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Sometimes, a house or other building is central to a story. Usually it is the residence of the protagonist or antagonist. It may have a significant history, either special or sinister. It may even carry a family curse. By living there, a character may be unknowingly tying themselves to the past, or to their old ways. Then that building is burnt down, destroying those memories of the past with it. The huge material loss suffered by the owner of the house is generally peripheral to the story, with the real point of the trope being that the fire symbolizes letting go of the things from the past that were tied to the house and being able to finally embrace the future. One or more characters, dead or alive, may be burnt along with the house. A villainous or deranged character who lights such a fire is likely to perish in this way - perhaps with the hero trying unsuccessfully to save them. This trope is almost always an Ending Trope, as it gives an effective close to the story and symbolically lays the past to rest. Tends toward a Bittersweet Ending. It is used particularly in Gothic Literature. Simply having a previously unmentioned or unimportant house burn down is not sufficient for this trope. Examples should make clear the value of the building and/or the significance of the fire, to avoid being considered a Zero-Context Example. Related to, but distinct from, Kill It with Fire and Fire Purifies, which are about fire as a weapon for killing. Also related to Burn Baby Burn, which is about burning smaller significant objects. See also It's All Junk. Destroy the Abusive Home is a subtrope of this which has a character destroying the home or other place where they or a loved one were put through hell. Where I Was Born and Razed is about a character pulling this trope (and maybe even expanding it into a whole Doomed Hometown) For the Evulz. As this is an Ending Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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In the Underdogs novel Acceleration, the Underdogs burn Shannon's childhood home, where she was neglected by her evil father Grant to the ground, partly for the sense of closure and partly as a 'fuck you' to Grant. | |
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In the film Andersonville after the defeat of the Raiders their base was burned, symbolic of the end of their reign of terror. | |
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In one episode of Adventure Time, Finn and Jake visit their other brother Jermaine in the house where they grew up. It holds no emotional baggage for Finn or Jake, but Jermaine is bound to maintain it, if only because he's imprisoning a demon their father had captured. The demon escapes during the episode and burns the house down, allowing Jermaine to move on with his life. | |
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At the end of 5 Days a Stranger, the mansion as well as the recently re-animated body of the then-unnamed DeFoe child is burnt down, freeing those that had been trapped within. Except for AJ and Philip Harty, who were dead before the fire started. | |
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In Gilmore Girls, Lorelai raised her daughter at the Independence Inn for ten years while working there as a maid. Even though they had moved into their own home before the series started, they remained attached to it. It burned down at the end of season three when Lorelai was moving forward buying her own inn with her friend Sookie and her daughter Rory was heading off to college. It signaled a transition in their lives to more serious endeavors. | |
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Lou (2022). The title character is shown burning classified documents and film before putting a rifle under her chin with the intention of committing suicide. The events of the film intervene, and we later discover it was blackmail material she was using against the CIA, after having worked for them as a field agent. Ironically at the end of the movie the CIA are still searching for this material long after it's been destroyed. | |
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Aunt Marie's Airstream in Grimm. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood: Johnathan's house burning down marks the end of the first arc, and the Genre Shift from Glamorous Manly Victorian Melodrama to Glamorous Manly Supernatural Horror-Adventure. | |
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Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca ends with the Creepy Housekeeper Mrs. Danvers going over the edge and setting Manderley on fire. All that symbolically remains of Rebecca is burned down along with the house. In some adaptations, Mrs. Danvers also burns. | |
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The haunted hotel in The Shining burns up and dissolves into nothingness. | |
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The James Bond film Skyfall has the titular manor burning down during the ending battle (with, of course, lots of explosions and such). This is very symbolic, as Bond has linked it throughout the movie with his childhood, and certain... psychological baggage he's carried with him from there. | |
