History KillItWithFire / Videogames

* ''VideoGame/MissionImpossibleKonami'': Turned against you. Knives and melee attacks do one damage. Bullets do two. Fire attacks do a whopping '''six''' damage, or half your life bar in one hit. And since fire attacks tend to linger, it's easy to see your agent go from full health to dead in under a second if you're not careful.

* Not so much for killing, but the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita version of ''VideoGame/ModNationRacers'' weaponizes fireballs as a power-up. The thing is, because stacking power-ups increase their level, you can max it out at level 3 and fire a giant Phoenix to swoop across the track.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' ''The Old Hunters'' has the Boom Hammer, a [[DropTheHammer large hammer]] with a built in furnace. This is a part of it's weapon description:

* For ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000ChaosGate'', Chaos Space Marines and Daemons can soak a heap of bolter shells without flinching. But even Chaos Terminators can go down in one shot from a hand flamer let alone the bigger flaming weapons.

* All four ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'', plus ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' games have incendiary weapons: the traditional flamethrower (flamer), Molotov Cocktails, Nuka-Cola Grenade (a ''radioactive'' molotov cocktail with even more explosive results)... and all of those weapons set their foes on fire with a critical hit (or with any hit using a Flamer) before turning the corpses into piles of ash. Fallout loves this trope!
** The flamer of ''Fallout 1'' and ''2'' was [[ScrappyWeapon heavy, used rare and heavy ammo and had abysmal range]]. A straight example of VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck. Fallout 2 also introduced Molotov Cocktails. Being [[ScrappyWeapon thrown weapons]], they sucked too.

** Some mutated critters even have the ability to spew fire, Fallout 2 had Fire Geckos in some RandomEncounters, and Fallout 3 introduced [[BigCreepyCrawlies Fire Ants]]. Both of them return in New Vegas.

*** Flood ''[[DoomsdayDevice the entire rest of the world]]'' with magma. The fortress of {{LetsPlay/Boatmurdered}} (ab)used this to infamous effect with their Project: "Fuck the World."

* In ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest: Open Season'', you neutralize the BigBad with a [[AerosolFlamethrower lighter and hairspray]].

** The flamer of Fallout 1 and 2 was [[ScrappyWeapon heavy, used rare and heavy ammo and had abysmal range]]. A straight example of VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck. Fallout 2 also introduced Molotov Cocktails. Being [[ScrappyWeapon thrown weapons]], they sucked too.

** In Blood Omen you have Flame Sword (which is second only to Soul Reaver itself), Soul Reaver has Fire Reaver upgrade and Fire Glyph, Soul Reaver 2 also has Fire upgrade, Blood Omen 2 has Immolate power, that is given near the end and Defiance has another Fire upgrade. Curiously, it also has Flame Balance Emblem upgrade for Kain, but it only makes mooks fight each other.

* Since Stingy Jack's body in ''VideoGame/PumpkinJack'' is mostly composed of wood, cloth and pumpkin, Jack is especially vulnerable to fire.

* One of the more useful Plasmids in ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'' is "Incinerate!" which, with a snap of the fingers, sets people on fire. The random screaming from the affected splicers who've been set ablaze ranges from terrifying to BloodyHilarious.

* ''Far Cry'':

** The [[WickedWitch Twinrova]] ([[FireIceDuo Koume and Kotake]]) boss fights in both ''Ocarina of Time'' and the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle Games]]''. The former game has the [[DualBoss two witches]] being fought in the Spirit Temple as the final standard boss before facing off with Ganondorf, while the latter two game series has you fighting them in the Room of Rites after completing a linked game in which all 16 dungeons in either game are completed and Veran (''Oracle of Ages'') and General Onox (''Oracle of Seasons'') have been bested. The first half of the battle has the sorceress twins being weak to their opposite elements, so the gimmick is you have to reflect a blast of magic fired from one sister to the other (in ''Ocarina of Time'', neither the Ice or Fire Arrows can harm them, and the same applies for the ''Oracles''' Ember Seeds). [[PlayingWithFire Koume attacks with fire]], which the icy Kotake is [[WeakToFire weak to]], and [[KillItWithIce vice-versa]]. After a few hits, regardless of which sister taking the most blasts, [[FusionDance the sisters fuse together to become Twinrova]], a single super-witch with the combined powers of both sisters.

