Rescue Equipment Attack

New Republic Colonel: Did you surrender this weapon to our guards before coming before me?

Ton Phanan: What weapon, sir?

Colonel: The laser scalpel.

Phanan: Not a weapon, sir. It's a tool of medicine. I wasn't asked to turn over my bandages, bacta treatments, disinfectant sprays, or tranquilizers either, but I can kill a man with any of them, under the right circumstances.

— X-Wing: Iron Fist

Rescue equipment range from rescue tools (e.g. cutters, rams, and spreaders) — which are typically used by emergency response personnel — to fire extinguishers, and defibrillators. Those are used to rescue and protect others from harm. However, they're ironically used by characters for violence, self-defense, or distraction as improvised weapons in fiction.

Sometimes this could be Played for Laughs, as the attack can happen in a non-serious situation or work. Taken to extreme levels, this may lead to being Bludgeoned to Death. In case of a fire extinguisher attack, it might lead to someone being Covered in Gunge if the extinguisher shoots foam. Fire axes have their own trope.

This is a case of Truth in Television, as many people have attempted to attack someone using rescue equipment in real life, though we advise you against doing this.

Subtrope of Improvised Weapon. Compare Healing Shiv, which is when a weapon actually heals the target rather than causing harm. See also Fire Hose Cannon where a character uses a fire hose as a weapon, and Flare Gun for the same usage.

Note that using fire extinguishers and hoses to put out any sort of fire doesn't count as this is just what they are supposed to do and they aren't being used to attack someone.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• After fighting Electra, Spike from Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door runs away from the guards approaching him, then grabs a fire extinguisher and aims it at them.
• In The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Takase was bullied viciously to the point where he vents his anger on Makoto by throwing a fire extinguisher at her. Chiaki jumps in to take the blow, which causes Makoto to leap in time to push him out of the way, just for the fire extinguisher to land on her friend Yuri instead.]
• Played with in MegaMan NT Warrior. In one episode, Yai is trapped in her bathroom and passed out from the hot steam. Lan uses a fire extinguisher to break the glass door so Maylu can get inside and carry Yai out.
• One-Punch Man: Genos throws a fire extinguisher at the robot G4 during their fight, who shoots at it and thus gets covered in foam.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica:
  • Sayaka uses a fire extinguisher on Homura Akemi in the first episode when she seemingly threatens Madoka and Kyubey, before throwing the extinguisher itself in her direction.
  • This would get a Call-Back in Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion when Sayaka would use a fire extinguisher to distract Mami to get Homura away from her.
  • In Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story this has almost become a running gag; Sayaka breaks up a fight between Mami and Yachiyo by piercing a fire extinguisher with one of her swords to act as an improvised smoke bomb, allowing Yachiyo and an injured Iroha to slip away unseen.
• Sailor Moon: During the R season, one of the Cardians attacks the virtual reality theatre where Usagi and her brother Shingo are currently playing. When Shingo's life is threatened, it's their father, Kenji, who takes action by blasting the monster with a fire extinguisher.

Animation

• Ivashka From Pioneer Palace has a nerdy boy captured by Baba Yaga and taking out both her and her guests with some of his tech. The final battle is against Zmey Gorynych. The boy uses a fire extinguisher on his mouths, making them function as rocket engines instead of breathing fire. Zmey Gorynych is flung out of sight along with Baba Yaga's hut.

