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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"[[The Evil Prince|Tavius]] was right about one thing. I do have a fair knowledge of poisons."''|'''Otho''', ''[[
[[Exactly What It Says
Poisoned weapons are typically [[Poison Is Evil|used by villains]], since they allow an easy victory or a spiteful revenge despite losing, especially in a duel. [[The Hero]] is usually too [[Honor Before Reason|honorable]] or [[Lawful Stupid|stupid]] to use it himself. Heroes down the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]] and [[Combat Pragmatist|Combat Pragmatists]] sometimes use poison.
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== Anime ==
* In ''[[Noir (
* In ''[[Blood+
* Quite common in ''[[
* In ''[[
** [[Sociopathic Hero|Evil bastard]] Mayuri Kurotsuchi's ''zanpakutou'' also poisons its target upon wounding them; befitting his extraordinarily sadistic personality, it paralyzes the victim's limbs enough to prevent movement without affecting their ability to feel pain.
** 2nd Division Captain Soi Fon gets in on the act too. Her own ''zanpakutou's'' poison won't kill the target outright unless it strikes the same area twice, which is helpfully pointed out by the enormous butterfly marks it makes on a wounded opponent.
** More recently, {{spoiler|Gin's Bankai true power has been revealed as this. Not only his sword can grow very long and in a short amount of time, but it secretes a deadly poison which he can activate at will.}}
* In ''[[
** Brook and his entire crew were killed by pirates with poisoned weapons.
** In the same fashion, Don Krieg's most powerful weapon is a cannon ball filled with (oddly) white coloured poison Gas, and Wanze from the CP7 wields a huge poisonous kitchen knife as his last resolve.
** Thanks to the Doku-Doku Fruit (Poison-Poison Fruit), Impel Down's Chief Warden Magellen can use his '''entire body''' as a poisoned weapon.
** In a non canon example, Wapol's brother Musshul ate the Noko Noko fruit (stands for kinoko, mushroom) and can manipulate poisonous spores. This includes bullets, a [[This Is a Drill|drill like fungus on his arm]] and poison clouds.
* In ''[[
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== Fanfiction ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
== Film ==
* ''[[
** By Hovitos in ''[[
** ''[[Indiana Jones and
* The Na'vi of ''[[Avatar (
* ''[[Our Man Flint]]''. Gila uses a poisoned dart propelled by a harp to try to assassinate Flint, and Flint uses a curare-tipped dart to take out a fly.
* ''[[Hudson Hawk]]''. Almond Joy uses a blowgun with curare-tipped darts against the title character and Tommy Five-Tone.
* In ''[[From Russia
* ''[[That Man From Rio]]'' opens with a museum robbery, where the crook kills a guard with a poison dart gun. It initially looks like heart failure to the police, but the museum head notes the poison is a common weapon of the vanished Mesoamerican culture that made the stolen artifact.
* In ''[[
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** When fighting gladiators, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen was allowed to use a short knife with a poisoned blade. During his hundredth bout, he secretly put the poison on his long knife instead, which allowed him to win the match.
* ''[[Redwall]]'': Employed by villains. Cluny the Scourge has a poisoned barb on the end of his tail, which kills the Abbot slowly enough for him to deliver his [[Final Speech]], and the minor character Farran the Poisoner possesses an instant-death poisoned dagger.
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* In one of the ''[[The Stainless Steel Rat]]'' stories, a character gets into a fight with an assassin, and the knife barely touches the assassin and he dies, it turns out not only did he have a ''very'' nasty knife but the knife was coated with a neurotoxin that would kill anyone on skin contact.
* ''[[
* ''Man Plus'', a science fiction novel by [[Frederik Pohl]], has the U.S. Secret Service require women meeting the president to soak their hands in a solution first, in case their fingernails have a biochemical poison on them.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (
* When the anti-hero protagonist of ''[[The Takeshi Kovacs Series|Altered Carbon]]'' goes to the armorer, among the weapons he buys is a poison-coated knife.
* ''[[Belgariad|Mallorean]]'': [[Master Poisoner|Sadi]], one of the heroic party members carries a variety of poisons, and his major weapon in battle is a poisoned dagger. When [[The Mentor|Belgarath]] asks the group to minimize casualties during a fight with [[Mooks]], he's responsible for two of the three deaths at its close - "It's a little hard to unpoison a knife." (The third was [[Combat Pragmatist|Silk]] taking out an ambusher.)
* ''[[Shannara|The Sword of Shannara]]'': Menion Leah, a heroic protagonist, poisons some arrows when the opportunity arises, just in case. He uses them in the very next scene to try and kill a dragon.
* A prequel to ''The Deptford Mice'' series has enemies who wear golden claws with an impossibly nasty poison that causes you to pretty much dissolve into goo. When one character finds an unconscious one of them, [[Hoist
* In some versions of ''Tristan and Isolde'', Tristan is poisoned by the Irish knight Morholt's spear (but wins the duel), and [[Moses in
* Hercules had arrows poisoned with hydra blood. [[
* Valeri Petrofsky of ''The Fourth Protocol'' by [[Frederick Forsyth]] carried a handgun that fired hollow-point bullets ''[[Abnormal Ammo|filled with cyanide]].''
* ''[[
* ''This Immortal'' by [[Roger Zelazny]]: assassin Hasan (who has been forcibly disarmed) is forced to fight [[Implacable Man|the Dead Man]] and spends the time filing his nails. To really sharp points. His bullets (which weren't taken away) had meta-cyanide on them. He scratched the Dead Man at the start of the fight, and stalled until it dropped. Then he got the leader too.
