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* ''ComicBook/AlanFord'': The supervillain Superciuk [[note]]which means something like "Superdrunk" or maybe "Superalkie"[[/note]] uses his high-proof breath to put his opponents into an alcoholic coma. At full power he can turn honey to black cherry, destroy clothing and burn down anything remotely burnable.
* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': The villain Fright can exhale fear toxin.
** ''ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}'': Etrigan the demon breathes {{Hellfire}} from his mouth. It tends to function as normal, extremely hot fire, flames that burn one's soul, and infernal fires that destroy pure evil beings. It is of course, magical in nature.
** ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': The Red Lanterns have the ability to expel blasts of burning plasma from their mouths. Most Red Lanterns use this as their primary form of attack. Not only does it deal a lot of damage, it also destroys Green Lantern constructs.
** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'': Bea da Costa aka Fire originally had the ability to breathe a jet of green fire, before the metagene bomb in ''[[Comicbook/InvasionDCComics Invasion!]]'' gave her full-on WreathedInFlames (but still green).
** ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': A rare example of a human with a Breath Weapon, but no "taint": Fire Lad, can breathe (and sneeze) fire. (Too bad he also has a raging set of allergies.)
** ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': Supergirl has freezing breath and hurricane breath.
*** In [[ComicBook/Supergirl1972 her first self-named series]], Kara uses her freezing breath to put out a burning meteorite (''Supergirl'' #4). And in ''Supergirl'' #7, she soaks two super-strong cavemen and then petrifies them in ice with a blast of super-cold breath.
*** ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 Supergirl Volume 2]]'': In #23, Linda uses her hurricane breath to push bystanders away the battlefield.
*** ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Supergirl Vol. 5]]'': In #34, Supergirl fights a flame-spewing griffon. When it belches out flames on her, Kara retaliates with her freezing breath.
*** ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'': As a [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lantern]], Supergirl can, like other Red Lanterns, spew corrosive plasma.
*** ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth'': Kara uses her super-icy breath to freeze the fist of a train hijacker who tried to punch her.
*** Being Supergirl's opposite clone, ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}} breathes fire.
*** Being an alternate universe version of the aforementioned Supergirl, ComicBook/PowerGirl also possesses super breath. She's used it to [[https://imgur.com/a/ZoVsLBB ice her way out of restraints]], [[https://imgur.com/a/lkJzbHf freeze and destroy a seemingly indestructible monster]], [[https://imgur.com/a/Vq5xqOA and reveal a cloaked base by covering it in ice]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TrollXComics/comments/azlgfm/power_girl_casually_deals_with_a_flasher_power/ give an unwanted chill to a guy who made the mistake of flashing her]].
** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
*** Superman has arctic breath (essentially gusts of supercooled air which freeze things in their path) and [[EyeBeams heat vision]]; as a counter to these, Bizarro has "freeze vision" and "heat breath", which is a nice way of saying that he breathes fire.
*** Superman also has heat breath, although he seldom uses it. In ''Comicbook/KryptonNoMore'' Superman blasts a super-villain with a blow of super-heated air when they fight in the Fortress.
*** Superman (and, of course, all other Kryptonians and Daxamites) also possess hurricane breath; that is, they can create and direct gale-force winds simply by exhaling, without the winds necessarily being freezing cold. Pre-Crisis, Superman and Supergirl had such precise control over this power that it basically became {{telekinesis}}.
*** ''Comicbook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'': Supes uses his hurricane breath to blow Spidey away from a booby-trapped computer.
*** ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'': Superman uses his freezing breath to encase Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} in ice before ramming him.
*** ''Comicbook/WarWorld'': Superman deflects a cluster of K-tipped missiles with a tight-focus blast of his hurricane breath.
*** Doomsday eventually develops the ability to breathe fire.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The chimera and hydra both breath fire.
* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'': In #19, the Japanese army frees a frozen dragon that can breath fire which the hope to use as a weapon.
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'': Played with. Sliding up the scale, Iron and Copper dragons have fairly generic elemental breath weapons, usually fire. Golden dragons are renowned for having completely random breath weapons, which are affected by their magical auras as well. At the top of the peak, Platinum dragons don't have breath weapons at all, but rather "ether vents", which are essentially small points on their bodies that effortlessly channel destructive levels of magic (when used to attack, WordOfGod has compared them to Franchise/StarTrek ship phasers.)
* ''ComicBook/KaijuDayz'': Big Mama and her son Junior can breath streams of flame, with the former's being orange and the latter's blue.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': In the "Age of Khonshu" story arc, the Jennifer Walters version of the Hulk was able to breathe out a beam of gamma rays to knock out the mummies imprisoning Dr. Strange and other heroes. This is fitting as Jennifer had been altered by a dying Celestial and is now a huge, brutish mutate that uses HulkSpeak.
** ''ComicBook/GhostRider'': The Rider can breathe {{Hellfire}} and shoot chains from his mouth.
** ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Fin Fang Foom is a firebreather of sorts. He blows out gas that can be ignited.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'': Doctor Doom can exhale toxic/corrosive fumes as part of his transformation. Apparently, it's based on the fact that his now-useless organs are ''rotting into mush inside his body''.
** ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' has member Chamber able to breathe out a blast of energy. Too bad it also did a number on his lower jaw. This turns out to be caused by him undergoing an incomplete transformation into an energy being.
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': Imperial class [[AliensAreBastards Evronians]] grow a secondary head on a tail they use to talk, while their "original" head can now shoot blasts of highly-damaging energy. Usually at the expense of [[SurroundedByIdiots incompetent officers]].
* ''ComicBook/RichieRich'': The Onion uses onion breath as his weapon, even making it powerful enough to destroy walls.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'': Megatron, seemingly spontaneously, develops or formats new abilities just because of the raw power at his disposal with Ore-13 ("ultra-energon"). Among these is a Breath Weapon. He loses these powers after he runs out of fuel and never uses the stuff again (as he found out that it came with some dangerous side-effects). Cybertronians with bestial alt-modes, like the Dinobots, Monsterbots, Horrorcons, and Trypticon also have breath weapons, and the Dinobots and Trypitcon are explicitly noted as being tainted compared to standard Cybertronians (in fact, it was contact with Trypticon's body-fluids that tainted the Dinobots).
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* In ''ComicStrip/HsuAndChan'' "Pocket Morons Platinum", the Charmander-spoof Gila Mobster performs the Flamethrower attack by taking a swig off his flask & blowing it through the cigarette lighter he holds in his tail.

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* In ''ComicStrip/HsuAndChan'' ''ComicStrip/HsuAndChan'': "Pocket Morons Platinum", the Platinum": The Charmander-spoof Gila Mobster performs the Flamethrower attack by taking a swig off his flask & blowing it through the cigarette lighter he holds in his tail.

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