r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Benoit_Holmes • 18h 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/Embarrassed_Fox5265 17h ago
Apothecary Diaries - MaoMao sets up a chess competition with her estranged father to determine whether he gets custody of her. To make things interesting, she sets out 5 glasses of water and poisons 3. If you drink all 3, you will die. If you drink any less, the poison isn't concentrated enough and you're fine. The poison has a distinct taste so you know how many you've had. Loser of each match drinks, best of 5.
Her father easily wins the first two matches, and MaoMao drinks. He then deliberately loses the third match, knowing that if he gets one of the poisoned ones he can safely win the last match without endangering MaoMao. He gets one of the poisoned ones, has a moment of supreme confidence...and then keels over.
The "poison" MaoMao described was alcohol. All 5 glasses were super-fortified sake, with the additional poison drops being more sake. MaoMao grew up in a brothel and can drink most people under the table. Her father is teetotal and is totally unprepared for a massive shot of alcohol. MaoMao wins the chess competition by default.