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[[caption-width-right:328:Um, that looks cool and everything, Batman... but it might not have been a good idea.]]

A sub-trope of the ZorroMark and often seen in works featuring a SuperHero, this trope occurs when a character recreates their logo or ChestInsignia using fire. Often, this is in concert with a DynamicEntry. The BigBad believes the hero is dead, only to see a flame spreading in the distance, eventually creating the hero's emblem just before he flies through the window. Sometimes, it is actually used at the end of a ClimacticBattle where the hero sets the fire to reveal he is victorious. There are other variations but the effect is the same.

The reason for this is mostly RuleOfCool. Seeing the hero's emblem rising up in flames looks really exciting. This causes some FridgeLogic, however when the viewers wonder how and why the hero set the fire beforehand, to say nothing of the potential public safety hazard.

JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith ''Franchise/FireEmblem''.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'':
** Johnny Storm a.k.a. the Human Torch frequently creates the Fantastic Four's emblem as a summons to the rest of the team when trouble arises.
** The other members of the team have a FlareGun for the same effect, creating a large, flaming "4" to summon the rest of the team.
---> '''Susan:''' Reed's signal! It means come a-running, no matter what!
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'': How the chapter "Return to New York" ends. When the Turtles return to the Krang-occupied New York and reunite with the Hamato Clan, Kasumi, and Splinter, they, at Mikey's suggestion, set a turtle shell-shaped fire on top of the Channel 6 building to let everyone know they, and the city's [[HopeBringer hope of beating Krang]], have returned. The writer confirms that the scene was inspired by the ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' example below.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Eric Draven of ''Film/TheCrow1994'' does this when he kills T-Bird, one of the leaders of Top Dollar's gang and the third target of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, using explosives and gasoline to turn T-Bird's own car into a bomb. When the car explodes, a trail of flames spreads across the pier in a pattern created by Draven's accelerant, creating the crow emblem. This is an interesting case in that the character does not really have an emblem in-universe. The emblem was used in marketing and the film's logo.
* In ''Film/Daredevil2003'', the title hero apparently drew his famous "DD" emblem in gasoline and let it set at a crime scene, knowing that someone would flick a cigarette on the ground and set it off. Pretty impressive, given that he's blind.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'':
** While it never occurs in the film, the poster for ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' has a bat-symbol engulfed in flames on the side of a building. Unlike most examples, it's probably referencing the destruction brought by the Joker.
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', when Batman returns to Gotham, he sets a bat-shaped fire on top of a bridge to let everyone know he has returned.
* In ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'', when the second Zorro sets off on his mission, the first Zorro sets a fire along a hillside that creates the famous Zorro "Z" as a sign to the BigBad that he has returned. That scene compromised half of the movie's advertising campaign. The other half was [[{{Fanservice}} Antonio Banderas cutting Catherine Zeta-Jones' top off]].
* In ''Film/ThePunisher2004'', after the title character kills an entire mob family, he purposefully sets off a chain of bombs around a parking lot that creates his skull emblem.
* The TitleSequence of ''Film/VForVendetta'' does this. V also forms his logo in fireworks explosions twice in the film, [[{{Bookends}} near the beginning and at the end]].
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[[folder:Music]]
* In the music video for Music/{{Chamillionaire}}'s "Ridin'", he's standing on a blacktop in front of a flaming version of his logo.
* In Music/WeirdAlYankovic's parody of the above, "White and Nerdy", the flaming logo is of VideoGame/PacMan.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* At Wrestling/WrestleMania XL, [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock's]] entrance included him standing [[RingOfFire inside]] a flaming Brahma Bull symbol.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/LegoBatman 2: DC Superheroes'', the Joker does this with his face using TechnicolorScience chemicals ([[ColorContrast green and purple]], which is also his own color scheme) as a CallingCard. [[spoiler:This is later revealed to be a {{Foreshadowing}}, as Batman uses the same exact chemicals on the whole city to [[{{Irony}} draw Joker's face]] in order [[GondorCallsForAid to call]] the Justice League for [[BigDamnHeroes help]].]]

* VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate: One is shown at the end of the initial trailer for the game - its reflection in an [[{{Franchise/Splatoon}} Inkling's]] eye being the confirmation that a new VideoGame/SuperSmashBros game was coming. The final DLC fighter reveal trailer for [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]] begins [[{{Main/Bookends}} in the same way.]]
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/TwistedTropes'': [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Gordon asks Batman]] how he made a fiery logo appear on the wall. Batman says it's the interns -- then [[DisposableIntern one of them]] catches on fire and falls down, and Batman [[VerbalBackpedaling backpedals]] that these are robots.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* [[http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42084&p=1082651&#p1082651 This]] Atomic Think Tank post gives a ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' description of the Fantastic Four signal flare (see above under comics), and says they've been adapted for use by the Avengers and X-Men. It also adds that some heroes have discovered you can deactivate the ignition and point the chemicals at the ground or a wall, then dramatically light it later, as in the scene from the ''Daredevil'' movie.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOkH9xI4PQA Mocked]] in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s parody of ''Film/Daredevil2003'' when Daredevil visits the site hours earlier just so he can meticulously set up his "flaming Ds" with gasoline. However, a homeless man points out that the gas will simply evaporate, so Daredevil settles on Sterno instead.
* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. While heading to Gargantua-2 using a rocket he stole from the Venture compound, the Monarch uses the rocket and some kerosene to leave a flaming version of his logo before he and 21 head off into space, [[spoiler:with the flames coming from the logo eventually spreading and causing [[TrashTheSet the entire compound to be burnt down]]]].
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