History Main / HotPaintJob

* Harry Wayne, one of Eddie Valiant's poker buddies in ''Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit?'', is a mechanic who decorated his Chevy with two "flaming belches" he bought from a {{Toon}} dragon.

* In RealLife, some people who are particularly obsessed with their cars add decals on them, and they almost always involve flames or some other flame-like design. (See [[http://www.lcdigitalphotography.com/images/Flames.jpg this awesomeness]]). But it could possibly be [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]; there are some cars that are so "uncool" that adding flames just makes it look corny. Kind of like multiplying one negative number.

Not to be confused with the IncendiaryExponent, when something is ''actually on fire''.

* Jeremy Popoff, lead guitarist of the band Music/{{Lit}} famously had a pair of flame-decal shoes that sported white flames on a black background. He wore them in most of Music/{{Lit}}'s music videos, as well as during live performances. He even wore them when he married his long-time girlfriend in them, while his groomsmen wore color swapped versions of the same shoe (so instead they had black flames on a white background). As a result they became his IconicItems.

* Ramone from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''.

* Parodied with [[Series/{{House}} Dr. House's]] bitchin' flaming ''[[http://www.fashionablecanes.com/3452.html cane]]''.

-->'''Cameron''': [[[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9socQh2Cbc&spfreload=10 Flames?]]\\

* Parodied with [[Series/{{House}} Dr. House's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9socQh2Cbc&spfreload=10 bitchin']] flaming ''[[http://www.fashionablecanes.com/3452.html cane]]''.
-->'''Cameron''': Flames?\\

* Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann: [[MsFanservice Yoko's]] famous flame-decal bra.

* In ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' sourcebook ''Urban Arcana'', one of the [[PostModernMagic vehicular magic items is a flame paint job, which looks good ''and'' has the ability to [[PlayingWithFire incinerate]] everything close enough to the vehicle when activated.

* In an episode of WesternAnimation/VoltronForce, the [[spoiler: Black Lion]] is given a HotPaintJob complete with spinning rims (despite not having wheels), a kicking sound system and a pair of fuzzy dice. Its pilot is not amused at first, but he seems to grow to like it.

* Vyvyan's car on ''TheYoungOnes'' is an otherwise-commonplace Ford Anglia, but painted bright yellow with red flames.

* Parodied with [[Series/{{House}} Dr. House's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9socQh2Cbc&spfreload=10 flaming]] ''[[http://www.fashionablecanes.com/3452.html cane]]''.

* Dr. House's [[http://www.fashionablecanes.com/3452.html cane]], in ''Series/{{House}}''.

* Count how many rock musicians (especially drummers) decorate their instruments with this. This is even a part of the decoration options for drummers in RockBand.

* In ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' sourcebook ''Urban Arcana'', one of the vehicular magic items ([[PostModernMagic magic items which are designed to fit on motor vehicles]]) is a flame paint job, which would be your typical hot paint job if it didn't have the ability to [[PlayingWithFire incinerate]] everything close enough to the vehicle.

* Bowser's monster truck in ''VideoGame/MarioKart: Double Dash!!'', the "Koopa King", has some flames painted on the back. Add six tires with studded rims for the full-throttle {{badass}} effect. The "Flame Flyer", a heavyweight kart in ''Mario Kart Wii'', is an even better example.

The common motif of adding artificial flames to things so they'll seem more {{badass}}. This is common in RealLife, especially pertaining to [[CoolCar muscle cars]] (the idea being that the car is so fast, it ''literally'' burns as it goes), but there probably isn't a single thing on the planet that hasn't had fire painted on it at some point or another in an attempt to increase its cool factor. In fiction, the possibilities are broader, as detailed below. "Go faster stripes" are a similar phenomenon.

* Subverted in ''GranTorino'' where Thao Vang Lor gets the titular car on the condition that he doesn't "paint any idiotic flames on it like some white trash hillbilly..."

* Harry Wayne, one of Eddie Valiant's poker buddies in ''WhoCensoredRogerRabbit?'', is a mechanic who decorated his Chevy with two "flaming belches" he bought from a {{Toon}} dragon.

* Tahu and Ackar of ''{{Bionicle}}'' both wield swords shaped like flames (or just swords with flame designs in the case of Tahu's Nuva upgrade), and Ackar also sports a flame-design helmet.

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* In RealLife, some people who are particularly obsessed with their cars add decals on them, and they almost always involve flames or some other flame-like design. (See [[http://www.lcdigitalphotography.com/images/Flames.jpg this awesomeness]]). But it could possibly be [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]; there are some cars that are so "uncool" that adding flames just makes it look corny. Kind of like multiplying one negative number.
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* An entire village of herons and egrets ends up with [[AmazingTechnocolorWildlife flame decal feathers]] in one of the ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' novels after Jon Tom accidentally blows their feathers off and then tries to restore them by mixing lyrics about feathers into songs about custom-painting cars. Fortunately, the birds think that their new looks are pretty cool.