Tetrodotoxin serves as a plot device for characters to fake death, as in the films "Hello Again" (1987), "The A-Team" (2010) and ' (2014), War (2019), and in episodes of “Jane the Virgin”, "Miami Vice" (1985), "Nikita", "MacGyver" Season 7, Episode 6, where the antidote is "Datura stramonium" leaf, ' (Season 4, episode 9 "Boo") and "Chuck". In "Law Abiding Citizen" (2009) its paralysis is presented as a method of assisting torture. The toxin is used as a weapon in both the second season of "Archer", in "Covert Affairs" and in the "Inside No. 9" episode "The Riddle of the Sphinx". In episode 16 of "Dragon Ball", the characters are inadvertently poisoned by a puffer fish soup. In "The Simpsons" episode "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" (1991), Homer ingests an improperly cut fugu and is given 22 hours to live. In the live-action film "Ghost in the Shell" (2017), Ouelet is ordered to euthanize Killian with a poison vial labeled with the chemical formula of tetrodotoxin. In the movie "War" (2019), Kabir is shown to be poisoned by ingesting TTX in his drink.