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15	Breaths of many a variety are frequently used as an attack in video games, whether by the PlayerCharacter or by opponents, and as such, this page lists the various uses of it throughout all of gaming.
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17	* ''VideoGame/AlisiaDragoon'' uses it for several things, including Dragon Frye's fire, the fireballs spat by the Stage 4 boss, not to mention the various things such as sparks and ''worms'' that come out of Baldour's mouth.
18	* ''VideoGame/{{Awakening}}: The Sunhook Spire'' introduces special dragon altars for Sophia's pet pocket dragon that can allow it to exchange its normal fire-breathing for other elemental powers through its breath.
19	* ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'''s Drakes are all capable of breathing [[KillItWithFire fire]] although one caste (the Clasher unit line) gives up this ability in favour of the protection provided by heavy armour, which restricts their breathing enough to prevent this.
20	* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'':
21	** Higher-level skags have fire and laser breath, as well as spitting shock and acid.
22	** ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'': Certain human enemies have fire breath as well as being able to spew acid and slag at enemies. Krieg can breathe fire with the Hellfire Halitosis ability.
23	* The various dragon forms of the main characters in the ''Franchise/BreathOfFire'' series. It's even [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin right there in the title]].
24	* Glass Goth, the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/ChocobosDungeon 2'', has a wide-area beam breath attack.
25	* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' and ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'' has a few of these sort of attacks used by enemies but also available to players, counting Fire Breath, Frost Breath, Neurotoxic Breath (poison) and Bile Spray (acid).
26	* This is one of the available monster powers in ''VideoGame/CrushCrumbleAndChomp''.
27	* Hateful Virago in ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' has a move called "Putrefying Breath", which has a high chance of moving chosen hero back and causing blight to them.
28	* Common in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''; it's a universal trait of dragons and drakes, but other enemies can do it too. Fire breath is most common, but some drakes and gargoyles are shown "breathing" lightning, hydras launch giant water balls, undead dragons spew toxins, basilisks emit clouds that curse/petrify people, and Seath has sorcery-infused curse-breath that also causes crystals to spontaneously pop up where it hits. The player can even gain the ability to breathe fire if they follow the Path of the Dragon.
29	%%* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'': Sasquatch shoots ice beams.%%From his mouth, or...?
30	* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'':
31	** The Dragon and Dragon Zombie species predictably have a breath weapon, using fire (Or wind or ice in the first game) and darkness respectively. There's also the Cockatrice, who uses either petrifying breath or miasma depending on the game.
32	** The two-headed dragons from ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'' can breathe fire and ice simultaneously, one per head. Also, [[spoiler:Berserk Usalia]] breathes either lasers or energy balls.
33	** In ''Mists of Pandaria'', the Monk Brewmaster spec (which is the tank spec) has the fire-breathing ability mentioned above as one of their area-of-effect aggro-generating methods that also causes damage over time. Especially effective when done after dousing the enemies with alcohol using the keg toss.
34	* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
35	** Breath attacks form a skill family. The weaker versions are pretty common among low- to mid-level monsters, while the most powerful breath attacks tend to be spammed by bosses. (Especially the FinalBoss.) Later games allow the player to recruit monsters or use special character classes that have access to these abilities. What makes them particularly obnoxious is that despite dealing elemental damage, they don't count as magic attacks, so the only ways to protect yourself from them are with equipment, spells or skills which either reduce damage taken from those elements regardless of the nature of the attack, or specifically defend against breath attacks.
36	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'': The Dracolord, the series' first BigBad, can breathe fire in his dragon form.
37	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'': Among the main villains, [[FinalBoss Malroth]] and [[CoDragons Belial]] have the ability to breathe fire.
38	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'': When the Mage/Sage casts [=BeDragon=], they spend the whole battle breathing out flames at the entire enemy party.
39	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': Guest-Party Member Sparkie is a fire-breathing dragon. His flame breath is the main reason to bring him along, since it makes him good at Metal Slime hunting.
40	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'':
41	*** Two different villains -the Winter Queen and King Korol- have an ice-based breath attack properly named Cold Breath.
42	*** Bjorn the Behemoose's skill "Inferno" lets him expel out burning flames.
43	* ''VideoGame/DragonsWake'': The PlayerCharacter is a dragon that, naturally, breathes fire.
44	* ''VideoGame/{{Drakan}}'' featured among (expected) fire breath - lightning, ice and acid. One will wonder how does a dragon keep all that in him.
45	* ''VideoGame/DrakeAndTheWizards'': Drake and some enemies can shoot fire from their mouth to attack.
46	* ''VisualNovel/DraKoi'': The dragon fires mouth beams as both a dragon and in human form, at which point her eyes glow and she grows huge fangs.
47	* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', dragons have naturally breathed fire from the very earliest versions, but in more recent updates underground creatures have also gained breath attacks that can cause disease, flesh rot, and overall unpleasant deaths. The game can also be modded so that practically any effect can be used in a breath attack, from boiling gold to [[BodyHorror transformation.]]
48	* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': The biggest difference between the various dragon bosses you can find flying around is what horribleness they can breathe at you; Agheel, Fortissax, Greyll, and Lansseax have fire, Borealis ice, Ekzykes has Scarlet Rot, and Smarag and Adula breathe magic glintstones. Dragonlord Placidusax does both golden fire ([[spoiler: Much like the final boss, the Elden Beast]]) and the occasional laser beams. The player can gain spells based on these breath weapons via Dragon Communion- or in Placidusax's case, getting the Placidusax's Ruin incantation from his Remembrance.
49	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
50	** Daedroths and Spider Daedra (two forms of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]]) possess this ability in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]''. Daedroths spit [[PlayingWithFire balls of fire]], while Spider Daedra "breathe" [[ShockAndAwe lightning]]. The Spider Daedra can also cast a touch-range paralysis spell by exhaling green haze into its palm and then slapping the target.
51	** Subverted by [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''. While it might ''look'' like they have the ability to breathe fire and ice, they're actually using [[LanguageOfMagic Thu'um]] to conjure fire, ice, and other elements [[RealityWarper into existence]]. The [[PlayerCharacter Dragonborn]] can also learn to do this.
52	* Most of the monsters in ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'' have one of some kind. Goliath has standard fire breath, Kraken launches a blast of lightning and dark energy, Behemoth spits lumps of lava, and Gorgon sprays acid.
53	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': Bahamut, who is especially notable for breathing what is essentially the Flare spell. That's right. Bahamut has ''[[NukeEm nuclear fission breath.]]''
54	** Reis in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', being basically a Dragon in the shape of a woman, can breathe [[FireIceLightning Fire, Ice, or Electricity]]. Oh, and Holy. However that works. This may not have been clear in the original translation (Where breath gets translated Braclet)...
55	** The Dragoons of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' (and ''A2'') can also breathe Fire, Ice and Thunder.
56	** All ''Final Fantasy'' games where Blue Mages appear feature them learning breath weapons. Usually, three are available: Aqua Breath, Fire Breath and Bad Breath ([[BossInMooksClothing Malboro's]] famous chemical weapon grade halitosis attack).
57	** Barthandelus, BigBad and Master Troll of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', has two ultimate moves named "Thanatosian Smile" and "Thanatosian Laughter," both of which consist of him barfing lasers on you.
58	* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' dragons, both manaketes and the laguz, attack with their breath. Sometimes, there are even multiple different types of breath for dragons to use, based on either the species of the dragons themselves or the dragonstones they possess.
59	* ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'': The Holodragon periodically fires off a turbolaser blast during its boss battle. Later, when battling Brevon's flying robots, it can alternate between this and spreading bursts of fireballs.
60	* ''VideoGame/GargoylesQuest'': Firebrand, the [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Red Arremer]], gets varying kinds of breath attacks with his powerups.
61	* ''VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}}'': Among the power-ups from ''Gauntler Legends'' and its remake ''Gauntlet: Dark Legacy'' are breath weapons, including Fire Breath, Acid Breath, and Lightning Breath. Unlike most of the power-ups, these have ammo-based usage instead of being active for a limited time. A lot of the bosses use breath attacks too. Even though there's no Light Breath power-up but there's a Light Amulet, Skorne can spit beams of light at you.
62	* ''VideoGame/GianaSistersDS'': [[FinalBoss Dragon]]'s main attack is to spit human-sized fireballs.
63	* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'': The Giant Minotaur boss has a fiery breath attack.
64	* ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'': Both the heroes and the villains can trigger fire breaths when riding aboard dragons. Red dragons can shoot fire balls that can attack from a distance, while blue dragons can shoot bursts of fire that can attack enemies close to them.
65	* ''{{VideoGame/Grow}}'': Many creatures can breath fire, such as the purple dragon and the BigBad from ''Grow RPG'', and the red dragon from ''Grow Cannon''.
66	** [[spoiler: In the secret ending of Grow ver.3 a little yellow dragon will eat some food and turn into a bigger dragon made of fire who will blow some at the bottom of the screen, if you did everything right, the fire will turn into a CONGRATULATION !! message or rather a CONGRATU-FLAMES !! one.]]
67	** The purple monster from Grow Comeback can beat the hero by breathing fire on him when he's not punching him.
68	* ''VideoGame/{{Inkulinati}}'': Cerberus and the Dragon can spit out a trio of fireballs as a ranged attack.
69	* ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'''s Dark Makers have access to giant stompy HumongousMecha {{Spider Tank}}s. How could you make this kind of combo even worse for Jak? The head can fire a laser from where a mouth would be on an organic creature.
70	* ''VideoGame/{{Karnov}}'': Karnov's backstory makes him out to be a circus fire-breather.
71	* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': Beginning in his first game, the titular hero could spit puffs of air with enough force to damage most enemies, and power-ups allowed him to spit puffs of minty-fresh or spicy-hot breath. In later games, after he learned to steal enemy powers, he could gain the ability to exhale fire or ice.
72	* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Kog'Maw's attacks all involve spewing digestive fluids at his enemies. Shyvana also breathes fire when in her dragon form.
73	* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'': The {{hellhound}}s in ''Blood Omen'' and some demons.
74	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
75	** Dodongos breathe out streams of flame as their primary means of attack.
76	** In its early appearance, the many-headed dragon Gleeok spits fireballs. In ''Phantom Hourglass'', one of its heads breathes fire, while the other breathes ice. In ''Tears of the Kingdom'', Gleeoks have fire-, frost- and lightning-breathing variants; the rare King Gleeoks use all three elements, one for each head.
77	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'':
78	*** Ganon spews out fire at Link during his final phase of the battle.
79	*** Blind the Thief and his severed heads can spit fireballs.
80	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'':
81	*** Dodongos and King Dodongo are blowing their burning bad breath at Link in the Gorons' Cave, and then later, Volvagia will try to cook the hero during the BossBattle at the Fire Temple.
82	*** The [[AnIcePerson Freezzards]] in the Ice Cave can exhale gusts of freezing air.
83	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'':
84	*** The large Freezards of the Icepeak Ruins attack by breathing out streams of icy mist.
85	*** In the second phase of its battle, the dragon Arogorok breathes out gouts of fire at Link.
86	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Fraaz's boss fight is centered around its BreathWeapon. The boss [[BalloonBelly inflates]] with a specific element ([[KillItWithFire fire]] or [[KillItWithIce "icy fire"]]) and the player has to use the polar opposite against Fraaz as it's inflating with another attack.
87	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Fire-breath lizalfos can breathe out gouts of flame, while ice-breath lizalfos spit out volleys of icy spheres. The former will set Link on fire and the latter freeze him solid, unless he's equipped with an associated elemental resistance through gear or potions.
88	* ''VideoGame/LiEat'': In the first game, Efina gains the "Fire" skill at level 3, which allows them to breathe fire.
89	* ''VideoGame/TheLogomancer'': The dragons of the world of Ardus' novel, "The Tower of Ideals", can breathe fire.
90	* In ''VideoGame/LostSmileAndStrangeCircus'' there is Daigo, the circus fire-breather.
91	* ''VideoGame/LostSoulsMUD'': A number of species breathe fire by way of phlogiston glands. Esoteric breath weapons are explained by phlogiston absorbing magical essences that infuse the glands' owner.
92	* ''VideoGame/{{Madagascar}}'': The fossa king can let out a concentrated beam of stinky breath from his mouth after eating huge durians delivered to him by his vulture henchmen. A rather gross example indeed.
93	* Arco from ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'' can breathe fire in her dragon form.
94	* The [[Franchise/XMen Sentinel]], when it appears in [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom Capcom's fighting games]], generally has one of these too.
95	* The final boss of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' is [[spoiler: a gigantic partially-complete Human Reaper]] that attacks with a gigantic, long-charging beam attack from its mouth. It's also its own worst enemy with the thing, often sweeping its allies off the platform for you.
96	* Certain units in ''VideoGame/MasterOfMagic'' have Fire breath, notably the entire Draconian race.
97	* ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'':
98	** In ''VideoGame/MegaMan1'', Ice Man does this for his weapon, called the Ice Slasher.
99	** In ''VideoGame/MegaManV'' for the Platform/GameBoy, Mega Man has spent the game using [[RocketPunch the Mega Arm]], because his Super [[ArmCannon Mega Buster]] can't affect this batch of robots. What happened to it, you ask? Dr. Light put it in ''Rush''. He shoots the charged shots from his mouth (having no arms).
100	** Virtually every weapon in ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' that does not simply come into existence in midair is fired from Omega-Xis' mouth. As a result, most of what Mega Man fires is technically a Breath Weapon, most notably the first game's Tail Burner, which is actual fire. Well, digital fire.Also of note are the Leo Kingdom GX and Crimson Dragon Giga Cards,which summon said bosses to breathe a beam of atomic fire,and a wave of corrupted fire,respectively.
101	** Sigma at the end of ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'', as well as too many other robots to sanely list here.
102	** In the fanmade game ''VideoGame/MegaManRockNRoll'': Drake Man can breathe fire from his mouth to attack. This weapon is called the Fire Breath.
103	* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', the [[HumongousMecha Metal Gear RAY]] has a high-pressure water cannon located in its "mouth" that can slice through metal like a hot knife through butter. A modified variant of the RAY in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' replaces the water cannon with a [[EnergyWeapon plasma cannon]].
104	* Ridley from ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' often has an attack of that type, although his dragon-like nature makes it seem rather logical. The ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' also has it. Many monsters spew fireballs (and some, [[AnIcePerson freezeballs]]).
105	* [[spoiler:Vampires]] in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' have three breath attacks, coming in the Fire, Ice and Poison varieties. Many enemies have such moves as well, like dragons... or the fire-breathing ''[[MonaLisaSmile Mona Lisa painting]]''.}
106	* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter''. Nearly every Wyvern, Dragon, or "Boss" monster plus a few minor enemies.
107	** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter2004'': Yian Kut-Ku, Rathalos/Rathian and Yian Garuga all have a fire-based breath attack. Mostly fireballs, and in the case of the Yian Kut-Ku, it is simply lobbed out. The Gravios and (more rarely) Basarios have a beam-like weapon that also has an Exhaust after-effect, where they are likely to burn everything within melee range of them after disintegrating you with their throat laser. Among the -prey series there is Giaprey and Ioprey which spit ice and poison based attack respectively. Hypnoctrice has Sleep- based attacks. Congalala can eat mushrooms to belch out fire, poison gas, or paralyzing gas. The Elder Dragon Teostra has a flamethrower-esque attack.
