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| 7 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[SarcasmMode Looks like a nice place to take a swim.]]]] |
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| 9 | ->'''Shrek:''' You can't tell me you're afraid of heights?\ |
| 10 | '''Donkey:''' No, I'm just a little uncomfortable about being on a rickety bridge ''over a boiling lake of lava!'' |
| 11 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' |
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| 13 | Like a [[DrowningPit swimming pool]] or a moat, but much more viscous and much hotter [[LavaIsBoilingKoolAid than water]], and somewhat less inviting. Plus it's too dense to sink into and doesn't require you to periodically add chlorine or scoop out leaves. And it really doesn't matter if you don't wait an hour after eating before you jump in. [[{{Dissimile}} A better simile]], in fact, would be "not like a swimming pool." ([[Literature/TheLightFantastic cf.]]) Often used as a barrier rather than a trap proper, but with [[TrapDoor the right mechanisms]] and delivery chutes, a Lava Pit can make for a delightful surprise at the end of a long drop. Often found in a LethalLavaLand. |
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| 15 | In urban or outer space settings (where flowing lava is hard to find), you can substitute a blast furnace, trash incinerator, open nuclear reactor, vat of molten metal, or really, anything that's very hot and lethal to anyone dropped in. This version may overlap with NoOSHACompliance. |
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| 17 | The Lava Pit can only work as a slow descending trap thanks to ConvectionSchmonvection — that wonderful law that says rising heat can't kill you and only touching the lava is fatal. Funnily enough, however, in many platform games, the lava seems to have sufficient viscosity for the player to [[PainPoweredLeap launch him/herself into the air]], [[RumpRoast shoes/backside on fire]]. You'll lose HitPoints, of course. |
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| 19 | A subtrope of LavaAddsAwesome. May or may not be a part of FireAndBrimstoneHell. Supertrope to LavaPotVolcano, where a perennial lava pit fills the crater of a volcanic mountain. Falling in one might kill you instantly, or boil you slowly and painfully in AMoltenDateWithDeath. |
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| 21 | !!Examples: |
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| 23 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 25 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 26 | * ''Manga/SazanEyes'': In the second part of the story, the last obstacle to the underground shrine where a Kunlun passage to the Triclops' Sacred Land is kept is Chi Luo (Red Net), a pool of sentient lava which blocks the path for anyone without the proper key. Since Chi Luo is living, trying to fly above the pool will result in the lava rising up to burn the intruder. Pai ends up defeating [[ArcVillain Zhou Gui]] by pushing him into the lava, where he's burnt to death. |
| 27 | * In ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolySecondComing'', Gohan manages to knock Broly into lava, only to be shocked when he emerges unharmed, having protected himself with a forcefield. |
| 28 | * ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'': Joseph tries to dump Kars in a volcano lava pool during their final battle after the latter achieves UltimateLifeform status. [[spoiler:It ''almost'' worked, until Kars manages to find a way to protect himself from the lava using a shell made of solidified air bubbles]]. |
| 29 | * ''Anime/MazingerZ'': Several [[{{Robeast}} Mechanical Beasts]] are fought beside or over lava pits on the crater of a volcano, usually Mount Fuji -- Aeros B2 and B3, Holzon V3 -- in one of the manga versions -- Debira X1... and, in one episode, Kouji is dumped in one. |
| 30 | * The climax of ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' takes place over a Lava Pit, in the [[EldritchLocation mystical dimension]] in-between Spain and France. No, not Andorra. [[spoiler:Altenna dies by falling into it. Kirika almost falls with her, but Mireille saves her.]] |
| 31 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'': Usually considered the best battle in Indigo League arc, Charizard vs. Magmar (Ash's rematch against Blaine) took place over a lava pit. |
| 32 | * A climactic moment in ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'', when a lava pool opens up during the last fight, Metal Sonic falls into it and Sonic tries to save him. In the end, Metal Sonic decides [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne there can be only one Sonic]]. |
| 33 | * In ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'', Sixshot captures Wheelie and threatens to drop him into a pit of acid in three hours unless the Autobots give him the secret of Fortress Maximus' sword. Said acid happened to look exactly like lava. |
| 34 | * ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Atticus's {{Brainwashed}} SuperpoweredEvilSide threatens Jaden's roommates with one during their duel. |
| 35 | * ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': The Action Field used for the Maiami Championship finals is separated in four zones, with the Volcano Zone replacing most streets with rivers of lava and lava pools. It's unclear if they would actually hurt the participants (since it's HardLight technology but with safety measures), but everyone makes a point of avoiding the lava. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Byakko's final duel with Kuwabara happens on platforms over a lava pit. Byakko gets knocked in, but somehow survives greatly injured. |
| 37 | [[/folder]] |
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| 39 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 40 | * In ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'', Patty Gauzweiler cements her KillerGM status (and greatly impresses her fellow [=GMs=]) by creating a DeathTrap in which the players willingly have their characters jump into a lava pit. |
| 41 | * Subverted (doubly) in the ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' comic. Sun Boy gained his powers when Doctor Zaxton Regulus locked him inside a nuclear reactor just before its activation. In a later issue, Regulus comments "I could have killed him [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim when I had the chance]]. But no; I had to get theatrical!" |
| 42 | * Parodied by ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} in ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage''. He, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} sneak into a secret underground facility protected with death traps, and Dick wonders if they'll run into a lava trap. |
| 43 | -->'''Nightwing:''' Laser hallway. How cliché. What's next, the floor is lava? |
| 44 | * ''ComicBook/TomStrong'': During their first encounter, Paul Saveen, Strong's ArchEnemy, traps Tom in a pit about to be filled with Phlogiston, described as "heat in its liquid form". |
| 45 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics, smelting pits are generally used for particularly gruesome executions. If you like putting people into these, we know you're a creep. |
| 46 | * ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: When Diana and the Holliday Girls are abducted by Hades to Pluto they're almost killed by first freezing and then a lava pit. |
| 47 | * In the wake of the Beyonder's attack on Earth in ''ComicBook/{{Secret Wars II}}'', a large chunk of the planet was ripped away, leaving one of these the size of a large country, before it was eventually repaired. |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Film — Animated]] |
| 51 | * ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'': The finale takes place in a lava pit created by Jafar to trap and kill Aladdin and his friends. He would have succeeded if it weren't for Iago's intervention. |
| 52 | * ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'': The castle where Princess Fiona is imprisoned is surrounded by a moat of lava. The only way in is across an old rope bridge, which prompts the page quote. |
| 53 | * ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'': One of the deadly trials that Lola Bunny must overcome to become an Amazon warrior is to cross to the other side of a lava pit, using only a long wooden pole. Lola plants one end of her pole on a rock outcrop that somehow hasn't melted, and vaults across the pit in one bound. Bugs Bunny and Lebron James try the same maneuver, but are less successful. Lola has to interrupt her test of worthiness to rescue these two from a horrible fate. |
| 54 | [[/folder]] |
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| 56 | [[folder:Film — Live-Action]] |
| 57 | * ''Film/AustinPowers'': The second movie features a DeathTrap over a pit of lava. Doctor Evil seems to have a thing for magma. |
| 58 | * Seen in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', with the variation that the unfortunate prisoner has his heart removed before being lowered, and the heart catches fire when the poor man is dipped into the lava. |
| 59 | * ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'': |
| 60 | ** The big finish, when Gollum falls with the One Ring into a lava pit inside [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Mt. Doom]].[[note]]In the book, it's just a "crack of fire", contents not clearly specified -- Gollum falls over the edge and that's the end of it. In the movie, we get to watch him sink slowly into the lava, and the ring sits on the surface for a long couple of seconds before melting.[[/note]] |
| 61 | ** Parodied in ''[[http://www.animationarcade.com/animation/ring2.html One Ring to Rule Them All 2.]]'' Sauron ties up Frodo and Sam and slowly lowers them into Mt. Doom. ''Very'' slowly. |
| 62 | --->''One presentation, movie, song, and puppet show later...''\ |
| 63 | '''Frodo:''' This sure is taking a long time. |
| 64 | * ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': In the opening, the ''Enterprise'' crew are working to stop an active volcano from erupting so as to save the native population of the planet. In Spock's case, this means being put into a protective suit and being beamed ''into'' it, to place a freezing device. |
| 65 | * ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIIIRevengeOfTheSith'': The climactic duel between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker takes place on the lava planet Mustafar, with the Jedi fighting on platforms teetering over several lava pits that belch spurts of molten rock around the former comrades. |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
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| 68 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 69 | * In ''Literature/ArtemisFowl: The Arctic Incident'', Holly chases a goblin into a lava pit chute that undergoes a magma eruption. The goblin is incinerated instantly, but Holly manages to use a nearby coolant tank to shield herself from the heat wave. |
| 70 | * In the first ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' novelization, ''The Book of Atrus'', the path to D'ni from the surface involves crossing a lava chasm, over which the original bridge has collapsed and been replaced by one made of rope. When Atrus tries to escape from D'ni, he finds that this bridge has been removed, and tries to jump over the chasm instead. [[spoiler:He barely makes it, but begins to fall in; however, Gehn jumps over and grabs him.]] |
