It's also said to be effective against vampires, but they have such a grab bag of strengths and weaknesses that it's not nearly as reliable, and other methods are generally easier. Fire is one of two certain ways to kill a werewolf, the other being silver (though dismemberment is also implied to do the job - but only if it's extremely thorough) - werewolves being considered undead in the setting.It's also the best way to kill the zombielike Haunts.
Hodgell's Chronicles of the Kencyrath, fire is the best way to kill the shapeshifting, vampiric Changers, which are hard to kill but whose blood is very flammable.
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The first book in the Anita Blake series has a mention that flamethrowers work quite well on vampires.The fact that Dracula's body is not burned when he's killed in the original novel is often cited as a reason for latter-day authors to bring him Back from the Dead. The vampires in numerous works of Gothic literature - including Carmilla, Varney the Vampire, and Dracula must be destroyed with fire after they're staked and decapitated.In Zoltan, Hound of Dracula, Inspector Branco burns the bodies of all the vampires he stakes and then scatters the ashes.Cue the Zombie Apocalypse! Electricity would have done the job better. The soot from the burn mixes with rain, animating everyone in the local graveyard, who then go on a killing/zombifying spree. In The Return of the Living Dead, Burt Wilson and Ernie Kaltenbrunner decide to burn the yellow zombie in the crematorium, since Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain and cutting it up didn't kill it.At the end of Night of the Living Dead (1968) and its 1990 remake the zombie bodies are burned so they won't re-reanimate.Whether he stays dead is another matter, but it's definitely karmic given that this is the way he died in the first place. A Nightmare on Elm Street: Post-death Freddy Krueger has been set on fire as a way to dispose of him more than once.Jason X: In the end, this is the only way that Jason is successfully put down, albeit in a particularly roundabout manner: the Space Marine captain performs a Heroic Sacrifice by grabbing hold of Jason and dragging him into the orbit of a planet, both burning up completely before they hit the surface.It only pisses Jason off, and the teenager is instead pursued by a flaming undead killing machine. Jason: Subverted when a teenager tries to kill Jason by drenching him with high-grade alcohol and igniting it. So, the film ends with the protagonists burning the place down, causing the carpenter to burst into flames, and burn away to nothingness. In The Carpenter, it turns out damaging the house causes the ghostly and homicidal carpenter pain.In the case of zombies, it's often tied into some variation of killing The Virus (similar to the practice of cremating the bodies of those who died from illness to prevent the spread of infection), destroying the brains by frying them, or, failing that, destroying and melting enough muscle and cartilage to prevent them from moving. Or, for ghostly undead, fire and other energy attacks may be less likely to pass through them than physical ones. Sometimes the internal justification for this trope is that the undead regenerate (part of the same magic that keeps dead flesh and bones moving at all), and all monsters who regenerate in the setting are vulnerable to fire, likely due to the fact that fire destroys with a completeness that little else can match. In the case of vampires, a weakness to fire may be connected to, or contain, a weakness to sunlight. The undead's weakness to fire is often connected with the idea that Fire Purifies: life-giving fire-the opposite of the dead, cold, unholy undead-is particularly effective at sending such critters back to their graves for good.
They also often burn more readily than is strictly realistic. Chopping such creatures into little bits may not stop them, but fire generally will. A very common weakness shared among The Undead is fire.
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