Burning with Anger

By Celestia we've never seen Twilight get that angry.

A common way of showing extreme anger for a character is to have them burst (whole or in part) into flames. This can either be a visual metaphor for anger, or played literally if they possess fire-manipulating abilities. Depending on the level of anger as well as the tone of the setting, it can range from merely steam coming out of their ears to a full blown volcanic eruption, and everything in between.

If the character has Pyrokinesis, Power Incontinence, and is Hot-Blooded, anything that causes anger is likely to manifest this way. If said character is evil, he/she will always be like this when angry. If the flames don't cause property damage they're probably a Faux Flame. It can also overlap with Fireball Eyeballs, Flaming Hair, and Wreathed in Flames — people who already have such features may have them flare up into larger, hotter flames.

Compare Battle Aura, Demon Head, High-Pressure Emotion, Nightmare Face, Personality Powers, Turns Red (a mostly Video Game equivalent dealing with heightened difficulty that sometimes involves this). Might sometimes be combined with a Looming Silhouette of Rage.

Not to be confused with Angst Nuke, which is not just a visual metaphor, but actually dangerous.

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Examples

Anime & Manga

• Happens to Tatsuki in Wreathed in Flames form, in an early episode of Bleach. And this is AFTER rampaging through the classroom trying to murder Ichigo◊. His transgression? Kissing her on the cheek.
• Rin from Blue Exorcist goes into a Technicolored volcanic version of this whenever he gets really pissed off, scared, or draws his katana.
• The Super Saiyan transformation in Dragon Ball Z starts out as equal parts this trope and Superpowered Evil Side, but later on the warriors discover a way to trigger it at will.
• Fairy Tail
  • When Natsu gets pissed he gets covered in flames and gets even stronger. Give that he's the Fire Dragon Slayer, it's rather appropriate. It becomes even more darkly appropriate with The Reveal that he is (or at least was) also an Etherious, a demon of Zeref whose power and brand of magic is fueled by feelings of anger and hatred. Specifically, E.N.D., the mightiest of all of Zeref's demons and the one made to kill him.
  • Juvia does a unique variation: When sufficiently pissed off, her Water Body turns up to boiling temperatures, allowing her to scald her foes with her attacks and even melt any attempt to freeze her over.
• Jujutsu Kaisen: Being a Special Grade cursed spirit born from humanity's fear of volcanoes and fire-related natural disasters, the top of Jogo's head is shaped like a small volcano that occasionally spurts lava when he gets excited. When he gets especially angry, however, both his head and his ears (which are usually covered by plugs) eject massive streams of fire.
• K: Literally happens with Mikoto Suoh in episode 6 when he remembers what Tatara's murderer said in the video clip after shooting Tatara.
• In the "Sweet & Sour Puss" episode of Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Dedede explodes into a volcanic rage wreathing himself with a firey glow both around his eyes and his body after Togeira stores enough anger within itself to unleash a mega-attack on his own castle. He even screams "Now it's payback time!" as he does so.
• Naruto: The titular character's 4-tailed transformation is this trope, literally. Bloodshot eyes, peeling skin, boiling blood, all while Naruto sports a face of pure, unadulterated rage. Cue Angst Nuke.
• Sanji in One Piece, occasionally. He burned up so much in Thriller Bark over the thought of an "invisible man" (Absalom) peeping on Nami that he sent out shockwaves. At one point Chopper said, "Awesome! He exploded!" He even weaponized it in the Fishman island arc where he used it as an finishing attack after thinking about the last two years he spent on Kamabakka Island, naming the technique "Hell Memories".
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • After Misty called her old, Jessie got so angry she started breathing fire!
    Meowth: Jessie just evolved into a Flareon!
  • When Team Rocket stole food from a restaurant she wanted to eat at, May was so pissed that not only was she Wreathed in Flames twice, but her eyes were glowing red.
    Dawn: What happened to our princess...?!
  • An earlier episode that took places in a haunted house had Jessie get so mad, her hair catches fire. She runs around screaming from the fire until she puts it out, leaving her bald.
• In one of the Ranma ½ Anime (but not manga) episodes (Genma Takes A Walk) Genma makes a declaration that is so Hot-Blooded that it causes his head to catch fire. Literally.
• Chapter 2 of the Touhou Project manga, Forbidden Scrollery had Reimu dong this after Marisa explained that the reason she splashed her with water despite the lack of any fires in sight was because, well... she wanted to, just in case.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: Joey Wheeler does this when he gets really riled up. A good way to make this happen is to pretend to be his Only Mostly Dead Love Interest just to screw with him. Or call him names. Or just be Kaiba.

