Basic Trope: Breathing out or vomiting fourth a substance which it uses as a weapon; usually fire or Pure Energy.
- Straight: Anacondor, the Giant Winged Serpent, can spew forth a gout of fire.
- Exaggerated:
- Anacondor's antimatter breath can drill to the Earth's very core, and will destroy anything it touches.
- Anacondor has an entire suite of breath weapons for every situation.
- Every species in existence has a breath weapon, no exceptions whatsoever.
- Downplayed: Anacondor's spit is unusually strong acid, but isn't good for much else but a holdout weapon.
- Justified:
- Anacondor was created created by the collected belief in his existence; the myth say that he can breath fire, so he does.
- Anacondor already has fire powers: this is just a natural extension of it.
- Inverted:
- Weapons That Suck.
- Anacondor can eat anything.
- Anacondor's breath is a Healing Wind.
- Subverted: Anacondor sucks in a deep breath... and just roars extremely loudly.
- Double Subverted:
- Nonplussed, Alice breathes her own cone of fire at him.
- The roar is a prelude to the actual fire breath, in all it's devastating glory.
- Parodied:
- Malfunction Malady: Anacondor ends up breathing fire whenever he sneezes.
- The fire ends up coming out the wrong end, much to Anacondor's embarrassment.
- Anacondor has to breathe fire in as well as out, and is reliant of his flamethrower gas-mask to survive.
- Bob is a regular human that boasts he can breathe out water, ignoring the fact that it's just tiny droplets of water vapor.
- Zig Zagged: Anacordor can normally breathe fire, but if he has a cold it become ice instead, and if he has a cough he's unable to do it at all.
- Averted: No-one in-series breaths out anything but CO2, not even the dragons. note note
- Enforced: It's a biography of a fire-breather with the stage name Anacondor; in order to be accurate, it has to include this feat.
- Lampshaded:
- "Now, Anacondor! Vomit forth apocalyptica!"
- "Hold still. I'll take your last breath for you."
- Invoked:
- Anacondor gets surgical implants, and insists that atomic breath is included.
- Anacondor trains to become a fire breather so he can do this.
- Exploited:
- Evulz uses Anacondor to heat his home and cook his food.
- Alice is fed via fire, and goads Anacondor to breath fire on her for this reason.
- Defied: Bob uppercuts Anacondor in the jaw before he can finish breathing the fire out, leaving it to comically explode in the snake's face.
- Discussed: "What is it with reptiles and fire breathing? I was nearly toasted by a stegosaurs yesterday...
- Conversed: "Aaaah yes, breathing atomic hate. No Kajiu movie is complete without it."
- Implied: Anacondor is very dragonlike, and smoke seeps from his mouth whenever he talks...
- Deconstructed:
- Breathing fire plays merry hell with Anacondor's lungs, and he is eventually suffocated by his own power.
- Anacondor's species has a fire-breath gland, and if it's hit by a sufficiently hot weapon, it'll dentonate, killing the snake. The discovery of this nearly drives his species to extinction.
- Reconstructed :
- A powerful exhalation is used as a propellant, but the material to be ignited is stored in a separate chamber which is blocked off by a membrane at all times except when Anacondor exhales forcefully - this prevents the contents from entering the lungs. Anacondor's lungs are abnormally tough (and/or regenerate abnormally quickly without scarring) to avoid being severely damaged through sudden contractions. As an end result, Anacondor's lungs function as normal for all of his natural lifespan.
- Anacondor's fire breath is a 2-part chemical reaction, and just hitting the gland with fire will not make it explode. He gives kudos to Bob for trying, though.
Back to Breath Weapon.
