History Main / CouldntFindALighter

Inversion of HardToLightFire. FingerSnapLighter is a specific SubTrope for the debonair pyrokinetic. CigarFuseLighting may be seen as an inversion. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith CouldntFindAPen. Compare with ImpromptuCampfireCookout.

* [[https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/a2ZOonp_460s.jpg This]] [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons World War II German soldier]].

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': After a running fight with an alien... something.., during which he armed himself to the teeth, Spike uses the [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]] he'd grabbed to try lighting his post-battle cigarette. The look on his face when he [[RealityEnsues burns it off almost to his lips]] is tragicomically priceless.

* In the climax of, ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', Woody tries to light the rocket Buzz is strapped to so they can catch up to Andy, but the match gets blown out by a passing car, leaving Woody despondent until he sees a sunbeam reflecting off of Buzz's helmet. [[ChekhovsGun Remembering when Sid]] [[SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass burned him with a magnifying glass]], Woody aims Buzz so that the hot beam can light the fuse.

* Though it's a little hard to tell, Part 3 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has a scene where Jotaro Kujo appears to light a cigarette with the [[FrictionBurn friction]] of his [[GuardianEntity Stand's]] SuperSpeed.

** in ''The Paleface'', after some indians fail to burn him at the stake (because he's wearing asbestos underneath his clothes), he lights a cigarette from the smoldering pyre.

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' has the [[IndirectKiss "cigarette kiss"]] between Rock and Revy after they have a fight. They're arrested by the Roanapur police because Revy tried to shoot him ([[BelligerentSexualTension her feelings for him are confused at this time]]), and Rock gets a light off of one of the cops in the squad car. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa5QT6k6pO0 Revy lights her cigarette off of Rock's, both of them taking a drag at the time.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'': In ''Aquarela do Brasil'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck has a drink of cachaça and [[FireBreathingDiner breathes fire]], which Jose Carioca uses to light his cigar.

* ''Film/TalesFromTheCrypt'': After murdering her husband and burning the evidence in the fireplace, she lights a spill from the fire and uses that to light her cigarette.

* Comrade Sukhov in ''Film/WhiteSunOfTheDesert'' lights his cigarette off a dynamite fuse.

* In the ''Literature/BloodyJack'' book ''Rapture of the Deep'', during a naval battle, Lord Richard Allen takes advantage of a bomb thrown from the enemy ship, lighting his cigar with the burning fuse, [[spoiler: and then dropping the bomb onto the enemy ship's rudder, disabling it and ending the battle.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', Pecos Bill uses a lightning bolt to light a cigarette. This scene has been cut out of some versions.

* ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'': In "Hot Spot", the Devil lights his cigar off the hellfire of his FireAndBrimstoneHell.

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' has the [[AlmostKiss "cigarette kiss"]] between Rock and Revy after they have a fight. They're arrested by the Roanapur police because Revy tried to shoot him ([[BelligerentSexualTension her feelings for him are confused at this time]]), and Rock gets a light off of one of the cops in the squad car. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa5QT6k6pO0 Revy lights her cigarette off of Rock's, both of them taking a drag at the time.]]

** In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', Adora Bell Dearheart lights a cigarette on a burning letter that flutters past when the post office catches fire.
** In ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', Captain Vimes tickles a swamp dragon and, when it breathes fire, uses the fire to light a cigar. His wife is less than pleased with his [[MundaneUtility mundane uses]] of her beloved dragons.
** Vimes lights his cigar by picking up a lump of dried camel dung from the D'regs' fire in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}''. [[Film/LawrenceOfArabia The trick is not to mind that it hurts]].
** Vimes likes this trope. After successfully subduing Dragon King of Arms (who is actually a vampire, not a dragon) in ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'', he lights his cigar with one of the candelabras full of the candles he had successfully bluffed Dragon with, being unable to find a match. [[spoiler:And then he burns down the Royal College of Arms with it.]]

* In the surreal action-comedy ''Series/Danger 5}}'', Jackson loads a cigarette into his Colt automatic pistol and fires it (fully lit) into Claire's mouth.

* In ''Disney/MelodyTime'', Pecos Bill uses a lightning bolt to light a cigarette. This scene has been cut out of some versions.

* In ''Disney/MelodyTime'', Pecos Bill uses a lightning bolt to light a cigarette during the tornado scene: a scene which has been edited out of many later US releases.

* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'', during the battle with the Huns, Mulan is trying to light the last firework but her she drops her flint. She eventually resorts to using Mushu's dragon breath to light it at the last second.

* In the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShort ''Disney/BraveLittleTailor'', a giant rolls up a haystack into a cigarette and uses a potbellied stove as a lighter.

* ''Film/{{Alien}}'': Brett uses his laser welder to light a cigarette.

* In ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'', Hellboy's first fight with Samael leaves his arm on fire. He lights a cigar with it before putting the fire out.