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Poison and Cure Gambit

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Poison and Cure Gambit	comment	This plan involves unleashing some kind of poison or plague and then either selling the antidote or cure (typically at an exorbitant price) or blackmailing a person into working for them in order to get it. Subtrope of Find the Cure!. Not to be confused with simply Carrying the Antidote. Sister Trope to Monster Protection Racket. Has nothing to do with Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo. Due to the nature of this trope as a possible plot twist, beware of unmarked spoilers.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_11b7db91	comment	In Adventure Time episode "Jake vs. Me-Mow", Me-Mow uses this to blackmail Jake into assassinating the Wildberry Princess. When Me-Mow talks in her sleep, she stated that even if Jake helped her kill Wildberry Princess that she planned on double-crossing him and letting the poison kill him anyway. It doesn't take, however, when Me-Mow reveals that the toxin is enough to kill 50 dogs, leading Jake to realize he can just supersize his liver by 51 and absorb said toxin.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_135f4195	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_135f4195	comment	Seen in Dune in a unique variant, directed at one person. When Thufir Hawat is captured by the Harkonnens, they administer a "latent" poison to him that will remain in the body but can be temporarily neutralized by frequent ingestion of an antidote. The technological poison sniffers won't register the antidote, which is harmless, and the poison within his body can't be detected. If the antidote is withdrawn, the poison will activate.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_15bd4cf4	comment	Used in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents - several of the protagonists claim to have dosed a pair of corrupt rat catchers with poison and force them to explain their scam in order to get the antidote. However, the "poison" was actually a laxative, and the "antidote" is... more laxatives. One of the protagonists actually wants to use real poison, but another talks him out of it.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_18adf3f7	comment	Amelia Smith: 9th Grade Kunoichi: Mac Antfee poisons Kunoichi, then Blackmails Ninja, presenting him with a Sadistic Choice of saving either her or Howard.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_18d2338d	comment	A Scanner Darkly: New Path is behind Substance D while providing rehabilitation for its addicted users, which also includes doing farm work - growing more of the drug.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_1b346a15	comment	In the final chapter of Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, Colonel Zeitel has poisoned Lady Georgia. He demands the painting for the antidote.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_1beda93b	comment	In Sluggy Freelance, Sam the vampire tracks Dr. Schlock to his motel room, where Sam can't go without an invitation. Sam gets around this by shooting Schlock in the leg, forcing him to either allow Sam to enter and patch him up or else bleed to death.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_1c649ab3	comment	In Chapter 22 of The Rising of the Shield Hero, Naofumi poisons a guard, whom he then tells will die unless he receives an antidote from him. He uses it to turn the guard into a guide to find Melty.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_1f8462f7	comment	The basis of Spider-Man 2099's backstory; when he tried to resign from Alchemex, his boss gave him a drink spiked with a drug so powerful, the withdrawal symptoms were lethal, meaning that he'd have to keep working for them in order to keep a steady supply and not die.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_22147342	comment	In the fifth season of Arrow, it is revealed that one of Oliver's off-screen victims as "The Hood" in the first season was Justin Claybourne, a man who first got involved with a black market group to spread weaponized polio in one of the poorer areas of Starling City, then bought up exclusive rights to a new polio cure and offered to sell it at exorbitant prices.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_2372359	comment	In The Belgariad, the Nyissan court tries this when Garion is briefly Made a Slave, dosing him with drugs that will kill him from withdrawal if he doesn't continue to receive them. Or that would, if he wasn't a sorcerer who can transmute his blood to purge the drugs from his system. Cue the Oh, Crap! from a queen facing down The Chosen One and his legendary sorceress aunt with a sudden lack of leverage.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_2382a98c	comment	The Royal Masquerade has this as part of the villain's Evil Plan. Renza Fierro, who has been pretending to be Julia's friend up to this point, reveals that all the drinks she gave her out of seeming generosity were actually laced with a slow-acting poison called cantarella, and Julia must help her become queen if she wants her to give her the antidote for it. When Julia refuses, Renza locks her in a room to die from the poison. She only survives because she's able to steal the antidote later.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_29984214	comment	In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency, Joseph manages to appeal to Wamuu's Blood Knight nature by convincing him that if he was given a month to train, then he could give him the fight of his life. Wamuu ends up agreeing but puts this trope into play to make sure he doesn't weasel out of their battle. It turns out that he and his fellow Pillar Men all carry hollow rings filled with deadly poison, which he fuses into Joseph's heart using his powers. In 33 days, the ring will break apart and release the poison within, killing Joseph. The only way to safely remove the ring (and the poison within) is by taking the antidote held in Wamuu's mouth piercing. To further complicate things, Wammu's cohort Esidisi fuses his own ring into Joseph's throat, and that ring can only be neutralized by the antidote within his nose piercing, thus necessitating defeating him as well. Their leader Kars mercifully decides not to put in his own ring, not as interested in Joseph as the other Pillar Men are.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_2e50826c	comment	A short-term variant in Bullet Train, where the task is "get the antidote". Ladybug gets poisoned via syringe by the Viper during their fight, so he grabs the syringe and injects her with the same poison, hoping she's carrying the antidote on her and will reveal where she's holding it. When she pulls it out, Ladybug snatches it away from her and injects himself with it. That dose is the only one the Viper is carrying, so she dies.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_32066b8e	comment	V for Vendetta: The Norsefire group get their position by spreading a plague through several areas, and blaming it on supposed captured terrorists. Its leader Sutler wins the election by a landslide, and the party then distributes a cure through a medical company they control.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_334120fc	comment	In 8-Bit Theater, Matoya poisons the "Light Warriors" to coerce them into retrieving her magic eye for her. However, because she's blind, she doesn't realize which poison she'd given them, and it turns out to be the one that causes sanity-straining nightmares.