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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]].
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* 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
* 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.
* Referenced in the opening sequence of ''[[Improv Heaven And Hell]]'' - one of the hosts (Canadian improv duo "The Devil's Advocates") demonstrated his ability to do this to light his cigarette; the other tried several times unsuccessfully, even going so far as to stick his hand in an open flame, only to finally succeed and set his whole arm alight. The first host grins at the camera and displays a small lighter hidden in his palm.
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