108	** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter3Tri'' ups the ante considerably. Rathalos and Rathian still spit fireballs, but Rathian can spit three at once or a "mortar shot" which blows up everything a good ways in front of it. There's also the Qurupeco, which spits an oil-like substance as one of its attacks; the Royal Ludroth, which spits water; the Gigginox with poison; the Baggi and Great Baggi with sleeping agents. Up until now, it was sensible. But then there's the Lagiacrus, which shoots ''ball lightning'' from its gaping maw, the Barioth ejects a miniature blizzard as its breath weapon, and the Agnaktor fires what is essentially a ''heat beam''! Lastly, Ceadeus launches a powerful stream of water and Alatreon launches ice breath.
109	** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'' has a few variations among its new monsters: Vaal Hazak spews a beam of concentrated effluvium (toxic gas), Coral Pukei-Pukei can shoot jets of highly pressurized water, Ebony Odogaron has dragon-breath similar to Deviljho, Kulve Taroth breathes intense beams of superheated air (which melts the rock and metal in the cave around it), and Xeno'jiiva ([[spoiler:as well as its adult form, Safi'jiiva]]) can fire beams of what is suggested to be concentrated life energy.
110	* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Scorpion can pull off his ninja hood to breathe {{Hellfire}}, usually as a [[FinishingMove Fatality]].
111	* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' has dragons of nine different colours, covering each of eight different breath attacks (silver and white dragons both use cold breath). Hell hounds, winter wolves, iron golems and Nazgul can also breathe (fire, cold, poison and sleep respectively); and then there's the Chromatic Dragon.
112	* Second and third form dragons from ''VideoGame/OgreBattle64'' have these as a possible attack.
113	* In Activision's ''VideoGame/{{Oink}}'', the Big Bad Wolf uses his breath to blow away the bricks of Literature/{{the Three Little Pigs}}' houses, which if he manages to blow a big enough hole can turn into a TractorBeam if it touches one of the pigs.
114	* ''VideoGame/PacMan'':
115	** ''VideoGame/PacAndPal'': The Pac and Pal spinoff of [=Pac-Man=] doesn't have standard energizers and never enables Pac-Man to eat ghosts; instead, it has non-fruit items that vary by level and that, if Pac-Man eats them, turn Pac-Man cyan and grant Pac-Man a breath weapon that stuns ghosts for a limited amount of time. You still get 200, 400, 800, and 1600 points for stunning ghosts, though.
116	** The ''VideoGame/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'' tie-in video games have Pac's Ice Pac form, which grants him the ability to fire a beam of ice from his mouth. The ice beam can be used to freeze ghosts solid, making them easier to chomp, and the fire ghost enemies can only be chomped safely after being frozen.
117	* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'': Fiery Blowhogs and Watery Blowhogs breath fire and water respectively.
118	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' features a few moves like this, namely Dragon Breath and Frost Breath. The anime expands on this making many attacks mouth-based.
119	* ''Franchise/PlantsVsZombies'':
120	** ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies Plants Vs. Zombies Classic]]'': A small sub-class of fungi exude toxic fumes rather than EdibleAmmunition.
121	** ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'':
122	*** The Snapdragon breathes fire to attack zombies in a 2x3 area in front of it. When given Plant Food, it breathes more fire, instantly killing all zombies in a 3x3 radius. The same applies to the Cold Snapdragon, only with ice instead.
123	*** The Stunion uses its bad breath to stun all zombies in a small area. Leveling this up to Level 5 also causes him to poison them ala Shadow-Shroom.