Asian Animation

• Happy Heroes: In Season 6 episode 46, Big M. becomes frustrated at Suspicious S. missing the answer to the question of who saved him (Big M. had saved him earlier, which Suspicious S. hasn't yet realized) and has a flame on his head, representing his anger, that Little M. fans.
• Motu Patlu: In "Motu Ka Birthday", there are two instances where Motu burns up in anger when his friends seemingly forget his birthday, once when he talks to Inspector Chingum and Chaiwala and once when he talks to John the Don and his minions.
• Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In Joys of Seasons episode 6, a hippo and a bull, who are both angry at each other, have flames emitting from them. This happens to be one of the fires the fireman goats put out.
• In the Say Hi to Pencil! episode "Angry Red", Red bursts into purple flames during his anger scene. A god of destruction had given him the power of anger earlier on in the episode, hence their being purple flames.

Comic Books

• ClanDestine: Walter ("Wallop") has the power to transform into a Hulk-like blue monster- either voluntarily, or involuntarily when enraged. In the latter case, his hair bursts into flame (and he gets a whole lot bigger and more monstrous in appearance). If he transformed on purpose while relatively calm, his hair just changes color rather than burning.
• Gaston Lagaffe: One strip has Lagaffe play a prank on Meddlesome Patrolman Longtarin that ends with Longtarin drenched. Lagaffe says he'll get Longtarin a towel to dry himself off, Longtarin assures him this won't be necessary, and the water is indeed evaporating from the sheer heat of his anger.
• The Incredible Hulk: If Red Hulk gets mad, he starts emitting heat.
• Red Lanterns: The Red Lanterns gain their power from rage, and that power has an Incendiary Exponent to it; even their Badass Creed connects their hatred with burning their enemies. Oddly enough, Rankorr looks like this trope, but is one of the few with any level of anger management.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Blaze has some serious pyrokinesis, especially when in her Super Mode, Burning Blaze. In that form, she is right up to the very top levels of this trope.
• Supergirl:
  • In 2009 crossover The Hunt for Reactron, Thara Ak-Var -a. k. a. Flamebird- bursts into flame when super-villain Reactron attempts to kill her boyfriend and best friend.
  • Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade: During the final battle Supergirl is so pissed off that flames erupt from her back and cape and form flaming wings.
  • In Supergirl (2011) #24, Kara is literally burning after Cyborg Superman stole her flesh to rebuild his own body.
• X-Men: After becoming Phoenix, Jean Grey is prone to form a firebird-shaped flaming aura when she gets pissed.

