Basic Trope: A character who can manipulate fire.
- Straight: Blaze can breathe fire and shoot fireballs.
- Exaggerated:
- Blaze can take on the very form of fire.
- Blaze's fireballs always create mushroom clouds.
- Blaze creates a fireball so big it burns everything in the universe.
- Downplayed:
- Blaze uses a fiery sword he can control by his will.
- The flames on Blaze's palms are the same as that from a lighter.
- Justified:
- Blaze is a dragon, phoenix, or demon.
- Or alternatively, he has ancestors who are dragons, phoenixes, or demons.
- Inverted:
- Subverted:
- Blaze appears to be able to shoot fireballs, but it's actually a flamethrower.
- Blaze is actually a Man on Fire.
- Double Subverted: But then he gains real fire control abilities.
- Parodied:
- Blaze uses his ability to control fire for trivial purposes.
- Blaze is a Fiery Redhead In a World… with Personality Powers — and he keeps throwing insults at those who say he's too hot-tempered.
- Zig Zagged: Blaze won the Elemental Superpower Lottery, 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.
- Averted: Blaze has no magical powers.
- Enforced: "The producer ordered us to give our hero fire powers for no reason other than to look cool."
- Lampshaded: "...let's not have barbecue again..."
- Invoked: Blaze went to a school to learn how to use fire.
- Exploited: When Trees Attack... they're pretty much screwed.
- Defied:
- Blaze learns other abilities, so he doesn't have to use fire.
- Blaze is a merman.
- Discussed:Alice: What superpower would you like to have?
Bob: Fire. It's the coolest one.
Alice: I thought you never liked the heat and hot weather.
Bob: Good point. - Conversed:Alice: Let's see... the show's hero has fire powers.
Bob: Oh great. Another hot-headed weirdo who flings fireballs. - Implied: Blaze, He Who Must Not Be Seen, makes his presence known by leaving burned-out houses and forests in his wake.
- Deconstructed:
- Blaze has 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, Blaze uses his powers for fire-setting.
- If Blaze 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.)
- Blaze doesn't have the Required Secondary Powers and ends up burning himself when he tries to use them.
- The story plays up how fire can cause horrific injuries and pain to those that survive his fire attacks, and his power gets treated as an In-Universe war crime.
- What makes Blaze dangerous is not just the threat of being burned by his flames. People who fight Blaze indoors breathe in the smoke emitted by his flames, causing them to die of smoke inhalation.
- Reconstructed: So Blaze went to a school to learn how to control fire.
- Played for Laughs: Blaze uses his fire powers to make a barbecue on his hand.
- Played for Drama: Blaze spends a long time learning how to use his powers without injuring people.
- Played for Horror: Blaze becomes an Ax-Crazy Pyromaniac Serial Killer who uses his fire powers to painfully torture people to death. The work places great emphasis on the horrible pain and injuries that his fiery attacks cause.
Be careful! Playing with Fire can be dangerous.
