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[[File:XFiles-Who's Got a Match.PNG|frame|link=The X-Files|"But... who's got a match?"]]
A trope associated with (although not exclusive to) the [[Golden Age of Hollywood]]: An important person and/or an attractive woman pulls out a cigarette (often in a long, elegant holder). But rather than lighting it themselves, they proceed to ask, '''"Anyone Got a Light?"''' Sometimes they don't even have to go that far - an army of onlookers (usually in a show of [[lickspittle]]ry) will all thrust forth a hand to offer their own lighters or lit matches. Regardless, there's almost always an element of [[Smoking Is Glamorous]] to it.
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== [[Film]] ==
* During the Hollywood party scene early in ''[[Singin' in the Rain]]'', Lina Lamont holds out a cigarette on a holder and a half-dozen or more strapping young men in tuxedos immediately offer lighters. Unlike most examples of this trope she tosses the cigarette away and laughs.
* A [https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/men-offering-to-light-cigarette-for-mae-bettmann.jpg promotional photo] for the 1935 film ''[[Goin' to Town]]'' shows [[Mae West]] with an unlit cigarette in her hand and five men offering her lighters.
* A somewhat smaller-scale example can be seen in the [[Scarface (1932 film)|original 1932 ''Scarface'']], where there is a scene in a speakeasy during which Tony (Paul Muni) and Johnny (Osgood Perkin) offer lights to Poppy (Karen Morely) when she breaks out a cigarette.
* In the 2005 film ''[[Bewitched (film)|Bewitched]]'', a bleary, unsteady Jack Wyatt asks for a light at a meeting of the in-universe ''[[Bewitched]]'' reboot's production team right after co-star/love interest Isabel's [[The Reveal|reveal that she is a witch]] and their subsequent [[Second Act Breakup]] thanks to his [[Freak-Out]] over it. Everyone in the room, even the non-smokers, holds out a lit lighter. Amusingly, Jack somehow still manages to fail to light his cigarette from the closest one (held by his agent Richie).
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In "Three of a Kind", a sixth-season episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'', Dana Scully is in a bar in a drug-induced haze, surrounded by men. When one gives her a cigarette and she asks, "Who's got a match?" [https://youtu.be/e9_JK_sV3yU?t=46 they all present lit lighters.]
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In many ''[[Yakuza (video game)|Yakuza]]'' titles, much like the real-life [[Yakuza]], whenever a superior goes to bring out something to smoke, this trope is understood to be the implication by all the juniors in the room, and the closest one is generally obligated to provide a lighter.
** [[Inverted]] in ''[[Yakuza 0]]'', where a lieutenant provides a junior member a light for a smoke, but this is done because he's trying to be nice about delivering a message, so it's very much an exception for the general rule.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Ratigan gets a cigarette lit with the "combined torch" variant in ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', as seen in the [[:File:basilratigansmoking2.jpg|page image]] for [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]].
== [[Real Life]] ==
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