History Main / EvilIsBurningHot

* ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur II'' - the game's end boss, Inferno, is essentially Soul Edge come-to-life as a being of living fire. The arena itself is an open field of flames.

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

* The Fire Nation in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is the instigator of the war on the three other nations. It's gradually subverted in that some of them are actually decent people and actually allies of Aang and his friends, and Aang himself must master and understand firebending to restore balance. Prince Zuko, the original firebending villain that Aang faced against, eventually [[HeelFaceTurn switches sides to teach him]].

* Loki from the UsefulNotes/NorseMythology was thought to be the God of Fire, though it turned out to be a linguistic confusion (and probably [[HijackedByJesus a conflation with Satan]]). His name actually seems to come from "lopt", which means "air". There ''is'' a separate god, or rather, jotunn, of fire called Logi, but he is more of a PunchClockVillain.

* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'' has the balrog Tar-Goroth who rises from a pit of lava, bruns wood [[WalkingWasteland simply by being near it]] and leaves flaming footprints wherever he walks.

Can occasionally overlap with LightIsNotGood since fire also produces light. [[OppositeTropes Contrast]] with EvilIsDeathlyCold and HolyBurnsEvil. For a different kind of "hot", see EvilIsSexy.

[[caption-width-right:350: When speaking of Dormammu, a certain quote from "Fire and Ice" comes to mind...]]

Fire is destructive, chaotic, and painful to touch. It has destroyed buildings, killed millions of people, and scarred others. Because of all the destruction and blood lost to it, it will often be associated with evil. Whether it's [[TechnicolorFire orange, red, blue, or green]], it's always going to be evil. The fire doesn't even have to be your ordinary campfire, it could be the [[{{Hellfire}} unholy fires]] of FireAndBrimstoneHell itself or a similarly evil variant.

** {{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 Literature/TheBible, though, Satan is not really associated with fire and only ends up in fire because God throws him into the Lake of Fire at the end of the world. He is actually associated thoroughly with air and light, [[LightIsNotGood traditionally more "heavenly"]] elements, and in Revelation, he vomits water.

* In ''Videogame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', among the first things seen in the story are shots of Reshef and Pegasus surrounded by fire.

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* Taken further by the villain Akainu from ''''Manga/OnePiece'', who's made of frigging [[MagmaMan magma]].

* Pyro from ''Comicbook/XMen'', whose power is control over fire, is almost always a villain. Same goes for the movie version in ''[[Film/{{X-Men}} X-2]]'' and ''X-Men: The Last Stand''.

* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'s 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.

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** ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'' has the Firebird, representing the natural chaos and destruction of a volcano.

** The Balrogs, which had the ability to shroud themselves in fire and were armed with fiery whips. The Balrog of Moria used a flaming sword.

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* ''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.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. The ChaoticEvil Balor demon can immolate (create flames around) itself. It was inspired by the balrog in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. And iconic Red dragons. Overall, though, it's more "FlamingSword vs. FlamingSword" and Kossuth himself isn't any more or less malevolent than other elemental lords.
** ''Al Qadim'' has Brotherhood of the True Flame, a society of evil fire elementalist wizards. They tend to fight for monopoly about as much as for superiority of their element, though.

* ''SuperMarioBros'': Bowser's trademark ability is to breathe fire, and he's usually surrounded by flaming or flame-like objects like lava and stars in the main platformers.

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** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilights Kingdom Part 1]]", Tirek's magic has a fiery color and he uses {{Fireballs}} to fight the superpowered Twilight at the climax of Part 2.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilights Kingdom Part 1]]'', Tirek's magic has a fiery, and he uses {{Fireballs}} to fight the Celestia-Luna-Cadence-powered Twilight at the climax of Part 2.

Some say [[EvilIsDeathlyCold in ice]].\\

* The Fire Nation in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is the instigator of the war on the three other nations. It's gradually subverted in that some of them are actually decent people and actually allies of Aang and his friends, and Aang himself must master and understand firebending to restore balance.

* 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, ursurers, and sodomites are in the last part of the 7th cirlce, 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]].

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* TheFlash has Heat Wave, who occasionally teamed up with [[EvilIsDeathlyCold Captain Cold]] to encompass ''both'' villainous temperature extremes.

* ''HeroFactory'': Fire Lord, the BigBad of the second arc.

* In ''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.

* Taken further by the villain Akainu from ''OnePiece'', who's made of frigging [[MagmaMan magma]].