| 71 | * A variant in the ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'': Blofeld has Bond (who is pretending to be a deaf-mute) seated on a chair directly above a geyser that erupts with superheated mud every 15 minutes, in an attempt to get him to break his cover. It works. |
| 72 | * C.S. Lewis's ''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy'' has a segment in ''Perelandra'' where Ransom is inside a volcanic mountain. He disposes of a dead body by dropping it into the lava, and at one point he's in a kind of a natural water slide and is a little worried the slide will empty into a lava pit while he's rushing down it (it doesn't). |
| 73 | * ''Literature/StarterVillain2023'': {{Discussed|Trope}} when someone visits the VolcanoLair to [[FakingTheDead have his death faked]] -- he's disappointed to hear that there aren't any open lava pits, only geothermal generators, and that anyway, lava is so dense that a body would just lie on the surface and crisp. |
| 74 | [[/folder]] |
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| 76 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 77 | * Parodied in ''Series/TheBasilBrushShow'' with a pool of [[LethalChef Anil's]] chilli sauce. |
| 78 | * An episode of ''Series/GetSmart'' parodying ''Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda'' has Max swordfighting the bad guy next to a pit of molten metal. Max knocks the bad guy's sword out of his hand into the pit; bad guy's flunky cries out "I'll get it!" and steps into the pit, never to resurface. Bad guy shrugs "Good help is so hard to find these days!" |
| 79 | * In ''Series/MacGyver1985'', Mac escaped from many variations of this, including an incinerator ("Jerico Games"), a nuclear reactor ("Flames End"), and even an actual pit of lava ("Good Knight, [=MacGyver=]"). Also, Murdoc threatens Pete with one (actually a vat of boiling water, but the same basic principle) in "Cleo Rocks." |
| 80 | * ''Series/TheMagician'': The Chinese warlord in "Illusion of the Lost Dragon" has a lava pit concealed beneath the floor of the corridor leading to his inner sanctum. Anyone attempting to intrude has a limited time to solve the puzzle lock on the door before the slowly opening floor dumps them in the lava. |
| 81 | * ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' features one of these in "Sacrifice 2" [[DespairEventHorizon with terrible]] [[HeroicSacrifice consequences]]. |
| 82 | [[/folder]] |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 85 | * ''VideoGame/DoomZenStudios'' has two of these, but the ball can't fall into either of them. One of them is a decorative pool of lava that's crossed by a ramp, and another turns the bumper area into this when a reactor meltdown is triggered. If the ball is shot back into play during the meltdown via a ball saver, a portal directly in front of that pool brings the ball back into the playfield. The ball can be made molten if it comes into contact with any lava dripping from the latter pool, which can inflict bonus damage on drop targets. |
| 86 | %%*' ''Pinball/{{Gorgar}}'' takes place in one, where the titular monster lives. |
| 87 | * ''Pinball/StarTrekStern'': The "Prime Directive" Mode requires rescuing Spock from inside an actively-erupting volcano. |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 91 | * After Cibernético beat Asesor Cibernético in a casket match. He threw the casket in a volcano as punishment for taking La Secta Cibernética from him and turning it into La Secta Diabólica. Slightly indignant, he would return from the dead, returning to Wrestling/{{AAA}} as El Mesías. |
| 92 | [[/folder]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 95 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' took this to its logical extreme in Dungeonscape where stats are provided for sadistic {{Game Master}}s that want to have sharks that can swim (and breathe) in lava. One assumes that they must be fed on a diet of adventurers considering that fairly few other things can and will submerge themselves in molten lava. |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 99 | * The main chamber of Mara's temple in ''Ride/IndianaJonesAdventure'' at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks features a big pit of lava in the middle. |
| 100 | [[/folder]] |
| 101 | |
| 102 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 103 | * ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': At The Consortium's underground base, the electroplating center is overflowing with lava that requires the use of AirDashing to pass by without falling into the magma. |
| 104 | * ''VideoGame/Bug1995'': [[LethalLavaLand Arachnia]] has them all over the place. Don't fall in -- MercyInvincibility ''will not'' save Bug from becoming ashes instantly! |
| 105 | * ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'': One secret path in, of all places, a sewer level. Normally Crash sometimes has to hang from metal ceiling grilles to make his way over red-hot sewer piping, but in that one secret path, he's crossing over a molten lava pit. |
| 106 | * ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}'' features lava prominently throughout the third episode. While falling in is certain death in the PC version, the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor version has the character melt into the lava... only to reappear on a nearby platform with only a few health points knocked off. |
