History BreathWeapon / VideoGames

** The two-headed dragons from the fifth entry can breathe fire and ice simultaneously, one per head. Also, [[spoiler:Berserk Usalia]] breathes either lasers or energy balls.

* ''VideoGame/TelepathRPG'' have a race of creatures called "spriggat" who 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]].

* In ''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.

* In the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fighting spinoffs, one of Suika Ibuki's attacks consists of taking a swig of alchohol, and immediately breathing fire at the opponent.

* Bloodbane in ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'', "FEEL MY FLAME!"

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The Chroma Warframe breathe out whatever element the player has chosen, ranging from fire to ice to acid to even electricity.

** In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', 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.

** Chimeras have one head that spits acidic bile and another that breath's 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).
** Frost Wyrms have an ice breath weapon.
*** Though, 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).
* The Chroma Warframe of ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' has the ability to breathe out whatever element the player has chosen, ranging from fire to ice to acid to even electricity.
* A lot of the monsters in ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'' 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.

* Firebrand, the [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Red Arremer]] from the ''VideoGame/GargoylesQuest'' series, gets varying kinds of breath attacks with his powerups.
* Among the power-ups in ''VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}} 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.

* The Giant Minotaur boss in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'' had a fiery breath attack.
* ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'': Both the heroes and the villains in the game 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.
* Many creatures from the ''{{VideoGame/Grow}}'' games can breath fire.
** The purple dragon and the BigBad from ''Grow RPG''.
** The red dragon from ''Grow Cannon''.

* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' Kog'Maw's attacks all involve spewing digestive fluids at his enemies. Shyvana also breathes fire when in her dragon form.

** 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.

* ''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.

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* ''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''.
** 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.
** 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.
* ''VideoGame/DragonsWake'': The PlayerCharacter is a dragon that, naturally, breathes fire.

* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': All dragons breathe fire, and some can even shoot fireballs at you from a distance.

* Sigma at the end of ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'', as well as too many other robots to sanely list here.

** In ''VideoGame/MegaManV'' for the UsefulNotes/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).

* The [[Franchise/XMen Sentinel]], when it appears in [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom Capcom's fighting games]], generally has one of these too.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** 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''.
** ''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.
** ''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.
** ''VideoGame/PaperMario'':
*** The Putrid Piranha and Frost Piranha enemies have toxic and ice breath attacks, respectively.
*** ''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.
%%** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'': The Axem Rangers' Blade ship's Breaker Beam.

* The various dragon forms of the main characters in the ''Franchise/BreathOfFire'' series. It's even [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin right there in the title]].
* ''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).
* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'':
** 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.
** The two-headed dragons from the fifth entry can breathe fire and ice simultaneously, one per head. Also, [[spoiler:Berserk Usalia]] breathes either lasers or energy balls.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
** 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.
** 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.
** In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', 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.
*** 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?
** Chimeras have one head that spits acidic bile and another that breath's 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).
** Frost Wyrms have an ice breath weapon.
*** Though, 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).
** 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.
* ''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.
* The Chroma Warframe of ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' has the ability to breathe out whatever element the player has chosen, ranging from fire to ice to acid to even electricity.
* Glass Goth, the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/ChocobosDungeon 2'', has a wide-area beam breath attack.
* Bloodbane in ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'', "FEEL MY FLAME!"
* ''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.
** ''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.
** ''VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail'' keeps most of its predecessor's breaths, but replaces the bubbles with a stream of water.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'':
*** 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.
*** ''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.
*** ''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.
** ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': Spyro himself only uses fire, but more exotic breath weapons are present among other characters.
*** Camo spits life energy that take the shape of balls of light.
*** Sunburn's Flamethrower Breath sends out a sustained stream of fire.
*** Zap spits balls of electricity as his primary attack.
* ''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.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** 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.
** 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.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** Dodongos breathe out streams of flame as their primary means of attack.
** 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.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'':
*** Ganon spews out fire at Link during his final phase of the battle.
*** Blind the Thief and his severed heads can spit fireballs.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'':
*** 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.
*** The [[AnIcePerson Freezzards]] in the Ice Cave can exhale gusts of freezing air.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'':
*** The large Freezards of the Icepeak Ruins attack by breathing out streams of icy mist.
*** In the second phase of its battle, the dragon Arogorok breathes out gouts of fire at Link.
** ''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.
** ''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.

* ''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.
* ''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.
* [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Michelangelo]], oddly enough, is granted this ability in the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo versions of the ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters Tournament Fighters']]' FightingGame.