Comic Books

• Blacksad: In "Somewhere Within the Shadows", Blacksad's first encounter with the antagonist's goons goes very poorly for him, because he finds trying to punch a rhinoceros in the face only ends up hurting yourself. During their second fight, he has the advantage of using a metal fire extinguisher as an Improvised Weapon.
• Green Arrow (Jeff Lemire): Naomi saves Emiko from Red Dart by sneaking behind the villainess and bashing her in the head with a fire extinguisher.
• Joker's Last Laugh: When Shilo Norman (Mister Miracle II) is attacked by King Shark, he uses a fire extinguisher to cover the villain's gills with foam, leaving him struggling to breathe.
• Superman: Brainiac: When Brainiac's drones attack the Daily Planet, Supergirl tries to repel the invaders by herself. One of the drones manages to subdue her, though Lois comes to the heroine's aid by smashing the robot's head with a fire extinguisher.
• The Transformers (Marvel): In Issue 7 Ratchet, the Autobot Chief Medical Officer has returned to the Ark to discover the other Autobots inactive. He comes under attack by Megatron, and in a desperate attempt to fight back tries to use two of his medical tools (a laser scalpel and cryogenic spray) against his assailant to no effect. He has better luck in Issue 8 when he uses his laser scalpel to chase off an attacking snake and later uses it for its proper function while tending to the comatose Dinobots.

Fan Works

• A Darker Path: When she's preparing to kill the Slaughterhouse Nine, Taylor asks her dad to help her get hold of a fire extinguisher. She uses it to bludgeon and disorient both Shatterbird and Burnscar, then forces the hose into Burnscar's mouth and empties the frigid CO2 payload into her lungs.
  Atropos: I mean, who even thinks about killing someone with safety equipment?
  Oh, right. I do.
• Rocketship Voyager
  • The mutiny on the Valkyrie is started by crewmember smashing a fire grenade on The Bridge, enveloping the ship's officers in choking fire retardant powder.
  • Sergeant VanBuskirk smashes up a Psiborg with a tungsten-carbide rescue axe (a Shout-Out to his namesake's fondness for the space axe).