| 107 | * ''VideoGame/DistortedTravesty 3'' has a variety of different types of lava, ranging from the kind that deals damage but you can walk on if you have enough hit points, to ones that you just sort of vanish into. |
| 108 | * ''VideoGame/HolyDiver'' has lava pits that can be frozen with magic into destructible blocks. They soon start reaching up to the ceiling. |
| 109 | * ''VideoGame/{{Scathe}}'', being set in ''hell'', have these kind of obstacles where falling in is an instant life loss. Usually, bonuses like extra lives and secrets are located on the ''other side'' of these pits. |
| 110 | * The video games ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', and ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' all have some form of lava pit that you can walk across the rocks near it, or (with minor damage) touch it temporarily, but you only get serious injured if you stay in it for several seconds. |
| 111 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': In the ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Awakenings]]'' expansion, you can find a prisoner suspended in a metal cage above a lava pit (ConvectionSchmonvection, it seems). You can set him free in exchange for a magical rune … [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential or just be a dick]] and kick open the cage, sending him plummeting into the lava. |
| 112 | * ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': If you choose a site with a volcano or magma pipe, you can use the lava to build a variety of death traps, and it removes the need for coal to smelt most metals, except for steel. The only issue is the Fire Imps and Magma Men that come with said sites. Magma is the ''preferred'' way for most DF players to deal with virtually any problem. Too much garbage? Melt it in lava! Attacking hordes? Pump lava to the top of your tower, and pour liberally on any rash of invaders! Elves complaining about your deforestation? Melt the protesters! Your fortress flooding with regular water? Running out of good quality stone to craft with? Pour water and magma together, and you have an obsidian farming operation! |
| 113 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' |
| 114 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', there are plenty in the old [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent Dwemer]] ruins around Vvardenfell. Justified, since the island is basically all part of a large shield volcano and because the Dwemer seemed to power their creations, at least in part, geothermally. If you join House Telvanni and construct a stronghold, you'll get your own personal lava pit included. Quite fitting for the MightMakesRight EvilSorcerer Great House. |
| 115 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' has plenty of lava in Mehrunes Dagon's realm (it's treated like water, only you constantly take large amounts of damage from it). Some of the caverns in his realm also have holes in the floor which drop you into pools that have no way out. Admittedly, it is not made clear that it actually ''is'' lava -- Oblivion realms don't quite work as Mundus does, and red water that hurts you wouldn't be the oddest thing to be found. |
| 116 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'': In the ''Dawnguard'' DLC, one of the side missions called "Lost to the Ages" involves the Dragonborn helping the disembodied spirit of an adventurer, Katria complete her life's work in discovering the Aetherium Forge, an ancient site of the Dwemer race said to be capable of forging great artifacts. After restoring the crest needed to enter the Forge, the two discover it's built over an inactive magma chamber. What's worse, however is what's ''inside the lava'', as they soon learn when the resident guardian of the forge, a unique Dwarven Centurion called the Forgemaster, comes out to fight. And due to its decades-long "slumber" inside the burning hot lake, it's constantly glowing and capable of shooting a stream of fire as opposed to the typical Centurion's steam attack. |
| 117 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 118 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has these in two parts of the game: In the Sealed Cave in the World of Balance and in the Phoenix Cave in the [[AfterTheEnd World of Ruin]]. Falling into one reduces some HP and sends you to the entrance of that room. |
| 119 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', Kuja traps your entire party in cells in his Desert Palace with floors that retract to reveal lava beneath them. He threatens to retract them all the way unless Zidane and his selected party members fetch him the Gulug Stone from Oeilvert. However, after Zidane and the others leave, he says he hates keeping promises and puts the remaining party members on a ten-minute timer which can be reset by an hourglass, but only if Zidane makes it back in time. |
| 120 | -->'''Kuja''': Oops, just ten more minutes. Better start praying. Farewell... My sweet, lovable morons. Ahahahahahahaha! |
| 121 | * ''VideoGame/{{Hellbound}}'', a game who's basically HellOnEarth, have lava pools all over the streets which you'll need to jump over. |
| 122 | * In ''VideoGame/ImpressiveTitle'', lava pits can be found just about almost anywhere, ranging from alpine forests like ''Shadow Veldt'', dying wastelands like ''Wyvern Hills'', and ''Anointed Hills'', and tropical grasslands like ''Labyrinth''. |
| 123 | * ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' has entire floors covered with flamethrowers. |
| 124 | * ''VideoGame/JoumeeTheHedgehog'' has lava pits as one of the hazards [[PlayerCharacter Joumee]] can face. |
| 125 | * ''VideoGame/{{Jumper}} Three'': Lava pits appear in [[LethalLavaLand Sector 4]]. Earlier games substituted floating fireballs for that. |
