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Breaking up is hard to do. It’s bad enough that your significant other is out of your life, but did they really have to leave all that stuff behind? Whether it’s things they gave you or things that remind you of them, they’ve got to go. So grab some matches, it’s time for a Break-Up Bonfire! The Break-Up Bonfire is usually ceremonial and perhaps even a little spiritual. As fire is a symbol of both destruction and rebirth, a breakup bonfire typically represents a character breaking old bonds and starting anew. However, note the Unfair Sex nature of this trope. A woman doing this is usually celebrating her freedom from an oppressive male. A man doing this usually is the oppressive male, and a spiteful, destructive bastard at that. As such, most examples below are from female characters burning her ex's things. A variation both of Defenestrate and Berate and Burn Baby Burn and a subtrope of Let the Past Burn. See also Bonfire Dance for another bonfire-related trope about dancing and celebrating near a bonfire. Examples |
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Emma by Jane Austen: Harriet Smith throws her rather pathetic mementos of Mr Elton into a fire after having shown them to Emma, her friend she looks up to. They were not exactly a couple, but Harriet had been in love with him. | |
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In 50/50 (2011), Adam finds out his girlfriend cheated on him. He and his best friend Kyle take her huge abstract painting out to the garden and start throwing eggs at it, then they throw a knife, then a hatchet and cut it with a big pair of garden shears. Finally they set it on fire, watch it burn... and then say they actually like it this way better and joke that they could hang it somewhere. | |
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In East of Eden, Abra incinerates Aron's love letters when it becomes clear Aron cares more about his moral causes than their relationship. | |
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Decoy: When Michele from "Night of Fire" found out her boyfriend was married, she set all the dresses he gave her on fire, resulting in her being institutionalized. As a result, when the warehouse next to her workplace burns down a few years later, she's the prime suspect. | |
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In The Simpsons episode where Milhouse's parents get divorced, Luann carefully boxes up all of Kirk's possessions, tapes it, labels it and then sets the box on fire. While humming. | |
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A variation on Parks and Recreation: Ron Swanson burned down effigies of his ex-wives after divorcing them. | |
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A variation occurs in Be More Chill. Jeremy and Michael are best friends (with some Ho Yay subtext), until Jeremy gets a supercomputer implanted in his brain to teach him how to be cool, which eventually leads to him calling Michael a loser, causing Michael to have an anxiety attack. The next time we see him, Michael is smoking marijuana and burning mementos of their friendship. | |
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Futari Ecchi plays with this by having Misaki attempt to get over her unrequited crush on Makoto by trying to burn a photo that she has of him. She cannot get herself to do it, though, and simply hides it in the far corner of her wardrobe. | |
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In an episode of Jessie, Emma breaks up with her boyfriend when she discovers that he's been hanging out with Luke behind her back (this also results in Luke breaking off his friendship with the boy), and Luke tells Bertram to throw out everything he touched. Bertram happily responds that that includes Luke and Emma. | |
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After Aeneas abandons Dido in book IV of The Aeneid, Dido orders to build a pyre to burn Aeneas' clothes and weapons, an image of Aeneas and also the bed on which she slept with him, claiming this ritual will heal her of her lovesickness. But when the pyre is ready, she stabs herself with Aeneas' sword on it, and the Breakup Bonfire becomes her funeral pyre. | |
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Natasza from Jasminum burned up her entire house after her fiance never appeared at the wedding. | |
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In the first season finale of Idiotsitter, "The Ex-Boyfriend", Billie has dinner with her ex, and Gene suggests using this trope-on his car. They come up with another plan, and when it falls flat-Gene sets fire to the guy's car anyway. | |
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Subverted in Memento where the protagonist suffers from short-term memory loss and keeps disposing of his murdered wife's personal belongings in an attempt to get over her death. We later discover he's disposed of evidence that he'd already caught her killer before the events of the movie, as his hunt for her murderers is the only thing that gives him purpose. | |
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Colette: After Colette leaves him, Willy orders Huon to burn the original manuscript for her first novel Claudine. Huon actually saves it. | |
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Rosa of Brooklyn Nine-Nine recommends this to Charles, after his painful breakup with Vivian. However, Boyle gets second thoughts and starts trying to pull stuff out, then tries to douse his hands in Rosa's drink, which happens to be hot coffee. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Rajesh's parents split up before their 40th anniversary. Raj later talks to his mum on the phone, and his friends ask him how she is. He says she's pretty good. She bought the book Eat, Pray, Love and used it to set his father's Mercedes on fire. | |
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Implied in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. The cutscene that plays after the Wham Episode shows Bentley looking at his photo of Penelope in heartbreaknote he later vandalizes it after their break-up to signal his newfound hatred of her, while Penelope just casually tosses her photo of Bentley into a fire, signaling that she doesn't truly care about his feelings. | |
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In GTO: The Early Years, Ryuji decides he needs to let go of the past, and burns the pictures of him and Ayumi that she gave him. This is almost a year after they broke up, and he's been in a new relationship for months when she comes back to town and gives him the stuff. Neither of them bear the other any ill will, they just recognize that they don't belong together. | |
