List of fictional medicines and drugs
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This is a list of fictional medicines and drugs from works of fiction (usually fantasy or science fiction). Some of the items listed as medicines or drugs, may be used as both or in other capacities, but fictional works are often vague on such distinctions. Grouping is done by what seems most likely.
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[edit] Fictional medicines
These drugs and vaccines are meant primarily for medicinal and analgesic use, though they can possibly be abused.
Name | Source | Uses & effects |
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Adravil | Resident Evil series | An Ibuprofen-based pain reliever created by the Umbrella Corporation. May be similar in make-up to the real-world Advil. |
Ambrosia | Deus Ex | Ambrosia is a temporary "cure" for the Gray Death, a fatal artificially-induced autoimmune disease. Both the cure and disease are man-made, created using nanotechnology. |
Aqua Cure | Resident Evil series | Umbrella's crowning public achievement, Aqua Cure is an ointment used on open wounds that made the company famous worldwide. It is considered to be Umbrella's primary public product and is very effective. Most likely the recurring item First Aid Spray that appears throughout the series. |
Athelas/Kingsfoil/Asëa Aranion | J. R. R. Tolkien 's, The Lord of the Rings | Especially effective against attacks from Mordorian weapons. When used by a king, the healing properties are enhanced. |
Bacta | Star Wars | A liquid which mimics the body's fluids and helps in regeneration. It is used to help with cuts and burns as well as severe cellular damage, such as frostbite. The subject is suspended in a full-immersion tank for treatment of large scale injuries, or via a patch or lotion for minor injuries. |
Bellerophon | Mission: Impossible II | A vaccine engineered by the pharmaceutical corporation BioCyte to combat a virus called Chimera, which they had also created (in order to market the vaccine). The vaccine is only effective within twenty hours of exposure. |
Bittamucin | Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining) | A vaccine used to fight the disease known as Mellorak. |
Byphodine | Firefly | A drug which can induce a state of reduced metabolic function. Unexamined, a person under the effects of byphodine is easily mistaken for a cadaver. Mentioned in episodes Ariel and The Message. |
Chamalla extract | Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining) | The extract of Chamalla is used as alternative medicine for a range of treatments, including cancer. A side effect from using Chamalla appears to be that the user suffers from hallucinations or prescient visions. |
Charlanta | The Soup | Medicine to get rid of the bad taste of the recent adaptation of Æon Flux starring Charlize Theron. Joel McHale said that he had a bad case of Æon Re-Flux. |
Chiquitolina, pastillas de | El ChapulÃn Colorado | Pills to reduce height, to invade spaces or surprise bad guys. |
Cordrazine | Every Star Trek series | Powerful stimulant used to revive patients in an emergency, such as cardiac arrest. 25 mL is usually a lethal dose to humanoids, causing hallucinations, madness and death. |
Cryostim | StarCraft | A medication for Hibernation Sickness. |
Daylight | Resident Evil Outbreak | A serum designed to eliminate the T-Virus and (presumably) its variants from living organisms. The compound is composed of a sample of the T-Virus, V-Poison (a venom from infected wasps), and P-Base (see below), a compound whose full properties are not documented. It is not known if Daylight is effective against the Progenitor virus, the G-Virus, the T/G Virus or Las Plagas. |
Dehalcynate | The Island (2005) | A concentrated solution which is fatal if not diluted. The name of the drug is not spoken in the film, but the labels on the bottles are seen in a few frames. |
Doloxan | Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining) | Antitumoral drug. Its side effects include: hair loss, nausea and muscle degeneration. (Possibly the Colonial name for the real-world drug doxorubicin). It is mentioned in the episodes "Act of Contrition" and "Crossroads, Part II". |
Dried Frog Pills | Discworld | A hallucinogen, used by the Bursar of Unseen University. The pills are carefully designed to make him hallucinate that he is sane. The main side-effect is that he also hallucinates an ability to fly. Fortunately the Bursar is a wizard and the only action necessary to deal with this belief is to keep him from going higher than the walls. |
Elixir of life | The Makropulos Affair | Potion discovered by a physician of Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor. It can lengthen human life for centuries. |
E-Z Doze It Sleeping Pills | Looney Tunes | Just 2 pills can put a person to sleep. |
Fast-penta | The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold | Nearly fool proof truth drug. |
Felicium | Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Symbiosis" | A narcotic powder used to treat an Ornaran plague. The Brekkians who produce it have been selling it to the Ornarans for centuries—the Ornarans believe the plague is still endemic on their planet and interpret the withdrawal symptoms they experience as the onset of the disease. |
Flintstones Chewable Morphine | The Simpsons | A substance imagined by Bart Simpson while stricken with influenza. |
Flu Buddy | The Stand - telemovie adaptation | A drug designed to treat the flu. An ad for it can be seen early in the film; later on two of the main characters can be seen sitting on a Flu Buddy bench in a town totally wiped out by Captain Trips, a government-designed superflu with a virtually 100% mortality rate. |
Gambutrol | The Exorcism of Emily Rose | A fictional anti-epileptic drug prescribed to Emily Rose by her doctor which supposedly 'locks' her demonic possessions into her mind, leading her priest (Father Moore) to stop the medication, which in turn leads to his eventual incarceration under the charge of negligent homicide. This is most likely a spin off of the real anti-convulsant/anti-epileptic medication,Gabitril |
Hydromel | Doctor Who | A green serum used to control the Vanir and keep them alive in the story Terminus. |
Hypnocil | A Nightmare on Elm Street (series) | An experimental drug (not approved by the FDA) that suppresses dreams. Hypnocil overdoses can put patients into irreversible comas. |
Hydronalin | Star Trek franchise | A standard medication prescribed to counter radiation poisoning. |
Isoprovalyn | Firefly | A common immune booster mentioned in episode Ariel. There are also references to other medicines in this episode: propoxin, hydrozapam, alprazaline - a painkiller and dilaftin. |
Jamitol | Saturday Night Live | A mixture of iron and high potency vitamins in the form of tablets or solution. |
Kallocain | Kallocain | |
Kalocin | Andromeda Strain | A universal wonderdrug stumbled upon by Jensen Pharmeceuticals. Kalocin is effective against every known virus, bacteria, fungus, and parasite, and even cancer. Research of Kalocin was halted and knowledge of it was covered up after it was discovered that anyone who stopped taking the drug quickly died from bizarre and massive infections. |
Kolto | Star Wars Expanded Universe | Mined from the bottom of the great ocean that covers the planet Manaan, it was known for its strong healing properties. Kolto was eventually superseded by bacta. |
Lithium dibromide | The Simpsons | Treatment against bipolar disorder. |
Morpha | Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining) | Drug used as an analgesic, similar to the real-world morphine. It is applied via injector. Mentioned in episode Scattered. |
Neodextraline solution | Star Trek | Treatment for dehydration. |
Novril | Stephen King's Misery | A powerful, highly-addictive analgesic administered to the novelist Paul Sheldon by his nurse and "number one fan", Annie Wilkes. In the book, Novril is administered in pill form and is extremely bitter to taste. When the medication was withdrawn, Sheldon's pain returned along with physical dependence and hallucinations. In the film, Novril is in capsule form and is tasteless and non-addictive. |
Panexa | MERD Pharmaceuticals parody website | "Ask your doctor for a reason to take it." A parody of commercial pharmaceuticals, Panexa is notable for its unusual list of side-effects. [1] |
Pasceline D | Firefly | A drug used to treat Bowden's malady, a fictional degenerative disease affecting bones and muscles. Mentioned in episode The Train Job. |
Phalanx | World War Z | A vaccine which is effective against rabies but useless as marketed for the virus which turns people into zombies. |
Phoenix Down | Final Fantasy series | A powerful medicine made from phoenix feathers capable of reviving a dead (or seriously-injured) person. Never seems to work at critical moments in the plot. In Final Fantasy Tactics, they are made from the feathers of Chocobos. |
Plomox | Scrubs | Plomox is the fictional drug anti-arrhythmic on the market, according to the show's pharmaceutical representative Julie Keaton played by Heather Locklear on Bill Lawrence's American situational comedy Scrubs. Its only side effects are "nausea, impotence, and anal leakage," 'Scrubs' 2.07 "My First Step". |
Prexilin | She Hate Me | A HIV vaccine that reportedly cures 100% of users. However, it is revealed that tests results have been tampered with in order to get FDA approval. Actually the vaccine is effective only in 75% of the cases. |
Provasic (RDU-90) | The Fugitive | A "miracle drug" developed by "Devlin-MacGregor Pharmaceuticals". Provasic produces drug induced hepatitis, but the producers alter the test results in order to get FDA approval. This side effect and the cover up are discovered by doctor Richard Kimble. |
Prozium | Equilibrium | This drug was created to stop emotions entirely. The liquid is injected into the jugular by an auto-injector. This drug was created in hopes of stopping World War IV. |
Pylene 50 | Blake's 7 | Used homeopathically, this drug is simply a muscle relaxant. However, a hundred times normal dosage totally subverts the will into complete obedience. |
Qualex | Mad TV | "It's tranquilicious!" Similarly to valium, it is marketed to housewives. |
Repressitol | "Bye Bye Nerdie" episode of The Simpsons | A drug used to keep repressed memories from surfacing. |
Retinax | Star Trek | Chemical substance that can cure presbyopia. James T. Kirk is allergic to retinax and must therefore use reading glasses (a very rare thing in the 23rd Century). |
Ryll | Star Wars Expanded Universe | A type of spice originating on Ryloth that can be used for legitimate medicines or addictive recreational drugs. |
Safsprin | Resident Evil series | An aspirin-based treatment for various common, daily illnesses. |
St. Jonah's Morphine for Children | Futurama | Analgesic injected into Fry's arm by Dr. Zoidberg after Zoidberg cut it off in a fight to the death. |
Selenine | Clark Ashton Smith's The Plutonian Drug [2] | Derived from a fossilized lichen found on the moon, selenine (in the form of a solution) is an "infallible serum," a universal cure for cancer and many other ailments. |
Serisone | Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining) | Drug used to prevent fluid from building up in the lungs. It is applied via injector. Mentioned in episode Scattered. |
Serum 114 | A Clockwork Orange | A drug which causes severe nausea, pain, and discomfort. It is injected during the Ludovico treatment, which uses a series of violent images forced on the viewer in order to cure violent urges in criminals. (Stanley Kubrick often used the number 114 in his films; compare the CRM-114 encryption device in Dr. Strangelove.) |
Shinten (震点) | Bleach | A green liquid which can knock out anyone with weak spiritual power with one drop and used by members of the 4th (Medical) Division as an anesthetic. In particular, HanatarŠYamada uses this on a stubborn Ichigo Kurosaki to incapacitate the latter long enough to perform needed medical care. |
Skele-gro | Harry Potter | A noxious-tasting oral medicine administered after the user has lost bones through a magical spell. It apparently "regrows" bones. |
Space Mead | Cthulhu Mythos | In Mythos books by August Derleth, a drug which places its users into a state of suspended animation. Used for interstellar flight on the backs of byakhee. |
Tretonin | Stargate SG-1 | A drug used by Jaffa to replace the immunity-boosting effects of Goa'uld symbiotes. Allows Jaffa to survive without being host to a Goa'uld. It can be used on humans to provide the same immunity-boosting effects, but at the cost of completely destroying the natural immune system, meaning that if the user ceases taking the drug, they will die. |
Triopenin | Saturday Night Live | A compound of powerful anti-arthritic spansules and antihistamines, in childproof packaging. |
Triox (AKA Triox Compound) | Star Trek franchise | A compound used to enrich the body in oxygen for use in environment poor in oxygen, i.e., planet vulcan in Amok Time classic episode |
Turbolax | Dumb and Dumber | A very powerful laxative. |
Uspirim | Resident Evil series | A second aspirin-based medication by the Umbrella Corporation. Unlike Safspirin (see above), this one may be prescription-required. |
Valifin | Resident Evil: Zero Hour by S.D. Perry | A non-canon medication mentioned in the novelization , Valifin is a pediatric heart medication that has a side-effect of renal failure. |
[edit] Performance and lifestyle enhancers
These drugs are for enhancing strength, intelligence, and other attributes. Steroids, birth control pills and antidepressants fall into this category.
