History Main / BattleAmongstTheFlames

* ''FreddyVsJason'' had this in the grand finale

-> ''Only a fool fights in a burning house.''

* In the first ''FullmetalAlchemist'' [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist anime]], the battle between Mustang and Anime!Pride takes place in a burning building, though Mustang is deliberately exploiting the fire to his advantage.
** Also, in the [[FullmetalAlchemist manga]], there is a forest fire during a fight between Ed and co. and Manga!Pride and Gluttony. In this one, [[spoiler:Pride started it to make sure his LivingShadow would have light to cast it.]]
* During the first half of ''SpacePirateMito'', Aoi, Mito's son, keeps having flashes of a memory involving his mother fighting Ranban while flames swirled around them.

* Perhaps jested at in ''SamuraiChamploo'' where Jin and Mugen are fighting ferociously and a fire breaks out. The two swordsmen ignore their surroundings as if used to fighting in these conditions or too focused to care. The building collapses and they pass out before they can continue their fight. The wise choice would have been to take the fight elsewhere...

* Naturally, most battles against [[PlayingWithFire Team Magma]] in ''PokemonSpecial'' turn into this, especially when it involves Mack of the Three Fires since his ability as a MasterOfIllusion requires a lot of trapped heat in the area so that his opponents would start hallucinating due to heat stroke.

* [[{{Anime/Monster}} Tenma vs. Roberto]]? Yes, please. Tenma vs. Roberto as everything around them is burning down? CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* The final battle in {{Yaiba}} during the OdaNobunaga Tournament takes place in a copy of the Temple of Honnoji (where Nobunaga met his doom) and, just to fit the atmosphere, the shrine is set ablaze with fire arrows!

* At the end of ''TheFourMusketeers'' (1974), a battle between the title characters and the Cardinal's men partially occurs in a burning building after a lantern is knocked into a pile of straw.

* Happens in ''StarWars Episode III'' - Lava, of course, but it fits.
** There's a StarWarsExpandedUniverse comic where [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1021418.html Vader fights a resurrected Darth Maul]]. Lava is involved.

* The climactic fistfight in ''ThePowerOfOne''.

* The battle at the temple in TomYumGoong against the Capoeira guy and the Wushu guy.

* There are about four fights in burning buildings in ''InterviewWithAVampire''.

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* During WorldWarII the Russians would occasionally light forest fires behind the German lines to mess up their system.
* At [[TheNapoleanicWars Trafalgar]] there was one incident where the BritsWithBattleships stopped firing so they could help the French put out a fire. Besides the fact that the fire might spread to their ship(they were almost touching each other) the British knew that if the French ship blew up, it would deprive them of {{Plunder}}.
* James Nicolson, fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain, finds himself taking multiple hits which set his aircraft ablaze. The flames (from burning petrol) have already spread into the cockpit and he himself IS ON FIRE. Halfway to bailing out, he sees an enemy fighter dead in front, not paying attention. What does he do? Lowers himself ''back into the burning cockpit'', takes the controls and fireballs the Nazi before making his charred but successful exit. (And naturally also a CrowningMomentOfAwesome with a well deserved Victoria Cross and a ''double'' CMoA for surviving to collect it.)
** He almost didn't survive; after bailing out, Nicholson sustained ''worse'' injuries when over-eager Home Guard soldiers started shooting at him on the way down (they thought he was a German paratrooper).
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* In [[{{Killer7}}]], the fight with Julia Kisugi in Sunset Part 1 is a shootout in a restuarant that is burning down.

* The first level of {{Castlevania}}: Dracula X.
* The final part of the most recent Turok game. Turok fights Roland Kane, the BigBad and then after killing him, a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And this takes place in a fortress that had been burning down... and was in the middle of a volcanic landscape.
* The first boss fight in ResidentEvil4 takes place in a burning building.
* Any fights taking place in Magma Rock in GoldenSun have a background of lava pits and burning puzzle pieces.

* [[WorldOfWarcraft Mimiron]] in Ulduar, but only if you do him on hard mode (which is activated by hitting the room's SelfDestructMechanism).

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* ''AmericanMcGeesAlice'' battles the Jabberwocky on flaming floorboards similar to her own house when it burned down.

* [[{{Monster}} Tenma vs. Roberto]]? Yes, please. Tenma vs. Roberto as everything around them is burning down? CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

This will always be extremely guilty of ConvectionShmonvection. As long as you don't touch the fire, you'll be fine. Also, there is no smoke to suffocate the combatants or obscure their vision, even though this is the most common killer in real fires.

* The last two stages of ''[[{{Touhou}} Subterranean Animism]]'' took place in ''(former) Hell''. In which the flame is still as hot as the core of the sun.

* ''{{Sweet Gay Baby Jesus}}'': The room which has caused so much friction throughout the play is set ablaze, and [[AllOurFriendsAndZoidberg nearly the entire cast]] assemble to take down the {{Big Bad}} and save the girl.

* The last boss fight you play as Roxas ''KingdomHearts II''. Hell, at some points, you're even running on the fire to do a reaction command.

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* In ''{{Gargoyles}}'', Demona battles Thailog atop a burning roller-coaster. It collapses and a tearful Angela asks her father "Do you think she's really gone?" Golath's response - "I don't know" - appears to indicate either temporary amnesia or temporary insanity, given that he knows full well that she's immortal and ALWAYS comes back.

* [[ItWasHisSled The final battle]] of ''TheLegendOfZelda: Ocarina of Time''.

* ''Film/{{Spider-Man}}'' battles Green Goblin in an inferno in the first movie.

* Happens in ''StarWars episode III'' - Lava, of course, but it fits.

* Happens twice in ''Legend'' (1985): once when Jack and his allies fight Darkness' Mooks in the hellish kitchen, and again when they battle the Big Bad Darkness himself at the climax (Darkness provides most of the flames).

* The end of the wolfman remake
* Freddy vs Jason had this in the grand finale

* Also in Disney's ''Robin Hood'', when Robin is fleeing/fighting the Sheriff in the burning tower. Unlike many Battles Amongst The Flames, Robin has the sense to try to get out of the way of the fire, though doing so by going ''up'' the tower isn't the most effective idea.

* Subverted in SouthPark: In the [[TrailersAlwaysLie Trailer]] for ''Cartoon Wars: Part II,'' the {{Fox}} studio is on fire when Kyle fights Cartman. In the actual Episode, they fight, but it's not on fire. Given [[TakeThat the theme of the Episode,]] the Trailer might have been WishFulfillment for Trey Parker.