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* [[Poisonous Person|Hanzo]] of ''[[Naruto]]'' carried around a vial of antidote to the poison his body produced because his breath would uncontrollably exude poison if his respirator came off. Notably, when a poisoned enemy of his got the antidote [[Worthy Opponent|it was because Hanzo GAVE it to him.]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Vincent]] in [[Pandora Hearts]] {{spoiler|poisons Sharon and Echo to get Break to destroy Alice's memories, promising him the antidote if he does so. When he does, Vincent tries to throw the antidote off a balcony, only to have Echo stop him.}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Inverted in an old issue of Marvel's ''[[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]]'', where the supervillain Cobra appears to pull just this ploy to get his (likewise villainous) nemesis Mr. Hyde off his back. In fact, Cobra was bluffing about the poison all along...but the supposed "antidote" turned out to be powerful knockout drug.
* Also used in a somewhat more recent ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]]'' issue, when a flesh-eating bacteria started spreading outwards from Mount Rushmore in a fast-moving red cloud. Cap's archenemy the Red Skull had the bacteria engineered to wipe out "lesser races", which backfired when it turned out that the bacteria ate ''anybody''. The Skull did immunize himself somehow, and the day was saved when the Avengers caught him and had scientists take his blood for a cure.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic ''[[Perfect Situations]]'', in order to get Draco Malfoy and his goons to leave her alone, Daphne Greengrass force-fed him what she claimed was a poison that would be lethal in ten months' time and said that he could have the antidote at the end of the year if he behaved himself. Actually, it was all a bluff.
== [[Film]] ==
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* In both ''Escape from'' movies, poor Snake Plisskin has something injected into his body that will kill him if he doesn't accomplish his mission and get back in time to have it deactivated/cured. Subverted in ''Escape From L.A.'' when Plisskin is told the "lethal virus" is really nothing more than a rather strong case of the flu.
* Used frequently in the ''[[Saw]]'' franchise. "''There's a slow acting poison coursing through your bloodstream, which only I have the antidote for''..."
== [[Literature]] ==
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*** Killing her and taking the Book wouldn't work; it has to be freely given. Butler was asking why they didn't kill her ''after''.
* Subverted in the ''[[War Of The Spider Queen]]'' series, where not only does Quenthel have no antidote to the poison she administers to a traitorous student, it is not even a poison per se, but rather an alarming-but-non-life-threatening overdose of alertness potion.
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* Subverted in the [[The Riftwar Cycle|Riftwar]] book ''Servant of the Empire'': an assassin takes the antidote before drinking poisoned tea along with his victim, but it turns out to not be the antidote. The subversion kicks in when it's pointed out by the victim's spymaster searching for a cure that the antidote ''bottle'' was convincing enough to be genuine, so all they have to do is find the apothecary who made it, as he can clearly make the antidote or he wouldn't have an officially-stamped bottle for it in the first place.
* In ''Deeper'' of the ''[[Tunnels]]'' series, during the climactic confrontation, the [[Big Bad]] casually informs the hero that she is carrying both the world-destroying super plague and its cure on her person; what's more, hers are the only samples in existence, so losing either of them would completely ruin her evil plan. Must've been carrying the [[Villain Ball]] as well...
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* In one of the ''[[Spellsinger]]'' novels, Jon-tom and his friends go on a perilous [[Fetch Quest]] to find a cure for Clothahump's terrible illness. It later turns out that Jon has had that very medication with him all long, having brought it with him from our world. {{spoiler|Even worse, it's only aspirin, as Clothahump was faking to force Jon-tom and the others to undertake a journey he knew they'd surely refuse otherwise.}}
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* A greedy doctor purposely infects the crew of Moya on ''[[Farscape]]'' so he can charge them a huge fee for the cure. Which only he knows how to make.
* Once again, ''[[Star Trek]]'' has done this one (in the ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (2005): Gaius Baltar injects Chief with a fast-acting poison, then injects him with the antidote after Chief's girlfriend Boomer tells how many Cylons have infiltrated the fleet. Justified, since Baltar's aim was to get information from Boomer, not to kill Chief. Subverted, because Baltar was working for the good guys.
* Played with in ''[[Get Smart]]''. When Smart is given a 24 hour poison, he ultimately gets the antidote by poisoning his poisoner with a concentrated sample, forcing him to run to his lab to administer the antidote, while Max follows. The two fight over the antidote but both fall unconscious before they can drink it. Fortunately for Max, the antidote they were manufacturing at CONTROL is completed in time.
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* On ''[[Human Target]]'' it's discussed: A poisoned character (who was poisoned to death) is said to have believed another character had the antidote. Winston thinks this would be ridiculous, and Guerrero says it's common practice: carrying something so dangerous, you'd want an antidote on you.
* In the live action ''[[Zorro]]'' show, a government official poisons Zorro. Zorro manages to get a sample of the poison, but quickly realizes that he'd die long before he could figure out what the antidote was. So he arranges for the official to be stuck with a dart marked with his trademark Z. Thinking that Zorro had just given him the same poison (the dart was actually harmless), the official fled to the nearest source of the antidote, allowing Zorro to follow him and take it for himself.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
** In early edition adventures, whenever the [[PC]]s encountered a creature that [[Taken for Granite|turned its opponent into stone]] it would often have a magic item that reversed the effect, such as a scroll with Stone To Flesh spell(s).
** Fourth edition. Almost every monster that can afflict you with something nasty (such as petrification) has the means to undo that effect when the monster is slain, e.g. because some body part is the antidote. The weirdest example is the Rust Monster, that destroys your equipment (not technically poison, but certainly a nasty lasting effect), but when killed will ''drop precisely enough money'' to buy a new copy of whatever was destroyed.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* At one point in ''[[Wild ARMs 5]]'', Pastel, a little girl the group, especially Rebecca, befriended, becomes ill with a commonly incurable disease, so they use an earlier plot point and go back to a Veruni-infested city to ask Persephone, who is a villain to some degree, but the heroes really don't know that yet, for an antidote. She does give them the antidote...for Veruni. Pastel is a human, so taking a Veruni antidote would obviously have fatal side effects for a human, as Carol tells them a little later.
* ''[[Yo-Jin-Bo]]'' employs this trope, albeit mostly offscreen: in Bo and Ittosai's paths, the ninja Kasumimaru reveals that he persuaded {{spoiler|Ittosai}} to turn [[The Mole|mole]] by {{spoiler|managing to cut him with a poisoned knife during battle, and then promising him money and the antidote in return for his help against the heroes}}. Interestingly, Kasumimaru apparently handed over the antidote as soon as the agreement was made, since it's never an issue {{spoiler|even when Ittosai inevitably reneges on the deal}}.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** Played straight in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0070.html this one] (Although it isn't technically poison, it's a close parallel).
*** Justified in that a Scroll of Break Enchantment would be more than just the "antidote" to that particular spell.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* The page quote comes from ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' after he was accidentally sprayed with a plant vitalize that makes plants come alive and attack people. The villain—a plant-man with plans for world domination—indeed has one, for reasons unknown to everyone.
** It's possible that he was keeping it as a fallback in case the plants decided to rebel against ''him'' too.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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