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* ''[[A Better Tomorrow]]'': Chow Yun-Fat's Mark Gor does this with a counterfeit bill in one of the opening shots of [[John Woo]]'s classic action film.

* In the 1985A scene of ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II'', The Pleasure Paradise logo has an image of Biff Tannen smoking a dollar bill.

* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|The Dark Knight]]'', The Joker lights up a pile of hundreds of millions of dollars owned by a consortium of mob bosses<ref>"I'm only burning ''[[Literalist Snarking|my half]]''."</ref>, with the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who laundered it all sitting on top.

* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|The Dark Knight]]'', The Joker lights up a pile of hundreds of millions of dollars owned by a consortium of mob bosses,<ref>"I'm only burning ''[[Literalist Snarking|my half]]''."</ref> with the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who laundered it all sitting on top.

{{quote|'''Joker:''' It's not about ''money''. It's about ''sending'' a ''message''. Everything burns.}}

** Oh, and it gets even better: What does he use to ignite the flames after having his minions douse it with gasoline? Why, he snatches one of the mob boss's cigars and throws it onto the pile.

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* In [[Agatha Christie]]'s short story "The Soul of the Croupier", the Countess does this to the high denomination bill that the croupier arranged for her to win, because she will not accept his charity. {{spoiler|He is her long-estranged husband.}}

* ''[[American Psycho]]'': One of Pat Bateman's friends teases a homeless guy with a dollar bill and then lights his cigar with it. Pat thinks he's a jerk (but it's not worth killing him ~~over-- he~~ likes the homeless even less).

* ''[[American Psycho]]'': One of Pat Bateman's friends teases a homeless guy with a dollar bill and then lights his cigar with it. Pat thinks he's a jerk (but it's not worth killing him over—he likes the homeless even less).

* In Spider Robinson's ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahan's Legacy]]'', a character who inherited a frickload of money decides to "combat inflation". He and his friends fold the bills into paper airplanes and send them flying into the fireplace.

* At the beginning of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s pre-''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[Strata]]'', protagonist Kin Arad is uninterested in Jago Jalo's claims of an uncharted world where thought becomes matter, until he takes out a couple hundred thousand years worth of the life-extension tickets that function as the setting's currency and casually tosses them all into a trash disintegrator.

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* The music video "Beautiful Dirty Rich" by [[Lady Gaga]] has her doing this with some rolled up bills as them being the cigar. Also just burns a 100 as well.

* A situational variant in her "Telephone" ~~video--she~~ walks out into the prison yard with sunglasses blinged-out with lit cigarettes. Now, [[Fridge Brilliance|what is commonly used as money in prison]]?

* A situational variant in her "Telephone" video—she walks out into the prison yard with sunglasses blinged-out with lit cigarettes. Now, [[Fridge Brilliance|what is commonly used as money in prison]]?

* In the video for "This is the Life", a filthy rich [[Weird Al]] lights a cigar with a 100 dollar bill.

* The video for Superdrag's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2buLteYLwc Sucked Out]" ends with the lead singer lighting a cigarette with a $1 bill. Given the tone of the song to which the image is attached, this was likely [[Doing It for the Art|meant to be symbolic]].