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Gas. Flatulence. Cutting the cheese. Breaking wind. [[Hurricane of Euphemisms|Bottom burps. Barking spiders. Stepped-on ducks. Whizpops.]] In other words? '''FARTS.'''

 

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* The evil mice on ''[[Black Cat Detective]]''. Some of them had the ability to knock cats unconscious with their deadly emissions, warranting the use of space-helmets.

* ''[[Kinnikuman]]'' had this as his means of flight. He also farts on his opponent at the end of an incomplete Muscle Spark. Not nearly as damaging as a complete one, but much more humiliating. He escaped Black Hole's alternate universe prison by using his farts as a "white hole" counter-attack.

* ''[[Kaiketsu Zorori]]'': Ishishi and Noshishi have strong gas, and Zorori uses this when needed, to power machines and spacecraft. (That's not to say that Zorori's farts can't power spacecraft too, though.)

 

* ''Peräsmies'' is a Finnish superhero parody comic. The title hero is a hobo who developed super-powered flatulence after eating irradiated pea soup; he flies by breaking wind, and knocks criminals out by farting on them. The name of the character is a combination of "Teräsmies" (Superman's Finnish name) and "perä" (rear end).

* In one of [[Lobo]]'s stories, he resolves an epic duel with his daughter by eating a can of beans (an obvious Popeye spoof) and setting his fart on fire to create a nuclear explosion.

* In ''[[Savage Dragon]]'', an entire team of bad guys had with body function related powers. One of them was called ''Backdraft''. Do the math.

 

** B&B also utilize burps and farts as (non-lethal) weaponry in their [[Licensed Game|video game]].

* In the opening of the first ''[[Shrek]]'' movie, Shrek farts in the water, and a fish floats up. Ogre astrology and mythology includes "Bloodnut the Flatulent", whose constellation includes hunters fleeing his stench. Also, when reaching the brimstone-smelling dragon lair...

* ''[[Major Payne]]'' knocks out one of his JROTC recruits with a fart after he tries to pull a [[Laxative Prank]].

 

* In ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'', the Dwarves possesses a wide range of gastrointestinally-based superpowers. Including superfarts. At one point, [[Badass]] [[Battle Butler]] Butler (That's his name) is [[Blown Across the Room]] by one of these, much to his chagrin. Artemis himself occasionally refers to the rear end of a dwarf as "a wide-bore weapon".

* ''[[The BFG]].'' by Roald Dahl has a drink with bubbles that sink. And make you "fly".

* Not actually a weapon, because it was most dangerous to those producing it: Philip Wylie's ''[[The End of the World as We Know It|The End of the Dream]]'' has a sequence when negligence about the chemistry of a new precooked food made it give those who ate it high-explosive flatulence. This was discovered when one gentleman, after a hearty meal, broke wind while his back was to the fireplace, and became [[Ludicrous Gibs|splattered]] all over the room's walls. He was just the first such victim....

 

* ''The Power of Kroll'' is the only ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story centred entirely around farts (methane production from a giant alien creature).

** The Slitheen have really smelly farts. This isn't much use to them (it has to do with "gas exchange"), but it is useful to the Doctor, who realizes what species they are from the way their farts smell.

* In an ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Blood Money", Cordelia has a vision of a great fire-breathing monster. It's referred to in [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] fashion; Gunn and Wesley attempt to sneak up on it from behind, and flames appear, coming from the ([[Coconut Superpowers|offscreen]]) giant monster. Gunn laments "I thought you said it ''breathed'' fire!"

* The Le Corbussier et Papin sketches in [[The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer]]. Literally in one of sketches, as rapid fart-firing knocks a cyclist off his bike and into a lake; metaphorical in others.

 

* General Pumpkin of Korean Folklore was both [[Cursed with Awesome|Blessed]] and [[Blessed with Suck|cursed]] by this ability.

* There have also been serious or not so serious speculation on whether the milky way was formed from the gas of an [[Ancient Astronauts|Ancient Astronaut]] released into space.

* During her term in Divas of Doom, [[Natalya Neidheart| certain someone]] had this going for her, much to the dismay of some of the other divas, and even a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C07ZLMFYt7A referee] was caught off-guard.

 

* When ''[[The Funday Pawpet Show]]'' started in '99, one of the regular features was the "Poot Board" on which it was recorded how many times and which puppetteer ripped one loose over the course of the four hour show. Generally Yappy and JR are the Poot Kings.

