History Main / FlamingMeteor

** The original ''Warcraft'' had the Conjurer unit able to summon a multitude of fiery meteors with the "Rain of Fire" spell, though the Mage of ''Warcraft II'' and Archmage of ''Warcraft III'' switched to the icy "Blizzard" [=AoE=] spell instead. However, the Mage class in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' eventually gets the "Meteor" spell, which calls down a flaming rock that does large damage in the impact zone while leaving behind a lingering patch of fire. Some [=NPCs=] instead get the [[UpToEleven "Meteor Swarm"]] spell.
** Infernals are demonic {{Rock Monster}}s that burn with green [[{{Hellfire}} Felfire]], which are summoned to the battlefield in a curled-up meteor-like state, after which they stand up and begin laying into their summoner's enemies. The Pit Lord HeroUnit from ''Warcraft III'' could call one down with its "Rain of Fire" ability, while in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', high level Warlocks can do the same. The MMO also introduces Abyssals, an EliteMook variant of the already-formidable Infernal.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' has its own meteor event, but a TimeCrash causes it to not only repeat but pause halfway, with the meteor remaining stuck in the sky with non-moving flame contrails all in place... but it's cool enough to land on. As in literally, but yeah, battling it out on a meteor is pretty cool.

* Ever since he hatched, Aladar from Disney's ''Disney/{{Dinosaur}}'' has lived on an island with lemurs as a surrogate family. That all changed one day when the sky was filled with glowing fragments that were the harbingers of the Big One. That flaming meteor fell into the sea, causing a [[EverythingMakesAMushroom mushroom cloud]] and sending out a shockwave before flaming meteor shards began [[RunOrDie impacting across the island]], each one making a miniature explosion, utterly obliterating [[AdvancingWallOfDoom more and more of the island]]. Aladar and the lemurs had to make a LeapOfFaith from the island's edge into the water below, after which they swam to the mainland home of all the other dinosaurs.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' has featured flaming meteors since its first instalments, always summoned by spellcasters
** The first game had 'conjurers' summon a multitude of these using the 'Rain of Fire' spell. It was then abscent from WarcraftII as their counterparts in that game, the 'mage', conjured blizzards instead. By the third game the 'Archmage' still summoned blizzards and left the Flaming Meteor summoning to the demons in the form of the Pit Lord HeroUnit's 'Rain of Fire' ability.
** Another example of a {{Justified|Trope}} Flaming Meteor from the third game and onward; Infernals are flaming {{Rock Monster}}s which are summoned by high-level demons, sending them impacting against the ground in a curled-up meteor-like state, after which they get up and begin wrecking their summoner's enemies.
* ''Videogame/WorldOfWarcraft:'' continues the depiction of flaming meteors started by its predecessor games.
** The infernals from the Videogame/{{Warcraft}} games return, and they now have EliteMook versions called ''Abyssals''. They are still 'stored' in a curled-up, burning, roughly-spherical form, and summoned to the battlefield as flaming meteors.
** ''Meteor'' is also a high-level mage spell, sending a near-molten, fiery rock impacting against the ground to deal a large amount of fire damage split between targets in the impact zone, while also leaving a residual patch of fire behind. Some NPC's have access to a 'Meteor ''Swarm''', essentially the former taken UpToEleven.
* Avered in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' III. The "Meteor Shower" spell falls under the [[DishingOutDirt Earth magic]] school.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' depicts the move 'Draco Meteor' as the user summoning dozens of flaming boulders from the sky. This is in contrast to the [[VideoGame/{{Pokemon}} games]] where the same move calls down a number of non-flaming blueish-green meteors.

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* Meteors in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' look like normal asteroids when floating in the Veil, but as soon as they're summoned to various locations, they become flaming rocks. Since players can breathe in space, it's safe to assume [[RPGMechanicsVerse the Medium]] got oxygen, allowing the meteors [[IncendiaryExponent to look cool]] despite rock and ice being inflammable.

* In the opening of the WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons episode 'The Magnetic Telescope', a meteor is dragged towards Earth, soars through the atmosphere, and rolls through a city as a red-hot solid ball of rock - so hot, in fact, that it lights a port authority building on fire just by rolling over it while simultaneously [[ConvectionSchmonvection rolling past dozens of other buildings with no effect]].

In RealLife, meteors[[note]][[InsistentTerminology and the comets/asteroids/meteoroids that become meteors upon entering the atmosphere]][[/note]] are mostly balls of ice and/or rock, neither of which is flammable through normal atmospheric combustion.

Whether because most writers only know of meteors from the dozens of videos of meteors igniting the atmosphere ([[RuleOfPerception making it look like the meteor itself is burning]]), or because [[IncendiaryExponent it looks cool]], meteors in media are depicted as literal burning boulders that incinerate anything they [[ConvectionSchmonvection touch]]. If the object is burning even before the atmosphere is at all within range, then it's safe to assume that SpaceIsAir is in effect as well.

Because of this association with fire, if anyone has the ability to call down Meteors, it's the person PlayingWithFire, sometimes as a LimitBreak. In these cases, they're often {{Slap On The Wrist Nuke}}s. Compare with the standard FireBall, which is sometimes depicted as a small rock that is on fire. Piss off your GameMaster enough and [[RocksFallEveryoneDies it might be these particular rocks that fall]]. Contrast FrictionlessReentry; when objects travelling through space can get into the atmosphere without the atmosphere igniting.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' received their superpowers in 2772 when a large meteor entered the atmosphere of Acmetropolis, catching fire presumably due to air friction, and leaving a smoke trail as it plummeted into the city's central bay. There, it released arcane energies that empowered six relatively ordinary {{FunnyAnimal}}s, and also some of their RoguesGallery, such as Weather Vane and Massive.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' franchise, Laharl's recurring attack [[RidingTheBomb Meteor Impact]] is always depicted this way.

-->Huh, the sky ''is'' falling.
-->--General Fletcher, upon a shot from a Meteor Tower killing an alien. ''VideoGame/DefenseGridTheAwakening''

->Huh, the sky ''is'' falling.

* Played with in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' by the Meteor Swarm spell, which conjures small "meteors" that deal bludgeoning damage on impact and then explode.

** The Meteor Hammer summons a meteor burning blue flames after a few seconds which can stun and deal damage-over-time to units and buildings.
* ''GoldenSun:''
** 'Meteor' is the highest-level pure fire-element summon, which brings down a meteor the size of the screen into the enemy. The animation is even more complex in the third game, where it breaks apart slightly and is seen heating up in the atmosphere.

-->Huh, the sky ''is'' falling.

-->--General Fletcher, upon a shot from a Meteor Tower killing an alien. ''VideoGame/DefenseGrid''

* ''Videogame/DefenseGrid'' and its sequel has the 'meteor towers' - it's a Meteor InNameOnly though, as it is launched from the ground as a fiery ball which arcs to its impact zone, dealing massive amounts of fire damage.

* ''DiabloIII'' has Meteor as a high-level Wizard spell, which not only impacts the ground to deal heavy fire damage, but also leaves behind a residual patch of fire at its impact location.

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Indices: DeathFromAbove, ArtisticLicensePhysics, ArtisticLicenseAstronomy, SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay

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