List of “googoo gases”

The concept of a “googoo gas” is one that’s much deliberated and expounded upon at length by certain scholars of the DC expanded universe[1]. Experts on the topic say that the idea is best described as follows: it’s a gaseous substance that makes you do or be something. It is unknown where the “googoo” prefix for these chemicals originates. Numerous “googoo gases” have occured, both natural and manmade, in DC Comics, and it’s believed that only a few of the possible vast numbers have been catalogued so far.

SmylexTM/Googoo Gas That Makes You Joker’s Trick
By far the most notorious of the “googoo gases”, SmylexTMTM is a chemical compound believed to have been invented by Dr. Harlene Quinnzel. It appears to be bright green, much like a Lasers Pit[2], and often has a bunch of bubbles in it when it’s in liquid form, suggesting it might be classified as a kind of soda. Simply put, SmylexTMTMTMTM will make you Joker’s Trick. This entails numerous biochemical effects, including selective skin blanching, extreme craniofacial muscular rigidity with enforced grimacing, and a compulsion to laugh, even though nothing’s currently particularly funny about your predicament[3]. The effects of SmylexTMTMTMTMTMTM are widely considered to be absolutely permanent, but this is only true for those who don’t know that the Bats Guy always gets his way in the end, and also that major characters can’t get killed off in comic books[4].

Pamela’s Leavings/Googoo Gas That Makes You Heterosexualize
The dander emitted by one Dr. Pamela Audrey “Poisom Iby” Isley is, technically, a solid that has been reduced to a very fine mist and heightened with pheromones, but most experts on “googoo gas” accept it as one of the many. Upon exposure to a man capable of being attracted to women, Pam’s cloud of pollen will just go right up in their brain, and they’ll probably do a Looney-Toons-style wild take, heart bulging out of the chest and eyes bulging and everything. This means that they will now simp for Poisonous Ivy to an incredible degree[5]. This gas does not work on feminine and androgynous individuals, because Poison The Glam Metal Band already makes them attracted to her by default, because look at her.

Fearbreeze/Googoo Gas That Makes You AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Actually a selection of different chemicals with similar effects, all of which were invented by what appears to be a loose clump of hay shaped like a man, “Fearbreeze” is not the actual name of the so-called “fear toxin”, but it’s fun to say, so let’s go with that[6]. Its most common form is that of a greenish-yellow fog that gives off an absolutely horrible stink. Side effects of exposure to this gas include hyperventilation, accelerated heart rate, contracted pupils, excessive sweating, nausea, slight vertigo, cold flashes, and, of course, the realization that there are TWO THOUSAND DEVILS standing RIGHT BEHIND YOU who want to HIT YOU AND HURT YOU AND KILL YOU AND BE MEAN TO YOU, and that they’re RIGHT THERE, RIGHT NOW[7]. Since its creator was likely absolutely wasted on research chems the entire time he was formulating it, it’s considered that, if you are exposed to Fearbreeze, you will go to Hell before you die.

Trivias

 * Taking all three of the main kinds of “googoo gas” at once makes you able to see the future. This was proven in a civilian study taking place parallel to the famous Crane-Isley Lazarus Pit trials. The subject said he was going to throw up and pee and die, and then he did.