| 126 | * ''VideoGame/{{Joust}}'': The "floor" of the arena is one of these, with a troll lurking in it that grabs at any combatant who gets too close. |
| 127 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroANewBeginning'': The Munitions Forge is filled with pools of molten rock that serve as environmental hazards. Spyro can use his elemental breaths to push Apes into them, which instantly defeats them. |
| 128 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 129 | ** As a whole, the franchise uses lava pits around the inevitable fire bosses (King Dodongo, Gleerok, Volvagia, Hot Head, etc.). Of interesting note is that, in many cases, the bosses themselves are vulnerable to the lava pit as soon as you incapacitate them or remove their armor. |
| 130 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': Whether a lava pit merely depletes HP as Link stands on it (unless the Goron Tunic is worn) or acts as a BottomlessPit that makes Link respawn to the area's entrance upon falling (with one heart deducted from his LifeMeter) varies. Some pits, like those of Death Mountain Crater and the overworld area surrounding Ganon's Tower, act as the latter. In others, like those of Dodongo's Cavern and Fire Temple, lava just deals damage over time until you escape. You can tell what would happen upon contact by examining the surroundings and seeing whether or not you can theoretically escape or climb back. If you can't, then ''don't'' fall down! |
| 131 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': Some pits of lava can be found in Snowhead Temple (which is otherwise snow-themed) and Stone Tower Temple. They merely deplete Link's LifeMeter gradually if he gets in as a Hylian, and transforming into a Goron will render him immune to lava. However, getting in as a Deku or Zora is lethal, because they're weak to fire. |
| 132 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': In contrast to the game's two predecessors in 3D, this one has ''all'' lava pits that force Link to respawn in the area entrance upon falling into lava pits, which is retained in all future games. Fortunately, there are usually water jars that cool down a part of the pit for a limited time, allowing Link to quickly traverse them; shooting an Ice Arrow at the lava has the same effect, becoming handy in a room from Ganon's Tower. |
| 133 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Several of the [[MiniDungeon Shrines]] found in the Eldin region have lava pits as navigational hazards. |
| 134 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'': While the lava has drained away from the surface of Death Mountain, it is still present in its various caves. The lava often blocks your path in a way that requires the use of Zonai vehicles to traverse across. |
| 135 | * ''VideoGame/LevelUp'' has lava pits like this and hangs a lampshade on it. If you are badass enough, you can walk it in unharmed. |
| 136 | * ''VideoGame/LighthouseTheDarkBeing'': The final area is the titular villain's VolcanoLair, complete with a geothermal steam system fueled by its still-active caldera. And for good measure, you have to [[PipeMaze reroute a set of steam pipes]] to retrieve part of the {{MacGuffin}}, using a diving-bell-esque apparatus suspended over the lava. |
| 137 | * ''VideoGame/MachineHunter'' has lava pits and ledges that you can push [[GiantMook giant alien grubs]] into. Just make sure ''you'' don't fall in. |
| 138 | * ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'': A few levels take place underground on some planet, and you can fall into lava if you're not careful. It's like water, except instead of the screen having a blue filter it has a red filter, and your health slides down -- quickly, but not instantly. |
| 139 | * ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' has a few of these in the Kung-fu training level, if you don't jump over them you die. |
| 140 | * ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': Underground lava pools are always a threat to the player's safety. Digging straight down poses the risk of falling into one with no easy way to climb back out -- that's why not digging straight down is an unspoken rule of the game -- and they're also very common at the bottom of ravines, adding a particular risk to falling off when exploring them. The player ''can'' scoop up lava with a bucket and use it to fashion lava pits of their own, either as a trap, defense, or a prank. |
| 141 | * ''VideoGame/LaMulana'': Several areas contain lava, which on top of draining your health like a mofo, is hard to swim around in, and disables your menus unless you have the Heatproof Case. Once you get the Ice Cape, you are completely invulnerable to lava.[[note]]Changed in the remake, where it lowers the lava's dps from critically lethal to manageable.[[/note]] Also, one of the steps to the BonusLevelOfHell requires you to drop down several screens of a bottomless Lava Pit. |
| 142 | * ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'': Comes up a few times in the series. |
| 143 | ** The original game had a small chasm in the Selenitic Age, containing rocks hot enough to emit fire -- and in ''realMyst'', actual lava along with it. |
| 144 | ** ''VideoGame/{{Riven}}'' has a few locations that show exposed lava pits, along with an underground corridor ''completely surrounded by lava''. Considering that the entire Age is unstable and on the verge of collapse, it's somewhat justified. |
| 145 | ** ''VideoGame/MystIIIExile'' has a room in the Voltaic Age that the player can ''fill and drain of lava'' at will, designed to provide air to a hot-air balloon elsewhere in the age. |
