Allusion
- Books
- In the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953), the vehicles driven by the "firemen" are called Salamanders, and the firemen's badges have salamanders on them.
- In David Weber's Honorverse series, the main character, Honor Harrington, is often referred to as "The Salamander" as she is always to be found where the action is the hottest.
- Games
- In the BattleTech franchise, the Salamander is a Clan anti-battlemech and anti-infantry battle armor that utilizes a flamethrower-type weapon in conjunction with incendiary missiles.
- In the second and third installments of the games in the Mega Man: Battle Network series, a player with a style aligned with fire can harness the power of fire and sent a great flame in the shape of the creature flying at the enemy, a powerful attack known as the Salamander.
- In the The Witcher game, your main enemy is the Salamandra gang. They wear salamander badges as proof of membership. The apparent leader is a rogue mage whose primary element is fire.
- In Final Fantasy IX, a fiery red haired character joins your party in the game with the name of Amarant Coral, which is roughly translated as Salamander Coral in Japanese. He is known as "The Flaming Amarant" or "The Flaming Salamader".
- In Warhammer 40,000, There is a chapter of space marines called the Salamanders, who are known for heavy use of flame weapons.
- Other
- In the manga/anime Fullmetal Alchemist, Colonel Roy Mustang, known as the Flame Alchemist has a salamander depicted on the transmutation circle on his gloves. While wearing the gloves, with a snap of his fingers, he can set anything ablaze, but not when he's out in the rain.
- In the anime Digimon Frontier, Kanbara Takuya's human evolution Agnimon has three attacks, two of which are Salamander Break and Burning Salamander. In addition, Takuya's theme song is "Salamander", performed by Takeuchi Junko.
- Jethro Tull's song "Salamander", from Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!, contains several allusions in its lyrics; for example: "born in the sun-kissed flame" and "burn for me and I'll burn for you".
- In "See Homer Run", an episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson becomes the Safety Salamander, a fire-safety mascot.
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