History Main / KillItWithFire

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

* From ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', in the eleventh episode 'Toys in the Attic', Spike attempts to kill the ItCameFromTheFridge EldritchAbomination with a blowtorch/flamethrower. It's still alive afterward, but it was a valiant effort.

** This seems to be the only way to get rid of the wights.

* ''Series/SweetHome'': Setting the monsters on fire is the best way to get rid of them.

* Averted in ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. Conan is having sex with a HotWitch when she changes into [[HornyDevils some kind of demon]] and tries to kill him. He's able to escape by throwing her into the fireplace, but she then changes into a fireball and shoots off into the woods giving an EvilLaugh.

A SuperTrope to MatchstickWeapon. See also IncendiaryExponent, ManOnFire, BurnBabyBurn, FireBreathingWeapon, BurnTheUndead, HomemadeFlamethrower, BurnTheWitch, FanaticalFire, GasolineDousing, and {{Hellfire}} (for when mundane fire doesn't do the job). Compare StuffBlowingUp and PlayingWithFire -- for when someone has fire as a superpower, and MurderByCremation -- when an ordinary person is lit on fire. When this just makes things worse, see InfernalRetaliation. May also overlap with AMoltenDateWithDeath if lava is involved. The less-used opposite is either KillItWithWater or KillItWithIce, or even HealItWithFire. Contrast ImmuneToFire.

* ''Film/{{Ratatouille}}'': After Linguini takes over Gusteau's and cancels the frozen foods, the crew celebrates by burning them (and the promotional billboards) out back.

* [[Creator/StuartAshen Dr. Stuart]] [[MeaningfulName Ashen]] is a reviewer of tat (read, [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct cheap plastic knockoff junk]] found in discount stores) who often comes across lousy toys or disappointing blind bag collectibles. He used to DropTheHammer on them, but ever since he somehow obtained a blowtorch, he's given this treatment to various things that displease him, including [[Franchise/HarryPotter Draco Malfoy]], [[Franchise/StarWars a superdeformed snowtrooper]], and [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Woody.]]

A SuperTrope to MatchstickWeapon. See also IncendiaryExponent, ManOnFire, BurnBabyBurn, FireBreathingWeapon, HomemadeFlamethrower, BurnTheWitch, FanaticalFire, GasolineDousing, and {{Hellfire}} (for when mundane fire doesn't do the job). Compare StuffBlowingUp and PlayingWithFire -- for when someone has fire as a superpower, and MurderByCremation -- when an ordinary person is lit on fire. When this just makes things worse, see InfernalRetaliation. May also overlap with AMoltenDateWithDeath if lava is involved. The less-used opposite is either KillItWithWater or KillItWithIce, or even HealItWithFire. Contrast ImmuneToFire.

* ''Film/{{Ratatouille}}'': After Linguini takes over Gusteau's and cancels the frozen foods, the crew celebrates by burning them (and the promotional billboards) out back.

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': One of the more effective ways to dispatch the creatures and growths of the Upside Down. A milder version is used to exorcise the Mind Flayer out of Will. And a visually spectacular version in Season 3 when the party uses a cart full of fireworks to attack the Mind Flayer's earthly form. Gets taken UpToEleven[[note]]No pun intended[[/note]] in Season 4's finale, when [[spoiler: Murray barbecues the Demodogs in the prison with a flamethrower, and Robin and Steve use molotovs to set Vecna alight.]]

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': One of the more effective ways to dispatch the creatures and growths of the Upside Down. A milder version is used to exorcise the Mind Flayer out of Will. And a visually spectacular version in Season 3 when the party uses a cart full of fireworks to attack the Mind Flayer's earthly form.

'''''NOTE:''''' '''Due to the above-mentioned MemeticMutation, the name of this trope has [[Administrivia/SquarePegRoundTrope become associated]] with anything that someone finds abhorrent and wishes to not have witnessed.''' '''''This trope is not about those things.''''' '''Please redirect all potholes using this trope in said context to BrainBleach or a similarly appropriate trope.'''