* The Giant Minotaur boss in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'' had a fiery breath attack.
* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' - A small sub-class of fungi exude toxic fumes rather than EdibleAmmunition.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'':
** 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.
** 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.
** Garlic's plant food effect unleashes a stinky cloud from his mouth, making all zombies in front of him to switch lanes
** The Zombot Dark Dragon boss has an attack where it breathes fire at two lanes, temporarily scorching the lanes and making them unplantable.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
** 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.
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'': The Dracolord, the series' first BigBad, can breathe fire in his dragon form.
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'': Among the main villains, [[FinalBoss Malroth]] and [[CoDragons Belial]] have the ability to breathe fire.
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'': When the Mage/Sage casts [=BeDragon=], they spend the whole battle breathing out flames at the entire enemy party.
** ''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.
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'':
*** Two different villains -the Winter Queen and King Korol- have an ice-based breath attack properly named Cold Breath.
*** Bjorn the Behemoose's skill "Inferno" lets him expel out burning flames.
* 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]].
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter''. Nearly every Wyvern, Dragon, or "Boss" monster plus a few minor enemies.
** ''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.
** ''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.
** ''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.
* ''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.
* Among the power-ups in ''VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}} 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.
* Firebrand, the [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Red Arremer]] from the ''[[VideoGame/GargoylesQuest Gargoyle's Quest]]'' series, gets varying kinds of breath attacks with his powerups.
* This is one of the available monster powers in ''VideoGame/CrushCrumbleAndChomp''
* ''VideoGame/{{Drakan}}'' featured among (expected) fire breath - lightning, ice and acid. One will wonder how does a dragon keep all that in him.
* Certain units in ''VideoGame/MasterOfMagic'' have Fire breath, notably the entire Draconian race.
* Second and third form dragons from ''VideoGame/OgreBattle64'' have these as a possible attack.
* In the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fighting spinoffs, one of Suika Ibuki's attacks consists of taking a swig of alchohol, and immediately breathing fire at the opponent.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' features a few moves like this, namely Dragon Breath and Frost Breath. The anime expands on this making many attacks mouth-based.
* 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.
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain:'' The {{hellhound}}s in ''Blood Omen'' and some demons.
* 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.
* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' Kog'Maw's attacks all involve spewing digestive fluids at his enemies. Shyvana also breathes fire when in her dragon form.
* ''VideoGame/{{Karnov}}'': Karnov's backstory makes him out to be a circus fire-breather.
* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'': Fiery Blowhogs and Watery Blowhogs breath fire and water respectively.
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'':
** Higher-level skags have fire and laser breath, as well as spitting shock and acid.
** ''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.
* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'': Ryoufu can take a chug of alcohol and then spit fire on his opponents.
* ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'': Both the heroes and the villains in the game 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.
* In the ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'' games, the Big Ben enemy can breathe fire on the players.
* 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.

* 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.]]
* 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.

* ''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.
* 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.
* A lot of the monsters in ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'' 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.

* [[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]]''.}
* In ''VideoGame/LostSmileAndStrangeCircus'' there is Daigo, the circus fire-breather.
* 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.
* Many creatures from the ''{{VideoGame/Grow}}'' games can breath fire.
** The purple dragon and the BigBad from ''Grow RPG''.
** The red dragon from ''Grow Cannon''.
** [[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.]]
** The purple monster from Grow Comeback can beat the hero by breathing fire on him when he's not punching him.
* In ''VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus'', Sir Raleigh's welder mooks use their equipment to breathe fire in Sly's direction.
* ''VideoGame/YukiOnna2020'': The titular {{Yukionna}} attacks you with ice breath when she's close enough.
* ''VideoGame/TelepathRPG'' have a race of creatures called "spriggat" who 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]].
** In the second game, Flint the stone golem can get a flamethrower attachment which allow him to breath fire like a red spriggat.
* Arco from ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'' can breathe fire in her dragon form.
* ''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.

* ''VideoGame/GianaSistersDS'': [[FinalBoss Dragon]]'s main attack is to spit human-sized fireballs.
* ''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.
* ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'':
** 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]].
** 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.
* ''VideoGame/LiEat'': In the first game, Efina gains the "Fire" skill at level 3, which allows them to breathe fire.
* ''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.
* 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.
* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/TheLogomancer'': The dragons of the world of Ardus' novel, "The Tower of Ideals", can breathe fire.

* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/PrimalLight'': One of the attacks the first boss of the game utilizes against [[PlayerCharacter Krog]] is breathing fire at him.
* 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.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'', 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]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'':

* The Pandaren Brewmasters from ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' 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.
** Dragons in the same games 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 3'' it's clearly lightning.

* A lot of the monsters in ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'' feature a breath weapon of some kind, with Congar also having [[MakeMeWannaShout screaming]]. Magmo and Raptor shoot fire, Preytor has acidic spit, and Togera shoots what is probably radiation.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'':
*** The Whirlwind could count as a breath weapon, since you have to blow in the DS microphone to activate it.
*** Meanwhile [[DinosaursAreDragons Dodongos]] can breathe fire, and Olrox' OneWingedAngel [[spoiler: seeing as he's a dragon, has this as well]].
*** The boss Fraaz from Spirit Tracks is an entire boss fight 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.

** ''VideroGame/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.

* ''VideoGame/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.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'':
** Basically every Wyvern, Dragon, or "Boss" monster plus a few minor enemies. Yian Kut-Ku, Rathalos/Rathian, Yian Garuga, and if you want to be technical, a King Shakalaka 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.
** ''Tri'' 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''!
** Ceadeus launches a powerful stream of water and Alatreon launches ice breath.

* [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Dhalsim]] in ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' breathes fire. Another exception to the only-humans-if-corrupted rule, since he apparently gained this ability through his mastery of ''yoga''.
** 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.

* Sasquatch in the ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' series shoots ice beams.
* All dragons in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' breathe fire, and some can even shoot fireballs at you from a distance.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''[='s=] Bahamut, who is especially notable for breathing what is essentially the Flare spell. That's right. Bahamut has ''[[NukeEm nuclear fission breath.]]''

* ''VideoGame/TheLogomancer'': The dragons of the world of Ardus' novel, "The Tower of Ideals", can breath fire.

* The Flash game ''VideoGame/RobotDinosaursThatShootBeamsWhenTheyRoar'' is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin all about this.]]..and [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]].

* ''VideoGames/MegaManClassic'':