124	*** Garlic's plant food effect unleashes a stinky cloud from his mouth, making all zombies in front of him to switch lanes
125	*** The Zombot Dark Dragon boss has an attack where it breathes fire at two lanes, temporarily scorching the lanes and making them unplantable.
126	* ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': One of the first things you get to do is to enable "Pony Lasers" that enable your pony to fire a WaveMotionGun from its mouth.
127	* ''VideoGame/PrimalLight'': One of the attacks the first boss of the game utilizes against [[PlayerCharacter Krog]] is breathing fire at him.
128	* In ''VideoGame/{{Quackshot}}'', Shere Khan from ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' appears as a boss in the Maharajah level. His basic attack is breathing fire at Donald, which is ironic, because in ''The Jungle Book'' movie, fire is his one weakness, and towards the end of that movie, Mowgli defeated him by tying a burning branch to his tail.
129	* The Flash game ''VideoGame/RobotDinosaursThatShootBeamsWhenTheyRoar'' is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin all about this.]]..and dinosaurs.
130	* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': All dragons breathe fire, and some can even shoot fireballs at you from a distance.
131	* ''VideoGame/ShapeShiftShawn'': One of the creatures that Shawn can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transform]] into is a [[PlayingWithFire fire-breathing]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]]. While transformed, Shawn can use his fire breath to destroy most enemies, as well as various obstacles in the level.
132	* The ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series: ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'': What are called Dragon Statues in ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'', are called Fire Breathing Statues in this one, by Bolo if talked to after getting the second Magic Seal.
133	* Many demons, including the [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Demifiend]] and the [[VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga Embryon]], in the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' series can use different versions of this ability (Fire, Ice, Fog, etc.).
134	* In ''VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus'', Sir Raleigh's welder mooks use their equipment to breathe fire in Sly's direction.
135	* ''[[VideoGame/{{Something}} Something Else]]'':
136	** The Dark Green Baby Yoshis are sprite-swaps of the Dino Torches and have the same behavior as them.
137	** The Sakura Tori is a pink bird and it can spit fireballs at its foes.
138	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' began having bosses with these starting with the 3-D games. [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Perfect Chaos]] has a powerful beam he fires from his mouth strong enough to destroy the Egg Carrier 2 with one blast. [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Iblis]] breathes fire in his first form. [[VideoGame/SonicColors Nega-Wisp Armor]] spits cubes and spikes from its main mouth and two hand-mouths and lasers from the hand-mouths.
139	* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'': As the main character is a dragon, this is a major part of gameplay in all installments. Spyro always has access to a short-range burst of flame, but some games expand his repertoire and put a great deal of gameplay emphasis on the things he can send shooting out of his mouth.
140	** ''VideoGame/SpyroEnterTheDragonfly'' marks the introduction of varied breath weapons into the franchise, and gives Spyro access to fire for basic damage, lightning for activating electrical node switches, ice breath for freezing enemies, and bubbles for catching dragonflies.
141	** ''VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail'' keeps most of its predecessor's breaths, but replaces the bubbles with a stream of water.
142	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'':
143	*** Spyro's gameplay is focused around the use of the four elemental breath abilities he unlocks over each game -- fire, in the form of gouts of flame, for area-of-effect and damage over time; electricity, in the form of lightning bolts, for stunning enemies; ice, as volleys of frozen shards or clouds of freezing mists, for freezing them solid; and earth, as hails of rocky shards, for bludgeoning attacks and surrounding himself with stony shields.
144	*** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroANewBeginning'': The magma worm enemies spit streams of molten rock, while the Ice King can exhale clouds of icy mist, which he uses both as an attack and to reform his weapons.
145	*** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon'': Cynder has four distinct elemental breaths that she can use -- fear, poison, shadow and wind. These take the forms, respectively, of a fear-inducing scream, a gout of toxic liquid, clouds of inky darkness, and a powerful horizontal cyclone.
146	** ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': Spyro himself only uses fire, but more exotic breath weapons are present among other characters.
