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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo

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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo	comment	Two enemies are sharing a drink and one of the glasses contains a poison or drug. At least one of them will attempt to poison the other by switching glasses while the other's back is turned. Common joke is either that someone poisons a chalice, then they get switched over, or someone knows he's got a poisoned drink, and tries to find a chance to dispose of it without being obvious, or pretends to swap the glasses, waiting for the enemy to really swap them and drink. A common trick (most famously seen in The Princess Bride) is to poison both drinks with a substance that one is already immune to. A less lethal variation is to shake up a bottle or can of soda or beer to release the carbonation and make it spray in their face when opened. A Discredited Trope, more often parodied (or made fun of) than played straight these days. When switched and switched back, this is Two Rights Make a Wrong.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_109f7814	comment	Done openly in the first episode of Sherlock, "A Study in Pink": the serial killer has two identical bottles of pills, one poisonous and one completely harmless, and forces his victims at gunpoint to choose one while he takes the other. The only "hint" he offers is to push one bottle closer to the victim, leaving them to try and work out if it's a bluff, a double bluff, etc. Sherlock realizes the gun is fake and is about to simply walk away, but the killer challenges him into playing anyway, playing on Sherlock's curiosity and need to show off his genius. However, before they can actually take the pills, Watson shoots him, and we never do find out which was which or if even the killer wasn't lying.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_1215a23d	comment	Chapter IV of Genshin Impact features a variant where both the target and the drinker are unaware of the poison. Someone (implied to be the Serial Killer Arc Villain of the chapter or at least someone working for them) spikes Naviaâ€™s drink with water from the Primordial Sea, which causes anyone from Fontaine to dissolve into water when they come into contact with it. Paimon, who isnâ€™t from Fontaine, accidentally drinks it. Navia realizes what happened when Paimon complains that the drink (which has a sweet flavor) tastes salty.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_144ea6e4	comment	20th-century Iago Stephen Norton has manipulated Barbara Franklin into trying to poison her husband. While everyone else is looking at meteors, Hastings, completely unsuspecting, swivels the table around to get at a book, and Barbara drinks the poisoned coffee.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_1469522d	comment	Sunless Skies: During the last event for the Amicable Vagabond, he attempts to trick you into drinking a drought that will get you sucked into Old Tom's Well for all eternity. If you switch the glasses when he isn't looking, he accidentally marks himself for the ritual, and no matter what happens next, he doesn't get out intact.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_14f9297e	comment	The Far Side: In "When dumb animals attempt murder", a cat brings a dog a tray with two glasses of wine and loudly and pointedly states that there is no poison in the glass nearest to the dog.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_15870207	comment	El ChapulÃn Colorado: In one story, El Chapulin is helping two pirates to defect and a girl offers the Captain a cup of wine while El Chapulin is given a drink from a similar cup. Suspecting the Captain's wine to be poisoned, he and Chapulin keep playing switcheroo behind each other's backs until Chapulin pretends to switch and the Captain ends up drinking a sleeping potion. Chespirito has also done it in historical or mythical sketches.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_15f82a09	comment	Nikolai Dante: Played With. Nikolai and his half-sister Anastasia, who typically kills people by poisoning them are having a drink together. Nikolai's crest warns him that his glass may be poisoned, so he makes an obvious effort to switch the glasses, at which point Anastasia remarks that, as an experienced poisoner, she would expect a wary individual to try and switch glasses, so she would logically poison her own glass, instead. Then, when Dante switches glasses again, she remarks that since she's immune to her own poison, anyway, she would logically poison both glasses.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_1785d9d5	comment	In the Brother Cadfael novel The Potter's Field, a dying wife challenges her husband's mistress to a poisoned-chalice wager in which neither knows which glass of wine is drugged. If the wife dies, the mistress will have her husband all to herself; if the mistress dies, the wife swears to punish herself by refraining from taking herbal painkillers for her illness. The mistress agrees; by chance she's the one who dies, and the wife makes good on her promise.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_19eb1fa3	comment	In the novel The Sherwood Ring, Barbara is taken prisoner by Peaceable, and lets him know (she can't hide it, really) that she's got sleeping drops on her person after hitting the apothecary that morning. After he starts to get a crush on her, and lets her know about it, she decides to pull the chalice switcheroo and hands him the red glass. He's well aware of what she's doing (especially since the cups are of different colors) and points out to her that he doesn't blame her for trying, it's just the general stupidity of her trying that irritates him. He switches goblets and challenges her to drink hers, she does, he does...then he says, "It was in the green glass all the time, wasn't it?" Yup. He'd informed Barbara earlier that all the girls he ever met in his life came off as fools and he assumed when she pulled out the goblets that she wasn't as smart as she appeared, and she took advantage of it. He promptly proposed marriage before he passed out.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_1c2eee99	comment	The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance has Brea do this when Elder Cadia puts a Laser-Guided Amnesia drug in her tea, claiming it's something that will help her understand her visions. Oddly, while Cadia only intended to wipe Brea's memory of the visions, he ends up forgetting everything.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_1c63e768	comment	In Heathers, Veronica mistakenly picks the wrong of two cups to give to Heather, who then dies from drinking the lethal potion.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_21bfab03	comment	Psychopath Diary: In-woo drugs Dong-sik's drink. Dong-sik hugs him then switches their glasses around while In-woo's distracted.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_2275c659	comment	House: Played almost-straight when House buys two coffees, grinding up amphetamines in one to give to Wilson. House offers the clean one to Wilson, who suspiciously declines House's offer and takes the drugged one from his desk.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_22d74b2e	comment	Used in Brian Jacques's Redwall novel Marlfox by Lantur, on her mother Silth. The mad old queen either overthinks it by several layers, or by one layer too few, depending on your point of view, on trying to figure out if her own royal goblet was poisoned or the plain pewter one intended for Lantur. She forces Lantur to drink from the pewter cup, but the poisoned one was indeed her own royal cup the entire time. It also occurs in Outcast of Redwall. Swartt convinces Bowfleg that the wine isn't poisoned by drinking some of it straight from the bottle. That's because the poison is actually smeared onto the rim of the goblet that Bowfleg drinks from. The trick is pulled at least once more and is later subverted by a fox who realized the trick (he's gotten rid of in a less direct way).
