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{{quote|"Listen... you're probably figuring out by now that we Psychlos are not very smart. In fact, the only reason we're able to take over any galaxies at all is that we fart nuclear bombs out of our anuses!"|'''"Terl"''' (a.k.a. '''[[The Spoony Experiment|The Spoony One]]'''), explaining to [[The Nostalgia Critic]] how [[Battlefield Earth (film)|his race has taken over galaxies despite their obvious stupidity]].}}
 
Gas. Flatulence. Cutting the cheese. Breaking wind. [[Hurricane of Euphemisms|Bottom burps. Barking spiders. Stepped-on ducks. Whizpops.]] In other words? '''FARTS.'''
 
In real life, the powers of flatulence are largely limited to clearing a room. And perhaps serving as an [[Farts on Fire|impromptu blowtorch]], if you're [[Too Dumb to Live|really,]] ''[[Too Dumb to Live|really]]'' [[Too Dumb to Live|dumb.]] It's different in cartoons, though. There, the lowly flatus is often elevated to the status of [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Weapon of Gas Destruction]]:
 
* It's... ''expelled'' with such force, it can serve as a [[Weaponized Exhaust|source of propulsion]] in times of need.
* Its methane content is greatly exaggerated. While it's true that intestinal gas is flammable, the [[Farts on Fire|puff of flame]] you'll get is... [[Anticlimax|somewhat underwhelming]], shall we say. In cartoonland, however, lighting the proverbial match may just make the whole room go [[Stuff Blowing Up|"Boom."]]
* Its stench is so great, it's corrosive.
 
Largely limited to shows or video games [[Animation Age Ghetto|geared at kids]], probably because "adults" pretend to have a selective lower tolerance for [[Toilet Humor]]. Unless the show in question is already a [[Dead Baby Comedy]] to begin with.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* 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.
** And then there was [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0bX33aAhYQ the duel between Kinnikuman and his father...]
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'''Shrek:''' Donkey, if that was me, you'd be dead. }}
* In their second movie, [[Shrek]] and Fiona fart into their hotspring to make it bubble like a spa.
* Similarly, a promo for ''[[The Lion King]] 1 1/2'' has Pumbaa do the same. Timon and Simba were... understandably disgusted.
** Of course, Pumbaa's backstory establishes that he... well, smells... and is why he was cast out of warthog society. And, of course, it is used to scare away the hyena trio toward the end of the movie.
** In ''[[The Lion King]] 2'', Timon intentionally uses Pumbaa's...emissions as a threat against Zira's [[Amazon Brigade]]. They run away ''fast''.
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* In ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'', the alien army has a literal fartillery, capable of taking down a large spaceship. It's less farting and more projectile... a polite word escapes me... gobbets of bio-plasma.
* In the third ''[[Tremors]]'' film, the Shriekers metamorphose into "Assblasters", creatures capable of getting airborne by igniting their own farts.
* In ''[[Dumb and Dumber]]'', Jim Carrey's character lights his fart (in a daydream), which makes him the hit of the party.
* The titular character in ''[[Theodore Rex]]'' ''interrogates'' someone this way. Surprisingly, it doesn't work.
* And in the second ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movie, Shaggy lit one of Scooby's farts to generate a flamethrower effect against The Miner Fourty'Niner.
* In the 1996 remake of ''[[The Nutty Professor]]'', there is a dream sequence in which Sherman has a nightmare about being a giant and destroying the city with a fart that accidentally catches fire.
** ''[[The Nutty Professor]] II'' features extreme [[Farts on Fire]], fart propulsion in zero gravity, etc.
* In [[The Green Hornet|the 2010 version of the Green Hornet]], Kato gives Britt a gun that, in his words, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"shoots farts at people"]]. Didn't help that the gas was GREEN, either.
* The "I wish I could forget watching it" 1985 Israeli movie "Kompot Na'alyim" (Sweet Shoes soup) - aside from being a crime against the cinematic arts - had at its core this "idea". From IMDB: 'When Igor immigrates from Russia to Israel, he is recruited into the mandatory Israeli army reserve service. When his commanders learn the army food causes him to have very noisy farts, they order him to utilise this to defuse mines.' face-palm.
* ''[[Major Payne]]'' knocks out one of his JROTC recruits with a fart after he tries to pull a [[Laxative Prank]].
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* 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.
* Happens in a case of [[1000 Ways to Die]], named ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Gas-Holed]]''. An ass-man proctologist forgets to tell a stripper with a nice ass to not eat anything before operating on her; she eats a HUGE chilli dog and later lets out a big fart during the surgery... accidentally blowing up the cauterizer and burning the [[Dirty Old Man]] doc's face and lungs.
 
