Proposed Split from Beaming Grin
(which used to be about lasers but has mutated to "breath weapon"). I don't know, seeing spitting examples on "Breath" just looks wrong.
Pretty much everyone can spit. Some of you can do so better than others. But can you spit one hundred meters? What about for miles? Wouldn't that be useful. What if you could spit copious amounts of liquid or corrosive materials? Or if your expectorations could ricochet precisely in unexpected directions with exceptional accuracy?
Well, if you can do that, that, that or that...that would be Super Spit.
The most common form of this trope is Bullet Seed
. Related tropes are Breath Weapon
and Make Me Wanna Shout
Anime And Manga
- Bit character Royakan, from InuYasha, could spit live wolves.
- In One Piece the Younger Boa sisters can spit poison and Chief Warden Magellan spits bubbles that explode into toxic gas. One of Arlong's luitanants could break trees by spitting water at high pressure.
- In Dragon Ball, Dabura's spittle turned things to stone.
- X-Men foe Mammomax is an acid spitting man-elephant hybrid.
Live Action TV
- Super Spit is a side kick power in Sky High, unless you can spit something useful like acid.
- The evil owl from Rock-A-Doodle for some reason actually spews Lucky Charms out of his mouth.
- Biollante spits out either acidic sap or a similarly corrosive effect more like a pollen spray, depending on which form she's in.
- In the movie Shrek, when gazing at the stars, Shrek points out a constellation to Donkey - Throwback, the only ogre to spit over three wheat fields.
- Beauty and the Beast: "In a spitting match nobody spits like Gaston!"
- Buckaroo Banzai. Red Lectroids can spit a small starfish-like alien that inflicts a lethal poison on the target. Not only that, but when the starfish hits, the victim can be Blown Across the Room.
- The xenomorph in the Alien franchise has the ability to spit an extremely potent acid, starting with the third film, assumed to be its own acidic blood.
- Starship Troopers. The giant Tanker Bug can spray a flammable substance from its mouth which is ignited by an electrical spark, thus making it a living flamethrower.
- On Alphas an Alpha had the power to spit acid. He used this to blind his opponents in an underground fighting ring.
- Discussed in an episode of Seinfeld parodying Oliver Stone's film JFK, where Kramer & Newman think that Yankees player Keith Hernandez spit at them after a game.
According to your story Keith passes you and starts walking up the ramp. Then you say you were struck on the right temple. The spit then proceeds to ricochet off the temple striking Newman between the third and forth rib. The spit then came off the rib turned and hit Newman in the right wrist causing him to drop his baseball cap. The spit then splashed off the wrist, pauses - in mid air mind you- makes a left turn and lands on Newman's left thigh. That is one magic loogie
- In Warhammer the Trolls have stomach acid strong enough to dissolve stone and steel, and will not hesitate to "pre-digest" you in battle.
- Most Trolls use this as a melee attack, which seems reasonable; then there's the Troll King, whose attack has the same range as a throwing axe. Projectile vomit, anyone?
- Many Tyranids from Warhammer 40,000 sport bio-plasma attacks, which are basically vomiting hellfire. Some Daemons and Daemonhosts literally vomit hellfire.
- And if the Deamons are aligned to Nurgle, they just vomit. Of course their vomit is highly corrosive and will probably infect you with every nasty disease know to man (and a few we missed), but in the end of the day you died because a Daemon puked on you.
- Ork Weirdboyz sometimes do this, vomiting a stream of pure orky psionic energy that makes Your Head A Splode.
- Technically the Space Marines have this too; namely one of their various glandular implants makes their saliva highly acidic, and can be used either as a weapon or just to help break out of a place. Rarely represented any more in actual game mechanics, there are at least a couple of chapters whose glands mutated over the millenia to either let them spew out a full-on spray of the stuff, or whose saliva forms something other than acid (such as chemicals which, when mixed and spit, of course catch on fire).
- Dungeons & Dragons really liked this trope.
- 1st/2nd Edition
- Spit acid: anhkheg (30 feet), dracolisk (30 feet), black dragon (60 feet), giant slug (60 feet), hordling (10 feet), thessalhydra (30 feet)
- Spit poison: guardian naga (30 feet), giant spitting snake (30 feet)
- Blinding spittle: Cat Lord (until magically cured), nereid (20 feet, 2-12 minutes), muckdweller (squirt stream of muddy water 10 feet).
- If it hits a hard, cold surface, a gibbering mouther's spittle will create a bright flare of light that can blind opponents for 1 minute.
- Soldier termites could spit an irritating substance similar to kerosene up to 10 feet away which could blind any creature for 5-20 minutes. If the fluid was ignited it could burn the target as well.
- There is a spell in D&D that allows a druid to blind her opponents with caustic goo. There are also two spells that allow the user to spit vipers.
- Spit poison: Ravenloft supplement Chilling Tales, adventure "The Surgeon's Blade". The Mad Scientist Emil Bollenbach created a hybrid monster with the body of a hog and the head of a snake. It can spit poison up to 30 feet.
- Some dragons' Breath Weapons come closer to this - for instance, Iron Dragons "breathe" molten iron.
- 4th edition dragon breath weapons are technically vomit weapons. The edition also adds the Dragonborn as a core Player Character race, who possess their namesakes' signature attack.
- More specifically, the Draconomicon teaches that the magical energy of a D&D dragon's breath weapon is stored in the stomach, not in the lungs; this is what is meant by "vomit weapon". The expelled effect is explicitly magical, though—it is mystical energy, and not a biological by-product as found in some other D&D creatures.
- Besides Pokémon's Bullet Seed, there's Gastro Acid, which, as its name suggests, involves spitting stomach acid at the opponent. Acid Spray is quite similar. Spit Up involves spitting up whatever the Pokemon swallowed and shooting it at the opponent, often after the move Stockpile.
- In Mortal Kombat, Reptile uses an Acid Spit move for his projectiles.
- One of the basic weapons in Spore's creature stage allows spitting, the only ranged attack available.
- Ben 10 has Upchuck, who can swallow and spit back virtually anything he can get hit with.
- In The Powerpuff Girls, Boomer can spit the best out of the three Rowdy Ruff Boys, to the point it's considered his special ability, comparable to Butch's force field or Brick's lack of one.
- Llamas and alpacas are well-known for their prowess at spitting.