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Famous Fictional Potions

Name: Famous Fictional Potions
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Felix Felicis, Polyjuice Potion, healing potions — which fictional brew would you most want a vial of?

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Updated:3/7/2026

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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