"I am the god of hellfire, and I bring you... fire!"
— Arthur Brown, Fire
These are tropes about fire and combustion. Try not to get burned on your way in.
Contrast These Tropes Were Frozen Today.
Tropes
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- Aerosol Flamethrower: A lit up aerosol that's surprisingly effective.
- All-Natural Fire Extinguisher: Putting out a fire by peeing on it.
- Arrows on Fire: Lighting your arrows on fire is cool, whether or not it makes tactical sense.
- Ash Face: Explosion in the character's face leaves it covered in soot or ashes.
- Awesomeness Is Volatile: Explosions from too much awesomeness.
- Battle Amongst the Flames: A battle goes down in a place that's on fire.
- Bonfire Dance: A scene involving characters celebrating and dancing around a bonfire.
- Book Burning: Destroying books to destroy free thought.
- Booze Flamethrower: Spitting alcohol into fire to create a blast of fire.
- Break-Up Bonfire: A broken relationship ends with one party burning the stuff their ex left behind.
- Burn Baby Burn: Destroying something with fire for a dramatic disposal.
- Burning Bag of Poop: A prank that involves lighting a bag of poop on fire.
- Burning Rubber: Driving or running fast enough to leave a trail of fire.
- Burning the Flag: A flag is set on fire for symbolic reasons.
- Burning with Anger: A character becomes so angry that they project flames.
- Burn Scars, Burning Powers: Fire users with burn-related scars.
- Burn the Orphanage: A villain burns down an orphanage.
- Burn the Undead: Defeating undead beings by setting them on fire.
- Burn the Witch!: A witch is executed by burning her at the stake.
- Campfire Character Exploration: Characters open up to each other beside a campfire.
- Candlelit Bath: Someone takes a luxurious bath by candlelight.
- Candlelit Ritual: Ritual Magic set to candlelight for added spookiness.
- Cigar-Fuse Lighting: Using a cigar, cigarette, or other smoking device to light an explosive.
- Cold Flames: Fire that isn't hot.
- Convection, Schmonvection: In fiction, heat only applies to direct contact.
- Couldn't Find a Lighter: Cool, but Inefficient ways of lighting cigarettes, cigars, etc.
- Cut the Fuse: Stopping an explosion by stopping the fuse.
- Damage Is Fire
- The Discovery of Fire
- Dying Candle
- Dynamite Candle
- Evil Is Burning Hot
- Evil Living Flames
- Explosion Propulsion
- External Combustion
- Eyebrows Burned Off
- Fanatical Fire
- Farts on Fire
- Fiery Cover-Up
- Fiery Lion
- Fiery Salamander
- Fiery Sensuality
- Fiery Stoic: A character with fire powers who is calm, composed, stoic/unemotional, wise, and/or amiable.
- Finger Extinguisher
- Finger-Snap Lighter
- Fire and Brimstone Hell
- Fireball Eyeballs
- Fireballs
- Fire-Breathing Diner: Eating hot, spicy foods makes a person breathe fire.
- Fire-Breathing Weapon
- Firefighting Episode
- Fire/Ice Duo
- Fire, Ice, Lightning
- Fire Is Masculine: Fire or heat is associated with maleness or masculinity.
- Fire Is Red
- Fire Keeps It Dead: Burning corpses to prevent them from resurrecting as zombies.
- Fire Means Chaos
- Fire of Comfort
- Fire Purifies
- Fire/Water Juxtaposition
- Fire, Water, Wind
- The Flame of Life: Fire or fire motifs associated with life.
- Flames of Love
- Flame Spewer Obstacle: Jets of flame used as environmental hazards.
- Flamethrower Backfire
- Flaming Emblem
- Flaming Hair
- Flaming Skulls
- Flaming Sword
- Friction Burn
- Furnace Body Disposal
- Gasoline Dousing
- God of Fire
- Great Balls of Fire!
- The Great Fire
- Greek Fire
- Grilling Pyrotechnics
- Hard-to-Light Fire
- Heal It With Fire
- Hellfire
- Heroic Fire Rescue
- Hollywood Fire
- Homemade Flamethrower
- Hot Blade
- Hot Paint Job
- Hot Wings
- House Fire
- Hurl It into the Sun
- Ignorant About Fire: A character starts, or can't handle, a fire due to stupidity, clumsiness or Book Dumbness.
- Immune to Fire: The ability to survive being set of fire.
- Impressive Pyrotechnics
- Impromptu Campfire Cookout
- Incendiary Exponent
- Infernal Background
- Infernal Retaliation
- It's the Only Way to Be Sure
- Kill It with Fire
- Lava Magic Is Fire
- Letterbox Arson
- Let the Past Burn
- Light/Fire Juxtaposition
- Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition
- Made of Incendium
- Magic Fire: Fire with magical properties.
- Man on Fire
- Matchlight Danger Revelation
- Matchstick Weapon: Using a torch, burning stick/club or a stick that shoots fire as a weapon.
- Money to Burn
- Murder by Cremation: Killing a person by burning them alive.
- Nitro Express
- Non-Fatal Explosions
- Only a Lighter
- Out of the Inferno
- Playing with Fire: Pyrokinesis, or the ability to control the "element" of fire.
- Powder Trail
- Pyromaniac
- Reusable Lighter Toss
- Ridiculously Potent Explosive
- Ring of Fire
- Romantic Candlelit Dinner
- Rump Roast
- Sacred Flames: Holy fire.
- Set the World on Fire
- Self-Immolation
- Smokestack Drop
- Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass
- Spontaneous Human Combustion
- Stuck in a Chimney
- Technicolor Fire
- Toasted Buns
- Torches and Pitchforks
- Trashcan Bonfire
- Unaffected by Spice: A character loves really spicy food and can tolerate the heat.
- Vapor Trail: The fuel from a leaking vehicle is set on fire as a means to destroy the vehicle.
- Video Game Flamethrowers Suck: Video game flamethrowers are much less effective than the ones in real life.
- Viking Funeral: A dead person and their possessions are cast away in a boat that is then set on fire.
- Weak to Fire: Fire as a weakness.
- Wreathed in Flames: Man on Fire utilized as a superpower.
- You Have to Burn the Web: Spider webs catch fire easily.
No two indices are not on fire.