History Main / FireBreathingWeapon

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': Flamethrowers are a series staple. The ''Broken Steel'' add-on to ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' adds the Heavy Incinerator, which rapid-fires gobs of napalm over long distances, more like a real-life flamethrower. ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' adds the "Shishkebab", a chinese officer's sword with a flamethrower mounted onto it.\\

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': When things start to look bad for the Lemures, their leader Goose arms himself with one.

* The grandaddies of 'em all: the Martians in Wells's ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' had tripods armed with a deadly heat beam which could set almost ''anything'' on fire, and if not, melt it.

* ''VideoGame/Ashes2063'': Flamethrowers are a somewhat common sight. Master mutants have a version that jets out balls of flaming napalm, Warlords and Destroyers have a version that spews short-range but highly damaging clouds of fire. [[PlayerCharacter Scav]] has the Master Blaster, a human-sized model that can fire in both modes but requires periodic reloading.

* ''Film/DealOfTheCentury'': An ArmsDealer is hassled by a JerkAss, so he takes a flamethrower out of his trunk and adds to the flames painted on the side of the man's muscle car.
%* ''Film/DontGoInTheHouse'': The weapon of choice.

* ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior'': this is why Lord Humungus tries to BreakThemByTalking rather than trying to seize the oil-pumping station by force. TheApunkalypse gang of DesertBandits he commands have to rely on crossbow-like weapons because they have few bullets. Those inside the compound however have plenty of fuel for their flamethrowers and {{Molotov Cocktail}}s.

* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', both [[{{Mentors}} Kyril]] and [[TheApprentice Lily]] use the [[VideoGame/BloodBorne Flamesprayer]] as an offhand weapon for [[KillItWithFire setting crowds of foes ablaze]]. For the former, it is also used to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath burn prisoners alive during interrogation]].

* ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes'' has Fire as one of its four basic shot types. Fire combinations boast high damage but have a rather limited range.
** Combinations include:
*** '''Basic Fire''' -- by itself, Fire creates a short-range flamethrower.
*** '''Fire + Fire''' -- a longer-range version of basic flamethrower.
*** '''Fire + Force''' -- large fireballs that explode on contact with enemies (or by letting go of the fire button).
*** '''Fire + Chaser''' -- Creates a rather slow homing fireball that will target one enemy at a time, but is also controllable using the d-pad.
*** '''Fire + Lightning''' -- a LaserBlade, the highest damage combination in the game, but with the shortest range of all the weapons.

* [[PlayerCharacter Joel]] from ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' can find a flamethrower in the university sequence of the "Fall" chapter. It's implied that the students made it themselves after the ZombieApocalypse broke out. It's a powerful weapon, but ammo for it is scarce. Use wisely.

** BonusBoss Karakuri Hanzo will fight you with a mechanical mecha made up of junk, with his most dangerous attack being a Koma-Inu statue that releases a burst of flames.

* In ''Literature/DreamPark'', WW2-vintage flamethrowers turn up in the South Seas Treasure Game, which is set in around 1950.

* In ''Film/SuperMarioBros'', Koopa uses a flamethrower in his final confrontation with the Mario Brothers as a stand-in for his game counterpart's fire breath.

* ''Series/SweetHome'': Gil-seop uses a flamethrower to fend off the monsters in the garage.

%* ''Film/DontGoInTheHouse'': The WeaponOfChoice.

* In ''Film/{{Evidence}}'', the killer uses a welding torch as their WeaponOfChoice.
%%* ''Film/TheExterminator'': The WeaponOfChoice.

* ''Film/TheRunningMan''. The Stalker known as Fireball uses this as his WeaponOfChoice, and is HoistByHisOwnPetard when Ben Richards disconnects his fuel hose, then throws a road flare at his feets, sending [[MeaningfulName Fireball up in a ball of fire.]]

* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'': Zhang Jiao, leader of the Yellow Turbans, can shoot streams of fire and globes of flame out of his staff, often to deadly effect. Starting from the seventh game, the Shaman Rod weapon type (which includes Zhang Jiao's WeaponOfChoice) can emit bursts of flame as part of its heavy attacks.

WeaponOfChoice for the {{Pyromaniac}}. Sometimes [[MundaneUtility used]] for [[CouldntFindALighter lighting cigarettes]].

* ''Anime/PumpkinScissors'': Hans, the last surviving member of his 908th Flamethrower Troop, still wields his unit's weapon and is permanently stuck inside his [[ClingyCostume flamer unit gear]]. He witnessed the rest of his unit die before his eyes when they removed their gear, and subsequently became [[PyroManiac quite deranged as a result]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': early villain and weapon-maniac Don Krieg has, among his unnumerable arms, a powerful flamethrower hidden in the wristplates of his armor: it's compact but powerful enough to torch to ashes a huge piece of mast which Luffy threw at him like a javelin.

* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', minor villain [[FatBastard Hyottoko]] has a primitive flamethrower built in his body: basically, is a large bag of oil in his stomach, with the nozzle in his mouth and flint teeth, allowing him to breathe fire at will.

%%* ''Film/TheRunningMan'': Used by the Stalker Fireball.

* ''Film/SpaceMutiny'': during the big shootout there's a man standing in the open, shooting bursts of flame which, due to the extremely short range of his weapon, don't hit any of the men armed with laser pistols who are shooting back. Fortunately all of them were trained at the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy.