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{{quote|''"Magic's only part of it, my friend. [[Fire -Breathing Diner|Diet]] does the rest."''|[http://magiccards.info/6e/en/177.html Firebreathing], ''[[Magic the Gathering|Magic: The Gathering]]''}}

Myth and folklore are replete with [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]] and other creatures spewing [[Playing Withwith Fire|fire]], [[Poison Is Corrosive|corrosive venom]], [[Deadly Gas|noxious gases]], energy beams, lightning, and other exotic and catastrophic exhalations. More modern media have applied the motif to fantastic beasties, creatures from alien worlds, mutants, and even the occasional robot, and expanded the effects to encompass [[Purple Prose|blazing beams of coruscant annihilation]]. In other words, [[Buffy -Speak|bright things coming from the mouths of big things that can destroy other things]].

Classically a trait of creatures that are, at least physically, animalistic -- noanimalistic—no matter how [[Talking Animal|erudite and noble]] they may be. When ''humanoids'' vomit destruction from their mouths, they almost always have at least a hint of corruption or, at best, atavism about them. According to anthropologist David D. Gilmore, this is because of the mouth's symbolism as the organ of predation, evoking one mankind's [[Primal Fear|primal fears of what used to hunt them]]. Given that a human being's only experience with oral expulsions is usually vomit, it may then follow that anything coming out of the mouth is unpleasant. Whatever the reason, it's right up there with [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] as a surefire sign of [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?|inhumanity]]. ''Heroes'' will generally [[Hand Blast|emit blasts of destruction from their palms instead]] (though villains can do that too.)

{{examples|Examples}}

* One of ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z's]]'' best attacks, the Rust Hurricane. Mazinger blows a jet of particle-charged wind from its mouth grill that corrodes the enemy into nothingness. Its successor ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'' has the Great Typhoon, which is the same thing but without the rust effect, while [[Super Prototype]] ''[[Mazinkaiser (Anime)|Mazinkaiser]]'' has the Rust Tornado, an [[Up to Eleven]] version of Mazinger's attack.

** Many [[Robeast|Robeasts]]s from ''Anime/Mazinger'', ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'' and ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer (Anime)|UFO Robo Grendizer]]'' have breath-based attacks, usually expelling out fire, acid or even poison. One of the seven armies of Mykene [[Empire]] (the Reptilian Warbeasts) specialized in this kind of weapons.

* Most beam attacks in ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'', such as Hyper Beam and Aurora Beam, work this way. Pokemon that lack a [[Breath Weapon]] have attacks that emerge from other body parts (get your mind out of the gutter; we're talking about hands, pincers, [[Shoulder Cannon|shell-mounted pressure cannons]]...)

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' had the Zeong. This attack was the one that finally did in the titular mecha, the Gundam.

** Many subsequent series also had MS capable of shooping the whoop, such as ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|Gundam ZZ]]'''s Zaku III & the Destroy Gundam from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (Anime)|GundamSEEDDestiny]]''. The original series also had the Zakrello, [[Fanon Discontinuity|but we don't talk about him...]]

* The Menos Grande and some of the Arrancar of ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]'' do this with their Cero attacks. Nnoitra has a slightly creepy variant: he fires his from the tip of his very long tongue. Ew.

** Taken further by the Espada Barragan Luisenbarn, {{spoiler|whose "[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Death Breath]]" will cause [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard|anything]] it touches to rot into nothingness.}}

* Several ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' monsters do this, most notably the Winged Dragon of Ra.

** Parodied with Exodia in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''

* Some Zoanoids in ''[[Guyver]]'' have this; Derzerb of the [[Five -Man Band|Hyper-Zoanoid Five]] could breathe napalm, and the Zoalord De Galenos fires energy blasts from his mouth.

* The God Warriors in ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of Thethe Wind]]''.

* Friedrich of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikersStrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', being a [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]], has his Blast Flare and Blast Rain attacks.

