Man on Fire, according to the page description and laconic, seems to be about how easy people catch on fire. Basically, it is to people like how Made of Incendium is to objects. And interestingly enough, the former is much more older than the latter trope. But it seems like whenever I see this trope mentioned, it's usually just used for people who simply get set on fire or are on fire, which is pretty much chairs on fire. Or perhaps the most common use for it is people who die fiery deaths, with some of them falling under Kill It with Fire. Occasionally it might even be used for someone who's Wreathed in Flames. And like any trope, it too has its share of examples with little to no context. I think the problem with the trope is its name. It has the name that can be used for a variety of meanings; not really illustrating what the trope really is about. And it seems the main trope page itself barely mentions the purpose of the trope, which doesn't help too much either. I got my wick check and looking at 50 wicks out of 2416, it just pretty much shows exactly what I'm talking about:

• Correctly used: 3/50
• People being on fire/people being set on fire: 14/50
• People dying fiery deaths/Kill It With Fire: 17/50
• ZCE/Insufficient Contect: 7/50
• Murky/Other: 9/50

1. Merge the trope into Made of Incendium. Expand that to where it's people who could easily catch on fire and burn wildly, not just objects.
2. Turn the Man on Fire page itself into a disambiguation page for other tropes such as Kill It with Fire, Wreathed in Flames, Made of Incendium, Spontaneous Human Combustion, Infernal Retaliation, Playing with Fire, Incendiary Exponent, and of course, the Man on Fire movie.

1. Characters.Battlestar Galactica 1978: He's visibly shown bursting into flames before his fighter explodes.
2. ComicBook.Richard Dragon Kung Fu Fighter: Richard's shirt gets caught on fire and burns him when he runs through the front of a burning building to confront their attackers and give Ben and Shiva a chance to get Junior out of the building unharmed through the back.
3. Flaying Alive: Among the various brutal deaths suffered by people in the failed Korgoth of Barbaria pilot, one man (in the middle of a speech saying what HE'LL do to KORGOTH) has the entire front of his body ripped off to expose the muscles beneath, cuing a serious of horrified screams from the other, also-brutalized bar patrons. Then Korgoth throws a glass of alcohol all over him, cuing another series of screams. Then he sets the alcohol ablaze; no reaction shots this time, the guy just runs around screaming for a bit then falls over dead. Just another boring bar-fight for Korgoth.

1. Recap.Family Guy S 2 E 18 E Peterbus Unum: When Brian says that he's been with Peter through worse, there's a cutaway to them on a Ferris wheel where Peter is on fire with no explanation.
2. VideoGame.Broforce: One of Double Bro Seven's special is a laser beam fired from his wristwatch that sweeps through half of the screen, doing massive damage to terrain and igniting mooks on fire. Time Bro's gun fires these in short bursts, as well.
3. Characters.Gory Toons Other Recurring Characters: Gets caught on fire in "Splendid What Mondon't".
4. Anime.Grimms Fairy Tale Classics: At the end of "The Six Swans", the witch accidentally sets herself on fire when she summons a mighty wind.
5. Damage Is Fire: In Zombidle the structures (essentially mooks) that Bob the Necromancer and his minions attack will catch fire when damaged enough, and then burst into even more flames as its health depletes even more. When the structure is down, villagers might run out of it- on fire, of course.
6. Funny.Eexecute: Tom getting repeatedly set on fire, sometimes inexplicably, throughout the game.
7. Dissimile: "I realized what I should really be doing is fighting fire with fire. And by 'fire' I mean 'Perry the Platypus'. And by 'fire' I also mean 'Perry the Platypus'. It occurred to me while I was on fire."
8. Funny.Aqua Teen Hunger Force: All of this occurs while Santa Claus, brought in by Meatwad in the middle of July because he wanted early Christmas presents, is burning alive after having been set ablaze by Eggzilla.

   Santa: Oh, the suit is melting into my skin!

9. WebVideo.The Necro Critic: Abused so much in Van Helsing, that he started a Burning Man Count in the same vein as Spoony's "Fuse Box Count". He's reused that same counter in a couple of other videos.
10. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse: Augie sets Zombie Scout Leader Rogers on fire.
11. Series.Journey To The West 1996: Sun Wukong battling the Red Boy, who earns a power upgrade turning his flames into Samadhi Fire, Wukong's greatest weakness. Cue Wukong getting incinerated alive to the point he gets reverted to Sleep-Mode Size.
12. VideoGame.Steamshovel Harry: Look closely at the Helper Spider once the nuke hits Earth, you'll see that he's on fire.
13. WebVideo.Counter Monkey: This was also essentially Crazy Mike's reaction in "The Jedi Hunter" when Spoony first demonstrates the titular character's techniques via lighting his Sith Lord on fire.
14. Heroes.Tropes J To P: Elle sets Adam on fire as he's escaping Primatech.