Fan Works

• In The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan, Twilight explains that her ability to burst into flames is because she is a Fire Elemental spellcaster, and since her magic is tied to her passion, particularly strong emotions like anger can cause her mane to start smoking, or to burst into flames entirely. In The Archmage's Last Bow, she becomes so furious with Celestia and Luna over their withholding of the knowledge that Nova Shine is dying that her fires change to hotter colors like blue, purple, and black.
• Examples from The Calvinverse:
  • Calvin turns red when he learns about Camp Pine in Calvin and Hobbes: The Movie.
  • Likewise, he also turns red while busting out a "Reason You Suck" Speech to Hobbes in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series.
• Can a Boo Be Friends with a Human?: Mario of all people, with flames forming in his hands at times of such anger as a result of his Big Brother Instinct on more than one occasion. For example: when the Toad paparazzi want pictures of Luigi while he's lying badly injured in a hospital bed, upon hearing of Luigi's treatment from the Toad citizens and the fact he was dragged through a murder trial. He eventually completely loses it, not helped by his habit of suppressing his emotions so as to not worry others.
• Children of an Elder God: Asuka is a very hot-blooded, very powerful pyrokinetic redhead. When she gets angry, she goes up in flames. Literally. For example, when she demanded that Gendo told her how her parents died, flames formed in her hands.
• Child of the Storm has Harry develop a talent for Playing with Fire. After this, when he gets really, really angry the air around him tends to get extremely hot and dry and starting wavering. This is generally a sign that you should start running.
  • In book 2, Ghosts of the Past, it's also wise to start running, preferably to another galaxy, if you can smell wood smoke around him. It leads to a much more literal version of this trope: the Dark Phoenix.
• Earth and Sky makes a Running Gag of Princess Celestia's reactions to the antics of the Flim-Flam Brothers (AKA Professor Destiny and Doctor Insanity) during the Grand Pegathalon, which involve increasing levels of this trope as their attempts to sabotage the other racers get increasingly dangerous.
• Escape from the Moon: In the sequel The Mare From the Moon, in chapter 15, Twilight shows that she's learned out to trigger her flaming form (originally seen in the episode Feeling Pinkie Keen) at will through her memories of things that make her angry, though she's looking for a better, more stable and positive emotion to do so, since negative emotions burden the spirit.
• Families: When Garble severely injures Spike and threatens his life one too many times, Twilight bursts into flames, sets a nearby tree on fire, telekinetically grabs one of the burning branches, and stabs out his eye with it. For good measure, she warns him that if he ever lays a claw on Spike again, she'll take more than an eye next time before leaving.
• A Game Comes to Equestria:
  • Yugi, of all people (or Ponies), bursts into blue flames when he finds out that Pinkie Pie is acting scared of Luna for fun. He even blows his own Nightmare Night costume off in sheer anger!, he promptly scolds Pinkie at how acting scared of Luna for fun and not telling her hurts her feelings, but he promptly stops when he sees that he is actually frightening Pinkie Pie.
  • This happens again with Celestia when she sees Twilight and Luna being chased by Red Eyes Black Dragon while on her way back to Canterlot.
    There were a lot of things Celestia would let slide. Seeing her Student and her Sister being chased by a dragon, with the high threat that they were in imminent danger, was not one of those things.
• Half Past Adventure: As the fire elemental, Flame King Phoebe is prone to this, although she seems to be able to calm herself down before she can do any real damage.
• Magnetism combines this with a slasher smile when Twilight sees Rainbow Dash throwing her bracelet to the ground, shattering it. Rainbow and Fluttershy respond to this by running like hell while exchanging friendly banter with each other.
• Of Sheep and Battle Chicken's Sara Ying Shepard's biotics are fairly normal, with a slight tendency to flare a bit more under normal circumstances. However, an excellent metric for how pissed Shepard is, or if she's crossed into the Butcher state, is just how melted by warpfire her armour is afterwards.
• The Oversaturated World gives this to Chrysalis. She ended up burning off all her clothes the first time it happened before figuring out how to control it.
• Past Sins: offers an in-universe explanation behind the phenomenon from Feeling Pinkie Keen in Chapter 4 ^note when Twilight confronted Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon: threatening to turn them both into cacti if they don't tell her where Nyx was at that moment.
  While reports of such things are rare, some books have records of exceptionally magically inclined unicorns performing something called a “rage-shift”. The book had said that the shift occurs when a unicorn’s anger feeds into their magic to cause a physical change to the unicorn’s body.
  • Near the end of the story, Twilight Sparkle Rage-Shifted again this time to fight against Princess Celestia; thinking that Nyx was being sent to the Moon for 1000 years.
• RealityCheck's Nyxverse: Continues the Rage-Shift trend from Past Sins In Chapter 7 of Alicornundrum, in the chapter, Twilight Sparkle approached Lord Blueblood after finding out that he had tricked her father into signing a Marriage Contract between Twilight and his son Prince Blueblood, ^note and after Twilight kept approaching the situation diplomatically to call it all off: Lord Blueblood insisted on Twilight "lifting [her] tail for [his] son", and threatening to send Nyx away to a Boarding School of Horrors once his son and Twilight "produce a legitimate heir to the throne", prompting Twilight to Rage-Shift and strangle Lord Blueblood from a chandelier by his... "family jewels"
  • In the same chapter when Princess Celestia herself Rage-Shifted: who lit up like the sun itself after Lord Blueblood pushes her Berserk Button once too often insisting on Twilight Sparkle following through with the marriage contract^note Which as it turned out was not only illegal; but the document was practically worthless since the law dictated that ALL the participants involved in the contract needed to be of sound mind when they sign the document: Twilights' Father was drunk at the time he put his signature, and Twilight Sparkle herself never even signed it in the first place. On top of this, what Lord Blueblood was attempting to do practically amounted to various degrees of Rape, Blackmail, and Treason: all of which were punishable by death. Bonus points for her also using the Royal Canterlot Voice at the same time to deliver a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Lord Blueblood for even attempting to do this.
  Princess Celestia: "DID YOU IMAGINE FOR A SECOND THAT I WOULD REFRAIN FROM BRINGING MY FULL POWER AND WRATH TO BEAR AGAINST ANYONE WHO TRIED SUCH A THING WITH MY MOST BELOVED STUDENT?"
• Happens to Mars in a later chapter of The Return after a power up, and almost sets an entire room alight.