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_3501cc23	comment	Occurs twice in the Gentleman Bastard series. In The Lies of Locke Lamora, the Spider poisons Locke and promises him the antidote only if he agrees to help her. He immediately knocks her unconscious and loots the antidote. In Red Seas Under Red Skies, Archon Stragos poisons Locke and Jean and demands their help in exchange for the antidote. Stragos's alchemist only creates enough antidote for one person before he dies, and Locke and Jean are forced to flee the city. Later, Jean insists Locke be the one who drinks it, only for Locke to reveal he already slipped it into Jean's finished drink.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_3626dc6d	comment	Gogol's introductory episode in Nikita has the Russian paramilitary group capture Nikita and inject her with a Division-developed poison, with the antidote to be administered after she completes an assassination for them. Alex manages to smuggle the antidote out of Division for Nikita, who then ensures the assassination fails.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_3a22d7e2	comment	Yo-Jin-Bo employs this trope, albeit mostly offscreen: In Bo and Ittosai's paths, the ninja Kasumimaru reveals that he persuaded Ittosai to turn mole by 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 even when Ittosai inevitably reneges on the deal.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_3ccd4125	comment	The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: In Chapter 74, a pharmaceutical spy poisons Kusuri's parents and offers to provide the antidote if Kusuri agree to work for him. Rentarou undoes the gambit by tricking the spy into shooting a vat of the neutralization drug, allowing the parents to recover without the spy's antidote or Kusuri enabling her drugs to be used for unsavory purposes.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_3eb3a36f	comment	Assassination Classroom: During the Assassination Island arc, half of the class is infected with a deadly Synthethic Plague by an unknown enemy, who demands that the class surrenders Koro-sensei for the cure. The second half of the arc revolves around the remaining half of the class infiltrating the hotel where the enemy has set up base in order to steal the cure. After the arc's climax, however, the assassins who engineered and released the plague reveal that since they knew that their employer Takaoka was going to destroy the cure and they didn't want the stigma of being responsible for a bunch of middle schoolers dying, they only used a plague that looked deadly, but would have healed on its own.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_41b0198a	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_41b0198a	comment	In The Dresden Files, Harry pulls a unique subversion by poisoning himself so that he can strong-arm a faerie with an interest in his survival into cooperating with his plan.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_41ecc735	comment	Attempted in the 2001 Cyborg 009 series. The Egypt episode has a bunch of villains whose plan culminates in dropping a bomb filled with poison into Cairo, while the team and especially Francoise (who is in full It's Personal mode, and has the perfect powers to defuse the crisis) attempts to defuse it.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_4dc9e070	comment	Traitor's Face: During Act 3, Azula poisons Karai, then demands that Zuko return in exchange for the antidote.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_50c2ac6	comment	In Vengeance of Dawn, Breaking Dawn, a disgraced former student of Princess Celestia, slips an amnesia-inducing poison into Cadence's drink, planning to "miraculously" cure her later as part of her plan to get back into Celestia's good graces. She doesn't actually have a cure for the poison and is relying on her friend Laurel to come up with one. Twilight beats her to the punch by purging Cadence of the poison's dark magic first.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In the episode "The Chaser", based on the short story (described above) with the same title, the main character buys a Love Potion from a man who hints that he won't like the results. He doesn't, and when he returns to the potion seller, the only "antidote" available is an untraceable and undetectable poison.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond has this done to him as Cold-Blooded Torture. While being held prisoner in North Korea in Die Another Day, his captors would sting him with scorpions and then his torturers would watch the poison take effect for some indeterminate amount of time before injecting the antidote. Multiple times.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_5b086a8a	comment	Early in The Well of Moments, Jasmine pulls this on a client who tried to stiff her out of payment. It gets turned back on her later by someone else.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_5c638d89	comment	The Americans: Philip and Elisabeth poison the son of the Secretary of Defense's maid in order to get her to steal a clock and then return it after they've planted a bug on it.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_6234f5b3	comment	Father Brown: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", Lisandra poisons Father Brown with a poison that will take 35 hours to kill him. She says she will provide him with the antidote if he persuades Flambeau to surrender the stolen holy artifact to her.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_65aabcf0	comment	Buso Renkin: After one of his Homunculus embryo the Papillon Mask Creator attaches itself to Tokiko, he offers Kazuki a cure in exchange for Kazuki's Kakugane, a rare alchemical device that can turn into a powerful weapon and possesses healing properties. This is also an unintentional Xanatos Gambit, given that the cure is a useless fake - if Kazuki makes the trade, then Papillon gets to study Kakugane technology and he still gets to turn one of his greatest enemies (at the time) into a minion. If not, then he loses out on the Kakugane but still gets Tokiko as a minion. However, because the Kakugane is what brought Kazuki Back from the Dead, he can't remove it or he'll die so he doesn't make the trade and accidentally knocks out the Papillon Mask Creator with one punch, at which point Tokiko arrives and tells him that the cure was fake.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_667953be	comment	In Red Seas Under Red Skies, Archon Stragos poisons Locke and Jean and demands their help in exchange for the antidote. Stragos's alchemist only creates enough antidote for one person before he dies, and Locke and Jean are forced to flee the city. Later, Jean insists Locke be the one who drinks it, only for Locke to reveal he already slipped it into Jean's finished drink.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_6bef8832	comment	In Baldur's Gate III, while it's never explicitly confirmed there are several hints that the Emperor is the one who infected you and possibly the other members of your party with illithid tadpoles after regaining his free will so he could use you against the Absolute. Either way, being the only thing protecting you from the Absolute's control is the leverage he has over you.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	Jackie Chan Adventures: In "The Rock", Valmont infects Jackie with a poison that will turn him into stone, offering the antidote in exchange for all of the talismans that Jackie has collected thus far. Jade then breaks into Section 13 in order to save her uncle. Of course, Jade missed one, the Horse Talisman, and Tohru responds by smashing the antidote. Good thing said talisman grants you healing powers...