* [[Mentor Mascot|Kero]] of ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' gained the ability to breathe fire once Sakura managed to capture [[Playing Withwith Fire|The Firey]].

* The four-tailed fox form in ''[[Naruto (Anime)|Naruto]]'' is able to fire one of these after charging for a minute and it can destroy ''mountains''. The eight-tailed beast can do this as well. The three-tailed beast also does this in the anime ([[Adaptation Expansion|we never got to see it fight in the manga]]), which suggests that any of the tailed-beast can.

* Many ''[[Digimon (Franchise)|Digimon]]'' have breath weapons, at least until the higher evolutions when they usually grow actual cannons.

* ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'''s Bartholomew Kuma had a mouth beam built into him to add on to his other powers.

* Natsu and all of the Dragon Slayers from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' sport this ability, which ranges from shooting [[Playing Withwith Fire|fire]], ''[[Extra Ore Dinary|metal]]'', [[Shock and Awe|lightning]], [[Blow You Away|wind]], and poison.

* ''[[Ichiban Ushiro no DaimaouDai Maou]]'' has Peterhausen, a dragon who can shoot ''[[This Is a Drill|drills from out of his mouth.]]''

* The [[Rah XephonRahXephon]] has this as a [[Wave Motion Gun]]. And now everyone after me: '''[[Make Me Wanna Shout|RRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!]]'''

* Rare example of a human with a [[Breath Weapon]], but no "taint": Fire Lad, of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Bookcomics)|Legion of Substitute Heroes]], has the ability to breathe (and sneeze) fire. (Too bad he also has a raging set of allergies.)

* IDW's ''[[The Transformers IDW|Transformers]]'' comics have featured Megatron, seemingly spontaneously, developing or formatting new abilities just because of the raw power at his disposal with Ore-13 ("ultra-energon"). Among these is a [[Breath Weapon]].

* The Red Lantern Corps members from [[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Green Lantern]] don't generally make constructs like the other corps but instead spew burning red plasma from their mouths.

* One of [[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'s enemies, the Onion, uses onion breath as his weapon, even making it powerful enough to destroy walls.

* Most of the dragons in ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (Filmanimation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'' have some sort of breath weapon. Usually it's the standard shots of flame, but the Night Fury's is like a [[Wave Motion Gun|turbolaser]], the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Green Death's]] [[It Got Worse|goes]] [[Up to Eleven]], the Zippleback breathes flammable gas to create a [[Nuke 'Em|fuel-air explosion]], and the in-movie Dragon Manual refers to attacks involving boiling [[Kill It Withwith Water|water]], acid and even weirder stuff.

* Killer Croc does one inadvertently in ''[[Batman]]: [[Batman: Gotham Knight (Animation)|Gotham Knight]]'' when Bats sticks an explosive of some sort in his mouth and sets it off. "Belching smoke and flame", indeed!

* One of the abilities of the Monstars in ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]'' is breathing fire as demonstrated on Foghorn Leghorn.

* Jafar breathed fire during his battle with ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''.

* The evil owl from ''[[Rock -a -Doodle]]'' for some reason actually spews Lucky Charms out of his mouth.

** [[Gamera]] breathes fire ? a continuous stream in the original series, and exploding fireballs in the modern films directed by Shusuke Kaneko. The sonic rays fired by frequent nemesis Gaos straddle the line between [[Breath Weapon]] and [[Make Me Wanna Shout]].

* Another ''Batman'' example: The Red Triangle Circus Gang in ''[[Batman Returns (Film)|Batman Returns]]'' has a performer dressed as a devil who contributes to the atmosphere of street terrorism by "blowing fire" on a display of jumbo stuffed animals in a toy store. Batman dispatches him by turning the Batmobile around so that the car's exhaust pipe is facing him and shooting out a jet of flame, [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard|setting the performer on fire]].

* Imhotep belched out a huge swarm of locusts in ''[[The Mummy 1999 (Film)Trilogy|The Mummy 1999]]''.