Films — Animation

• Ember from Elemental (2023) is burning by default, but her flames grow more intense when she is angered to the point where she often explodes outright when she loses her temper. Conversely, she dims significantly when depressed.
• Hercules: Hades always has a blue flame of hair on his head; when he gets mad, it flares up, goes red and/or his whole body erupts in flame depending on the level of anger.
• In Inside Out, Anger's head catches fire when he gets especially riled up. This actually becomes weaponized near the end of the film when Disgust insults Anger so she can use his head as a welding torch, cutting a hole in the windows in Headquarters to let Joy and Sadness back inside.
• Unikitty from The LEGO Movie is a Stepford Smiler with anger issues. When her anger is finally unleashed, she turns red with flame motif on her fur, dubbed "Angry Kitty".
• In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Super Adventure, when Mr. Slowy gets angry at Wolnie for pestering him over Wolffy, he is surrounded by a flame.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie: After been rejected and having his wedding trash down by Princess Peach, Bowser, who is trap in a ice block, was so damn angry that his anger melted the say block.

Films — Live-Action

• Mrs. White mentions feeling this way in Clue:
  "I hated her, so much... Flames, flames, on the side of my face..."
• Charlie in Firestarter has Pyrokinesis and Power Incontinence, but when she's angry at somebody else, she doesn't burst into flame — they do. And ditto the Roaring Rampage of Revenge at the end of the film.
• Played for Laughs in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, where the now dating Liz and Hellboy have romantic spats that involve her involuntarily melting/burning parts of the base... and purposely launching vault doors at Hellboy. Luckily, being half-demon means he can literally take the heat.

Literature

• Averted in Circle of Magic - despite being an elemental mage with heat and fire as part of her magic, Tris tends to cause lightning, hail, small earthquakes and violent wind when she's angry.
• In the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, fire witches' hair bursts into flame whenever they become ticked off.
• The Faerie Queene: The wrathful Pyrrochles is described as wielding a flaming sword, wearing armor so bright that it looks like he's Wreathed in Flames, and giving off smoke with every step he takes. When Pyrrochles' furious blows tire him out, Guyon is described as having his courage "kindled", allowing him to overpower his fiery foe.
  "'I burne, I burne, I burne,' then loud he cryde, / 'O how I burne with implacable fire, / Yet nought can quench mine inly flaming syde, / Nor sea of licour cold, nor lake of mire, / Nothing but death can doe me to respire.'"
• Averted in Pyramids, where Dios is very angry about an escaped prisoner. Due to his having a permanent Death Glare, people are actually taken by surprise that he doesn't leave a line of molten rock on the walls as he looks for the prisoner.

Live-Action TV

• Super Sentai:
  • In Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, this is the first part of Ninjaman's reaction to being called a "novice". Flames spread across his visor. The other part is growing large if he isn't already and powering up into Samuraiman. Ninjor, his Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers counterpart, wasn't always angry when he transformed, but when he was...
    Ninjor: Evil makes me so angry! Bad just burns me up!
  • In Engine Sentai Go-onger, Kegalesia goes to Mild Bell Pepper level hilariously. Usually, one of her co-villains turns the valve on the side of her head to release steam.

Music

• One interpretation of "You're On Fire" by They Might Be Giants is that the subject of the song is hot-tempered, and their head is only on fire in the metaphorical sense or in the sense of this trope.

Myths & Religion

• The Bible: Hosea 7:6-7, speaking about the people of Israel:
  For they are kindled like an oven.
  Their heart burns within them;
  their anger smolders all night;
  in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
  They are all hot as an oven,
  and they devour their judges.
  All their kings have fallen,
  and none of them calls to Me.
• Celtic Mythology: Hero Cu Chulainn was known for his very literally hot temper. He was once dunked into three barrels of icy water to cool him down after a berserker rage — the first barrel heated up so quickly that it exploded, while the second quickly boiled away.

Tabletop Games

• Dungeons & Dragons: The 5th Edition Barbarian Path of the Storm (Desert) grants the barbarian the ability to deal fire damage to all nearby creatures while raging. Sadly, the damage is so weak that it's really more thematic than useful.
• Warhammer the Chaos Dwarfs have Great Taurus as mounts for their lords. They are red bull creatures with bat like wings, and are wreathed in flames that's hot enough to melt armor, and breath fire.

Video Games

• Asura from Asura's Wrath eventually gets so angry his anger eventually literally scorches his body. This is rectified later when Yasha implants the Mantra reactor of the Karma fortress into Asura to handle the energy better.
• Karlach from Baldur's Gate III has an Infernal Engine implanted in her, which allows her to harness Hellfire in combat. At the same time, the Infernal Engine reacts with her emotions and, in times of great anger, causes her to quite literally burn. As a barbarian, this can happen frequently.
• In Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Etna and Flonne get flaming eyes when Laharl points out they're too flat-chested to trigger his phobia of sexy women.
  Etna & Flonne: Well, excuse us for being flat!
• Axel from Kingdom Hearts sometimes. Makes sense since he is a pyro.
• Mario Party 10: The difficulty of the minigames in Bowser Party is influenced by Bowser's mood. Bowser becomes angry whenever he fails to catch Team Mario on his turn, or after Team Mario survives a less dangerous minigame. His anger is represented by the icon of his face turning red and being decorated with flames. In this state, the more dangerous Bowser minigames will be selected.
• Mega Man X8: Once you hurt a boss enough, he goes into an "angry" mode where he uses stronger attacks. This is signified by having a temporary shield of flames appearing around him.
• Moshi Monsters: Diavlos are a type of Moshi Monster with pits of fire and lava in their heads. They automatically erupt like volcanoes when angry, but can also do this willingly.
• In No Straight Roads, during the Final Battle, Tatiana eventually becomes so pissed off with Bunk Bed Junction that she literally erupts into flames which, combined with the arena they're fighting in turning into a Goolings concert, gives away her identity of Kul Fyra, the former lead guitarist of the aformentioned band. Mayday however doesn't quite put two and two together until Zuke tells her well after the battle.
• In The Persistence, Furious Berserkers have the unique ability to burst into flame whenever they get hurt, causing to do much more damage when they bring their wrath upon you.
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice: The Superboss known as the Demon of Hatred is the Sculptor, whose rage over the invasion of the Interior Ministry finally overwhelmed him and transformed him into a hideous monster. Its anger is most notably symbolized by its left arm, which is literally made of shaped fire.
• Sith Warriors in Star Wars: The Old Republic can Channel Hatred when not in combat, wreathing their upper bodies in flame as they focus on their Unstoppable Rage, healing any damage they have suffered. The Marauder's fury-based abilities have a similar visual style, with flames appearing around their eyes or hands when activated.
• Used as a gameplay element in Super Princess Peach; whenever Peach uses her Anger Vibe she erupts in flames and can burn anything she touches.
• After Belladonna tampers with the Firestone in Trials of Mana, Salamando joins up with the player party because she breached his guard on her watch. This trope is illustrated in the Super Famicom version by him casting his own spells on himself.
• In World of Warcraft, Warriors can use a Glyph of Burning Anger to invoke the Wreathed in Flames version of this trope any time they become Enraged.

Web Animation

• FreedomToons: In "JBP, Trump's Wind Mill Cancer, Jussie Smollett", Alex Jones goes on a Conspiracy Theorist rant about the dangers of windmills. He keeps getting angrier and his face keeps getting redder until his hair catches fire.
• Helluva Boss: When Asmodeus gets particularly angry (especially if Fizzarolli's safety is concerned), his plumage will turn into flames.
• The Emperor from If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device is known for exploding with fire and defecating warp storms whenever he gets really angry. And Kitten angers him repeatedly, if unintentionally.
• Paintbrush of Inanimate Insanity's brush catches fire whenever they get angry.
• In Mystery Skulls Animated the Flaming Hair of the ghost who had already displayed his pyrokinetic abilities quickly expands to wreath him in flames and causes a gigantic explosion when he is pissed off even further.
• Yang Xiao Long from RWBY is this trope incarnate, thanks to both her baseline personality and her Berserk Button regarding her hair. Her RWBY Chibi version is especially bad about it.

Webcomics

• In Bad Machinery, when no-one will believe Mildred that the reason she had to be rescued from a lake was that her rival just deliberately tried to drown her, she gets so angry she turns red, and steams her clothes dry in a matter of seconds.
• Bob and George: Bob has fire producing/manipulating abilities so he tends to go through all the phases depending on just how mad he gets. Applies, of course, to Very Alternate Bob as well. Ironically he's only ever seen angry enough to burst into flames once in the entire series, and hilariously, it's rainbow-colored.
• Children of Eldair: Kian is shown this way after being sent on a patrol to search for an unknown creature.
• Cucumber Quest: Peridot is so frustrated over her slip-up here, she appears to be breathing fire.
• This happens to Fae and demons quite often in Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, most noticeably when Dan makes a comment that sets Abel off. While Abel still appears calm and is speaking rationally, his entire body is engulfed in flames that he doesn't seem to notice-but Dan does.
• This happens to Grace of El Goonish Shive when she believes her friends are threatened by Jerry the Immortal.
  • Also Elliot after reading about police misconduct.
• This happens to those with the power of fire in Pacificators. It actually goes beyond the typical 'burning' and straight into life-threatening heatstrokes, so they actually need to cool themselves down quickly.
• Sandra on the Rocks: Marie demonstrates the metaphorical version of the trope here.
• The Pyro from Team Fortress 2 doesn't like being told that fire is nobody's friend.

Web Original

• The Rage Face for "apoplectic fit" has the character spewing lava or blood from their mouth and/or eyes, and standing in front of either a volcanic eruption or a mushroom cloud.