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_23095e61	comment	Erast Fandorin, She Lover of Death: Accidentally. The chaos caused by Fandorin attempting to escape from the Trap Door causes Prospero to dive to the desk and close the hatch—causing the roulette wheel on which the two glasses are poised to spin around. That leads to Prospero drinking the glass of acid that he'd intended Horatio to drink.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_2bb7d2f3	comment	Nakamura, a science teacher in Nichijou who's interested in Robot Girl Nano tries to see if she's susceptible to tranquilizers by giving her drugged coffee... only to realize too late that she'd poured and drank her own coffee after putting the tranquilizers in the pot. Later, she prepares this trick again, only for her adding the tranquilizers to make the coffee cup overflow. She instinctively leans forward to drink the excess off the top and... well...
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Done in the Looney Tunes short "The Fair-Haired Hare", where Bugs and Yosemite Sam keep swapping drinks. Bugs eventually starts the whole table spinning. Sam stops the table and forces Bugs to drink at gunpoint. He still gets the wrong glass.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_2bc41a39	comment	The Woman in the Window features a variant. Alice slips poison into Heidt's drink, but he figures out what she's up to. After she offers the glass to him, he demands that she drink it instead. When she hesitates he smacks it out of her hand.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_2c9fd88d	comment	In the Benjamin January series, it's used to Shoot the Dog. There's no way to arrest a murderer without his revealing an extremely damaging secret, so Hannibal Sefton, who's a potential threat to the man, deliberately goes to have a drink with him and switches glasses when the man's back is turned. The murderer dies of his own poison and the secret is safe.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_34089144	comment	In The Awful Dr. Orloff, Wanda sees Orloff spiking her champagne in a Revealing Reflection. Playing Drunk, she asks him to buy her some flowers, then swaps their glasses while his back is turned.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_3e5de40b	comment	In Scrubs, Turk informs Dr. Kelso he's giving Carla regular coffee instead of decaf, due to her proclamation that the two of them will be going to bed at the same time, early. Dr. Kelso listens sympathetically, being an old hand at drugging one's spouse himself. Then, when Turk looks away, he switches Turk's decaf for Carla's caffeinated. Cut to: Turk awake all night as Carla slumbers.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop: A version of this occurs in "Cowboy Funk" when Spike and Andy are locked in an elevator by Teddy Bomber and are quickly ascending to the top of a building where a bomb will detonate and kill them. Andy says that they have nothing to worry about because he anticipated this possibility and reverted the emergency access code on the elevator after Teddy had changed it. Unfortunately for them, Spike had the same idea and also reverted it, so now it's back to what Teddy had changed it to in the first place.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_44e0b783	comment	A Garfield strip has Jon Arbuckle suggesting that he and his date drink from each other's glasses... on the grounds that his last date tried to poison him.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_4531122c	comment	Button Man: Harry agrees to let the person he is there to kill pour them both a drink, clearly expecting his drink to contain a sedative. So he switches the drinks and the other guy "accidentally" spills his, confirming Harry's suspicions. Then it turns out that both drinks were drugged, and the poisoner just spilled the drink to fool Harry into thinking the other one was safe. Of course he's also immune to his own drug.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld, Mort: When Mort, who is subbing for Death, visits the Agatean Court, a poisoned piece of squishi goes back and forth between the vizier and the emperor's bowls as each thinks of a better reason for the other to eat it.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_480107c4	comment	Spy vs. Spy: The very first cartoon in MAD magazine featured the black spy and white spy both subtly disposing of the tea they were supposed to be having by tipping it onto the floor. Two cats see the tea and lap it up, and are shown dead in the final panel. Another cartoon subverted it. One Spy had a ring they were using to poison the other spy's tea. The other Spy doesn't have to switch cups. Their own ring has a tiny fan that blows the poison into the first Spy's teacup while it's pouring.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_48657003	comment	The Initiate Brother has a case where the cups are being switched by the poisoner so as to poison himself. Kogami Norimasa is given non-negotiable orders to poison Shuyun under the guise of sharing a drink, but because Shuyun cured his daughter, he wants to back out. Rather than let Shuyun drink the poison, he ensures that it's him who ends up with that cup, leaving Shuyun alive and himself beyond his master's retribution.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_4ada408f	comment	Alan Ford: The volume New Year's Party features a young, hot but greedy artist named Ramon planning to poison his older lover and source of income to inherit her goods, doing so by poisoning her champagne cup. Unfortunately, he had to leave the cups alone for a few moments, which lead to his bumbling sidekicks swapping the two chalices by mistake. In the end, Ramon ends up being forced to drink the poison by his lover at gunpoint, suffering a Karmic Death.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_4e433329	comment	War Room does this with dinner plates. When T.J. comes home to dinner with his wife Elizabeth after being on the business trip with the female associate (with Elizabeth knowing that her husband is having an affair with a female co-worker), he switches dinner plates with his wife, probably assuming that she put something in his plate that would poison him as some sort of retaliation or something. It is never explicitly stated why he does it.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_4f4b0f20	comment	The King Loves: Song In gives San and Dan two cups of tea, and says that one of them is poisoned. San pretends she'll give Dan the poisoned one, but she switches them when Song In looks away.