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* At the very end of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler:after absorbing God]], [[BigBad Father]] creates a miniature sun in the palm of his hand. No one in the room so much as notices any heat, and his hand is unharmed. When you're precipitating nuclear fusion with a thought, convection is the ''least'' of the laws of physics that you're screwing with.
** In the dub of ''Brotherhood'' at least, this is done specifically to show how unbelievably powerful Father had become after [[spoiler: consuming a country's worth of souls]]. He even points out that he is containing the star's power and if he wanted to, could release it into the room and kill everyone. He was [[AGodAmI showing off his power]] to intimidate the heroes.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':

* During ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'''s [[spoiler:Fake Karakura Town]] arc, [[PlayingWithFire Yamamoto]] traps [[spoiler:Aizen, Gin and Kaname]] inside a giant ball of fire. They just stand there looking pretty for a few chapters and when it's finally extinguished they don't appear any worse for wear.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the powers of a zanpakuto seem to be dependent on the spiritual pressure of the user. [[spoiler:Aizen and co.]] likely just upped their pressure enough to avoid damage from the heat and flame. Yama-jii, meanwhile, was only trying to keep them out of the battle, and didn't bother to try and harm them.
** Or, to put it another way: they're ghosts. They have an excuse for not following the letter of the laws of physics. Hence why they're able to ''float in the air.''
** Yamamoto's [[spoiler:Bankai dries up the moisture around Soul Society, but other than that, no real effects are shown. Played right to the edge with Zanka no Tachi West: Zanjitsu Gokui which shrouds him in flames that he claims are 15,000,000 (fifteen million) degrees. Just to give you some idea on that scale, the surface of the sun is a mere 5500 (five thousand five hundred) degrees. His Bankai produces temperatures comparable to the ''core'' of the sun. His opponent ''does'' comment that if it weren't for his own considerable spiritual pressure protecting him, he would be set on fire just from being near Yamamoto. Though Yamamoto declining to use his Bankai against Aizen despite it being a desperate fight to the death might count as an subversion of this trope; they were fighting on Earth, which is presumably less durable than Soul Society, and wouldn't be able to handle a second sun appearing on its surface.]][[note]]There is also the fact that Aizen primary power is hypnosis, therefore aoe attacks have much better chance of hitting him. Yamamoto's original plan was to blow up the entire city and he spent the whole battle pouring his energy into this spell.[[/note]]

** In the dub of Brotherhood at least, this is done specifically to show how unbelievably powerful Father had become after [[spoiler: consuming a country's worth of souls]]. He even points out that he is containing the star's power and if he wanted to, could release it into the room and kill everyone. He was [[AGodAmI showing off his power]] to intimidate the heroes.

* Averted in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' when Kuwabara drops a piece of cloth into lava and it burns to ash a foot above the lava.

** The Mangekyo Sharingan's Amaterasu is usually actually pretty effective as jutsus as a whole go ([[NeverLiveItDown notwithstanding the Karin incident]]). It creates black fire said to be hot as the sun, which is where it runs headlong into this trope. Being hot as the sun it should destroy everything in the area of its use, but you can get right next to it unless it touches you for a few seconds (then it needs to be sealed/brought down by its user or it keeps spreading and burning). Even as hyperbole, it's a bit of a stretch.

* Subverted in ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior''. Cross Fusion [=MegaMan=] and [=ProtoMan=] are standing ''inside a volcano'' in one episode, and it doesn't affect them a bit. However, the second Lan [[WhatAnIdiot drops his armor to load more battlechips]], he starts dancing around like he's burned, and Chaud warns him to hurry up or he'll be cooked alive from the heat coming from the magma.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** In the anime, Cinnabar Island's Gym is now located in a volcano. The characters comment on the heat inside, but Fire and Rock Types can withstand the intense temperature without actually having to fall in (with the exception of Magmar). This makes it especially awesome when the deciding rematch for the Volcano Badge takes place over a ''LavaPit'', with Charizard [[Awesome/{{Pokemon}} surviving a full dunk with nary a burn]].

* ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': Hyunckel saves the rest of the group from an erupting volcano by ''standing inside the ankle-deep lava'' and getting the rest of the group (which don't look particularly worse for the wear even though they're standing in a rock in the middle of a lake of magma) to safety. Even though Hyunckel's a badass, he's very much human, and he does all this with no more signs of discomfort than a slight grimace. He even allows himself to cooly sink to his death after the deed is done. [[spoiler: And he survives.]]
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** In the anime, Cinnabar Island's Gym is now located in a volcano. The characters comment on the heat inside, but Fire and Rock Types can withstand the intense temperature without actually having to fall in (with the exception of Magmar). This makes it especially awesome when the deciding rematch for the Volcano Badge takes place over a ''LavaPit'', with Charizard [[Awesome/{{Pokemon}} surviving a full dunk with nary a burn]].
** Any time someone gets hit with a move like Flamethrower at close range.
* Yellow's second battle against Lance in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' takes place in and around the crater of an active volcano. Despite being inches from the lava, Yellow is fine thanks to riding on the Substitute shaped like a surfboard that Pika makes.
* ''Anime/RoninWarriors'' twists this around so much. When the heroes are split up, Ryo is found in an active volcano. His power is fire based, so the lava makes his mystic armor stronger, but it gives off heat. When Anubis throws two unarmored characters into the volcano, Ryo dives after them but realizes that his ''armor's'' heat will kill them if he grabs them, but the fact they're in a ''volcano'' doesn't bother him.

** The sequels -''Anime/GreatMazinger'', ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer''- and reimaginations -''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}''- played with the trope as well.

* During ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'''s [[spoiler:Fake Karakura Town]] arc, [[PlayingWithFire Yamamoto]] traps [[spoiler:Aizen, Gin and Kaname]] inside a giant ball of fire. They just stand there looking pretty for a few chapters and when it's finally extinguished they don't appear any worse for wear.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the powers of a zanpakuto seem to be dependent on the spiritual pressure of the user. [[spoiler:Aizen and co.]] likely just upped their pressure enough to avoid damage from the heat and flame. Yama-jii, meanwhile, was only trying to keep them out of the battle, and didn't bother to try and harm them.
** Or, to put it another way: they're ghosts. They have an excuse for not following the letter of the laws of physics. Hence why they're able to ''float in the air.''
** Yamamoto's [[spoiler:Bankai dries up the moisture around Soul Society, but other than that, no real effects are shown. Played right to the edge with Zanka no Tachi West: Zanjitsu Gokui which shrouds him in flames that he claims are 15,000,000 (fifteen million) degrees. Just to give you some idea on that scale, the surface of the sun is a mere 5500 (five thousand five hundred) degrees. His Bankai produces temperatures comparable to the ''core'' of the sun. His opponent ''does'' comment that if it weren't for his own considerable spiritual pressure protecting him, he would be set on fire just from being near Yamamoto. Though Yamamoto declining to use his Bankai against Aizen despite it being a desperate fight to the death might count as an subversion of this trope; they were fighting on Earth, which is presumably less durable than Soul Society, and wouldn't be able to handle a second sun appearing on its surface.]][[note]]There is also the fact that Aizen primary power is hypnosis, therefore aoe attacks have much better chance of hitting him. Yamamoto's original plan was to blow up the entire city and he spent the whole battle pouring his energy into this spell.[[/note]]
* ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' and another driver almost fall into an active volcano while racing, but they are able to climb up the side no problem. Another episode has a race ''inside'' a volcano. Speed drives the Mach 5 ''through lava''. The tires don't even melt.
* In ''Anime/MyOtome'' Mashiro and Arika end up eaten by some sort of monster that has lava in its gut. Despite being in a close space with lava only inches away, they are fine.
* Makoto from ''Anime/GhostHound'' runs into a heavily burning house to [[spoiler:save his mother]], without wearing any protection whatsoever, thus doing something that even the firemen in their fireproof suits couldn't pull off. The fire also appears to be smoke free.
* Subverted in ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior''. Cross Fusion [=MegaMan=] and [=ProtoMan=] are standing ''inside a volcano'' in one episode, and it doesn't affect them a bit. However, the second Lan [[WhatAnIdiot drops his armor to load more battlechips]], he starts dancing around like he's burned, and Chaud warns him to hurry up or he'll be cooked alive from the heat coming from the magma.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' has Nightshroud force Jaden into a duel by kidnapping his friends and placing them in a life-or-death situation. This isn't unusual in a series where card games save the world, but it fits this trope because said life-or-death situation is suspending Jaden's friends in a force field inches above a lava pool in a volcano (with the English version characters making wisecracks like "Now I know what a grilled cheese feels like" all the while).
** Red Dragon Archfiend in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' is an aversion as it has the ability to destroy all Defense Position monsters on the field when it attacks one of them. In its animation, its flaming fist attack burns up the other monsters as a side effect.

* ''[[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Gatchaman]]'' episode 99. The team is trapped in a big shaft and manages to get out about a second before lava, that is following them and filling the entire shaft, reaches the top. Injury: none.

