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== Comic Books ==

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

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

* [[Jack Kirby]]'s Demon, [[Etrigan]], from [[The DCU]].

* [[Superman]] has arctic breath (essentially gusts of supercooled air which tend to freeze things in their path) and [[Eye Beams|heat vision]]; as a counter to these, Bizarro has "freeze vision" and "heat breath", which is a nice way of saying that he breathes fire.

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== Tabletop Games ==

* Dragons in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' are [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: each [[wikipedia:Tincture ~~chr~~(~~28)heraldrychr(29~~)|tincture]] is assigned its own special flavour of [[Breath 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).

* Dragons in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' are [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: each [[wikipedia:Tincture (heraldry)|tincture]] is assigned its own special flavour of [[Breath 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).

** Note that metallic dragons have TWO breath weapons (usually some kind of nonlethal but disabling gas attack and one straight-up damage attack) and that there are tons of REALLY WEIRD dragons (Iron dragons breathe molten iron, Mercury Dragons LASER BEAMS, some gem dragons breathe EXPLODING CRYSTALS...)

*** Do not forget class that give a breath weapon. The most classical example are dragon shaman and dragonfire adept

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* [[Spyro the Dragon]] isn't limited to merely fire breath - he goes as far as to launch ice, earth chunks and ''electricity'' out of his mouth. Cynder uses shadow, wind, ''poison and fear''.

** He can only launch chunks of earth if he scoops them up in his mouth beforehand. It's not a breath weapon, it's just spitting.

* The daedroth and spider daedra in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]: [[The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion|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 daedroth and spider daedra in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]: [[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion|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.

* 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 with Suck|'blessing']] from Peryite, the Daedric god of plague, the Afflicted have [[Squick|weaponized projectile vomit]].

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|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.