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_50a9ace1	comment	Popeye: One story features Popeye and Brutus as rival farmers trying to win a competition. One of the events is the tastiest hamburger contest and Brutus sprinkles Popeye's burger with red hot pepper. Popeye and Brutus constantly swap burgers behind each other's back until Popeye outsmarts Brutus by pretending to swap burgers.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_50be8f2d	comment	Once more in Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, again with hamburgers, but this time with a cursed medallion.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_510974b4	comment	A three-way version on Johnny Test: In the Brain Freezer's first appearance, Johnny and Dukey disguise themselves as baristas and offer to share some iced coffee with him, with the coffee intended for Brain Freezer being his own super-cold coffee that freezes the drinker solid. He sees through their ruse and Dukey ends up drinking the spiked coffee instead.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_51ba977e	comment	Clue VCR Mystery Game: This happens multiple times during the dinner scene. It reaches the point where no one ends up eating anything at dinner as no one is sure what has been poisoned and what hasn't. If one pays close attention, the viewer can find one serving on the table that isn't poisoned, but only because the first person to start serving food served himself before trying to poison everyone else's helpings.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_5320ab5e	comment	Columbo: Done in "Murder Under Glass", although the actual switch involved a bottle opener that had been used to inject poison into a bottle of wine. The killer watches Columbo sip his wine, and then smugly picks his own glass, only for Columbo to politely inform him that he wouldn't drink that if he was him. Columbo then explains about the switch, and how that glass full of poisoned wine will be enough to convict him.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Dooku Captured", Obi-Wan and Anakin use the Force to pull this trick off on a gang of pirates. But then they get knocked out anyway between episodes because the lead pirate's pet sees them and uses a gas to knock out everyone.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_544fb5a2	comment	In Death: Non-lethal drug example. Whenever Eve goes too long without sleep in the middle of a case, Roarke will usually try to push food and sedatives on her. On one occasion, she switches their bowls of soup with a snarky comment and starts to eat — only to fall asleep. Roarke makes fun of her for it before she goes under.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_5562da6a	comment	In 3rd Rock from the Sun, a reporter has to be Killed to Uphold the Masquerade. Dick pours two cups of brandy ("No thanks, I'm driving.", "Oh, this is special driving brandy.") and poisons one of them. Then Dick dramatically switches the cups around a number of times. After a Beat:
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_5ada53ed	comment	The James Bond parody in Concession mocked this trope:
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_60e46926	comment	The very first cartoon in MAD magazine featured the black spy and white spy both subtly disposing of the tea they were supposed to be having by tipping it onto the floor. Two cats see the tea and lap it up, and are shown dead in the final panel.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_6234f5b3	comment	Father Brown: Father Brown pulls this in "The Man in the Shadows" with a slight twist as he does it to save a life. Knowing that a Soviet agent has put cyanide in her tea so she won't be taken alive, he asks her for some sugar and then switches teacups with her while her back is turned.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_63e72a51	comment	2000 AD: Nikolai Dante: Played With. Nikolai and his half-sister Anastasia, who typically kills people by poisoning them are having a drink together. Nikolai's crest warns him that his glass may be poisoned, so he makes an obvious effort to switch the glasses, at which point Anastasia remarks that, as an experienced poisoner, she would expect a wary individual to try and switch glasses, so she would logically poison her own glass, instead. Then, when Dante switches glasses again, she remarks that since she's immune to her own poison, anyway, she would logically poison both glasses. Button Man: Harry agrees to let the person he is there to kill pour them both a drink, clearly expecting his drink to contain a sedative. So he switches the drinks and the other guy "accidentally" spills his, confirming Harry's suspicions. Then it turns out that both drinks were drugged, and the poisoner just spilled the drink to fool Harry into thinking the other one was safe. Of course he's also immune to his own drug.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_68959735	comment	In Suikoden II, the King gets poisoned not because there was poison in the cup or the wine given to him by Jowy; but because Jowy had poisoned himself before he symbolically bled himself into the wine to symbolize his loyalty. He then took a lot of antidote, but still almost died.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_6bee0f78	comment	The Serpent and the Rainbow: After the first time, Dennis buys powder that's supposed to cause comas/serve as an anesthetic from Mozart and realizes that itâ€™s rat poison, he palms the actual bottle with a different one which he pours into a glass and then drinks, alarming Mozart, before dismissing it as piss.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_6d361cf3	comment	The Assassination Bureau: Ivan Dragomiloff sees the countess pour poison into his chalice. He spins both chalices on a rotating table and the countess refuses to drink since she does not know where the poison is. Dragomiloff drinks the non-poisoned wine and fakes death.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_75c31694	comment	The A-Team: Done in one episode involving a drugged hamburger, as they had knocked out BA before flying anywhere. Hannibal gave each person hamburger. BA got wise and switched burgers with Murdock, who take a couple of bites and collapsed. BA then eats the burger he took from him - and collapses. Murdock then "miraculously" revives and asks, "How did I do?" Another episode had BA once again switch hamburgers with Murdock, then figured Hannibal would suspect that and conclude the only safe hamburger would be the one he was originally given. BA still lost as it turned out Hannibal drugged his milk, not any of the burgers.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_7df845ec	comment	Happens to Lou again in Pardon My Sarong, when he and the island chief are having a "friendly" drink. Lou comes out on top of this one.