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{{quote|"It's time to let my own lack of a voice be heard."}}
* ''[[The Wicker Man]]''. The clue is in the title.
* ''The Blue and the Grey,'' a movie about the [[American Civil War]] usually shown in schools, has a Confederate soldier burning alive after his legs have been shot, begging his brother to shoot him. And is responsible for making a class of fifth graders throw up and have nightmares for the rest of <s>our</s> their lives.
* In ''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]'', [[Implacable Man|Jason Voorhees]] is soaked in alcohol and set on fire. All this leads to is a burning, Hockey Mask wearing undead killing machine hacking his way through a cornfield rave, before extinguishing himself by getting sprayed with more alcohol.
* In ''[[Crank|Crank 2: High Voltage]]'', Chev Chelios {{spoiler|self-immolates as a result of drawing a charge from an electrical transformer, after which he beats the main bad guy to death, throws him into a pool, WALKS AWAY from the water, begins tripping severe balls, makes out with a woman, and then gives you the finger.}} [[Rule of Cool|It is that kind of movie.]]
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* When ''[[Series/Top Gear|Top Gear]]'' [[Hilarity Ensues|redesigned Sir Steve Redgrave's garden]], during the Ground Force-style fast-forwarding bit a blazing man runs into shot and is put out with a fire blanket. It is [[Rule of Funny|never really explained]].
* In one episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', Sheppard and Lucius Luvin, who happens to have an Ancient shield that makes him invincible, need a plan to distract and defeat some Genii soldiers. One of Lucius' ideas is, and I quote, [[Discussed Trope|"I could set myself on fire."]] Naturally, Sheppard likes it. Unfortunately, nothing comes of this idea.
* In [[CSI: NY]], "Sleight Out of Hand", there was a magician who set himself on fire as a magic trick. While the magician was performing his trick, a guy several blocks away burned to death from being set on fire.
** Later, Mac demonstrated the cooling gel used by stunt performers for 'burns' aka setting themselves on fire, slathering it on a sleeve that covered his arm and inviting Danny to set the arm on fire.
{{quote|'''Mac''': Come on, what other job lets you set your boss on fire?
'''Danny''': Okay, but if you go up in flames, I get your office. }}
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* Till Lindemann of [[Rammstein]]. Aside from his constant fiery antics on stage, the "Du Hast" video has the drummer Christoph Schneider do this as well. And let's not forget that the first song on their first album is called "Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen?" (for the non-German-speakers, that's "Do you want to see the bed in flames?").
* [[Music/Logan Whitehurst|Logan Whitehurst]]'s aptly named ''Ohmygodimonfire.''
* The [[Autopsy (band)|Autopsy]] song "Charred Remains"
* [[Evile]]'s song "Burned Alive"
* The cover of [[Rage Against the Machine]]'s first album is a well-known photo of Thich Quang Duc (see Real Life folder).
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* ''[[Super Mario 64]]'', ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' all do this. When Mario hits an enemy with fireballs, it catches fire and dies; when Mario falls into lava or gets hit with fire, he gets launched high into the air, then upon landing grabs his flaming rear end and runs in circles, yelling things like "AAAHothothothothot!" and "MAMA!!!"
* In the ''[[Metal Slug]]'' series, using fire-based attacks on [[Mook|enemy soldiers]] causes them to dance in place before they turn to ash.
* In the first ''[[Command
** If the tank was destroyed just after shooting, the driver could manage to get out in time, but would ''still'' be killed by ''his own flame jet he fired seconds ago''. And if the tank was moving, he could also be ran over by ''the tank's exploding remains''. Sick.
* In the first episode of ''[[Blood (video game)|Blood]]'' (the horror [[First-Person Shooter]]), one of the first weapons you acquire is a flare gun whose ammo, after hitting an enemy, sets him ablaze, running and screaming while engulfed by the fire, when he's weakened enough. The sequel had the same weapon, but the enemies stay strangely calm as they fry to a crips (partially justified when they are zombies).
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* Villagers in ''[[Black and White]]'' regularly catch fire when the fireball you're idly tossing about gets away from you. When this happens, their status (normally "working", "sleeping" or whatever) becomes "being on fire".
* In the ''Enhanced Configuration Project'' [[Game Mod]] for soldier sim ''[[Operation Flashpoint]]'', occupants of exploded vehicles will sometimes leap out and run around, on fire and screaming in agony, until they expire or are put out of their misery.
* Oh, the running, screaming, burning pedestrians in ''Syndicate'' and ''Syndicate Wars''. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Why else would you pack a flamethrower]]?
* Upon receiving a flamethrower in ''[[Army Men]]: Sarge's Heroes'', Sarge gives a content laugh: "Oh-ho-ho, yeah." Also, several times in the games the quote, "I love the smell of burnt plastic in the morning," is used to further the sadistic craving of burning plastic soldiers. Of course, the results of the flamethrower are quite satisfying and well worth the reaction: any mook (or Sarge himself) caught in the flames runs around in circles before shriveling up into a blob of goo and fading away (as video game corpses do).
* In the cutscene right after a fight with one of the minibosses in ''[[Dead Rising]]'', said miniboss, a teenage [[Pyromaniac]], is shown backing away from Frank shaking like a leaf and holding out a Molotov cocktail and ends up slipping and landing flat on his back, accidentally hurling the projectile into the air. It lands, already burning, [[Played for Laughs|on his crotch]], and the player has the option to put him out with a nearby fire extinguisher, resulting in a [[Heel Face Turn]].
* ''[[Call of Duty]] 2'', when the player lands at Pointe du Hoc he is immediately stunned by an artillery shell. In his hazy immobilized state, the player sees an LCVP engulfed in flames with partially burning soldiers fleeing from it. Then, and it's something that made this Troper go "holy shit", a burning soldier walks calmly out of the ship and down the ramp, collapses to his knees, and falls down.
* The dwarves in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' have a special relationship with fire, mostly because they don't register it as a problem they should solve, and so merrily go about their duties and setting the ''rest'' of the fortress on fire as well.
** A famous instance in [[Boatmurdered]] in which 'god emperor' Sankis the Beardless snapped and went postal. "OH MY GOD. Sankis is on a bloody rampage! He mauled a baby and a cow, and now, at this very instant, he's beating the Elite Marksdwarf Kadol Lokumad into paste! DID I MENTION HE IS ON FUCKING FIRE!??"
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* In the [[Rail Shooter]] part of ''[[Die Hard]] Trilogy'', people periodically get set on fire by explosions, etc. Shooting them gets you a "[[Mercy Kill|Mercy Shot]]" bonus.
* Early on in ''[[Anachronox]]'', you're barred from one area by a NOX Guard who informs you that some guy set himself on fire and they're waiting for him to stop. You can see him run around madly while the sociopathic guards do nothing to help him. Hilariously, this is also a [[Broken Bridge]], so unless you further the polt sufficiently, you can come back an hour later and find the guy ''still running around and being on fire''.
* [[World of Warcraft]] warlocks and mages can set their enemies on fire for short periods of time.
** So can many mobs and bosses (if you are not careful) leading to the now-meme "Don't stand in the fire."
** In ''Cataclysm'' there is a quest in Mount Hyjal to extinguish burning Twilight Cultists who have failed their training test to defeat a fire elemental.
** Engineers can get the Transporter Malfunction debuff "YOU ARE ON FIRE!!!"
* ''[[Odium]]'' has lighting the monsters on fire (they burn and receive damage for three turns) as one of the most helpful and damaging combat maneouvers. You can begin doing it very quickly, since you find a flamethrower a few combats into the game. There are also [[Molotov Cocktail|Molotov Cocktails]] and a napalm launcher which ignites foes in a large rectangular radius, as well as leaving flames that ignite anyone who passes through. You can also make a foe flammable by tossing a bottle of gas or alcohol at him, though it requires you to actually set him on fire by using matches or a firearm on them.
* ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World|Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game]]'' feature [[Mook|mooks]] who run around on fire inside a restaurant level. The restaurant also includes giant grills that [[Convection, Schmonvection|set players and mooks alike on fire when stepped on]].
* ''[[Purple]]'' features enemies who look like standard onion-head NPCs, except their head is on fire and they can attack and hurt you. Later, there's a (stronger) ''freezing'' head variation.
* ''[[Overlord]]'s'' red minions can do this to enemies, some of which have the courtesy to [[Kill It with Fire|die panicked shrieking deaths]]. Explosives thrown or planted by enemies can hit each other for similar effect.
* ''[[Dragon Age II]]'''s Ketojan, a Qunari Saarebas whom Hawke escorts out of Kirkwall, {{spoiler|uses his power to set himself on fire to kill himself rather than risk the possibility that he has been corrupted by demons, as is demanded by the Qun.}}
* One of the [[Mook|Mooks]] during the Rank 8 level of ''[[No More Heroes]]'' has the ability to set Travis on fire. If this happens, Travis runs around, slowly burning to death until he can get his hands on an extinguisher.
* In ''[[Banjo Tooie]]'', if you use your fire eggs or Dragon!Kazooie's fire breath on a mook, you can watch him run around ablaze until it stops or you kill him.
* It's something of a tradition for ''[[Fallout]]'' games to depict the average human being as kindling in waiting. Flamethrowers in the first and second games give a kill animation fondly referred to among fans as the Burning Bitch Dance, while the later installments by Bethesda have given the various desert-wandering protagonists plenty of ways to demonstrate how flammable people are.
* ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'' and ''[[Resident Evil 3 Nemesis]]'' both have burning zombies.
** Also, both Mr. X and the Nemesis are set ablaze in the game.
* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' has Joshua Graham, The Burned Man. Formerly the [[The Dragon|Legate]] of [[The Horde|Caesar's Legion]], for his failure to defeat the NCR he was covered in pitch, set aflame and thrown down the Grand Canyon. [[Memetic Badass|It didn't work.]] However, when you meet him in the Honest Hearts DLC he can tell you that every night when he has to change the bandages that cover him from head to toe and expose his wounds to the air, [[And I Must Scream|he must go through the feeling of being burned alive once again.]]
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* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' - Dan McNinja's superior reasoning ability leads him to conclude that the best way to avoid being caught by other ninjas is to set himself on fire (granted, the ninjas in question are actually teenagers on a "ninja drug", and therefore are rather reluctant to grab someone on fire). He does have the advantage of a fireproof ninja suit, though.
** In a later comic the [[Big Bad]] of the same arc (who ''doesn't'' need the drug for his ninja skills) admits that setting yourself on fire does prevent ninjas in general (himself included) from catching you... {{spoiler|[[You Have Failed Me|after telling the ninjas who failed to catch Dan to set themselves on fire to prove otherwise]]}}.
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
** [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/12/12/episode-1203-maligned/ Also happened to Black Mage when he tried to equip a holy weapon:]
{{quote|'''Black Mage:''' [[Major Injury Underreaction|I appear to have come]] '''[[Major Injury Underreaction|aflame.]]'''}}
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* In an episode of ''[[The Venture Bros]]'' Brock Samson douses a henchman in gasoline and sets him on fire with a lit cigarette, he then puts him out by punching him.
** Used in another episode where The Incredible Mr. Brisby (a [[Walt Disney]] [[Expy]]) monologues a little too close to the fireplace. Due to his being in a wheelchair, his legs catch on fire and he screams "I've come aflame again!" as Ling-Ling, his "companda", swats at him and stomps the fire out.
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Patriot Games" during Stewie's torture of Brian for not paying him he lights Brian on fire with a flamethrower.
* This has happened to the title character of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' a number of times.
* Self-inflicted on an episode of [[Sealab 2021]]. The crew are camping in the woods, only to discover it full of "Tree-snakes." They realize the snakes are repelled by the light, so they don't come near the campfire. [[Too Dumb to Live|Stormy]] at once proclaims, "So if we lite ''ourselves'' on fire, we can go anywhere!" before dousing himself in gasoline and striking a match.
* Humorously and accidentally averted in an episode of ''[[The Smurfs]]'', when Clumsy splashes water on Papa Smurf and is thanked by him for putting out his beard.
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