* ''[[The Saint]]'': The Saint himself discovered a poison-dart launcher built into a doorbell once. He avoided getting shot, kept the dart, and later used it in a booby-trapped parcel to [[Hoist
* ''The Tail of the Tip Off'': A rather ingenious example is found in Rita Mae Brown's novel. When H. H. Donaldson drops dead after going to a basketball game, an autopsy shows he was poisoned through an injection in the neck, but the poison would have had to have been administered during the game for it to kill him when it did. No one saw anything despite the bleachers being packed, and Donaldson didn't react in any way as he would have had someone jabbed him in the neck with a needle. {{spoiler|It turns out the killer froze the poison into an ice dart, and was able to kill Donaldson by shooting it our of a noise maker into his neck. No weapon was found because the ice melted, releasing the poison.}}
* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s orginal ''[[Tarzan]]'' books, Tarzan uses poison arrows that he steals from the natives, at least until he scares them into leaving a bundle out with some food every so often as 'tribute' to the forest spirit they think they've angered.
* In the ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' story ''Black Colossus'', Shevatas poisoned his blade to deal with the snake.
* In ''[[James Bond (
* In ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
== Live-Action Television ==
* In ''[[
* One episode of ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Monroe]] uses an elephant gun with bullets coated in a special poison to take a [[Our Ogres Are Hungrier|siegbarste]] in ''[[Grimm (TV)|Grimm]]''.
* It's mentioned in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' that the [[The Reptilians|Drazi]] often poison their blade tips.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* The Bandar Pygmy tribe, allies of [[The Phantom (
== Tabletop Games ==
* The [[Our Elves Are Better|Dark Elves]] in ''Warlords Battlecry'' will use poisoned weapons.
* Poisoned weapons are a game mechanic in ''[[
** Representing their love for this one, the Dark Eldar have poisoned weapons as an upgrade in ''[[
** This sometimes seems a little unnecessary, given the tech levels in [[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Essentially, virtually every action adventure-based tabletop RPG (which is to say, most of them) will have at least a few paragraphs on the effects of poison on player characters -- from a simple "save or die" to lovingly detailed descriptions of a given poison's exact effects over time. Some systems (notably early editions of [[Dungeons and Dragons
** In D&D Fourth Edition, poison use is one of the main shticks of the Executioner Assassin player class. The class makes a certain number of uses of poison each day (determined by level) which can be applied to weapons or used directly on enemies. Other classes have access to poison-based powers as well, but since the poison damage type is resisted by more creatures than any other damage type, it's not the best type of damage to specialize in.
** 3rd Edition has a 5% chance of accidentally poisoning yourself when applying acid to a blade, although certain classes, such as Assassins, are trained to avoid this. It's still not very practical, however, as the good stuff is expensive, and by the time you can avoid it in mass quantities, most enemies will make their Saving Throw easily.
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== Theater ==
* Poisoned weapons featured in a number of Shakespeare's plays, perhaps most prominently in ''[[
== Videogames ==
* In a flashback of ''[[
* In ''[[
* Some weapons in the ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** ''[[
** In ''[[
* [[Karma Meter|Possible]] hero example: [[Mass Effect
** [[Rule of Cool|Sure we can]].
* The Assassin class in ''[[Baldur's Gate
** The poison is also applied to any traps the assassin deploys while under the 'poisoned weapon' effect.
* The Hrunting in ''[[Castlevania: Chronicles of Sorrow
** If you have the right combination in ''[[Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
* In ''[[
* Players in ''[[
* Poisoned weapons are featured frequently in ''[[
** In ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius
*** A unique weapon of this type is the Valaura from the same game, a poisonous [[Light'Em Up]] [[Holy Hand Grenade|Magic]] tome. Explained that it's corrupted magic.
* Arrows in ''[[Nethack]]'' can be poisoned, which can lead to much frustration since poison can sometimes cause instant death.
* [[
* ''[[Diablo (
* Bruno's poisoned daggers were a plot point in ''[[Quest for Glory V:
* ''[[
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
** In skyrim poison returns, but further testing one's [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]], a master of pickpocketing can reverse pickpocket a poison vial into their possession to poison them without the recipient noticing
* ''[[
* The Dart Gun from ''[[
** ''[[Fallout
* ''[[Myst (
* In ''[[
** An interesting bug in the game means that if the poisoned target, while flailing around uncontrollably, hits anyone, all the guards will blame you and go into high alert.
* ''[[
* ''[[Exile]]'' and ''[[Avernum]]'' give players the ability to poison melee weapons or arrows. Handy for taking out that nasty spellcaster hanging out in the back, as multiple hits from poisoned weapons makes the poison worse. There's also the Alien Blade, which constantly drips poison.
** There are enough enemies dealing poisoned attacks to make poison resistances and cures necessary. Same with the ''[[Geneforge]]'' series.
* Early FPS/RPG ''[[Strife]]'' allows you to use poisoned bolts for your crossbow, turning it from your weakest weapon to a [[One-Hit Kill]] weapon on grunts.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
{{quote| '''Tarvek''': Violetta -- have you been licking your ''knives'' again?}}
** Violetta also uses a variation. Zola high on "[[Super Serum|Movit]] #[[Up to Eleven|11]]" receives a blowdart in the back and mocks the attempt... until Violetta explains the nature of the poison.
{{quote| '''Violetta''': Tsk, I know that. That wasn't poison, that was more Movit #11. Now all I have to do is [[Explosive Overclocking|watch you combust.]]}}
** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120523 Wulfenbach commandos] had poisoned dirks. Fast-acting stuff, apparently.
* In ''[[
== Web Original ==
* ''[[
* Phase (Ayla Goodkind) of the ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
* In ''[[Western Animation/Sandokan|Sandokan]]'', one evil tribe uses poisoned spears.
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