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[[File:Ghost_Rider_Movie_on_bike_7222Ghost Rider Movie on bike 7222.jpg|link=Ghost Rider|frame| Can you feel the heat?]]
 
 
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** Also: Screaming Skull Catapults. The ancient Khemri empire had a habit of keeping the heads of executed criminals, coating them in a special kind of pitch that not only burned well, [[Nightmare Fuel|but made a horrific screaming sound, and firing the things en masse at opposing armies via catapult]]. Coming back as a race of [[Dem Bones|skeletal undead]] has not cured them of this habit.
*** There's an upgrade for the catapult that lets you fire the skulls of ''the specific race being fought'' at them. This hurts their morale rather badly.
* Khornate daemons in ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' are occsionally armed with the dreaded Burning Brass Skulls of Khorne. Presumably they kill people by being f*** ing metal.
** So who gets to wield the Burning Brass Balls of Khorne?
** [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Wazdakka_Gutsmek Biker Nob Gutsmek] once destroyed a [[Humongous Mecha|Titan]] by ramping into it and killing everybody onboard. The crew's skulls, kept as trophies, are still on fire.
* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]''
** has a feat called "Spell Theatrics" that lets a caster change the visual effects of a spell. The example given is making a Fireball into a flaming skull.
*** There are several types of undead that also take this form.
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