Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 146 - Poisonous Person

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Despair Event Horizon
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
Blue-Collar Warlock
Too Good for the Sinful Earth
Pop-Cultured Badass
Your Soul is Mine
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
Crutch Character
Taste of Power
Magikarp Power
Lethal Joke Character
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Stone Wall
Glass Cannon
Lightning Bruiser
That One Boss
That One Level
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
Game-Breaker
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Infinity -1 Sword, was Fully evolved starters (Pokemon), which got 5 votes.

Previous winners: Day 111 Onwards
Degraded Boss - El Gigante (Resident Evil 4)
Hypercompetent Sidekick - Shego (Kim Possible)
Throw the Dog a Bone - Sweet Victory (Spongebob Squarepants)
The Snark Knight - Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)
Relationship Upgrade - Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)
Pair the Spares - Shaggy and Velma (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated)
Guile Hero - John Constantine (Constantine)
Bookworm - Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Disproportionate Retribution - Cartman feeds Scott Tenorman his parents (South Park)
Accidental Misnaming - Benedict Cumberbatch
Like You Would Really Do It - Pikachu's Goodbye (Pokemon) / Jon Snow "dies" (Game of Thrones) / Goofy "dies" (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Adorkable - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
The Trickster - Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
The Dog was the Mastermind - Scabbers (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Wham Shot - Lily of the Valley plant in Walt's back yard (Breaking Bad)
Cerebus Syndrome - Harry Potter
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Infinity +1 Sword - Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts)

Today's trope is Poisonous Person. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoisonousPerson

There are some people no one wants to be around, either due to smarminess or poor hygiene (or both!) they seem to ooze from every pore and make the air around them noxious, and anyone they touch will feel like immediately disinfecting the area. For the Poisonous Person, that is exactly the case. They are lethal to touch because their body naturally produces universally lethal toxins, emits radiation or carries a host of dangerous diseases. Of course, they are immune to these hazards, but not so everyone else.

There are a lot of ways this can happen: falling into a vat of chemicals or bio-hazards, becoming Cursed as a Walking Wasteland or with an uncontrollable Touch of Death, or an autonomous deadly defense mechanism power that can't distinguish friend from foe. For extra angst (or yummies) the Poisonous Person kills those they touch because they must feed on their Life Energy.

This is one of those "powers" that are difficult to miss when they first manifest, usually resulting in a dead younger sister at the hands of the Poisonous Person. Is it any wonder that they come to embrace Bad Powers, Bad People and become villains? Of course they probably weren't nice to begin with. This kind of villain isn't just difficult to fight, but also very versatile in applying their power. They'll use the sweat from their brow to salt a field, fill darts with their poisonous tears, turn a bloody wound into their enemy's demise by cutting themselves to poison their blade. Some of them may even have their poison be corrosive, if not throwing actual acidic stuff. Sometimes they may use radioactive poisoning. If their power is disease based, they make an excellent Plaguemaster. Or they might end up as a hapless Typhoid Mary.

If they aren't evil, they'll usually get far, far away from anyone who they might hurt, like a modern day Medusa or King Midas... sans gold. If they're really lucky they'll have enough control of their power/curse to turn it on and off, or at least be able to live in urban areas by wearing full body outfits or hazmat suits.

TL,DR: A character who has poisonous powers created from their body, which they may or may not be able to control.

Nominations:
Captain Pollution (Captain Planet and the Planeteers)
Foul Ole Ron (Discworld)
F.A.N.G. (Street Fighter V)

Mister Bones (DC Comics)
Reptile (Mortal Kombat)
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Blight (Batman Beyond)
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Magellan (One Piece)
Naraku (Inuyasha)
Blight (Batman Beyond)
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Rogue (X-Men)
Xenomorphs (Alien franchise)
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Bacterian (Dragonball)
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Pestilence (the boble)
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Captain Pollution (Captain Planet and the Planeteers)
Muk (Pokemon)
Reptile (Mortal Kombat)
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Naraku
Rogue
Reptile

HM: That porcupine-looking nightbreed from Clive Barker's Nightbreed
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Posion Ivy (DC)
Omega Red (X-Men)
Midas (New Avengers)

Poison Ivy
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Poison Ivy
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Poison Ivy
Purple Haze (Jojo)
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Rankings so far:
Poison Ivy (DC) - 4 votes
Reptile (Mortal Kombat) - 3 votes
Blight (Batman Beyond) - 2 votes
Captain Pollution (Captain Planet and the Planeteers) - 2 votes
Naraku (Inuyasha) - 2 votes
Rogue (X-Men) - 2 votes
Foul Ole Ron (Discworld)
F.A.N.G. (Street Fighter V)
Mister Bones (DC Comics)
Magellan (One Piece)
Xenomorphs (Alien franchise)
Bacterian (Dragonball)
Pestilence (the Bible)
Muk (Pokemon)
Omega Red (X-Men)
Midas (New Avengers)
Purple Haze (Jojo)

Poison Dart Frogs (Real Life)
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Seconding Purple Haze and Magellan.
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