Basic Trope: Lipstick or other cosmetics laced with drugs or poison.
- Straight: Alice wears lipstick laced with poison and seduces Bob. When she kisses him, he absorbs the full dose of the poison. (Why Alice is immune is not explained.)
- Exaggerated: Alice wears full makeup laced with the toxin, as well as perfume and lotion, so that no matter how Bob makes contact with her, he'll get poisoned.
- Downplayed: The poison only makes Bob ill; it does not outright kill him.
- Justified:
- The lipstick is an effective delivery system for the toxin.
- The substance in the lipstick is some kind of illicit drug, and Alice is wearing (or carrying) the lipstick to not get caught either getting high or transporting the drug.
- Alice is a Yandere who is trying the Taking You with Me approach on her Love Interest, hoping they'll be Together in Death.
- The lipstick is laced with peanuts, to which Bob is allergic, but Alice isn't. When he kisses her, he dies of an allergic reaction.
- Alice has Acquired Poison Immunity.
- Alice is immune because she's actually a robot.
- The lipstick is applied on top of a coating that protects Alice from it.
- Inverted:
- Alice is on the receiving end of the poison kiss, not the giving end.
- Bob replaces Alice's ordinary, harmless lipstick with one containing chemicals that will knock her out shortly after she puts it on.
- Gender Inverted: The one wearing the lipstick is Bob.
- Subverted: Alice is In Da Club, and takes out what looks like an illicit drug, but is actually a breath mint.
- Double Subverted: The mint has been laced with a drug or poison, and she kisses Bob with her minty-fresh and deadly breath.
- Parodied: Beautygirl Cosmetics markets their lipstick as Now 100% drug-free!
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Alice doesn't lace her makeup with drugs or poison.
- Alice doesn't wear makeup of any kind.
- Enforced: "We need to paint Alice as a real Femme Fatale."
- Lampshaded: "Your kiss is like poison..."
- Invoked: Alice becomes part of a Rave culture that involves drugs and/or is being used as a Honey Trap on someone else at the club.
- Exploited: Alice kisses Bob on the lips so he gets poisoned.
- Defied:
- Alice worries about the potential hazards and uses more... Conventional ways of either getting high or delivering poison.
- Alternatively, Alice doesn't understand the need for drugs to enjoy lights, music, and dancing; she's just there to have a good time and doesn't feel the need to get herself or others high to do so.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob kisses Alice. Cue the Time Skip with him in the hospital.
- Deconstructed: These chemicals present a hazard to Alice, as much as Bob.
- Reconstructed:
- ...That would be the case, if she didn't had Acquired Poison Immunity to them.
- Or, Alice makes sure that only Bob is targeted, as by Slipping a Mickey in a drink that she buys for him.
- Played For Laughs: Alice comes across as an Abhorrent Admirer.
- Played For Drama: Alice didn't mean to poison Bob. Clair put the poison in Alice's lipstick.
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