Name | Source | Uses & effects |
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Alosun | Nedor Comics publications, Tom Strong series | Developed by Dr. Tom Strange, Alosun is a distillate of sun atoms. Ingesting Alosun gives the person superhuman strength, the ability to fly, and invulnerability. |
Altruizin | Stanisław Lem's Altruizin | A drug which causes the user to feel emotions, pain sensations, etc. of other people in proximity. Invented to promote altruism. |
Anti-Gerasone | Kurt Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House | A liquid which halts the aging process. A more recent development, super-anti-gerasone, is purported to produce actual rejuvenation. |
Ascomycin | James Blish's Cities in Flight series. | An anti-aging drug. Blish invented the name in the 1950s: besides Blish's fictional drug, there is now a real immunosuppressant named ascomycin |
Azrael | Azrael by Wolfgang Hohlbein | A secret drug created by German scientists to enhance human skills. Extensive use of the drug causes addiction, hallucinations and madness. It can also make a group of people's imagination become reality. |
Betathanatine | Altered Carbon | Betathanatine, also known as 'The Reaper' or 'Stiff', is a drug which reduces metabolic rate and also cause emotional detachment. Betathanatine is used in military situations to either (implied) make soldiers willingly follow distasteful orders, or to reduce metabolism, body temperature, and life signs to avoid sensors. |
Blinkmoth Serum | Magic: The Gathering | Blinkmoth serum is created by killing and harvesting blinkmoths. It grants the user extreme intelligence, self-awareness, and understanding. It is extremely addictive. |
Bliss | Nova by Samuel R. Delany | Gold powder found on rocks on some planets at the galactic rim. Effects appear to be heightened concentration and loss of critical judgement. |
Bliss (2) | DC Comics | A sedative and euphoric drug delivered by the villain of the same name during the "Aftershock" story arc in the Batman comics |
Brilliance | Origin 's, Privateer | An illicit drug (contraband) which apparently acts as an intelligence enhancer. |
Boosterspice | Larry Niven's Known Space stories | A drug used to extend the human lifespan. It can be used indefinitely. |
Bubbleshake | Doctor Who novel The Highest Science | An appetite suppressant, which resembles a soft drink. If taken without an accompanying pill it is highly addictive and can lead to memory loss. |
Chemical X | The Powerpuff Girls | A black liquid which grants various, apparently permanent abilities via skin contact. Chemical X gave the Powerpuff Girls their superpowers and gave Mojo Jojo his enhanced intelligence. |
Clithni | Clark Ashton Smith's The Plutonian Drug [3] | A clear, emerald liquid which is found in geysers located in dormant volcanoes on Ganymede. Clithni has rejuvenative and anagathic properties. |
Cortexin | DC Comics | Drug used to increase the intelligence of animals to human level in the Kamandi, Hercules Unbound, and other series. |
Dimoxinil | The Simpsons | Hair regrowth drug. Requires daily application or regrown hair is lost. The name is an anagram of minoxidil, a compound which is actually used for treatment of male pattern baldness. |
Distral | Swallow | An anti-depressant drug which induces rapid dependency. Giving up the drug causes terrible side-effects. |
Drive | Xenogears | Drug used by some persons like the Gebler forces; causes extreme aggression after ingestion. It could be that it also enhances their physical powers. The Drug has terrible overdose effects. |
Dylar | White Noise (novel) | Psychoactive drug supposed to remove the fear of death |
Ephemerol | Scanners | Tranquilizer, used as a morning sickness remedy; a mutagen, it induces telekinetic and telepathic abilities. Ephemerol also suppresses those abilities in adults so affected. |
Ethical Birth Control Pills | Kurt Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House | Drug which totally inhibits the ability to experience sexual pleasure. Originally devised as a means of suppressing the tendency for monkeys to masturbate in public view, it was used, in combination with assisted ("ethical") suicide, to control massive overpopulation. |
Flash | Andromeda | Highly addictive drug, causes improved reflexes, designed for better slipstream navigation. Administered by being dripped into the eyes, causing the iris to turn white. |
Focusyn | "Brother's Little Helper" episode of The Simpsons | A Ritalin-like drug. |
Fukitol | Robin Williams' stand-up comedy; later Fukitol website | The commercial name for fukalthanol eutopiata, it is a pill designed for relaxation and sedative purposes. From the entertainment and parody website Fukitol (read the name of the drug slowly, if the parody nature isn't obvious). |
GC-161 (Formula 1-6-1) |
The Secret World of Alex Mack | A weight-loss drink that the show's villain, Danielle Atron, tried to market off to consumers nationwide. The main ingredient in this "FDA Approved" substance is GC-161, an extremely dangerous mutagenic compound that can develop various superhuman abilities to those who use it to excess. |
Gingold extract | DC Comics | Ralph Dibny isolated the extract from the fictional gingold fruit (a favorite of contortionists) and in doing so, acquired stretching powers. He used the extract and its results to become the superhero called the Elongated Man. |
Gleemonex | Brain Candy | Anti-depressant that effectively cures depression rather than alleviating the symptoms. It is a blue hue in its synthesized state, but it is distributed as an orange pill. An unfortunate side-effect permanently locks users into his/her happiest memory, effectively making the user comatose. Rumor suggests the drug may contain monkey semen. The proper or common name of Gleemonex is revealed to be Duoroflouriximinimum 602. |
Hardovax | Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer | A simple pill to counteract erectile dysfunction. |
Homocil | Saturday Night Live | Provides relief for parental anxiety disorder resulting from having a gay child. |
Hyper | Shadowrun (Shadowtech sourcebook) | Direct neural stimulator which acts on the nerves connected to the temporal and occipital lobes of the brain. Induces hyperaesthesia, a condition of excessive sensitivity to sensory stimuli. |
Jumpstart | Transmetropolitan | An amphetamine-like stimulant, taken orally in pills or smoked. Used to dilute space dust, it is known to cause constipation. |
Kamikaze | Shadowrun (Shadowtech supplement) | A tailored amphetamine, used to increase strength, quickness, and pain tolerance. |
Ketracel White | Star Trek | A white liquid drug to which the Jem'Hadar super-soldiers are born addicted, a genetically engineered trait to prevent their rebellion. |
Kerasine | Gunsmith Cats | A liquid drug that can also have effects if inhaled in aerosol form (either intentionally or through burning of the drug). Also referred to as "Powerball". In small doses it induces a trance in which the drugged person is highly susceptible to hypnotic suggestion or brainwashing. In larger doses it can act like PCP, inducing mania and feral strength. |
Kick | Marvel Comics | An addictive drug used by mutants to enhance their powers. Kuan-Yin Xorn (often referred to as Xorn I by comic fans) became addicted to it, masqueraded as Magneto and then went on a rampage through New York. Later determined to be an aerosol compound for distributing an ancient primordial organism known only as Sublime. |
KR-3 | Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said | An experimental compound which disrupts the brain's ability to distinguish alternate realities. Even if they do not consume the drug, people involved in the drug user's life can be shifted into an alternate existence based on the drug user's mind. |
Ladder | Jacob's Ladder | Aggression-enhancing drug created by the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare division in Saigon during the Vietnam War and tested on American troops in the Mekong Delta, with horrific results. Based on the Army's purported experimentation with a hallucinogenic drug called BZ. |
