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[[File:JohnyStorm_1678.jpg|link=Fantastic Four (film)|frame|What's hotter: the flame or [[Fan Service|Johnny's]] [[Shirtless Scene|bare chest]]?]]
One fun way of [[Playing with Fire]] is to [[Couldn't Find a Lighter|coolly light your cigarette, cigar or pipe]] with a finger snap in an extravagant show of [[Mundane Utility]]. Of course, the power to hold flames in your hands can also be a potent intimidating gesture. Usually this is done by holding the palm open and facing up. Much like the Super Power equivalent of cocking the trigger on a gun, this is dangerous because it's just one step shy of firing it. Also, [[Rule of Cool|it looks really cool]].
A few other variations apart from the finger snap and palm up are when one or both hands are held overhead and an [[Energy Ball]] is hovering over them, and the "crucifixion", which has the energy shot to the sides in a shower.
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== Advertising ==
* British Gas had a series of adverts years ago, featuring the finger-click into a thumbs up. The flame, naturally, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCfdczwRN2I was blue].
** Parodied on ''[[Spitting Image]]'' in a sketch where [[John Major]] is advertising a gas cooker. His first finger-click does nothing. His second sets fire to the kitchen.
* Sofia Vergara did a [[Tropes Are Flexible|variation]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmiZwE6w6o4 this commercial for Xfinity], except it's more "striking a finger match" than finger snap lighter.
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== Film-Animated ==
* The demon Chernabog does this a few different ways in the ''Night on Bald Mountain'' sequence of Disney's ''[[Fantasia]]'' while demonstrating his profane powers.
* Hades on ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'' does both the finger snap (to light a cigar) and the crucifixion (when he learns that Hercules is still alive).
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* The Devil was fond of this one in ''[[Oh, God!|Oh God! You Devil]]''.
* This is one of the few tricks the Devil can pull in his human form in ''[[Damn Yankees]]'', which rather annoys him as he's trying to give up smoking.
* ''[[Double Indemnity]]'' features a variation sans magic. Walter Neff uses the "strike-anywhere" matches that were common in the forties, and lights them with his thumbnail in a gesture that resembles a finger snap.
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* Shiva's top left hand as a symbol of cosmic destruction is depicted as doing this when Shiva is portrayed as Nataraja (Lord of Dance). Shiva Nataraja is also wreathed in an [[Power Glow|aura of flame]] for the same reason.
* The Archangel Uriel is frequently depicted holding a flame in his left hand.
* In folklore of the Hawaiian Islands, the goddess Pele sometimes masquerades as a humble hitchhiker who only asks for a ride up the mountain, and asks for a cigarette. She then lights the cigarette with a snap of her fingers - and vanishes.
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* In ''[[Charmed]]'' demons do this ''a lot''. In fact, one episode with Barbas the fear demon had his powers amplified, then depowered without knowing it. His look of utter confusion at not being able to conjure up a fireball this way was priceless.
* Ted Sprague and Meredith Gordon from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' both do this. (Meredith does it so much that fans nicknamed her "Flamepalm."
* In an early episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' has a pyrokinetic villain who does this to impress two kids.
* Kryten the android lights a cigar with a flame from his index finger in the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Bodyswap". This was apparently a difficult and uncomfortable trick for the actor to achieve, involving pipes and cables running across the floor and up through the costume -- and not made any easier or more comfortable by the fact that the script called for him to be knee-deep in water at the time. The scene was then deleted from the finished episode, therefore making all the effort and suffering for nothing. To further add insult to injury, the footage has since gone missing and was unable to be included on the DVD.
* Somewhere in season two of ''[[Roswell]]'', Michael provides a literal Finger Snap Lighter to prove to a discharged army veteren that he was one of the aliens he saved while still on active duty.
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== Video Games ==
* Used as various intro and victory poses for Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami of ''[[King of Fighters]]'', in both finger-snap (Kyo only) and open-palm flavors.
* Used in adverts for the Incinerate! Plasmid in ''[[
* Axel does this occasionally in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' sometimes independently and sometimes as a part of summoning his weapon. Most notably when {{spoiler|he does this to poor Vexen, who more or less explodes on contact (being an ice-user). "You're off the hook." *snap*}}
* Mario and Luigi in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]''.
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* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', the firebenders do this ''all the time''.
** Iroh from used this in lighting some incense candles. In ''[[The Last Airbender]]'s'' film trailers he is seen doing something similar with fire on the back of his hand.
* In [[Sequel Series]] ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'',
** In "Welcome to Republic City" the Firebender of a [[Power Trio]] of gangsters pulls this to back up his boss's threat against a shopkeeper who was behind on his protection money.
** In "The Voice in the Night" After Korra challenges Amon to a duel and {{spoiler|is ambushed}}, she uses a ball of fire in her palm to verify that {{spoiler|Amon did not take her bending away.}}
* Shego of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is pulling this pose on the [[Dark Action Girl]] page picture.
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