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An emergency tool used to signal rescuers to your location, the '''Flare Gun''' is a must should you get lost or in need of assistance.
In fiction, the Flare Gun also serves as a weapon, though probably [[Awesome but Impractical]], as it can be very inaccurate.
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* The Flare Gun is actually one of the better weapons in ''[[Last Night on Earth]]'', especially since you can pick it up from the discard pile at the Airplane Hangar.▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the first ''[[Gargoyles]]'' series, Hudson shot Demona with a flare gun while she was making her escape. Amusingly enough, he credits ''[[From Russia with Love]]'' for the inspiration to do that. Seems he's a [[Sean Connery]] fan.
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* On ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'', after the gang crash lands in the water on the way to Boston for Helen's Big Break as a professional cellist, when the cello bobs up from underwater, Helen uses the flare gun's one charge to shoot and sink her cello.
* ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]'' episode "Death's Name Is SAM": A terrorist group tries to use a heat-seeking missile to shoot down a jetliner. McGarret has police officers fire off flares at the landing field to distract the missile and save the jet.
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** ''iStart A Fan War'' had a character catch a flare that had been shot at him but didn't go off, only for it to explode in his hands.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. In "The Initiative" Xander gives Buffy a flare pistol to signal for help if she needs it when she goes to fight Spike. It turns out to be [[Chekhov's Gun|just what she needs]] when a team of Initiative soldiers attack Willow in a dorm corridor; Buffy fires the flare, [[Sensory Overload|overloading their night vision goggles]].
* On an episode of ''[[Night Court]]'', Dan had to remove someone's appendix due to his incompetence with a flare gun. (Loooooong story there.)
== [[Tabletop
* The ''[[Shadowrun]]'' supplement ''Street Samurai Catalog'' had the Micro Flare, a penlight sized flare gun that could
* ''Dark Conspiracy'' supplement ''Darktek''. The flare gun can fire signal and illumination flares and in an emergency can be used as a weapon doing burn damage.
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay]]'' series, naturally, have those too. "Calixian Infantryman’s Emergency Signalling Device Mk II"; it can be used as a weapon, and by statistics is reliable, but rather pathetic (except the chance to set the target on fire). Then there's "Spitfire" rocket pistol from Volg Hive, "a crudely modified Lucifer pattern launcher" used by the locals to defend against particularly aggressive wildlife - it does deal explosive damage, but explodes itself if jams and is generally underwhelming as a weapon: the launcher itself is fairly cheap, but modified flares aren't, and it may set the target on fire only on [[Critical Hit]] when it's likely to be dead or dying anyway; at the same price one can just as easily buy a heavy autopistol or some decent shotgun - both do comparable damage per hit <ref>possibly more with dumdums or AP bullets (depending on the target), either of which is still cheaper by half</ref>, have greater effective range, larger magazines and nice extra perks.
▲* The Flare Gun is actually one of the better weapons in ''[[Last Night on Earth]]'', especially since you can pick it up from the discard pile at the Airplane Hangar.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[Advance Wars]]: Days of Ruin'': the Flare unit has the unique ability to fire Flares which [[Defog of War|illuminate sqaures]] in [[Fog of War]].
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', there is a combat item called the Flare Gun. When used it "Calls down an 'Arrr Strike'", and a pirate ship fires a cannonball at your enemy. {{spoiler|To get the best reward in the Mysterious Island War quest, you need to use it in "The Last Stand" adventure.}}
* ''[[The Ship: Murder Party]]'': a Source engine game that features passengers on a cruise ship trying to sneakily off their targets without getting killed themselves, has flare guns as a potential projectile weapon, typically found in glass cases or life vest boxes on the exterior of the ship. As there's no reloading in the game, it only holds one shot and you have to carry multiple guns for multiple shots, but it's very powerful with a one-hit kill (unless, of course, the enemy jumps in a pool).
* ''[[Far Cry]] 2'' has a flare gun as a pistol-slot item. It can torch an enemy to death with one flare (if you hit), but it's real use is as a very large supplement to your [[Molotov Cocktail]] supplies for [[Kill It with Fire|starting brushfires.]] NPCs under attack will also fire them into the air on occasion to try (and fail) to summon reinforcements.
* The Flare Gun is the starting weapon of the Salesman class in ''[[Survival Crisis Z]]'', and can be obtained by everyone else relatively early on. It's a one hit kill on basic zombies, but it's inaccurate and has a ''very'' short range.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Truth in Television]]: Flares are commonly used as [[Improvised Weapon
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131008214457/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99169738 A Danish] cargo ship used a flare to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|to set an enemy pirate boat on fire]].
** Though, accuracy goes out the window, as when firing a flare gun it is advised to close your eyes and look away, as looking directly at a lit flare is akin to staring directly at the sun.
** Something rarely addressed in fiction is the fact that some modern distress flares are actually a kind of [[Abnormal Ammo|highly specialised 12-gauge shotgun shell]]. Substitute a round of ordinary buckshot for the flare and you have a very short [[Sawed-Off Shotgun]], and they're legally classified as firearms in many jurisdictions.
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