to decapitate Enmu. Enmu survives his apparent demise by merging with the train they're fight on top of to become a massive tentacled monstrosity that can grow [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes everywhere]], allowing him to keep putting Tanjiro into illusions simply by looking into them. This trope comes into effect when [[spoiler: Enmu subjects Tanjiro to a rapid barrage of illusions whilst attacking him and then does ''stops'' doing so, almost tricking Tanjiro into cutting his own throat to 'wake up' from the dream. He's only saved because he's joined mid-fight by his companion Inosuke, who habitually wears a boar mask over his face all the time, meaning that Enmu can't tell which way he's looking to place him into a dream and prevent him from stopping Tanjiro from killing himself.]]

* Attempted, at least, in Animula's backstory in ''Toys/LittleAppleDolls''. In order to avoid losing his wife, her father have her to a warlord [[ArrangedMarriage prior to her birth]]. On her seventh birthday, the warlord came for her. The little girl was made to live in a cage, however, a [[FantasticFoxes fox]] came along and helped her. The fox told her that the warlord was going to [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink give her milk]] that would turn her into a demon, so Animula was given eggs in order to protect her. It turns out the fox was really the [[BalefulPolymorph warlords' jealous wife]], who was [[MurderTheHypotenuse attempting to kill the girl]] herself. After deciding she can never escape, the child ended up drinking both the allegedly poisonous milk and eating the bad eggs.

* The series finale of ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' has Tommy dealing with a terminal brain tumor that will kill him in a year. After a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against his enemies, Tommy hands off control to his sister and head to an old cabin to take his life. Just as he's about to he gets a vision of [[spoiler: his dead daughter saying "you're not sick"]] and told to "light the fire." Getting some old newspapers to burn, Tommy sees a notice about the wedding of his rival Oswald...and sees [[spoiler: not only is Tommy's doctor one of the guests but the second doctor who provided the x-rays "proving" the tumor was the maid of honor. Tommy realizes he's not sick at all, this was all to push him to suicide as they knew "the only person who could end Tommy Shelby was Tommy Shelby." He does spare the doctor's life before leaving, having regained his old fire.]]