History Main / OverHeating

* In the "My Blaster Runs Hot" mini-game in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'', the players' blasters will overheat with continuous use, but attacking again while overheated will fire a multiple enemy-clearing beam.

** Specialty "Inferno" incendiary ammunition is available for Short-Ranged Missile launchers. These Inferno warheads are less immediately damaging on impact, but the potent fuel charge it carries generates enough waste heat that any warm/hot-running battlemechs will likely have to hold their fire or even shut the engines down to allow the heatsinks to purge all that sudden waste heat. More advanced battlemechs that have the superior Double Heatsinks are far less vunerable to this weapon. Unsurprisingly, Infernos are also treated as nasty, nasty antipersonnel weapons and are a factor in some of the war crimes commited in the Inner Sphere.

** The ''Adeptus Titanicus'' spinoff gives the HumongousMecha in question very poorly cooled plasma reactors and makes balancing the demands placed upon them with your ability to recover it and the risk of catastrophic failure a key part of the mechanic. You can try to push power to void shields or movement systems, fire weapons with the Draining tag, or use a Legio trait such as Legio Defensor's ''Righteous Fire'' that increases heat in exchange for a powerful effect (in Defensor's case, firing your best gun twice). When the reactor gets too hot, [[HeroicRROD Bad Things will happen]]. Warhounds are particularly vulnerable, having a very short reactor track compared to their bigger brothers like the Reaver and Warlord. Luckily, you can vent heat with repair rolls.

* This trope shows up, played ''perfectly'' straight, in a very unsuspecting device: the flashlight. More specifically, the small-size and high-power LED light typically fed by a lithium-ion battery. [=LEDs=] may be more energy-efficient than incandescent bulbs of old, but they still generate a ''godawful'' amount of heat if driven hard enough ([[AbsurdlyBrightLight particularly potent models that dish out thousands of lumens or tens of thousands of candelas can put out enough heat to be used as lighters]]), and that heat can burn up the diode or the driver, or, in more extreme cases, ''melt the solders''. Heat sinks mostly solve the issue in larger appliances, but when you have to keep it compact for portability's sake, even an entire aluminum body with the user's hand sucking up some of the heat (an uncomfortable practice even in the cold, as depending on its size and power,[[labelnote:*]]such as the Thrunite [=TN36=], a 2016 light the size of a soda can that can put out over 6,500 lumens, more than ''double'' of a regular car's headlight[[/labelnote]] the light gets '''HOT''') isn't enough. As such, these flashlights for the most part have a step-down feature in their circuits that either drops the output to a lower level or turns the torch off altogether before the heat buildup can become damaging. Newer models even go so far as to have built-in active cooling in the form of small fans!

Gatling Guns, especially of the modern Minigun variety, often fall victim to this trope, despite the fact that delaying the onset of this trope is the entire point of their multiple rotating barrels.

* In ''VideoGame/ShootasBloodAndTeef,'' the [[PlasmaCannon looted plasma pistol]], [[FireBreathingWeapon burna]], [[LightningGun zappa]], and [[DeathRay deff ray]] ([[YouMakeMeSic all three are the "propa orky spelling"]]) are governed by an increasing heat meter rather than draining ammo. Once they hit the red, they begin hurting Gargaz.

* ''Shardpunk: Verminfall'' has all weaponry save Tully's katana limited in shots by heat. Similar to ''WH40K's'' plasma guns, overheated weapons can be fired with a slight chance to blow up in the wielder's face. However, characters have a chance to develop a phobia towards firing overheated weapons. Certain weapons (like Gideon's sniper rifle) can fire multiple, weaker shots for the price of one heat bar. Furthermore, there exist multiple GunAccessories to deal with heat buildup, such as an auxilary cooling system or extra heat sinks. The [[RobotBuddy Support Automaton]]'s special skill allows it to vent a field of coolant that instantly disdipates heat within its area.

* This trope shows up, played ''perfectly'' straight, in a very unsuspecting device: the flashlight. More specifically, the small-size and high-power LED light typically fed by a lithium-ion battery. [=LEDs=] may be more energy-efficient than incandescent bulbs of old, but they still generate a ''godawful'' amount of heat if driven hard enough (particularly potent models that dish out thousands of lumens or tens of thousands of candelas can put out enough heat to be used as lighters), and that heat can burn up the diode or the driver, or, in more extreme cases, ''melt the solders''. Heat sinks mostly solve the issue in larger appliances, but when you have to keep it compact for portability's sake, even an entire aluminum body with the user's hand sucking up some of the heat (an uncomfortable practice even in the cold, as depending on its size and power,[[labelnote:*]]such as the Thrunite [=TN36=], a 2016 light the size of a soda can that can put out over 6,500 lumens, more than ''double'' of a regular car's headlight[[/labelnote]] the light gets '''HOT''') isn't enough. As such, these flashlights for the most part have a step-down feature in their circuits that either drops the output to a lower level or turns the torch off altogether before the heat buildup can become damaging. Newer models even go so far as to have built-in active cooling in the form of small fans!

Overheating/FirstPersonShooter and Overheating/MassEffect have their own subpages.

* ''VideoGame/BattleCorps'' throws in a "HEAT WARNING!" alert if you over-exert your ChickenWalker's turrets, causing it's firing rate to decrease.

** The ''Adeptus Titanicus'' spinoff gives the HumongousMecha in question very poorly cooled plasma reactors and makes balancing the demands placed upon them with your ability to recover it and the risk of catastrophic failure a key part of the mechanic. You can try to push power to void shields or movement systems, fire weapons with the Draining tag, or use a Legio trait such as Legio Defensor's ''Righteous Fire'' that increases heat in exchange for a powerful effect (in Defensor's case, firing your best gun twice). When the reactor gets too hot, [[HeroicRROD Bad Things Will Happen]]. Warhounds are particularly vulnerable, having a very short reactor track compared to their bigger brothers like the Reaver and Warlord. Luckily, you can vent heat with repair rolls.