* [[The Bible (Literature)|The book of Job]] describes the Leviathan, a fire-breathing sea dragon.

** The [[Book of Revelation (Literature)|Book of Revelation]] has the Two Witnesses (who are about as uncorrupted as mere mortals could be), who stand around outside the Temple and breathe fire on anyone who tries to harm them. They're two olive trees and [[Beauty and Thethe Beast (Disney)|two candlesticks]]. With ''mouths''. Symbolically.

* The [[Biological Mashup|Chimera]] is described in ''[[The Iliad (Literature)|The Iliad]]'' as "a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire" (VI. 179-182).

* Lord Ebondrake from the ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Grey Knights (Literature)|Grey Knights]]'' novel ''Hammer of Daemons'' takes a draconic form and can breathe black flame.

* In ''[[Fablehaven (Literature)|Fablehaven]]'', the fairy dragon, Raxtus, feels useless because his breath, a far cry from a weapon, makes flowers grow, unlike the rest of his kind.( it doesn't help that he's puny, and shines more than Edward Cullen at noon.) the rest of the dragons breath acid or fire, or other deadly things.

* Dragons in ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]'' breathe flammable gases, and their first breath is also flammable.

** ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': Various monsters can breathe fire and other dangerous things, the Mastodon Dinozord can snort freezing mist out its trunk, Titanus can launch energy balls from his mouth, [[Flying Face|Lokar]]'s Breath of Doom can upgrade monsters and cause major property damage, the Red Dragon Thunderzord can breathe fire, the Tigerzord can shoot [[Energy Ball|Energy Balls]]s from the tiger head when in warrior mode, Serpentera can fire an energy attack from its mouth (this was once used to ''vaporize a planet'', although Serpentera has not been able to build up sufficient power since), the Frog Ninjazord breathes fire, and the Falconzord shoots laser bolts from its mouth. Additionally, in ''[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger|Zyuranger]]'' Bandora can exhale strong winds.

* Before the disastrous [[Retool]], ''[[Kamen Rider Hibiki]]'' could shoot flame from his mouth. Assumedly, this ability was removed because it was too [[Nightmare Fuel|Nightmare Fuelish]]ish.

* Sheeyangs in ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' can spit fire. Unfortunately, the same biological quirks that allow them to do this also mean that they explode violently when shot.

* Female Raxacoricofallapatorians from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' can breathe poison from their lungs as a defense mechanism. One tried it on the Doctor. It didn't work.

* The Dragon of ''[[Beowulf (Literature)|Beowulf]]'' is [[Our Dragons Are Different|the fairly standard]] fire-breathing, treasure-hoarding, cave-dwelling kind. It probably eats people, too, but we never see it.

* Add to the list the dragon Fafnir, of the ''[[VolsungaThe Saga (Literature)of the Volsungs|Volsunga Saga]]'', also from [[Norse Mythology]].

* Dragons in ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' are [[Colour Color-Coded for Your Convenience]]: each [[httpwikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture_<!-- 28heraldry29Tincture (heraldry)|tincture]] is assigned its own special flavour of BreathWeaponBreath Weapon. Red = Fire, Blue = Lightning, Green = Poison/Corrosive Gas, Black = Acid, White = Cold Air. Most of its imitators (including ''{{[[Nethack}}]]'') follow suit, though different games do not always follow the same color-to-damage assignments as the original (though red is more likely to remain fire than any other). -->

** ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'', ''et. al.'', offer a substantial number of nondraconic monsters with their own [[Breath Weapon]]: Hellhounds breathe fire, as just one example. A popular method of making a "new" monster is to simply slap a [[Breath Weapon]] on an existing animal or mythical creature: the Pyrohydra, for instance, is a Hydra {{smallcaps|[[Recycled in Space|that breathes fire! ]]}}

** 4th edition dragon breath weapons are technically ''vomit'' weapons. The edition also adds the Dragonborn as a core [[Player Character|player character]] race, who possess their namesakes' signature attack.