* Grass-, Ice-, Bug-, & Steel-[[ElementalRockPaperScissors type]] Franchise/{{Pokemon}} take double damage from Fire, and the unfortunate Snover, Sewaddle, and Paras lines take QuadDamage, as do Steel/Bug-types and two of the three forms of Wormadam. Paras and Parasect manages to take Quint Damage with its ability Dry Skin. Scizor, Forretress, Durant, Escavalier, and Genesect (the aforementioned Steel/Bug) have Fire as their only weakness, but it's a QuadDamage [[AchillesHeel weakness]].

** This is a particularly viable tactic against Shedinja, which can only sustain direct damage from five different types -- Ghost, Dark, Flying, Rock, and... well, guess.

** The [[WickedWitch Twinrova]] ([[FireIceDuo Koume and Kotake]]) boss fights in both ''Ocarina of Time'' and the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle Games]]''. The former game has the [[DualBoss two witches]] being fought as the final standard boss before facing off with Ganondorf, while the latter two game series has you fighting them after completing a linked game in which all 16 dungeons completed and Veran (''Oracle of Ages'') and General Onox (''Oracle of Seasons'') have been bested. The first half of the battle has the sorceress twins being weak to their opposite elements, so the gimmick is you have to reflect a blast of magic fired from one sister to the other (in ''Ocarina of Time'', neither the Ice or Fire Arrows can harm them, and the same applies for the ''Oracles''' Ember Seeds). [[PlayingWithFire Koume attacks with fire]], which the icy Kotake is [[WeakToFire weak to]], and [[KillItWithIce vice-versa]]. After a few hits, regardless of which sister taking the most blasts, [[FusionDance the sisters fuse together to become Twinrova]], a single super-witch with the combined powers of both sisters.

** The [[WickedWitch Twinrova]] ([[FireIceDuo Koume and Kotake]]) boss fights in both ''Ocarina of Time'' and the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle Games]]''. The former game has the [[DualBoss two witches being fought as the final standard boss before facing off with Ganondorf, while the latter two game series has you fighting them after completing a linked game in which all 16 dungeons completed and Veran (''Oracle of Ages'') and General Onox (''Oracle of Seasons'') have been bested. The first half of the battle has the sorceress twins being weak to their opposite elements, so the gimmick is you have to reflect a blast of magic fired from one sister to the other (in ''Ocarina of Time'', neither the Ice or Fire Arrows can harm them, and the same applies for the ''Oracles''' Ember Seeds). [[PlayingWithFire Koume attacks with fire]], which the icy Kotake is [[WeakToFire weak to]], and [[KillItWithIce vice-versa]]. After a few hits, regardless of which sister taking the most blasts, [[FusionDance the sisters fuse together to become Twinrova]], a single super-witch with the combined powers of both sisters.

** The [[WickedWitch Twinrova]] ([[FireIceDuo Koume and Kotake]]) boss fights in both ''Ocarina of Time'' and the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle Games]]''. The first half of the battle has the sorceress twins being weak to their opposite elements, so the gimmick is you have to reflect a blast of magic fired from one sister to the other (in ''Ocarina of Time'', neither the Ice or Fire Arrows can harm them, and the same applies for the ''Oracles''' Ember Seeds). [[PlayingWithFire Koume attacks with fire]], which the icy Kotake is [[WeakToFire weak to]], and [[KillItWithIce vice-versa]]. After a few hits, regardless of which sister taking the most blasts, [[FusionDance the sisters fuse together to become Twinrova]], a single super-witch with the combined powers of both sisters.

* Grass-, Ice-, Bug-, & Steel-[[ElementalRockPaperScissors type]] Franchise/{{Pokemon}} take double damage from Fire, and the unfortunate Snover, Sewaddle, and Paras lines take QuadDamage, as do Steel/Bug-types and two of the three forms of Wormadam. Paras and Parasect manages to take Quint Damage with its ability Dry Skin. Scizor, Forretress, Durant, Escavalier, and Genesect have Fire as their only weakness, but it's a QuadDamage [[AchillesHeel weakness]].

* Grass-, Ice-, Bug-, & Steel-[[ElementalRockPaperScissors type]] Franchise/{{Pokemon}} take double damage from Fire, and the unfortunate Snover, Sewaddle, and Paras lines take QuadDamage, as do Steel/Bug-types and two of the three forms of Wormadam. Paras and Parasect manages to take Quint Damage with its ability Dry Skin. Scizor, Forretress, Durant, Escavalier, and Genesect have Fire as their only weakness, but it's a QuadDamage weakness.

* The ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series has two main instances of the trope; in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'' the only way to kill the FinalBoss is to immolate him with a lighter and a can of hairspray, and in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' one of the bosses is a flamethrower-wielding jetpack-equipped pyromaniac cosmonaut (which still makes more sense than the guy '''[[BeeBeeGun COVERED IN BEES!]]''') who wants to kill ''everything'' with fire, and quickly immediately sets the battlefield (and the player) ablaze. The FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' streaks across the battlefield, leaving trails of fire in his wake.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': Explorer Zombies can burn your plants with his torch, instantly killing them. However, you can put the fire out with an iceberg lettuce.
The sequel also introduces the Snapdragon, which shoots a wall of fire wide enough to cover three lanes, the Lightning Reed, which will burn zombies to a crisp after enough exposure, and the Pepper Pult, which deals AOE fire damage as well as thawing plants around it.
Zombot Dark Dragon can use a fire breath on two lanes, instantly destroying any plants on them and rendering them unplantable for a short while. It can also spit fireballs into the air that rain on the lawn, which can also spawn Imp Dragon zombies

** The [[WickedWitch Twinrova]] ([[FireIceDuo Koume and Kotake]]) boss fights in both ''Ocarina of Time'' and the ''Oracle series''. The first half of the battle has the sorceress twins being weak to their opposite elements, so the gimmick is you have to reflect a blast of magic fired from one sister to the other (in ''Ocarina of Time'', neither the Ice or Fire Arrows can harm them, and the same applies for the ''Oracles''' Ember Seeds). [[PlayingWithFire Koume attacks with fire]], which the icy Kotake is [[WeakToFire weak to]], and [[KillItWithIce vice-versa]]. After a few hits, regardless of which sister taking the most blasts, [[FusionDance the sisters fuse together to become Twinrova]], a single super-witch with the combined powers of both sisters.

** The ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle series]]'' games has the Ember Seeds. They function the same way as the Fire Arrows, whether used when you're in front of enemies or objects with the Seed Satchel or fired from a distance using ''Oracle of Ages's'' Seed Shooter or ''Oracle of Seasons's'' Slingshot.

** Along with the sorceress sisters, ''Oracle of Seasons'' has the [[HailfirePeaks Sword and Shield Maze]], and its miniboss, Frypolar. Very simple to explain, because the dungeon is [[LethalLavaLAnd fire-themed on the sword floor]] and ice-themed on the shield floor, and Frypolar has the power to convert from fire to ice, hence their respective names. While in fire form, Frypolar shoots multiple fiery geysers that will harm Link upon contact and in ice form, creates pillars of ice rising from the ground. When in ice form, it is weak against Link's Ember Seeds when they're fired at him, but when in fire form, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Link has to throw the ice pillars that it originally created to attack him]]. Link can also fire Mystery Seeds at it to make it change elements faster in order to execute the proper attacks. As far as reaching the boss, Medusa Head, and recovering the eighth and final Essence of Nature, the Changing Seasons, the trope is defied in which you have to use the icy pillars found on the shield floor to harden the lava on the sword floor and cool it off, allowing Link to progress.

** The ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle series]]'' games has the Ember Seeds. They function the same way as the Fire Arrows, whether used when you're in front of enemies or objects with the Seed Satchel or fired from a distance using ''Ages's'' Seed Shooter or ''Seasons's'' Slingshot.