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Umineko: When They Cry: It's revealed that a huge stockpile of hidden explosives was used at the end of the second day of the Ushiromiya murder mystery which creates a huge crater on the island and destroys their mansion, the family members, and any evidence with it. Episode 4 and episode 8 of the visual novel suggest that it would be much better to forget about the incident, and let the hype, driven by the media, die so that relatives of people who died can move on. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Grandpa vs Sexual Inadequacy", Homer and Abe begin arguing after visiting the farmhouse where they lived before moving to Springfield. They both accidentally set the farmhouse on fire without each other knowing, and they resolve the feud at the end of the episode as it burns to the ground. | |
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Braindead ends this way, presumably destroying the remaining zombies. | |
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The Red Lanterns: Anna's dreams of escaping a life of prostitution are crushed when her young lover Angelos dumps her. She comes back to the brothel, lights a cigarette, pulls out a picture of the two of them on a date, then uses the lighter to burn the picture. | |
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In Batman Begins, the film's Darkest Hour is when Ra's al Ghul incapacitates Bruce Wayne, then sets Wayne Manor on fire and leaves Bruce to die there. Continuing his father's legacy (in this case, making Gotham a better, safer city) is one of Bruce's major motivations. Bruce is convinced at that moment that he's completely ruined Thomas's legacy, and the destruction of his father's house is a very concrete representation of that. | |
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In the final Punisher Max arc "Homeless", after the death of Frank, Nick Fury takes a flamethrower to the house where the Castle family used to live and where Frank had been staying during the events of the arc. By doing so he hopes to put an end to the tragedy that made The Punisher once and for all. | |
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Mr. Rochester's first wife sets his house ablaze at the end of Jane Eyre - and the shame of his dark secret (her existence) is burned along with it. | |
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In the season 3 finale of Nikita, Division (the central location of the show up to that point) is destroyed. | |
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Office Space: Milton burns down the Initech building in revenge for the company's shabby treatment of him, in the process destroying Peter's letter of confession about embezzling money from the company. Everyone just assumes the arsonist was also the embezzler (and he does end up with the money in any case), and Peter gets off scot-free... and finds a new job in the field of construction, where one of his projects is cleaning up the remains of the building. | |
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The House on the Lagoon, Manuel and the nationalistic group he is with raid his wealthy parents’ home. He gives them a chance to escape and stays behind to watch it burn. | |
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At the end of Psycho IV: The Beginning, Norman Bates burns down his mother's old house, the place where all his unhappiness began. In a variation, he is nearly trapped inside, signifying his own difficulty in escaping his past. | |
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An episode of Arrested Development ends with Michael and his son, George Michael burning down the family banana stand while they watched as a means of putting the days where they miserably had to work there behind. Their father is not pleased because he had hidden a secret stock of cash in there and the two of them failed to find it. | |
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Unusually for this trope, The Dresden Files employs it smack in the middle of Changes. Harry's much-loved apartment is razed, with much of his possessions inside. To add insult to injury, he damages his spine while trying to help his elderly landlady, and is left paralyzed from the waist down. This leads to him accepting Mab's offer to become the Winter Knight, which in turn causes him to arrange his own murder at the end of the novel. The symbolism remains, though. It tells the reader that this book pulls no punches, and will live up to its name-Nothing Is the Same Anymore. | |
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Django Unchained: Ends with Django and his wife leaving an exploding slave plantation, on horseback determined to live a free life. | |
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Subverted in Memento. The protagonist suffers from a condition that prevents him from forming long-term memories. He says the last thing he remembers is his wife dying during a home invasion robbery, which prevents him from moving on from her death. In an effort to do so, he's shown burning some photos of her and personal articles, but it's to little effect as he doesn't remember this for long either. | |
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In the Riverdale first season finale, Cheryl burns the family mansion in hopes of breaking from the past, as her mother protests to no effect. | |
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Whenever the Shinra mansion is mentioned, half the time it will (or already has) go up in flames. This trope is inevitable when half the cast has negative experiences with one building. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's 3 has Fazbear's Fright — a horror attraction based on the unsolved mysteries of the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza — that contains several old relics from the pizzeria's history that end up burning to the ground, likely caused by faulty wiring. | |
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In-universe example: in Just Shoot Me! this is how Dennis' student film The Burning House ends. | |
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Kung Fu Panda 2. Lord Shen is so determined to kill Po, the legendary warrior who is prophesized to defeat him, he orders his cannon to open fire on his own palace. This isn't just Pragmatic Villainy but is related to Shen's issues with his parents, foreshadowed when Shen has his father's throne tossed out the window of the palace, then puts a cannon in its place. In the end, Shen's failure to let go of the past is what defeats him. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: The trauma of being beaten by Fred, losing her finger at his hands, and giving away Nichole so that she can have a better life culminates in Serena burning the Waterford house down. | |
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Well before The Last Jedi, the sentiment was expressed by Kreia in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Kreia one-upped the Jedi above by brazenly manipulating the Exile into doing so. If you play Exile Dark-Side, they kill off all the remaining Jedi Masters, Darth Sion, and Darth Nihilus. If you play Light Side, Kreia kills the Jedi when it becomes apparent that they can't understand what the Exile is, and then makes sure Exile destroys Nihilus and Sion. The Final Boss, of course, is herself. She's just as much part of the past she wants to be destroyed. The enclave at Dantooine is left to fall into ruin and be reclaimed by entropy. Atris' hideout on Telos is also ruined. The remains of the Malachor Sith temple are imploded. Kreia wasn't one to leave loose ends. | |
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Done at the end of What's Eating Gilbert Grape. The protagonists light the house on fire to burn along with their deceased morbidly obese mother who is on the top floor, as this is the only way to dispose of her body without public humiliation. In this case, the fire symbolises protection. | |
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One of the end-goals of the Institute in Fallout 4 is to destroy all traces of the pre-war United States, to pave the way for their own new order. | |
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Atomic Blonde Lorraine claims not to have known Gascoigne well, but is shown burning a photo of them together after being informed of his Plot-Triggering Death. Percival, the MI6 station chief for Berlin, has the cover of a blackmarket dealer in goods from the West. He burns his stash when the Berlin Wall falls, making the goods all but valueless and everything he's done as a spy meaningless. |
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Dead by Daylight’s Crotus Prenn Asylum suffers this fate, bringing with it the memories of Sally “The Nurse� Smithson and the more than 54 victims of her killing spree. | |
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The Victors Project: At the end of the story, after Luster and his Snowmen are defeated, it's implied that Enobaria uses the opportunity to burn down the arena of her original Games, which Luster's people had been using as a hideout. Nobody outright accuses her, and none of her fellow Victors hold it against her since they would do the same thing in her place. | |
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Following the death of her last surviving family member in The Vampire Diaries Elena Gilbert burns down their family home, describing how the various items she destroys belonged to the various loved ones she had lost. It's less a matter of the past no longer controlling her and more her grief that she longer has anything remaining of her past life. She even leaves Jeremy's body to burn in the fire, planning to use "death by tragic fire" as a more plausible explanation than the real cause. | |
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The plot of Lucius is set in motion by a character performing satanic rituals in the basement of Dante Manor, which results in Lucius' soul becoming the property of the devil and him murdering the inhabitants of the house. During the final level, Lucius burns Dante Manor to the ground, along with the last of his victims, his father Charles. | |
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The Walking Dead The second season ends with the barn of walkers being burned during the attack on the farm. The prison, which is the main base for the group from the beginning of Season 3, burns down during the battle in the Season 4 mid-season finale, and the group is separated as they are forced to flee. An earlier season 4 episode has The Governor burn down Woodbury. |
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At the end of Monstrous Regiment, the Boarding School of Horrors is burned down by two of those who'd been through it. | |
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The adaptation miniseries of the appropriately named Little Fires Everywhere reveals the burned home in the first scene, then the rest of the show explores How We Got Here: the Richardson kids burned down the house to reject their mother's smothering parenting and twisted value system, particularly her increasingly abusive relationship with Izzy. | |
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In Rubbernecker, Sarah Fort tries to burn down the shed, which she has kept locked for the last decade, in which she keeps the car she was driving when she tried to kill her son Patrick and hit her husband instead. But before the fire can really get going, Weird Nick, who lives next door, runs over and puts it out with his garden hose. When Patrick learns why she wanted to burn the shed, he finishes the job for her. | |
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BioShock: When the government threatened to nationalize a forest he owned, Andrew Ryan burned it down. This was part of his motivation for planning to secede from the world. | |
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At the end of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Johnny and his fellow gang members burn down the gang's clubhouse. Considering that they've just killed the gang leader Billy for attempting to turn states' evidence, it can be seen as a symbol of the gang dissolving for good. | |
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In Baby Cakes Diary #2, the gloomy home of Dad and Dad's Dad is burned down in the midst of a drunken musical number, allowing Dad's Dad to move on. | |
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In Traitor Queen king Aren burns in a symbolic gesture the house on Midwatch that he shared with his wife Lara and where her betrayal came to light. The fact that it was used by enemy soldiers for almost a year and it shows probably helps him make that decision. | |
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Castle in the Sky ends with the main characters Pazu and Sheeta casting the Spell of Destruction to bring an end to the titular castle Laputa, the last surviving remnant of a highly advanced civilization that abandoned it to live on Earth. This also ends up doing in the Big Bad Colonel Muska, who aimed to reclaim the castle as his birthright and Take Over the World using it as a superweapon. In a twist, only the Advanced Ancient Acropolis bottom portion was destroyed. The upper level that was reclaimed by nature detached from it to fly higher than before, safe from the greedy hands of people like Muska. | |
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Batman Rogues Gallery member Black Mask burnt down his family's mansion to disassociate himself from his former identity as Roman Sionis. | |
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Titans (2018). In "The Asylum", Dick Grayson—having realised that he can't give up being a masked vigilante, yet can't go back to being Robin again—burns his Robin costume in the flames of the eponymous Asylum (which they've just blown up). In the next episode, he mentions this to Donna Troy, who has given up being Wondergirl. She's a bit bemused as she just put her costume in a closet, given that those high-tech supersuits are expensive. Sure enough, Dick has to get a new supersuit for the Season Finale, and the guy making them is rather pissed that he destroyed the old one. | |
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The Choices That Make Us: Snape burns down his mother's family's mansion after the First Wizarding War due to guilt about all the atrocities the Death Eaters committed there. | |
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M*A*S*H: Psychiatrist Sidney Freedman convinces Col. Potter to let the camp make a bonfire, burning many non-essential items which represent the stifling Army lifestyle. "You have to let them go crazy once in a while to keep from going crazy." Freedman himself tosses his fatigues into the blaze. Coincidentally, just before the final episode was filmed the MASH set burned down. |
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Near the end of the 1997 TV film of The Woman in White, Marian accidentally knocks over a lamp and sets fire to the church where her father was buried, trapping and killing Glyde and Sir Percival. | |
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In Time Bandits, the family home burns down at the end. Shortly after the parents pick up the rock of evil that was found in the wreckage and both disintegrate, leaving the boy an orphan. | |
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At the end of Intruders, Anna performs a Reusable Lighter Toss on the house (which had earlier been soaked in gasoline) that represents all of the traumas of the past. She watches it start to burn and then turns around and walks off into the night. | |
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In one of The 11th Hour's three endings, Stauf Mansion burns to the ground, which unfortunately also results in the death of Robin. | |
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Eric Draven burns down his old house during the events of The Crow just before going out on his Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Dollar Bill and his gang. | |
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In Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II, the Ghost of House Felldane asks you to destroy Firewind Manor, in order to hide the evidence of the depravity his descendants have succumbed to. Serendipitously, the manor burns to the ground not long after during a dragon attack, fulfilling the ghost's wishes. | |
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The finale of Hell Girl's first season ends with Ai Enma burning a temple down because she has come to forgive its builder for betraying her centuries ago. | |
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In What About Bob?, Dr. Leo Marvin's lakeside vacation house in New Hampshire is a symbol of his financial success at the cost of strained relationships with just about everyone. (His daughter calls the trip there "another vacation that isn't a vacation", and his neighbors—the Gutmans—hate Dr. Marvin because they were saving up to buy that house.) In the end, Dr. Marvin tries to kill Bob with explosives but ends up burning down the house instead. This is the straw that finally breaks Dr. Marvin, and in the next scene, he's more or less catatonic. And in the next scene, Bob unintentionally shocks Dr. Marvin back into full consciousness. Whether or not Dr. Marvin learned anything from the ordeal is an open question. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's does this twice. Five Nights at Freddy's 3 has Fazbear's Fright — a horror attraction based on the unsolved mysteries of the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza — that contains several old relics from the pizzeria's history that end up burning to the ground, likely caused by faulty wiring. Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator has its Golden Ending burn down the latest establishment with all of the haunted animatronics burning, too. This brings an end to serial killer William Afton and his daughter, as well finally putting to rest the souls of the murdered children haunting the original animatronics. As well as the owner of the current establishment, who is implied to have been William Afton's son and the security guy from previous games. The fire was done on purpose, for this very reason. |
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Subverted in Batwoman (2019). Mouse wants Alice to give up her revenge against her family and flee Gotham so they can be happy elsewhere. So Alice burns the copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that represents all the trauma they suffered as children. Then it turns out Alice has poisoned Mouse because her revenge is part of who she is, and even her love for Mouse isn't enough. | |
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In Kingdom of Heaven, Balian burns down his house and smithy when he kills his priest brother in rage for decapitating his wife’s corpse. His wife had committed suicide after the death of their baby. With his home gone and as a wanted man, Balian joins his father and leaves for Jerusalem. The soundtrack that plays as the house burns is named ‘Burning the Past�. | |
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The first arc of the 2014 The Dead Boy Detectives series by Toby Litt ends with St. Hilarion's, the boarding school Edwin and Charles attended where they both ended up killed, burning to the ground. Neither Edwin nor Charles are particularly upset that St. Hilarion's is no more. | |
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At the end of "Reflections on the Winter of my Soul", Kane sets the manor he has spent the story in on fire along with all the dead bodies inside and reflects on the life that he could have had — at least for a while. | |
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In the fourth season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Tirek destroys the Golden Oaks Library, Twilight Sparkle's residence and main repository of knowledge. The third episode of season 5 focuses on Twilight lamenting the loss of the library. | |
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Doctor Who: In the backstory of the episode "Ghost Light", Ace, mourning the death of her best friend in a fire, burned a local haunted mansion to the ground. She's less than pleased to find that the Doctor has taken her back in time to that same mansion to find out why it frightened her so. "Eve of the Daleks" is set in a storage unit run by Sarah, who only keeps it open out of a sense of duty to her late uncle, the founder of the business. She cares so little about it that she renamed the business "ELF Storage" rather than repair a store sign. Meanwhile, Sarah's best customer, Nick, has taken to using his part of the unit to hoard trinkets from his multiple ex-girlfriends, in the misguided belief that "they might ask for them back one day". When the Doctor blows the unit up at the end of the episode in order to destroy some Daleks, Sarah is freed from her responsibility to it and decides to pursue her dream of travelling, while Nick is freed from the emotional baggage associated with his items; in fact, he deliberately lets them get destroyed by a Dalek Death Ray during a "Groundhog Day" Loop. |
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In Boardwalk Empire, when Nucky's father's ill health forces him to move out of the house his son grew up in, it's given away for free to one of Nucky's associates who's starting a family. The man is incredibly grateful and has the place renovated, but when Nucky visits the place to see if a new paint job will help him forget the years of brutal abuse his father gave him, he douses the empty house in turpentine and throws in a match, handing a wad of cash to the astonished new owner as he walks away. | |
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At the end of God of War: Ascension, Kratos turns his house into a funeral pyre for Orkos. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: This was Seto Kaiba plan for Battle City, destroying his father's island and (attempting to) reclaim his title from Yugi. It's practically his way of life: if there is anything tying him down, be it a grudge, a favor, or even the most meager stain on his pride, he will go out of his way to rectify it with an unhealthy and ruthless obsession. This causes a lot of problems with anyone bringing up his Egyptian incarnation because as far as he's concerned, it's not his problem and can stay the hell out of his life. By the Battle City Finals, he cites this as the reason he's so obsessed with defeating Yugi, besides reclaiming his title. He sees Dark Yugi's desire to reclaim his lost past as an ultimately futile effort that will keep him from moving forward as he himself does, forgetting that before the Nameless Pharaoh can move on, whether in life or into the afterlife, he needs to know who he is. His obsession with destroying all traces of his past begins to worry Mokuba during the duel as the elder brother gives the impression that the good times the two did have, in the orphanage before Gozaburo ever came into the picture, weren't worth cherishing. At the same time, his attempts at actually doing this fails because for all of Kaiba's posturing, he's among the most motivated by his past. He's unable to genuinely move forward because he's still driven by the pain caused by Gozaburo and his defeats to Yugi. As such, his attempts at trying to ignore his past for the future comes off more as him trying to run away from his problems or pain rather than face it. The manga film The Dark Side of Dimensions has the plot be driven by Kaiba's obsession to resurrect Atem after the latter has finally passed on to the afterlife, going so far as to excavate the Millennium Puzzle, as well as successfully create technology that is implied to allow him to reach beyond the living realm. |
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At almost-not-quite the end of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Alfred burns down Wayne Manor so that nobody can look through it for evidence or clues after Batman's identity as Bruce Wayne is revealed to the public while faking his death. Symbolically, Alfred dies of a stroke right afterwards. Batman Rogues Gallery member Black Mask burnt down his family's mansion to disassociate himself from his former identity as Roman Sionis. |
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Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator has its Golden Ending burn down the latest establishment with all of the haunted animatronics burning, too. This brings an end to serial killer William Afton and his daughter, as well finally putting to rest the souls of the murdered children haunting the original animatronics. As well as the owner of the current establishment, who is implied to have been William Afton's son and the security guy from previous games. The fire was done on purpose, for this very reason. | |
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Battle For Sevastopol. The sniper instructors make the female trainees burn all feminine articles in their possession—from clothes to personal items—to show them they need to toughen up for the war they're about to fight. | |
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In the Enemy at the Door episode "No Quarter Given", a character's house and business are confiscated by the German occupying forces, and the woman he loves is killed by a drunken SS soldier, whose superior shelters him from prosecution. At the end of the episode, he decides to make a break for England and burns the house down as a parting gesture. | |
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Prince of Persia: The Graphic Novel ends its 9th-century storyline with the usurper burning down the royal palace with himself rather than surrendering it to Prince Guiv. Much of the 13th-century storyline is set in the ruins of this palace. | |
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Dread String of Fate: Whenever Marinette attempts to take down or get rid of her pictures of Adrien, they mysteriously return to her walls. Luka helps her gather them up and dispose of them in a bonfire in hopes of getting rid of them for good. | |
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Kenshin does this in the flashback sections of Rurouni Kenshin (adapted as the Trust & Betrayal OVA) burning down the house where he lived with his first wife Tomoe until her Heroic Sacrifice to double as both a funeral pyre for her and to emphasize his recommitting to his role as an assassin. | |
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This type of ending was used at least more than once in the 1988 anime Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics. The Bluebeard episode ended this way, and Hansel & Gretel had the witch's house getting struck by lightning and burning down, and the kids reunited with their father the next day. | |
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A rare positive example in 1929 film Linda. Linda's husband, the backwoods logger Decker, has died. Rather than let someone else muck up the little cabin that Decker loved so much, Linda decides to send it up to him in heaven. So she sets it on fire and watches it burn as the movie ends. | |
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The ending of Citizen Kane is a loose example, differing only in that the whole house isn't burnt but the namesake of "Rosebud": Kane's childhood sled. | |
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