Basic Trope: Someone eats spicy food, causing fire to come out of their mouth.
- 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.
- Exaggerated:
- 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.
- Everyone's breath burns when they eat spicy food.
- Freddi's breath always burns when she eats anything with spice.
- Downplayed: Freddi eats a very spicy dish, which causes her breath to be hotter and contain a few sparks.
- Justified:
- Freddi is a fire-breathing dragon or other species with this ability, or she just has it.
- The food contains magical spices that cause the eater to breathe fire.
- Inverted:
- Freddi eats a dish so cold it causes her to breathe ice out of her mouth.
- Freddi's breath is always on fire, unless she's eating spicy food, which makes it normal.
- Subverted: It looks like Freddi's going to breathe fire, but nothing but air comes out of her mouth.
- Double Subverted: ...until fire comes out later on.
- Parodied: Freddi is eating food that's literally on fire, and she breathes it out, causing something weird to happen.
- Zigzagged:
- Freddi eats a spicy dish, which causes her to expel fire at random times as she's consuming it.
- Sometimes the spice causes Freddi to breathe fire, sometimes it doesn't.
- With each bite Freddi takes, it alternates between her breath being fire and her having normal breath.
- Averted:
- Freddi doesn't eat spicy food.
- Freddi orders a spicy dish, but it doesn't have any visible effects on her breath.
- Enforced: The writers want to warn people not to eat food that's too spicy for them.
- 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?"
- Invoked: Someone at the diner puts spicy stuff in Freddi's food, preparing for the fire breath.
- Exploited:
- The Big Bad takes advantage of this to take over the establishment and get Freddi banned.
- Freddi decides to turn this talent into a career, becoming famous around the world for her fire breath.
- Or, she carries a plate of spicy food around to weaponize it against her enemies.
- Defied: Freddi takes precautions in advance to prevent her breath from igniting anything.
- Discussed: "Take cover! She's gonna blow it again!"
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: While Freddi's addiction to spicy foods enables her to breathe fire, she would immediately be labeled a danger to society.
- Reconstructed: Freddi eventually decides to drink water when the food in her mouth gets too hot in order to balance the heat.
- Played for Laughs: Freddi's breath hits people in the butts, burning their clothing and making them run away embarrassed.
- Played for Drama: Freddi's breath burns down the entire diner, getting her hit with a lot of lawsuits and a Shockingly Expensive Bill for repairs.
- 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 branded a witch, and subsequently shunned and made fun of, receiving thousands of death threats along the way. When she dies, she comes back as a flaming ghost with fire breath ready to exact her revenge on those who belittled her in life.
Back to Fire-Breathing Diner...AAAAHHH! HOTHOTHOT!!! MY MOUTH'S ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!