Films — Live-Action

• Ambulance:
  • At one point, Cam grabs a fire extinguisher and uses it to spray Danny and Will before she tries to run away from the ambulance.
  • Towards the end, Cam also uses a defibrillator to shock Danny when he threatens her with a gun.
• Army of the Dead: At the end of the film, the alpha zombie Zeus gets into the survivors' helicopter and attacks Scott. Kate tries to make Zeus let go of her father by taking a fire extinguisher and hitting him in the head with it, but he quickly gets back up and manages to take a bite a bite out of Scott.
• In Avatar: The Way of Water, Spider seizes the opportunity in the middle of the battle to sabotage the bad guys' ship. He uses a fire extinguisher to knock out a pilot, then shoves the power lever forward and smashes it with the fire extinguisher so they can't turn it off. Sure enough, this makes the ship crash on the rocks.
• Babe: Pig in the City: When Esme and the Landlady barge into the ballroom to reclaim their missing animals, they spray the people trying to throw them out with fire extinguishers to keep them away.
• Black Rat: When the Black Rat attacks Misato on the roof of the school with a machete, Misato grabs a fire bucket and uses it to defend herself. Initially she tosses the water into the Rat's face, then uses the bucket to parry the machete blows, and finally uses the bucket to trip the Rat.
• Big Game: Oskari attacks Hazar with a found fire extinguisher.
• The Blob (1958): When an extinguisher is used to put out a fire, the nearby Blob recoils from the chill of the carbon dioxide, leading the main character Steve to realize that the otherwise invulnerable Blob Monster is weakened by the cold. The town manage to surround the creature and blast it with numerous fire extinguishers, freezing it solid and defeating it.
• The Blob (1988): When Meg uses a fire extinguisher to put out flaming gas on the town priest, she instinctively blasts at one of the Blob's pseudopods when it tries to grab her. The creature howls in pain and recoils, leading her to realize it hates cold. When the townsfolk are trapped by the Blob inside city hall, they're able to keep it at bay with the building's fire extinguishers, but unlike the original film, it's not enough to actually freeze it. Fortunately, Brian arrives with the city's snow-maker truck to provide a much bigger source of cold.
• Caddyshack: Carl uses a fire extinguisher to hit a gopher, made out of explosive plastic, on the head.
• Cleanskin: During the Kitchen Chase, Ash wallops Ewan in the head with a fire extinguisher.
• In Clerks, Veronica sprays the crowd pelting Dante with cigarettes with the foam from a fire extinguisher, and threatens to do so to the nicotine gum sales rep who incited the crowd.
• Coming Home in the Dark: Mandrake chokes a gas station attendant to unconsciousness. He then enters the gas station, comes out with a fire extinguisher, and repeatedly brings it down on the attendant's head until he crushes it.
• In the Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon film Coast To Coast, the repo man trying to repossess their semi gets a blast of fire extinguisher foam in his face from Madie.
• Bobby in Diamonds on Wheels sprays one of Ashley's goons with a fire extinguisher in the warehouse fight. The entire lens gets covered with foam from the goon's POV.
• In Dogma, when Metatron first appears to Bethany, he does so in the form of a burning bush, to which Bethany responds by spraying him with her fire extinguisher.
  Metatron: Did you have to use the whole can?... Do you go around drenching everybody that comes into your room with flame-retardant chemicals? No wonder you're single.
• Dude, Where's My Car? provides a non-serious example of this trope. Jesse gestures to Chester to hit the two men wearing bubble wrap jackets with a fire extinguisher. Chester doesn't get it, so Jesse grabs the extinguisher himself and knocks them both with it.
• The Empire Strikes Back: As Lando, Leia, Chewie and the droids make a run for the Falcon, Imperial troops give chase. Artoo sprays fire suppression foam behind them as an ad hoc smokescreen. The opaque cloud of foam hampers the Imperials and thwarts their aim sufficiently for the fugitives to make their escape.
• Knox from Final Score uses a fire extinguisher to knock down a bad guy during the stadium bike chase.
• In Get Smart, after CONTROL have been raided by KAOS, Max and Agent 99 are trying to find any survivors, and they see a number of people coming through hazy darkness. Max whacks the first person who comes through with a nearby fire extinguisher. It's not who he thinks it is.
  Larabee: Is that the Chief?
  Agent 99: Yes it is.
  Max: Sorry about that, Chief.
  Agent 91: Is that a dent in his head?
• Halloween Kills: After firefighters mistakenly free him from a burning house, Michael Myers attacks them with one fireman's halligan bar (a combination crowbar and pickaxe) to gruesome effect. The firefighters in turn go down swinging, attacking him with their equipment including a circular saw.
• Hellboy: The titular demon hero is chasing Sammael the Hellhound onto a subway train, only for the conductor who finds him clinging onto the back to start hammering him with a fire extinguisher. An indignant Hellboy says, "Hey! I'm on your side!" only for the conductor to reply "Sure!" and finish punching him off the train with the extinguisher.
• In High Risk, Helen unexpectedly has a mook drawing his gun on her. But when the mook stops to make a taunting face, Helen retaliates by giving the mook a Groin Attack before snatching a nearby extinguisher to bash his brains out.
• Towards the end of Housewarming, when Chantal (Carole Bouquet) finally stands up to her Abhorrent Admirer/Stalker, she shoos him away using a fire extinguisher on him.
• After the lead werewolf in Howl is mortally wounded with a variety of different tools, it is finished off when Joe smashes its head to a pulp with a fire extinguisher.