Love Potion Number 9 | Pop Song by The Searchers | A potion that "smells like turpentine and looks like Indian ink". An obvious aphrodisiac that causes the user to Hallucinate and "kiss everything thing in sight." |
Love Potion Number 9 | Song from Fraggle Rock | A red potion given to Wembley by Marjory the Trash Heap in episode thirteen of season one, "We Love You Wembley." The vapours of the potion cause the inhaler to fall madly in love with the fraggle who opened the vial. The effects, while potent, only last twenty minutes. |
Magic Potion | Asterix | Gives the imbiber temporary super-strength. Apparently has permanent effects if one falls into an entire cauldron in childhood. |
Mañanacillin | American Flagg! | Combination antibiotic and contraceptive, heavily classified studies show long term use leads to sterility. |
Melange | Dune series | A substance in the Dune universe only found on the planet Arrakis, where it is produced by the sandworms. It is an addictive geriatric drug that gives the user longer life, greater vitality, heightened awareness, and can unlock prescience in some subjects, depending upon the dosage and the consumer's biological makeup. It is used personally or by the Spacing Guild's navigators to see safe paths through space-time, hence making interstellar travel possible. It is better known as Spice. Addictive: whites of the eyes turn blue as a side effect. |
Mentamite Five and Mentamite Six | Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Created by LexCorp, Mentamite Five is an intelligence booster, but eventually burns out the user's brain. Mentamite Six originally burnt out the user's brain immediately, but Phillip, a Mentamite Five user, corrected the flaw in the formula. |
Mentats | Fallout | Potentially addictive intelligence booster. Note reference to Dune. |
Miraclo | DC Comics | Originally, an orally-ingested (later developed for hypodermic spray) drug that gives the user superstrength and possibly other powers for the duration of exactly one hour. Used by Hourman. The original version of the drug was heavily addictive, enough so that it caused both the first and second Hourman to give up the costume while they fought their addictions. Eventually, Rick Tyler (the second Hourman) developed a non-addictive variant. |
Mutant Growth Hormone (MGH) | Marvel Comics | Extracted from superpowered individuals in the Marvel Universe, MGH is usually presented in pill form. It grants temporary powers to whoever takes it. Supposedly, these powers are duplicates of those belonging to whomever the genetic material necessary to make the drug was extracted from, although this seems inconsistent. Usually, the effect is increased strength and aggression. It should be noted that the drug can be refined from superpowered non-mutants as well. Patriot, of the Young Avengers, abused the drug to earn his place on the team. |
Omegendorph | Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy | A stimulating medication based on the brain's natural endorphins. Psychologically if not physically addictive. |
Pax | Firefly | Formally G-23 paxilon hydrochlorate, it was created by the Alliance and administered to the settlers of the planet Miranda. The drug was supposed to remove aggression and thus render the planet free of violence, but an unfortunate side effect was that the populace stopped working, eating, or caring about anything and simply gave up on life, dying in their newfound nonaggressive state. Worse, roughly a tenth of a percent (0.1%) of the planet's population — approximately 30,000 individuals — were affected by Pax in an opposite effect. They became extremely aggressive and mentally unstable, mutilating their own bodies, and killing the researchers who had come to investigate. They eventually left the planet and formed into the much feared Reavers. |
"Plutonium", aka the Plutonian drug | Clark Ashton Smith's The Plutonian Drug [4] | A fine white powder derived from fossilized plant material located beneath the frozen gasses that for Pluto's surface, Plutonium sends the user's mind into a strange fugue, wherein he experiences all the moments of the future and the past as a series of bas-relief images stretching off to the right and left. The sensation lasts for up to half-an-hour, during which time the user can retrace his past experiences or even trace his path into the future. Due to the subjective time it takes to navigate this experience, it seems likely that the user can perceive at most a day or so in either direction. |
Polydichloric euthimal (PDE) | Outland | An amphetamine-type drug that in the short term makes human beings capable of doing fourteen hours’ work in six hours, but in the long term induces psychosis and subsequent death. The name of the drug is the same with that of the explosive used in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and with a molecule simulated in The Relic. |
Progenitorivox | Drugs I Need flash video by The Animation Farm & the Austin Lounge Lizards | A wonder drug "made by SquabbMerlCo", it solves all your problems...with a plethora of humorous side effects. From a public service announcement by Consumers Union. |
Project 5 formulas | The Lawnmower Man (film only) | A collection of drugs designed to increase neurochemical activity and enhance intelligence. Developed and tested on animals, their use on humans is strongly contraindicated. |
Prozium | Equilibrium | An injected emotion suppressor used to maintain social control in Equilibrium's post-WW3 dystopian society. (The name of this fictional drug was originally "Librium", but that turned out to be the registered trade name of the real anti-anxiety drug chlordiazepoxide. The fictional drug was quickly renamed Prozium.) |
Quicksilver | The Invisible Man TV series | Secreted by an artificially implanted gland; when it reaches high doses in the bloodstream causes psychosis and fierce aggressiveness. This can only be prevented by administering "counteragent" intravenously. |
RadAway | Fallout | A medicine that quickly removes large amounts of radiation from the body. Possible side effects are listed as headache and nausea. |
Rad-X | Fallout | Taken before exposure to radiation, Rad-X greatly boosts one's radioactivity resistance. Works better in stronger subjects. |
Regenerate | Resident Evil: Apocalypse | Regenerate is a skincare product that uses the T-Virus to reanimate dead skin cells, making the user appear younger. |
Ritalout | South Park | Reverses the effects of Ritalin |
Rumble Ball | One Piece | A drug created by TonyTony Choppa that gives people that ate a Zoan aki-aki no mi four new transformations and makes the basic three ones a lot stronger. |
Sapho | Dune series | Plant root extract used by Mentats to amplify their mental powers; apparently addictive, and stains the lips red. |
Silver Serpent Venom | Ultima | A mildly toxic but addictive substance that temporarily increases the user's physical strength. Plays a minor role in the plot of the game Ultima VII. |
Slappers | Batman Beyond | A steroid, absorbed through the skin. Based on Venom (see below). |
Sleep-EX | Rat Race | Fights insomnia; in large doses it can cause unconsciousness in fully awake people. |
Snibbo | The World of Beachcomber | Wonder potion or pills capable of tackling various conditions in different programmes. |
Soma | Vedas, Ayurveda | According to Hindu mythology, this is the elixir of immortality |
Soma (2) | Aldous Huxley's Brave New World | An antidepressant which is hallucinogenic if taken in sufficient quantities; developed under governmental subsidies and engineered to have almost no side effects. Large doses cause death by depressing the medulla oblongata's respiration centers. This has no relation to Soma, the brand name of the medicine carisoprodol, a real world muscle relaxant. |
Spaceoline | Isaac Asimov's "I'm in Marsport Without Hilda" | Medication given to prevent space sickness during interplanetary travel. Users babble, speaking in free association; the ability to react to stimuli (including sexual arousal) is reduced. The legal version is in common use, but slight chemical alterations can transform it into a hazardous narcotic. |
