History Main / CigarFuseLighting

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** And also, in the expansion for the original game, ''VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce'', the HECU Engineer does this with a cutting torch.

* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'''s Bill can be seen doing this with a molotov cocktail in the trailer for "The Sacrifice".

So Sgt. McKickass [[CigarChomper has a cigar in his mouth]], and brings up a stick of dynamite; lighting the fuse off his cigar. A puff of smoke from his mouth, a sly grin, and he's off walking forward, tossing the dynamite behind him. Usually includes [=McKickass=] performing an UnflinchingWalk.

So Sgt. [[AwesomeMcCoolName McKickass]] [[CigarChomper has a cigar in his mouth]], and brings up a stick of dynamite; lighting the fuse off his cigar. A puff of smoke from his mouth, a sly grin, and he's off walking forward, tossing the dynamite behind him. Usually includes [=McKickass=] performing an UnflinchingWalk.

* In Chapter 177 of ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'', Kashiya knocks over Takagi's bike and flicks his cigarette onto it, [[EveryCarIsAPinto causing it to explode]].

* ''FanFic/DeadEyedTsuna'': What Gokudera uses in order to light his dynamite more effectively. It doesn't help that it fits his idea of a mature, suave Mafioso.
* In ''FanFic/MuffetTheMom'', Muffet often puts her tremendous stogie to good use by lighting fuses, candles, and other flammable things with it.

* In ''ComicBook/GrimmFairyTales 2019 Holiday Special'', a gang of [[{{Bully}} bullies]] use a cigarette to light the fuse on a firecracker that they then use to blow up a young boy's snowman.

* In ''UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch: Mario's Bombs Away'', this can happen by mistake to the bomb Mario's holding thanks to [[LethallyStupid a careless fellow troop]] if he doesn't watch out.

* In ''VideoGameMadDogMcCree'', Mad Dog straps the Prospector to a barrel of TNT and uses his cigar to light the fuse. The player must [[CutTheFuse shoot the fuse]] to save the Prospector.

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* In ''ComicBook/{{Sillage}}'', one of the Armada agents does it while on a mission on an alien planet, with the two fuses tied in front of his chest and a swivel gun under each arm. ''And'' riding a local equivalent of a pterodactyl.

* ''ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko'': In ''The Valley of the Cobras'', Ramahjuni inadvertently lights the fuse of a stick of dynamite by throwing away his cigarette butt.
* In ''ComicBook/GrimFairyTales 2019 Holiday Special'', a gang of bullies us a cigarette to light the fuse on a firecracker that they then use to blow up a young boy's snowman.

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* [[TheGunslinger Comrade Sukhov]] in ''Film/WhiteSunOfTheDesert'' does the inverted version: He lights his cigarette off a dynamite fuse.

* In ''Film/TheWildBunch'', Pike uses his cigar to light the fuse on a stick of dynamite when threatening the general.
* In ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'', after one of the bandits drops all the matches off a cliff, he asks how he's going to light the dynamite. The answer is the lit cigarallo he's been smoking the whole scene.
* The hero in the UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} film ''Trishul'' lights the fuse to some dynamite using his cigarette.
* Porthos does this during the assault on the Tower of London in ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers2011''.

* In ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', Ramone uses a cigar to light the fuse on the dynamite that blows up the wall around the Baxter house.
* ''Film/TheDeserter'': Despite being shot and fatally wounded, the Chaplain uses his dying strength to touch his cigar to the fuse to set off the dynamite to trigger the avalanche. He even enjoys one final puff on it before the explosion.
* ''Film/SkyBandits'': While robbing banks, Barney lights a dynamite fuse off his cigarette. Much later, he rides through the German base on a bicycle, smoking a cigar and casually lighting fuses and tossing the dynamite behind him.

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* In "The Six Maledictions" in ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'', it's noted of Irish revolutionary bomber Tyrone Mountmain that if he's smoking a cigar, his dynamite is ready to hand.

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* ''Series/ThePretender'': In the episode "Homefront", Jarod adopts the persona of an arms dealer, and takes up [[CigarChomper chomping enormous cigars]]. Near the end of the episode, he uses his cigar to light the fuse on a diversionary explosion, then throws it away and is cigarless thereafter.

* In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Redefinition", currently [[TheUnfettered Unfettered]] Angel uses the [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking cigarette he's been smoking]] to show that he's in a morally-questionable mood to set Darla and Drusilla on fire with petrol.
* Robert Culp lights a CartoonBomb off his cigarette in the opening credits of ''Series/ISpy''.

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* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', one of Cid's {{Limit Break}}s has him do this.
* In ''UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch: Mario's Bombs Away'', this can happen by mistake to the bomb Mario's holding thanks to [[LethallyStupid a careless fellow troop]] if he doesn't watch out.

* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': 'Toon fighter Peacock does this with her level 3 NoHoldsBarredBeatdown super attack: She wraps her enemy in a burlap sack and calls on a group of her personal Mook army to help her smash the living daylights out of the opponent. She then walks away, puffing on a cigar as a CartoonBomb crony continues to beat the sack with a baseball bat. She then invokes this trope by casually tossing the cigar over her shoulder, detonating the bomb underling.

* ''VideoGame/{{Outlaws}}'': The player character can chuck dynamite around. Alt-fire lights the fuse, and the animation consists of the PC removing his stogie from his mouth and applying it to the fuse.
* Western-themed ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' GameMod ''VideoGame/FistfulOfFrags'' also uses this for when the player is throwing dynamite around, despite none of the character models being seen with a cigar at any other time. They look exactly like the stogies favoured by Clint Eastwood's character from the "Dollars" trilogy, which is probably not coincidental.
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'''s Bill can be seen doing this with a molotov cocktail in the trailer for "The Sacrifice".

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', Jose Carioca lights the fireworks on WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's bull costume with his cigar.
* ''The Looney Looney Looney WesternAnimation/BugsBunny Movie'' (1981). Sylvester the Cat hides Tweety under an empty can. When the mobster Rocky finds Tweety under the can, he lights a firecracker with his cigarette and places under the can for Sylvester to find ("Catty Cornered").

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* Silent movie star Harold Lloyd was holding what he thought was a prop bomb and lit the fuse with a cigar. It wasn't a prop, and he lost two fingers on one hand when the bomb exploded. ''Film/SafetyLast'' indeed.

* In ''Disney/TheThreeCaballeros'', Jose Carioca lights the fireworks on WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's bull costume with his cigar.

So Sgt. [[AwesomeMcCoolName McKickass]] has a cigar in his mouth, and brings up a stick of dynamite; lighting the fuse off his cigar. A puff of smoke from his mouth, a sly grin, and he's off walking forward, tossing the dynamite behind him. Usually includes [=McKickass=] performing an UnflinchingWalk.

* Western-themed ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' GameMod ''VideoGame/FistfulOfFrags'' also uses this for when the player is throwing dynamite around. Despite none of the character models being seen with a cigar at any other time.

** In another episode, Murdock was flying a helicopter and dropping sticks of dynamite that he would light with a cigar.

* Creator/DanAykroyd does this in ''Film/{{Coneheads}}'' when he lights the fuse to a tiny homemade firework, leading to a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.