** [[Erfworld]]'s dwagons; at least the red, green, blue, purple, and brown ones; have normal elemental breath weapons (fire, poison gas, lightning, sonic blast, and smoke respectively) while pink ones ''breath pink bubbles that smother enemies'', while yellow ones inverse the trope by having ''massive'' bowel movements. Yellow dragons can give you a ''[[PunA Worldwide Punomenon|really crappy day]]''.

** Played with in ''[[Gold Digger]]''. Sliding up the scale, Iron and Copper dragons have fairly generic elemental breath weapons, usually fire. Golden dragons are renowned for having completely random breath weapons, which are affected by their magical auras as well. At the top of the peak, Platinum dragons don't have breath weapons at all, but rather "ether vents", which are essentially small points on their body that can channel destructive levels of magic effortlessly (when used for attack, [[Word of God]] has compared them to [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]] ship phasers.)

* Many Tyranids from ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' sport bio-plasma attacks, which are basically vomiting hellfire. Some Daemons and Daemonhosts ''literally'' vomit hellfire.

** Technically the [[Space Marine|Space Marines]]s have this too; namely one of their various glandular implants makes their saliva highly acidic, and can be used either as a weapon or just to help break out of a place. Rarely represented any more in actual game mechanics, there are at least a couple of chapters whose glands mutated over the millenia to either let them spew out a full-on spray of the stuff, or whose saliva forms something other than acid (such as chemicals which, when mixed and spit, of course catch on fire).

* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' breath weapons are their own attack type and are commonly seen on dragons and other monsters. Notably the [[All Trolls Are Different|Trolls]], who have stomach acid strong enough to dissolve stone and steel, and will not hesitate to "pre-digest" you in battle.

* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'' has the iconic spell [https://web.archive.org/web/20080212115635/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=129548 Firebreathing], which grants this power to a creature. Many creatures have similar abilities, especially draconic creatures of [[Kill It Withwith Fire|the color red]].

* ''[[The Dresden Files (Tabletop Gamegame)|The Dresden Files]]''' RPG has Breath Weapon as one of the available powers. The description broadens it so that the power can cover any self-generated projectile, even if it doesn't come from the mouth. This notably includes the [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Monkeys|Shen demons]]' use of flaming poo projectiles.

* What no love for [[GURPS]] and its templates, one of which is dragon and includes a [[Breath Weapon]]

* Sasquatch in the ''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]'' series shoots ice beams.

* All dragons in ''[[RunescapeRuneScape]]'' breathe fire, and some can even shoot fireballs at you from a distance.

** Reis in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'', being basically a Dragon in the shape of a woman, can breathe [[Fire, Ice, Lightning|Fire, Ice, or Electricity]]. Oh, and holy. However that works. This may not have been clear in the original translation (Where breath gets translated Braclet)...

* Sigma at the end of ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]] 6'', as well as too many other ''[[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mega Man]]'' robots to sanely list here.

* The [[X -Men|Sentinel]], when it appears in [[Marvel vs. Capcom|Capcom's fighting games]], generally has one of these too.

* Breathing fire is one of Bowser's trademark characteristics in the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series, but there are a few other critters that have this ability (such as the Dino Rhinos and Reznors in [[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario World]].)

** The Axem Ranger's Blade ship's Breaker Beam, in ''[[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|Super Mario RPG]]''.

* The various dragon forms of the main characters in the ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' series. It's even [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|right there in the title]].

* The Pandaren Brewmasters from ''[[War CraftWarcraft]] 3'' can breathe "fire" (ignited grain alcohol) to a... panda as part of their standard skills, although they are firmly good guys. This also shows up on some of the neutral monsters. There is also a breath of frost, but it shows up much more rarely.