1. Characters.NCIS Los Angeles: Her attempts to rescue her son from her lover-turned-criminal leads to overstepping jurisdiction, breaking laws with an unsanctioned operation into Mexico, getting the team in massive heaps of trouble on top of implicating them in crimes, and nearly gets the heroes killed while Hidoko was tortured and burned alive.
2. Literature.Asian Saga: In Whirlwind General Petr Oleg Mzytryk (Suslev from Noble House) travels to Iran to exact revenge for his son's torture and murder by Iranian Intelligence. Iran being in the throes of armed revolution, with many blaming foreigners for everything, he's inevitably betrayed and left to burn to death by his Iranian once-lackeys.
3. Characters.Haunting Ground: He survives getting blown up, Squashed Flat by a rock-crushing machine, and getting burned alive. He finally dies from his severe burns.
4. Film.Signal 30: Two of the accidents — both involving trucks — show charred corpses being removed from burned shells of vehicles. One accident had two victims, both burned beyond recognition; that accident was caused when one of the drivers was speeding on a two-lane road and jackknifed when he attempted to brake suddenly to avoid crashing into the scene of a previous (minor) fender-bender, and he crashed head-on with another truck. The other accident happened at a railroad crossing, and involved an elderly driver simply driving into the path of an oncoming train.
5. YMMV.Peaky Blinders: Inspector Chester Campbell originally assigned to recover the stolen guns from the Peaky Blinders, first comes into contact with the gang when he has his men terrorize a community under its protection before beating up gang member Arthur Shelby. When he learns that Arthur's brother Thomas "Tommy" Michael Shelby is the leader, he makes his presence known to him by demanding the location of the stolen guns with the threat of death to him and family, including Tommy's pregnant sister. Campbell later tortures and kills a suspect under his custody. Despite recovering the guns he becomes enraged when he learns that his mole, Grace actually fell in love with Tommy; he takes his rage out at a prostitute by brutally raping her. He later incites a gang war between the Peaky Blinders and a rival gang in hopes that Tommy dies, uncaring if innocents die, and attempts to kill Grace himself. Upon being promoted to Major, Campbell orchestrates an plan to have Tommy assassinate Henry Russell, and later burns a man alive under a pile of searing charcoal when he interferes. When Tommy deviates from Campbell's plan he has Tommy's brother and cousin thrown in jail and beaten up only releasing them if Tommy's aunt Polly has sex with him; he later rapes Polly when she tries to back out. After Tommy assassinates the target, Campbell attempts to have Tommy executed once he had outlived his usefulness. While claiming to be fighting for justice, Campbell is nothing more than a sadist, who abuses his authority to bully the weak.
6. Recap.Legends Of Tomorrow S 5 E 3 Slay Anything: Mick is killed when the killer telekinetically throws his own fire back at him, but gets undone after Kathy is stopped in the past.
7. Series.Blue Bloods: In "To Tell the Truth," after Linda is kidnapped by associates of a drug kingpin that Danny witnessed committing a murder, Danny gets notified that a body has been found in a torched car. Fearing that it's Linda's body, he rushes to the scene, where Frank quickly tells him it's not Linda. It is, however, the body of the girlfriend who gave up said kingpin to Danny and Jackie.
8. Recap.Criminal Case Pacific Bay Case 44 The Ties That Bind: Spangler was killed by being set ablaze with a Molotov cocktail.
9. Characters.Arkham Horror The Card Game: When his cellmate burst into flames one night, the cops accused him of causing it, but couldn't get the charge to stick. Spontaneous Human Combustion
10. YMMV.Weight Of The World: After five books of acting like a Smug Snake and directly hurting characters like Ruby and America, Roman's fiery demise at the hands of America is immensely gratifying.
11. NightmareFuel.The Return Of Godzilla: Once Godzilla makes landfall in Tokyo, the JSDF engages him and naturally fails to stop him. When Godzilla uses his atomic breath on the JSDF tanks and missile batteries, the entire row is destroyed in a firestorm, and at one point there's a shot of a man burning to death as everything goes up around him.
12. Website.The Onion: The very last line of the aforementioned "Cult Divided On Whether To Let Women Become Telepathic-Vision Clerics" article. "This whole argument will be moot in six days when we board up the windows and burn ourselves alive."
13. Characters.The Great Library: Burned alive when the Library destroys Philadelphia with Greek Fire midway through Ash and Quill.
14. Characters.The Belgariad Villains: How he makes his exit, burned alive when Garion activates his magical abilities.
15. Recap.One Thousand Ways To Die Season 2: An Orthodox Jew tries to win the affections of a hula dancer, but his attempts come off as invasive and the hula dancer rejects him after he tells her that he wants to marry her, but only if she'll convert. He drowns his sorrows in booze, drunkenly stumbles into a traditional Hawaiian fire dance, and ends up burning to death because he was too drunk to stop, drop, and roll.
16. Monster.Top Cow Productions: Issues #40-41 & #48-49: "The Pyromancer" or "the Firestarter" is a fire-obsessed demon who possessed the innocent math teacher Ray Perkins. Using his body to set buildings on fire, the demons decided to find a large truck full of explosive material and drive it to the center of a populated city, where he would blow it up, destroying a large part of the city and killing two thousand people. Deciding to present the biggest sacrifice to his masters, the Undying Ones, in exchange for power, the demon invaded the nuclear plant and planned to cause it to explode and destroy the city, killing millions of people. Returning after being defeated by Sara, the demon continues to kill people by burning them and tries to corrupt Sara Pezzini, the current wielder of Witchblade, so that he could use her as a weapon.
17. Characters.Elden Ring Secondary Characters: At the end of her quest, she asks for the Tarnished to give her the blessing of the Frenzied Flame. It proceeds to melt her eyes but give her insight into the Three Finger's motives. After explaining them to you, she begs you to fulfill the will of the Frenzied Flame and incinerate the world. Moments after this, she catches fire and stops moving. If you come back later, all that remains of her is the flame, still burning.