• The Invisible Man: During the climax, Cecilia sprays the titular Invisible Man (or at least, one of them) with a fire extinguisher to make him visible and be able to shoot him.
• I Saw the Devil: The hero comes in at the right moment to stop the villain from continuing his rape and eventual murder by smashing him in the face with a fire extinguisher.
• Irréversible: Similar to the above, the protagonist brutally beats a rapist in a gay club to death with a fire extinguisher in one of the film's most infamously nightmarish scenes. Turns out he wasn't even the right guy.
• James Bond
  • Diamonds Are Forever has an Elevator Action Sequence where Bond fights an enemy agent, Peter Frank, ending with Bond getting his hands on the elevator's emergency extinguisher and blasting Frank in the face. Before using the same extinguisher to knock Frank falling to his death.
  • The climax of A View to a Kill sees Stacey being captured aboard Zorin's blimp, but she managed to get out by grabbing the emergency extinguisher and knock out Zorin's mook with it. It helps that it's a rather small, bottle-sized portable extinguisher.
  • Licence to Kill: James Bond managed to hijack one of Sanchez's tankers in the final chase, and took out the driver by snatching the emergency extinguisher and whacking him repeatedly in the face.
• Jurassic World: Battle at Big Rock: When the Allosaurus attacks a family in their trailer, the mother tries to fend it off by spraying it with a fire extinguisher. Unfortunately, this only serves to piss it off once the extinguisher is empty.
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle: During the infiltration of Poppy's lab in the Italian Alps, Harry's job is to take over the operator booth of the ski lift. He tries to hit the operator with a Tranquilizer Dart from his wristband but misses because he's out of practice, so when the operator approaches him he grabs a fire extinguisher from the wall and bashes him in the head with it, knocking him out cold.
• Mindhunters: Prior to the final confrontation, Gabe and Lucas are beating the snot out of each other and Sarah, believing her long-time friend Lucas is one of the good guys (since Gabe was about to kill her moments ago) helps out by grabbing a nearby extinguisher and knocking Gabe unconscious with it. Unfortunately for her, turns out the killer stalking them the whole movie turns out to be Lucas - Sarah just knocked out one of the good guys.
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning: During the infiltration of the Orient Express, Paris picks up a fire extinguisher and uses it to knock out a trainman in order to steal the keys to the hold, where her boss Gabriel is hiding in a large suitcase.
• The One: Roedecker uses a fire extinguisher against Yulaw in their fight. Unfortunately, its effectiveness is minimal at best.
• In The Pacifier Seth sprays the Ninja Mr. Chun a fire extinguisher. When the ninja says it doesn't hurt, Seth then hits him in the face with the extinguisher itself.
• In Pitch Perfect 3, the Bellas (minus Beca and Fat Amy) are abducted by Fat Amy's father and taken aboard his yacht. Beca infiltrates the group and has them create a distraction while Fat Amy rigs a toaster to explode. She crashes through a glass ceiling with a fire extinguisher and starts spraying madly at her dad and henchmen to give the Bellas a chance to escape the exploding yacht.
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers: When Jamie is trapped in the school and about to be killed by Michael, Rachel pulls a Big Damn Heroes coming to save her, using a fire extinguisher to disorient Michael to save Jamie.
• The ending of Run And Kill, a classic CAT-III Exploitation Film. The protagonist "Fatty" Cheung, being a Non-Action Guy is pursued by Ax-Crazy Serial Killer Ching-Fung and in a Cornered Rattlesnake moment, fights back by grabbing a nearby extinguisher and bashing Ching's face with it. Before blasting the extinguisher's contents all over Ching and knocking the murderer down some stairs, but unfortunately it doesn't last.
• Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed has Scooby using a fire extinguisher as a weapon against the monsters. It is particularly effective against the Tar Monster.
• In Shaun of the Dead, Liz fights off the zombified bartender with a fire extinguisher, first spraying him and then hitting him with the can (in time to "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen).
• Slither: The town sheriff gets attacked by a zombie deer. A teenage girl kills the deer by hitting it with a fire extinguisher.
• The Indonesian action film Special Silencers features Action Girl Julia beating up some mooks with a fire extinguisher, and blasting the foam at more incoming mooks.
• Spider-Man: Far From Home: In the Peter's To-Do List short film, one of the Manfredi Crime Family members tries to attack Spider-Man from behind with a fire extinguisher during the fight at the restaurant. However, the young hero uses one of the spider limbs of his Iron Spider Armor to protect himself.
• Superhero Movie: Played for Laughs. When Johnny Storm catches fire, Rick tries to put it out by hitting him with a blanket, but Johnny tells him to use the fire extinguisher instead. Unfortunately, Rick doesn't understand what he's supposed to do and starts hitting Johnny with the fire extinguisher.
• Taken: Bryan chokes St. Clair's henchman and then quickly hits another one on the head with a fire extinguisher several times.
• The Time Travelers: When the lab accidentally creates a time portal to the far future, some savage future mutants threaten to come through the portal. Carol, the only one in the lab at the time, drives the mutants back by spraying them with the fire extinguisher just next to the portal. Making this example particularly silly, an actual fire had broken out in the lab just a few minutes prior, and nobody even tried to use the fire extinguisher on that.
• In United 93, which is based on the Real Life September 11 attacks, one of the passengers uses a fire extinguisher as a bludgeoning tool.