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_86aff994	comment	Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: In the episode "Stolen Beauty", Trakeena, after sending her Monster of the Week to Terra Venture to steal the beauty of all women, assumes the guise of a beautiful woman named Tracy and seduces Mike. When they get a drink, she poisons his. Mike drinks it, starts coughing, and collapses. However, it turns out Mike actually saw through the deception because earlier the Monster didn't attack Tracy. So he switched the drinks and only pretended it was working. He then throws the real poisoned drink in the monster's face, distracting him long enough for Mike to take back the stolen beauty.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_892aa56a	comment	Murdoch Mysteries: Happens accidentally in "Prodigal Father": A person wronged in the past by a businessman attempted to poison him with a glass of liquor, unaware that the man never actually drinks alcohol: He merely keeps a glass in his hand to appear friendlier. Since the businessman doesn't actually care about the glass, at some point he set it down and later just picked a new glass up without really looking...
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_9162b86a	comment	In Discworld, you poisoned someone with a truth serum, and both characters distracted each other with pictures in the inn while switching the table. You had to create a new picture to get your opponent to drink it.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_95bd5a8e	comment	In Dishonored, you come across one of your assassination targets just as he's about to poison a political enemy. You can then switch their glasses and have the target drink his own poisonnote Which gets his target accused of murder, mix the drinks and poison them bothnote Which, you know, kills them both, or smash both glasses and force your target to carry out his assassination the hard waynote Which gives you an incredibly short window to kill or incapacitate your target just before the kill happens, earning you the gratitude of your target's target.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_99055407	comment	Family Matters: Steve Urkel sits next to a couple of bullies in the cafeteria, then has to leave the table for a moment. They sneak heavy amounts of salt into his lunch. Suspecting that they probably did something to his food, he uses a Look Over There ploy to make the bullies look away. They sarcastically play along, and Urkel picks the trays up and puts them down without switching them. They then use a Look Over There ploy themselves ("Look, it's Steven Hawking!"), which Urkel plays along with more convincingly, allowing them to switch the trays "back". Urkel then takes the "unpoisoned" tray and leaves before the boys bite into their salty lunch. Another episode has the family, with Steve over, collaboratively telling a horror story. When the vampires attempt to lure Steve's character with drugged wine, they go though a couple permutations before Steve does the "pretend to swap" schtick again, but by this point the vampires have lost patience and attack him directly.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_99102298	comment	In The Two Ronnies serial "Done To Death", the two detectives suspect Blanche has poisoned their food. They both make several attempts to change their plates with hers; in the end, they both think they've succeeded and start eating, only for Blanche to remark innocently that she's got her original plate back. Fortunately, the food wasn't poisoned in the first place.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: In a dark Double Subversion of the "both chalices are poisoned" variation, Maester Cressen poisons a glass of wine, which he insists on sharing with his intended target, Melisandre, believing that she would not drink unless he drank as well and willing to die for his cause. She is fully aware of the ruse and tries to convince him to throw the wine away, but ultimately consents to share the drink with him. It turns out that she's magically immune to most forms of poison.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_9e41dff5	comment	The 2011 version of The Three Musketeers has a variation where it's the chalices themselves that were poisoned.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_a44eb955	comment	Bullshot Crummond. Bullshot suggests one last drink before Count Otto von Bruno kills him off, and slips knockout pills into his glass. First he hides the doped glass and holds out the other to Otto, knowing he'll insist on swopping. Otto takes a sip and spits it out, then suggests they drink "Eastern European fashion" so Bullshot gets the doped glass. Both end up keeling over.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_a58883ab	comment	In The Iron Mask Phillipe does this in full view of his mother. But since he's the king â€” actually, The Usurper who is impersonating the king â€” she has little choice but to drink it.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	In Oglaf, the obviously gay Xoan ambassador who is friends with the Apprentice's Mistress offers the Apprentice poisoned food claiming it's all the rage and pours the antidote over his penis in hopes that the apprentice will have to suck it off. The Apprentice says he's going to his room to write a letter to the Mistress saying the Xoan ambassador murdered him. However, when the Ambassador tries to turn it into a mystery drama, including offering a locket with the ambassador's picture inside (which he has a bag of), the apprentice says he doesn't believe it was poison. Later the Mistress calls the Apprentice in to punish him for being in the room that the ambassador had called him to; only for him to collapse from poison causing the ambassador to yell "He's been poisoned!". Later still, when he's sent to be cured in a painfully disturbing way, the ambassador reveals the Apprentice made a smart move because the antidote was poison as well.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_ab42c63a	comment	Get Smart: Max is dining out with a female KAOS agent. She is trying to give him a knockout pill, while Max is attempting to spike her drink with truth serum. Both of them keep pointing out things to look at behind the other's back, so they can switch drinks. It ends with Max telling everything he knows to the KAOS agent, who is fast asleep. Another case has Max doing this with Mary Jack Armstrong, both openly aware the other is doing it. Similar to the Family Matters example, she wins by distracting him and then not actually switching them, tricking him into switching them "back".
