deadly touch ability theme
A character is able to kill people (or living things) merely by touching them.
7 total · 4 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Man Made Monster (1941) | major | Dan McCormick acquires the touch of death when Paul Rigas exposes him to successively higher dozes of electricity. |
| movie: The Invisible Ray (1936) | major | Janos Rukh causes death in anyone he touches after being exposed to Radium X. |
| movie: X-Men (2000) | major | Rogue couldn't touch anybody or else they would die. |
| theamericanshortstory14 | major | A lifetime of tending poisonous plants left Beatrice poisonous to most living things she touched. In one scene, a butterfly that landed on Beatrice's hand instantly died. It later became apparent that Giovanni acquired the same poison touch when a bouquet of flowers he was given wilted in his hands. |
| movie: The Planets Against Us (1962) | minor | The cyborg Bronco (a.k.a. Robert) had a radioactive touch that he used to kill people. |
| movie: X-Men Last Stand (2006) | minor | Rogue considered taking a treatment that would rid her of this power in order that she might be physically intimate with people. |
| movie: X2 (2003) | minor | Rogue couldn't touch anybody or else they would die, but not too much was made of her ability to do so in this film beyond a single incident between her and Iceman. |