History Main / FlamingSkulls

* This is a favorite of [[ComicBook/GoldDigger Gina Diggers' father]], making his head appear to be on fire, as a means of intimidating would-be suitors to his daughters. (He's an archmage. It's just an illusion.) He even calls it the "magical equivalent of polishing the shotgun."

* In ''[[Literature/DreamPark The California Voodoo Game]]'', one character uses a magic spell to make his head appear as a flaming skull in order to scare off a loa.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has an episode where DeeDee has to get a tattoo after receiving the wrong decoder ring in her [[Franchise/MyLittlePony Princess Pretty Puff]] [[{{Expy}} cereal box]]. The tattoo artist says a flaming skull is among the popular choices.

* Once again, [[Film/GhostRider]] and its sequel are literally this.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series has Bubbles, flaming skulls which flutter around on little bat wings. Less ''awesome'' and more ''annoying'' in this case, as they seal Link's ability to draw his sword. However, that was absent all together in games after Wind Waker, and would just either freeze or burn Link.

* ''WarhammerFantasy'' traditionally has a Bright/Fire magic spell called "The Burning Head".
** Also: Screaming Skull Catapults. The ancient Khemri empire had a habit of keeping the heads of executed criminals, coating them in a special kind of pitch that not only burned well, but made a horrific screaming sound, and firing the things en masse at opposing armies via catapult. Coming back as a race of [[DemBones skeletal undead]] has not cured them of this habit.
*** There's an upgrade for the catapult that lets you fire the skulls of ''the specific race being fought'' at them. This hurts their morale rather badly.
* Khornate daemons in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are occsionally armed with the dreaded Burning Brass Skulls of Khorne. Presumably they kill people by being f*** ing metal.
** So who gets to wield the Burning Brass Balls of Khorne?
** [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Wazdakka_Gutsmek Biker Nob Gutsmek]] once destroyed a [[HumongousMecha Titan]] by ramping into it and killing everybody onboard. The crew's skulls, kept as trophies, are still on fire.

-->I've always heard about people having a conniption, but I've never seen one. You don't want to see them. My wife's face split; the skin and hair came off her face, so there was nothing except a skull! And orange light came out of her hair, and it lit all around, and fire shot from her eye sockets and began to burn my stomach, and she said: [[/folder]]

[[folder: "WHERE DID YOU GET CHOCOLATE CAKE FROM?!" ]]

->'''Drive-Thru Whale:''' "Would you like flaming skulls with that?"
->'''Strong Bad:''' "Do you have to ask?"

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-->I've always heard about people having a conniption, but I've never seen one. You don't want to see them. My wife's face split; the skin and hair came off her face, so there was nothing except a skull! And orange light came out of her hair, and it lit all around, and fire shot from her eye sockets and began to burn my stomach, and she said: [[AC:"WHERE DID YOU GET CHOCOLATE CAKE FROM?!"]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''

* Featured on the cover Oz's ''[[http://www.minhembio.com/forum/uploads/monthly_08_2009/post-30418-1250728367.jpg Fire in the Brain'']]. On an unrelated note, that's [[{{Bathory}} Quorthon's]] hand.

* The AptlyNamed symbol of punk band Music/TheOffspring, Fire skull.

* ''VideoGame/{{Toukiden}}'' has Blazing Souls and Shadow Souls, oni that take for form of floating flaming skulls that can breath fire.

* Blazing Skull was a [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] hero in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. No prizes for guessing what his gimmick was.

* The ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin symbol of punk band Music/TheOffspring, Fire skull.

* In the Russian fairy tale ''Literature/VasilissaTheBeautiful'', the WickedWitch BabaYaga's cottage is surrounded by flaming skulls. When Vasilissa survives Baba Yaga's tests, the witch sends her home with one of the skulls to light her way, whereupon it [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork kills her evil stepmother and stepsisters]].

* ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' is ''made'' of this trope. His [[Film/GhostRider fiml incarnation]] is currently the picture.

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* ''Comicbook/GhostRider'' is ''made'' of this trope.