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1'''Basic Trope:''' Someone eats spicy food, causing fire to come out of their mouth.
2* '''Straight:''' Freddi goes to her favorite diner and orders a spicy dish, which is so hot it causes her to breathe fire out of her mouth.
3* '''Exaggerated:'''
4** Freddi orders a dish that is slightly spicy, but her breath is so hot it quickly burns down the diner and spreads from there, eventually causing global warming.
5** Everyone's breath burns when they eat spicy food.
6** Freddi's breath always burns when she eats anything with spice.
7* '''Downplayed:''' Freddi eats a very spicy dish, which causes her breath to be hotter and contain a few sparks.
8* '''Justified:'''
9** Freddi is a fire-breathing dragon or other species with this ability, or she just has it.
10** The food contains magical spices that cause the eater to breathe fire.
11* '''Inverted:'''
12** Freddi eats a dish so cold it causes her to breathe ice out of her mouth.
13** Freddi's breath is always on fire, unless she's eating spicy food, which makes it normal.
14* '''Subverted:''' It looks like Freddi's going to breathe fire, but nothing but air comes out of her mouth.
15* '''Double Subverted:''' ...until fire comes out later on.
16* '''Parodied:''' Freddi is eating food that's literally on fire, and she breathes it out, causing something weird to happen.
17* '''Zigzagged:'''
18** Freddi eats a spicy dish, which causes her to expel fire at random times as she's consuming it.
19** Sometimes the spice causes Freddi to breathe fire, sometimes it doesn't.
20** With each bite Freddi takes, it alternates between her breath being fire and her having normal breath.
21* '''Averted:'''
22** Freddi doesn't eat spicy food.
23** Freddi orders a spicy dish, but it doesn't have any visible effects on her breath.
24* '''Enforced:''' The writers want to warn people not to eat food that's too spicy for them.
25* '''Lampshaded:''' "Why does that table look weird?" "Well, did you hear the story about the girl who ate food too spicy for her and burned part of it with her breath?"
26* '''Invoked:''' Someone at the diner puts spicy stuff in Freddi's food, preparing for the fire breath.
27* '''Exploited:'''
28** The BigBad takes advantage of this to take over the establishment and get Freddi banned.
29** Freddi decides to turn this talent into a career, becoming famous around the world for her fire breath.
30** Or, she carries a plate of spicy food around to [[BreathWeapon weaponize it against her enemies]].
31* '''Defied:''' Freddi takes precautions in advance to prevent her breath from igniting anything.
32* '''Discussed:''' "Take cover! She's gonna blow it again!"
33* '''Conversed:''' ???
34* '''Deconstructed:''' While Freddi's addiction to spicy foods enables her to breathe fire, she would immediately be labeled a danger to society.
35* '''Reconstructed:''' Freddi eventually decides to drink water when the food in her mouth gets too hot in order to balance the heat.
36* '''Played for Laughs:''' Freddi's breath [[RumpRoast hits people in the butts]], burning their clothing and making them run away embarrassed.
37* '''Played for Drama:''' Freddi's breath burns down the entire diner, getting her hit with a lot of lawsuits and a ShockinglyExpensiveBill for repairs.
38* '''Played for Horror:''' Freddi's breath burns down the entire diner, starting a fire spreading across the city and trapping people inside their houses. She is [[BurnTheWitch branded a witch]], and subsequently shunned and made fun of, receiving thousands of death threats along the way. When she dies, [[VengefulGhost she comes back as a flaming ghost with fire breath ready to exact her revenge on those who belittled her in life]].
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