History Main / UnaffectedBySpice

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10181198 This]] ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' one-shot has Lance captured by the Galrans, who attempt to torture him by poisoning him. Unfortunately for them, Lance is a) Cuban, and b) a chillihead.

* ''VideoGame/VocaloidNoNatsuyasumiFinalFourDays'': Meiko has no problem eating the level 99 spice ramen, which is hellishly spicy and make Rin, Len, and Kaito suffer from FireBreathingDiner.

* ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe'': In one episode, Polar Bear says habanero peppers get addicting after a while and eats some which caused Sasako to tear up.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': La Barbara Conrad's goat curry is spicy enough to burn through the floor all the way down to Robot Hell and make the Robot Devil scream in pain, but her husband Hermes thinks it could use more seasoning.

** Alton Brown, aside from knocking back some of his half and half, barely showed any reaction to the heat in his wings. He also ranked the 10 sauces from best to worst, actually [[HotSauceDrinking took a swig of one of the mid-grade sauces]] and remarked on how he could improve it, and smelled the bottle of the hottest[[note]]a ''Hot Ones''-branded sauce rated at 2 million Scoville per the in-show graphic[[/note]] without flinching, even complimenting Sean on the flavor blend.

* ''WebAnimation/ChiknNuggit'': One short features Iscream trying to prank Sody Pop and Cofi by giving them "Deadly Reaper" hot chips. The two barely react to the chips' spice level; While they do [[FireBreathingDiner breathe fire]] (Incinerating [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Iscream]]), neither are in any kind of discomfort; Sody appreciatively notes that his chip's "got a little kick", while Cofi requests another.
* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'': Members of the Indonesian branch has the reputation to be extremely resistant to all sorts of spicy foods, especially Moona who are known to brought her own chili sauce and other spicy seasonings whenever she goes overseas. Even Reine, who's said to have the lowest spice tolerance of all ID members, still manages to baffle Subaru by comfortably eating spicy rice crackers and curry that the latter struggles with.

* In ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'', members of the Indonesian branch has the reputation to be extremely resistant to all sorts of spicy foods, especially Moona who are known to brought her own chili sauce and other spicy seasonings whenever she goes overseas. Even Reine, who's said to have the lowest spice tolerance of all ID members, still manages to baffle Subaru by comfortably eating spicy rice crackers and curry that the latter struggles with.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'': Members of the Indonesian branch are infamous to the other branches for their extremely high tolerance to spicy foods. Even Reine, who's said to have the lowest spice tolerance of all ID members, still manages to baffle Subaru by comfortably eating spicy rice crackers and curry that Subaru struggles with.

* ''Series/{{Chopped}}'': Aarón Sanchez is usually the chef who can handle spicy foods the best. {{Subverted}} hilariously in one "spicy challenge" episode featuring an elderly Chinese immigrant chef. Habanero peppers were milder than the spices she was used to back in China, and she added enough to her dish to have all three judges (Sanchez among them) smoking from the ears.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'': Members of the Indonesian branch are infamous to the other branches for their extremely high tolerance to spicy foods. Even Reine, who's said to have lowest spice tolerance of all ID members, still managed to baffles Subaru when she's comfortably eating a spicy rice crackers and curry that the latter struggles with.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'': Members of the Indonesian branch are infamous to the other branches for their extremely high tolerance to spicy foods. Even Reine, who's said to have lowest spice tolerance of all ID members, still managed to baffles Subaru when she's comfortably eating a spicy rice crackers that the latter struggles with.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'': Members of the Indonesian branch are particularly infamous to the other branches for their extremely high tolerance to spicy foods. Even Reine, who's said to have lowest spice tolerance of all ID members, still managed to baffles Subaru when she's comfortably eating a spicy rice crackers that the latter struggles with.

** Later on, she goes to another restaurant with her ARCHON teammate Peggy, [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-118-got-it-in-one/ and demands their hottest dish]], the kind you have to sign a waiver to actually order. The cook wears a hazmat suit to retrieve the sauce from a safety container, and the bowl it's served in has hazard striping around the rim. Although Sydney has a FireBreathingDiner reaction, she tears into the dish and even wonders if the cooks have some "pure cap" [[note]]i.e. pure capsaicin extract, around 16 million Scoville units[[/note]] to spice it up, while Peggy and the waitress recoil in horror and the cook faints. All is well until [[EyeScream a noodle flips into her eye]].

* ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'': Ranpha Franboise loves to eat spicy food so much, she has a specific dish in the menu called the "Ranpha Special", which is a curry that's over 1000 times more spicy than normal. Nobody else in the Elsior is able to take it.

Some characters are defined by liking a certain type of food or drink, such as [[SweetTooth candy]], [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee]], or [[TheAlcoholic booze]]. In this case, it's spicy food. These characters ''love'' fiery dishes and have a high tolerance for the heat. What would turn anyone else into a FireBreathingDiner may get little to no reaction from them, and even if they do feel the burn, they relish it. They may even ask for extra spice. BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce is the elixir of the gods to them, and nothing else will suffice. They might even [[HotSauceDrinking drink the stuff]]. Bystanders may watch them eat with mingled amazement and horror, provided the fumes coming from the food don't send them fleeing.

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': One of the titular girlfriends, Kusuri, comes from the Yakusen family, who have developed a high tolerance of spicy food due to [[ProfessorGuineaPig testing more acrid drugs on themselves]] on a regular basis. During one round in an eating contest, Kusuri easily downs an insanely spicy mapo tofu that left all the other participants in intense pain. Kusuri's grandmother Yaku is even more resistant than she is, being unaffected by a "spicy-as-hell" ramen that had Kusuri turning red and sweating.
* ''Anime/AngelBeats'': Kanade Tachibana's TrademarkFavoriteFood is [[http://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-ma-po-tofu/ mapo tofu]], a dish so spicy that nobody in school can stomach it except her. She likes the taste and finds it to be the only thing on the school menu worth eating. The spiciness doesn't affect her in the least, while when another character tries it, he's downing multiple glasses of water just to try and ease the suffering.

* Because of her bland diet while at the Facility, Comicbook/{{X 23}} has developed a preference for spicy food. At one point, she added something to her lunch from a street vendor in Madripoor that even had Comicbook/{{Gambit}} (a Cajun, and thus no stranger to hot stuff) doing a double-take.

* ''Fanfic/TekkaDread'': Invoked by Slade in Chapter 6, when he quickly notices that his steak is spiked with extremely hot sauce, so he focuses his ki on his tongue in order to endure it. He calls it "a little bland", and Barnette (who spiked it) grabs a bite, setting her mouth on fire and running off to get water.

* In ''Fanfic/AnEagleAmongLions'', Dedue keeps track of his classmates' tolerance for his hot and spicy Duscur-style cooking. When he uses it to interrogate Edelgard, she registers at three circles on his list, Byleth, who has a reputation as an ExtremeOmnivore, has the highest heat tolerance among the Blue Lions at six circles, with an added "+?" indicating she could possibly eat even more.

* In ''Fanfic/AnEagleAlongLions'', Dedue keeps track of his classmates' tolerance for his hot and spicy Duscur-style cooking. When he uses it to interrogate Edelgard, she registers at three circles on his list, Byleth, who has a reputation as an ExtremeOmnivore, has the highest heat tolerance among the Blue Lions at six circles, with an added "+?" indicating she could possibly eat even more.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'': Veyle really likes spicy food, as opposed to her evil personality who likes sweets. In her C-Support with Alfred, she gets him to eat a spicy soup she made, but it makes him freak out because he can't handle the heat.

* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': The otters' TrademarkFavoriteFood is shrimp and hotroot soup, which ranges from fiery to outright dangerous. Two otters in ''Salamandastron'' have a hotroot EatingContest that ends with a full sack of pepper in the soup and both of them in tears... after which the meek old mouse [[TheMedic Hollyberry]] nonchalantly finishes their bowls and comments that it could be spicier.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfArise,'' Alphen goes crazy overboard on spices whenever he cooks. This is justified in that he literally can't feel pain, so what tastes like a heaping helping of spice to him is unbearably painful for everyone else to consume. [[spoiler: When he finally regains his ability to feel pain and tastes the food he makes for the first time... he still likes it best when it's unbearably spicy. It turns out, he's just like that.]]

* ''FireEmblemEngage'': Veyle really likes spicy food, as opposed to her evil personality who likes sweets. In her C-Support with Alfred, she gets him to eat a spicy soup she made, but it makes him freak out because he can't handle the heat.