* Averted in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing''. It's shown several times that the title mech's {{BFG}} is so powerful that the heatwave generated by the particle beam can incinerate {{Mooks}} dozens of feet away from the beam itself.
* Lampshaded in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': Hayate and Koutetsu have a duel on a rock surrounded by lava while everyone else watches from the sidelines. Miki and Riza lampshade this trope just before Izumi's dress catches on fire, promptly ending the duel.
* While it's mostly used straight in ''Manga/FairyTail'' with Natsu's flames never seeming to ignite anything, it is averted once. When fighting an enemy whose wind-magic armor allows him to deflect Natsu's attacks, Natsu gets hot enough to create a small firestorm, and the resulting updraft strips away his enemy's armor.
** Another aversion comes when Natsu fights a [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours Flame Godslayer]] named Zancrow, who's barely affected by Natsu's strikes but his own "god flames" can actually burn him, one of the few times Natsu has ever shown injury from fire attacks. Natsu has to resort to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard using said flames]] against Zancrow to win.
** It's particularly ridiculous when it's revealed that Natsu's flames can burn through metal. Yet they rarely seem to burn anyone severely. They seem to handwave it with the idea that magic has less of an effect on those whose power is just [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours that much stronger than your own or near your level]] and this is a world where everyone is MadeOfIron, but it still doesn't explain how Natsu can fry an entire group of {{Mook}}s and the worst that happens to them is a bunch of smoke over their slightly charred, unconscious forms.
** Chapter 309 both averts and plays it straight at the same time. [[spoiler:Lucy's and Yukino's shoes are burnt off whilst dangling just above a lava pit, but when Arcadias ''wades out into the lava itself'' he appears to suffer no lasting effects upon being fished out beyond singed skin and clothing. However, this is actually questioned and justified later when we find out that Arcadios was wearing a magical, protective amulet.]]
** Eventually, Natsu becomes so strong that he can generate enough heat that it starts to set fire to his surroundings, melt stone and ground, [[ClothingDamage and cause non-heat-resistant clothing to burn away]] simply as a consequence. And yet, aside from commenting on the heat, it still doesn't hurt anyone he's not directly attacking. Apparently, as long as you're MadeOfIron in ''Fairy Tail'', convection isn't much of an inconvenience.
* Averted in ''Manga/GambleFish''. Tomu is playing a game in which the loser gets a pot full of 1200 degree coals dumped on them. Everybody is getting noticeably hotter as the pot gets closer, and they're all perfectly aware that if the pot gets close enough Tomu will get roasted without even touching the coals. Sure enough, at a distance of 30 centimeters the ''stone table'' on which the game is being played begins to melt. Just to get close enough to take his turn Tomu has to fashion a makeshift safety suit out of several layers of clothing, and it only lasts a few seconds before bursting into flames, leaving Tomu himself with quite a few burns.
* At the very end of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler:after absorbing God]], [[BigBad Father]] creates a miniature sun in the palm of his hand. No one in the room so much as notices any heat, and his hand is unharmed. When you're precipitating nuclear fusion with a thought, convection is the ''least'' of the laws of physics that you're screwing with.
** In the dub of Brotherhood at least, this is done specifically to show how unbelievably powerful Father had become after [[spoiler: consuming a country's worth of souls]]. He even points out that he is containing the star's power and if he wanted to, could release it into the room and kill everyone. He was [[AGodAmI showing off his power]] to intimidate the heroes.
* Averted in the {{Filler}} Arc "Asgard" of ''Manga/SaintSeiya''. God Warrior [[PlayingWithFire Hagen]] of [[StellarName Merak Beta]] lures the [[AnIcePerson ice-and-cold-wielding]] Saint Cygnus Hyoga into the depths of a volcano. While Hagen's Cloth and his own supernatural [[BattleAura Cosmo]] explicitly protect him from the heat (and, indeed, the lava enhances his attacks,) Hyoga has to spend such a ''considerable'' amount of his cooling Cosmo just to ''survive'' in the volcano, let alone ''attack'' his enemy, that he completely exhausts himself doing so.
* Also averted in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. No volcanoes, but the final enemy is a [[ThePhoenix phoenix]]-HalfHumanHybrid who can generate as much flame and heat as he wants. With one swipe of his wings, or a wave of his hands, he can toss a gout of flame that, aside from ''burning'', it heats up the air around it and the resulting pressure actually punches through solid rock. Later in the fight, when this enemy's BattleAura causes the rock to melt into magma, Ranma tries to shield himself from it with a frozen boulder. The boulder (which took the brunt of the hit) is disintegrated and Ranma himself is scorched despite never coming into contact with the magma. In the end, even when the foe ''isn't'' emitting any flame, the extreme heat in the air around him is what makes Ranma's final attack possible.
** Near the beginning of the series, Ranma is stuck as a girl because the [[PressurePoint Full-Body Cat's Tongue]] makes him (or, rather, her) unable to stand heat, so he can't change back into a man because he can't even touch hot water. Thus, he performs [[WaxOnWaxOff a method of speed-training based on snatching chestnuts from an open fire]] --supposedly, [[WhenYouSnatchThePebble if he can grab these chestnuts from the flames without being burned, he'll be fast enough to steal the Cat Tongue cure]] from [[TricksterMentor Cologne]]. Problem is, even the air around the flames is unbearably hot to him, and ''he can't even get close to the flames'' in order to ''begin'' training. [[spoiler: Ranma gets around this problem by trying to catch hungry piranhas from a small fish tank without getting bit.]]
** Averting this trope is also the very basis of the ''Hiryuushoutenha'' --[[CallingYourAttacks Flying Dragon Ascend-to-Heaven Wave]]-- and its many variations. It's based on making the opponent hot with anger, thereby making them release an equally hot BattleAura, while the practitioner exudes an ice-cool aura himself. Training for this technique involved, at one point, practicing dodging while on top of a boulder in the middle of a boiling hot spring. Keeping cool ''despite'' the heat was the entire point of the session. Akane then [[UnwantedAssistance tried to help Ranma]] by wearing especially-insulated flammable gauntlets and explicitly use convection to simulate the effect... but she didn't foresee the flames jumping onto her ordinary, non-insulated clothes.
* In ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'', there are quite a few episodes that involve the Booma-Dooma Volcano (Known as the [[CaptainErsatz Kilauea Volcano]] in Japanese). In Episode 10, Kirby and co. help Chief Bookem rescue Tuff from the volcano. In Episode 48, Kirby fights the monster Fire Feeder inside the volcano itself. And in Episode 66, Kirby pours some hot liquid provided by Nightmare Enterprises into the volcano so it can erupt and ''melt all the snow'' in Cappy Town.
* Actually averted in the season 1 finale of ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. Sailor Mercury sees the DD Girls conjuring up an illusion of a lava ball that gives off actual heat. She uses her Aqua Spray to shield herself from the heat. [[spoiler: As she is killed seconds later by the DD Girls]] it's unknown if this actually worked.
* In ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', heat doesn't seem to impress the heroine much. Early on we see Nausicaä jump around the burning inferno of the airship that crashed into the valley. And again, when she and Mito are surrounded by a wall fire on the airship that was intercepted by Asbel.