 
== Myths & Religion ==
* 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.
* In many stories, [[Youkai|Kappa]] have incredibly powerful flatulence, some say they even possess [[Bizarre Alien Biology|two anuses]], and the trait even led to an old saying about something having less importance then a Kappa's fart. Conversely this was also used against them, and there is more then one piece of ancient art with a human using [[Fartillery]] on the Kappa instead. One such example can be found [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/YoshitoshiKappaControl.jpg here].
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== Video Games ==
* [[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.
*** Though interestingly, if he DOES do the fully-charged version of the fart DURING his Final Smash transformation, it ''is'' one of the most powerful attacks in the game, able to kill virtually anything in one hit (including himself).
* The Hare species from ''[[Monster Rancher]]'' frequently has "Gas" as one of its special attacks. While it doesn't do much damage, it does decrease Guts quite a bit. I'm fairly certain they're not the only species to have such an attack--while not explicitly stated to be a "gas attack" [[Incredibly Lame Pun|(groan)]], the Whirlwind move done by the Garu species does look a little... suspicious.
** It's also employed by Apes, which only appear in some of the games. As well as being used by Hare in the anime, though cut from the American dub, in which is was far more powerful.
* The web-based Flash game ''[[Puzzle Farter]]''--well, come on, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the title pretty much says it all, doesn't it?]] This one has the "rocket propulsion" brand of flatulence.
* Pey'j in ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' has a pair of Jet-Boots than run on-- well, I'll let him explain:
{{quote|'''Pey'j:''' They run on home-made bio-carburant. Here's the pocket of pressurized methane... ''(points to seat of pants)'' To fire 'em up, just contract your abdominal muscles! }}
* ''[[Boogerman]]''. The titular character fights monsters with an arsenal of bodily functions, which of course includes long-range fartillery. After collecting the 'Chili Pepper' powerup, he can also use his flaming flatulence to reach new heights!
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** The voice that announces the character at the start of the fight has a thick Japanese accent. It literally pronounces the name as "Ass-quake."
*** Actually, it sounds more like "Aaarse-quake".
* In some of the ''[[Tekken]]'' games, Kuma (and, by extension, Panda) had the uber-powerful 'Bear Fart' attack. Next-to-zero range and long windup, but if it DOES hit, it's practically an instant knockout. Considering that that means it's potent enough to knock down a one-and-a-half-ton combat robot (Jack), that may just be THE most lethal fart around.
** Likewise [[Guest Fighter|Gon]] has the less devastating, but still potent "Gon with the Wind"
** Kuma retains the 'Bear Fart' attack as one of his supers in ''[[Street Fighter X Tekken]]'', with the only major difference is that it is not an instant knockout like it is in the ''[[Tekken]]'' games. Although Guile (the first ''[[Street Fighter]]'' character to be..."introduced" to the attack) might say otherwise...
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{{quote|"Some say the gas come from their mouths. Some say it comes from elsewhere...... Oh, dear..."}}
* In the custom built fighting game ''[[MUGEN]]'', [[Family Guy|Peter Griffin]] uses farts as a flamethrower (known as the [[Fan Nickname|Anal Torch]]).
** The goblin character Menelikke does the same in his super. There's also the giantess Delilah who, in one of her alternate versions, has a full screen gas attack.
** And there's also Gustavo, whose only attacks are... well, farts.
** One version of [[Mega Man 1|Ice Man]] accidentally farts as his taunt. Those caught in the cloud will take damage and be stunned.
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* In ''[[Battle Chess]] II: Chinese Chess'', one of the pieces (I believe it is the minister) attacks by turning around, bending over and blasting thier opponent away.
* The Expansion Pack and Sequel Demo of the freeware fighter ''Secret of the 8 Stones'' is based entirely around this. Well, and [[Fetish Fuel]]
** For a more in depth description, "Eight Marbles: Ura Version" (As it's more commonly known) is a fighting game centering around cute, anime-esque girls with lethal and explosive flatulence. Characters range from a skunk girl, to a ninja, to a bug-woman who stores gas in her abdomen, to a young girl whose [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|super attack is a blast of flatulence that can seen from space and changes the background to a foggy wasteland.]]
* In ''Shrek SuperSlam'', a fighting game based around the ''[[Shrek]]'' series, the title character has a move called "Green Storm", which is a huge fart.
* ''[[Magicians Quest Mysterious Times]]'' has the weirdest application of "Farts as a weapon", ''ever''. In addition to just causing mischief, you can use the "Flatulence" spell to make ghosts pass gas... and in the process, launch into the air like a rocket, getting rid of them until you leave the screen.
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* The first videogame example, way back in 1985. Po-Chin in ''[[Yie Ar Kung-Fu]] 2'' is known as the Poison Gas Warrior. There's still argument on whether they're really farts or not, but the sprites certainly look like it.
** It should be noted that the game was on multiple computer systems and consoles. In the most detailed he simply breaths fire, which goes against his name, and the fact he turns around and bends over in the other versions. Make of that what you will.
* Moguralian β attemtps to do this in ''[[Undercover Cops]]'' when he's about to die.
* Two examples in the [[Disgaea|Prinny series]]. In the first game, the boss Gourmet Ogre uses one as an attack. In the sequel one of the game's powerups let's you do a gas assisted jump to float.
** In ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'', the Dragon's first skill has it get sent into a sneezing fit by a stray feather that predictably ends with the target getting roasted, only the flames don't come from the dragon's mouth (The attack being called "Break Wind" kind of gives it away, though).
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* 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 [[Always Chaotic Evil|Always]] [[Stupid Evil]] and [[Too Dumb to Live]]) only succeeded as galactic conquerors due to their ability to "fart out nukes".
* This is Gravity Cat's main mode of attack in ''[[The Gmod Idiot Box]]''. "Gravity Cat Not Amused" indeed.
* The comedy [[YouTube]] video ''[[How To Be Ninja]]'' spoofs this with a ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' parody (complete with music!). At the end where it says ''Finish him!'' one of the guys prepares to throw a [[Megaton Punch]] at his opponent but instead he turns around and farts on him, sending the loser flying backwards in an [[Special Effects Failure|obviously fake]] but [[Rule of Funny|hilarious]] manner.
* 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.
* In [[Dirty Potter]], JK Rowling farted so hard that she "arseblasted" Ron to another dimension. [[Rule of Funny|Don't ask why, she's JK Rowling]].
 
