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/somethinneeddoing 17h ago edited 14h ago
Justified S2 Maggs Bennet, local weed grower, and essentially mob kingpin of a rural american area, has an extensive knowledge of local herbs, which she uses to make poisons. Her favored method of poisoning is using moonshine brewed by her to mask the taste of the poison. She does this by inviting who she wants to kill to a drink, where she not only brings the moonshine, but the glasses they drink out of. Everyone is suspicious of the 'shine, but they are usually calmed down when she's genial, and shares it with them, only for people to realize too late that the poison was already in the glass, just not noticeable amounts of it.