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Someone uses a magnifying glass or similar optical instrument to concentrate sunlight to kill, burn, or melt something. This may take a few different forms. Children at play may experiment with using setting fires or killing small insects with a magnifying glass. At times this may be used to demonstrate that the child is an Enfant Terrible, or (in works written from the perspective of the insect) that Humans Are Cthulhu. On the other hand, sometimes children who do this are just portrayed as scientifically curious. In some cases, a larger lens may be used as an Improvised Weapon. Many attempts at this (both fictional and real) are inspired by the story that the ancient Greek scientist and engineer Archimedes used this sort of contrivance to destroy a Roman fleet during the 214-212 BCE Siege of Syracuse. Supposedly, he focused the rays of the sun using an array of polished shields, mirrors, or lenses. (Sadly, MythBusters tested this example of the trope — three times — and found it less-than-effective.) Finally, people stranded in the wilderness may use magnifying glasses in order to set the fire they need to survive, which is possible, although often difficult. This trope may seem fairly modern but it's in fact Older Than Feudalism. In Aristophanes' ancient Greek comedy The Clouds, the gods use a set of mirrors or lenses to ignite the Olympic Torch (a smaller device traditionally lights the torch for the running in modern days). Also, this is Truth in Television. It works, but not as quickly as usually depicted. Related to The Power of the Sun and Sundial Waypoint. Not to be confused with a Kill Sat, which uses a remote-controlled satellite and may or may not actually use sunlight, though there is overlap with some high-tech examples of this trope. See also Ray Gun and Energy Weapon, of which this could be considered a fairly primitive version. |
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In one Adventure Time Ad Bumper, Ice King is trying to burn a giant ant. He then aims the magnifying glass at Finn, yelling, "You want some of this?" | |
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In Watchmen, one of the souvenirs in the Minutemen's clubhouse is "Moloch's Solar Mirror Weapon". It's not seen in use until one of the prequel comics. | |
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The Far Side: Two ants are on their hill, one of them saying "Now I'm starting to feel kinda warm!" while looming over them is the shadow of a kid with a magnifying glass. | |
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Batman (1966): Catwoman once put Batman and Robin in a Death Trap that worked this way. | |
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An episode of The Little Rascals involved Porky and Buckwheat having a bunch of firecrackers. Spanky and Alfalfa "confiscated" them by posing as a G-Man. Spanky tried to set off the firecrackers with a magnifying glass, but the school bell rang. Alfalfa took the firecrackers and stuck them in his back pocket — and Porky picked up the magnifying glass. During class, Alfalfa is called on to recite "The Charge of the Light Brigade", and this is when Porky uses the magnifying glass to set off the firecrackers. | |
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Piggy's glasses are used to start fires in Lord of the Flies. Only farsighted lenses can do that, and Piggy is one of the few boys who look past the moment. | |
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The two-part season 9 CSI: NY opener ends with the perp, a serial arsonist/killer, useing his glasses to direct a beam of sunlight onto a paperback book he's reading in his cell, causing the pages to start smoking as the camera fades to black. | |
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The Simpsons: At the end of "Marge vs. the Monorail", we hear a voiceover from Marge: At the start of "Bart of Darkness", Hans Moleman's coke-bottle glasses accidentally set his shirt on fire when he steps outside on a hot summer's day. Bart is seen melting a toy soldier with a magnifying glass in one episode, as seen in the trope image. Subverted in "Das Bus" when the children are stranded on an island. Nelson takes Milhouse's glasses to use for starting a campfire, suggesting this trope. He raises them up to the sun for a brief moment, before bashing a piece of flint against them. To Nelson's credit, it works. |
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As noted above, MythBusters tested the Archimedes Death Ray three times (2004, 2006, and 2010) and all three times busted the myth, finding it impossible to focus light from shore mirrors well enough to set fire to a wooden ship. (Aside from the giant-lens-as-Death Ray myth, the show also tested whether it's possible to light fires with lenses made out of shaped ice or the polished bottoms of soda cans.) | |
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Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe. In "Chapter 9: Solar Sky Raiders", a second sun appearing in the sky threatens drought, forest fires, skin cancer and melting icecaps. As more suns appear, Commando Cody realises the Big Bad is using a refractive forcefield to duplicate the sun until Earth either surrenders or is burnt to a cinder. | |
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The Archimedes Death Ray variant of this trope is shown in Cabiria, starting with a scene where Archimedes experiments with mirrors in his lab, followed by a big action setpiece in which his mirrors set fire to the Roman fleet. | |
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Nichijou: In one scene, Mai and Mio ask Yuuko if they can borrow her eraser. Yuuko has them guess which hand she has the eraser in, and after a few missteps Mai pulls out a magnifying glass to burn the back of Yuuko's hand, which she promptly declares as cheating. | |
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In One Hundred Years of Solitude, gypsies put a pile of dry hay in the middle of the street and set it on fire with a gigantic magnifying glass. This makes José Arcadio BuendÃa think that it can be used as as a weapon of war. | |
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In The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Dr. Clawbonnie uses a lens made of ice to start a fire. | |
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A Calvin and Hobbes strip had Stupendous Man use a giant magnifying glass from an observatory telescope in order to fry Calvin's school off the map. Of course, since it was all in Calvin's imagination, his Mom doesn't believe him when he says that the school got fried, and has him do his math homework. | |
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Total Drama: Glasses are sometimes used to concentrate solar energy. In "Dial M for Merger", the contestants each are in charge of a ticking stink bomb they need to cut one wire of. Beth cuts her bomb's blue wire by taking off her glasses and using them to concentrate sunlight onto the wire. Inspired, Justin places his mirror under Beth's glasses to channel the sunlight onto his bomb's blue wire too. Ants infest Pimapotew Kinosewak's tree house in "This Is the Pits!". Max, being only a small-minded villain, turns a magnifying glass on them and burns several to death before his own bed catches fire. Somehow, he thinks it's the ants that put his sheets aflame. |
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Most wilderness-survival shows, like Dual Survival or Survivorman, will demonstrate this method of fire-starting at least once. | |
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: In "Mile 81", Pete Simmons uses this to set fire to the human eating monster car, effectively driving it off. | |
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Appears as one of Penny's microgames in WarioWare: Smooth Moves. (BURN!) | |
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In one old (1960s/1970s) Green Lantern comic, the villain uses a giant flying magnifying glass as a weapon to burn his opponents. He uses time travel to acquire it. | |
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Adam Strange of The DCU fights one of these on a gigantic scale as a Monster of the Week in his Strange Adventures appearances. He does so again in Batman: The Brave and the Bold but with Batman and Aquaman's help. | |
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In an episode of Shazam! (1974), Captain Marvel creates a lens out of sand by rubbing the sand very fast, in order to focus the sun on something. | |
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In the Red Dwarf episode "Demons and Angels", when Lister denies that Evil Lister is part of him, Evil Kryten says "He's the little boy who, on a hot summer's day, held a magnifying glass to his best friend's neck and watched him burn." This disturbing-sounding incident is not elaborated on. | |
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The Angry Beavers: The beginning of the episode "Homer Loners" has Daggett try to burn some ants with a magnifying glass; the ants just hold up their own tiny mirror and reflect the sun beam back at Daggett, burning him to a crisp. | |
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xkcd: Variant. One "What If?" asks "Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire?" Turns out that the answer is no, because magnifying light doesn't change the fact that the source (the moon) is too cold to start a fire. | |
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In several episodes of Inspector Gadget, Dr. Claw and M.A.D employ weapons of this nature: In "The Emerald Duck", Dr. Claw seeks to claim a powerful crystal-weapon that can convert sunlight into deadly beams of destruction. To ensure that he doesn't get his hands on it, Penny and Brain overload it with Penny's laser, causing it to explode. In another episode, M.A.D agents abduct astrophysicists and trick them into building a heat cannon which they intend to use to blast the Tower of London and force London to pay Dr. Claw's demands. Fortunately, Penny manages to cause it to collapse before it can fire. One episode features a computer-controlled space station with a giant magnifying lens which is meant to be used to evaporate all the water on Earth, until the computer which is in control decides to destroy the lens to prevent it from being used for its evil purpose. |
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In Lobo/Mask, when Lobo gets the Mask, he goes on a galaxy-shaking rampage of random violence, at one point doing this to people of some unfortunate planet. | |
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In Codex Alera, a group of Knights Aeris — windcrafters who can manipulate air for flight or as a lens, among other things — under orders of main character Tavi work together to create a quarter-mile wide magnifying glass that focuses its light down to another windcrafter who redirects it as a solar-powered Death Ray. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In the episode "Bubblevision", the girls have to deal with a giant ant which their heat vision doesn't even hurt. When Bubbles, who has been given Nerd Glasses to correct her vison, tries to help, and the lenses concentrate her eye beams so much that they obliterate the ant. The animation shows the beams getting wider to make it look more impressive, even though that would mean the glasses would be scattering the light. | |
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The Mutants & Masterminds adventure "High Noon", part of the Lame Mage Evil Genius adventures, Dr. Null post-humously launches a doomsday device that deploys a cloud of small nanotechnology crystals that float around and focus beams of indiscriminate destruction from the sun's rays to destroy major cities. | |
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The Dungeons & Dragons 3E adventure "The Eye of the Sun" centers around a magical artifact that acts as one of these. It's used by a cult of lizardfolk to burn a village down. | |
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The lens from a broken telescope provides one of several ways for Mina to start fires in Return to Mysterious Island. | |
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In Adventures of the Gummi Bears, one of the ancient inventions built by Gummi Bears' ancestors is a signal machine called the Gummiscope, which is also capable of generating a devastating beam that can burn practically anything. While the Gummis try to use it to contact the Great Gummis overseas, Igthorn intend to use it to conqueror Dunwyn. Knowing that the scope is too powerful for anyone to be in control of, the Gummis destroy it by tearing out its supports with a flood. | |
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In The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #8, Indy, Marion and squad of Nazis are locked in a cavern by a Lost Tribe that splintered off from Atlantis before Atlantis sank. They think they are being held to be executed in the morning, but the cave it self is the execution chamber. As the sun ruses, it is focused through the crystal 'skylights' in the cave roof into beams of laser-like strength and intensity. | |
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Battle Tendency: The Red Stone of Aja, when put up to a light source, will cause it to reflect the light a million times and emit it out the opposite side as a laser. It thus can also amplify the Ripple, which is basically solar energy generated by humans. The Stone can also be used to power up the Stone Mask to turn a Pillar Man into the Ultimate Lifeform. Caesar Zeppeli uses bubbles to reflect light from outside a castle to the inside at Wamuu, allowing the light to penetrate him. |
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In one Oggy and the Cockroaches episode, the roaches attempt to toast Oggy with one, except that in lieu of a magnifying glass they use a bunch of solar panels (which Oggy installed) as a mirror. | |
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X-Wing Series: Occurs in Wedge's Gamble. As part of a lunatic plan to take down the city-planet Coruscant's orbital shields, thus rendering it vulnerable to invasion, the Rogues require a massive thunderstorm (to take out the power grid). To get one, they settle on vaporizing all the water in a reservoir by redirecting and refocusing an orbital satellite. Used as intended, the satellite focuses sunlight on portions of Imperial City to make the temperature more livable. Used as unintended, it vaporizes the target — reservoir and all — in a matter of seconds. | |
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Ned's Newt: "I really shouldn't be wearing my magnifying-glass-hat now, should I?" | |
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This is the supervillain's plan, coupled with a reagent that reacts to filtered light, in the Batman comic Messiah of the Crimson Sun. | |
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A pair of lenses from a telescope are used by the castaways to start a fire in The Coral Island. | |
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Invoked in Shadow of the Comet for a Solve the Soup Cans puzzle. Basically, the hero is stuck in a lighthouse, and cultists are bashing at the door. Here, he finds a pair of wings and a candle. Using the magnifying glass in the inventory, he melts the candle to add wax to the wings. Guess what you do with the wings. | |
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Lil' Bat tries to fry some ants this way in a cartoon segment of The Aquabats! Super Show!. The ants retaliate by eating him. | |
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In Girl Genius the heliolux airfleet, part of the Wulfenbach Empire's forces, has weaponized the interaction of magnifying lenses and sunlight on a large scale and uses their lenses to set people and towns on fire and "melt people into little puddles." The Jägers prevent them from participating in the assault on Mechanicsburg. | |
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Another sketch had a young Indiana Jones using the Staff of Ra to burn ants until a teacher confiscates it. | |
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead: Melissa burns a cockroach with a magnifying glass in the beginning of the movie. | |
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In a Superman story, Superman is feeling sick and uses giant magnifying glasses to focus the suns rays onto him. Since he's powered by the sun, it gives him a needed boost of energy. | |
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In the Goof Troop episode "Gunfight at the Okie-Dokie Corral", when Max is forced to wear glasses, Goofy tells the story of his cowboy ancestor, who defeated a gunslingernote resembling Pete by wearing glasses, mostly because the sunlight shined through them and set off the gunslinger's belt of bullets. After the story, Max is starting to feel better about wearing glasses when the sun comes out and shines through them, causing him to practically weaponize them, to Goofy's panic. | |
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In 1000 Ways to Die, a jerk builds a giant version of one and uses it to destroy objects for his own amusement and he also tricks people into sticking their hands into the beam. He meets his end when he tries to cook a can of beans with it. The can explodes in his face, causing him to thrash around until he falls in the path of the beam, which quickly burns through his head. | |
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Star Wars Resistance: In "Dangerous Business", Kaz, trapped in a cargo crate that is about to be dropped into the ocean, uses a lens to focus the beam of a welding torch to make it powerful enough to cut through the door. | |
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In RTS Army Men games, this appears as a super weapon in some games. Due to the fact that all units are either little plastic men or (rarely) bugs, it works fairly well. | |
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In the Bob's Burgers episode "Wag the Song", Jimmy Pesto installs a metal awning on his restaurant, which concentrates sunlight into Bob's Burgers, making it too hot inside. Out of desperation, Bob tries to do the same to Pesto with a small mirror. | |
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Septimus Heap: Jenna used a magnifying glass she had stolen earlier to reflect the light onto and burn Simon's face. While being on a flying dragon. | |
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The early Thorgal story "The Fall of Brek Zarith" has the current lord of the titular fortress destroy half an invading Viking fleet with Archimedes-inspired mirrors. | |
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In the Tintin book Prisoners of the Sun, this is how the Incas plan to light the fire that will burn the protagonists at the stake. | |
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Toy Story: Sid burns Woody's forehead with a magnifying glass while "interrogating" him. It serves as a Chekhov's Gun, as it gives Woody the idea of using Buzz's helmet to light the rocket that takes them back to Andy. | |
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In the Futurama episode "Crimes of the Hot", Prof. Wernstrom's plan to stop global warming is a giant mirror that reflects excess light away from the Earth. Then a small piece of space debris knocks it askew, and a beam of concentrated light slices through the city. | |
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Golden Wind has a sequence where the protagonists, during a Jack Bauer Interrogation, use a pair of glasses to focus the sun's rays right on his eyeball. And then they mock him by dancing in front of him. | |
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Ice Age: Continental Drift: Sid's little brother Marshall uses a piece of clear ice in this manner to burn an ant hill. We then pull back to see Sid's Granny doing the same thing to Marshall's head. | |
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In Mage: The Ascension, one of the marauders (insane chaos mages) was rumoured to use a magnifying glass from a cereal box as a magic tool for his energy attacks. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency: The Red Stone of Aja, when put up to a light source, will cause it to reflect the light a million times and emit it out the opposite side as a laser. It thus can also amplify the Ripple, which is basically solar energy generated by humans. The Stone can also be used to power up the Stone Mask to turn a Pillar Man into the Ultimate Lifeform. Caesar Zeppeli uses bubbles to reflect light from outside a castle to the inside at Wamuu, allowing the light to penetrate him. An unintentional version happens in Diamond is Unbreakable, where Rohan leaves a magnifying glass on a newspaper and ends up starting a fire that does quite a bit of damage to his house. He ends up blaming Josuke for it because they were gambling at the time and Rohan was so fixated on finding out how Josuke was cheating that he didn't notice the fire until a third party pointed it out. Golden Wind has a sequence where the protagonists, during a Jack Bauer Interrogation, use a pair of glasses to focus the sun's rays right on his eyeball. And then they mock him by dancing in front of him. |
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Shadow and Bone: In "The Heart Is an Arrow", Alina Starkov finds herself locked inside a strongbox, so uses an eyeglass to focus her sun powers on the lock, burning it out. | |
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FoxTrot: One strip has Jason seemingly roasting ants with a magnifying glass and them eating them to gross Paige out. It turns out they were really just raisins. Another time, he and Marcus were playing detective, but got sidetracked setting ants on fire. | |
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Robot Chicken: In one sketch, a boy has his magnifying glass out to burn ants and laughs. God then hits him with a lightning bolt and laughs. Another sketch had a young Indiana Jones using the Staff of Ra to burn ants until a teacher confiscates it. |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked: To start a campfire, Simon demonstrates this by using his glasses as a magnifying glass to concentrate the energy from the sun. When Jeanette comments on it being impressive, Simon, distracted, accidentally redirects the beam to his foot! | |
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This accidentally happens in the Dunphy house in Modern Family when a see-through Christmas ornament ball is placed in direct sunlight — which causes it to burn a small hole in the couch, which the parents mistake for a cigarette burn and prompts their attempts to ground or at least discipline their children for supposedly smoking. (For an ornament to focus the light like that, however, it would have to be solid, and thus pretty heavy.) | |
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Alice, being a specialist in light magic, uses a spell to this effect in The Magicians. It's not very practical, however — she was using it not long before sunset, and, after noting the "lens" was a mile long, it still took her quite a long time just to burn through a door. | |
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Warhammer has two war engines based on the focusing of solar magic with lenses and crystals. The Empire has the Luminark of Hysh, which uses an array of eight giant lenses to focus a mote of light magic into the ravenously destructive Solheim's Bolt of Illumination spell. The Lizardmen, meanwhile, have the Solar Engine — a giant faceted crystal held in a retaining harness that produces a similar burning death ray effect. | |
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In The Incredible Machine magnifying glasses are used to set things on fire. With a flashlight. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Unicorn and the Wasp": Donna uses an actual magnifying glass to daze the Vespiform. "The Vampires of Venice": Amy uses her make-up mirror to kill one of the alien fish vampire things while pre-took several thousand levels in Badass Rory distracts it. |
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In the sequel to Child of the Storm, Harry figures out how to jury rig a series of refractory mirrors to channel and focus a vast amount of sunlight to give Clark an emergency super-charge. It works like a charm, though since he's the regulator on the amount of power and thus in the way, he gets some nasty burns. | |
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In 7-Second Riddles, a few riddles involve characters surviving a deserted island by making fire with their glasses, or in one case, with a camera lens. | |
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In Gruntz, any Gruntz using the magnifying glass spy kit Toolz will use this as their attack. | |
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The title character of Johnny Bravo does this in one episode; however, his real goal is to use the light from the ants to burn a hole in the sun. | |
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In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons episode 1, Wolffy tries to use a magnifying glass to light his cannon after the goats use water guns to extinguish his lighter. It suddenly becomes night before he can get it to work. | |
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In one issue of Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man, Doctor Doom builds a flying ring base whose center is actually a giant magnifying glass. However, he doesn't unleash it at once, instead opening its shutters slowly and making everyone suffer from increased heat. Spidey's able to stop him, though. | |
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In Bodacious Space Pirates, the Odette II is being fired upon by a pirate ship using optical targeting. Marika reconfigures the solar sails to reflect Tau Ceti's sunlight directly onto the pirate ship, blinding their spotter and heating the hull. She stops just short of melting the ship. | |
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In Dr. Franklin's Island, the castaways manage to scavenge a magnifying glass and some notebook paper and use it to start a fire. | |
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One level in Age of Empires has Archimedes design mirror towers that are represented in-game as shooting lasers. | |
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The New Adventures of Superman: In "Seeds of Disaster", Supes uses the lens from an observatory telescope to focus the sun's rays to incinerate the alien seed pods. | |
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In The New Order: Last Days of Europe, a Nazi Germany led by Göring can try to build the Sun Gun (see Real Life) as part of their plans to fight the entire world. Not only does it fail, it will eventually fall — and could be the event that kills Oskar Dirlewanger. | |
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In Sands of the Kalahari, Dr. Bondarahkai uses a lens from his glasses to concentrate the sun's rays and start a fire. | |
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Mentioned in Changes, with rays of sunlight hot enough to melt metal. | |
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In Goodnight Mommy, Elias is shown burning the wall with a magnifying glass. Later, he uses it to torture the mother. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam has the Solar System, a superweapon wielded by The Federation that is a scaled-up version of the old Archimedes "Death Ray". In this case it's somewhat more plausible, because the array consists of four million mirrors, each the size of a small building, and they're all aimed by computers. Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory introduces the Solar System II, which is much more efficient thanks to better materials and targeting software, meaning it can achieve the same destructive power with only 408,000 mirrors. | |
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The Ant Bully hides from some of those. | |
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Family Guy: In "No Giggity, No Doubt", Quagmire starts a forest fire by burning a hole through a map with a magnifying glass. | |
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An unintentional version happens in Diamond is Unbreakable, where Rohan leaves a magnifying glass on a newspaper and ends up starting a fire that does quite a bit of damage to his house. He ends up blaming Josuke for it because they were gambling at the time and Rohan was so fixated on finding out how Josuke was cheating that he didn't notice the fire until a third party pointed it out. | |
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In Crossfire, "magnifying glass" is a somewhat useful (increases Dexterity when held) Joke Item — a weapon with minimum damage and ant slaying property. Works even underground. | |
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Antz: Used for an Independence Day spoof when a mysterious round object floats overhead ("It's beautiful!"), then a deathray-like beam shoots down causing the insects to burst into flames. Turns out the anthill is located in a public park where a kid is using a magnifying glass. | |
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In Small Gods, the Omnian fleet that attacks Ephebe is set ablaze by the rays from a massive mirror in a tower in the harbor. This is a direct reference to the ancient legend of Archimedes' "heat ray" in the siege of Syracuse. | |
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Dr. STONE: The Tournament Arc features possibly the most badass instance of this trope. Chrome ends up faced off against Magma and has no hope of winning in a straight fight, so he uses a pair of glasses that were left on the arena floor to try and light Magma's clothes on fire. It takes a massive string of contrivances to work; since eyeglass lenses are concave, Chrome has to fill them with his own sweat and tears to create a convex lens, then hold absolutely still to keep from disturbing the surface of the water. Likewise, Magma needs to be held in place for 60 seconds, so Gen claims that he cast a spell that will make Magma's heart explode if he moves a muscle, adding that he can only maintain the spell for one minute. The plan works perfectly because Magma buys the bluff completely and because Chrome's dedication to saving the woman he loves allows him to stay stock-still and keep the water "lens" from breaking. There is also a traditional example, from a flashback featuring Senku doing this as a child. |
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The level 11 quest in Kingdom of Loathing has you assembling the Staff of Ed and bringing it to a small pyramid in the desert with a scale model of the Seaside Town in it, under the impression that it will be a Sundial Waypoint and show you where the Holy MacGuffin is buried. What actually happens, though, is that the focused sunbeam sets the model on fire, revealing a trapdoor — the MacGuffin is inside the pyramid. The "Actually Ed the Undying" challenge path reveals that it's made of matchheads. | |
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The Perils of Penelope Pitstop: In the episode "Hair-Raising Harness Race", while Penelope is trapped in a shed filled with explosives, the Hooded Claw has the Ant Hill Mob bound with a rope and hanging from a tree limb. A magnifying glass is set so that the sun's rays will burn the rope and send the mob plummeting into a deep chasm. | |
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MacGyver (1985): In "The Wish Child", Mac lights a fuse without a match by concentrating sunlight on the fuse with his watch crystal. He removes the crystal with his Swiss army knife and holds it so a fine point of light is focused at the fuse's end. | |
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In Half in the Bag, after George Lucas reveals his plan to destroy all the original VHS copies of Star Wars, a montage of him doing just that is shown, with one part featuring this. | |
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The Tick had an inverted version of this, with evil giant ants that planned to deliver Karmic Deaths to all of humanity via one gigantic magnifying glass. | |
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The Smurfs (1981): In the episode "The Smurf Fire Brigade", Papa Smurf accidentally leaves his magnifying glass on the table outside before going into his house to take a nap. The magnifying glass focuses the sun's rays to start burning a spot onto the table until eventually the whole top of the table catches on fire. Lazy smells smoke and realizes he's in a dangerous spot, so he crawls out and yells fire, catching the attention of Papa Smurf and all the other Smurfs. Quickly a Smurf brings a bucket of water to the table to put out the fire, making all the Smurfs cheer. | |
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Dolphin Trilogy: During Della's time on Crab Island in Dolphin Boy, she uses her watch lens to light a cooking fire. | |
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In The Witches, using a magnifying glass to kill ants is listed as one of the misdeeds of Bruno the Spoiled Brat. | |
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Die Another Day's Kill Sat is essentially this, being one large mirror with a center focusing array to concentrate the light into a single, extremely hot beam. | |
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In Salute Your Shorts, Sponge and Donkeylips have to perform a task of starting a fire without using matches. After a while of rubbing sticks together, nothing appears to be working. Z.Z. then stops by, revealing she has a solution. Since matches couldn't be used, she takes off Sponge's glasses and uses them to start the fire. | |
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Happy Heroes: In Season 5 episode 50, to fend off an incoming swarm of bees, Smart S. holds up a bunch of leaves and Careful S. uses a magnifying glass to reflect a ray of heat onto the leaves, burning them and creating smoke that bothers the bees. | |
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