History Main / Heatwave

* Heat Wave is an actual weather condition in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' with actual effects on Mementos, a MentalWorld belonging to Tokyo residents. During a Heat Wave, enemies start with the Burn StandardStatusEffect.

* Spike Lee's ''Film/DoTheRightThing''. Racist attitudes collide on The Hottest Day of The Year.

* ''Hundstage''. Taking place during the titular "dog days", traditional considered the hottest period of the year, this film is about suburban Austrians being unkind, sleazy or downright malevolent to each other.

* ''tick... tick... tick...'', a 1970 film about racial tensions in a small Mississippi town, opens with a scene of an egg literally being fried on a sidewalk.

Of course, the heat can also serve as a good excuse for having characters [[{{Fanservice}} walk around in skimpy or soaked-to-the-skin clothing.]]

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' takes place towards the end of a 15 year long heat wave. While this sounds impossible, it's a consequence of [[ApocalypseHow Second Impact]] shifting the planet's axis, eliminating the Antarctic [[strike: icecap]] continent and screwing up every weather pattern.

* Summer heat is frequently cited as a contributing factor to urban riots. The disturbances in Watts (1965) and in Newark and Detroit (1967) all took place during periods of higher-than-normal temperatures in those cities. And it was 90°F / 32.2 °C in April when the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles started.

* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'': In "The Call", Big Pete and Little Pete spend the hottest day of the summer trying to find out why a mysterious {{phone booth}} on the edge of town has been ringing nonstop for twenty-seven years.

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* Happens in the ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'' episode, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Heat Wave'']].
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* A native informs the military that the titular creature in ''Film/{{Predator}}'' only appears during the hottest years. [[Film/{{Predator 2}} The sequel]] has another one stalk the streets of Los Angeles during a heat wave.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Heatwave Holiday", it is so hot that Jon Arbuckle decides to cool off by putting up his Christmas decorations early.

* In Ingmar Bergman's ''The Silence'', the tension between the two sisters is emphasized by the high temperatures. The heat prompts Anna to go back home, leaving her sister to die alone.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E34DryHard Dry Hard]]" has St. Canard in the grip of a weeks-long heatwave, compounded by a crooked salesman (who later becomes the Fearsome Five supervillain the Liquidator) using nefarious means to corner the market on drinking water.

* The Discworld novel ''[[Discworld/MenAtArms Men at Arms]]'' takes place during a heatwave in Ankh-Morpork. This is a bad thing tension-wise because Ankh-Morporkians frequently start fires during riots and if anyone sets fire to anything in this heat, the whole city will go up.

* Used twice in ''Literature/ProvostsDog'':
** Beka describes the weather as being very hot and stifling during the climax, when the Guard finally discovers where the bodies of the ''latest'' batch of disappeared miners have gone, and thus proof of who's responsible. A riot breaks out in short order.

* Ma Brindle causes a localized heatwave when she turns her oven all the way up to the "Special" setting, in order to bake a very unique dessert in the children's book "Sweet Dream Pie."

* In season 9 of ''Series/HawaiiFive0'', "Mimiki Ke Kai, Ahuwale Ka Papa Leho" saw the island and the task force dealing with one in different ways. {{McGarrett}} and Danny are searching for a fugitive who killed two police officers [[spoiler: only to learn [[DeadAllAlong she got trapped in an elevator when]] the power went out earlier in the day.]] Grover takes advantage of the heat to par a game of golf to his [[BeleagueredAssistant caddie's irritation.]] Meanwhile, Tani and Junior first deal with a man suffering from heat-stroke and wielding a shotgun then search for a man who stole her car for the air conditioning.

* ''Videogame/Rimworld:'' Heat Waves, along with [[ColdSnap their chilling counterpart]], are events the AI storyteller can throw at your colony to make everyone's lives more difficult. Expect rotting food due to failing refrigeration and heatstroke problems if you aren't prepared.

* ''Film/HunkyDory'' is set in Wales during the summer of 1976, during which the hottest weather ever recorded hit the United Kingdom.

AKA Long Hot Summer (media shorthand for the urban riots of the '60s-70s) or The Dog Days Of Summer.

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* Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''RomeoAndJuliet'' has one of its most pivotal scenes, where Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt in vengeance, happen during an unusually hot day, setting the stage for the tragedy to come.