147	*** Camo spits life energy that take the shape of balls of light.
148	*** Sunburn's Flamethrower Breath sends out a sustained stream of fire.
149	*** Zap spits balls of electricity as his primary attack.
150	* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': Dhalsim breathes fire. Another exception to the only-humans-if-corrupted rule, since he apparently gained this ability through his mastery of ''yoga''.
151	** This is later {{retcon}}ned to be a gift from Agni, the Hindu god of fire, of whom Dhalsim is a staunch devoté. He's still a ''really'' NiceGuy.
152	** It's also all but stated in the UDON comics that Dhalsim's fire is actually an illusion, and it will only burn you if you ''[[YourMindMakesItReal believe]]'' it will.
153	* In the ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'' games, the Big Ben enemy can breathe fire on the players.
154	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
155	** Breathing fire is one of Bowser's trademark characteristics, but there are a few other critters that have this ability (such as the Dino Rhinos and Reznors in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''). Bowser's ability to spit fire goes all the way back to his NES days, though back then it was [[https://youtu.be/ylm3TNzYDOs?t=17s small bolts of fire]], rather then that oral flamethower in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''.
156	** ''VideoGame/MarioParty10'': Bowser, as always, has the ability to breathe fire, and the player themselves can harness this power in the minigame Bowser's Bad Breath. Bowser moves the Gamepad around to take aim at Team Mario as they run around, and the player can breathe giant fireballs at them by making sounds into the Gamepad's microphone.
157	** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyStarRush'': In Bowser's Fire Hazard, Bowser attacks the players using a stream of fire that his Clown Car fires from a cannon coming out of its mouth. Players must jump over it while also avoiding falling off the platforms as they crumble below their feet.
158	** ''VideoGame/PaperMario'':
159	*** The Putrid Piranha and Frost Piranha enemies have toxic and ice breath attacks, respectively.
160	*** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'': The Water Vellumental can release a powerful blast of water from its mouth, the Fire Vellumental breathes fire (either in the form of fireballs during its battle, or as a steady stream of flame when used by Olivia) and the Ice Vellumental can exhale a stream of freezing air.
161	%%** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'': The Axem Rangers' Blade ship's Breaker Beam.
162	* ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'': Mieu can breathe fire, [[DownplayedTrope but the flames are too small to do any real damage]]. Aside from some cutscenes where he's used as an ImprovisedWeapon, his breath mainly serves as a puzzle solving element.
163	* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': Michelangelo, oddly enough, is granted this ability in the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo versions of the ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters Tournament Fighters]]'' FightingGame.
164	* ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'':
165	** True Ogre is capable of breathing fire, either from the ground or while flying. It's an unblockable attack that is very easy to execute, so [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome expect newcomers to abuse it over and over]].
166	** Jinpachi has a BellyMouth capable of shooting unblockable fireballs. In ''5'', it's a GameBreaker move since it eats 70% of a character's health. When he is made a proper playable character in ''Tag 2'', its damage is considerably toned down.
167	* ''VideoGame/TelepathRPG'':
168	** A race of creatures called "spriggat" attack with breath of differents elements: [[PlayingWithFire red spriggats breath fire]], [[AnIcePerson white spriggat breath ice]], [[CastingAShadow black spriggat breath darkness]] and golden spriggats introduced in ''VideoGame/TelepathTactics'' [[LightEmUp breath light]].
169	** In the second game, Flint the stone golem can get a flamethrower attachment which allow him to breath fire like a red spriggat.
170	* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'' has two fighters with elemental breath weapons of their own; [[PlayingWithFire Tianhuo,]] a fire breathing longma, and [[AnIcePerson Velvet,]] who can breathe frost.
171	* ''VideoGame/ThiefTheDarkProject'': The reptilian burricks attack by breathing difficult-to-avoid waves of poisonous gas at you. They're arguably the most annoying enemies in the game.