Literature

• In The Adventures Of Captain Wrungel, the heroes make an emergency landing in the jungle and face a huge boa. They throw the first things to get their hands on at it, which the snake simply swallows. Fortunately, these turn out to be fire extinguishers that activate inside the creature's stomach and put it out of commission.
• In Deus Ex: Icarus Effect Saxon uses a fire extinguisher to take down Hardesty during his escape from the Tyrant jetliner.
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: While Greg and Rowley are out Trick or Treating, they come across a pickup truck full of teenagers. One teen in the back sprays a fire extinguisher full of water on the boys. Rowley managed to use his shield, which was part of his knight costume, to prevent Greg and himself from getting wet.
• Empire of the East: Lord Ekuman is killed by asphyxiation with the foam of a fire extinguisher, thus making good an earlier threat to kill him "neither by the wet nor by the dry."
• Give Yourself Goosebumps:
  • The Cruise Ship storyline from Ship of Ghouls ends with you getting your hands on the ship's emergency extinguisher, and seeing two previously-encountered passengers, Woolfe and Ms. Bass, trying to kill each other and you're given the choice of helping either the shifty-looking Woolfe or the friendly Ms. Bass by blasting the extinguisher on the other.
  • One of the items from Into the Jaws of Doom is a fire extinguisher, and it's the only item that saves your life twice. You first use it as an improvised bat to swat a giant mechanical mosquito trying to suck your blood.
• The Murderbot Diaries. A fire extinguisher is used by a teenage girl against an Attack Drone to blind its optics in Network Effect. As the drone has stealth shielding the spray of foam also reveals it to friendly drones.
• X-Wing: Iron Fist: The story starts with an attempted kidnapping of the members of Wraith Squadron by agents of Warlord Zsinj disguised as police, only for Face Loran to Spot the Thread and alert the others. In the ensuing scuffle, unit medic Ton Phanan cuts the leader's throat with a laser scalpel from his emergency kit. While being debriefed later, Ton remarks that, under the right circumstances, he can kill a person with anything in the kit.

