Firebombing - Popular Culture

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• The Japanese animated film Grave of the Fireflies follows events after the firebombing of Kobe, Japan.
• The middle portion of historical fantasy novel Teito Monogatari, is set during the period of the Allied firebombings in Japan. This section of the novel was eventually adapted into the film Tokyo: The Last War
• Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction novel Slaughterhouse-Five is partially based on his personal experience of the Dresden firestorm.
• The novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer contains narrative threads dealing with the Bombing of Dresden.
• The song 'Fire Bomb' on Rated R (Rihanna album) uses the technique as a metaphor for love.
• The Capcom videogame Dead Rising 2 contains a scenario where the dire outcome of the plot may lead to the fire bombing of the fictional city Fortune City, Nevada.
• The movie "28 Weeks Later" contains a scenario where American fighter/bomber jets firebomb a section of London, in a failed attempt to kill all the infected after a "Rage" virus outbreak.
• In the "Left 4 Dead" video game series there are multiple mentions of military bombing runs of infected areas. It is heavily hinted that the bombs were Firebombs. In addition in "Left 4 Dead 2", on one of the final missions, the Parish, the military starts to bomb New Orleans while the group tries to make it across the bridge to a helicopter. Also in both games the group has the ability to pick up Molotov Cocktails.
• In the game "Battlefield: Vietnam", the F-4 has bombs that you can drop containing Napalm.
• One of the kill-streaks in multiplayer of "Call of Duty: Black Ops" is a napalm strike.
• In the series "Plague of the Dead: The Morning Star Strain" there are multiple scenarios where fighter/bomber jets firebomb areas such as Washington D.C., and San Francisco.
• In the "Dragon Age" series the player or their party can buy/make firebombs (more like grenades).