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Potion↕ | Source↕ | Effect↕ | Key Ingredients↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Felix Felicis | Harry Potter | Perfect luck for a limited time | Ashwinder egg, squill bulb, Murtlap tentacle, occamy eggshell | Liquid luck, golden color, takes 6 months to brew, banned in competitions, Harry used it to get Slughorn's memory |
Polyjuice Potion | Harry Potter | Transforms you into another person for 1 hour | Lacewing flies, leeches, fluxweed, knotgrass, target's hair | Hermione accidentally turned into a cat, Barty Crouch Jr. impersonated Mad-Eye for a year, tastes disgusting, muddy green color |
Estus Flask | Dark Souls series | Restores health (refills at bonfires) | Undead Bone Shard (to strengthen) | Golden healing liquid, limited charges, refills at bonfires, the chugging animation is iconic, you died but at least you had Estus |
Witcher Potions (Swallow) | The Witcher (Sapkowski / CD Projekt Red) | Accelerated health regeneration | Drowner brain, Celandine, Dwarven spirit | Toxic to normal humans, Witchers' mutated bodies can handle them, eyes go black, gameplay mechanic and lore element |
Red Potion (Health Potion) | The Legend of Zelda | Fully restores hearts (health) | Red Chu Jelly, various herbs | Red = health in every video game ever, sold by potion shops, the OG healing item, established the red-health blue-mana color code |
Amortentia | Harry Potter | Most powerful love potion in the world | Ashwinder eggs, rose thorns, peppermint, powdered moonstone | Smells different to everyone (whatever attracts them), mother-of-pearl sheen, Voldemort was conceived under its influence |
Shrinking Potion (Drink Me) | Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) | Shrinks the drinker to 10 inches tall | Tastes of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee, hot buttered toast | Drink Me bottle on the table, Alice's first Wonderland transformation, golden key and tiny door, eat me cake reverses it |
Potion of Invisibility | Dungeons & Dragons | Grants invisibility for 1 hour | Eyelash of a phase spider encased in gum arabic | Rogue's best friend, breaks when you attack, DM's nightmare for dungeon planning, predates Harry Potter's invisibility cloak by decades |
Super Mushroom (Power-Up) | Super Mario Bros. | Doubles Mario's size and gives one extra hit | Magical mushroom (unknown) | Not technically a potion but gaming's most iconic consumable, red with white dots, the boing sound effect, based on Amanita muscaria |
Veritaserum | Harry Potter | Forces the drinker to tell the truth | Jobberknoll feathers (among others) | Three drops are enough, clear and odorless like water, inadmissible at trials because it can be resisted, Snape threatened Harry with it |
Skooma | The Elder Scrolls (Skyrim, Morrowind, etc.) | Restores stamina, highly addictive drug | Refined Moon Sugar, Nightshade | Fantasy drug addiction in a video game, Khajiit are stereotyped as dealers, illegal in most of Tamriel, memes about Skooma addiction |
Nuka-Cola Quantum | Fallout series | Restores health, glows blue in the dark | Strontium-90 isotope (gives the glow), Nuka-Cola formula | Radioactive soda in post-apocalyptic America, collectors hoard them, blue glow lights up the Wasteland, mildly irradiated |
Elixir of Life | Mythology / Harry Potter / Alchemy | Grants immortality and cures all disease | Philosopher's Stone (required) | Nicolas Flamel used it to live 665 years (in HP), the ultimate alchemical goal, every culture has a version of this myth |
Weedkiller (Asterix's Magic Potion) | Asterix (Goscinny & Uderzo) | Grants superhuman strength | Mistletoe, lobster, fish, and Getafix's secret recipe | Brewed by druid Getafix, gives Gauls the strength to fight Romans, Obelix fell in as a baby and can't have any more |
Draught of Living Death | Harry Potter | Puts the drinker into a deep deathlike sleep | Asphodel, Wormwood, Valerian roots, Sopophorous bean | Snape asked Harry about it on day one (hidden meaning), so powerful it mimics death, antidote is the Wiggenweld Potion |
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