History Main / EvilIsBurningHot

* ''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 [[GodOfChaos Frenzied Flame]], a [[GodOfEvil malevolent 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.]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterBeach'': One of the monsters, Dr. Knutt, is kind of an antagonist, lives in a volcano and its appearance consists in a Hawaiian mask surrounded by flames.

* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': With all the [[FantasyKitchenSink demons, ghosts, sorcerers, 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.

* In one episode of ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' {{Revival}}, "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.

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** Team Flare from [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY the sixth generation]] has a fire motif, with tacky [[FireIsRed red-orange]] uniforms and [[FieryRedhead red hair]] on most of the Grunts. [[spoiler:Although their boss Lysandre is fought in an arena resembling [[BattleAmongstTheFlames the surface of the Sun]], his pokemon of choice is actually a [[SeaMonster Gyarados]], not a Fire-type Pokémon.]]

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** Team Flare from [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY the sixth generation]] has a fire motif, with tacky [[FireIsRed red-orange]] uniforms and [[FieryRedhead red hair]] on most of the Grunts. [[spoiler:Although their boss Lysandre is fought in an arena resembling [[BattleAmongstTheFlames the surface of the Sun]], his WeaponOfChoice is actually a [[SeaMonster Gyarados]], not a Fire-type Pokémon.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Surtur, one of Thor's longtime foes, is a massive giant made of fire who lives to destroy the world.

* ''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.]]

* ''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.

* [[CanonForeigner Volcana]] from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' is a pyrokinetic. [[DarkAndTroubledPast Once a teenager named Calire Selton who struggled to control her powers, Claire was taken away by government agents who sought to use her as a weapon]]. After escaping from their custody, she became a fugitive and crossed paths with Superman. While she seemed set up for a HeelFaceTurn, her later appearances have her back as a villain.

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

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

** Team Flare from [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY the sixth generation]] have a fire motif.*

* 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.

** 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.

** 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.

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.

** Those who are opposed to the religion of R'hllor consider the titular god as this, as he craves for sacrifhe ices by immolation. To Red Priests like Melisandre, though, the sacrifices are necessary to prevent [[EvilIsDeathlyCold The Great Other]] from enveloping the world in darkness.

** Team Flare from [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY the sixth generation]] have a fire motif.* ''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.

* ''Anime/DragonBallGT'': Nuova Shenron controls fire, and generates heat so intense he's a WalkingWasteland. [[ZigzaggedTrope That being said]], he's the [[NobleDemon most noble]] of the Shadow Dragons and an AntiVillain.

* Zhuqiaomon from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' 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.

* 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/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 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 genuine ability to create and control fire.
* Dormammu, the classic foe of ComicBook/DoctorStrange provides the trope image, being a creature with a head of fire.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'':

* 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.

* Saint Dane in ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure''.

** 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, [[TropeMaker 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 UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}, the jinn (genies) are beings made of fire. While they are not inherently evil (they are like humans in that they can choose to be good or bad), one of them, Iblis/Satan, is undoubtedly bad. Also, Hell has flames that burn so hot they're pitch black.
* Loki from the Myth/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.
** Norse mythology has an entire class of fire jotnar who live in [[LethalLavaLand Muspellheim, the realm of fire]]. They are morally questionable, as with other jotnar, though specific characterization is difficult because they don't appear much, except in [[{{Gotterdammerung}} Ragnarok]], where their leader, Surtr, notably became the figure ultimately responsible for annihilating the entire universe by [[SetTheWorldOnFire setting it on fire]].
* In UsefulNotes/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]].

* ''Franchise/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.
* Team Magma from the [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon's third generation]] has an affinity for fire, but they're only evil in ''Ruby'' and ''Emerald''. They are allies in ''Sapphire''.
** Team Flare from [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY the sixth generation]] have a fire motif.
* Used to dramatic effect in Sephiroth's iconic UnflinchingWalk through fire in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has Ifrit, the primal god of the Amalj'aa beast tribe also known as the "Lord of the Inferno", whose command over flames is potentially ruinous.
* ''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.
* 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]].
* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' - typically seen during Akuma's win pose where dark flames appear on his shoulders. This doubles as his taunt in subsequent games.

* 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 AxeCrazy territory, and he suddenly burst in, [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere strangled the Doctor]], and kidnapped the LoveInterest]].

* The main enemy/ManBehindTheMan of the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series is the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Burning Legion]]. Also, many of its creatures are wreathed in flame; the Infernals spring to mind.
* Ganon uses flames as an attack in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'', the evil end gives Cole fire powers.

* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': Dracula has always been associated with fire, from his trademark three-fire balls to giant meteors.
* Utsuho Reiuji (aka Okuu), the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'''s ''Subterranean Animism'' throws giant suns at you...[[InSpace IN HELL]]!
* ''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.]]
* 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.]]
* Brand, the Burning Vengeance, in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is pretty much the fire counterpart to [[EvilIsDeathlyCold Lissandra]], a wicked spirit that wants nothing but to end the world in fire. His skill pretty much revolve around burning his enemies to death.

* 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/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'' has the balrog Tar-Goroth who rises from a pit of lava, burns wood [[WalkingWasteland simply by being near it]] and leaves flaming footprints wherever he walks.
* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': Played straight for the Fiery Castle, which used to be the villains' evil hideout (and, as the name suggests, is surrounded by fire and volcanoes) but inverted for the Super Moshi HQ which is located in a perpetually-erupting volcano, and averted for the Diavlos, a mostly-benevolent race of monsters with lava powers, and several Moshlings with fire-powers, including the Amazing Blazing Raisins and the Fiery Frazzledragons.
* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': The Wasp King is a violent, foul-tempered madman who wields 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 (actually a stove, as seen from bugs' perspective) that nearly wipes out a village full of friendly roaches.]]

* ''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".]]

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E10ARoyalProblem A Royal Problem]]", [[spoiler:Daybreaker, Celestia's borderline-insane, egotistical SuperpoweredEvilSide, has a strong and prevalent fire motif. Her mane and tail are twin plumes of living flames, and she can breathe jets of fire. When she sits on Celestia's throne, she fills the entire hall with pillars of flame.]]
* Drekk, one of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'''s [[RoguesGallery recurring villains]], is an alien with fire powers.

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

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'': At the climax , 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.

** ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Maleficent is often surrounded by eerie green flames. She even [[ScaledUp becomes a dragon]] at the end of the film.

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