History Main / EvilIsBurningHot

** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'': [[KnightTemplar Judge Claude Frollo]], despite his self-proclaimed [[ChurchgoingVillain piousness]], is often associated with burning and hellish imagery, even having a whole [[VillainSong song]] in which he emphasizes [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the fire and brimstone of Hell]] that he believes will smite those who tempt him as he struggles with his {{Lust}} for Esmeralda.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'': [[KnightTemplar Judge Claude Frollo]], despite his self-proclaimed [[ChurchgoingVillain piousness]], is often associated with burning and hellish imagery, even having a whole [[Villain Song song]] in which he emphasizes [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the fire and brimstone of Hell]] that he believes will smite those who tempt him as he struggles with his {{Lust}} for Esmeralda.

* ''VideoGame/GeminiHeroesReborn'' is a superhero-themed action game, and the HiddenVillain, Trevor Mason, is the one with pyrokinesis. He even looks downright Satanic, being shrouded in flames with burning eyes when he fights you as the last boss.

This trope has many uses. Fire could be used to create the atmosphere for the BigBad's throne room or arena. A VolcanoLair or even a big fiery place with lots of volcanoes could be the [[{{Mordor}} domain]] of the evil emperor. The villain may have [[PlayingWithFire control over fire]], appear WreathedInFlames, or even be (literally) [[MyBloodRunsHot hot blooded]] themselves. But, nonetheless, fire will be associated with evil.

Supertrope to InfernalBackground and EvilLivingFlames. Can occasionally overlap with LightIsNotGood since fire also produces light, and also with FanaticalFire. [[OppositeTropes Contrast]] with EvilIsDeathlyCold and HolyBurnsEvil.

* From ''Manga/FairyTail'', the villain Zancrow from Grimoire Hearts, who is a fire Godslayer and an amoral jackass who burns alive his own companions.
* From ''Anime/GreatMazinger'', [[BigBad The Emperor of Darkness]] is a living pyre of flames.
* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'':
** Zhuqiaomon is a phoenix and serves as an antagonist, as he loathes humans and is the one responsible for sending the Devas to the human world.
** The D-Reaper’s red mass gives off tremendous heat. It’s final plan to devastate the human world is to link the substance of all of its mass around the globe and increase its temperature high enough to sterilize the planet of all life.
* The [[MonstrousHumanoid Titans]] from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' have a low-key variant of this, being noted to possess an abnormally high body temperature. In particular, the Colossal Titan constantly emits clouds of steam from its body and is able to release pressurized blasts as a defensive mechanism, as well as [[spoiler:igniting his own body]] to injure anyone that gets close.
* William from ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' ''sets everything on fire''. Serious pyromaniac tendencies, even though it appears to be mostly used because fire is incredibly good at destroying evidence of his crimes. But his final plan even culminates in setting all of London on fire. He's also generally associated with fire as motif.

* [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants Pyro]] from ''Comicbook/XMen'', whose power is control over fire, is almost always a villain. Same goes for the movie version in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' and ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''.
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' has Heat Wave, who occasionally teamed up with [[EvilIsDeathlyCold Captain Cold]] to encompass ''both'' villainous temperature extremes.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' villain Nightflame is a sorceress that has control over fire. In ''Comicbook/DemonSpawn'' she burns down streets and whole buildings as she looks for Supergirl.
* Willy Pete from ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' is the only one in the series with fire related powers...His body burns hotter than the sun, and he can fill a room with flames that incinerate everyone in it upon entering. He's also evil in its purest, most sadistic form.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': It doesn't show up much when [[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]] manifests his own body other than his glowing fiery eyes, but when he possesses people they tend to start smoking before being burned up from the inside out leaving nothing but flickering fire, ash, and some skeletal remains.

** In her [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 original incarnation]], Zara was a former slave girl turned cult leader who used pyrotechnics to fake pyrokinesis. Modern depictions of the character give her the genuine ability to create and control fire.
* [[Characters/DoctorStrangeEnemies Dormammu]], the classic foe of ComicBook/DoctorStrange provides the trope image, being a creature with a head of fire.

* Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon:
** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'':
*** Scar sings his VillainSong in a geothermically-active area with geysers, steaming vents, and lava.
*** At the climax, fires caused by lightning set the stage for the battle against Scar.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'':
*** In the final segment, the ObviouslyEvil Chernobog covers himself in fire.
*** ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' has the Firebird, representing the natural chaos and destruction of a volcano.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'': [[KnightTemplar Judge Claude Frollo]], despite his self proclaimed [[ChurchgoingVillain piousness]] is often associated with burning and hellish imagery, even having a whole [[VillainSong song]] where he emphasizes the fire and brimstone of hell that he believes will smite those who tempt him as he struggles with his {{Lust}} for Esmeralda.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': Hades has blue fire for hair (which takes on its usual reddish color when he's enraged), and he's the BigBad and god of the underworld.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': Te Kā, the demon who defeated Maui and tries to kill anyone who approaches the island of Te Fiti, is a giant lava monster. [[spoiler: She's not really evil, though, just stuck in a blind rage.]]

* The Creator/ShawBrothers ''{{wuxia}}'', ''Film/TheSpiritOfTheSword'', features a power struggle between five clans, modelled after the five elements, but the only clan which is fully evil is the Spirited Fire Clan, whose leader, the Fire Demon God, is a black magic practitioner who delights in killing his victims via his fire-breathing snake-headed staff.

* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', a good deal of Hell is burning hot ([[EvilIsDeathlyCold though some of it is icy cold]]). Heretics in the 6th circle are punished with flaming tombs, the violent against others in the first part of the 7th circle are immersed in boiling blood, blasphemers, usurers, and sodomites are in the last part of the 7th circle, desert with fire raining down from the sky, simoniacs (8th circle, 3rd Bolgia) are stuck upside-down in holes with flames burning at their feet, corrupt politicians are immersed in boiling pitch, and evil counselors (8th circle, 8th Bolgia) are trapped within individual tongues of flame. ''Inferno'' does avert associating Satan with fire, as he's trapped in the lowest level of hell (for traitors)--[[EvilIsDeathlyCold a frozen lake]].

** The eye of Sauron is described as being rimmed in fire; his hand is burning hot as well, which is why his ring glows when it's on his finger. The land he rules from, {{Mordor}}, is an ashen wasteland dominated by an active volcano.
*** During the Siege of Barad-dûr, Sauron slew Gil-galad (and possibly Elendil) with the heat of his hands as they wrestled. His being burning hot makes sense, given that he was a Maia of fire before he [[FallenAngel fell]].

* There's a powerful Dark Art spell in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' called "Fiendfyre", which creates a wicked mass of demon-shaped flames that can backfire in the hands of an inexperienced caster. However, it's also one of the only things capable of destroying [[SoulJar horcruxes]].
* ''Literature/ANecklaceOfFallenStars'': Stafgrym uses a fire based spell to bind Kippen. The spell is one of the more destructive in existence.
* In Creator/MichaelMoorcock's ''The War Hound and the World's Pain'', Lucifer took the form of a human being covered in flames.
* In ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheEmergedWorld'', the Land of Fire is one of the first lands fallen under [[BigBad The Tyrant]] and is a very bad place to live in. Furthermore, both the [[CoDragons evil twins Sameion and Dameion]] and the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Black Dragons]] in general came from that land.
* In the ''Literature/FirebirdTrilogy'', the evil within Firebird's mind manifests as black flames.

* In the novelization of ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'', Obi-Wan senses Anakin in the Force "burning like a fusion torch," just before their lightsaber duel. Throughout the book, Anakin has thought of his rage as a blast furnace in his heart, and during the climactic duel, Darth Vader lets it out.

* In one episode of ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'', "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E5MindOverMatter Mind Over Matter]]", a group of scientists enter the mind of a patient who has bad memories of his dad trying to make him kill his girlfriend. The dad is surrounded by flames, along with everything else, while screaming at him.
* ''Series/TwinPeaks'' had it as ArcWords: "Fire, walk with me".

* Burning hot hellfire is usually associated with evil things in Abrahamic religions, understandable, given that most of the faiths were born in a blisteringly-hot desert area (i.e. the Middle East), it only makes sense for the population to condemn heat but welcome cold. Contrast this with the areas near the North Pole: Northern Europe, Siberia, and Northern Canada, whose indigenous people usually associate hell with [[EvilIsDeathlyCold deathly cold things]].

** Literature/TheFourGospels constantly describe {{Hell}} as "the furnace of fire" or "unquenchable fire" to emphasize how painful the separation from God will be. This imagery is used more dramatically in the [[Literature/BookOfRevelation Apocalypse]], where very evil-doer is thrown by Christ into an eternal "lake of fire" to burn alongside the Devil and his ilk. Because of these Biblical images, [[TropeMakers the West began to associate fire with evil]] and now {{Satan}} and {{Hell}} are usually represented in pop culture as being associated with fire. ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' is a notable aversion of this, since Satan is trapped in the ''coldest'' part of hell.

* In Myth/JapaneseMythology, the god of fire, Kagutsuchi, is [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood not so much evil as being thoroughly misunderstood]], but his birth was [[DeathByChildbirth what killed his mother]], the matriarch god Izanami, making her the first god to be sent into the Underworld. His father, the patriarch god Izanagi, meanwhile, [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild immediately killed him]]. These days, the opinion is [[BrokenBase mostly split]] whether to consider him as [[{{Demonization}} the ultimate Satan figure]], or [[DracoInLeatherPants pity him]].
* Inverted in ''UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}}'', where fire is associated with [[GodOfGood Ahura Mazdha]], and thus good.
* Also inverted with the Seraphim (the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent highest order of angels]]) whose name means "burning ones", and are usually depicted as [[MultipleHeadCase four-headed dragonlike creatures.]]

* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' has this as a recurring theme -- in several episodes sinister and probably-magical goings-on are accompanied by a sharp and inexplicable increase in the ambient temperature. This usually means the presence of [[spoiler:the Desolation, sentient PrimalFear of pain, loss, and destruction, manifesting most often as destruction by fire. Its cultists, who worship it as as a god of fire (minus any of fire’s benevolent connotations), have their flesh replaced with molten-hot wax.]]

* Khorne in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' is associated with heat as a result of his status as a god of [[UnstoppableRage war and wrath]]. Several of his daemons are associated with things like burning swords or molten bronze.

* Deathbringer, the final boss of ''VideoGame/BattleFantasia'', is a demonic suit of AnimatedArmor that is constantly WreathedInFlames. He also [[NoSell shrugs off]] [[ScratchDamage any and all damage]] where the player isn't ''also'' [[ManOnFire on fire]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' - Pyron is an evil being, said to be the physical embodiment of the sun. Like Inferno, he too is made of living flames.
* ''VideoGame/{{Dragonfable}}'' - the BigBad of Book 2, Wargoth, is a fiery warlord from another dimension intent on turning Lore into a burning wasteland, just like he did to the Atealans' homeworld. [[spoiler:Turns out he's the magical half of Warlic.]]
* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': Multiple of the [[EldritchAbomination Outer Gods]] are associated with flame and fire, and [[ElementalRivalry harbor an antagonistic relationship]] with the [[WorldTree tree-focused]] [[GodOfOrder Greater Will]]. There's the [[CombatSadomasochist Formless Mother]], whose blood-red {{Hellfire}} is spilled with its own blood, and the [[{{Cyclops}} Fell God]] of the ancient fire giants, who Queen Marika waged a war to wipe out. However, no other Outer God represents this more than the [[KillItWithFire Frenzied Flame]], a [[GodOfEvil malevolent]] and [[GodOfChaos madness-inducing]] deity that [[TheHeartless feeds off of despair and suffering]], [[PowerBornOfMadness inspires outbreaks of insanity]] with its LovecraftianSuperpower, and seeks to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all life in the world]]. [[spoiler: And if you want, [[EarnYourBadEnding you can help it succeed]], burning the Erdtree and destroying the world; if she's still alive, Melina will swear to hunt you down.]].
* ''VideoGame/GeminiHeroesReborn'' is a superhero-themed action game, and the HiddenVillain, Trevor Mason, is the one with pyrokinesis. He even looks downright Satanic, being shrouded in flames with burning eyes when he fights you as the last boss.
* The main enemy/TheManBehindTheMan of the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series is the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Burning Legion]]. Also, many of its creatures are wreathed in flame; the Infernals spring to mind.

* In ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'', [[AlignmentBasedEndings the evil end]] gives Cole fire powers.
* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'': [[spoiler:Hades gains flaming hair in the final battle, after being decapitated.]] In addition, [[spoiler:Pyrrhon turns on the other gods to try to gain control of the Aurum, and may have been planning to do so the whole time]].
* The overall villain of the Arson case desk in ''VideoGame/LANoire'' is [[spoiler: a former flamethrower who served under Cole in the Pacific during World War 2. He brought his weapon home with him]]. While it might seem inevitable that the villain of that part of the game would be so inclined, [[spoiler: he was essentially TheDragon (made to burn down houses for profit), until the manipulations of his psychiatrist backfired and finally drove him into full on AxCrazy territory, and he suddenly burst in, [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere strangled the Doctor]], and kidnapped the {{Love Interest|s}}]].

* King Onyx from ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' may not be flat-out evil, but he's still a tremendous {{Jerkass}} [[spoiler: and ends up burning down Ringford Forest and annihilating the fairies during Armageddon]].

* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'' BigBad Inferno takes the form of a living, humanoid flame in most of his appearances (with the exception of his playable appearance in ''Soulcalibur'', where he is given a body that is simply on fire for technical reasons). Normally he is unable to exist outside of his pocket dimension so battles against him take place there, where he can have form. At times his body has other parts in it like bones or organic greaves in addition to the flames.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', Iblis is a fire being that is one of the two main villains of the game.
* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' - typically seen during Akuma's win pose where dark flames appear on his shoulders. This doubles as his taunt in subsequent games.