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_7291539d	comment	The Joker does this in Batman: Arkham City, poisoning Batman with the same TITAN-based disease that's slowly killing him and forcing the Dark Knight to find a cure. Batman merely responds that he's fine with both of them dying, but the Joker anticipated that and managed to poison people all over Gotham with it by sending packets of his infected blood to hospitals, so now Batman really has to find a cure. Ultimately, Batman cures himself, and Word of God is that he manages to save Gotham, but the Joker's actions lead to him not getting the cure, and so he dies.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_74408e4c	comment	German comic Fix und Foxi has the (mostly) Lovable Rogue Lupo pull this off once. First, he lets loose a bunch of moths and sells people a spray against them. Said spray gives people an allergic reaction, causing sneezing. He sells them a cure - which makes people unbelievably thirsty. Then he sells them a special lemonade which cures their thirst - but totally messes up their hair. Then he sells them wigs. Which are badly made, with the hair falling out. Then finally, they get it. Cue the mob.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_755cbdcf	comment	One strip of Precocious shows Bud selling his famous "Muffins of Doom" from a booth, then his customer sees something else, panics, and drops the muffin he was eating, and Autumn is shown in a booth selling "Antidotes".
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_76a68629	comment	Subverted in Eye of the Dragon - you found out from Henry Delacor, a thief, about a priceless golden statue hidden in a dungeon which can only be moved by inserting the statue's ruby eyes, one which is in Delacor's posession. You agree to go on a quest to locate the second eye after Delacor gives you the one he has, on the condition that you drink a slow poison that kills you in two weeks and that Delacor has the antidote. It turns out to be a bluff, there never was any poison, and Delacor plans to kill you the moment you rendezvous with him with the golden statue if not for your new dwarven friend Littlebig performing a Taking the Bullet as Delacor pulls a crossbow on you.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_7a8eea7e	comment	An outright benevolent example is set up at the end of The Golden Enclaves: Insofar as most of Magical Society knows the only thing that has been determined about whatever is ripping the foundations out of various Enclaves and casting them into the Void is unaffiliated with and beyond the control of the big boys in New York or Shanghai; however the legendary Speaker of Mumbai has managed to at least work out how to give warning, her clan has obtained an ancient spellbook from which the first Enclave Foundation Stones were created, and if they do not lend themselves to similar extravagance or oblige letting in riff-raff to help maintain it having such a relic set up before the original Foundation Stone is obliterated is the difference between fixable damage and being wiped from existence. Meanwhile, the scary-powerful-and-just-plain-scary kid who was mixed up in both the destruction and re-creation of the Scholomance has gotten with some of her school chums to track sightings of the indestructible all-devouring horrors known as maw-mouths so she can put them down. The fact that the actors have a connection (Galadriel Higgins is the half-Welsh quasi-posthumous by-blow of Deepthi Sharma's great-grandson) is not widely known. Outside of the High Councils of the Enclaves and those most deeply involved in the horrible blood sacrifices that have been used to create the critical Foundation Stones for all these centuries, very few can conceive of how the action of destroying a monster so far away can be connected to the instantaneous destruction of an Enclave. And while the extended Sharma family is keeping thier active collaboration very quiet (the impossibility of knowing which maw-mouth is linked to what Enclave ahead of time even with precognitive aid helps), it has been agreed that the only way to get those horrors fueled by an eternity of blood and pain abandoned as a way to shelter wizards is a looming-yet-unpredictable threat of obliteration.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_7cf5a07	comment	In The Flash (2014) episode "Tricksters", the eponymous Trickster and his son Axl hand out Champaign poisoned with trimethaline 342 at a party and demand ransom from the guests. Fortunately, Barry injects them all with the antidote using his Super-Speed.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_7d32af5	comment	Presentable Liberty has this as part of the backstory, but with a twist: The cure ends up causing organ failure. Dr. Money tries capitalizing on this too by selling new organs, but they tend to fail very rapidly*The Money box in the prequel game Exoptable Money can generate organs late into the game. Presumably this is where these bad organs are coming from. Turns out, a legitimate cure does exist, and you were injected with it so your organs would become incredibly valuable.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_7db5e90f	comment	In Lucky Luke, Snake Oil Salesman Dr. Doxey is willing to poison entire towns to sell his "cures". The only saving grace is that he limits himself to non-lethal poisons, as dead victims obviously wouldn't be able to buy the cure from him.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_7e850e47	comment	In the third time loop of Bravely Default, DeRosa, Profiteur, and Dr. Qada plan to do this but are stopped by your party before they can get started. Qada, who created both the poison and the cure, has a hard time deciding whether he wants his name to go down in history as the great hero that created the cure, or the diabolical villain that created the poison.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_7f2f55ad	comment	In the Punisher MAX storyline "6 Hours to Kill", Frank is blackmailed with a cure to assassinate someone. He instead decides to take down as many criminals as possible before dying.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_81692f99	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Symbiosis", aliens in a pre-warp civilization believe that they're suffering from a plague, and they need to keep buying medicine from a neighboring planet to treat it. The aliens supplying the medicine know that the plague actually disappeared long ago and the "cure" is an addictive drug with withdrawal symptoms that the aliens believe to be plague symptoms. Citing the Prime Directive, Picard refuses to allow the crew of the Enterprise to tell the aliens the truth - and also refuses to assist them when their access to a supply of the "cure" becomes threatened, suggesting that the aliens are soon going to find out the truth about the plague and its "cure" the hard way. Villain of the Week Kivas Fajo pulls this in "The Most Toys" when he poisons the water supply of a Federation colony so he can then sell the cure to the Enterprise. However, his real goal is to get his hands on Data so that he can add a Soong-type android to his collection of rare things. One of the things that tips off the Enterprise crew that Kivas is up to something is when they find out he happens to be transporting exactly as much of the (very rare) cure as is needed to restore the water supply, no more and no less. Plus, the fact that tricyanate is much more expensive to manufacturer than the cure (hytritium), so he would not make a profit on this venture (quite the opposite, it would cause him a huge loss). The Doctor does this to a corrupt and compassionless Jerkass hospital administrator in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Critical Care"; disgusted at how the civilization lets certain people die based on their standing in society while wasting the medicine that could have saved them on more important patients who didn't need it, the Doctor deliberately infects one of the main hospital staff with a virus so that he would be forced to change his usual procedure in order to be treated himself. This was foreshadowed earlier in the episode when Nelix did something similar to a prisoner they were interrogating about how to find the missing Doctor. Neelix tricked him into eating a toxic meal that wasn't deadly but would cause severe pain for several hours, which was treatable, but only the Doctor was authorized to give the cure, so he would have to tell them where to find the Doctor to make the pain stop.