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Compare to [[It's All Junk]]. A [[Viking Funeral]] is this trope with someone's corpse.
The phrase that names this trope was coined by Activist [
We would like to apologize to any readers who now have ''Disco Inferno'' [[Ear Worm|stuck in their heads]], and inform those that didn't that [[Centipede's Dilemma|they now do.]]
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* In an episode of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', Angel burns the sketches his drew of Darla in a previously unseen incinerator he just happens to own. {{spoiler|This one also counts as [[Foreshadowing]] because shortly afterwards he sets Darla and Drusilla alight using some motor oil and a calmly dropped cigarette. [[No One Could Survive That|They survive]].}}
** In another episode, Wesley attempts to do this to Lilah Morgan's contract with Wolfram & Hart, but another copy appears in its place.
* Upon discovering that the "promised land" is {{spoiler|a nuked wasteland}}, Laura Roslin burns the Prophecies of Pythia that led them there page by page in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined
** Around the same time, {{spoiler|Starbuck}} burns {{spoiler|her own corpse}} on a pyre.
* Slightly subverted in ''[[Lost]]'', when Kate burns Joanna's passport. She purposely burns only the picture, so that she can pass herself off as Joanna when they are rescued. We get a lingering shot of the picture burning.
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* ''[[Spaced]]'': In a shot similar to the funerals of Qui-Gon and Darth Vader in ''[[Star Wars]]'', Tim burns all his Star Wars paraphernalia because he hates [[The Phantom Menace]] so much.
* Annie burned all her memorabilia of Owen after {{spoiler|learning that he was her killer}} in ''[[Being Human (TV)|Being Human]]''. Unfortunately, due to her housemates being subject to a mistaken [[Paedo Hunt]] at the same time, she caused a little panic that the house might be on fire...
* Averted in ''[[Misfits (TV)|Misfits]]'', when the long-suffering [[The Woobie|Woobie]] Simon had a major [[Freak
* In the two-part season 5 opener of ''[[The X-Files]]'', a man surveilling Agent Mulder's apartment from the next floor up realizes he has been found and tries to burn incriminating evidence, which doesn't work quite as planned.
* ''[[Mission Impossible]]'': "This message will self-destruct..."
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* In 2002, a Colorado forest ranger allegedly chose to burn some letters from an estranged husband despite a fire ban. The fire escaped the pit and resulted in the Hayman Fire, the largest forest fire in Colorado history.
* [[Truth in Television]]: Cryptographic [
** Spy planes have thermite igniters in case they are ever downed. Not for the crew to defend themselves with, but to burn computers and equipment that are classified. Nothing says [[Burn, Baby, Burn]] like Thermite.
** Also common practice with un-salvageable military vehicles on the battlefield, as described in [[Black Hawk Down]]. Accounts from Operation Iraqi Freedom identify M1A1 Abrams tanks as the most difficult to properly sanitize.
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