Schierke, during the battle in the city against the Kushan demon soldiers, proceeds to incinerate a whole bunch of them by summoning a giant fire wheel to set them ablaze.When Guts is attacked by several small fairy demons during the Rosine arc, he kills them by leaping into the fire he recently started.Please redirect all potholes using this trope in said context to Brain Bleach or a similarly appropriate trope. NOTE: Due to the above-mentioned Memetic Mutation, the name of this trope has become associated with anything that someone finds abhorrent and wishes to not have witnessed. The less-used opposite is either Kill It with Water or Kill It with Ice, or even Heal It with Fire. May also overlap with A Molten Date with Death if lava is involved. When this just makes things worse, see Infernal Retaliation. Compare Stuff Blowing Up and Playing with Fire - for when someone has fire as a superpower, and Murder by Cremation - when an ordinary person is lit on fire. See also Incendiary Exponent, Man on Fire, Burn Baby Burn, Fire-Breathing Weapon, Homemade Flamethrower, Burn the Witch!, Fanatical Fire, Gasoline Dousing, and Hellfire (for when mundane fire doesn't do the job). A character may try in vain to use this trope, but be faced with a Hard-to-Light Fire.Ī Super-Trope to Matchstick Weapon. This has also been subject to Memetic Mutation, as an alternative name for Brain Bleach.Ī character who's a little too enthusiastic about using this can become a Pyromaniac. If something's too big or tough for a regular fire, you can always use plasma or Hurl It into the Sun. Kind of like decapitation (which also works on most things) and a Wooden Stake through the heart. You know what the best part of Kill It with Fire is? It works on regular people wearing masks too.
And, needless to say, it's a very good strategy for When Trees Attack.
Witches and heretics for a long time were considered to be in league with evil as well, and so it was a common myth that they were dealt with in the same manner. Aliens, of course, can be Immune to Bullets, but will burn up nicely in a fire. Other times it's used to make sure whatever just got killed stays that way. In the case of The Undead, usually they're too dumb and slow to put it out (zombies), it reminds them of the sun (vampires), or they're already walking kindling (mummies).
For example, the Hydra and Trolls demonstrate one of the most frequent, and logical, applications for anti-monster fire: It prevents regeneration. This is prevalent not just in myth and fiction or games based on it, but also in works that are completely new and unrelated. Arrows on Fire, Flaming Swords, Molotov Cocktails, flamethrowers, or good old Torches and Pitchforks can work wonders when dealing with everything from Frankenstein's Monster to a Monster House. Also, in a pinch, it can still burn things, or at least scare them off.
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