 

* [[Wario Ware|Wario]], in most of his recent incarnations, has some variety of gas-based power. In ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl,'' it's his B Down special attack; he can also create dangerous gas clouds in ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Strikers.]]''

** Taken over the top in the initial trailer where the fart creates a cloud you'd commonly associate with an A-Bomb... people pretty much speculated that this was his Final Smash, but surprisingly, it wasn't.

* In ''[[Red Faction]]: Armaggedon'', after completing the game, you can get a weapon called [[Meaningful Name|Mr. Toots]], a cute toy [[Unicorn]]... that farts [[Death Ray|lethal rainbow-colored beams of horrible death]]! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHe0S22d1vQ Here.]

* One of the bosses of ''[[Mini Ninjas]]'' attacks by fanning clouds of farts towards the players.

 

* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', one of the myriad improbable opponents that Dr. McNinja goes up against is a man whose abs are so incredibly developed that they've transformed into a six-pack jetpack powered by flatulence.

* ''[[PvP (webcomic)|Pv P]]'' features a troll by the name of Skull whose farts are sufficiently noxious to clear rooms, kill plants, and induce hallucinations.

* Baby Man of ''[[Axe Cop]]'' jets around with his.

'''O-Chul:''' No, friend. I think that earth-shattering sound did not originate in your bowels, for once. }}

* Dave Johnson's "Flatulene" uses this as its central premise, a heroine with a "brimstone butt". Read the origin story [http://devilpig.deviantart.com/#/d3dp9yo here] (Warning: NSFW)

 

* In the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', there's a student codenamed Miasma. Whatever his power is, this is the effect. He doesn't seem to have good control over it, either.

* As quoted above, the [[The Nostalgia Critic]] review of ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'', the villain [[Large Ham|Terl]] stated that the only reason that his race (who in the film are shown to be [[Exclusively Evil|Always]] [[Stupid Evil]] and [[Too Dumb to Live]]) only succeeded as galactic conquerors due to their ability to "fart out nukes".

* This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbqBT1mE9Ts&feature=related hilarious parody] of ''[[Dune]]'' on You Tube. The future smells...

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQbKAZN3h7A The X-Lax Men]'', a scatalogical parody of ''[[X-Men]]''. One scene has literal fartillery in the form of ass-fired mortars.

 

* Billy from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]'', in a childhood flashback by his father, uses his flatulence as propulsion to win fastest baby races, and somehow was certified as a genius because to this.

* In the first ''[[South Park]]'' episode, Cartman's [[Farts on Fire]] were needed to summon the aliens. In a more recent episode, Cartman ''injected apple juice into his veins'' to worsen the frequency and potency of his farts as a weapon against a Muslim couple he was demanding information from.

* In ''Reboot'', one episode featured a video game that was clearly a parody of Pokemon. Bob, changed into a dragonlike creature, is ordered to use his "Nuclear Bottom Burp" attack.

 

* [[wikipedia:Le Petomane|Le Pétomane]], a French performer, made his career out of breaking wind. Even performed at the [[Moulin Rouge]], although did not appear in the film. Could imitate musical instruments, blow out candles, and with the help of an ocarina and a rubber tube, play ''La Marseillaise''.

* [[Jeff Foxworthy]]'s "Courtesy Sniffs" bit.

** Gastric bypass surgery. To make sure that they don't nick your intestines (causing peritonitis) and not notice, they inflate them with nitrous oxide. Once you got out of surgery, you're '''farting laughing gas.'''

* Fart flies.

* http://archive.student.bmj.com/issues/02/05/education/139.php:

{{quote|"This night was the result of careful preparation with large amounts of curry and beer providing excellent substrate, I was informed. Unimpressed at the thought of any further delay to my latest (video taped) instalment of Eastenders, I was assured that I was "in for a real treat."Balanced on the edge of the sofa, my three flatmates carefully leaned back and lifted their legs up in the air. Then each excitedly lit a match and held it to the seat of their trousers. We were still all in the dark, and, after a protracted countdown, I witnessed the greatest firework display I'd ever seen. Jets of blue flame (bigger and bluer than the flame on your grandmother's brandy soaked Christmas pudding) emanated from each of them in a perfectly synchronised performance."}}

* The Swedish word for "speed" is "Fart." Make of that what you will.