* Jinpachi Mishima of ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' fame can spit fireballs which take up 3/4 your lifebar, plus in ''Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection'', his whole body is surrounded by [[WreathedInFlames flames and lava]]. Oh, and he's also the final boss of ''Tekken 5'' and the aforementioned ''Dark Resurrection''. Ironically, he is probably one of the most just characters in the series, or at least, [[WhiteSheep he is just compared to his family]].
* Utsuho Reiuji (aka Okuu), the BigBad of ''VideoGame/TouhouChireidenSubterraneanAnimism'' throws giant suns at you...[[RecycledInSpace IN HELL]]!
* ''VideoGame/TitanQuest Ragnarok'': after fighting your way through both Asgardians and Jotuns, you descend Yggdrasil's roots to reach the real BigBadDuumvirate composed by [[GodOfEvil Loki]] and [[ElementalEmbodiment Surtr]] in the scorching land of magma and ashes that's Muspelheim.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** The Fallen is one of the original 13 Transformers who turned on the others to serve [[GodOfEvil Unicron]]. Due to the unholy energies empowering him, he's constantly on fire. Or rather, he ''was'', since this aspect of his character has fallen (har-har) by the wayside, although most of his subsequent interpretations have kept a charred-looking black and orange color scheme.
** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' has the base of the Predicons on top of a lava flow, and Megatron's [[TheDragon right-hand man]] is PyroManiac Inferno.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', this is supposedly a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Racial Trait]] of Fire Elementals, [[CardCarryingVillain according to the Fire King]] at least.

* Drekk, one of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''' [[RoguesGallery recurring villains]], is an alien with fire powers.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' introduced Captain Nemesis, a superhero who turned villain when he got annoyed at Ben being more popular than him. For their final battle in that episode, his PoweredArmor was rigged in such a way that it became increasingly hot with each attack. Ben beat him by using [[MakingASplash Water Hazard]] to rapidly cool the suit then absorb the moisture from it, turning it into brittle junk.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Mr. Cat is often associated with fire, and the intro to the season 3 premiere episode depicts him as some kind of supernatural entity with flames coming from his body.
* Hotstreak from ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' is a pyrokinetic and one of Static's toughest and most recurring enemies. Even before he got his powers he was a nasty piece of work; his EstablishingCharacterMoment has him harassing Frieda and beating up Virgil when he tries to put a stop to it.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': EvilSorcerer Jafar conjures a wall of fire to attack Aladdin with before [[OneWingedAngel transforming]] into a gigantic Cobra, with the flames becoming his coils.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': [[KnightTemplar Judge Claude Frollo]], despite his self proclaimed [[ChurchgoingVillain piousness]] is often associated with burning and hellish imagery, even having a whole [[VillainSong song]] where he emphasizes the fire and brimstone of hell that he believes will smite those who tempt him as he struggles with his {{Lust}} for Esmeralda.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' with the "master of fire". Damien as a SelfFulfillingProphecy is bad enough, and then we have [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-26 this]] dream. Not that it wasn't nasty enough as is, but [[http://www.ookii.org/egs/uryuom/ as translated from Uryuomoco]] -- [[spoiler: "Death. It Is Time For The End Of Man. This Master of Fire Shall Inherit The Earth. My Very Presence Eats Away At Your Flesh"]].

* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', a good deal of Hell is burning hot ([[EvilIsDeathlyCold though some of it is icy cold]]). Heretics in the 6th circle are punished with flaming tombs, the violent against others in the first part of the 7th circle are immersed in boiling blood, blasphemers, usurers, and sodomites are in the last part of the 7th circle, desert with fire raining down from the sky, simoniacs (8th circle, 3rd Bolgia) are stuck upside-down in holes with flames burning at their feet, corrupt politicians are immersed in boiling pitch, and evil counselors (8th circle, 8th Bolgia) are trapped within individual tongues of flame. ''Inferno'' does avert associating Satan with fire, as he's trapped in the lowest level of hell (for traitors)- [[EvilIsDeathlyCold a frozen lake]].

* Also inverted with the Seraphim (the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent highest order of angels]]) who's name means "burning ones", and are usually depicted as [[MultipleHeadCase four headed dragon like creatures.]]

Supertrope to InfernalBackground and EvilLivingFlames. Can occasionally overlap with LightIsNotGood since fire also produces light, and also with FanaticalFire. [[OppositeTropes Contrast]] with EvilIsDeathlyCold and HolyBurnsEvil. For a different kind of "hot", see EvilIsSexy, but they can overlap.

** The eye of Sauron is described as being rimmed in fire; his hand is burning hot as well, which is why his ring glows when it's on his finger.