Averted: When Dracone poisons Marcy, he just wants to kill her.

She steals the Chaos Diamond and cures herself. But the second deal was a trick from Marcy. Dracone comes to get the pearl, but is unwilling to give the Chaos Diamond. After her discovery Marcy tries to trade the Chaos Pearl for the Chaos Diamond. Marcy tries to find an antidote herself and discovers that the Chaos Diamond is the antidote. But when she asks him to give her the antidote Dracone starts laughing and says he was bluffing and doesn't even have the antidote. Marcy reluctantly accepts and gives him the Chaos Diamond.

Zig Zagged: Dracone has poisoned Marcy, but he says he will give her the antidote if she gives him the diamond.

It turns out that Dracone forgot to poison Marcy.

Do you mind if I bring my friend to have a look at it? He's an expert in antidotes. Marcy: The problem is that I may die even if I accept the offer because I have no way of knowing whether it's real. The market for antidotes isn't that big.ĭracone: Market?! You'll die if you don't accept the offer!

I want to have the diamond for at least a week. I'll give you like 5 coins for it.ĭracone: That's ridiculous. Dracone and Marcy haggle, parodying Pawn Stars too:ĭracone: Give me the Chaos Diamond, and I'll give you the antidote.Marcy is also too lazy to buy milk, and makes complex plans to steal the antidote instead. Dracone poisons Marcy over something trivial like extorting her to buy milk for him because he's too lazy.Dracone tries changing the deal into 'if you don't give me the diamond, I'll force you to take the antidote', but he quickly finds himself roasted. However, it takes about two seconds before Marcy manages to control the powers and decides that she's Cursed with Awesome. Dracone tells her that she can have the antidote in exchange for the diamond.

All it does is giving her dangerous powers over fire. Dracone poisons Marcy with a weird potion.The poisoning kills in two months and is fully reversible as long as the victim is alive. The antidote Dracone offers is common, cheap, effective, and easily accessible.Double Subverted: Then Marcy suggests a deal, which Dracone may or may not agree to.Dracone never poisoned Marcy at all: the offered 'antidote' is the poison, to clean up loose ends.Dracone poisons Marcy, then tells her he isn't going to give her the antidote.Hoping to appeal to Marcy's sympathy, he tells her that he'll just let the poison kill him unless she gives him the diamond. Dracone is poisoned and has the antidote.Dracone offers to poison her in exchange for the diamond. Marcy suggests that she give him the diamond in exchange for the antidote.The Chaos Diamond is some sort of Empathic Weapon, and its powers can only be transferred to Dracone if Marcy willingly gives them to him.Dracone and Marcy aren't mortal enemies, so that's why he plans to give her an actual antidote.Dracone believes that Marcy is a Dirty Coward that will happily surrender the diamond and let its power fall into wrong hands if it means that she'll live.Dracone has his own plans for The Empire and exploits Marcy's Chronic Hero Syndrome, offering her the antidote in exchange for the Chaos Diamond. Marcy has a Healing Factor and would gradually overcome the poison on her own but it will slow her down enough that she won't be able to save the hostages in time. Downplayed: The Big Bad is holding Marcy's friends hostage.He makes one requirement to every victim explaining in detail what they have to do before he'll supply the cure. Exaggerated: The Big Bad creates a deadly and highly contagious virus.Straight: Dracone poisons Marcy and tells her that he'll give her the antidote if she gives him her Chaos Diamond.Basic Trope: A character poisons someone and is only willing to give them the antidote if they fulfil some demand.

Poison antidote race trope