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It's amazing what you can do with a few chemicals in a science fiction story. Mix a bit of Phlebotinum salt with a dash of suspension of disbelief, heat it to over 9000 degrees and you have yourself a "chemical substance" capable of whatever you want it to do. A character can down a shot of it, inject it into their body, pour it into a machine. In almost no circumstance will it make them throw up, kill them, or ruin the machine. Instead it will create whatever wondrous or horrible effect the author desires. See also: Lightning Can Do Anything, Radiation-Induced Superpowers, Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything, and Toxic Waste Can Do Anything. It is of course a form of Applied Phlebotinum. Sci-Fi Counterpart of Alchemy Is Magic. Super-Trope of Super Serum, Psycho Serum, Hollywood Acid, and others. |
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Look Around You ascribes several ridiculous properties to chemicals such as a mixture of sulphur and champagne granting the drinker Eye Beams. Of course, this is all part of the joke. | |
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Abused by Dr. Viper in SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, with mutagenic chemicals called "Katalysts" which seem to produce same-generation mutations and cause creatures to grow many times their size on simple contact. | |
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The Flash: The Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick, got his powers from fumes given off by "hard water" spilled in a chemistry lab. In Real Life, hard water is simply water which contains calcium or magnesium ions, so the most it would really be able to do is give off steam. The Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen, got his powers from a chemical rack being struck by lightning. |
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Fireman Sam: In one of the original stop-motion episodes, Norman Price gets hold of a seemingly quite ordinary children's chemistry set. He somehow manages to use the contents to create a small explosion and a cloud of toxic fumes so potent that the local fire brigade need full breathing apparatus to enter the room. | |
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Escape From St. Mary's: The chemistry department brews teleportation mixtures from chemicals that you find and distill. | |
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The Transformers: The episode "The Insecticon Syndrome" has Ratchet and Wheeljack formulate an antidote to the Nova Power Core that is about to explode in the Insecticons' stomachs, to stop them from blowing up and destroying most of Earth. | |
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The Invisible Man: The title character's invisibility is chemical in nature. The formula "entails taking opium and another drug, which makes his blood boil, then processing his body in a radiator engine." Wells' Griffin was already psychologically unstable before the process, but cooking the brain a couple different ways probably didn't help. | |
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Chemical X in The Powerpuff Girls (1998) — it has the power to create life, give any living being superpowers with no side-effects, and apparently, it's in abundant enough quantities to be regularly abused. | |
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Honey Lemon in Big Hero 6 has a purse which functions as a compound mixer, creating throwable chemical balls that can do whatever she needs them to do. This can range from restraining gel to powerful explosives. | |
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The various potions you can mix with the chemistry set in The Sims. | |
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Batman: The agreed-on origin for the Joker, who plummeted into a disposal tank full of various chemicals. In Death of the Family, Batman asides that he's studied the crime scene and knows the mixture by heart, but on sleepless nights finds himself poring over the list all over again. A combination like that should have eaten the Joker alive. (Batman gets trapped in the very same tank by Harley Quinn, and the chemical mixture chews straight through his Batsuit.) One possible origin for the Joker reveals him to be an ex-chemist, which would explain his expertise in poison and acid weapons. His patented "Joker" venom leaves the victim with a rictus smile — the clown's calling card. |
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Most potions in Impractical Magic are not magical, but abuse chemistry in one way or another. A "stamina potion" is just a fancy way of saying bottle of caffeine and amphetamines. | |
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In Tetsuko, there is an "anti-aging" formula created by Dr. Sonya Gannon that made her lab assistant (the titular character) tall, muscular, and super-strong (even though that wasn't its intended purpose). | |
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Shows up often in Axe Cop. This being Axe Cop, it's often taken beyond the impossible. | |
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In American Dragon: Jake Long, Spud goes to a school for child geniuses. In a chemistry demonstration, one student makes a floating cloud in the shape of Pi, and another manages to rapidly grow a statue of the teacher. | |
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In Family Matters, Urkel creates a machine that can create clones or turn people into other people (e.g., Steve Urkel into Stephan). It required vaguely described "chemicals" to work, which were poured into a slot in the machine. | |
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When Ben and Daniel are breaking out of prison in The Leonard Regime, they stumble across a lab full of chemicals. Ben, knowing what the chemicals were, managed to create a mixture that could kill all of the guards when breathed in. | |
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In Herbert West–Reanimator, bringing fresh corpses back to life merely requires the injection of the right chemicals. Apparently, these chemicals diffuse very quickly, since they'd be injected into a body with no blood circulating. | |
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Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy V, the Chemist class is considered a Game-Breaker by experts because of its variety of powers: HP Drain, loads of status buffs, debuffs, and plenty of tools that make the game a walk in the park. They're a Guide Dang It!, though, as the game doesn't tell you the ingredients for their Mixes. Mixing returns in the Final Fantasy X series and is just as strong, and is the key to many Self Imposed Challenges. |
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Creatures uses "chemicals" for monitoring most of the Creature's inner workings — metabolism, antigens and antibodies, drives like hunger and adopting a right kind of gait for each type of terrain. In some installments of the game, the player can directly inject any of these chemicals in their Creatures, allowing almost anything from clinical immortality to horrible, painful death. | |
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In Ripples in the Pond, a One Piece Self-Insert Fic, Evan manages to make his nunchucks into a material similar to seastone by forcing water molecules to bind with the iron molecules. | |
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In Final Fantasy V, the Chemist class is considered a Game-Breaker by experts because of its variety of powers: HP Drain, loads of status buffs, debuffs, and plenty of tools that make the game a walk in the park. They're a Guide Dang It!, though, as the game doesn't tell you the ingredients for their Mixes. | |
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Mixing returns in the Final Fantasy X series and is just as strong, and is the key to many Self Imposed Challenges. | |
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The agreed-on origin for the Joker, who plummeted into a disposal tank full of various chemicals. In Death of the Family, Batman asides that he's studied the crime scene and knows the mixture by heart, but on sleepless nights finds himself poring over the list all over again. A combination like that should have eaten the Joker alive. (Batman gets trapped in the very same tank by Harley Quinn, and the chemical mixture chews straight through his Batsuit.) | |
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Daredevil gets his powers from radioactive chemicals he's exposed to after a car accident. | |
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A classic example is the potion from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that causes the transformation. The potion is made from a 'blood-red liquor' called a 'tincture' and a 'crystalline salt of a white colour'. | |
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Peach mixes chemicals in the proper proportions and heats the mixture for just the right duration to get an invisibility potion that — once she gets naked — allows her to sneak around the fortress and get data from a disk in Grodus' room. X-Naut PhDs make various potions that X-Nauts use in battle to: restore HP; grow themselves (a buff); shrink the enemy (a debuff), set the enemy on fire (persistent damage), and more. |
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The Adult Version of Jekyll and Hide: A formula can work miracles, including turn you into a woman, with a totally different stature, much younger, with longer hair and make-up. | |
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In an interesting invocation of the trope, The Skylark of Space (one of the earliest Space Operas) begins with the discovery of a transuranic element which catalyzes a direct matter-to-energy conversion, with the energy emerging as a form of propulsion (as well as several other useful forms). | |
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Sexual Chemistry: The key to this film's plot is a drug that not only transform the user into the opposite sex, but makes them younger, grows their hair and nails (and massive breasts), and epilates their body. It also seems to apply makeup. Given that the formula involved input from someone who's specifically stated to be a witch, the writers evidently had to admit that this looked more like magic than science. | |
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Captain America gets his powers from a "super-soldier formula". Later, the treatment was elaborated with a radiological treatment to activate and stabilize the chemicals. | |
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