| 146 | ** Eder Gira in [[VideoGame/UruAgesBeyondMyst Uru]] is split in half by a wide lava pit -- which the player will panic-link away from when inches from the surface. Naturally, there's an island in the middle that needs to be jumped onto to complete a steam valve puzzle. |
| 147 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', Queen Himiko's palace has a ''huge pit of lava'' in it. And it's located on the ''second floor'' of a building that looks easily burnable. There's also some rather impressive (and considerably more justifiable) lava pits on [[DiscOneFinalDungeon Oni Island]]. In both cases, Ammy can swim in them like they're water by equipping an item called the Fire Tablet. [[LavaIsBoilingKoolAid She can even use the Waterspout technique on it!]] |
| 148 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': |
| 149 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'': The Blackthorn Gym has lava. The solution to cross it and get to Clair differs between the original (Strength puzzle) and remakes (rotating floor). |
| 150 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonSnap'': There's a few lava pools during the Volcano stage. Dunk a nearby Charmeleon into one for it to evolve into Charizard, and throw Pester Balls in others for Growlithe and Arcanine. |
| 151 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' has lava areas on some levels. Fire Pokemon are able to move across them without taking damage. |
| 152 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'': Stage 100 of Mt. Battle is on a platform that essentially floats on the lava pit in the crater of a volcano. |
| 153 | * ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'''s last test chamber includes a massive fire pit. [=GLaDOS=] tries lowering Chell into the fire, but she manages to escape with portals. |
| 154 | * ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia1'': The SNES version has a [[LethalLavaLand level set inside a volcano]]. You don't see the lava here unless you're falling to the very bottom of the level, but that will happen if you don't grab a ledge right at the start. |
| 155 | * ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2: The Shadow and the Flame'': A common DeathTrap in the cave levels. They are a good way of killing skeletons permanently. |
| 156 | * ''VideoGame/{{Purple}}'': World 1 and 4 fortresses contain lava pits with [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Podoboo]]-like fireballs to boot. World 2 fortress has {{Acid Pool}}s instead. |
| 157 | * ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'': The deathmatch level "Claustrophobopolis" had several lava pit death traps that players could spring on each other. |
| 158 | * ''VideoGame/QuakeII'': The Ammo Depot level has a retractable bridge over lava that can be used to fry crossing enemies. The Torture Chambers level has a cage used to dunk prisoners into lava. |
| 159 | * ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'': Present in many levels after the second temple. Notably, the final levels feature them... despite taking place on a ''flying pirate ship''. One must wonder how they keep it from cooling down without melting a hole in the bottom of their hull. |
| 160 | * ''VideoGame/RedFaction'' lets the player drop a levitating robot into a garbage incinerator to the same effect. |
| 161 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': |
| 162 | ** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', you get to pull this trope on a miniboss. Easy way to help your chances of survival, given that there's two (OnlyWorksOnce for some reason). However, you lose any loot you would've gotten from that boss. [[spoiler:[[GuideDangIt Unless you backtrack into the Arena after entering the next room]].]] Chapter 5-2 also has a molten pit that you can knock {{mook}}s into. |
| 163 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' does it one better: You get to do this on [[spoiler:the Final Boss]]. |
| 164 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'': You defeat one of the Tyrants by knocking him into the lava in the blast furnace. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he comes back later with a vengeance.]] |
| 165 | ** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', the BigBad's facility is powered by geothermal energy coming from a semi-contained Lava Pit. [[RecurringElement Of course]], [[spoiler:you punch the FinalBoss into it]]. However, [[spoiler:it doesn't stop him]]. |
| 166 | * ''VideoGame/{{SOMA}}'' downplays the trope to a realistic extent. Site Upsilon has a deep borehole used as a source of geothermal power. A [[PowerGlows glow can be seen from deep below]], and the catwalks in the turbine room are all railed. |
| 167 | * Very common in the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series. [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 Marble Zone]], [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Hill Top Zone]], [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Lava Reef Zone]]... the list goes on. Eggman is very creative about incorporating them into his [[DeathCourse gauntlets of traps]]. |
| 168 | ** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog28Bit'' has a strange moment where Eggman actually ''saves you'' from falling into a lava pit, just so he can feed you to the level's boss, [[AntlionMonster a robotic antlion]]. |
| 169 | ** [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Red Mountain]] and [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Power Plant]] both feature sections where the player has to climb their way out of a lava pit (or molten energy pit, in the case of the latter) that's slowly rising. Red Mountain's only rises to a certain point, but Power Plant's will kill you if you can't climb quickly enough. |