Stim | various | A common name for performance enhancing or rapid-healing drugs in science fiction and video games. |
Stimutax | Sealab 2021 | Highly addictive drug including the positive and many effects of many drugs. Said to be "mostly Kelp" it was later found to contain the poison of the Fugu fish. |
Stimpacks | StarCraft | Stimpacks are capsules of synthesised adrenaline and painkillers. They are used by Marines and Firebats to temporarily increase their speed and rate of fire. If a limb is severed, their powered armour injects a dose into the area. Side effects include tissue hemorrhage, manifested as a -10 hitpoint penalty. A unit taking a stimpack cries out "Oh yeah!" or "That's the stuf!" |
Super Mushroom | The Super Mario universe - Shigeru Miyamoto | Power-up object in Super Mario. Variants include power-down and 1-up mushrooms. |
Velocity-9 and Velocity-10 | The Flash comics | Addictive drug that gives the user super-speed, created by the supervillain Vandal Savage. |
T'langen | Breakdown video game | Drug that produces various effect in humans depending on dosage and concentration. Less than 10 percent of those injected survive, with most dying from causes such as respiratory failure and seizures. For those that don't die, the drug creates a yellow glowing bioluminescence effect around the hands and forearms, increased strength, speed, endurance, and constitution, the ability to generate an invisible shield honeycombs when hit by projectiles or explosives if facing in the direction of the oncoming force, making the user invincible to such things. Also, humans can gain the ability to defeat the T' Lan, humanoid creatures invulnerable to harm from any direction, by hitting the T'Lan shield with their own shield. At higher doses (those who survive low doses are more likely to survive higher doses), the user can experience even greater strength, speed, endurance and constitution, along with sometimes also the ability to throw balls of energy, create shockwaves to kill or throw enemies to the ground, high jump, and move extremely quickly for short periods of time. |
Venom | Batman | Highly addictive super-steroid, used primarily by the villain Bane. Increases physical performance and stamina. |
Venus Drug | Star Trek episode "Mudd's Women" | Drug that radically enhances the user's physical attractiveness - apparently by placebo effect. |
Viagrogaine | The Simpsons | A topical rub for bald and impotent men, or as it's spokesman Homer Simpson says, "It gives you hair up there and what you need down there". May cause loss of scalp and/or penis. The name is a combination of both the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra and the hair growth treatment Rogaine. |
Vitameatavegamin | I Love Lucy | An elixir containing vitamins, meat, vegetables, minerals, and 23% alcohol. Allegedly to help people who are "tired, run-down, and listless". |
Water of power | One Piece | The Water of power or "the water that eat lives" is a drug from Alabasta. When used, it focuses all the consumers remaining life into strength, When drank it wear out the body completely leaving the user only a few minutes to live. |
Wraith Enzyme | Stargate Atlantis | A red liquid naturally produced and injected by the Wraith into the victims of their vampiric feedings. It produces effects similar to epinephrine, only longer lasting. In doses larger than are naturally distributed by the Wraith, users gain exceptional speed, strength, vitality, and reflexes. Side-effects include paranoid delusions, anxiety, and lack of rational thought, although it does not affect lucidity. Withdrawal causes extreme pain, nausea, anxiety, and a weakened immune system. Overdose can lead to a stroke, or cardiac arrest. The potency of the drug is directly related to the dosage, so those who take higher doses experience bolstered effects. |
Zombie Powder | Zombie Powder | This powder, made from the remains of corpses and the undead, can be used to make its user immortal. However, since only certain corpses/zombies contain the necessary factor for the drug, it is extremely rare and one of the most prized items in the world. |
[edit] Recreational drugs
Drugs used for narcotic, hallucinogenic or other recreational usage. These drugs tend to be illegal and addictive, sometimes dangerously so.
Name | Source | Uses & effects |
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Accela | Serial Experiments Lain | Not a chemical drug, but rather a nanomachine delivered in pill form. It increases the processing speed of the brain, making its user feel that time has slowed down. Not to be confused with the railroad train Acela Express. |
Adrenochrome | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Made from adrenaline extracted from a living human body. When taken orally, it produces extremely intense hallucinations, muscle contractions, sweating, and increased body temperature. Adrenochrome is an actual drug used to suppress internal bleeding, but its hallucinogenic properties are disputed. |
Aklo | Alan Moore's The Courtyard | Not an actual drug, it is a pre-human language, which if heard after a hit of DMT-7, will cause the user to have severe hallucinations, and subsequently have a new vocabulary and an ability to see the world for what it truly is. |
Betaphenethylamine | Neuromancer | Stimulant and hallucinogen, usually administered in the form of dermal patches. Can bypass livers and pancreases surgically altered to reject narcotics. |
Bliss (3) | Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor | A brown powder, which people can become addicted to simply by looking at it. Makes the user believe (s)he is an omnipotent deity, while at the same time rendering them incapable of as much as tying their shoes. |
Bliss (4) | The Wizard of Sunset Strip by Simon Hawke | Thaumaturgically brewed drug. Not physiologically addicting, but the state of peace and serenity it induces is strongly habit-forming, and larger and larger doses of the drug are required to cop the same buzz. Used by at least one necromancer to keep his victims in thrall. |
Bliss Pellets | Aeon Flux | A Pill like organ rendered from a water creature, its effect is amnesia. |
Bloodhype | Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth | Also known by such street names as "jaster" and "silly salt." Instantly addictive drug derived from a tree only known to grow on a single planet. Affects entire nervous system, causing intense pleasure. Withdrawal is excruciatingly painful, and usually fatal; treatment requires total life support. It is said that an addict will gladly sell everything he or she owns, along with all body parts beyond the minimum needed to inject the drug, for his or her next dose. There is no known way to synthesize it, and the tree from which it is derived was thought to have been deliberately driven to extinction, but drug has reappeared. A large dose was used to defeat the malevolent entity known as the Vom. |
Blue Glass | The Onion | A crystalline euphoric substance that is smoked. Effects include feelings of extreme happiness and optimism, greatly enhanced reflexes, and sexual pleasure immediately followed by a semi-permanent suicidal catatonia. The duration of use is five minutes. Featured in a humorous article entitled "CIA Unveils New Ghetto Drugs for '98" (July 9, 1997). |
Brainscratch | The Onion | A hardcore hallucinogenic disassociative administered through eye-drops. Lasts ten hours to several years. Featured in a humorous article entitled "CIA Unveils New Ghetto Drugs for '98" (July 9, 1997). |
Cake | Brass Eye | A bright-yellow cake-sized pill from eastern Europe which many featured celebrities held as they talked purportedly affected an area of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon". Despite pointed repeated statements that the drug was fictional, David Amess, a British Member of Parliament was fooled into filming an elaborate video warning against the dangers of Cake, and went as far as to ask a question about it in Parliament [5]. |
Can-D | Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | A plant product imported from Ganymede to Mars that allows colonists to escape into a group hallucination based on their Perky Pat layouts, which are fictional analogues of Barbie. |
Cardamine | Freelancer | A natural product of the ecosystem on the planet Malta, it is found in trace amounts in nearly everything on the planet, including the atmosphere and water. A very addictive mutagenic narcotic, it's withdrawal symptoms are extremely violent and invariably fatal. Exposure over generations is known to cause unnatural longevity as well as greatly decreased fertility. The drug is trafficked by the criminal faction known as the Outcasts (formed by the original settlers of Malta), and outlawed by all the major Houses. The best available selling price is on the planet Manhattan, although this run is risky for players as Manhattan is located in the centre of House space and there is a significant risk of being discovered on the route. |
Chew-Z | Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | A substance, probably brought back by Palmer Eldritch from the Prox system, that is marketed as a more realistic alternative to Can-D but transports the user to a world controlled by Eldritch. |
Chronax | Donald Fagen's Morph the Cat | Powerful hallucinogen. Ten milligram fatal dose. |
Condamine | SF of Cordwainer Smith | Powerful narcotic; it also exists in an enhanced form, super-condamine, lethal except to those infected by the dromozoa of the punishment world Shayol. |
Cyclomite | Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day | A combination of cyclopropane and dynamite with hallucinatory properties, described as "a reality modifying explosive". |
Deludin | Steely Dan | Psychotropic substance song protagonist uses in Gaslighting his wife. Possibly a mispronunciation of Dilaudid, a real-world painkiller. |
DMT-7 | Alan Moore's The Courtyard | A weak hallucinogen, which in its natural form is produced in the human brain. Trip lasts about 10-15 minutes. Usually taken before a hit of Aklo. |
DMZ | David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest | Powerful hallucinogen derived from a species of mold. |
Drencrom | A Clockwork Orange | Ingredient in milk-plus, sold in the Korova Milkbar. Likely a reference to adrenochrome. |
Dust | Babylon 5 | A highly illegal drug that induces telepathy. Users commit "telepathic rape", also illegal, by forcibly (and painfully) scanning the minds of other people. Can induce telepathy even in some species that have no natural telepaths, such as Narns. |
Dyne | City of Heroes | An addictive narcotic that is peddled by more than one street gang. A stronger version, Superadyne, will provide pain immunity and induce the user with violent tendencies. Overuse of Superadyne will degenerate a user into a Troll, which makes them brainless but gives them superhuman powers. |
Energon | Transformers: Generation 1 | When taken in quantities above what is needed to re-energize, causes drunkenness in Transformers. |
Excelsior | City of Heroes | A powerful narcotic that raises the normal physical attributes of a human, including an incredibly high pain tolerance. The street gang known as the Freakshow take advantage of the pain tolerance to replace their limbs with cybernetic implants. |
The Fear | Red Star, Winter Orbit by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson | Causes fear, paranoia and hallucinations, administered either via pills or injection. Possibly used by espionage and intelligence agencies. |
Formula 51 | Formula 51 aka The 51st State | Claimed to be a powerful narcotic, stimulant and hallucinogen. While various tests confirm the claim, in reality the ingredients cancel each other out, making it “the most expensive candy in history.†|
Gerin Oil | Gerin oil | A highly addictive drug which can cause delusions disconnection to reality, hallucination, homicidal tendencies, and suicidal behavior. Despite these properties, it is legal and many prominent politicians are vocal advocates of its use. Scientific name "geriniol." |
Glitterstim | Star Wars Expanded Universe | A hallucinogenic drug made from spice that may cause temporary psychic abilities. |
Goofballs | Kingdom of Loathing | An item in the game, comes in one of those little amber pillbottles presumably full of said Goofballs. If used it produces a 20% increase in strength and moxie. Goofball Withdrawal causes 50% penalty to all stats, and can be cured by sweating out the symptoms for a very long time, or instantly by taking more goofballs. Acquired from a very suspicious NPC who provides the first bottle to the player for free but charges outrageous prices (10,000 M) for later doses. |
G'Quan Eth seeds | Babylon 5 | The G'Quan Eth plant is a Narn religious item, but its seeds become a narcotic for Centauri when dropped in alcohol. |
Hazia | The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin | A plant whose root is used as an addictive drug to give visions. It blackens the mouth and causes nervous disorders and eventually death. |
Honk, Double Honk | Discworld | 'Recreational' (for trolls). |
Jet | Fallout | A highly addictive methamphetamine-like substance, taken by inhalation. Plays an important role in the world of Fallout II. |
Levitol | Mallworld | A controlled but largely legal recreational drug which enables the consumer to fly. |
Lotus tree | Homer's Odyssey | A plant, possibly native to Libya, with opium-like sedative and narcotic properties. It is believed that the plant may be related to the jujube plant or the date palm. The plant was the sole food of the Lotophagi. |
Mechanics | Transmetropolitan | Recreational drug taken with the aid of an AI. Both the AI and the human user enjoy hallucinations; the drug causes portions of the human body to develop into cybernetic implants. |
Merge | Rudy Rucker's Wetware | Recreational drug which temporarily dissolves the user into a liquid. Allows sexual partners to experience each other very closely- in a shared puddle. |
Mindprobes | The Last Book in the Universe | Mindprobes are the preferred method of entertainment after "The Big Shake," preferred to books and television. The Mindprobe allows the user to become a character in a story. Side effects include addiction, memory loss, and secreting a thick, clear fluid at the injection site (the top of the head). They are shut down at the end of the book. They come in a variety, such as adventure, axnd sexbos (porn.) |
Mimezine | Wild Palms mini-series | Drug giving illusion of physical reality to holograms. |
Mist | Prayer of the Rollerboys | A highly addictive green glowing liquid that was abused in the movie and supplied by the Roller Boys. Has a special ingredient which sterilizes its users. |
Mnophka | Clark Ashton Smith's The Plutonian Drug [6] | A narcotic derived on Venus, it has a devastating effect on the human physiology. It causes the user to experience extreme "time-compression" - although he cannot move faster than normal, it seems to him like he senses time flowing at a much faster rate, causing him to suffer sensory overload. Physical tissue trauma is consistent with the amount of subjective time the user has experienced. |
Molecular Reward | Half Past Human - T. J. Bass | Hallucinogen. Overdose causes users to believe they are a bird, flower or mushroom. |
Moon Rocks | The Simpsons | Rocks from the moon, ground up and freebased by Krusty the Clown. All they do is get him to normal. In Reality, Moon Rocks refers to the practice of smoking heroin together with cocaine |
Neuroin | Minority Report | Effects similar to heroin, transparent gaseous drug administered using plastic inhalers. |
Nuke | RoboCop 2 | A powerful, addictive, synthetic narcotic. A red, blood-like liquid that is injected, its effects resemble cocaine. |
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster | Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy | Said to be the greatest drink in existence by the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, this is one of the most intoxicating alcoholic drinks found in the known universe. The Guide states: "The effect of drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick." |
