Fire Breathing Diner / Video Games

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• Adiboo: Magical Playland: If Buzzy Galump eats a failed meal, he'll breath fire.
• Amazon: Guardians of Eden: After being given a meal with a handful of Cayenne peppers (1000 times stronger than the Jalapeno), El Loco is shown breathing fire from his mouth with a pretty crude effect.
• The Binding of Isaac: Both the Bird's Eye and Ghost Pepper items are items that Isaac eats upon taking, and causes him to shoot fires in addition to his usual weapon. The Bird's Eye has him breathe "standard" fire, while the Ghost Pepper has him shoot out ghostly blue flames instead.
• In Delicious 7: Emily's True Love, this happens to a restaurant critic after a waitress slathers his food with hot sauce to get back at the restaurant owner for proposing to her and then dating Emily.
• In Dragon Quest VIII, it is possible to feed Munchie, your mouse, a very spicy cheese to make it breath fire. However, this isn't only its ability. Feed it a variety of cheese and it will spew out things accordingly (including, but not limited to, frozen cheese, steel cheese for buffing, and even angel cheese to revive allies).
• Eternal Fighter Zero: Doppel Nanase pulls this trope using ramen for one of her attacks.
• Genshin Impact: Xiangling's Elemental Skill, Guoba Attack, has her animal companion Guoba munch on a hot pepper and then breathe fire in the general direction of her enemies.
• Kingdom of Loathing has ability Chronic Indigestion gained from eating an ultra-spicy burrito made with enchanted beans. It does 10-15 HOT damage + however full you are.
• Kirby's Dream Land had a Super Spicy Curry item that let you breathe fire. The same item appears in the Super Smash Bros. series starting from Brawl, with much the same effect.
• Luigi's Mansion: Mr. Luggs apparently eats something hot enough to cause this effect, shooting fifteen fireballs at Luigi at a time before getting tired and able to be attacked.
• Metal Slug: The Elephant Slug in 3, upon consuming flaming hot chili, can exhale flames from its trunk capable of wiping out an entire row of enemy zombies in one fell swoop.
• Miitopia: Chef Miis can feed spicy food to their allies. Cue to their hapless enemies being burnt by their fiery breath. The Miis who eat the spicy dish may resent being used as improvised flamethrowers, however.
• Nancy Drew: In Legend of the Crystal Skull, feeding Bess Marvin several servings of hot-sauce-drenched Cajun cooking will cause the screen to turn reddish as she belches a puff of flame.
• Paper Mario: Color Splash: The Magma Burgers elicit this trope from the several Shy Guys seen eating them in Fort Cobalt. One unfortunate Shy Guy was even reduced to ashes.
• Pikmin 2: According to Louie's cooking notes, crimson candypop buds will burst into flames on contact with the tongue.
  Keep fire-retardant condiments within arm's reach!
• Pizza Tower has an enemy called Kentucky Kenny who shoots spicy chicken wings. When Peppino eats the chicken, his mouth starts flaming.
• Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: The Spelon Berry is stated to be so spicy it can make any Pokemon breathe fire upon eating it, even if said Pokemon is not a Fire Type.
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blast Seeds cause you to exhale an explosion when you eat them. Anyone caught in the blast takes damage.
• In Rampage, eating a soldier carrying a flamethrower causes your monster to cough flame for a moment.
• Rayman: Raving Rabbids 2: One of the mini-games has the titular Rabbids using this as a means to cook chicken.
• Simon the Sorcerer: Done to solve a puzzle. To get rid of a living snowman, eat some mints to make the titular character breath fire on it.
• In The Sims 4, this is what happens to Sims who are unaccustomed to spicy food.
• In Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos, Speedy can obtain a flame attack if he drinks hot sauce. This is necessary in the Ancient Keep in order to light the firewood so the cauldron can emit clouds of smoke he can ride on like platforms.
• Dhalsim of the Street Fighter games had a fire-breathing ability that the English instruction manual originally attributed to "spicy curry." Recently adaptations accredit it to spirituality (more exactly, the blessings of the Hindu god of fire, Agni).
• In Super Mario Sunshine, the boss fight against King Boo requires you to throw peppers at him whenever his roulette wheel produces food, which sets his tongue on fire and damages him.
• In Super Sentai Battle Dice O, one of Gokai Yellow's special attacks involves inflicting this on her opponents. Seriously.
• In the Taz-Mania Licensed Game for the Sega Genesis, Taz can obtain a flame attack from eating chili peppers. In the sequel, Taz in Escape from Mars, Taz can obtain this same attack from gasoline cans—by swallowing them, of course.
• In the Touhou Project series, we have Suika Ibuki, last boss of Immaterial And Missing Power, who actually has this trope as an attack.
• In Unleash the Light, Amethyst uses her Fire Breath against her enemies by eating pizza with hot sauce and then belching out a fireball at them, burning them.
• Vampire Survivors: The Nduja Fritta Tanto^* "Overfried Nduja", with Nduja being an Italian spread made of spicy pork sausage; the "overfried" part is there both because overcooking a spicy dish can make it even spicier, and because the dev wanted to make a joke about this being "the only NFT" they'll add to the game will sometimes show up when you break a destructible item, and when picked up will cause your character to spew massive gouts of flame wherever they're looking. It's amazingly useful for clearing out the ridiculous hordes the game will throw at you.
• VOCALOID no Natsuyasumi -Final 4 Days-: Rin, Len, and Kaito are forced to eat a level 99 spice ramen as a challenge from Meiko. The result? The former three end up breathe fire due to the hellishly spicy ramen just in single bite, while Meiko herself has no problem eating all of it.
• World of Warcraft: There's a craftable food called Dragonbreath Chili. Eating it will cause the player to occasionally breathe fire that does minor damage to nearby enemies. During the Midsummer Fire Festival, some vendors sell a drink that causes the player to breathe fire, although unlike the chili it doesn't harm enemies. The Legion expansion adds several such recipes, which can do meaningful damage.
  • The Pandaren Brewmaster hero in Warcraft III also sports a flame breath attack where in he swigs alcohol from a giant keg and then spews the ignited mixture all over his enemies. If one casts "Drunken Haze" (more or less hurling booze on the enemy and rendering them instantly drunk!) they'll also ignite and take additional damage over several seconds as they burn! The Mists Of Pandaria expansion of World of Warcraft keeps this ability for monks who choose the Brewmaster talent tree.
• Yakuza: Like a Dragon: In one sidequest, Ichiban comes across a depressed street vendor who can't get anyone to buy his special kimchi. This trope is why: even tough yakuza like Ichiban are sent running from the exceptional spiciness of the kimchi, and most run so far away they can't come back to buy more (as Ichiban finds out, the kimchi is really good once the spiciness wears off). He takes some and begins offering it to other people across town to help them with some of their problems (like a schoolgirl who can't muster the courage to confess to her sempai, or a track runner who is trying and failing to increase his running speed), with similar results. When Ichiban returns to the vendor at the end of the quest chain, he finds the guy now swamped with customers demanding kimchi, though for anything other than food.

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