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{{quote|'''Drive-Thru Whale:''' "Would you like flaming skulls with that?"<br />
'''Strong Bad:''' "Do you have to ask?"|''[[Strong
[[Nothing but Skulls|Skulls are cool.]] [[Incendiary Exponent|Fire is cool.]] [[X Meets Y|This is what happens when the two]] [[Homestar Runner
Compare [[Crystal Skull]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[
* Blazing Skull was a [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] hero in the [[Marvel Universe]]. No prizes for guessing what his gimmick was.
* [[Superman]] villain the Atomic Skull (the second one) in [[The DCU]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the first ever ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
* The [[Exactly What It Says
* Featured on the cover Oz's ''[http://www.minhembio.com/forum/uploads/monthly_08_2009/post-30418-1250728367.jpg Fire in the Brain'']. On an unrelated note, that's [[Bathory|Quorthon's]] hand.
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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
** 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.
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*** There are several types of undead that also take this form.
** In adventure G3 ''Hall of the Fire Giant King'', King Snurre's symbol is a flaming skull.
* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' card game has a card actually called Burning Skull Head, as well as Skull Flame and Supersonic Skull Flame. Fittingly, Burning Skull Head and Skull Flame are FIRE-attribute Zombies (Supersonic Skull Flame is WIND instead).
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
* Lost Souls in the ''[[Doom]]'' series are pretty much Bubbles, only more ''lethal'' than ''annoying''.
* [[Zero Punctuation|Clive Barker's]] ''[[Clive
* [[Mortal Kombat|Shang Tsung]] fires these as a projectile attack.
** And Scorpion has one for a head.
* One of the early powerful Wizard spells in ''[[Puzzle Quest]]'' is called "Flaming Skulls".
* An attack unique to the [[Grim Reaper]] enemies in ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]'' involves transporting the enemy into a [[Pocket Dimension]], where they float down a large pillar and then are mobbed by burning skulls. This also qualifies for [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* In ''[[Strong
* Prometheus from ''[[Mega Man ZX]]'' could summon 4 of these as one of his attacks.
* One of the numerous varieties of [[Goddamned Bats]] of ''[[
* Variants of these appear as standard enemies in some dungeons throughout the ''[[
* Flaming skulls are a destroyable hazard in [[Samurai Warriors]] 3 in its Murasame Castle Mode stages.
* ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'' has large flaming skulls that serve as mid-level enemies.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[
** And again in the episode "Mac Daddy", where Bloo insists they paint flaming skulls on the side of the soapbox racer and Cheese insists on bunnies. They compromise on flaming bunnies instead.
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