Western Animation

• Flame Princess on Adventure Time does this frequently.
• Animaniacs
  • Katie Kaboom does this once a month.
  • In Goodfeathers short "Miami Mama-Mia", Pesto bursts into flames when he finds out his mother is marrying a 20 year old seagull. Bobby and Squit immediately dump him into the nearby ocean to put him out.
• Avatar franchise:
  • In Avatar: The Last Airbender, a firebender without sufficient control can do this when angry. This can be shown by anything from smoking hands to screaming fire blasts. For obvious reasons, it's something of a safety hazard.
  • In The Legend of Korra, airbending mentor Tenzin's head will redden heavily when sufficiently angered, usually prompted by something his rebellious student Korra has said.
• Centaurworld: In the episode Bunch O' Scrunch, Horse is so fed up with being frozen in ice for no reason for the third time that she turns red, breathes hot steam through her straw and breaks out of the ice block trapping her.
• The villain named Father from Codename: Kids Next Door can coat himself with and manipulate fire, but he flares up accordingly as he gets angrier.
• Donald Duck in the Mickey Mouse (2013) short "Tapped Out" when Pete ruins his nachos.
  • In the Donald Duck cartoon, "The Autograph Hound", Donald gets an egg smashed on his head by Mickey Rooney. Donald ends up getting so angry, his head fries the egg.
• The Fairly OddParents!
  • Wanda has gotten angry enough that the flames show up in her eyes, and her hair lights on fire.
  • Vicky has also gotten angry enough that the flames show up in her eyes.
  • In "Pipe Down!", after Timmy wishes away sound, Timmy's Dad tries inaudibly yelling at him which includes steam shooting out of his ears, his hair catching on fire and exploding until nothing is left but his clothes (which becomes a running gag).
• Grojband:
  • Trina Riffin does this when she writes her diary in "Anger Mode", which happens a lot.
  • Laney Penn's head litteraly catches fire when she's angered.
• In He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) when Skeletor got mad his otherwise empty eye sockets would form glowing red lights in them. The madder he was the bigger and brighter they got. (may not be actual fire so much as magical energy but same principle)
• Lucius Heinous VII on Jimmy Two-Shoes, being a Captain Ersatz of Satan with a Hair-Trigger Temper, does this pretty frequently. It has been parodied a few times, such as when he then freaked out about his head being on fire, or when Jimmy then began roasting sausages over him. Heloise does this on a handful of occasions as well.
• In the Looney Tunes short "My Favorite Duck", Porky Pig gets so angry he bursts into flames, is reduced to ashes, then reforms out of a column of smoke.
• Red son from Monkie Kid is a fire demon who's hair sparks or goes aflame every time he's feeling dramatic or irritated. (And that's a lot!)
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
  • "Feeling Pinkie Keen": Twilight Sparkle has struggled the entire episode to figure out Pinkie Pie's "Pinkie Sense," and keeps coming up short. She finally hits her Rage Breaking Point and bursts into flames.
  • "Owl's Well That Ends Well": A feather that Spike went through a lot of trouble to obtain for Twilight spontaneously combusts after he finds out Owlowiscious had already given her one of his feathers.
  • "The Last Roundup": When Pinkie Pie finds out that Applejack is trying to weasel out of a Pinkie Promise, she gets so mad that her pupils turn into flames and steam comes out of her ears.
  • "Sounds of Silence": When Kirin become angry, they transform into Niriks, transforming their manes and tails into fire and causing destruction to the point they eventually caused their entire forest home to be burnt to the ground. This resulted in most of the Kirin entering the Stream of Silence to permanently quell their emotions.
• Played for Drama in The Owl House episode "Understanding Willow". The Inner Willow, already full of repressed anger over Amity breaking off their friendship and the years of bullying that followed, is engulfed in flame by Amity's fire spell on the memory prints. She continues (re)burning any memory with Amity in it, attempting to literally burn Amity out of Willow's memories (no matter the damage to Willow's psyche) because of all Willow's repressed anger towards Amity boiling over.
• In the Regular Show episode "Think Positive", when Benson hits his Rage Breaking Point, he explodes in flames, setting Rigby and Mordecai on fire, while screaming at them in pure rage. It bears mentioning that beforehand, Benson's repressed anger generated a flaming corona and a gravity well around himself, essentially making him a miniature star.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Patchy the Pirate gets mad when he sees the fake "Lost Episode" so his face turns red and steam comes from his ears.
  • In the episode "The Battle of Bikini Bottom" SpongeBob is finally pushed over the edge by Patrick's shenanigans and turns red like a rising thermometer right before he attacks Patrick.
  • In "Squidville", Squidward is so enraged by SpongeBob and Patrick ruining his house with their reef blowers that steam is coming out of his head.
  SpongeBob: Squidward, you're steaming. You're like a steamed vegetable only smarter.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil has Tom, who often gets angry, and as a demon, will often set on fire during those times as well. There's also Hekapoo, whose association with fire isn't quite as big, but still sets on fire when she gets really angry.
• Ruby from Steven Universe can cause her body to heat up whenever she's angry, it's hot enough to leave scorched marks on the ground and can evaporate an entire pool.
• Summer Memories: Tim becomes enveloped in blue flames when he gets angry. Some episodes show this trait to be shared by his brother and protagonist Jason (just red in his case), as well as their mom, Linda.
• Symphony in Slang has this as one of its many, many visual puns.
• Teen Titans:
  • Raven gets blue flames shooting from her head when angry at her annoying teammates.
  • In one episode, Robin goes up in flames after seeing that Starfire has been betrothed to a Blob Monster.
  • In another Starfire in turn is fuming so hard at Robin being on a forced date with Kitten that she burns up completely, becoming like a spent matchstick with angry green eyes.
• When villains throughout Winx Club do something that pushes Bloom too far, she becomes so angry that her whole body literally becomes enveloped within a mass of flames, letting them know that they're completely and totally screwed because she's about to unleash the full force of the Dragon Flame power on them.

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