Flare Gun: Difference between revisions

== [[Board Games]] ==

== [[Comic Books]] ==

== [[Film]] ==

* Viggo Mortenson's character in ''The Road'' uses a flare gun on people he thinks are following him with malicious intent.

* In ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'', Brian is in detention {{spoiler|because he brought a gun to school to kill himself with since he got an "F" on an assignment, but it was a flare gun that goes off in his locker, thus getting him caught and sent to detention}}. Cue laughter from the rest of the kids.

* At the end of the execrable Joe Don Baker movie ''[[Final Justice]]'', the police escort finally stops being a [[Neutral Female]] and uses one to dispatch [[The Mole]].

* In ''[[Tremors]]'', one of the many weapons used by Burt and Heather Gummer on the Graboid that smashes into their underground "rec room."

* ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]'': while Andrea is sniping at the German soldiers on the mountain, a German officer uses one to mark his position and direct his troops' fire.

* Used in a [[Chase Scene]] in ''[[Striking Distance]]'' to blow up the local [[Serial Killer]]'s car.

* ''[[Jaws 2]]'': a hysterical female victim of the shark blows herself up with a flare gun, after she spilled petrol hurling a petrol can whose cap had come off at the monster shark.

* Used to drive off the Spinosaurus the final time they bump into it in ''[[Jurassic Park III]]''. The Spinosaurus had ruptured the fuel tank when it attacked their boat, so the flare gun set it on fire, at which point it retreated in pain.

* A variation: in ''[[Discworld|The Fifth Elephant]]'', Sam Vimes used a modified [[Bamboo Technology|Clacks]] flare (no gun involved) as a weapon against a werewolf. {{spoiler|Said werewolf's over-confidence and instincts made him catch the flare rocket in his mouth, which promptly exploded and killed him.}} Later the story was greatly exaggerated, leaving the flare out, and making Vimes an in-universe [[Memetic Badass]]: the man who killed a werewolf barehanded.

* Flare Guns were routinely carried in the ''[[Biggles]]'' books set in [[WW 1]] and were occasionally used as a makeshift weapon to set enemy planes on fire.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* Desmond shoots Mikhail with one on ''[[Lost]]''.

* ''[[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.

** ''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]].

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Urban Dead]]'': Humans can obtain flare guns from certain locations. They do 15 points of damage, but have very low accuracy. As in real life, players can use flare guns to signal their location to humans and zombies alike.

** A later unlock is the Detonator: a modified flare gun whose flares cause a small explosion as [[Alt Fire]] (or a smaller one when it hits an object) in exchange for increased self-damage (making its already rather pathetic [[Rocket Jump]] outside the beta even less useful) and only getting a mini-crit on burning enemies instead of full one.

* This is one of the available weapons in ''SMOD'', an add-on mod to ''[[Half-Life|Half Life 2]]''.

* One of the WWII-era weapons in ''[[Time Splitters]]: Future Perfect''. It appears in story mode when Cortez uses it to shoot a guard (and accidentally give a signal to start a bombardment of the island he needs to be on). Like most other examples, it's not very accurate but sets enemies on fire.

* ''[[Blood]]'' has a flare gun for the standard FPS pistol slot, though more powerful than the standard with the ability to set most minor enemies on fire with one shot, compared to several bullets from other shooters. Very useful in the sequel where some minions teleport when they take damage. With a flare gun the burning flare teleports with them.

* ''[[Alan Wake]]'' has a flare gun as an available weapon for fighting your light-hating enemies. It's the most powerful weapon in the game, easily capable of instantly destroying most weaker enemies and producing light for a few seconds afterwards to drive away any surviving enemies. Naturally, you don't find a lot of ammo for them, but they're very handy for emergencies.

** The Flare Gun is also the only way to defeat the final boss. (so you get infinite ammo for it).

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'': the Torch staff, usable by only [[Simple Staff|staff]] wielders, [[Defog of War|illuminates squares]] in [[Fog of War]].

* ''[[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]]'': 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).

* 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.

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Jeff in ''Bite Me'' kills the zombified Marcy by blowing her head off with a flare gun. Unfortunately, he only bought one round.