Man on Fire (trope): Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Baccano!]]'', two gangsters pour gasoline on {{spoiler|Szilard}}'s head and then throw a match at it. "We've never set a MAN on fire before!"

** In 2001, {{spoiler|Czeslaw}} throws himself into a fireplace to burn away some ropes that have been binding him, then walks [[Out of the Inferno]] and pushes past his terrified captors, [[Healing Factor|regenerating]] as he goes.

* In EP544 of [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] , May is visually set on fire after she realizes all of the food is gone (though no harm comes of it). Coincidentally, her fire-type Blaziken was about to engage in battle when the news was received.

 

== Comic Books ==

 

== Literature ==

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Parodied in ''[[Homestar Runner]]'''s Trogdor games with the "burninated" peasants.

* Melina Frost of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' is briefly set alight in one scene. By all accounts this results in her looking like [[Batman|Two-Face]]. - She actually survives this, as the fire is quickly extinguished.

* ''[[College Saga]]'' has a brief scene in which an NPC lit on fire runs across the room while the party walks by. [[Non Sequitur Scene|The team does not interact with this NPC, the story behind this NPC is never addressed, and he is never spoken of afterwards]].

* Caboose manages to set his combat armor on fire (while wearing it, of course) in the trailer for ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: Recreation''.

* In ''Wink The Game'', the PC Wink can grab torches and toss them on enemies. They set on fire, running around making [[Speaking Simlish|screaming noises]] until they disintegrate into ash

 

== Western Animation ==

* Perhaps the most famous was [[wikipedia:Thích Quảng Đức|Thich Quang Duc]], a Buddhist priest who set himself on fire in protest of the South Vietnamese government in June 1963. Because he notified the press, photographers were on hand to capture on film Duc dousing himself with gasoline, lighting up, and then ''serenely sit there'' as [[Dying Moment of Awesome|he burned to death]]. His death prompted massive public protests that led to the coup that killed President Diem. Duc's heart remained intact, even after a second cremation to reduce the body to ashes for safe-keeping. The heart was kept and revered as a sacred relic.

* The Tunisian ("Jasmine") Revolution of 2010-11 was started when a young man, Mohammed Bouazizi, [[Kill It with Fire|attempted suicide by fire]] as a protest against bad conditions in the country (he died later in the hospital). Besides a full-blown revolution in Tunisia, Bouazizi's actions have inspired four copycats in Egypt, where the Mubarak regime fell one month after Bouazizi's death. Other Middle Eastern nations - Jordan, Syria, Algeria, Libya, Bahrain, and Iran - are undergoing mass protests in response to what happened in Tunisia and Egypt.

** At least one video has emerged of protestors accidentally setting themselves ablaze with poor Molotov throws.

* Actually happened in the Vietnam era in the USA. [[wikipedia:Norman Morrison|Norman Morrison]], a Quaker protester of the war, set himself on fire outside the Pentagon in 1965.