Live-Action TV

• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: During the Remoraths' attack on the Lighthouse in the episode "Option Two", Deke Shaw uses a fire extinguisher to spray a Remorath that was chasing Fitz at one point.
• Nam Onju in All of Us Are Dead blasts foam from a fire extinguisher to blind zombies to buy time to escape.
• Jerry from Big Mouth hits the creepy, big guy who was attacking Changho with a fire extinguisher on the back of his head which produces a loud clang noise. Changho pushes him back afterward, and he falls down, and his head hits the extinguisher.
• The Bionic Woman episode "The Vega Influence". Jaime Sommers defeats a mind-controlling microscopic alien life form by taking advantage of its vulnerability to cold. She sprays it with extremely cold carbon dioxide gas from a truck-mounted fire extinguishing system to make it go dormant.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: When Spike gets attacked by Initiative soldiers at Buffy's dorm in "The Initiative", he takes a fire extinguisher and strikes one of them with it.
• In the Community episode "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps", immediately after the reveal that there's a closeted sociopath in the study group, the lights flicker off, allowing all of them to quickly improvise a weapon to defend themselves. Pierce ends up with a fire extinguisher, and when the lights come back on, he points the nozzle at the others menacingly and bellows "You don't want to be Barium Sulfated!".
• Doctor Who:
  • In "The Moonbase", Ben and Polly discover that Cybermen can be harmed by organic solvents, which soften the plastic parts of their life-support units. They improvise anti-Cyberman weapons by filling fire extinguishers with a mixture of solvents and spraying the Cybermen with them.
  • In the episode "The Girl in the Fireplace", while on a space ship in the future, the Doctor uses a high-tech device to freeze some clockwork robots. Companion Mickey is excited to see a Freeze Ray, but the Doctor clarifies that it's just a fire extinguisher.
• Emergency!: Roy and Johnny occasionally have to do this, usually to deal with animals.
  • In one episode, they have to rescue a man from a backstage area of a movie set after he's attacked by a bear. They use fire extinguishers to repel the bear long enough to get the victim out.
  • On another occasion, they're faced with a very aggressive dog defending its unconscious owner. Roy gets an air tank from the squad and uses the spray of air to confuse the dog and make it back away, until it's in another room and he can close the door on it.
  • At least twice, they have to use fire extinguishers to kill venomous snakes.
• Fear the Walking Dead: Madison uses a fire extinguisher to bash the undead Artie's head when he attacks her and Tobias at the school.
• Friday the 13th: The Series: At the end of the episode "Dr. Jack", Micki kills the villain by electrocuting him with a hospital defibrillator.
• The Goes Wrong Show: In "The Nativity", the typically-troubled production goes horribly wrong when a candle falls over and ignites Chris Bean's piano right when the cast is in the middle of singing "Silent Night" — not long after Chris ordered the fire alarms to be disabled, in fact. Fortunately, there's a working fire extinguisher on hand. Unfortunately, it's being wielded by Robert Grove, who is a raging jackass and personally dislikes Chris: after trying and failing to get the extinguisher to work, he just lobs the whole thing at Chris, bowling him head over heels in the process, then runs off.
• Good Omens: In the season 2 episode "Every Day", Maggie and Nina throw fire extinguishers at the demons invading Aziraphale's bookshop in the hopes of holding them back.
• In one episode of Judge John Deed, the titular judge retaliates against a failed assassination attempt by hitting the would-be assassin with a fire extinguisher.
• The Life Bird from Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV and its counterpart, the Rescue Bird from Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, invokes this by being a set of five rescue equipment (a grappling hook, a fire extinguisher, a hydraulic cutter, a drill, and a medical injector) that can combine into a bird-like cannon that serves as the team's finisher.
• Legends of Tomorrow: After Mick turns into a zombie on the Waverider in the episode "Abominations", Ray and Martin create a cure and put it in a fire extinguisher. When zombified Mick goes after them, Martin takes the fire extinguisher and sprays him with it, causing him to become human again.
• Leverage:
  • While fighting with a female hired-gun in "The Reunion Job," Sophie hits her several times with a fire extinguisher, first over the head from behind, then several times to various other body parts.
  • In a case where the team almost gets caught, Eliot escapes a building by grabbing two fire extinguishers and firing them simultaneously in the faces of the men after him, then continues to shoot foam as he runs to the exit, creating a fog screen.
• Midsomer Murders: In "The Blacktrees Prophecy", Warren Kaine collapses and dies in a bunker at the Blacktrees farm shortly after receiving a message saying that nuclear missiles have been launched on the radio. It turns out, that the killer reconfigured the venting systems and Warren Kaine suffocates to death. Later, Guy Burrows is killed as well after being struck by an inflatable life boat.
• Misfits:
  • In the Season 2 premiere, the Misfits mistake the probation worker Shaun for a transformed Lucy and attack him. Shaun defends himself and tries to strangle Nathan, but Kelly takes a fire extinguisher and smashes his head to death with it.
  • After he comes back from the dead in the Season 3 finale, the probation worker Tony Morecombe gets hit in the head with a fire extinguisher by Kelly and later by Simon, who both thought he was back to kill them again.
• Stranger Things: While being pursued in the hospital by the Mind Flayer-influenced Bruce at the end of the episode "The Flayed", Nancy takes a fire extinguisher and smashes his head in with it.