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_83d41855	comment	One episode of Gargoyles double subverts this. Demona tries to pull a deal of this kind by shooting Elisa with a poisoned dart and coercing the gargoyles to help her in return for the antidote. Unbeknownst to her Elisa's badge deflected the dart. The Gargoyles spring the trap anyway, out of curiosity, and so Demona will think she succeeded. An extra twist comes up in the end, when Demona gloats that there is no antidote right before she gets away. It was a Xanatos Gambit that would result in the deaths of at least one of her foes and possibly more as a fringe benefit. Thank God for that badge...
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_85bddaf5	comment	Food Fantasy: Calamus Wine's former Master Attendant poisoned all their servants, and would only grant the antidote to whoever submitted to the master. The poison only took effect after a varying period of time, and would induce great pain instead of immediately killing its victim, but if the master didn't think someone would be useful, no amount of begging could save that servant. Almond Tofu's elderly Master Attendant was a former servant who escaped with Calamus Wine's help, but finally succumbed to the poison many years afterwards.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_87684a93	comment	Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls reveals that the Towa Group rose to fame by selling air purifiers to counter the poisonous gases that were released into the world after the Tragedy. Turns out they were behind the release of the poisonous gas in the first place.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_8905d105	comment	This is the plan of PÃ¨re NoÃ«l in Gift From the Princess Who Brought Sleep, having Margarita make an airborne toxin of Gift and selling the cure on the black market. The only problem is that Margarita wanted to just kill everyone with the poison.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_8960fd02	comment	In Vinland Saga, Hild feeds poisoned soup to Thorfinn and his friends, and agrees to give them the antidote if Thorfinn fights her alone. Turns out she was bluffing.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_8989d113	comment	In Poison Study, this is how the commander's food taster is kept loyal, with a dose of the cure needed every day. To make it harder for the subject to obtain another supply of the cure, the poison does not exist. The "cure" is an addictive drug with painful withdrawal symptoms.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_898ba48d	comment	Stampy's Lovely World: The plot of Episode 760, "Impossible Choice", revolves around this. In Episode 749, "Ten Years Later...", Stampy's oldest dog Barnaby was poisoned, and the Big Bad uses the antidote to save Barnaby's life as leverage for the eponymous Lovely World, forcing Stampy into the titular Sadistic Choice between his beloved dog's life and being able to set foot in the community he's been building for over a decade. Stampy manages to haggle it down to just the Funland, though, and later episodes have him engaging in Passive-Aggressive Kombat against the villains to get his minigame paradise back.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_89f61c67	comment	In Mission: Impossible II, it's a bit more subtle than usual: The Big Bad wants stock options of a company he sold the antidote to, allowing him to get his share when said company makes big bucks.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_8a339030	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_8a339030	comment	Indiana Jones: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom involves a one-person version of this trope in the Cold Open where Indiana is tricked into drinking poison. "And now, doctor Jones, you give me the diamond." Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade has a more lethal variation in which Donovan shoots Indy's father in the stomach to coerce Indy into retrieving the Holy Grail. "You can't save him when you're dead! The healing power of the Grail is the only thing that can save your father now! It's time to ask yourself what you believe!"
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_8f784646	comment	Thomas of Magnus, the hero of Sigmund Brouwer's Wings of Dawn, uses this — the price of being given regular doses of antidote is continued cooperation from the agents pursuing him, all of whom claim to be with the good guys and want him to join them. In reality, this is a Batman Gambit to weed out which side is lying; knowing that the villains have fewer compunctions about fighting dirty and think they're smarter than he is, Thomas is slipping non-lethal doses into every meal and providing them with flavored water as the "antidote". When he "inadvertently" allows them enough information to determine the recipe of the supposed antidote, the villain works it out and seizes the opportunity to... poison himself. OOPS.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_90b916ba	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: In one episode, the Scarecrow releases a chemical that takes away all sensation of fear, making people dangerously reckless, with the plan of selling his fear toxin as the "antidote". And in an earlier one, Corrupt Corporate Executive Roland Daggett has stray animals infected with an incredibly virulent new strain of rabies that he plans to sell the cure for.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_99ace7f3	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_99ace7f3	comment	In Secret Agent Super Dragon, the Big Bad used this to coerce some spies to turn Double Agent. Of course, being the Big Bad, he never got around to giving those he turned the antidote.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_9ebb8e6f	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_9ebb8e6f	comment	In one X-Force story, Elixir uses his powers to give Vanisher an inoperable brain tumor in the shape of the X-Men logo to force him to cooperate with them.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_a040500a	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_a040500a	comment	In Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie, master poisoner Castor Morveer and his apprentice Day use this a number of times. In some instances the trope is played straight, while in other cases there was actually no poison at all; in one of those cases, the proffered antidote is actually the real poison.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_a255b0c8	comment	The Weedverse: In Eigengrau Zwei: Die Welt Ist Grau Geworden, Dim poisons Grimy's tea with the intent of using this as leverage to force the other to cooperate with them. He then kills Grimy anyway.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project has a non-poison version. Mystia Lorelei uses her blindness-inducing Magic Music to sell grilled lamprey to humans as a blindness cure, with the intent of getting them so used to fish they stop eating poultry (she's a bird youkai).
