"I'm not sure if it's evil, exactly," says El Santo, "but I have smelled what happens when one of these cracks open. If it isn't evil, it very much gives the impression that it wants to be. You should be careful. That sort of thing shouldn't be used lightly."

He can, if he tries, come up with a few good uses for durians. Most of them have to do with monsters; he has, after all, fought at least one wolfman, and he's fairly sure the Martians would be incapacitated by the reek as well.