Fictional chemical weapons (need some)

[Ranchoth]

…well, not that kind of “need,” but I’m looking for some examples for a pet project. Anything not mentioned on the list of fictional chemical weapons already, and especially anything with it’s own made up chemical weapon designation.

So far, I’ve got DDID—which, according to Tim Burton, is the basis for Joker venom.

Anyone else want to join in the creepy trivia?

[Chronos]

Would biological weapons work, too? Asimov’s Pebble in the Sky involves a weaponized radioactive version of the common cold, to which native Earthers are all immune, but which would kill everyone else in the Galaxy.

[Grumman]

What sort of chemical weapons are you looking for? Anti-materiel, anti-personnel, utility or all three?

[Ranchoth]

@Grumman

What sort of chemical weapons are you looking for? Anti-materiel, anti-personnel, utility or all three?

Anti-personnel, primarily, though the others are worth at least a nod. But anything with a given name or code designation, specifically. So “the unnamed nerve gas used by Doctor Khaotica”* isn’t useful for my purposes, but if it was called “Khatoicol” or “VK,” it’s just gravy.
*The star of the classic 1954 movie serial, Doctor Khaotica and the Stock Footage Attack, of course.

[aruvqan]

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan series
Soltoxin - chemical warfare agent, causes the lungs to dissolve.The antidote to it is a teratogen causing bone dissolution.

Unnamed Haut toxin - dissolves the bones and organs into goop via nanobots

[Der_Trihs]

Fetaine, also from the Vorkosigan books; a terror weapon that scrambles the DNA in the gonads of anyone exposed. Designed to create massive amount of birth defects.

Black Smoke, from *The War of the Worlds.
*

Now at the time we could not understand these things, but later I was to learn the meaning of these ominous kopjes that gathered in the twilight. Each of the Martians, standing in the great crescent I have described, had discharged, by means of the gunlike tube he carried, a huge canister over whatever hill, copse, cluster of houses, or other possible cover for guns, chanced to be in front of him. Some fired only one of these, some two–as in the case of the one we had seen; the one at Ripley is said to have discharged no fewer than five at that time. These canisters smashed on striking the ground–they did not explode–and incontinently disengaged an enormous volume of heavy, inky vapour, coiling and pouring upward in a huge and ebony cumulus cloud, a gaseous hill that sank and spread itself slowly over the surrounding country. And the touch of that vapour, the inhaling of its pungent wisps, was death to all that breathes.

It was heavy, this vapour, heavier than the densest smoke, so that, after the first tumultuous uprush and outflow of its impact, it sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and watercourses even as I have heard the carbonic-acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do. And where it came upon water some chemical action occurred, and the surface would be instantly covered with a powdery scum that sank slowly and made way for more. The scum was absolutely insoluble, and it is a strange thing, seeing the instant effect of the gas, that one could drink without hurt the water from which it had been strained. The vapour did not diffuse as a true gas would do. It hung together in banks, flowing sluggishly down the slope of the land and driving reluctantly before the wind, and very slowly it combined with the mist and moisture of the air, and sank to the earth in the form of dust. Save that an unknown element giving a group of four lines in the blue of the spectrum is concerned, we are still entirely ignorant of the nature of this substance.

Once the tumultuous upheaval of its dispersion was over, the black smoke clung so closely to the ground, even before its precipitation, that fifty feet up in the air, on the roofs and upper stories of high houses and on great trees, there was a chance of escaping its poison altogether, as was proved even that night at Street Cobham and Ditton.

The man who escaped at the former place tells a wonderful story of the strangeness of its coiling flow, and how he looked down from the church spire and saw the houses of the village rising like ghosts out of its inky nothingness. For a day and a half he remained there, weary, starving and sun-scorched, the earth under the blue sky and against the prospect of the distant hills a velvet-black expanse, with red roofs, green trees, and, later, black-veiled shrubs and gates, barns, outhouses, and walls, rising here and there into the sunlight.

[BrainGlutton]

You need, of course, the Nude Bomb!

[Der_Trihs]

The Catalyst from The Secret of the Sinister Six; a gas that erases ink. Such as the ink on money, legal documents, and so forth; an economic weapon.
Algotoxin from IIRC Brightness Falls From the Air; a poison that causes intense pain. What makes it awful is that the pain is permanent.

Spasm: From the Matador series; it locks people immobile for six months. Delivered by dart.

[campp]

@BrainGlutton

You need, of course, the Nude Bomb!

Man that was awful. :smack: Last drive in movie I saw.

[Labdad]

Upsidasium!

[Der_Trihs]

Ice nine and tiberium can both be used as weapons.

[Der_Trihs]

Alkahest from The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump; it’s the Universal Solvent of alchemy fame and as the term implies dissolves anything and everything. Eventually burning to the center of the Earth.

[Chronos]

Remembered one from a book I just read: Grey #3, from Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, a Rats of NIMH-style tale of intelligent rats. The rats have a professional interest in a variety of poisons humans use on them, of which Grey #3 is the nastiest. It has no known antidote (and the rats are very good at finding antidotes even when humans can’t), no chance of natural survival, and melts your digestive tract from the inside out in about 20 minutes after exposure.