History Main / CigaretteBurns

* 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!"

* ''Film/ScannersIIITheTakeover'': Helena tests her recently discovered ability to transmit her mind control powers through a camera signal by recording a tape to force her lover to put out a cigar on his hand. When Alex (Helena's brother and another "scanner") later sees the tape, he almost does the same thing.

* ''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.

* Attempted in another Follett novel, ''Literature/EyeOfTheNeedle''. When a disabled RAF pilot finds out that his polite house guest is actually a German spy trying to tell his superiors exactly where the main thrust of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the D-Day landings]] will happen, the two fight and the pilot starts the confrontation by trying to burn the spy with a cigarette flicked at him. The spy mentally notes that while cigarettes burn very hot, they need to be held against the skin for several seconds before the burning starts, and that trying to distract him with a thrown cigarette is doomed to failure.

* In Creator/KenBurns documentary on ''Series/TheWest'', a young girl thinks the {{Soiled Dove}}s are glamorous, until one takes off her dress and shows her the cigarette burns given to her by clients.

* In "Slightly Imperfect Girl", Jay Foreman describes a flawed girl he'd live happily with. Only her issues worsen with each verse, and in the last one she's throwing tantrums and putting out cigarretes on him.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'''s opening has Nico putting out her smoke on the face of a demon trying to get into her van, just before she dislodges it by means of a roadsign.

** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS12E20HesBlaack He's Bla-ack!]]", one of Peter's ideas to mend Lois and Donna's feud is giving them an abused animal to heal, and he shows Cleveland a bald eagle he put cigarettes out on for being a "dick". Cleveland is appalled at this... until the eagle squawks ''something'' offensive at him, after which he tells Peter to lock the door and lights up a cig.

'''[[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]]:''' Where else do you put one out?
-->-- ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}''

* 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 encountered years before, having seen the scars on his palm.
* The 1986 Ozploitation thriller ''The Big Hurt'' had an IntrepidReporter investigating why several people tortured themselves to death, including a woman dubbed The Human Ashtray by reporters. Turns out a GovernmentConspiracy to develop chemically-induced MindControl has GoneHorriblyWrong, causing the test subjects to invert pain and pleasure.

* Deadpool in ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' pushes this one step higher by using not a cigarette but a car lighter against a mook, first by burning his forehead, and then by tossing it into his mouth.

* ''Film/{{Hoffa}}''. Bobby Ciaro has burns on his fingers because he's [[NoOshaCompliance forced to drive long hours by his employers]], and so holds a lit cigarette between his fingers to wake him up if he falls asleep at the wheel.
* In ''Film/InnerSpace'', the Cowboy sits in an airliner seat and tries to smoke a cigar, only to be told that there's no smoking on the plane. He crushes out the lit cigar into his other hand, smelling the fragrance of the ashes afterward.

* ''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.

* ''Film/WildCats1986''. Creator/GoldieHawn's character plays the football coach in a tough inner city school. She tells one of the players to put his cigarette out while they're on the field, so [[MachoMasochism he extinguishes it on his own hand]].
* In ''Film/TheWildLife'' 12-year-old Jim [[IntimidationDemonstration intimidates some would-be bullies]] at the bowling alley by putting his cigarette out in the palm of his hand, followed by a BringIt.

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** In "Screwed the Pooch," Carter puts a cigarette out on Peter's chest.
** In "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 (though [[CreepyChild Stewie]] [[TooKinkyToTorture enjoys it]]).
** In "He's Bla-ack!", one of Peter's ideas to mend Lois and Donna's feud is giving them an abused animal to heal, and he shows Cleveland a bald eagle he put cigarettes out on for being a "dick". Cleveland is appalled at this... until the eagle squawks ''something'' offensive at him, after which he tells Peter to lock the door and lights up a cig.

* In "Slightly Imperfect Girl", Jay Foreman describes a flawed girl he'd live happily with. Only her issues worsen with each verse, and in the last one she's throwing tantrums and putting out cigarretes on him.

* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin Vol 1]]'' ComicBook/LadyShiva puts out a gangster's cigarette in his own ear.

* ''{{ComicBook/XIII}}'': A variation when XIII mentions the best way to get rid of leeches is with a lit cigarette. Unfortunately, he doesn't smoke.

* In 1999, Wrestling/TerriRunnels did this to Wrestling/{{Ivory}} after a match

* A 1986 Australian thriller ''Film/TheBigHurt'' had an IntrepidReporter investigating why several people tortured themselves to death, including a woman dubbed The Human Ashtray by reporters. Turns out a GovernmentConspiracy to develop chemically-induced MindControl has GoneHorriblyWrong, causing the test subjects to invert pain and pleasure.

* ''Film/{{Hoffa}}'' (1992). Bobby Ciaro has burns on his fingers because he's [[NoOshaCompliance forced to drive long hours by his employers]], and so holds a lit cigarette between his fingers to wake him up if he falls asleep at the wheel.

* ''Film/WildCats''. Creator/GoldieHawn's character plays the football coach in a tough inner city school. She tells one of the players to put his cigarette out while they're on the field, so [[MachoMasochism he extinguishes it on his own hand]].

* Attempted in another Follett novel, ''The Eye of the Needle''. When a disabled RAF pilot finds out that his polite house guest is actually a German spy trying to tell his superiors exactly where the main thrust of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the D-Day landings]] will happen, the two fight and the pilot starts the confrontation by trying to burn the spy with a cigarette flicked at him. The spy mentally notes that while cigarettes burn very hot, they need to be held against the skin for several seconds before the burning starts, and that trying to distract him with a thrown cigarette is doomed to failure.

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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Ben Beckman, Shanks' first mate, starts his attack on Higuma's goons by poking his cigarette to the closest goon.
* A flashback in ''Manga/{{Gangsta}}'' shows how Worick lost his eye: his father shoved a lit cigarette into it.

* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin Vol 1]]'' ComicBook/LadyShiva puts out a gangster's cigarette in his own ear.

* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Wolverine comes into Cerebro smoking a cigar, and when Professor X tells him to put it out, Wolverine does so by crushing it into his own palm. GoodThingYouCanHeal.
* 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!"
* ''Film/TheCrow'': In a bar scene, one {{mook}} puts a cigar out on his own [[TongueTrauma tongue]] for laughs.

* ''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.

* ''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/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 chest. The T-800 (who [[FeelNoPain can't feel pain]]) doesn't even flinch, confusing the biker.
* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'': While watching TV late at night past the mandatory bedtime at Westin Hills Asylum, Jennifer puts out a cigarette on her hand in an effort to stay awake so Freddy can't come after her. [[spoiler:It fails, and he kills her.]]

* In the film version of Bernard [=MacLaverty=]'s ''Cal'', Cal closes his hand on a lit cigarette while flashing back to the [[SympatheticMurderBackstory murder he abetted]].
* In ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' Bender shows a cigar burn on his arm. "In my family that's what you get for spilling paint in the garage."
* In ''Film/TheWildLife'' 12-year-old Jim [[IntimidationDemonstration intimidates some would-be bullies]] at the bowling alley by putting his cigarette out in the palm of his hand, followed by a BringIt.
* Deadpool in ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' pushes this one step higher by using not a cigarette but a car lighter against a mook, first by burning his forehead, and then by tossing it into his mouth.
-->'''Deadpool:''' I never say this... but don't swallow.

* ''Film/ScannersIIITheTakeover'': Helena tests her recently discovered ability to transmit her mind control powers through a camera signal by recording a tape to force her lover to put out a cigar on his hand. When Alex (Helena's brother and another "scanner") later sees the tape, he almost does the same thing.

* ''Film/WildCats''. Creator/GoldieHawn's character plays the football coach in a tough inner city school. She tells one of the players to put his cigarette out while they're on the field, so [[MachoMasochism he extinguishes it on his own hand]].
* A 1986 Australian thriller ''The Big Hurt'' had an IntrepidReporter investigating why several people tortured themselves to death, including a woman dubbed The Human Ashtray by reporters. Turns out a GovernmentConspiracy to develop chemically-induced MindControl has GoneHorriblyWrong, causing the test subjects to invert pain and pleasure.

* In ''Film/InnerSpace'', the Cowboy sits in an airliner seat and tries to smoke a cigar, only to be told that there's no smoking on the plane. He crushes out the lit cigar into his other hand, smelling the fragrance of the ashes afterward.

* ''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; it went on until Tim Shepard himself showed up and chewed them out for doing something so stupid.

* 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.]]
* Attempted in another Follett novel, ''The Eye of the Needle''. When a disabled RAF pilot finds out that his polite house guest is actually a German spy trying to tell his superiors exactly where the main thrust of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the D-Day landings]] will happen, the two fight and the pilot starts the confrontation by trying to burn the spy with a cigarette flicked at him. The spy mentally notes that while cigarettes burn very hot, they need to be held against the skin for several seconds before the burning starts, and that trying to distract him with a thrown cigarette is doomed to failure.
* In 1968 Creator/LarryNiven wrote a short story called "The Deadlier Weapon" in which the narrator taunts a carjacker by threatening to crash the car and burns his nose with the cigarette lighter.

* Literature/ThatHideousStrength: Miss Hardcastle uses this as a torture technique when interrogating Jane.

* 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 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 TheReasonYouSuckSpeech 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.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "The Devil's Share", John Reese is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and Team Machine come across the body of a lawyer who's been tortured this way. Shaw (whose 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."

* In Creator/KenBurns documentary on ''The West'', a young girl thinks the {{Soiled Dove}}s are glamorous, until one takes off her dress and shows her the cigarette burns given to her by clients.
* ''Series/ColdSquad'': In "Jane Klosky", a suspect did this as a form of SelfHarm while confined to a mental institution. In flashback, he is shown carefully laying a burning cigarette on his forearm above a line of identical parallel burn marks. Later, Ali and Tony observe the scars on his arms while questioning him.

* In Music/TheWho's rock opera, Music/{{Tommy}}, this is one of the many things Cousin Kevin does to Tommy.

* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'': While they have her in captivity, Zobek puts out a cigarette on Raisa Volkova's face.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'': Warden Joseph has a bandage over his left eye for the duration of the game as a result of Black Mask ([[spoiler:actually the Joker]]) burning his eye with a cigarette.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': Jax will do this to his victims in one of his Fatalities, or to himself in some of his pre-fight intros. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since his arms are [[ArtificialLimbs robotic]].

** 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]]''.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the fourth season episode "Primeval," Spike manages to escape from Forrest by putting his cigarette out [[EyeScream in his eye]].

* ''Hoffa'' (1992). Bobby Ciaro has burns on his fingers because he's [[NoOshaCompliance forced to drive long hours by his employers]], and so holds a lit cigarette between his fingers to wake him up if he falls asleep at the wheel.

* A 1986 Australian thriller ''The Big Hurt'' had an IntrepidReporter investigating why several people tortured themselves to death, including a woman dubbed the "human ashtray". Turns out a GovernmentConspiracy to develop chemically-induced MindControl has GoneHorriblyWrong, causing the test subjects to invert pain and pleasure.

* On ''Series/{{MASH}}, there was an episode where Col. Flagg put out a cigar Klinger was smoking by grinding it into his own hand, never flinching while he did it.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': Jax will do this to his victims in one of his Fatalities, or to himself in some of his pre-fight intros. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since his arms are [[ArtificialLimbs robotic]].

* ''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]].

* ''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.