1. Characters.Jurassic World The Geeky Zoologist: Literally just had the trope name and nothing else. In fact, that page has a lot of ZCEs like that
2. Literature.The Gargoyle: Played really, really straight.
3. Film.Silent Rage: Kirby, after he is caught inside an explosion.
4. Characters.A Song Of Ice And Fire House Martell: He doesn't live to tell the tale.
5. WebAnimation.Charlie The Unicorn: "CHARLIE, I'M ON FIRE! TELL ME!"
6. VideoGame.Guild Of Dungeoneering: The "Burning!" status does 1 damage per round to both participants. This is the special ability of certain Fire aligned enemies, and Dungeoneers with a level 2 "Pyromaniac" Battle Scar. '''Doesn't really go into detail whether or not the participants are set ablaze
7. Recap.Buffy The Vampire Slayer S 6 E 7 Once More With Feeling: "Songs, dancing around...what's gonna be wrong with that?" (Description Cut to Man on Fire)

1. VideoGame.SAS Zombie Assault: M870 in SAS, SAS 2, and Insane Asylum; AA-12 and Benelli M4 in Insane Asylum and SAS 3; Stoeger Side-by-Side, Winchester 9140, SPAS-12, Saiga .401K, Striker, UTAS UTS-15, and SCMITR in SAS 3; HVM 004, RIA 30 Strikeforce, Mustang, Stripper, Hard Thorn, and 1887 Shockfield in SAS 4. Do note that there are five wicks on that page and all of them are sinkholed into various weapons, mostly found under the Standard FPS Guns trope
2. Fanfic.Fairly English Story: Same goes for Junpei's Icarus
3. QuoteSource.Creators
4. Characters.Mario And Luigi: The heads of Blazing Shroobs are on fire. Mario and Luigi will take damage if they jump on them, but doing so extinguishes the flame, making them much less dangerous. Sounds more like Wreathed in Flames
5. Roleplay.Bleach Blazing Souls: Meet Kasai Rain. The human who has to take off his shirt for his powers to even work. Is Kasai Wreathed in Flames?
6. Jet Pack: Iva's movement ability in Battlerite is provided by a jet pack. It also leaks oil onto any enemy she passes over, putting them at risk of being lit up.
7. Funny.Dexters Laboratory: "My hair is on fire! My hair is on fire! My hair is on fire!"
8. WebAnimation.Starters: The Pokemon outside the school start giving one to Chespin. Fennekin doesn't take it very lightly.
9. Quotes.Major Injury Underreaction: Thief:''' Doesn't it worry you to be, you know, aflame?