History Main / FartSonFire

* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'': The Lighter trinket makes all farts explode and leave a small fire on the ground. Trying to use this offensively can (and usually ''will'') hurt Isaac, but it also causes enemies who fart to self-destruct.

* Lobo took this trope UpToEleven, using a can of baked beans to nuke his {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le daughter.

* VideoGame/SplosionMan seems to 'splode like this from time to time.

* VideoGame/{{Boogerman}} can do this as an attack and to fly, after eating a chili pepper.

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' may have been GettingCrapPastTheRadar by showing the fantastic variation of young dragons lighting their sneezes.

* in ''Jane Austen's Mafia'' Sophia (Anthony's mom) killed a woman named Pepper by lighting her fart. The result was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Hz5irExSY catastrophic.]] This montage also has an Inuit impaling a guy in a Barney costume then dancing to "We are Family".

* Happened in the Christmas episode of ''Series/{{Bottom}}''. Richie had made a special Christmas snack containing year-old sprouts and other rather nasty and spicy ingredients. The guys all passed out and when they woke up, flatulence ensued.

Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away\\

* A [[[[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-cows/flatulent-cows-start-fire-at-german-dairy-farm-police-idUSBREA0Q1HY20140127 confirmed case]] of this happened in Germany. Long story short, too many cows, not enough ventilation, and a static buildup. Thankfully, no person or cow was injured.

* A confirmed case of this happened in Germany. [[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-cows/flatulent-cows-start-fire-at-german-dairy-farm-police-idUSBREA0Q1HY20140127 Long story short, too many cows, not enough ventilation, and a static buildup. Thankfully no one or cow was injured.]]

* This is actually an odd hobby of Kobato Hasegawa from ''LightNovel/BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai''. However, it wasn't mentioned in the anime.

* There's a scene in ''{{Hate}}'' where a whole bunch of people at a night-time party stand in a line and light their farts.

* "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" by Music/FrankZappa is a parody of the PsychedelicRock style, which was popular back then. While this genre usually had [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs narco-mystical]] and "[[NewAgeRetroHippie make love, not war]]" themed lyrics, this song has lyrics about two kids burning eachothers' farts ([[ToiletHumor and some other disgusting stuff]])

* British anti-comic ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' has a regular character, Johnny Fartpants, who on several occasions took terrible revenge by, for instance, eating a strong vindaloo curry, placidly waiting a while, then dropping his trousers in front of his foes and lighting a match... on one occasion, just to make sure, he was seen to drink petrol as a prelude to Flamethrower Madness.

* ''Series/{{Bargearse}}'' ends with our hero committing suicide by [[{{gashole}} farting in his car]] and then lighting a cigarette.

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* In an anime episode of ''{{Manga/Kochikame}}'' at near the end, officer Terai demonstrate farting fire. Ryotsu, not being concerned that the whole police box is [[ItMakesSenseInContext stashed with heating oil, dynamite, tanker trucks, military weapons, and along with a locker full of matches]], lets him do so resulting the neighborhood being destroyed.

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* Happens to Sherman in his NightmareSequence in ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor'' where he grows into an extremely fat giant, lets out a massive fart in the city, and then explodes into a mushroom cloud when a homeless man lights a match.

* The ending of ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird''. A dronkey baby burps out fire, then [[spoiler:an ogre baby]] farts at it, causing the fire to change directions and light the fireplace.
** The beginning of the first movie had Shrek lighting a belch to light the fireplace.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'' (the UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie that plays at Ride/UniversalStudios), when Shrek is about to get fireball'd by a stone dragon, his flatulence ends up sending the fire right back at the dragon.

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* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' may have been GettingCrapPastTheRadar by showing the fantastic variation of young dragons lighting their sneezes.
* A cartoon book called ''The Bunny Suicides'' has a bunny using several cans of beans, strategic ductwork, and a match. The book itself is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

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* The playfield for [=WhizBang=] Pinball's ''[[Pinball/WhoaNellieBigJuicyMelons Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons]]'' has a bucking horse that gets its flatulence lit by a match; the ensuing fireball is used as a score light.
* In Creator/SternPinball's ''Pinball/FamilyGuy'', Peter shoots flames out of his rear during "Fart Multiball".
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* British stand-up comic Creator/JasperCarrott was one of the first people to popularize the idea on his album ''The [[strike:Un]]Recorded Jasper Carrott''. A long routine culminates in his anxiously delivering a friend stricken by the effects of blowback to a hospital casualty ward. The terrible Matron takes one look and demands "Has he been lighting his farts?"
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* Turkmenistan tries this out once in the ''Webcomic/{{Polandball}}'' comic "[[http://i.imgur.com/THx5ZoZ.png Farts]]"to impress Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia (who are incidentally, countries with many natural gas reserves). However, this has the unfortunate side effect of turning his butt into [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell a fairly popular tourist attraction.]]
* [[http://science2311.deviantart.com/art/Fire-Hazard-621388850 This happens]] all because of the teacher's TrademarkFavoriteFood [[MasochistsMeal being]] BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce Indian Curry.

* From the Toys/{{Bionicle}} web animations for the Toa Mata arc: A group of Ta-Matoran are on a patrol for Rahkshi, with their captain on watch while the rest of the patrol has breakfast around a fire. The captain is hunkered down behind cover and staring intently into the woods when all of a sudden there's a farting sound. He stands up and turns around to see one of his underlings facing away from the fire with a smoking rear.
* In ''WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ'', Waluigi uses a Fire Flower to light one of Wario's farts to a nuclear degree.

* In chapter 7 of ''Literature/{{TOT}}'', Maximus suffers from a bad case of flatulence, and Toby decides to use said opportunity to light some of his farts.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica''. It causes a mushroom cloud.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' consists nearly entirely of Beavis in a hospital emergency room, face-down on a gurney, whimpering in agony, with his pants burnt off around his blackened butt. At one point, flames shoot out of his butt, propelling the gurney some twenty feet, with Beavis screaming in pain. [[NoodleIncident It's never adequately explained what led up to this]], leaving it to the viewer's imagination.

--> '''Johnny X''': Power poots, go!

* A confirmed case of this happened in Germany. [[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-cows/flatulent-cows-start-fire-at-german-dairy-farm-police-idUSBREA0Q1HY20140127 Long story short, too many cows, not enough ventilation, and a static buildup. Thankfully no one or cow was injuried.]]

* The title card for Season 8 episode 5 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' shows Huo Haha giving Little M. lessons on how to light wood on fire with magic. After failing to set his wood on fire properly, Little M. farts into the fire, causing it to singe Huo.

* This is actually an odd hobby of Kobato Hasegawa from ''LightNovel/BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai''. However,it wasn't mentioned in the anime.
* Mugen,a little dragon from ''Anime/BattleSpiritsSaikyoGingaUltimateZero'' can produce explosive farts and can even fart fire at will. There is even a card base on it call [[http://battle-spirits.wikia.com/wiki/Mugen_Flame "Mugen flame"]]

* The ending of ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird''. [[spoiler:An ogre baby]] farts, then a donkey/dragon baby sneezes on the fart, lighting it on fire and causing it to change directions and light the fireplace.

* A confirmed case of this happened in Germany. [[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-cows/flatulent-cows-start-fire-at-german-dairy-farm-police-idUSBREA0Q1HY20140127 Long story short, too many cows, not enough ventalation, and a static buildup. Thankfully no one or cow was injuried.]]

* Series/UnitedStatesOfTara : One of Tara's video diaries in Season 2 shows Buck doing this.

* [[{{Gasshole}} Papa Klump]] farts on a candlestick and sets a restaurant on fire in ''[[Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996 The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps]]''.

* [[{{Gasshole}} Papa Klump]] farts on a candlestick and sets a restaurant on fire in ''Film/TheNuttyProfessorIITheKlumps''.

* British stand-up comic Creator/JasperCarrott was one of the first people to popularize the idea on his album ''The [[strike:Un]]Recorded Jasper Carrott''. A long routine culminates in his anxiously delivering a friend strciken by the effects of blowback to a hospital casualty ward. The terrible Matron takes one look and demands "Has he been lighting his farts?"

** In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'', when Shrek is about to get fireball'd by a stone dragon, his flatulence ends up sending the fire right back at the dragon.

*** Same with Skuntank.