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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "The Devil's Share", Team Machine is trying to stop John Reese's RoaringRampageOfRevenge. At one point they come across the body of a lawyer who's been tortured this way. Shaw (whose ComicSociopathy is a RunningGag) protests that Reese could not have done this...as he doesn't smoke. "He would have just used a lighter. This is theatrical, amateur hour."

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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "The Devil's Share", John Reese is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and Team Machine is trying to stop John Reese's RoaringRampageOfRevenge. At one point they come across the body of a lawyer who's been tortured this way. Shaw (whose ComicSociopathy ComedicSociopathy is a RunningGag) protests that Reese could not have done this...as he doesn't smoke. "He would have just used a lighter. This is theatrical, amateur hour."
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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "The Devil's Share", Team Machine is trying to stop John Reese's RoaringRampageOfRevenge. At one point they come across the body of a lawyer who's been tortured this way. Shaw (whose ComicSociopathy is a RunningGag) protests that Reese could not have done this...as he doesn't smoke. "He would have just used a lighter. This is theatrical, amateur hour."
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* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'': While watching TV late at night best past mandatory bedtime at Westin Hills Asylum, Jennifer puts out a cigarette on her hand in an effort to stay awake and prevent Freddy from coming after her. [[spoiler:It fails.]]

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* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'': While watching TV late at night best past the mandatory bedtime at Westin Hills Asylum, Jennifer puts out a cigarette on her hand in an effort to stay awake and prevent so Freddy from coming can't come after her. [[spoiler:It fails.fails, and he kills her.]]
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* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'': While watching TV late at night best past mandatory bedtime at Westin Hills Asylum, Jennifer puts out a cigarette on her hand in an effort to stay awake and prevent Freddy from coming after her. [[spoiler:It fails.]]


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* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': While talking to his daughter's abusive boyfriend, Aaron Echolls shows him some scars on his hands. He recounts how his alcoholic and incredibly abusive father ([[LikeFatherLikeSon something Aaron himself inherited]]) put out a cigarette on his hand when Aaron tried to stop his dad from [[DomesticAbuser beating his mother]]. He then [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown gives the guy a better view]].
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Misremembered this. It was the car lighter, not a cigarette.


* ''Film/{{Heathers}}'': After killing the two jocks, Veronica puts out a cigarette [[SelfHarm on her own arm]] out of anger. This doesn't faze her psychotic boyfriend J.D., who [[CouldntFindALighter uses the wound as a cigarette lighter]].
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* ''Film/Cube2Hypercube'': After rescuing a general who was involved in black ops operations from committing suicide by hanging, someone points out that the man was badly tortured with cigarette burns.
* ''Film/{{Videodrome}}'': Nikki puts out a cigarette on her left breast as part of her masochistic tendencies, despite Max's pleas for her not to.
* ''Film/ManOnFire'': Pita notices that Creasy has scars from cigarette burns on his hands, hinted to be a remnant from his past as a soldier, and asks them where he got them. He tells her she doesn't need to know and should treat him as an employee, not a friend.
* ''Film/{{Heathers}}'': After killing the two jocks, Veronica puts out a cigarette [[SelfHarm on her own arm]] out of anger. This doesn't faze her psychotic boyfriend J.D., who [[CouldntFindALighter uses the wound as a cigarette lighter]].
* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': When the T-800 demands the clothing from a biker in a packed road bar, the unimpressed biker puts out his cigar on the terminator's torso. The T-800 (who [[FeelNoPain can't feel pain]]) doesn't even flinch, confusing the biker.
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* The ProfessionalKiller in ''Film/BestSeller'' (1987) does this to himself as MachoMasochism. This is what tips off the cop that he's the same masked robber he stabbed years before, having seen the scars on his wrist.

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* The ProfessionalKiller in ''Film/BestSeller'' (1987) does this to himself as MachoMasochism. This is what tips off the cop that he's the same masked robber he stabbed encountered years before, having seen the scars on his wrist.palm.
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* ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. Emilio Largo uses a combination of a lit cigarette and ice cubes to torture his mistress for information, when he finds out she's in league with James Bond.
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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person. Sometimes this is used as an improvised weapon in desperate situations, but other times, it is used as a form of torture or abuse, as a sign that the character doing the putting out is a {{Jerkass}} or outright bastard, or as a form of MachoMasochism if this is done to oneself.

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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person. Sometimes this is used as an improvised weapon in desperate situations, but other times, it is used as a form of torture or abuse, as a sign that the character doing the putting out is a {{Jerkass}} or outright bastard, or as a form of MachoMasochism or SelfHarm if this is done to oneself.
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* The VillainProtagonist in ''Best Seller'' (1987) does this to himself as MachoMasochism. This is what tips off the cop that he's the same masked robber he stabbed years before, having seen the scars on his wrist.

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* The VillainProtagonist ProfessionalKiller in ''Best Seller'' ''Film/BestSeller'' (1987) does this to himself as MachoMasochism. This is what tips off the cop that he's the same masked robber he stabbed years before, having seen the scars on his wrist.
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* The VillainProtagonist in ''Best Seller'' does this to himself as MachoMasochism. This is what tips off the cop that he's the same masked robber he nearly killed years before, having seen the scars on his wrist.

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* The VillainProtagonist in ''Best Seller'' (1987) does this to himself as MachoMasochism. This is what tips off the cop that he's the same masked robber he nearly killed stabbed years before, having seen the scars on his wrist.
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* The VillainProtagonist in ''Best Seller'' does this to himself as MachoMasochism. This is what tips off the cop that he's the same masked robber he nearly killed years before, having seen the scars on his wrist.
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* In Ken Follett's ''Mirage'' Katra is repeatedly tortured for information by Robbie using a cigar on her naked torso. [[spoiler: He then subjects her to Main/ElectricTorture.]]
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', a young Rorschach combines this with EyeScream, using the victim's own cigarette.
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* ''[[Literature/{{Lensman}} First Lensman]]'': When a minor bad guy decides to torture information out of Jill Samms, he starts proceedings by putting his cigarette out on the skin just under her armpit.
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* In the episode "The Magdalen Martyrs" of ''Series/JackTaylor'', there is a diary that recounts the author's years as a young woman in one of Ireland's infamous Magdalene laundries, in which she and the rest of the "fallen women" sent to work off their sins and repent were tortured by a particularly sadistic nun. In one of the entries, her best friend was leaving the laundry to get married, and the nun, whom all the girls called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Lucifer]], walked in. Lucifer told the friend that it's a shame she doesn't have a leaving present, but would think of something, and thereafter lit cigarettes for the two of them, gives her a HannibalLecture about how memories of the laundry, and especially of Lucifer herself, would never go away, and then proceeds to give one of [[CigaretteBurns these]] as her farewell present.

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* ''Literature/TheOutsiders'': Ponyboy mentions at one point that he once played chicken with Tim Shepard's brother by burning one another's fingertips with cigarettes.

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* ''Literature/TheOutsiders'': Ponyboy mentions at one point that he once played chicken with Tim Shepard's brother by burning one another's fingertips with cigarettes.cigarettes; it went on until Tim Shepard himself showed up and chewed them out for doing something so stupid.


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* ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'': Right before fighting Sly, El Jefe grinds out his cigar on his own palm... and doesn't bat an eye while doing so.

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* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Wolverine comes into Cerebro smoking a cigar, and when Professor X tells him to put it out, Wolverine puts it out...by crushing it into his own palm. GoodThingYouCanHeal.

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* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Wolverine comes into Cerebro smoking a cigar, and when Professor X tells him to put it out, Wolverine puts it out...does so by crushing it into his own palm. GoodThingYouCanHeal.



* ''Film/TheCrow'': In a bar scene, one {{mook}} puts a cigar out on his own [[TongueTrauma tongue]] for laughs.



** In "Friends of Peter G.", Death shows Peter what he will become if he doesn't learn to control his drinking: an abusive FatSlob who tortures his family with cigar burns.

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** In "Friends of Peter G.", Death shows Peter what he will become if he doesn't learn to control his drinking: an abusive FatSlob who tortures his family with cigar burns.burns (though [[CreepyChild Stewie]] [[TooKinkyToTorture enjoys it]]).
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* In ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar'' the two main characters are interrogated by the police. The cops try to invoke ToThePain by demonstrating what they'll do to them if they don't talk by hurting a mannequin. One of they things they do is put a cigarette out on it, and one of the main characters says "Leave him alone! He doesn't know anything!"
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* On ''Series/RaisingHope'', Jimmy tries to get his mother to quit smoking for the sake of baby Hope. They decide they should also get Maw-Maw to quit too. When Jimmy's father tells her about it, she shows what she thinks of that idea by putting her cigarette out on his arm.
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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person. Sometimes this is used as an improvised weapon in desperate situations, but other times, it is used as a form of torture or abuse, or as a form of MachoMasochism if this is done to oneself.

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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person. Sometimes this is used as an improvised weapon in desperate situations, but other times, it is used as a form of torture or abuse, as a sign that the character doing the putting out is a {{Jerkass}} or outright bastard, or as a form of MachoMasochism if this is done to oneself.
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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person, typically for the sake of being a {{Jerkass}} or a full-on scumbag.

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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person, typically for the sake person. Sometimes this is used as an improvised weapon in desperate situations, but other times, it is used as a form of being a {{Jerkass}} torture or abuse, or as a full-on scumbag.
form of MachoMasochism if this is done to oneself.
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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person, typically for the sake of being a {{Jerkass}} or a full-on abusive scumbag.

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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person, typically for the sake of being a {{Jerkass}} or a full-on abusive scumbag.
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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person, typically for the sake of being a {{Jerkass}}.

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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person, typically for the sake of being a {{Jerkass}}.
{{Jerkass}} or a full-on abusive scumbag.




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* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Wolverine comes into Cerebro smoking a cigar, and when Professor X tells him to put it out, Wolverine puts it out...by crushing it into his own palm. GoodThingYouCanHeal.
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* ''Literature/TheOutsiders'': Ponyboy mentions at one point that he once played chicken with Tim Shepard's brother by burning one another's fingertips with cigarettes.
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* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': In the manga, Sakamoto threatens to burn out Kuwabara's kitten's eye with a cigarette, though Yusuke stops him from doing so.
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* ''Series/{{House}}'': In the episode "Distractions," House discovers that a patient has a cigarette burn on his wrist.


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* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'': Warden Joseph has a bandage over his left eye for the duration of the game as a result of Black Mask burning his eye with a cigarette.


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** In "Screwed the Pooch," Carter puts a cigarette out on Peter's chest.
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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person, typically for the sake of being a {{Jerkass}}.

Compare SecondFaceSmoke. Related to ImprobableWeaponUser.

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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the fourth season episode "Primeval," Spike manages to escape from Forrest by putting his cigarette out [[EyeScream in his eye]].
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* The debut trailer for ''VideoGame/DmCDevilMayCry'' depicted Dante putting his cigarette out on a demon's face while holding it in a headlock.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'': While they have her in captivity, Zobek puts out a cigarette on Raisa Volkova's face.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In the episode "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do," Lois, while addicted to the rush of shoplifting, puts out a cigarette ''[[CombatSadomasochist on her own arm]]''.
** In "Friends of Peter G.", Death shows Peter what he will become if he doesn't learn to control his drinking: an abusive FatSlob who tortures his family with cigar burns.
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