History Main / EvilIsBurningHot

* ''VideoGame/BugFablesTheEverlastingSapling'': The Wasp King is a violent, foul-tempered madman who weilds rare and deadly fire magic. He takes this up to eleven in the game's climax, where [[spoiler:he turns on an enormous flame-spitting machine in Giant's Lair (In reality a stove) that nearly wipes out a village full of friendly roaches.]]

* Inverted in ''UsefulNotes/{{Zorastrianism}}'', where fire is associated with [[GodOfGood Ahura Mazdha]], and thus good.

** In her original incarnation, Zara was a former slave girl turned cult leader who used pyrotechnics to fake pyrokinesis. Modern depictions of the character give her genuine ability to create and control fire.

* Hades in ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' 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.
* ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'':
** In the final segment, the ObviouslyEvil Chernobog covers himself in fire.
** ''Disney/Fantasia2000'' has the Firebird, representing the natural chaos and destruction of a volcano.
* Maleficent from ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' is often surrounded by eerie green flames. She even [[ScaledUp becomes a dragon]] at the end of the film.
* At the climax of ''Disney/TheLionKing'', fires caused by lightning set the stage for the battle against Scar. Scar also sings his VillainSong in a geothermically-active area with geysers, steaming vents, and lava.
* The villain Ommadon the Fire Wizard in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons'' is the only evil of the four elemental wizards.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'', the antagonist Sunset Shimmer's sun motif serves to parallel Twilight's star theme. [[spoiler:She also gains FlamingHair and fireball magic in her demon form.]]

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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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** In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls2013'', the antagonist Sunset Shimmer's sun motif serves to parallel Twilight's star theme. [[spoiler:She also gains FlamingHair and fireball magic in her demon form.]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': It doesn't show up much when 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 ''Series/{{Encantadia}}'', there are four kingdoms that have each been given an elemental gemstone to guard. The kingdom of Hathoria, which guards the Gemstone of Fire and whose inhabitants have [[PlayingWithFire fire-based elemental powers]], become the antagonists of the show when they threaten to take the other elemental gemstone for themselves and subsequentially start a war between the kingdoms over it.

** To some degree, even Ace. While he generally a likable person, he is still a reckless, dine-n'-dashing criminal nonetheless who is (wrongly) considered to be evil via his bloodline in-universe and holds a bounty of 550,000,000. Oh, and of course, he is made of fire.

* From ''Manga/FairyTail'', the villain Zancrow from Grimoire Hearts, who is a fire Godslayer.

* Suzaku from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''

* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', the champion Brand is this. There's also the Infernal skin line, which depicts champions as firey creatures under the leadership of Ashen Lord Aurelion Sol, out to burn the world down.

* 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]].

* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': With all the [[FantasyKitchenSink demons, ghosts, sorcerors, evil priestesses, alchemists, elves, trolls, banshees, and general baddies]] inhabiting the world (and underworld), it's expected for at least a few to be able to manipulate fire. [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]] are often shown throwing streams or balls of fire at the sisters. Some demons can even teleport by turning into fire or flames. In one particular arc, Phoebe basically has an unborn devil brewing in her stomach and she temporarily gains the ability to throw blue fire. Also, in the eighth season, Christy, an agent of the {{Big Bad}}s, had the ability of pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire.

* Burning hot hellfire is usually assocated 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]].

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': It doesn't show up much when 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 ash and some skeletal remains.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': With all the [[FantasyKitchenSink demons, ghosts, sorcerors, evil priestesses, alchemists, elves, trolls, banshees, and general baddies]] inhabiting the world (and underworld), it's expected for at least a few to be able to manipulate fire. [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]] are often shown throwing streams or balls of fire at the sisters. Some demons can even teleport by turning into fire or flames. In one particular arc, Phoebe basically has an unborn devil brewing in her stomach and she temporarily gains the ability to throw blue fire. Also, in the eighth season, Christy, an agent of the {{Big Bad}}s, had the ability of pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire.