History Main / LivingLava

** Magmaarghs, debuting in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', are related creatures literally made out of molten lava, allowing them to pass directly through and around solid obstacles. They've since appeared in other games, always in the same role. They hide inside lava pools and surge out when the player passes by, attempting to devour them when they pass too close. Other varieties include the Magmaws, smaller and with more simplistic facial features to the point that they're essentially plumes of lava with gaping mouths and dot eyes, and the fishlike Charvaarghs, which breach out of lava like jumping dolphins to try and eat Mario.

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' has the pal Flambelle, a RidiculouslyCuteCritter version of this. Their heads and arms resemble a tiny, innocent-looking candle girl, but their hair and "feet" are made of lava while their body appearsto be made of cooled lava. Flambelle are very ProneToTears and cry out lava, which gets absorbed into them and powers them up.

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' has the pal Flambelle, a RidiculouslyCuteCritter version of this. Their heads and bodies resemble a tiny, innocent-looking candle girl, but their hair and "feet" are made of lava. Flambelle are very ProneToTears and cry out lava, which gets absorbed into them and powers them up.

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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Igneo Taluses are giant {{Cephalothorax}}es made up of glowing, semi-molten rock that live near the lava lakes around the Death Mountain. Their weaker offspring, the Igneo Pebblits, are the same thing on a smaller scale.

While the MagmaMan is about controlling lava, Living Lava is about beings ''made'' out of the stuff. A sub-trope of LavaAddsAwesome and ElementalEmbodiment. Also a sub-trope of SiliconBasedLife, which usually deals with silicates in a solid state. SisterTrope of EvilLivingFlames. For other living masses of inorganic matter, see MuckMonster, RockMonster and SentientSands.

A creature made of lava, it has the strength of rock while being amorphous due to its molten state. More importantly, [[CaptainObvious as lava is incredibly hot]], it'll damage anyone who'd dare try to even get close to its molten body, [[ConvectionSchmonvection assuming convection is in play]]. The Living Lava tends to dwell in the LethalLavaLand and is vulnerable to rapid cooling. Sometimes they'll have more solid and hard body parts to better interact with the rest of the world.

* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}: The fire Trolls are an androgynous species of sentient lava mounds who once plotted to take over the world. They would often come to clash with Aquaman when they would try to cause catastrophic eruptions across the worlds fault lines.

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters'': Rodan is depicted as a giant bird/pterosaur hybrid that's composed partially of magma. He also has magma for blood.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

-->"Are you telling me that this pool of molten goo is alive and sentient?"
* ''Anime/DragonballSuper'': Auta Magetta is one of the Metalmen, [[MechanicalLifeform mechanical lifeforms]] who's internal biology is made of lava, which they also eat. Magetta is able to spit out the lava inside him as an attack.

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': The Green Lantern of Sector 315, Volk, hails from the planet Maag and is a creature made of living lava. His body is encased within a humanoid shell of rock with a volcano for a head.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]], the [[MonsterOfTheWeek aliens of the week]] are Pyroviles, giant aliens made of molten rock somewhat resembling Roman centurions. Having an interior of magma, they're vulnerable to water and mistaken as deities by Pompeii's local soothsayers.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' features the Horta- aliens that look like globs of lava and lay many eggs.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[BigBad Te Ka]], in all her molten, fiery glory.]]