Podcasts

• In The Magnus Archives, after discovering that Prentiss and her worms are susceptible to extremes in temperature, the Institute fills every room with CO2 fire extinguishers specifically to be used as a primary defensive measure, with extra cases of them in storage. These turn out to be their main weapons when Prentiss mounts a full-scale assault in the climax of season 1.

Roleplay

• Darwin's Soldiers: Dr. Zanasiu uses a fire extinguisher as an impromptu smokescreen to get past a group of guards. He also uses it to bludgeon a guard.

Tabletop Games

• A variation in Rogue Trader: Despite featuring half a dozen syringes, flesh staplers, and a chainscalpel, the Medicae Mechadendrite isn't intended for combat but gives +10 to Medicine checks (it counts as an improvised weapon instead). It does, however, give the same bonus to Interrogation checks.

Theatre

• Peter Pan Goes Wrong: Late in the production, the ongoing disagreements between Trevor the technical director and the BBC-appointed stage manager come to a head when the notoriously unsafe set finally bursts into flames. Instead of doing anything about it, Trevor and the stage manager get into a furious row over which of them is responsible for dealing with the problem, to the point that Trevor begins blasting the stage manager with the fire extinguisher he was supposed to use on the fire.

Video Games

• The Adventures of Square has the Defibrillator as your melee weapon, usually available in later stages. It has infinite ammunition and deals tons of damage with a rapid-fire rate, but attempting to use it underwater will quickly result in you shocking yourself to death.
• Batman: Arkham Series games will occasionally have fire extinguishers laying around. Most often, they'll be grabbed by a hostile Mook to be used as a throwing weapon, but applying a Batarang to them will produce a quick smokescreen to disorient enemies with.
• In Battlefield 3, you can use a Magical Defibrillator as a weapon to hurt (and kill) enemies with. The Defibrillator is typically used to revive fallen teammates.
• Bully: When you play as Jimmy Hopkins, he can take a fire extinguisher and use it on the students.
• Dead Rising 2: Fire extinguishers can be used to freeze zombies solid, causing them to shatter if followed up with a melee attack. They can also be used as a component in Item Crafting, combining with a water gun to create a snowball cannon or a dynamite stick to create a freezer bomb.
• Dead Space: The Ripper, a sawblade gun, is intended to sever live electrical cables in the event of emergency. It works a treat on Necromorphs as well.
• Enter the Matrix: One of the weapons available is the "Chloro-Bromo Methane Gun", described as a fire extinguisher combined with a grenade launcher. Its intended purpose is to fire cartridges of chemicals that starve a fire of oxygen, but anyone unlucky enough to be in a cannister's blast radius will have their lungs filled with liquid, effectively drowning them, making it a viable anti-personnel weapon.
• Galaxy Angel II: As early as the first game, Anise gets into a fight with the Luxiole's engineering team and after getting mad ends up grabbing a fire extinguisher to attack them. By the third game, a line from Coronet ("No, not the fire extinguisher!") implies she does it on a regular basis.
• GoldenEye (2010): In the Cradle mission, Alec Trevelyan tries to throw a fire extinguisher at James Bond and hit him with a fire ax, both of which must be dodged with button prompts.
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas features fire extinguishers for their proper use of putting out flames, but CJ can kill people with them by suffocating them with the spray. Even a quick puff will stun the target and leave him coughing and choking for air.
• In Hard Time, fire extinguishers can be thrown at other inmates and wardens as non-lethal explosives, stunning anybody caught in the blast.
• Hitman (2016): Fire extinguishers are one of the many things found on maps that can be used to knock people unconscious.
• In the mobile game Papers Grade Please, you can punish misbehaving students in the hallway by choosing to spray them with a fire extinguisher.
• Piggy: The Archie skin carries around a fire extinguisher, and bashes it against your head upon catching you.
• Rage (2011): The Player Character has a Magical Defibrillator permanently implanted in him, which has the side effect of electrocuting any enemies that are nearby when it goes off.
• Saints Row 2 has a defibrillator as an unlockable weapon. Not only will it kill anyone with a quick jolt, but using it on a dead person will get them right back up, no matter how many blows, bullet holes, burns and gashes they may have suffered prior. Then you can zap them dead again. And then revive them again. And again, and again, and again...
• Sharpshooter 3D has extinguishers as a recurring weapon you can collect. If it's loaded, you'll blast foam at enemies to disorientate them, allowing you to use the extinguisher and bash their skulls. If it's empty, you instead throw it at your enemies. You can also collect an emergency hammer / glass breaker inside a bus and use it as a weapon.
• Space Station 13 often has players using fire extinguishers as blunt weapons, as they fit into backpacks, are incredibly easy to procure (as cabinets for them are strewn around everywhere), do enough damage that they're not inferior to fists, and can also save you from dying to a fire.