** Roy's "[[CurbStompBattle fight]]" with [[spoiler:[[SmugSnake Envy]] later in the manga takes everything seen in the fight with Lust UpToEleven; Roy pinpoints his attacks to vulnerable spots like the tongue and eyes to make Envy's death as painful as possible, and eventually his rage becomes so strong that he starts ''[[SpamAttack spamming]]'' massive fire blasts while Envy screams in agony]]. Word to the wise: don't piss Roy off.

** Last not least, the black fire, Amaterasu, that Itachi and Sasuke use, bursts forth at the focus of the user sight and can never be extinguished, until the thing it targets is incinerated... [[UpToEleven even if the target is fire itself]].

'''Ernie Kaltenbrunner:''' Then I'll turn it [[UpToEleven up higher]], and we'll burn up the ashes, too.\\

* The last resort of ''Film/TheRock'', should TheSoCalledCoward and the GentlemanThief fail to recover the weaponized phlebotinum, involves the Air Force drenching the island in thermite. For those of you who don't know, thermite is fire UpToEleven squared.[[note]]Actually, thermite is basically rust and aluminum powder. While the reaction between iron oxide and aluminum is extremely exothermic, it has a high activation energy. However, once you do get it going, it will burn through and/or melt almost anything; one of the products of the reaction is elemental iron, which comes out in ''molten droplets''.[[/note]]

* Blog/DeadcodersReviews' interpretation of XANA took this UpToEleven: "AHH! KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE! actually, SCREW FIRE, KILL IT WITH FIRE, ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT, DEATH LASERS, CAPTAIN JANEWAY'S CYBERNETIC SPIDERS, ARMIES OF ROBOTS, THE POWER OF STEPHEN KING NOVELS, WEATHER, ELECTRIC TAR, AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT COMES TO MIND!"

* With a twist in ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''. They don't actually kill Terminators with fire, but when they do manage to take one out with other methods, they have to burn and melt the endoskeleton with thermite to prevent bits of future-tech falling into the wrong hands and being used to reverse-engineer SkyNet.

* Seems to be the only way of doing any sort of decent damage to [[TheBaroness Madam Rouge]] from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. She's damn near invulnerable to any kind of physical attacks.

* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': In the OVA adaptation, Satomi gains her own rendition of [[Characters/TheKingOfFighters94Part1 Kyo Kusanagi's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGRHodcFYM 'Ura 121 Shiki Ama no Murakumo'.]] Meaning, she incinerates everything that's in front of her with [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill massive plumes of flame that are 2-stories high]] and spread outward along the ground at high-speed. Which she used to end her match with Yuuki.

* After acquiring the Legendary Orb of Fire from Mount Aso, ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'''s answer to any threat becomes "Toss a Giant Fireball at them".

** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 Supergirl Vol 2]]'' issue #23, a pyrokinetic mutant attempts--and fails--to burn ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} to ashes.

*** Also under Mosaic law, burning was the penalty for many sex-related crimes, such as {{incest|IsRelative}} or {{bestiality|IsDepraved}}. (Others, such as adultery and premarital sex, were punished by public stoning.) And, yes, homosexual sex ''was'' [[BuryYourGays included in that list of burnable offenses]].

** But this back[[JustForPun fires]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E4FluxChapterFourVillageOfTheAngels "Village of the Angels"]]. When an Angel manifests as a projection through drawing, the Doctor quickly crumbles the paper to break the projection, then chucks it in the fireplace and sets it on fire to destroy any trace of the image. As the burning paper unfolds in the flames, the Angel reappears as a ''[[InfernalRetaliation flaming]]'' projection, so the Doctor has to douse the flames to get rid of it permanently.

* In ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'', the Nerd was so fed up with the Amiga CD32 that he actually hauled the system outside and set it on fire with his Boring Company Not-A-Flamethrower.