* Glass Goth, the [[Final Boss]] of ''[[ChocobosChocobo's Dungeon]] 2'', has a wide-area beam breath attack.

* The daedroth and spider daedra in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]: [[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game)|Oblivion]]''. The daedroth spits balls of fire; the spider daedra breathes lightning, and also casts a touch-range paralysis spell by exhaling green haze into its palm and then slapping the target.

* The standard dragons in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|V:Skyrim]]'' use a kind of vocal magic to shoot flames out of their mouths. As a player you can eventually learn to do this aswell when you absorbs dragon souls. Also, Frost Dragons shoot ice beams.

** As a result of a [[Blessed Withwith Suck|'blessing']] from Peryite, the Daedric god of plague, the Afflicted have [[Squick|weaponized projectile vomit]].

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' had Dodongos and King Dodongo blowing their burning bad breath at Link in the Gorons' Cave, and then later, Volvagia will try to cook the hero during the [[Boss Battle]] at the Fire Temple.

* ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak III]]'''s Dark Makers have access to giant stompy [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Spider Tank|Spider Tanks]]s. How could you make this kind of combo even worse for Jak? The head can fire a laser from where a mouth would be on an organic creature.

* [[Superpowered Mooks|Boomers]] from ''[[Left 4 Dead (Video Game)|Left 4 Dead]]'' vomit upon players, thereby calling down hordes of [[Night of the Living Mooks|basic]] [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombies]] to descend upon them.

* ''[[Left 4 Dead 2 (Video Game)|Left 4 Dead 2]]'' features a zombie called the Spitter, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|who spits acid]]. It was designed specifically to counter the usual survivor tactic of huddling together at all times.

* The Flash game ''[[Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar]]'' is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|all about this.]]..and [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]].

* The Giant Minotaur boss in ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]]'' had a fiery breath attack.

* The final boss of ''[[Serious Sam (Video Game)|Serious Sam]]'' belches huge chunks of molten lava.

* There is an interesting variant in ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]''. The Giant Lungfish boss attacks by belching some boxes, anchors(!) and other heavy stuff at you and then by sucking the air in an attempt to swallow you (temporarily).

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]'': The Whirlwind could count as a breath weapon, since you have to blow in the DS microphone to activate it.

** Meanwhile [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|Dodongos]] can breathe fire, and Olrox' [[One -Winged Angel]] {{spoiler|seeing as he's a dragon, has this as well}}.

* ''[[Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game)|Plants vs. Zombies]]'' - A small sub-class of fungi exude toxic fumes rather than [[Edible Ammunition]].

* ''[[Monster Hunter (Video Game)|Monster Hunter]]'' used basically every Wyvern, Dragon, or "Boss" monster plus a few minor enemies. Yian Kut-Ku, Rathalos/Rathian, Yian Garuga, and if you want to be technical, a King Shakalaka all have a fire-based breath attack. Mostly fireballs, and in the case of the Yian Kut-Ku, it is simply lobbed out. The Gravios and (more rarely) Basarios have a beam-like weapon that also has an Exhaust after-effect, where they are likely to burn everything within melee range of them after disintegrating you with their throat laser. Among the -prey series there is Giaprey and Ioprey which spit ice and poison based attack respectively. Hypnoctrice has Sleep- based attacks. Congalala, Teostra, and Leostra all have flamethrower-esque attacks.

* ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'''s Drakes are all capable of breathing [[Kill It Withwith Fire|fire]] although one caste (the Clasher unit line) gives up this ability in favour of the protection provided by heavy armour, which restricts their breathing enough to prevent this.

* Barthandelus, [[Big Bad]] and Master Troll of ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'', has two ultimate moves named "Thanatosian Smile" and "Thanatosian Laughter," both of which consist of him barfing lasers on you.

* Firebrand, the Red Arremer from the ''[[GargoylesGargoyle's Quest]]'' series, gets varying kinds of breath attacks with his powerups.

* Second and third form dragons from ''[[Ogre Battle 64 (Video Game)|Ogre Battle 64]]'' have these as a possible attack.

* In the ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]]'' fighting spinoffs, one of Suika Ibuki's attacks consists of taking a swig of alchohol, and immediately breathing fire at the opponent.

* Many demons, including the [[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne|Demifiend]] and the [[Digital Devil Saga|Embryon]], in the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise)|Shin Megami Tensei]]'' series can use different versions of this ability, {Fire, Ice, Fog, etc.}

* ''[[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]]'' features a few moves like this, namely Dragon Breath and Frost Breath. The anime expands on this making many attacks mouth-based.

* Several enemies in ''[[Dark Souls (Video Game)|Dark Souls]]'', such as the fire or lightning spitting Gargoyles or the curse breath of Seath the Scaleless. And if you join the Path of the Dragon, you can breath fire too.

* The main enemy of Chapter Three in ''[[Supernormal Step]]'' is an [[Eldritch Abomination]] named Fenris, whose form is a [[Big Badass Wolf]] with [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] and [[Poison Is Corrosive|poisonous]] [[Breath Weapon|breath]].

* ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'': Future Dave's Calsprite can breathe ''erotic puppets.''

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', fire summons and the Bulldog Dragon are capable of shooting fireballs from their mouths and the Omega Goo could straight up breath fire from one of its many mouths.

* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190143/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4247 Tomey uses it on some bullies.]

* ''[[Transformers]]'' has a couple of particularly weird variants. First off, there's guys like Transquito, who can spit out a ''missile''. Secondly, there's Nightscream and his teeth-on-a-string trick from ''Beast Machines''. Finally, there's guys like ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' Megatron and Cheetor's Transmetal form, who can fire energy blasts from their alt-mode's mouth in robot mode, which uses said mouth as a hand.

** Unicron fires a green-blue plasma-like ray of energy from his robot head mouth in ''[[Transformers: theThe Movie]]'', and has a powerful tractor beam in his planetoid-mode mouth.

** Trypticon gains a powerful mouth laser in ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' allows the [[Elemental Powers]] of air (of course) and fire to be used as breath weapons, and the characters who most often do this aren't particularly atavistic.

{{quote| '''Iroh''': [[Pre -Ass -Kicking One -Liner|Did I ever tell you how I got the nickname the "Dragon of the West"]]?‌<br />

''Zuko just smiles, because he knows what's coming''<br />

'''Azula''': I'm not interested in a lengthy anecdote, Uncle.<br />

* In a variant, Metlar from ''[[Inhumanoids (Animation)|Inhumanoids]]'' had hot lava inside his mouth, which he would scoop out by the handfull and throw at opponents.

* ''[[Godzilla: theThe Series]]'' has Zilla, Jr. breathe a green atomic breath, whereas Cyber-Zilla has the traditional light blue.

* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] has dragons breathing fire, of course, but Spike's fire has some [[Mundane Utility|pretty unusual properties.]] Scrolls consumed by his ([[Technicolor Fire|green]]) fire breath are teleported to Princess Celestia, and she can send mail back in the form of an involuntary belch of Spike's fire.

* In ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderCats (2011)]]''

** [[Big Bad]] [[Sorcerous Overlord]] Mumm-Ra can breathe hot pink [[Pure Energy]] blasts while in his [[One -Winged Angel]] form.

** [[Paper Master]] Gami can fold a giant [[Art Initiates Life|animate]] paper dragon, which alternately breathes a [[Blow You Away|powerful wind]] or [[Technicolor Fire|purple]] bursts of [[Playing Withwith Fire|fire]].

* Meet [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011223223/http://www.yanobe.com/aw/aw_g_torayan.html Giant Torayan]. To quote the website: "This GIANT TORATAN doll is the ultimate child's weapon, as it sings, dances, breathes fire, and follows only those orders given by children." Thank you Japan, for bringing the world one step closer to the robot apocalypse.

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