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A Moth to a Flame features a friendship version of this, when Anne deals with the trauma of Marcy's betrayal by burning every gift she ever gave Anne. | |
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Birds of Prey (2020): Harley Quinn marks her breakup with the Joker by burning down the ACE Chemical plant where the two of them (on separate occasions) fell into vats of chemicals that gave them their bleached skin. This results in everyone who had a grudge against her but avoided doing anything about it because they were afraid of the Joker deciding it was time to declare open season on her. | |
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In NCIS Season 5, Tony throws the letter of his Love Interest into a bonfire after the relationship went way, way, way south due to him Becoming the Mask. | |
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On the reality show Cheaters, there was an episode where the woman set her cheating partner's possessions on fire. | |
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In the Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Promised to Me, this happens twice, on both parts of the Ho Yay relationship of Russia and America...which is probably Played for Drama / Rule of Drama ... and Tear Jerker territory: Over 7 decades after the de facto breakup, America had stashed all the memorabilia in his storage closet, until his Boss ordered agents to burn all of it from before the breakup. He did manage to save a metal box of photos and letters, which he eventually sent back to Russia. And after the end of the Cold War, Russia found the box of photos and letters... which he decided to burn in his fireplace (partially due to the other's infidelity post-breakup). |
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In Clueless, Tai and Cher burn mementos from Tai's relationship with Elton. | |
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Bridgerton: In season 2 episode 1, upon receiving the program advertising his former mistress, Siena's, next performance, Anthony immediately burns it to the fireplace; indicating that he has moved on and ready for a fresh start. | |
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According to the makers of Danganronpa Re:Birth's English dub, after finding out about Seishi/Zen's betrayal, Ayumu would set his books on fire. | |
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Young Sheldon: At the end of S5 E1, Missy puts her old notebook with Marcus' name written all over it and sets it on fire. Mary is mortified. | |
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Hamilton: After learning of her husband's affair, Eliza sings an entire ballad as she burns Alexander's letters in the form of "Burn". | |
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A variation in Jimmy Two-Shoes, after Jimmy's Oblivious to Love nature leads him to dating a Heloise look-alike, Heloise angrily rips up her Stalker Shrine of him and tosses the remains in a vat of acid. | |
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A deadly example occurs in the Grand Finale of Kevin Can F**k Himself. After Allison finally tells Kevin she hasn't loved him in years and wants a divorce, Kevin flips out, and in a fit of rage, throws her belongings into a trash can and sets it on fire in the living room. When he ends up passing out from getting excessively drunk, the flames rapidly consume the house. | |
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In the Shoestring episode "The Farmer Had a Wife," the titular farmer burns his wife's clothes and belongings months after she leaves him. Eddie isn't pleased, since he's investigating her disappearance and wanted to look through her things. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the season 4 episode "The Initiative", Xander comes across Harmony as she's building a bonfire of Spike's stuff. Cordelia cuts up Xander's stuff and burns his picture in "The Wish". |
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Where the Crawdads Sing: After Kya's ma and all her siblings leave, Pa throws Ma's books, paintings, dresses, and radio into a bonfire. Kya rushes to stop him and manages to save some of her things. | |
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The Bold and the Beautiful's Bridget burns her husband Deacon's stuff after finding out that he has been sleeping with her mother and gotten her pregnant. She takes particular glee in throwing his ashtrays into the mix—"Kissing you was like licking one of these! I HATED it!" | |
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Discussed in the episode "Happily Ever After" of How I Met Your Mother when Ted is dealing with the fact that he was left at the alter and is seemingly fine. Marshall tells him he should go crazy and let it out, perhaps even following his own advice from a time when Marshall and Lily were broken up. Marshall says he should have followed Ted's advice and should have set all Lily's stuff on fire. | |
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In Waiting to Exhale, Bernadine gets dumped by her husband for another woman, despite the fact that she spent the last 11 years sacrificing her dreams of owning her own business to help him build his. Her reaction is to take his entire very expensive wardrobe, stuff it in his very expensive car, and set the whole shebang on fire. What she couldn't get in the car, she sells at a garage sale, at a dollar per item. | |
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Friends: No actual fire was involved, but in the first episode Monica's Guy of the Week admits that he broke his ex-wife's watch after they split up. When Monica learns that the guy lied about being impotent following the divorce to get her into bed she gets some revenge by stomping on the watch he left in her apartment. Monica, Phoebe, and Rachel burn mementos of their exes when they find themselves all single on Valentine's Day and decide to do something to "cleanse" their bad luck. The firemen who attend when it inevitably gets out of control tell them that Valentine's Day is one of their busiest nights of the year, for exactly that reason. In the extended cut of the episode, the firemen deliver a rehearsed speech of safety tips for future bonfires which ends with advice on letting go of their painful memories and learning to love themselves. In Season 4, Rachel's crush, Joshua, has to buy a lot of new clothes as his ex-wife set all his old clothes on fire. Apparently, the only things he was able to save were the suit he was currently wearing and "what turned out to be a skirt". He later reveals he keeps on buying clothes since he likes Rachel. |
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