Or antidotes that work in the last ten seconds before you would die.
Except that is really not how poisons work- they start by doing damage and bit by bit the damage adds up and you die. So, if it was a 24 hour poison and you got the antidote hour 23, you’d be pretty fucked up, needing some serious hospital time, and likely some new organs. You wouldnt down a little vial and be good.
Nor do antidotes taken orally work like that- there are some that can be used quickly by injection.
You know, if I were at a table with an Indiana Jones type, and it’d be difficult for me to slip poison into the alcoholic beverage he’s tasting while knocking back, and I then said triumphantly at him that I’ve got a helpful vial of antidote right here for the poison he just drank, I could then maybe get him to pay through the nose for the poison he’s about to enthusiastically swallow…
When journeying through the wilderness, movies will threaten your life with rattlesnakes and scorpions. In real life, you’ll be in more danger from ticks and mosquitos. And flies and gnats will cause less overt danger, but more non-dramatic misery.
Or, fortuitously having prepared for that exact poison by micro-dosing yourself on it for years in advance.
You never know when you might end up in a battle of wits with a Sicilian.
Yep, those little monsters are the real dangers. 700000 deaths by skeeters, 3000 for scorpions, 1-2 rattlesnake deaths. Mind you, shaking out your boots in the morning is still a good idea.
On two different occasions in bars, my gf has gone to the bathroom. While she was gone, I picked up her drink and tasted it.
When she returned from the ladies room a woman approached her and told her the guy she was with had handled her drink.
A) Good on those women for looking at for someone else
B) You must give off a sex predator vibe if it’s happened to you twice 
We both agree with your two points.
There was that TV show that addressed the interfamilial back-stabbing and poisoning, decades before GOT, where everyone dropped an enlarged kidney stone into their drink to absorb any poison: Leave it to Bezoar
In the great and underappreciated TV movie Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (based on Robert H. van Gulik’s novel, with screenplay by the King of TV movies, Nicholas Meyer) the Judge at the end sits with the one he now knows is he murderer as he casually explains how he did the crimes, certain that he won’t have to pay for his deeds. Being a Tang dynasty cultured individual, the murderer offers Dee a cup of tea. Dee holds up an admonitory hand, refusing it.
“Dee, Dee,” pleads the criminal, “What must you think of me?”
Dee accepts the cup from the murderer, careful sniffs it, then never drinks a drop.
well, NOW you tell me there is a whole website dedicated to TV Tropes???
4149 posts into this thread???
People have been known to go there and never return…
The entry I’m proud to have started and which has grown bigger and better over the years: Everyone Is Armed - TV Tropes
When somebody is hiding in something from a kidnapper/killer/monster the person stalking them will go as close as possible to the object, try to look in, then give up and walk away, only to then 2 seconds later IMMEDIATELY open the object and grab the person. Almost always accompanied by a scare cord.
Do they then rope them?
If they’re hiding under a bed, yes, because then they somehow get dragged out from under a bed INCREDIBLY quickly
Somebody with AB+ blood is injured and needs a transfusion immediately. Desperate search for an AB+ donor follows.
Wrong for at least two reasons. First of all, AB+ is the universal recipient. If there is no AB+ blood available, they can take O, A, B, and either + or -
And secondly, AB+ isn’t really all that rare.
It’s AB- right?