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_ac70897e	comment	Stardust: This scene when the three remaining brothers, Primus, Tertius, and Septimus are having a toast to their quest for the magic ruby: In the book, all the brothers are savvy enough to only drink wine they themselves have poured from a sealed bottle. In the film, Primus refuses wine from Lamia at the inn, probably for that reason.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_ae8f61d3	comment	Dracula (2013): A variation; the involved parties are both vampires and the "poison" is holy water. The exchange happens right in front of the poisoner who doesn't notice due to Dracula's fast reflexes.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_b0282745	comment	In a Buck Danny comic, Sonny wants to drug some bad guys with spiked whiskey. He offers the bad guys a bottle of whisky while keeping another for him, but they get suspicious and ask him to give them that bottle instead. Sonny reveals later that he had anticipated that and had offered them the harmless bottle while keeping the spiked one for himself.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_b0766f14	comment	Detective School Q: In order to trap the murderer who's planning to kill the last victim, they deliberately let him poison one of the coffee cups in a meeting with others. Then the detectives make an excuse so that everyone gets sent to another room. The coffee cups are then rearranged and re-served. Which one gets the poisoned one? Of course, the perp gets it, thanks to Megumi's photographic memory which remembers which cup is poisoned.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: Steve Martin, always eager to protect his status as hosting the show more times than anybody else, once did a skit where he attempted to maintain his status by poisoning Alec Baldwin before he could tie the record, by slipping poison from his ring into Alec's whiskey. A series of switcharoos took place before Alec Baldwin pulled a fake switcharoo. Steve Martin, now suspecting that, decided to throw out the whiskey and order champagne, which he again poisoned. After another couple switcharoos, Alec resolved the issue by punching Steve in the jaw. Only then did Steve find out that this was only Baldwin's fifteenth time hosting, meaning he was still one short of tying Martin. Both of them felt very foolish.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_b37304ba	comment	The Heroes of Olympus: In The Son of Neptune, Percy manages to pull this on Phineas with the gorgon blood. He wins. Doubles as Out-Gambitted.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_b3f687d1	comment	FoxTrot had a variation with salt in milk, between Jason and Peter with multiple switches and some alleged fake switches, culminating in the line "We're trying to figure out which of us should be throwing up right now." Turned out Paige had somehow gotten the salty milk.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_b53b86fa	comment	The Princess Bride features a subversion. After going through a long and increasingly incoherent I Know You Know I Know, Vizzini distracts the Man In Black and switches the goblets, then carefully waits for his opponent to drink first (since presumably the Man In Black would try to weasel out of drinking if he thought he was about to drink from the poisoned cup). Turns out the Man In Black poisoned both chalices, revealing to Buttercup afterward that he had built up a tolerance to the poison used. Ironically, both sides of his I Know You Know I Know were correct â€” "I cannot choose the wine in front of you" and "I cannot choose the wine in front of me" â€” even though he was only using them to fish for a reaction. Best of all, the Man in Black was playing fair â€” he never said his opponent had to choose a goblet, only that he had to drink. Vizzini could have avoided danger by refusing both goblets and drinking out of the bottle.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_b6b24d18	comment	In one episode of The IT Crowd, Douglas does this to himself. He is trying to drug Jen's tea, but gave himself tea in identical mugs, and switches the mugs around several times as he forgot which one is his. He eventually picks the right one though.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_ba838263	comment	Shady Hollow: The murderer in Cold Clay tries to get rid of Vera by serving her a cup of tea with sleeping pills, but Vera, already suspecting a trap, discreetly switches cups while the murderer is checking the front door and feigns drowsiness until the pills take effect.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_badcfb3b	comment	In Kings Quest (2015) Episode 1, the final challenge is a battle of wits against Graham's fellow Knight candidate Manny, playing a chess-like game with the added caveat of three goblets of raisin juice, one of which has been drugged with a Truth Serum-like potion. Subverted in that while you can switch the goblets, it doesn't do any good; you'll always end up drinking the potion. The real solution is to use the recoloring potion you got earlier in the game to mark the poisoned goblet (turning the raisin juice orange, which Manny somehow fails to notice). This is just one of many Actor Allusions to The Princess Bride since Manny is voiced by Wallace Shawn.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_bc265791	comment	Dream of the Red Chamber: Xia Jingui's attempt to poison Xiangling in revenge for inadvertently breaking up her potential tryst ends with Jingui taking the poison intended for Xiangling: The maid tasked with caring for Xiangling in her sickbed, feeling resentful at being made to serve a fellow maid, attempts to prank Xiangling by putting a large quantity of salt into her soup bowl. Upon witnessing Jingui, who prepares to drink the soup with Xiangling under the pretense of looking after her, swapping the bowls, and without knowing the bowl Jingui intends for Xiangling is poisoned, she secretly switches the bowls yet again to prevent Jingui from drinking the much-too-salty soup (and thus getting reprimanded for oversalting the soup). Accordingly Jingui falls victim to her own poison.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_bf0710c5	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Jack Sparrow lies about which chalice contains the mermaid tear and thus will grant life, while the other one will drain life. Blackbeard values his own life more than that of his daughter, drinks the one he thinks will give life, and ends up dying.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_c0e7b0f	comment	In Sherlock, Jr., the detective played by Buster Keaton accepts a poisoned drink, then politely offers it to the would-be murderer's accomplice (who doesn't know about the poison).
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "The Romans": Vicki overhears Nero's wife, Poppaea, plotting to have a servant poisoned. Feeling this cannot be allowed to happen, Vicki swaps the drinks over, meaning Nero will receive the poisoned one. When she casually tells the Doctor what she has done, he rebukes her for "interfering with history" and the pair hurry to stop Nero from drinking the poison. Though it's just as well Vicki swapped the drinks because, unknown to herself or the Doctor, the intended victim was Barbara. "Boom Town" (9th Doctor): The evil Margaret Blaine distracts the Doctor during dinner and slips poison into his drink. Then the Doctor, still smiling and without missing a beat, deliberately and in full view switches the glasses.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_c88ea794	comment	Nation, by Terry Pratchett: Half-averted, half-subverted. In order to prevent two men from killing the islanders (and after they had already killed one), Daphne gets them alone and poisons them with undiluted beer. Foxlip, the one who had killed, does not switch the cups as per the trope, instead having Daphne mix the drinks together so they all get the same. Like Princess Bride, all the cups were poisoned. Unlike Princess Bride, it wasn't that Daphne was immune so much as understood the trick to make the beer safe: Spitting into the beer to neutralize the poison and singing the ritual beer song to count time it takes to work. Daphne did this right in front of the men and asked them to do it too, knowing that they would never partake in "pagan mumbo jumbo". As a result, Foxlip drank and died. The other man survived only because of continued suspicion but was sent running soon after.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_c9cd78c2	comment	Although not involving poison, the alternate ending to Die Hard with a Vengeance plays with this trope. John McClane faces off with Simon Gruber, a rocket launcher with the sights removed on the table between them. They play the Simon Says game, with the rocket being turned each time Simon Gruber answers a question correctly. Eventually he gets a question wrong, so John tells him to pull the trigger. However, Simon turns the rocket launcher one more time before doing so, convinced the muzzle will then be facing towards John. He's wrong.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_c9d6c480	comment	The final Hercule Poirot novel, Curtain, contains two examples: 20th-century Iago Stephen Norton has manipulated Barbara Franklin into trying to poison her husband. While everyone else is looking at meteors, Hastings, completely unsuspecting, swivels the table around to get at a book, and Barbara drinks the poisoned coffee. In the second instance, Poirot tells Norton that he plans to kill him. Both are drinking hot chocolate, and Norton asks to swap cups. Poirot agrees, but he had dosed the pot of chocolate with sleeping tablets he had been taking for a long time (and thus developed a mild immunity to). Norton falls asleep, and Poirot later kills him.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_cac1f772	comment	An episode of CSI does this, with peanut butter. (The intended victim was highly allergic.) The murderer changes her mind and takes the 'poisoned' cup but the victim ends up with it anyway. Just as well that what actually ended up killing him was a bee sting.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_cae652c	comment	The 17th chapter of Hunter Ã— Hunter has this. Two candles, a long one and a short one will be lit. Gon has to predict which one will last the longer. Everyone instantly thinks this is a trap-in-a-trap-in-a-trap etc., but Gon obliviously chooses the long one, reasoning that it should last longer because of its size. The long candle is set to burn extra hot and extra fast, but this backfires because since the contest is to put out the flame, Gon is able to set the candle down unguarded and get his opponent's candle much more easily. It actually works out well for him in the end; he is correct. The real trick is that there are four candles: trapped short, trapped long, normal short, and normal long. Gon's opponent would give him the trapped candle with whatever one he chose, then picked the non-trapped version for himself. But since the contest was to see who's candle goes out first, he just blows on the other guy's normal candle and wins.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_cb32d0d5	comment	In Disenchantment, we learn that Bean's mother Queen Dagmar was petrified by a glass of poisoned wine meant for her husband, but Bean, who was four years old at the time, was playfully turning the serving tray around to grab some grapes. Then, after she's un-petrified, it turns out she was the one who poisoned the wine.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_cce45c25	comment	In the short film The Bloody Olive, Werner prevents poisoning by exchanging the glass of toxic champagne with a glass of sparkling water.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_d452935b	comment	In Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Scott pulls this: after the vegan bass player Todd bests him in a bass battle, Scott attempts to reconcile with him by offering a coffee with soy milk in it. However, as Todd has Psychic Powers as a result of his veganism (yeah, we know), he knows Scott's actually "poisoned" the cup with half-and-half, so he takes the one Scott is going to drink... but it turns out Scott offered him the one with soy milk and held the non-vegan cup close, and merely thought really hard about doing it the other way. The vegan police then come and take away Todd's powers for breaking the code (yeah, we know). An Adaptation Distillation from the comics, where Scott had nothing to do with Todd's downfall, beyond hoping for "some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina". They still keep another element, though. It's not his first time to go against veganism...
