Poison (disambiguation)

Poison is a substance that causes injury, illness, or death.

Poison or The Poison may also refer to:

Fictional characters

  • Poison (comics), a Marvel Comics heroine with toxic, poisonous abilities
  • Poison (Final Fight), a character in the Final Fight and Street Fighter video-game series

Film and television

Literature

Music

Bands

Albums and EPs

Songs

Other

Other uses

  • Nuclear poison, a neutron-absorbent material that impedes an intended nuclear reaction
  • Poison (perfume), by Christian Dior
  • Poison-type, a type of Pokémon in the video game series
  • Poison (game), a children's game
  • In software engineering, a poison is a special value given to uninitialized or freed memory; reading this memory provides only dummy data (however identifiable) or may cause the software to voluntarily be trapped (e.g. pointer to nowhere). This is employed as a security mechanism against attacks and a way to detect software failures.

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