History PlayingWith / PlayingWithFire

** Blaze can increase the ambient temperature to high, but not burning, levels.
** Blaze can't get burned from fire.

* '''Enforced''': "[[RuleOfCool Fire is cool, and we want our hero to look cool]], so let's give him the fire powers."

* '''Averted''':
** Blaze has no magical powers.

** Or alternatively, he has ancestors who are dragons, pheonixes, or demons.

* '''Subverted''': Blaze appears to be able to shoot fireballs, but it's actually a flamethrower.

** Blaze learns other abilities so he doesn't have to use fire.

'''Bob''': Fire. It's the coolest one.
* '''Conversed''': TheHero loves reading comics about Firestarter, the superhero with fire powers.

** Blaze can take on the very form of fire.

** Blaze is a dragon, pheonix, or demon.

** Blaze is a dragon who has ability to take on a human form.
** Or alternatively, he has ancestors who are phoenixes/dragons.

* '''Straight''': [[MeaningfulName Blaze]] can breathe fire and shoot fireballs.

** Blaze uses a [[FlamingSword firey sword]] he can control by his will.

* '''Straight''': Blaze can breathe fire and shoot fireballs.

** [[MeaningfulName Blaze]] can take on the very form of fire.

* '''Straight''': Bob can breathe fire and shoot fireballs.

** Bob can take on the very form of fire.
** Bob creates a fireball so big it burns everything in the universe.

** Bob can increase the ambient temperature to high, but not burning, levels.
** Bob can't get burned from fire.
** Bob uses a [[FlamingSword firey sword]] he can control by his will.

** Bob is a dragon who has ability to take on a human form.

** Bob can only put out or repel fires.
* '''Subverted''': Bob appears to be able to shoot fireballs, but it's actually a flamethrower.

** Bob uses his ability to control fire for [[MundaneUtility trivial purposes.]]
** Bob is a FieryRedhead InAWorld with PersonalityPowers -- and he keeps throwing insults at those who say he's too [[StealthPun hot-tempered.]]
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob won the {{Elemental|Powers}} SuperpowerLottery, but he can use only one power at a time. As such, he can and often does use the power of fire, but not all the time.

** Bob has no magical powers.

* '''Invoked''': Bob went to a school to learn how to use fire.

** Bob learns other abilities so he doesn't have to use fire.
** Bob is a merman.

* '''Implied''': Bob, HeWhoMustNotBeSeen, makes his presence known by leaving burned-out houses and forests in his wake.

** Bob has [[PowerIncontinence no control over his abilities]], and so he must obtain special fireproof clothing and other items and cannot get close to other people, resulting in depression. Further, his powers result in fires wherever he goes, making him unpopular.
** Alternatively, Bob uses his powers for [[PyroManiac fire-setting.]]
** If Bob gets careless, the flames he generates can quickly spread beyond his control. Even if he has the power to extinguish the blazes he creates, a slight lapse in attention can lead to third-degree burns or worse. (And if he ''doesn't'' have the power to dissipate the flames he creates, one split-second instance of misjudgement could result in him accidentally burning down a building.)
** Bob doesn't have the RequiredSecondaryPowers and ends up burning himself when he tries to use them.

* '''Reconstructed''': [[BoxingLessonsForSuperman So Bob went to a school to learn how to control fire.]]
* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob uses his fire powers to make a barbecue on his hand.
* '''Played for Drama''': Bob spends a long time learning how to use his powers without injuring people.