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▲== [[Commercials]] ==
* A Heineken commercial showed a tongue-in-cheek explanation of this trope. Man sets beer on ground. He goes back for it and has to illuminate the ground with his lighter. When he comes back up, the entire crowd has their lighters lit.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Noa's concert scene in ''[[Rail Wars!]]'' uses glowsticks instead of lighters. At least half the audience has them.
== [[Film]] ==
* Occurs in ''[[Undercover Brother]]'' while the title character and Penelope Snow {{spoiler|AKA White She Devil}} are karaoke singing "Ebony and Ivory".
== [[Live
* Used in ''[[Glee]]'' during Kurt and Blaine's rendition of "Candles" by [[Hey Monday]] at regionals. The audience held up plastic candles.
* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'': when the guys from K&B Construction come on [[Show Within a Show|"Tool Time"]] and play their tools as instruments, Tim, Al & Lisa (the Tool Time Girl, played by [[Pamela Anderson]]) use grill lighters.
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In one ''[[Baby Blues]]'' strip, Darryl and Wanda go to a Crosby, Stills & Nash concert. When they play "Teach Your Children", everyone around them is holding up a lighter. Wanda asks Darryl to hold up "anything that glows", so he pulls out a picture of their daughter Zoe. Major d'awwww moment.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* The local currency in ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' (a.k.a. ''[[Heavy Metal]] The Game'') are the Fire Tributes, which are actually signs of approval by the [[Physical God|Gods of Metal]] and appear as 2D hands holding lighters whenever you do something awesome like jumping over a canyon in your hot rod or beating a mission.▼
* Certain encore performances in ''[[Guitar Hero]] II'' are accompanied by members of the audience waving lighters. (Yes, Free Bird is one of them.)▼
* [[Discussed]] by Quentin from ''[[Psychonauts]]'', who tells you that it would be nice if you held up a lighter during his band's concert. The drummer, Phoebe, isn't too happy about this proposal since, due to problems with controlling her [[Playing with Fire|pyrokinetic]] powers, fire is a sore subject with her.▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* In ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', Strong Bad holds up a lighter at the end of an email about heavy metal.
== [[Web
* ''[[Casey and Andy]]'', TMBG "She was a hotel detective" video.
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* The local currency in ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' (a.k.a. ''[[Heavy Metal]] The Game'') are the Fire Tributes, which are actually signs of approval by the [[Physical God|Gods of Metal]] and appear as 2D hands holding lighters whenever you do something awesome like jumping over a canyon in your hot rod or beating a mission.
▲* Certain encore performances in ''[[Guitar Hero]] II'' are accompanied by members of the audience waving lighters. (Yes, Free Bird is one of them.)
▲* [[Discussed]] by Quentin from ''[[Psychonauts]]'', who tells you that it would be nice if you held up a lighter during his band's concert. The drummer, Phoebe, isn't too happy about this proposal since, due to problems with controlling her [[Playing with Fire|pyrokinetic]] powers, fire is a sore subject with her.
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