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** One of Doraemon's many gadgets is a box of "Desire Matches", where anytime a match is lighted it will display a hologram showing what the user truly wants or wishes to have. Said gadget was ''also'' [[BeenThereShapedHistory the inspiration behind the fairytale]] - according to Doraemon, a time-traveller left a box of Desire Matches in the past and was picked up by thr match-girl.

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** One of Doraemon's many gadgets is a box of "Desire Matches", where anytime a match is lighted it will display a hologram showing what the user truly wants or wishes to have. Said gadget was ''also'' [[BeenThereShapedHistory the inspiration behind the fairytale]] - according to Doraemon, a time-traveller left a box of Desire Matches in the past and was picked up by thr the match-girl.
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** One of Doraemon's many gadgets is a box of "Desire Matches", where anytime a match is lighted it will display a hologram showing what the user truly wants or wishes to have.

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** One of Doraemon's many gadgets is a box of "Desire Matches", where anytime a match is lighted it will display a hologram showing what the user truly wants or wishes to have. Said gadget was ''also'' [[BeenThereShapedHistory the inspiration behind the fairytale]] - according to Doraemon, a time-traveller left a box of Desire Matches in the past and was picked up by thr match-girl.
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* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', which asks why an angel didn't turn up with a warm blanket ''before'' the Little Match Girl died, and in which [[DontFearTheReaper Death himself]] saves her, because [[TearJerker there's no better Christmas present than a future.]]

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* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', which asks why an angel didn't turn up with a warm blanket ''before'' the Little Match Girl died, and in which [[DontFearTheReaper Death himself]] saves her, her[[note]]whilst currently SubbingForSanta; Death normally can't do that, but the Hogfather can.[[/note]], because [[TearJerker there's no better Christmas present than a future.]]
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* It's turned up in ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' and ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' under the exact name as substories that the player can go through. The one in Yakuza 1 is doing it more to buy a gift for her boyfriend while in 5, it's played much more straight, though the girl gets spared.

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* It's turned up in ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' and ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' under the exact name as substories that the player can go through. The one in Yakuza 1 ''Yakuza 1'' is doing it more to buy a gift for her boyfriend while in 5, ''5'', it's played much more straight, though the girl gets spared.
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* ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': While Touka Satomi's magic lets her use energy from the environment [[PerpetualMotionMonster without any drawbacks]], her Doppel, Pennen Nolde cannot. Instead, it pulls matches off of its back to grant her a "what-if" wish by lighting it. When all the matches are used up, [[CastFromLifespan she would die]].

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* ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'': While Touka Satomi's magic lets her use energy from the environment [[PerpetualMotionMonster without any drawbacks]], her Doppel, Pennen Nolde cannot. Instead, it pulls matches off of its back to grant her a "what-if" wish by lighting it. When all the matches are used up, [[CastFromLifespan she would die]].
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* ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': While Touka Satomi's magic lets her use energy from the environment [[PerpetualMotionMonster without any drawbacks]], her Doppel, Pennen Nolde cannot. Instead, it pulls matches off of its back to grant her a "what-if" wish by lighting it. When all the matches are used up, [[CastFromLifespan she would die]].

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* ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'': Yunyun performs a SchoolPlay of the story all by herself.
* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': Parodied when the main characters attempt to put on a play based on the story for the benefit of some old people, but get carried away and add elements of several other stories and make it almost incomprehensible. The old people like it anyway.














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* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': One sketch had the grandmother give the girl a plan to escape poverty. She uses a match to burn her father to death, then finds her grandmother's jewels that her father had been hoarding, then sells them so she can go to a tropical island.
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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Theodosia Electra performs spells by lighting matches that only last as long as the match burns. She claims her powers come from drawing on the story of ''The Little Match Girl'', but [[PowerMisidentification she is lying]] and her power really comes from the Myth/NorseMythology story of Skírnir's Staff, which channels flames for a variety of effects.

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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Theodosia Electra performs spells by lighting matches that only last as long as the match burns. She claims her powers come from drawing on the story of ''The Little Match Girl'', but [[PowerMisidentification she is lying]] and her power really comes from the Myth/NorseMythology story of Skírnir's Staff, which channels flames for a variety of effects.



* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': Isaac Westcott traps the heroes in the roles of several fairy tales and stories. Kotori plays the little match girl, but finds the effects of lighting the matches are permanent, allowing her to give herself and her allies new clothes and supplies.

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* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': ''Literature/DateALive'': Isaac Westcott traps the heroes in the roles of several fairy tales and stories. Kotori plays the little match girl, but finds the effects of lighting the matches are permanent, allowing her to give herself and her allies new clothes and supplies.
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* The ''BMS of Fighters'' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NhmcNf7wcE "Burn"]] by [=NceS=] features a background animation that is based on this story, although instead of matches it's cigarettes. [[spoiler:[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext And then the girl does a dance with a roasted duck and her late grandmother.]]]]

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* The ''BMS of Fighters'' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NhmcNf7wcE "Burn"]] by [=NceS=] (featured in ''VideoGame/{{Phigros}}'', ''VideoGame/MuseDash'', and some other {{Rhythm Game}}s) features a background animation that is based on this story, although instead of matches it's cigarettes. [[spoiler:[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext And then the girl does a dance with a roasted duck and her late grandmother.]]]]
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* The Unhappy Maiden card from ''TableTopGame/Yugioh'' appears to be based in this fairy tale.

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* The Unhappy Maiden card from ''TableTopGame/Yugioh'' ''TableTopGame/YuGiOh'' appears to be based in this fairy tale.
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* The Unhappy Maiden card from ''TableTopGame/Yugioh'' appears to be based in this fairy tale.
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* ''Fanfic/InfinityBlossomingTrail'': Parker Cerise writes his own version of the story. Instead of her dying, she gets saved by imagining the demonic seal of Marchosias (a NobleWolf who breathes fire) and helps her get revenge on the abusive father and step-sisters that forced her to die by selling matches.

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* ''Fanfic/InfinityBlossomingTrail'': ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Parker Cerise writes his own version of the story. Instead of her dying, she gets saved by imagining the demonic seal of Marchosias (a NobleWolf who breathes fire) and helps her get revenge on the abusive father and step-sisters that forced her to die by selling matches.
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* ''Fanfic/InfinityBlossomingTrail'': Parker Cerise writes his own version of the story. Instead of her dying, she gets saved by imagining the demonic seal of Marchosias (a NobleWolf who breathes fire) and helps her get revenge on the abusive father and step-sisters that forced her to die by selling matches.

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* It's turned up in ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' and ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' under the exact name as substories that the player can go through. The one in Yakuza 1 is doing it more to buy a gift for her boyfriend while in 5, it's played much more straight, though the girl gets spared.


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* It's turned up in ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' and ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' under the exact name as substories that the player can go through. The one in Yakuza 1 is doing it more to buy a gift for her boyfriend while in 5, it's played much more straight, though the girl gets spared.

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* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', which asks why an angel didn't turn up with a warm blanket ''before'' the Little Match Girl died, and in which [[DontFearTheReaper Death himself]] saves her, because [[TearJerker there's no better Christmas present than a future.]]
* It's turned up in ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' and ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' under the exact name as substories that the player can go through. The one in Yakuza 1 is doing it more to buy a gift for her boyfriend while in 5, it's played much more straight, though the girl gets spared.
* In ''Literature/SophiesWorld'', at one point Sophie ends meeting the Little Match Girl and [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Ebenezer Scrooge]].[[spoiler: The Little Match Girl sets Scrooge on fire, after what she claims to be a communist.]]
* The ''BMS of Fighters'' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NhmcNf7wcE "Burn"]] by [=NceS=] features a background animation that is based on this story, although instead of matches it's cigarettes. [[spoiler:[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext And then the girl does a dance with a roasted duck and her late grandmother.]]]]
* In ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'' and its sequel, ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'', an Abnormality based off this tale appears, named Scorched Girl. Unlike her book counterpart, she accidentally burnt herself to death with her own matches instead of freezing to death overnight, and rather than entering heaven she's forced to walk the Earth as a charred and ghastly spirit, still desperate for affection but is fated to eventually burn to ash and scatter into the wind someday. She's also an irritable ActionBomb who can easily deal a similar death to victims who provoke her into hysteria.
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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Theodosia Electra performs spells by lighting matches that only last as long as the match burns. She claims her powers come from drawing on the story of ''The Little Match Girl'', but [[PowerMisidentification she is lying]] and her power really comes from the Myth/NorseMythology story of Skírnir's Staff, which channels flames for a variety of effects.


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* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': Isaac Westcott traps the heroes in the roles of several fairy tales and stories. Kotori plays the little match girl, but finds the effects of lighting the matches are permanent, allowing her to give herself and her allies new clothes and supplies.
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* Referenced a couple of times in 'Manga/{{Doraemon}}''.
** One of Doraemon's many gadgets is a box of "Desire Matches", where anytime match it's lighted it will display a hologram showing what the user truly wants or wishes to have.

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* Referenced a couple of times in 'Manga/{{Doraemon}}''.
''Manga/{{Doraemon}}''.
** One of Doraemon's many gadgets is a box of "Desire Matches", where anytime a match it's is lighted it will display a hologram showing what the user truly wants or wishes to have.
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* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': In Chapter 82.5 (a collection of {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s), Chiyo plays the titular character, and finds herself unable to light any of the matches due to considering it "embezzlement".

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* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': In Chapter 82.5 (a collection of {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s), Chiyo plays the titular character, and finds herself unable to light any of the matches due to considering it "embezzlement"."embezzlement".
* ''Anime/CrayonShinChan'' has a FracturedFairyTale spoof that gives the match girl an AgeLift as a teenager employed by a Megacorp who sells... matches. And Shin-Chan is her colleague. It gets increasingly silly culminating in Shin-Chan and the Match Girl partaking in a contest for "most boxes of matches sold", which they won the first place and the cash prize from the contest breaking them out of poverty.
* Referenced a couple of times in 'Manga/{{Doraemon}}''.
** One of Doraemon's many gadgets is a box of "Desire Matches", where anytime match it's lighted it will display a hologram showing what the user truly wants or wishes to have.
** The 1979 anime have Shizuka playing the match girl in one episode, before waking up and revealing the whole thing to be AllJustADream.
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* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': In Chapter 82.5 (a collection of {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s), Chiyo plays the titular character, and finds herself unable to light any of the matches due to considering it "embezzlement".

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