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...Only to suddenly mutate into a hideous monster, melt into a pile of goo or keel over dead!!
Poor Bob, he just ''had'' to
This trope involves the poor fellow imbibing the nasty stuff by accident. If it was deliberately caused by someone else, it's [[Tampering with Food and Drink]] or [[Slipping a Mickey]]. It also differs because those usually involve more mundane substances, while this trope involves taking some VERY bad shit.
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== Literature ==
* The [[Stephen King]] short story "The Ten O'Clock People" involves a relatively mild example: a certain level of nictotine and withdrawal symptoms found in smokers trying to
** In another [[Stephen King]] story, "Gray Matter", an alcoholic slob drank a can of skunky beer and started turning into a flesh-eating fungus-like creature.
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== Real Life ==
* Cats perceive antifreeze as sweet and tasty; it quickly kills them via liver damage in very low doses.
* In the early 20th century, radium was sold as a wonder drug because of its [[I Love Nuclear Power|healthy glow]]. A business tycoon named Eben Byers who started obsessively chugging a radium serum eventually perished, leading to the [[
* Often happens with methanol. This substance looks like ethanol, smells like ethanol, tastes like ethanol and even produces buzz like ethanol. But if you're lucky, it'll burn your eyes from inside for good, and if you're unlucky, it'll kill you.
** [[Vodka Drunkenski|Russians]] have devised a folk way to tell methanol from ethanol. You make a small spiral out of copper wire, heat it with a cigarette lighter and drench in the suspicious alcohol. If you smell "morgue" (formaldehyde gas), this is deadly stuff.
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