Basic Trope: When a villain poisons a hero, the villain has an antidote to the poison.
- Straight: Professor Doom poisons Hiro. The Professor has an antidote to the poison.
- Exaggerated: Professor Doom uses dozens of different poisons against the heroes, all of which he has antidotes to, possibly several different antidotes to the same poison. Alternatively, he uses the same antidote to everything.
- Downplayed: Professor Doom has a remedy that can buy him some extra time, but can't save his life on its own, if he's poisoned.
- Justified:
- Professor Doom is afraid of accidentally poisoning himself, possibly after losing a friend to an accidental poisoning. Also, he always keeps the antidote in his base, which his enemies aren't supposed to get into anyway, and even if they do enter his base, the antidote is well hidden and labelled incorrectly.
- Because Even Evil Has Standards, Professor Doom keeps his word. He plans to pull a Poison and Cure Gambit later.
- Professor Doom needs Hiro alive for some reason.
- Professor Doom is smart and kept it in case of a Poison Chalice Switcheroo
- Inverted: The heroes have the antidote to every poison that Professor Doom has.
- Subverted:
- Professor Doom taunts the poisoned Hiro by showing a vial of a purple fluid, which he says is an antidote. It turns out to be fake.
- Alternatively, Professor Doom is carrying the wrong antidote by complete accident.
- Double Subverted: The real antidote is in his lab.
- Parodied:
- Professor Doom never uses his poisons because he's too obsessed with preparing antidotes.
- Professor Doom tries to make antidotes to everything... even things that have nothing to do with poisons. He gets stuck trying to figure out what an antidote to a Time Machine would be.
- Professor Doom plans to be evil enough to use itching powder on Hiro. Professor Doom has an antidote to the itching powder, whose side effects are more unpleasant than the itching powder itself, but that doesn't stop him from using it when he accidentally hits himself with the powder.
- Zig Zagged: Professor Doom taunts Hiro with an antidote, which turns out to be fake. Later, when a Mook is poisoned by one of his allies, he enters the Professor's lab and finds a vial labelled "Killemall powder antidote". He tries taking it, but it does nothing. It turns out that the Professor intentionally labelled everything incorrectly in case the heroes broke into his lab, so it's unclear what antidotes he has and doesn't have.
- Averted:
- Professor Doom doesn't try to poison the heroes.
- Professor Doom does use poisons, but there are no hints that he has an antidote or that one even exists.
- Enforced:Producer 1: Okay, we have an episode in which Hiro is poisoned, and he has to be cured because we can't have him die. But the problem is that Professor Doom created the poison, so who can be the one that created the antidote?
Producer 2: Professor Doom himself, maybe? - Lampshaded:Lance: Do you think you'll be okay?
Hiro: Yes. I'm going to steal the Professor's antidote. I'm not sure why he'd make one, but that's not my problem. - Invoked: The Dragon encourages this because he's afraid that someone will be poisoned accidentally.
- Exploited: When he's poisoned by Professor Doom, Hiro steals the antidote.
- Defied: "If I have an antidote to the poison, the hero will find it. That's why I must use a poison with no known antidote, even if it means that I'll certainly die if I'm poisoned."
- Discussed: "It won't surprise me if the villain has an antidote to the poison he's wielding."
- Conversed: "This is a prequel, so Hiro cannot die. Of course the villain has to be the one who has the antidote because nobody else even knows about Killemall powder."
- Implied: When a worried friend of Professor Doom asks what will happen if there's an accident with poisons, Professor Doom smiles and says it's going to be all right.
- Deconstructed: Professor Doom's enemies (could be The Starscream) steal the antidote and replace it with a fake one. When the Professor himself is accidentally (?) poisoned, he takes the fake antidote, which obviously doesn't save his life.
- Hiro snatched the antidore from Professor Doom's body...and still dies, as Instant Antidote is not in effect and he arrived too late.
- Reconstructed: He realizes that someone replaced the antidote with a fake, but as the one who made it in the first place, he knows how to prepare more.
- Played For Laughs:
- Professor Doom has many weird poisons, potions, Super Serums, etc. He has antidotes to everything, even though not even he understands why you'd want an antidote to a Super Serum. He just made it for fun.
- Professor Doom labels the antidote "Not an antidote to Killemall powder".
- Played For Drama:
- Professor Doom does this because he lost his parents when they accidentally poisoned themselves.
- Professor Doom does this because he accidentally poisoned his best friend to death, and never wants to be responsible for another death of an ally.
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