Visual Novels

• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All: Richard Wellington hits Phoenix Wright with a fire extinguisher to knock him out and take back his cell phone that Phoenix was holding as evidence. The resulting attack gives Phoenix Wright temporary amnesia just before trial.
• Zero Time Dilemma: During the "AB Game" scenario, the player can have Carlos choose to betray Junpei, leading to the latter's death. Doing so results in Akane attacking Carlos in a blind rage and bludgeoning him to death with a fire extinguisher.

Web Animation

• SMG4: In "Mario's Prison Escape", one of the prisoners uses a fire extinguisher to beat another prisoner out of the way to get to the bathroom^note All of the prisoners had been fed secretly poisoned food..

Web Videos

• Shock Troopers: A pair of soldiers find themselves out of ammunition while clearing a trench of enemy combatants. They pivot to using a defibrillator as an offensive weapon.

Western Animation

• Ben 10:
  • Ben 10: In the first episode, Gwen saw Heatblast and panicked. She hits him with a fire extinguisher which she uses to put out a forest fire.
  • Ben 10: Alien Force: Ben got attacked by a DNAlien in his grandfather's RV. He uses a fire extinguisher to spray foam on it, causing it to flee.
• DC Super Hero Girls: Downplayed. In the episode "#GothamCon", Batgirl and Harley have to work together to get rid of a bomb and they eventually manage to put out the fuse with a fire extinguisher. They shake hands, but then they remember that they're enemies, so Harley sprays Batgirl in the face with foam before running away.
• Hey Arnold!: Wolfgang uses a fire extinguisher on a kid and got suspended for it. This inspires Harold to use a fire extinguisher on the principal so he can get suspended and get out of school. This plan backfires however when the fire extinguisher was out of foam.
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?: Subverted in the episode "Ollie Ollie In-Come Free!". Velma tries to save Scooby, Shaggy and Ricky Gervais from a cat-like mummy by spraying it with a fire extinguisher. Unfortunately, the fire extinguisher is so strong that she gets propelled backwards when she activates it.
• Transformers: Animated:
  • Ratchet is a Combat Medic who uses his medic tools as weapons. For example, his main "weapons" are two electromagnets whose primary function is to transport bots. And his second "weapon" is an EMP-generator which basically a Cybertronian's analog of anesthetics (which can cause Laser-Guided Amnesia if overdosed). Lockdown realized that very quickly.
  • Optimus Prime, whose alt mode is a fire truck, is able to use foam to attack enemies (generally blinding them in order to leave them open for follow-up attacks or to allow a retreat). Also inverted in that his primary weapon is his axe, which is actually meant (and sometimes used) for breaking down walls and hacking down doors for rescue and evacuation purposes.
• Transformers: Prime: Jack Darby uses a fire extinguisher as a weapon against Scraplets when they infest the Autobot base. He would also use one to prepare to fight against MECH soldiers in another episode.
• X-Men: Evolution has an episode where a bunch of raptor-like demons escape into Bayville High, in the middle of Homecoming prom. Risty ambushes one of the creatures with an extinguisher's foam before smashing the creature's head with the butt end.

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