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-> ''"Hellfire, dark fire,
->Now, gypsy, it's your turn.
->Choose me or,
->Your pyre!
->Be mine, or you will burn!"''

Now, gypsy, it's your turn.
Choose me or,
Your pyre!
Be mine, or you will burn!"''

-> ''"Hellfire, dark fire, now gypsy it's your turn. Choose me or your pyre. Be mine or you will burn!"''

* In MahouSenseiNegima, one of Negi's BlackMagic techniques is called ''Incendium Gehennae'', which can be loosely translated as "Flames of Hades".

* In MahouSenseiNegima, one of Negi's BlackMagic techniques is called ''Incendium Gehennae'', which can be loosely translated as "Flames of Hades".

[[caption-width:647:{{Spiderman}}: [[YouFightLikeACow Ah, good old hellfire. When regular fire simply won't do.]]]]

** Despite being called "balefire," it is not actually ''fire'' of any kind except metaphorically, as it "burns the threads from the Pattern."

* TheWheelOfTime has balefire, a magical flame so strong that it not only kills you, it burns your recent past ''out of history''. One scene has a bad guy killing several major protagonists, and then being killed by balefire - the recently-dead protagonists are brought back to life(very confused), because the baddy retroactively didn't exist to kill them. [[spoiler:It's also the only way to prevent the Big Bad from resurrecting his assorted Dragons after you kill them.]]
** Its use can also destroy the very fabric of reality.

** Well, ''was'' enabled to generate it. Harry believes he's lost the power to cast Hellfire [[spoiler: since Lasciel, the fallen angel in question, chose to die to save his life]]. Whether this belief will turn out to be true remains to be seen.
*** Probably is, given that [[spoiler: Uriel seems to have taken an interest in Harry, and, as of ''Small Favor'', replaced it with Soulfire, the angelic counterpart. The only downside is that Soulfire burns away part of his soul when he uses it, although it does grow back]]

*** On the other hand, getting a dragon to breathe on that would probably be even harder than getting it to Mount Doom. Dragons ''like'' shiny stuff even when it ''doesn't'' bend the will of everyone around it.
**** Not to mention that any remaining dragons would of probably been pissed as hell at Hobbits, wizards, and probably Dwarves (IE: Half the Fellowship). Seeing how they killed Smaug, and I am willing to bet that word would get around pretty fast to any remaining dragons.

* The science fiction novel ''Roadside Picnic'' mentions a substance called "[[{{ImportedAlienPhlebotinum}} Witch's Jelly]]", left behind by the mysterious alien visitors, that will burn (or corrode?) through just about anything, leaving a flaming pit in the ground as it goes.

* In an interesting variation, infernal powers in ''{{Exalted}}'' tend to use the burning, poisonous light of Ligier, the demonic Green Sun of Malfeas, in the same manner as characters in other settings use hellfire.

-->When 0.2 (mL) of liquid 02F2 was added to 0.5 (mL) of liquid CH4 '''at 90°K'''., a violent explosion occurred.

->When 0.2 (mL) of liquid 02F2 was added to 0.5 (mL) of liquid CH4 '''at 90°K'''., a violent explosion occurred.

Contrast HolyHandGrenade.