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_a7bb24f4	comment	In Mega Man 10, Dr. Wily secretly spreads the Roboenza virus to afflict robots and leave humans helpless, then reveals that he caused it and says that anyone who wants to cure their robots should come work for him.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_a825da3e	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_a825da3e	comment	In the Magic: The Gathering novel Agents of Artifice, Gemreth's demon injects Jace with a painful venom before it interrogates him, promising the antidote if he passes the test.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_a9cb14fc	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_a9cb14fc	comment	In Ravenloft, this is the modus operandi of Darklord Ivan Dilisnya. He created a Perfect Poison called Borrowed Time, which will be a guaranteed kill on anyone at sunset unless they take "Mercy", which is only good for a day. He naturally uses this to ensure loyalty out of all of his employees... and he's not above using Borrowed Time as a recruitment tool.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_aa57824b	comment	How Not to Summon a Demon Lord: The corrupt Paladin Batutta and the Church have been using magic to infect the townspeople of Zircon Tower City with the deadly Marked Death Disease so that they can make money curing them.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_aa855418	comment	Almost Human has one episode involving an organ-trafficking scheme in which people desperately in need of new hearts are fitted with bio-mechanical hearts that are set to fail after thirty days. The timer can be reset, of course, for a very exorbitant fee.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_adacda44	comment	Batman 1939: Batman convinces a Body Snatcher to stay in one body and help the heroes escape capture by drugging her real body, convincing her it's poison, and withholding the "antidote."
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Tyene Sand insists that Bronn call her the most beautiful woman he's ever seen before giving him the antidote.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_b683f90f	comment	Seen a few times in Perry Rhodan, typically as a longer-term blackmail plot: apply a relatively subtle, slow-acting but deadly futuristic poison to the victim (or, for extra dog-kicking points, to somebody else the victim cares about), then regularly supply them with just enough counteragent to keep the poison in check but not actually neutralize it for good. The method has been used by planetary dictators, intelligence agencies of the more unscrupulous persuasion, and at least one starship captain using it to blackmail her own (admittedly likewise shady) crew; naturally, employing it is a pretty good sign of the perpetrator having crossed the moral event horizon some time ago.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_b7402cbd	comment	In Nugget's and Ms. Applegate's routes of Kindergarten (2017), Nugget has the protagonist eat a chicken nugget to prove he wants to be his friend. He later reveals that the nugget was poisoned and that the protagonist will die at the end of lunch if he doesn't get the antidote, which Nugget will only give him if he can get Buggs to eat another, more potent poison nugget.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom: In the episode "Masters of All Time", Vlad, suffering from another outbreak of the Ecto-Acne disease that afflicted him after he first became half-ghost, approaches Danny for help in curing it, and infects Sam and Tucker with the disease as well to ensure Danny's cooperation. After everyone is cured, Danny repays Vlad by sending him flying.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_bcdcf629	comment	Transformers: Animated: In "Black Friday", Blackarachnia gives some of the Autobots a lethal dose of her venom and will only provide the cure if Optimus steals something for her that can help her get rid of her organic half. She ends up being betrayed by Prometheus Black, who wants to remove her robot half instead and use her for his experiments. Optimus saves her and she escapes, but she leaves the cure for Optimus to find.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_be14d6c0	comment	In Drow Tales, this forms two key elements of Snadhya'rune's strategy to get elected Empress and force her own "enlightened" views down everyone's throats. Snadhya'rune runs a nether cult that is obsessed with the idea of tainting, which basically involves infecting a Fae's soul with a demon, and as such has been spreading the taint far and wide. Getting tainted generally means being consumed by the demon, but Snadhya'rune has learned how to master control over it via Split-Personality Merge and is promoting it as a form of "enlightenment". At least two of the people Snadhya'rune has "enlightened" completely switch loyalties, leading some to fear that Snadhya'rune is utilizing it as a means of brainwashing. She threatens to annihilate all of the clans with a deadly infectious flower. Only those who bend to her rule will be given the cure. Surprisingly enough, a significant portion of the population strongly supports her goals. She has her first Villainous Breakdown in the entire strip when Sarghress assassins kill the scientist responsible for the "Cure" part of the gambit. Making sure another scientist can make the cure becomes a very high priority for her. Unfortunately, said scientist left No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup due to a desire to keep her work a secret. As a result, Snadhya's flower plague quickly spreads beyond the control of everyone, including her.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_bff01809	comment	In Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000, many turn to the Chaos God Nurgle to escape the effects of a crippling or deadly plague, only to discover Nurgle created it in the first place. The Tome of Decay says Nurgle cultists end up happy upon learning that, because it means Nurgle took active steps to recruit them, meaning he has "chosen" them. Being a sufficiently Benevolent Boss can get people to excuse many sins, and Nurgle is at least polite enough to try to ensure his disciples are Cursed with Awesome once they learn to stomach all the Body Horror.