| 170 | ** In ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', the Knight Titan boss fight takes place in a lava pit that has cooled down just enough to walk on. It's still very hot though, which becomes an issue in the segment where you have to climb the Titan, because just getting close enough to do so can burn you quite badly, on top of having to doge the massive attacks the Knight throws. |
| 171 | * ''Videogame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' has various "pools of lava" in the form of red Lego bricks scattered across the town that block your progress until you gain access to Stan and his sandblaster. |
| 172 | * These appear in the final "Temple" section of ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'', and kill anything that fall in them. |
| 173 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 174 | ** Bowser loves his lava pits, considering every single one of his many castles has one. In the first game, the most common method to beat him is to drop him into one. |
| 175 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' has lava pools ''with slopes''. It also has {{Palette Swap}}ped pits of boiling mud in Chocolate Island and bubbling grayish "death water" in some of the fortress levels, which is used frequently in PlatformHell hacks. |
| 176 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/YoshisIslandDS'' has lava pits, which kill Yoshi instantly if he falls in. A lava pit also plays a part in the battles against Big Guy the Stilted, where he must be pushed into one so Yoshi can damage him. |
| 177 | ** In ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'', Bowser even takes over Peach's castle and then arbitrarily gives her a giant lava pit for a moat. Said lava pit naturally just up and reverts to water without explanation when he's kicked out at the end. |
| 178 | * ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1989'' has these in some of the Foot air base tunnels. |
| 179 | * Found in deep depths of ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}''. Also made by players in order to create a barrier or trap for enemies. |
| 180 | * ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary'' does this for the mutant boss in the final level before the final boss. You have to let the monster charge at you, pull off a bullet time shot so that it rolls over and over the edge, and then blast its fingers as it hangs on in order to drop it down a shaft with lava on the bottom. |
| 181 | * ''VideoGame/UltimaV'', in Shadowgate, has a trapdoor in the floor that leads to another trapdoor, to another trapdoor, to another, to another, to another... then shows the character sprite in the "dead" position in a field of lava tiles. |
| 182 | * Talorus in ''VideoGame/UltimaUnderworld II'' has a MacGuffin in the center of a lava pit. You're supposed to complete a BrokenBridge quest to reach it, but it's easy enough to run across the lava and grab it while taking only minor damage. |
| 183 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is in [[LethalLavaLand love with lava]] -- and ConvectionSchmonvection, as evidenced by the abundance of lava pits in zones like Blackrock Mountain, Burning Steppes, Dragonblight, Shadowmoon Valley, Ironforge, and others. It's also not entirely consistent regarding which lava is harmful -- there are places where it's almost instantly fatal, places where it's annoying but not a major hazard as long as you get out quickly, and places where you can swim in or walk on it without any apparent ill effects. There's even one zone where you can ''fish'' in lava, although what you get out of it isn't edible. |
| 184 | * ''VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus'': The occasional volcanic eruption sends cracks of lava throughout the land, killing anything it touches. The lava eventually cools off, but unlike the cracks left by an earthquake, can't even be bridged by a road and becomes completely impassable. |
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| 187 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 188 | * While not seen, Castle Heterodyne from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' mentions off-hand that it can [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090417 drop people into a lava pit through a door Agatha passes by.]] |
| 189 | * ''Webcomic/MandatoryRollerCoaster'' references THE FLOOR IS LAVA! [[http://mandatoryrollercoaster.tumblr.com/post/20339447941/thefloorislava (The game, that is.)]] |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 193 | * ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': [[MagmaMan Killer Monster]] can create them to either attack or defend, and can make them burst in a pillar of lava. [[PlayingWithFire He also has fire powers.]] |
| 194 | * The Magma Pool (pictured above) from ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' actually is a nice place for a swim. It turns one of your Neopets into a [[LivingLava Magma Neopet]]. If you show up at the randomly-assigned ten minutes when the guard is asleep, that is. It's the only non-deadly lava pit in all of [[LethalLavaLand Moltara]]. There's also a lava pit item that can be placed in a player's garden. |
| 195 | * ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'': In Season 6, [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] utilizes one to kill [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic's]] daughter Soniqua. Not only it [[NoSell fails]], Soniqua spits out some of the lava at Luigi. |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 199 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': The Joker dumps Batman into a trash incinerator in one episode. In another, Red Claw tries dropping him into actual lava. |
