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"All I know is, this Lo Pan character comes out of thin air in the middle of a goddamn alley while his buddies are flying around on wires cutting everybody to shreds, and he just stands there waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him with LIGHT coming out of his mouth?"

• Attack on Titan: Reiner combines this with Glowing Eyes of Doom just before transforming during the Battle of Shiganshina.
• Bleach: During "The New Captain Shūsuke Amagai" anime arc, several people have this while wielding Bakkōtō blades, including the assassin Hanza, Captain Amagai's father and Captain Amagai himself.
• Fairy Tail: Natsu when he has a ball of fire in his mouth.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Golden Wind: When Polnareff impales his Stand with the arrow, an intense light is emitted from the Stand's body.
  • Stone Ocean: In the climax, the moment Enrico Pucci achieves Made In Heaven, the energy pours out.
  • Steel Ball Run: Once Funny Valentine obtains D 4 C Love Train, each time he uses it, a wall of light emerges from himself.
• Mister Ajikko, a shonen manga about cooking, commonly abuses this effect to describe incredibly good food. With no hint of parodic intent in sight, to boot.
• Naruto: The Tailed Beast forms have bright-white glowing mouths, Glowing Eyes of Doom included.

• This is sometimes displayed by Etrigan, which makes sense since he can breathe fire. In the 1984 miniseries, his eyes and mouth glow and constantly trail steam, and this happens to Jason Blood during the first stage of their transformation sequence.
• Shinomura from the Godzilla (2014) tie-in comic Godzilla Awakening has a blue glow in its mouth.
• At several points during The Great Darkness Saga, purple flames pour from Darkseid's eyes and mouth.
• New Mutants: When Sunspot uses his mutant power of solar absorption, his body turns pitch black and his eyes and mouth glow with an inner yellow light.
• The Order of the Stick: In the prequel book The Order of the Stick: Start of Darkness, Redcloak has light pouring from his eyes, throat and holy symbol the very first time he puts on the Crimson Mantle.
• In the concluding issues of Star Wars: Republic series a forest-dwelling species of Nosaurians is introduced, who can emit light from their open mouths. They use it for communication and signalling in the dark.
• Supergirl:
  • In Bizarrogirl, orange light and heat pour out of Bizarrogirl's throat when she is about to expel fire. In addition, her eyes glow red.
  • In Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, white light pours out of the eyes and mouths of the imps from the Fifth Dimension when they shed their human disguises.
  • In Reign of Doomsday, the Eradicator's eyes and mouth glow with an inner red light as Doomslayer is tearing his energy body apart.
• Finnegan from Witchblade (pictured above) when he's infused with the Elemental Powers of Ice... which somehow also causes blue Volcanic Veins thanks to Power Crystals.
• Wonder Woman:
  • Wonder Woman (2006): D'grth's throat and eyes glow a fiery orange yellow as an extension of his Evil Is Burning Hot aesthetic.
  • Wonder Woman: Odyssey: When Anann is unleashing one of her fiery flesh melting screams her throat and eyes light up green.

• In Child of the Storm, this is a characteristic of all but the most controlled Phoenix Hosts, combined with Glowing Eyes of Doom. It's most prominent with any and all manifestations of the Dark Phoenix, a sign that the Humanoid Abomination in question is becoming little more than a thin shell for the Eldritch Abomination cooking within.
• In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, when the priest of Meddar channels his god, light erupts from every orifice, including his mouth, when the god speaks.

• Aladdin (1992, Disney): The entrance to the Cave of Wonders is shaped like a giant tiger's head with a fiery yellow-red glow coming from its throat.
• Toothless gets one in How to Train Your Dragon 2 after taking a major level in Badass.
• The gargoyle that offs Frollo at the end of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney).
• Operation: Z.E.R.O.: All the characters turned into Senior Citizombies have streams of light pouring out of their eyes and mouth during the transformation.
• In Pokémon: Jirachi: Wish Maker, the Fake Groudon has this going for its eyes and mouth. Ironically, it never actually uses fire breath — not that it needs to.
• In Rebuild of Evangelion, Shinji and Unit-01's awakened upgrade against Zeruel comes with this.

• In Batman Begins, when the city is hopped up on fear gas and they get a look at Batman, he's basically a bat-demon with a hellfire inner glow.
• In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Doomsday has one just before unleashing his heat vision.
• Big Trouble in Little China: When in his ghost form, David Lo Pan can send a blinding light out of his mouth and eyes.
• The villain in Cradle 2 the Grave gets a radioactive pill caught in his throat, burning him from the inside as light pours out of his throat and eventually his eyes.
• In the Swedish cult slapstick comedy Drömkåken, one of the bad guys attempts to cut a chain with a chainsaw, but the chain happens to be conducting electricity. The resulting Harmless Electrocution lights up his mouth in addition to messing up his hair.
• Ghostbusters (1984): While Dana Barrett is looking into her refrigerator, she sees one of Gozer's demons. The demon opens its mouth, and a light comes out of it.
• Godzilla:
  • Shin Godzilla: When Godzilla begins charging his atomic breath for the first time.
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Ghidorah when he's charging up his Gravity Beams. This is the first time audiences see any indication of a visible charge up (more likely his necks crackling with electricity) of his Gravity Beams.
• The Hobbit Film Trilogy: When Smaug is ready to breathe fire, bright light shines from his chest up his neck.
• The creepy alien angel guys from Knowing, whose creepiness is upped by their only apparent communication being opening their mouths and emitting a light and a wail.
• The Balrog in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring has this. It is also glowing from various cracks in its skin, the implication being that it is simply a giant flame in demonic form cloaked by shadow.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • This happens to Extremis soldiers in Iron Man 3 before they blow up.
  • In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), any being wielding the Infinity Stone has a purple glow from their throat and all over their body.
• The Matrix Revolutions. This happens briefly to Neo at the end as the machines channel their power through him to destroy the Agents Smith, as well as to the Agent Smith that possessed the Oracle.
• In Pacific Rim, most Kaiju have a bioluminescent version of this. Their power lies elsewhere in comparison to most examples here, however.
• Devastator from Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen.
• White light spews from the mouths of those replaced by aliens in The World's End.

• C. L. Moore's story "Daemon" has this passage:

  I saw the flaming thing descend upon the captain like a falling star. Through his defending arms it swept, and through his flesh and his bones and into the hollows where the soul dwells.
  He stood for an instant transfixed, motionless, glowing with that bath of crimson light. Then I saw the crimson begin to shine through him, so that the shadows of his bones stood out upon the skin. And then fire shot up, wreathing from his eyes and mouth and nostrils. He was a lantern of flesh for that fire of the burning spirit. But he was a lantern that is consumed by the flame it carries...

• In I, Jedi, when Corran opens himself fully to the Force for the first time, he finds it amazing, incredible, and says that he was completely filled with its power, which spilled and flowed from his eyes and mouth.
• In Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, the Storm King possesses a victim at the climax in an attempt to return to life. One of the symptoms of said possession is a deep reddish light coming out of the victim's mouth.
• In the Old Kingdom books, Free Magic sorcerers flame from their mouths, eyes, fingernails, etc. as they cast, and get that way more and more, the more Free Magic they use, until they wind up as masses of flaming Free Magic. They appear to be fine with that.
• In the Second Apocalypse books, the throats of sorcerers glow with light when they recite their magical cants.
• The Wheel of Time has Ba'alzamon, whose mouth (and eyes) looks like endless caverns of flame when seen directly. This is a result of his overuse of the True Power and according to Word of God as sign that it has consumed him so thoroughly that he'd die if he hadn't been granted immortality by the Dark One.

• Doctor Who: The Doctor does this when he regenerates (transforming from one actor to another).
• Jim Staal had a recurring character on Laff Traxx, a Sketch Comedy show, where he was the Anthropomorphic Personification of your refrigerator (and EVIL!), who had a light in his mouth whenever he spoke.
• A Goa'uld torture device in Stargate SG-1 causes this effect on the victim, with an orange glow coming from the eyes and mouth.
• Supernatural: Several supernatural creatures including angels, demons, reapers and Zeus produce one when they die. The shtriga produces one when it's about to feed.

• In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, when Luna first receives her power to control electricity, lightning spills out of her body and causes her eyes and mouth to glow with light.