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_c0426389	comment	In the Warhammer 40,000 novel The Beheading, Grand Master Vangorich poisons Inquisitor Lord Veritus with a chemical that will reverse his Longevity Treatments, planning to offer him regular doses of the antidote to strongarm Veritus into co-operating with him. However, after Vangorich finally hits his Rage Breaking Point after one petty display too many, he abandons this plan and lets Veritus die instead as part of the titular coup.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_c2374a54	comment	In Red Sonja the thought-to-be-deceased King of Zamora is revealed to have created a "plague" (actually a poison) that he gave to his enemies in order to trick Sonja's former companion Annisia into massacring entire cities, believing them to be infected, while he holds the antidote.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Pandorica Opens", River Song pulls one of these while negotiating the sale of a Vortex Manipulator with a black market salesman in a bar.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_c68c0000	comment	A heroic trickster variation. In an issue of Star Wars (Marvel 1977), Luke tells an imperial officer he has poisoned him and will give him the antidote once he gives Luke access to computer records. Feeling stomach pains, the officer complies, and then Chewbacca knocks him out. Turns out Luke only put soap flakes in the officer's soup.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7: In "Cygnus Alpha", a Scam Religion has been created around this trope, as the high priest has the only stocks of a medicine that must be administered for the rest of your life to fight off a local disease. Later he reveals that the disease is harmless and burns itself out in a few days. In "Traitor", the protagonists encounter Forbus, a Reluctant Mad Scientist who's been refining a brainwashing drug. Turns out Servalan infected him with a disease that causes an agonising death. After making him a cripple, she doles out an antidote that keeps the infection at bay, as long as he continues his work. Forbus constructs a homemade bomb to kill them both, but unfortunately Servalan shoots him first.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_c72021c5	comment	Used on a global scale in Deus Ex, with the synthetic disease "The Gray Death" (and very expensive vaccine "Ambrosia").
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_c7f59f7d	comment	Teen Titans: Beast Boy gets the drop on a villain this way. He's such a goofy and friendly guy that it's easy to forget just how nasty his animal-shifting ability can be; like turning into a highly-toxic spider, stinging a villain, and giving him a choice - either he cures the city's kids and turns himself in, or he dies from the venom. The villain wisely chooses the former.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_c96cfe29	comment	It's strongly implied that Agahnimnote who was possibly (part of) Ganon in disguise; it's not clear did this (releasing a plague into Hyrule, then arriving incognito as a sorcerer able to halt the plague) in the lead-up to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_cd713f4	comment	The Stainless Steel Rat: One person who tries Recruiting the Criminal Jim DiGriz doses him with a slow-acting poison and promises him the antidote upon completion of his mission. Subverted when Jim does so, then belatedly realizes he's passed the deadline by which the poison was to take effect; the employer later admits that it was a bluff. In The Stainless Steel Rat for President, a member of Jim's family is captured, so Jim surrenders himself. He's completely strip-searched, but the Secret Police fails to realise that Jim has impregnated a deadly virus into his fingernails, which he uses to scratch the dictator. Jim then agrees to provide the antidote if everyone is released. However, as Jim refuses to kill, he was just bluffing about the virus, which is actually a mild toxin to provide the symptoms, with an injection of water as the antidote.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_d0551f72	comment	In Garanos, the Big Bad Gharsena is the one who made the disease Gailen is dying from, a fact she uses to force Gailen to be her mole. When Gailen figures it out she attempts to kill her, but Gharsena just magically accelerates the disease until it kills her.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_d0e25eb9	comment	In Heavy Object, Hermes Pharmaceutical developed a riot suppressant gas which they soon discovered has a 99.8% lethality rate. They sold this to their nation's police anyway and then extorted any rich victims of the gas in exchange for the antidote.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_d3762d1b	comment	In the real-time tactics game Soldiers of Anarchy, The End of the World as We Know It was caused by a virus that caused uncontrollable cellular mutations quickly followed by death. During the game, the COTUC route has the player's squad finding out that the epidemic was caused by NOAH's predecessor, a medical firm who engineered the virus in order to get rich on the vaccine... only for the cure to prove ineffective, while the NOAH route implies COTUC somehow had a working cure all along, probably having stolen it out of NOAH's labs after sabotaging the original research to make their own survival appear miraculous to the common folk. Now, NOAH are getting close to synthesizing the cure once more and are actively trying to restore the world as atonement while COTUC are not only experimenting with the virus to make it even deadlier but intend to eliminate NOAH as well to secure their position as the last major power in the world - fully intending to release the improved virus if they think they're losing.note Which they attempt to do if the player attacks their headquarters. Hoooly shit!