Plutonium nyborg | Heavy Metal | Inhaled white powder. Appearance resembles cocaine, effects resemble marijuana. Used by two alien starship pilots. |
Psylenol | Planetfall | A drug stolen from a secret military program and reconditioned to be an over-the-counter psychedelic. |
Red Eye | Cowboy Bebop | Amphetamine-type recreational drug, highly illegal and extremely valuable. Delivered in the form of an eye-spray, which cause the user's eyes to go red; hence the name. Users perceive a slowed rate of time, and seem to have incredibly quick reflexes as well as other heightened physical capabilities. In the original Japanese broadcast of the series, Red Eye is referred to as Bloody Eye. This created some confusion when the English dub renamed them Red Eye, though in at least one case, the drug is also referred to as Bloody Eye as well. |
Sex Packets | Song by Digital Underground | Ingestion of a packet makes one feel as if they are having a particular kind of sexual experience. Sold illicitly by street dealers and come in several varieties. |
Shadow | Blake's 7 | A highly addictive drug whose inevitable result is death. Its source is Alpha 7/5, or the Moon Disc, an ovoid, translucent plant which has partial telepathy, and could move on its own. This plant grows only on the planet Zondar. |
Slab | Discworld | 'Recreational' (for trolls). Technically not a fictional drug, so much as one that has no intoxicating effect on humans as Discworld trolls are silicon based lifeforms. Slab is described as being a mixture of ammonium chloride and radium. Other troll drugs, mostly variants of Slab with worse effects, include Scrape, Slice, Slide, Slunky, Slurp and Sliver. |
Somnambutol | American Flagg! | Hallucinogenic barbiturate, used for both recreational use, in small doses, and riot control, where it is commonly used in Snowball 99 capsule bullets. |
Space | Transmetropolitan | Hallucinogen, often taken in the smokeable form space dust. |
Space Coke | Cheech and Chong's Next Movie | Insanely powerful stimulant of extraterrestrial origin. |
Space Honey | Futurama | This is no ordinary honey! A narcotic of sorts, produced by giant space bees. "One spoonful to calm you down. Two spoonfuls to help you sleep. But three spoonfuls and you'll go into a sleep so deep, you'll never wake up." |
Spark | G.I. Joe | Erratic behavior. Lethal in excessive doses. |
Spike | The Onion | Stimulant causing rush of physical strength, inability to feel pain, and sociopathic impulses. Originally developed by the Pentagon as a combat drug. Featured in a humorous article entitled "CIA Unveils New Ghetto Drugs for '98" (July 9, 1997). |
Spin | Bravestarr
Episode: The Price |
A drug which is absorbed through direct skin-contact, and apparently has stimulant and hallucinogenic qualities. High doses and extended use can cause violence and aggression. Withdrawal is apparently equivalent to that of cocaine. Long-term use and overdose are apparently lethal. |
Stimutacs | Sealab 2021 | "Herbal dietary supplement", produced from all natural ingredients (99% kelp, 1% |
Substance D | A Scanner Darkly | Dampens the links between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, causing vivid hallucinations. Also called "Death," it is lethally addictive. Long-term use can lead to two separate, mutually unaware personalities. |
Supercool | Upright Citizens Brigade | A totally legal recreational drug, it was the running gag in Season 2, culminating in the season finale which was s supposed expose on the drug. Supercool is revealed to be nothing but the popular candy, Pixy Stix.[1] |
Synthehol | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Synthehol is an artificial substitute for alcohol, allowing the drinker to experience the intoxicating effects without any adverse after-effects such as hangovers. In long-term doses it creates a psychological (but not physical) addiction, similar to cannabis. |
Synthemesc | A Clockwork Orange | A hallucinogen, its name derived from "synthetic mescaline", in the milk-plus sold in the Korova Milkbar. |
Theobromos | Kage Baker's 'The Company' series | A mood elevating substance when ingested in large quantities. While it refers to theobromine, its affects on immortals are unique. Overindulgence causes disorientation, loss of balance, emotional effusiveness, and hangovers. |
Thionite | E. E. Smith's Lensman series | Highly addictive euphoriant, involved in the most dangerous illegal drug trafficking in the Lensman universe. An overdose of thionite is lethal. |
Totally Awesome Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake | Metalocalypse | An incredibly potent drug that causes you to "get so high your brains will blow chunks into the milky way." It causes you to go insane and leaves your mind a blank slate. It was used by members of the hair metal band, Snakes n' Barrels, during their reunion concert and caused all but their lead singer, Pickles, to go insane. |
Trellium | Star Trek: Enterprise | An addictive drug for Vulcans. It harms their nervous system in such a way that they cannot control their feelings by logic any longer. |
Tripwire | Transmetropolitan | Hallucinogen simulator, used and abused by sentient AIs. |
Ultrazone | Red Dwarf | Mechanoid narcotic, which causes circuit board degradation. |
U4 | SiN | Dangerously addictive narcotic developed by biochemist Elexis Sinclaire. A deliberate effect of the drug is genetic alteration, causing horrible mutations in the user. The drug was developed and distributed for the purpose of building a bio-engineered army for world conquest. |
Valkyr | Max Payne | Highly addictive narcotic in the form of a green neon liquid that spread rapidly through New York City. Junkies are prone to babbling and unpredictable violence; it produces a complete disassociation from reality and nightmarish hallucinations which can actually be experienced in Max Payne. |
Vellocet | A Clockwork Orange | Ingredient in milk-plus, sold in the Korova Milkbar. Produces alertness and ultra-violent tendencies. |
Vraxoin | Doctor Who | Addictive and deadly narcotic drug, also known as 'vrax' created from mandrells, alien monsters from the planet Eden. When electrocuted (or perhaps destroyed by high temperature) mandrells are reduced to a fine, grey powder: vraxoin. The drug causes lassitude, happiness and general well-being, while withdrawals are characterized by paranoid mania. The mandrells of Eden are a 'new' source of vraxoin, implying that there was once another source. The fact that planetary customs officers still scan for vraxoin - apparently some decades after the last source was destroyed - implies that either additional sources are known, or there are considerable stockpiles. |
White Claudia | Silent Hill series | A highly-addictive hallucinogenic drug cultivated from a plant of the same name (reference to Aglaophotis Plant) which is indigenous to Silent Hill. The cult in Silent Hill ritualistically uses the drug in their religious ceremonies. Additionally, Dr. Michael Kaufmann uses the drug to keep members of the Alchamilla Hospital staff addicted and thus completely loyal to him. |
Zom-B | The Onion | Crystalline narcotic substance with similar effects to barbiturates; when injected, causes a stuporous mental coma and involuntary stimulation of the user's motor functions and reflex system resulting in compulsive wandering, hence the name "Zom-B." Featured in a humorous article entitled "CIA Unveils New Ghetto Drugs for '98" (July 9, 1997). |
Zyme | Deus Ex | Hallucinogenic, euphoria-inducing drug, also magnifies vision when used. Overdoses can be fatal (only to NPCs as the player is able to ingest large quantities in a short time with no after effects aside from the "drunken effect"). Recreational drug of choice in the world of Deus Ex. Many mods have this drug give bullet time and enhanced abilities |
[edit] Other/unspecified
Snake oils can be found here. Also for compounds whose properties are not known.