 
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* Billy from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and 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 the episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' in which they premiere, the Rowdyruff Boys create a toxic cloud of gas to stop the Powerpuffs.
{{quote|"Good thing we had those burritos for lunch!" }}
** Likewise in ''[[Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z]]'' they use noxious gas to terrorize the audience locked in a TV studio.
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* ''[[Family Guy]]'' has a gag where the Big Bang was the result of God lighting his fart in celebration of beating his roommate at arm wrestling.
** In the Viewer Mail episode, Peter has Chris use his [[Playing with Fire|pyrokinesis]] powers to light a fart, creating a flamethrower-like stream from his butt.
* The episode "Silent But Dino" from ''Kung Fu Dino Posse'' centers around [[Meaningful Name|Chow]] having foul gas after eating food the [[Big Bad]] secretly delivered to him. The bad guy later uses all his flatulence to create a [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|giant methane monster]].
** And towards the end of the same episode, Chow is forced to wear a diaper that gets rid of the stench of his gas, but turns it into "environmentally healthy" flames, which come in handy when he has to "fly" and fight the bad guy's minions.
* In ''[[Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles|Roughnecks]]'', the short-lived spinoff of ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' the alien Bugs deploy ''literal'' Fartillery. And no, it wasn't a joke.
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* 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."}}
* In his biography, Andre the Giant is mentioned as having cleared many a restaurant of pesky autograph hunters (the obnoxious kind who won't leave a celebrity alone once identified) with flatulence. Where does a gassy 7' tall, 500 lb gorilla sit? Anywhere he wants to.
* The Swedish word for "speed" is "Fart." Make of that what you will.