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* In the final act of ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest: Open Season'', you enter a dark room in the theater, and turn on your flashlight to reveal the BigBad, who knocks you out and [[NoGearLevel strips you of your possessions]].

** ''Lucky Luke: Go West!'' features villains Crook and Bartleby, after a ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes moment in an abandoned mine, lighting a match only to find themselves next to a ''mountain'' of dynamite boxes. However, the match isn't the biggest problem... more pressing is the fact that [[DogsAreDumb Rantanplan]] was chasing after them with a lit stick of dynamite, [[GoFetch which he lets go at their feet]].

* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** ''WesternAnimation/LaBalladeDesDalton'': The Daltons dig a tunnel to escape and end up in the dynamite storage building, where they unbeknownst strike a match. They do it again while looking for the dropped fuse when trying to blow up Collins' prison.

* In ''Film/LockjawRiseOfTheKulevSerpent'', [[OutWithABang Clayton is killed while having sex with Ashley]]. Ashley initially thinks Clay has come prematurely and, when the serpent pulls him off her, she lights to lighter to have a cigarette. In the light of the lighter flame, she sees her boyfriend impaled upon the tail of giant snake. She screams and drops the lighter, which goes out.

In the comic strip "Kelly's Eye", the main protagonist, the eponymous Kelly, was always walking into unlit structures and striking matches, only to find himself surrounded by barrels of gunpowder, boxes of dynamite and cans of gasoline: the resulting explosion always left him wearing a surprised expression and his customary costume, a pair of cutoff shorts, all his other clothing incinerated. Fortunately, being granted immortality, he was always unhurt.

* Early in Jeff Smith's ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', the Red Dragon asks Fone Bone for a light for his cigarette in pitch-darkness, giving Fone his first brief, terrifying glimpse of a dragon. Eventually you might realize that, since the Red Dragon can breathe fire, he might have done this [[MindScrew just to mess with the poor guy]].

* A variation occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' episode "Vapor Chase". Aladdin, Jasmine and the gang have to stop a fire powered [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]]-like monster called "the Sootanai" from burning Agrabah down. As the gang try to hide inside a dark storage area...

'''Iago:''' Yeah, and there's a funny smell here, too. It kinda smells like...like... ''[Genie lights a fire with his thumb and the room lights up revealing barrels around the gang]''... lamp oil.\\

* In The ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode ''"Of Course You Know This Means War And Peace (Part 2)"'' while Dodgers and the Martian Commander are sneaking into a prison, they end up in a pitch black darkness, so they use a glow stick and see a very scary looking prisoner in front of them. Dodgers puts the light out and nervously says "Okay, when I turn the lights back on, he'll be gone"; when they turn it back on, not only is he not gone but they are now [[FromBadToWorse surrounded by over a dozen equally scary looking prisoners.]]

* Used in almost every episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''.

During the Anglo-American War Of 1812, after the US Army captured the city of York. Ontario (now called Toronto), a G.I chose the worst possible place to have a smoke; the town arsenal. The resulting explosion destroyed the town completely, leaving it uninhabitable, and forcing the Americans to withdraw from the town.

* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' actually does this with [[AlluringAnglerfish the Anglerfish's]] lure.

* In The ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode ''"Of Course You Know This Means War And Peace (Part 2)"'' while Dodgers and the Martian Commander are sneaking into a prison, they end up in a pitch black darkness, so they use a glow stick and see a very scary looking prisoner in front of them. Dodgers puts the light out and nervously says "Okay, when I turn the lights back on, he'll be gone"; when they turn it back on, not only is he not gone but they are now [[FromBadToWorse surrounded by over a dozen equally scary prisoners.]]

* In The ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode ''"Of Course You Know This Means War And Peace (Part 2)"'' while Dodgers and the Martian Commander are sneaking into a prison, they end up in a pitch black darkness, so they use a glow stick and see a very scary looking prisoner in front of them. Dodgers puts the light out and nervously says "Okay, when I turn the lights back on, he'll be gone"; when they turn it back on not only is he not gone, but there are now [[FromBadToWorse surrounded by over a dozen equally scary prisoners.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'' episode "Digging Deep", [[SuperPersistentPredator Zig's]] first attempt to dig underground to get to [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Marina]] ends with him hitting something with his shovel, lighting a match and revealing a cracked gas line which is followed by an [[DistantReactionShot explosion seen from space.]] After this he switches [[OrganicTechnology his light source to an angler fish tied to his head.]]

* In The ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode ''"Of Course You Know This Means War And Peace (Part 2)"'' while Dodgers and the Martian Commander are sneaking into a prison, they end up in a pitch black darkness, so they use a glow stick and see a very intimidating looking prisoner in front of them. Dodgers puts the light out and nervously says "Okay, when I turn the lights back on, he'll be gone"; when they turn it back on not only is he not gone, but there are now [[FromBadToWorse surrounded by over a dozen equally intimidating prisoners.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'' episode "Digging Deep", [[SuperPersistentPredator Zig's]] first attempt to dig underground to get to [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Marina]] ends with him hitting something, lighting a match and revealing a gas line which is followed by an [[DistantReactionShot explosion seen from space.]] After this he switches [[OrganicTechnology his light source to an angler fish tied to his head.]]

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-507 SCP-507,]] a man who is randomly teleported to different dimensions. In one case he found himself in total darkness with the feeling that someone else was very close by... His request for a flashlight granted, he ended up back there and found himself eye-to-eye with a HumanoidAbomination when he turned on the light, and this time it asked "Back so soon?"

* A variation occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' episode "Vapor Chase". Aladdin, Jasmine and the gang have to stop a fire powered [WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]]-like monster called "the Sootanai" from burning Agrabah down. As the gang try to hide inside a dark storage area...

* During a camping PSA of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Sarge and Caboose (as rendered in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'') attempt to use a cave as shelter and light a torch to see. Upon seeing the various squid surrounding them, Sarge tells Caboose to put the torch out.