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_d5d98e35	comment	In Police Squad!, a woman poisons one of two drinks. It works, but it looks like she drinks the one with the poison with it. This may have been on purpose; after all, the show is famous for never letting a moment go by without a joke, and packs tons of subtle jokes in-between the over-the-top sight gags.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_d6e434aa	comment	The Power of Five: Richard Cole executes this successfully in Oblivion with two identical cars, one of which contains a bomb, by not only switching a photograph and necklace from one vehicle to the other but also swapping the license plates.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_d78af2ac	comment	In Kingsman: The Secret Service, Eggsy is offered a glass of brandy from Arthur. Having recognized treachery less than a minute before the offer is made (and already educated in the style of poison being used), Eggsy asks a question about a nearby painting as a distraction so that he can make the switch.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_dc1bbe1d	comment	In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, one of the secrets Finnick reveals about Snow is that his favorite method of disposing of rivals is through poison. Knowing they would expect this kind of treachery, he would drink from the same cup as them, but he had taken an antidote.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_ded0e62f	comment	In The Count of Monte Cristo, there is some in-story discussion of this trope as used by the Borgias. According to one of the men, the chalice contained a secret compartment that released the poison when the cup-filler needed, thus allowing him to serve an entire row of cardinals with only one in the middle one dying.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_defd0155	comment	The Survivalist has a variation: the poisoner gives the poison to the person that they intended, but the victim is probably not who the audience were expecting. Kathryn wants to kill The Survivalist and take over his patch. Her daughter Milja says that she will cook a meal with poison mushrooms. No one swaps their dishes around when the meal is eaten, but we find out that Milja gave the poison to Kathryn.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_df93779b	comment	A Distant Soil: Colleen Doran uses this early on in her comic. Jason is offered some wine by the seemingly-kind Sere. He asks her to drink hers first, which she does. He then takes a few sips of his. One of Sere's servants then enters with a small metal tube, which Sere injects into her arm — it's the antidote. (Or inhibitor, or something—it's just drugged, not poisoned.) Cue Jason falling over.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_e04f934e	comment	Subverted in the Fire Emblem: Three Houses fanfic A Chance for a New Dawn: When Bernadetta discovers that Monica has crashed a private tea party between her and Byleth, she immediately suspects her rival of trying to poison her. Bernadetta tricks Byleth and Monica into turning around so she can swap her cup with Monica's. She thinks she's succeeded when Monica has a violent coughing fit after drinking from her cup, only for Monica to complain that she drank from hers too quickly.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_e0f7f7c9	comment	At the end of The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, as Rynn is making tea for herself and Frank, she puts potassium cyanide in her own cup. It's not clear if she anticipated that Frank would be suspicious and switch, or if she was initially intending to kill herself rather than submit to Frank's blackmail (and possibly framing him with her murder), or if it was a Xanatos Gambit (where, for the reasons stated earlier, either person dying would be a "win" for Rynn). Whatever the case, Frank becomes suspicious and demands that they switch cups, so he ends up dying.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_e144ba19	comment	This comes up in party banter in the Dragon Age II Mark of the Assassin DLC. Varric mentions a relative who tried to do this but was very bad at intrigue. "Wasn't finished gloating to his enemy when he keeled over. I think the family always had a sense for terrible drama."
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_e278316b	comment	The Prisoner (1967): In "A Change of Mind", Number Six is made to believe that his aggressive behavior has been neutralized by ultrasound brain surgery — he comes to realize that it had been staged and that he's being kept passive with drugs, at which point he switches his drugged tea with a cup the scientist in charge is taking with him.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_e46658ae	comment	Love in the Villa: Charlie prepares dinner for himself and Julie to put an end to their prank war. Julie swaps their wine glasses just in case he put something in her drink. Charlie quotes the scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzini tries to psych out Wesley about which glass he'd poisoned and Julie swaps them back.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_e5c6748d	comment	Used in multiple The Three Stooges shorts. In one notable instance, Shemp and the villainess take turns distracting each other and swapping their wine glasses. The villainess, however, simply taps the glasses together when it's her turn, causing Shemp to swap the glasses around again and give himself the poison.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_eef69f10	comment	In the Sherlock Holmes adventure A Study in Scarlet, the killer uses a variant to get revenge on the people who kidnapped his fiancee, without directly killing them. He corners each victim and produces two pills, forcing the victim to choose one and he agrees to take the other. The twist is that he deliberately has no idea which is poison but trusts in fate to punish the guilty. This breaks down when one victim refuses to pick (and instead attacks the perpetrator), forcing the killer to stab him.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_ef4cccbd	comment	The Court Jester has an early parody of this trope, although it was trying to remember which cup was poisoned, rather than switching them. There is the truly brilliant rhyme they use to try and remember. "The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true! But it's only in the flagon with the dragon because they broke the chalice from the palace.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_f01bf6e2	comment	Lux: Wingflare proposes a more complicated variant of this as a game for Jax and Paige. She presents them with three plates of licorice: One is laced with pine-nut extract (which is harmless to Jax or Paige, but which Wingflare is fatally allergic to and unable to regenerate from due to her weakness), one is laced with ricin (which will kill Jax or Paige, but which Wingflare can recover from with her gifted healing), and one is just licorice. Jax has to choose who will eat from which plate: does he give Wingflare the licorice with the pine-nuts and kill her at the cost of forcing himself or Paige to eat the licorice with the ricin and die of that, or does he give Wingflare the licorice with the ricin and let all three live. As Jax figures out, it's all a trick. All three plates are just licorice, and Wingflare isn't allergic to pine nuts.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_f120845f	comment	Kingdom of Loathing: At the end of the 'Strange Leaflet' sidequest, you meet a giant who offers you two shot-glasses of potion; he tells you that one is poisoned and if you drink the safe one, he'll take you to fairyland. It's a Shout-Out to Ender's Game — as in the original, the giant is lying, both potions are poison, and you have to Take a Third Option to solve the puzzle. An early 2014 revamp to the Holy Macguffin quest involves an alternate route to get the two halves of the Talisman 'O Nam. Crime lord Shen Copperhead keeps poisoning you into getting various artifacts for him and one attempt involves him switching around poisoned glasses of champagne.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_f1aaff66	comment	Batman (Grant Morrison): In a flashback in Batman R.I.P, we see Bruce Wayne drinking with a little Asian man in the Far East. The man then reveals that he poisoned Bruce's cup. However, the man himself begins to fall victim to the poison. Turns out, according to Bruce, "You blinked. I switched the cups. Force of habit."
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_f361b493	comment	In I Love Lucy, Ricky tries to slip Lucy a sedative to calm her down, but Lucy thinks he's trying to poison and kill her, which leads to...
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_f3e1f424	comment	Played straight in Merlin (2008) (except that they're both trying to get the 'poison', to save the other), up until the point that Arthur distracts Merlin to put both the 'poisoned' drink and the safe one in his own goblet. He drinks it, but there is actually no poison in it, just a sleeping potion.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier had a variant in one of their end-of-episode silent sketches. Roz brought some coffee to a woman she disliked but then got a call on her mobile; while she was distracted, the other woman switched the coffee. Then she got distracted, so Roz switched them back. This cycle of distraction and switching continued for some time until at the end, Roz just poured both cups down the sink.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_fa2ea602	comment	Played with in Prince Valiant (1997). The villain spikes Princess Ilene's goblet with some kind of potion (love potion, sleeping potion... wasn't made clear). Ilene distracts him, switches goblets, and pours candle wax into his goblet. The villain gets suspicious and switches them back. He drinks first, and as he chokes on the wax, Ilene escapes.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_fb030cb7	comment	Harry Enfield and Chums: One sketch has the Old Gits trying to kill each other. One tries to use poisoned cocoa; the other swaps the mugs. The would-be poisoner survives only because his mug broke as he was about to drink from it.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_fcc7ec6b	comment	Triple H did this with Shane McMahon when the latter drugged his water bottle so he would lose consciousness and would have no choice but to join Vince McMahonâ€™s "Kiss My Ass" club. Remembering what happened to Shawn Michaels, Triple H got Shane distracted, and switched water bottles, so Shane drank the drugged water instead. Later that night, Triple H pulled a Wounded Gazelle Gambit on Vince and acted like he was under the influence of the drugged water. When Shane lost consciousness instead, Triple H got up and took down Vince with a pedigree.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_fd67489a	comment	Depending on player option, this can happen in Life Is Strange: Before the Storm. Before The Tempest, Victoria puts some drugs into Rachel's tea, so that she can play her role instead. Chloe has several options to prevent this, one is switching the cups. Hilarity Ensues when Victoria tries to persuade Mr. Keaton to let her play the role instead, with the pretext that Rachel is taking drugs, all while visibly out of balance. Then, she promptly passes out.
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_fdd5c1d6	comment	In Margin for Error, the suggested explanation for the Consul dying of a glass of cyanide-poisoned whiskey when his own drink was brandy is that Max, who was being set up to commit suicide, switched the glasses during the confusion after the brick crashed through the window.
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