• Dungeons & Dragons: In the fifth edition, the Scourge subrace of Aasimar (essentially half-angels) has torrents of golden light start pouring out of their eyes and mouth when they activate their racial ability, Radiant Consumption.
• The Visionary from Sentinels of the Multiverse has at least a few cards depicting this. "Precognition" shows her emitting a glowing smoke from her eyes and mouth while the background shows a Bad Future, and Mind Spike depicts her blasting one of the villains with pure psychic energy, some of which leaks out the villain's face.
• Warhammer: A common look for daemons, and for the part-daemonic Dark Eldar Mandrakes in Warhammer 40,000 (those with mouths anyway — Mandrakes tend to have featureless smooth faces that manifest either glowing eyes or just this kind of mouth, but not both. Though their infernal inner glow also shines out from slashes and carved runes in their flesh — which is jet black to emphasize the contrast).
• Werewolf: The Forsaken: When the adherents of the Temple of Apollo are on their Sacred Hunt, if the target has trespassed in one of their holy places and once the adherent uses enough abilities towards their prey, Apollo's power pours through the werewolf. Light spills from their mouth and eyes, granting them a number of extra advantages and lighting up the area.

• BioShock Infinite: The Boys of Silence do this. They were huge brass helmets with no eyes and a gaping mouth that spews white light, to act as living security cameras in Comstock House. The light changes color if one sees you, and if it goes red, they emit an ear-piercing scream to alert the nearby lunatics.
• Dead Space 2: Isaac's recurring hallucination of Nicole has bright white light pouring out of her eyes and mouth.
• Destiny features a race of sapient machines known as Exos who all — player characters and NPCs alike — have a visible light at the back of their throats which lights up whenever they speak.
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution: In a variation, this happens to the Final Boss when they overload and burn up from the inside.
• God of War 3: Helios, whose severed head Kratos can use as a lantern, among other things.
• Kirby's Adventure: The remake Nightmare in Dream Land features Nightmare dying in this manner, his eyes gouged in a pale light as he dissipates upon defeat. Parallel Nightmare, his alternate-universe counterpart is greeted with the same fate in Super Kirby Clash after being slain from behind by Aeon Hero/Galacta Knight, pale eyes and all.
• The Legend of Zelda: In Hyrule Warriors, bright orange light pouring of his open mouth is the second tell that King Dodongo is about to use his fireball attack.
• NEO: The World Ends with You: Played for Laughs; Nagi's reaction to food she loves is to spew a beam of light as though the food is causing her to ascend to godhood.
• Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Khourieats, a lizard-like animal used for riding and carrying, are killed by imperial decree if they develop one of these. Our hero Lundi decides to hide his because its forelegs mutated into wings as well (and that's just too cool to simply kill off). As it turns out, the light is a manifestation of their Homing Laser Breath, which The Empire didn't want getting out.
• Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale: This happens to Arma when she's being hacked into and taken over remotely or displaying a warning.
• Sonic Unleashed: Dark Gaia, who has purple light emanating from deep within its throat.
• StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm: Kerrigan finally disposes of Arcturus Mengsk in such a manner. She channels a portion of her immense psionic energies into him; far more than his human body is capable of holding. First, his eyes glow, then this happens, and then he turns into a giant explosion that takes out the wall he's standing next to.
• A Total War Saga: TROY: Cerberus' maws glow red with the fires of the underworld.

• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Aang while in the Avatar state.
  • As well as Lord Ozai in the final episode, while Aang removes his firebending powers with energybending. Here, said Throat Lights are reaching Pillar of Light level.
• Puck, when he casts a spell, in Gargoyles.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Adora undergoes this in "Destiny" once she's forced to activate the heart of Etheria.
• Raven from Teen Titans (2003) does this in the episodes "Spellbound" and "The End" parts 1 and 3.
• Predaking in Transformers: Prime, before unleashing his Breath Weapon.

• Jack O Lanterns.
• Till Lindemann of Rammstein now sports a lit mouth as of the video for "Ich tu dir weh". It's removable, but he got a cheek piercing specifically for the purpose of wiring it.
• It is possible to get glow-in-the-dark braces.
• Some baby birds have glow-in-the-dark spots around their mouths, possibly acting as a guide to show the parents where to put food in the dark nest.