Name | Source | Uses & effects |
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Aglaophotis | Silent Hill | A red, blood-like liquid used in exorcism taken from the plant of the same name (see Aglaophotis). Base to make White Claudia. |
Alkadexabenzathera-podazalamide | How to Murder Your Wife | Also known in the movie as "goof balls" which, when taken in combination with alcohol produce an effect of "Ziiiiiip, Flop." |
Flashback | Hyperion | Addictive, Causes user to experience flash backs to previous life experiences. Requires a brain implant to use. |
Habafropzipulops | Church of the SubGenius | Also known as Frop, this unknown substance (which is specified is not a drug, but not clarified beyond that) is in the pipe of Church figurehead J. R. "Bob" Dobbs. The substance is said to possibly contain either mystical, hallucinogenic, or Divine powers, or nothing at all. |
Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Gladular Restorative | The Cabinet of Curiosities | A tonic sold by Hezekiah Pendergast in the 1800s. The tonic was eventually exposed as a lethal blend of cocaine, acetanilid, and alkaloid botanicals. It was the cause of uncounted addictions and deaths, including that of Hezekiah's wife. |
Kickapoo Joy Juice | Li'l Abner | A snake oil/patent medicine sold by the proverbial medicine show charlatans. Undoubtedly derived from actual Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company of Connecticut (totally unrelated to Kickapoo Indians of Oklahoma), which produced and sold patent medicine consisting largely of alcohol. There is a real soft drink called Kickapoo Joy Juice which is similar to Mountain Dew. |
LCL | Neon Genesis Evangelion | An oxygenated fluid, breathable by humans, which allows a pilot's nervous system to synchronize with that of an Evangelion mecha. Often erroneously thought to stand for 'Link Connect Liquid', though Gainax states this is wrong. |
Metroid Vaccine | Metroid Fusion | A neon green, faintly luminescent substance containing Metroid cells, the only cure for X-Parasite infestation |
P-Base | Resident Evil Outbreak | An unknown compound necessary to create the anti-T-virus serum called Daylight (see above). |
PurBlood | Mount Dragon | A blood substitute developed by the biotechnology company GeneDyne. It consists of human hemoglobin manufactured by altered E. coli, purified using GeneDyne's proprietary GEF purification and artificially encapsulated. Due to flaws in the GEF process, it also causes hemoglobin poisoning and insanity within months. |
Rage | Powermark | A drug that takes any hostile emotion, and turns it into full-blown Rage. |
Re-Agent | Re-Animator | Unnamed, unspecified green neon chemical substance which is capable of resurrecting the dead, right down to the molecular level. In a deleted scene in the film, Herbert West is shown using it as a stimulant, and is apparently quite addicted to it. |
Soma | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | Recreational drug whose use was promoted by the ruling government. If at any point the governed people feel urges they cannot deal with or ideas that confuse them, they are encouraged by conditioning to take a dose of Soma. Soma doses can be anywhere from a half pill to a couple of pills depending on level of anxiety. Soma produces bliss with no side effects, like a combination of alcohol's "forget your worries" and cannabis's "flying high" without any negative effects. |
The Cure | X-Men: The Last Stand | A drug that reverses the evolutionary process and deactivates a mutant's superpower(s) |
Yakov's Elixir | The Inspector General | A snake oil found within the play. |
Infestation Antidote | StarCraft: Brood War | A drug that kills the Zerg Hyperevolutionary virus and reverses it's effects |
Nurostim | StarCraft: Brood War | A drug administered to the Overmind to put it into stasis. |
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- Anaproviline - Star Trek
- Blue Dreamers - Saturn 3
- BTL - "Beetle" (Better Than Life) electronic drug not unlike Tek from the Shadowrun roleplaying game.
- Buffout - Fallout
- chlorhexinol - The Simpsons
- Clarity - Minority Report
- Comatonin - Futurama
- Crystal Dream - Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
- cyclobenzanone - The Simpsons
- Dancer - All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson (novelist)
- Deathsticks - Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
- Desperance - Forward the Foundation. See also: Raych Seldon
- Glint (aka Devil's Hairlip) - Strangers With Candy
- Glycolauric Octanol (AKA "Glow") - Final Fight: Streetwise
- Goofballs - The Simpsons
- Haza - Supernova
- Heatstroke - TKKG Novels Series - a fictional and addictive designer drug
- Juvenat - Warhammer 40,000 - Designed to retard the aging process in humans, it can allow someone who has regular treatment (normally nobility, Imperial Guard officers or Inquisitors) to live for several centuries.
- Key 17 and Key 23 - The Invisibles
- KT-28 - Watchmen
- Lot 6 - Firestarter
- MA-19 - Michael Moorcock's The Deep Fix and The Black Corridor
- Mentats - Fallout (computer game)
- MUSCLE - Logan's Run
- Neotraxin - Six Million Dollar Man
- Panadote - The Dying Sun
- Paranoia (role-playing game) is rife with drugs, e.g. Sleepy-Tyme pills and Wakey-Wakey pills (most also have a pseudo-Latin name)
- Pattern - Lexx episode "Eating Pattern"
- phenolbutamine - The Simpsons
- Pilene-50 - Blake's 7
- Pop - True Crime: New York City
- Progenitorivox - from the Consumers Union song "The Drugs I Need" by Austin Lounge Lizards
- Psycho - Fallout
- Skooma - The Elder Scrolls
- Sky - The Invisibles
- Spank - Grand Theft Auto III
- Stummies - Brain Candy
- Stimu-Cranck: From the episode of The Simpsons: Maximum Homerdrive.
- Supercool - Upright Citizens Brigade
- Teamocil - Arrested Development (TV series)
- Tek - Tek War
- Trinity - The Crow: City of Angels
- Vurt Feathers - Vurt
Red Death CSI Miami It's like ecstasy but it has a different chemical compund so it isn't illegal. When used, the user feels nothing for a long time so they take more, and eventually overdose and die.