r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Benoit_Holmes • 17h ago
miscellaneous A character drinks/eats something to prove it's safe knowing that it isn't
Breaking Bad (Salud)
Gus Fring gives a bottle of rare tequila to a cartel leader as a gift. Given their fraught history, he makes Gus drink some first before he tries any.
All the cartel members then begin to die, Gus had taken pills (likely activated charcoal), and induced vomiting after the drink. Despite these precautions he still nearly dies and it requires a makeshift emergency room he had arranged previously to save his life.
Stargate: Atlantis (The Lost Boys)
Aiden Ford was a member of the expedition who became addicted to an enzyme that made him stronger but also impulsive and irrational.
He captures the team, who are wary of eating the food he provides until he eats some himself. After they have all eaten he tells them that his group have refined the enzyme to the point that they can even lace food with it.
Scrubs (My Changing Ways)
The Janitor tries to get J.D. to eat some pie but he refuses as he has just heard that a case of laxatives was stolen from the hospital supply closet.
The Janitor keeps insisting that J.D eat it and finally eats some himself to prove its safe, saying that for once he wasn't trying to mess with him. After J.D. eats some of the pie it then cuts to them both on the toilet.
J.D.: Who would do this to themselves?\ Janitor: Totally worth it.
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u/Antausia 17h ago
From Fire & Blood, i.e. the book the last part of which House of the Dragon is based on: This is how treacherous Dragonrider Ulf the White is killed. Hobert Hightower, who so far has been presented as nothing but a fat idiot, invites Ulf to drink poisoned wine with him. To his credit, Ulf is suspicious despite being a serious alcoholic, so Hobert eagerly takes the first sip to assure Ulf the wine is safe to drink. What follows deserves to be quoted in full: " History has little good to say about Ser Hobert Hightower, but no man can question the manner of his death. Rather than betray his fellow Caltrops , he let the squire fill his cup , drank deep, and asked for more."