172	* ''VideoGame/TheTiamatSacrament'': Dragons and humans with dragon DNA can inhale runes to activate breath skills, and Az'uar's usage of this mechanic will always have him activate the skill from his mouth. The combinations of runes can result in all sorts of effects, such as AOE damage, power single-target damage, AOE ailment infliction, and recovery.
173	* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'': Breath weapons are present as attacks for certain large monsters, typically manifesting as the ability to shoot a cluster of damaging projectiles that deal a specific kind of damage. Some have greater splash damage and are more useful against crowds of smaller units, while others are more focused and better against other large monsters. Among others, High Elven dragons, Chaos dragons and hydras breathe flame, black and forest dragons breathe clouds of noxious gas, and frost wyrms, the unique Chill of Sontar hydra and the Kislevite elemental bears breathe blasts of ice and freezing wind. Some units can also produce powerful screams that function the same as other breath weapons, such as terrorgheist shrieks and Skarbrand's Bellow of Infinite Rage.
174	* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': In the fighting spinoffs, one of Suika Ibuki's attacks consists of taking a swig of alchohol, and immediately breathing fire at the opponent.
175	* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': In the boss fight against [[spoiler:Sans]], you're attacked at various points by weapons known as Gaster Blasters, which violently exhale giant beams of energy out of their mouths that can vaporize anything in their path.
176	%%* ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'': Bloodbane. "FEEL MY FLAME!"
177	* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
178	** The Pandaren Brewmasters can breathe "fire" (ignited grain alcohol) as part of their standard skills, although they are firmly good guys. This also shows up on some of the neutral monsters. There is also a breath of frost, but it shows up much more rarely.
179	** Dragons also have breath attacks. Red dragons breathe fire, black ones breath molten lava, blue ones breath ice or magic energy, green ones acid and in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' bronze ones breathe magic, superheated sand that causes rapid ageing, although in ''Warcraft III'', it's clearly lightning.
180	** Frost Wyrms have an ice breath weapon. Since Frost Wyrms are giant reanimated dragon skeletons, its debatable if this can be called a "breath" weapon (what with them not having actual ''lungs'' and all), but either way it does come out of their mouths.
181	** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
182	*** Almost all Dragon-type bosses, in addition to regular bolts and fire/frost/poison/whatever else breath have a devastating attack that begins with: "X takes a deep breath..." and generally must be avoided via some sort of trick. Black dragon Onyxia is mostly infamous for her insanely powerful Deep Breath which she uses completely randomly, which makes it hard to avoid. For months, if not years, people have tried to come up with explanations of what makes Onyxia Deep Breath more. Some theories make more sense than others, but all are false. It's really random.
183	*** Ironically Onyxia is also a subversion of this trope, since her Deep Breath flames seem to come straight from the ground instead of her mouth, perhaps due to graphic limitations?
184	*** Chimeras have one head that spits acidic bile and another that breathes magical lightning. Hunter-pet Chimeras in ''[=WoW=]'' breathe frost and lightning. Even if the non-tamed mob has a poison/acid ability as a mob (which it loses when tamed).
185	* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The Chroma Warframe can breathe out whatever element the player has chosen, ranging from fire to ice to acid to even electricity.
186	* ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'': A lot of the monsters feature a breath weapon of some kind, with Congar also having [[SuperScream screaming]]. Magmo and Raptor shoot fire, Preytor has acidic spit, and Togera shoots what is probably radiation.
187	* ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}'': [[DraconicHumanoid Dracons]] are able to use an Acid Breath attack that hits enemies in a cone. While not as powerful as certain area-of-effect spells, it can still inflict respectable damage across a tightly-clustered group of enemies.
188	* ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'': Ryoufu can take a chug of alcohol and then spit fire on his opponents.
189	* ''VideoGame/YukiOnna2020'': The titular {{Yukionna}} attacks you with ice breath when she's close enough.

Context BreathWeapon / VideoGames