History Main / ArrowsonFire

* A strip from ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' had a defender of a wagon train say about the attacking natives: "They're lighting their arrows! Can they ''do'' that?"

* ''Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}}'': An ArcherArchetype like Hawkeye had unsurprisingly used these over his long history, along with so many other TrickArrow variations.

* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': ''Literature/MarielOfRedwall'' features burning projectiles; the searats make "fire-swingers" to kill the defenders on the Abbey walls. A fire-swinger is a clump of cloth and dry grass wrapped around a rock on the end of a rope, which is set on fire and swung around as fast as the thrower can (very carefully, because swinging a burning object around is dangerous at best, particularly when you [[TalkingAnimal have fur]]), then released. Apparently the range of fire-swingers is greater than that of slings or shortbows, though the Long Patrol hares get good results when they [[ArcherArchetype retaliate with longbows.]]

* ''VideoGame/GhoulsVsHumans'': The [[ArcherArchetype Hunter class]] can use these. They do radius damage around themselves as they fly through the air, and explode on impact.

* ''VideoGame/RecettearAnItemShopsTale'' has ArcherArchetype Tielle, whose very first skill is, you guessed it, Fire Arrow. Given her ability to [[ChargedAttack charge up her normal attack to fire eight arrows at once]], Fire Arrow isn't all that helpful. She also has some sort of ''laser arrow''... no, really, she fires a magical arrow upwards that causes the screen to get covered in BeamSpam. [[AwesomeButImpractical As awesome as it looks, it's useless against most moving targets.]]

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* Modern-day Incendiary Rounds are the Bullet version of a Flaming Arrow. Tracers are less so: the primary purpose of a tracer is to tell the shooter where he hits (or used at designated parts of a magazine to keep count of bullets remaining), and are a less than ideal choice for setting things aflame.[[HollywoodTactics Hollywood]] uses both tracers and flaming arrows at times when it would be ineffective, typically because both put on a better light show than their regular, oftentimes more practical, counterparts.
** Although tracer rounds were modified for night-fighter use not only to tell the pilot where his bullets were going but also to set the target on fire. The first Zeppelin to be shot down over England in 1917 was downed by tracers designed to ignite the hydrogen inside the airship's balloon; normal bullets just made entry and exit holes and left the structure largely intact. A bullet hot enough to ignite the contents in passing turned out to be an airship-killer, and a contributory reason why they were discontinued from military use.

* One ''Series/{{Survivor}}:Africa'' challenge involved shooting these at a bulls-eye. HilarityEnsues when Brandon tried to shoot and [[http://funny115.com/v1/25.htm botched it completely]].