History Main / LavaMagicIsFire

** Camerupt, a camel Pokémon possesses a volcano on its back with magma bubbling inside of it. Its a Fire/Ground type, and can learn most volcano/magma-based moves like Eruption, Lava Plume, and Earth Power.

** Lava-based moves, such as Eruption, Lava Plume, and Magma Storm, are treated as part of the Fire type.

While impressive, this does raise the logistical thought that fire itself is considered a state on its own, while lava is rock heated up passed its melting point. In reality, lava creates fires, not the other way around. Not uncommonly, lava magic is the rightful domain of earth mages in many works, or at the very least those who can use both earth and fire. For that reason, the likes of a MagmaMan inverting the trend isn't considered.

* ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'': Lava-based spells like [[https://hearthstone.fandom.com/wiki/Volcano Volcano]] and [[https://hearthstone.fandom.com/wiki/Lava_Burst Lava Burst]] are part of the Fire spell school, whereas purely earth-based spells are instead Nature. This is consistent with ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', with lava spells dealing Fire damage and earth spells dealing Nature damage.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'', various Skylanders of the Fire Element are themed around lava, such as Eruptor (lava monster) and Hot Head (fire golem who can create lava as a tertiary attack).
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Many fire spells, like the ''Magma Totem'' incorporate lava in their design.

PlayingWithFire is a common spell for just about any aspiring fire mage. While balls of fire, streams of flame and columns of fire are all well and good, they often don't sell being on a significant higher level on the SpellLevels rungs than the rest. So how can one make clear that the high tier stuff is a cut above the rest? LavaAddsAwesome is something everyone respects so have the high level fire stuff be gouts and plumes of lava.

While impressive, this does raise the logistical thought that fire itself is considered a state on its own, while lava is rock heated up passed their melting point. In reality, lava creates fires, not the other way around. Not uncommonly, lava magic is the rightful domain of earth mages in many works, or at the very least those who can use both earth and fire. For that reason the likes of a MagmaMan inverting the trend isn't considered.

* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': Many high level Pyro and Fire elemental cards have lava themes, such as the Volcanic series.

* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': The high level fire sorceries and signature skill, Eruption, of the Volcano Manor utilize powerful magma attacks. As no other fire spells other than the Magma Wyrm breath attacks utilize lava, this makes the sorceries used by them particularly unique and heretical to the Erdtree worshipping Golden Order.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': Often recurring summon Ifrit's attack involves lava, such as ''VII'' and ''X''. As there often isn't a ultimate fire spell, Ifrit usually has the buck in portraying high power fire attacks.

* ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'': Lava-based spells like [[https://hearthstone.fandom.com/wiki/Volcano Volcano]] and [[https://hearthstone.fandom.com/wiki/Lava_Burst Lava Burst]] are part of the Fire spell school, whereas purely earth-based spells are instead Nature. This is consistent with ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', with lava spells dealing Fire damage and earth spells dealing Nature damage.

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* Averted in the ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' universe, where Lavabending is a substyle of ''Earth''bending.
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See also IceMagicIsWater, which could be considered the water equivalent. And ThePowerOfTheSun, which could be considered the natural conclusion of fire sorceries. Often a videogame trope, as levels of animation is much more a videogame staple, and making lava its own element type seems counterproductive and obtuse.

While impressive this does raise the logistical thought that fire itself is considered a state on its own while lava is rock heated up passed their melting point. In reality, lava creates fires not the other way around. Not uncommonly, lava magic is the rightful domain of earth mages in many works, or at the very least those who can use both earth and fire. For that reason the likes of a MagmaMan inverting the trend isn't considered.