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* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', {{spoiler|Makoto Shishio}} is only defeated when {{spoiler|his body temperature rises so much during his fight with Kenshin that Shishio bursts into flame.}}
** But that's only after his blood boils and evaporates away. Sheesh.
* 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.
* [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|MAN]] [[Wreathed in Flames|ON]] [[Incendiary Exponent|FIRE]] [[Infernal Retaliation|BLAZING]] [[Death From Above|CHARIOT]] [[Awesome Moments|KIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK]]!
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** 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.]]
* Enemies in ''[[
* ''[[Evolva]]'': Use the mucus attack against your enemies, then the flame weapon. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Your enemies can do the same thing to you if a mucus and a flame parasite stick together, though. Thankfully, such a situation can only happen at the end of level 11.
* [[Bare Handed Monk|Lee Sin]] of [[League of Legends]] did so [[All There in the Manual|in his backstory]], leaving him as a [[Handicapped Badass]]. Also a shout out to Thich Quang Duc in the [[Real Life]] section.
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