| 200 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': The Predacons have a lava pit in their base, which [[spoiler:Scorponok and Terrorsaur]] fall into. Also notable is when [[spoiler:Quickstrike, under Tarantulas' commands, drops Megatron into one. Far from killing him, it causes him to mutate into a Transmetal 2 dragon.]] |
| 201 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinotrux}}'' has lava pits used by the BigBad as part of his evil lair. The gang eventually builds their own as it turns out access to a lava pool can be extremely handy in melting down spare scrap metal and reforging it. |
| 202 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Part 5 of "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E1TreasureOfTheGoldenSuns Treasure of the Golden Suns]]", "Too Much of a Gold Thing", has an unusual example in the form of a lake of molten gold. |
| 203 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The championship match of The Butterfly Derby (a popular Blood Sport) is fought over one. There's also one underneath the Planet Express building, which Farnsworth uses to power the occasional machine. Bender winds up going for a swim in it in one episode. |
| 204 | * ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': [[AHellOfATime Miseryville]] has quite a number of these. They vary between being a case of LavaIsBoilingKoolAid and ConvectionSchmonvection for [[TheLegionsOfHell the town's inhabitants]] to being genuinely destructive and incinerating Miseryvillians in an instant depending on the joke. |
| 205 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': |
| 206 | ** In a variation, the Lava Pit that [[spoiler:Orm chains his brother Aquaman ''and his baby son'' to]] was ''an underwater volcano''. [[spoiler:Aquaman has to chop off his own hand to save both himself and his son.]] |
| 207 | ** [[DeathWorld Apokolips]] is a world teeming with Fire Pits, which in the finale are implied to be made by drilling right into the planet's magma core and letting all the smoke and flame spill out, which gives your atmosphere that nice FireAndBrimstoneHell look. The "implied" part comes when, during their latest AlienInvasion, Apokolips tries to perform this terraforming feat on ''Earth'', turning us into a twisted mirror image of that world purely ForTheEvulz. |
| 208 | * ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': In "Ultra Chicks", Jamie defeats the beast attacking the Ultra Cadets' planet by tossing it into a volcanic pit. That is, until it turns out lava makes it more powerful and it's unleashed to destroy the planet. |
| 209 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': The Dragon Lands are filled with pools of molten rock. The dragons, who are ImmuneToFire, like to bathe in them. |
| 210 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous "Lair of Grievous"]] the first trap Grievous triggers in his lair is to open a panel in the floor underneath the heroes to a pit leading to lava or a similar superheated surface. One of the clone troopers ends up falling all the way down it and burning to death. |
| 211 | * ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' has this as one of [[BigBad Snaptrap]]'s many {{Death Trap}}s in his lair; he opened it by mistake, intending to drop Dudley and Kitty into the SharkPool, but decided to just roll with it. |
| 212 | * ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': [[GalacticConqueror Lord Hater]] has one on his ship. It's been known to suffer from technical difficulties. |
| 213 | -->'''[[AdorableEvilMinions Watchdog]] 1:''' [[AffablyEvil Come on, little buddy]], time to get [[DisintegratorRay vaporized]].\ |
| 214 | '''Watchdog 2:''' Really? I thought Hater was gonna dip 'em in lava.\ |
| 215 | '''Watchdog 1:''' No, lava pit's on the fritz.\ |
| 216 | '''Watchdog 2:''' Aw, man! I love the lava. |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 220 | * SteelMill. Except that it isn't lava but molten metal, and it is far hotter than lava. |
| 221 | * Most volcanic vents that erupt fluid pāhoehoe lava are fountains, not pools. Lava can pool in depressions downhill from eruption, but they cool rapidly into slower-flowing semi-solid lava. Persistent actively-convecting [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_lake lava lakes]] are extremely rare, and, as of December 2022, there are only ''six'' in the world: Erta Ale (Ethiopia), [[HailfirePeaks Mount Erebus]] (Ross Island, Antarctica), Kīlauea (Hawaiʻi), Nyiragongo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Marum (Ambrym, Vanuatu), and [[HailfirePeaks Mount Michael]] (South Sandwich Islands). |
| 222 | * A 2015 [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] documentary, ''Kate Humble: Into the Volcano'' features the eponymous presenter joining a group of scientists as they abseil onto a ledge overlooking the Marum lava lake to make measurements. Just watching it on TV is pretty terrifying. |
| 223 | * A BBC documentary ''Iceland, Land of Ice and Fire'' followed Icelandic geologists and volcanologists as they attempted to assess how critical a pending eruption would be on the fault line running through the country. After nearly a year of rumbling and warning, the Badarbunga volcano blew, venting its lava in the most "harmless" way possible. But the trench of fire as a subterranean lava stream came to the surface was ''still'' one and a half kilometres -- one mile -- long. And all along its length, lava was being ejected for four or five hundred feet into the air. The resulting light show was awesome and spectacular. |
| 224 | [[/folder]] |
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