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_d3fdf6e0	comment	The Elder Scrolls In-Universe Books: In A Game at Dinner, Prince Hlaalu Helseth of Morrowind holds a banquet, and then informs the guests after the meal that he has poisoned the utensils of those who were spying on him for other nobles. He offers a glass of antidote to anyone who confesses. The "antidote" is actually the poison; the man who takes it, and admits to spying for Helseth's stepsister the Queen of Wayrest, dies in agony. The anonymous narrator, himself a spy for Helseth's vassal House Dres, remained silent and is horrified enough by the experience to beg his mistress for reassignment.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_d4ce066b	comment	In Ninja Scroll, Dakuan (a spy for the Tokugawa government) forcibly recruits Master Swordsman Jubei to help him prevent a group of super ninjas from completing a scheme that would help overthrow the government by making use of this trope. Jubei has already had several run-ins with the ninjas in question, but declines to help Dakuan and is about to simply walk away from the whole situation when Dakuan reveals that a shuriken that Dakuan used on Jubei earlier was poisoned, and Jubei will die within days unless he helps Dakuan.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_d5d6cce1	comment	In The Monster Maker, Dr. Markoff infects Lawrence with acromegaly and refuses to supply the cure unless Lawrence's daughter Patricia agrees to marry him.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_d69208d2	comment	The Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: M.I.S.S.I.O.N." had Numbuh Four manipulate Mr. Boss, Count Spankulot, Soccer Mom, and Stickybeard into forming a bowling team to compete against his dad's team by giving them soda he claims to be poisoned and refusing to give the antidote until they comply. When the assembled bowling team almost wins, Numbuh Four ends up ruining everything by accidentally blurting out that the villains were never poisoned.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_d76723b5	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_d76723b5	comment	In Ultraviolet (2006), Big Bad Daxus plans to unleash a plague targeting humans, to which he has the cure. This is because hemophages are nearly extinct, and he needs a new plague to justify the Arch-Ministry's continued existence.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_d8d79afa	comment	In Escape from L.A., Snake is infected with the Plutoxin 7 virus, which will kill him in ten hours unless he gets the President's daughter and the EMP satellite control device she stole. Subverted in that at the end, it's revealed that "Plutoxin 7" is merely a fast-acting, hard-hitting case of... the flu.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_dc54ae35	comment	Subverted in Dreamkeepers, where the poison the Resistance gave to a corrupt official is incurable, but slow and painful. They offer to give him a painless suicide capsule if he talks.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_de1ec173	comment	Dragons: The Nine Realms: The local lunatic with a hatchet Buzzsaw pulls one in the sixth episode of season 6 in order to get his hands on the Book of Dragons. Only, There Is No Cure.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_de38bcf4	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_de38bcf4	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014): What Shredder and Eric Sacks's Evil Plan amounts to; they will unleash a lethal biotoxin upon New York City, and then profit from selling an antidote derived from mutagen extracted from the Turtles' blood.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_e084daa6	comment	Dune (1984): Mentat Thufir Hawat is required to milk a cat daily for the antidote to the poison he has been administered by the Harkonnens.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_e0cc2a40	comment	Dragons: Race to the Edge: In the episode "Triple Cross", Viggo, having been betrayed by Krogan and Johann, forces Hiccup to help him by poisoning Toothless with red oleander. Subverted toward the end when he informs Hiccup that Toothless was never in danger since red oleander is harmless to dragons. Earlier in the episode "Buffalord Soldier", Viggo's plan was to unleash a deadly plague and then capture a Buffalord (a rare species of dragon who's saliva is a universal cure) to use as a bargaining chip.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_e199d649	comment	In the Inheritance Cycle, this gambit is used to ensure that Arya can't escape prison, as only her captors have the antidote.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_e5d85757	comment	What kicks off the plot of Jak X. During the reading of Krew's last will, Krew reveals in a recording that he always wanted to win the Combat Racing Championship and demands that everyone present drive for him, revealing that the wine they toasted with was poisoned with minute doses of a slow-acting poison known as Black Shade. Krew gives them an ultimatum: win the next Kras City Championship as his team and receive the antidote when they win, or die.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_ecd2d797	comment	The original Baldur's Gate has a side-quest where you're poisoned by an assassin, so you'll die in 10 days if his partner in crime isn't ready to help you... for a price of removing the geas his "partner" put on him to make him cooperate.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_ecdc3983	comment	In the Lionboy books, the Corporation induced an asthma epidemic in the general population in order to sell inhalers.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_edaa765e	comment	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade has a more lethal variation in which Donovan shoots Indy's father in the stomach to coerce Indy into retrieving the Holy Grail. "You can't save him when you're dead! The healing power of the Grail is the only thing that can save your father now! It's time to ask yourself what you believe!"
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_eef5470a	comment	In one chapter of Rurouni Kenshin: Restoration, a corrupt doctor acquires a vial of smallpox and intends to infect a town with it so he can make money curing them. Fortunately, Kenshin, a good doctor, and a cart driver are able to stop him.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_ef7a115	comment	Elizabeth does this to get Jim out of prison in the season finale of Terra Nova. She was bluffing. The "cure" she injected was a sedative.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_f120845f	comment	In Kingdom of Loathing, one path through the level 11 quest takes you through the Copperhead Club, where you encounter the owner Shen Copperhead. Each time you meet him, he poisons you, and won't remove the poison (or give you the Plot Coupon you came there for) unless you go on a Fetch Quest for him... and when you do, he does it again, despite all your best efforts to avoid it. Eventually, you get fed up with him and just beat him up and take it from him.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_f17c3b1d	comment	Played with in the Dead Rising franchise. The company that makes the zombie plague medicine Zombrex intentionally starts zombie outbreaks, but not so they can sell their already-expensive drug at even more extortionate prices (although that's surely considered a bonus). They do it so they can actually make the drug in the first place, since the main ingredient in it is Queen Wasps, and there's sadly no way to make more of those without making more zombies. For what it's worth, they are trying to create a permanent cure for the virus, and so far have managed to make Zombrex last twice as long as it originally did (24 hours as opposed to 12). The cure is finally developed in the aftermath of Dead Rising 3 when one of the orphans made immune by Carlito Keyes is discovered (it's the Player Character, Nick Ramos, naturally).
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_f31d7d98	comment	In the Drawn Together episode "The Other Cousin", Clara poisons Hero and promises to give him the antidote if he shows her cousin Bleh a good time. This becomes a What Happened to the Mouse? moment in the broadcast version when he's not seen getting the antidote in the episode (the extended DVD version does in fact show Clara giving it to him).
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_f3e1f424	comment	A variation in Merlin (2008) in that it's the hero who pulls it off, using a villain's ploy against them. On realizing that Morgana is the source of the spell that renders all of Camelot under an enchanted sleep, Merlin tricks her into drinking water spiked with hemlock. As she lays dying Morgause (who cast the spell in the first place) bursts in and Merlin breaks a deal with her: he'll give her the name of the poison if she lifts the spell over Camelot. She agrees in order to save Morgana's life (though if she hadn't, the spell would have been broken anyway with Morgana's death).
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_f3ef0f86	comment	At one point, Artemis Fowl tricks a sprite into drinking a bottle of Holy Water, then offers her a shot of magical springwater that will counteract the Holy Water's effects in exchange for the opportunity to study The Book (the fairy equivalent of the bible).
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_f4e799ee	comment	Burn Notice: A first season episode has an assassin trying to kill Michael. Near the end of the episode, the assassin has a hot dog and goes into anaphylactic shock because Michael sprinkled crushed peanuts on his hot dog (the man being violently allergic to peanuts), then took his epipen. The assassin talks as much as he can until he loses consciousness. A later episode has Michael and Sam pretending to do this to force a middleman to play along with selling Michael's services to the Villain of the Week. They jab a syringe filled with a harmless substance into him and tell him it'll kill him without an (equally fake) antidote, which they will only provide if he cancels the actual guy said villain wanted to hire and sells Michael as the expert he needs.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_f6c16bab	comment	The Saga of Darren Shan gives a twisted example, regarding how the title character became a vampire. Darren's friend Steve asked the vampire Mr. Crepsley to blood him, but Crepsley refused. Darren, who is obsessed with spiders, can't resist stealing the extremely poisonous one that Crepsley performs in the circus with. But when the spider bites Steve, Crepsley says that he will only give the antidote to save Steve's life if Darren agrees to join him as a vampire. To add another twist on top, it was someone's, plan, but not Crepsley's — both Darren and Steve are about 12 years old, and blooding children is illegal. Crepsley was manipulated into it by Mr. Des Tiny, who then goes on to manipulate Steve into believing that Darren conspired with Crepsley to poison him in the first place...
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Edgars Industries create a virus that kills only telepaths, but also make a cure. They intend to turn some into slaves and kill the rest. PsiCorps itself finds out about this and takes messy revenge. (They keep the cure.) In "Ceremonies of Light and Dark", a dual-latent-poison version (similar to the Dune example above) is used. When Lord Refa visits Londo on Babylon 5, Londo has a drink waiting for him. Londo asks Refa to end his association with Mr. Morden and the Shadows, and when Refa asks why he would do that, Londo famously replies: Then, Londo explains to Refa that the poison won't kill him right away, but rather would fester in his body and not do anything, but turn deadly when it met a second poison, which is also harmless on its own, and which Londo also has and is capable of administering (remember, having a taster won't help, since the taster won't be susceptible to the second poison). Refa complies. For a while.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_f7c8e36e	comment	This shows up in Octopath Traveler during the second chapter of Alfyn's path. When he arrives in the town of Goldshore, he finds another apothecary, Vanessa Hysal, has been in the town some time curing a fever for free, only for another malady to strike the town and her to sell the cure for that, but at high prices. It turns out she deliberately poisoned the villagers with her fever cure so she could get rich off the real cure.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_fc063da9	comment	In The Space Merchants, advertising companies use unethical methods to get people to buy their products. The drink Coffiest contains an addictive alkaloid that gets you hooked for life. There's a cure, but it's so expensive it's cheaper to just keep drinking the stuff.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_fcf34eec	comment	Full Metal Panic! features an injury-based version: When Amalgam hijacks the new Humongous Mecha Mithril was building for Sousuke, Mr. Kalium (AKA Andrei Kalinin) shoots engineer Gavin Hunter in the gut. He then explains that they're so far away from civilization that Hunter will die a slow, painful death unless he tells Amalgam what they want to know, in which case they'll treat his wound. Hunter tells him to go to Hell.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_ff536b75	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_ff536b75	comment	In The Ghost Brigades, the CDF induces an organ failure in a captured alien scientist that will kill him after several hours of painful seizures unless they give him an "antidote" that will stabilize his lymph analogs, temporarily. He talks.
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_ff9ab17f	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Symbiosis", aliens in a pre-warp civilization believe that they're suffering from a plague, and they need to keep buying medicine from a neighboring planet to treat it. The aliens supplying the medicine know that the plague actually disappeared long ago and the "cure" is an addictive drug with withdrawal symptoms that the aliens believe to be plague symptoms. Citing the Prime Directive, Picard refuses to allow the crew of the Enterprise to tell the aliens the truth - and also refuses to assist them when their access to a supply of the "cure" becomes threatened, suggesting that the aliens are soon going to find out the truth about the plague and its "cure" the hard way. Villain of the Week Kivas Fajo pulls this in "The Most Toys" when he poisons the water supply of a Federation colony so he can then sell the cure to the Enterprise. However, his real goal is to get his hands on Data so that he can add a Soong-type android to his collection of rare things. One of the things that tips off the Enterprise crew that Kivas is up to something is when they find out he happens to be transporting exactly as much of the (very rare) cure as is needed to restore the water supply, no more and no less. Plus, the fact that tricyanate is much more expensive to manufacturer than the cure (hytritium), so he would not make a profit on this venture (quite the opposite, it would cause him a huge loss).
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Poison and Cure Gambit / int_ffbcb90e	comment	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom involves a one-person version of this trope in the Cold Open where Indiana is tricked into drinking poison. "And now, doctor Jones, you give me the diamond."
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