* The climactic battle of ''Anime/NinjaScroll'' takes place on a burning treasure ship. The fire is clearly hot enough to melt the gold the ship is carrying, yet the combatants carry on without discomfort or their clothes spontaneously igniting.
* Averted and noted in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' during Vegeta's fight with Magetta, a magma-spewing robot. To make up for Magetta's lack of flight, there is a barrier around the ring and Vegeta cannot run into it--but the barrier also traps the magma's heat, which is so intense it even affects Vegeta in Super Saiyan form. Played super straight in ''Anime/SuperDragonBallHeroes'' episode 23 though - oh boy, just watch that one, especially at around the 3:02 mark. Probably one of the most shameless examples of this trope ever.
* ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'': At some point during the second season, Eteban and his companions have to explore the inside of an active volcano whose scorching heat has no effect on them.

* In ''Anime/MaiOtome'' Mashiro and Arika end up eaten by some sort of monster that has lava in its gut. Despite being in a close space with lava only inches away, they are fine.

* ''Anime/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': Hyunckel saves the rest of the group from an erupting volcano by ''standing inside the ankle-deep lava'' and getting the rest of the group (which don't look particularly worse for the wear even though they're standing in a rock in the middle of a lake of magma) to safety. Even though Hyunckel's a badass, he's very much human, and he does all this with no more signs of discomfort than a slight grimace. He even allows himself to cooly sink to his death after the deed is done. [[spoiler: And he survives.]]

* ''Anime/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': Hyunckel saves the rest of the group from an erupting volcano by ''standing inside the ankle-deep lava'' and getting the rest of the group (which don't look particularly worse for the wear even though they're standing in the middle of a rock in a lake of magma) to safety. Even though Hyunckel's a badass, he's very much human, and he does all this with no more signs of discomfort than a slight grimace. He even allows himself to cooly sink to his death after the deed is done. [[spoiler: and he survives]]

* ''Anime/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': Hyunckel saves the rest of the group from an erupting volcano by ''standing inside the ankle-deep lava'' and getting the rest of the group (which don't look particularly worse for the wear even though they're standing in the middle of a rock in a lake of magma) to safety. After this, he allows himself to cooly sink to his apparent death. [[spoiler: He survives]]

* ''DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': Hyunckel saves the rest of the group from an erupting volcano by ''standing inside the ankle-deep lava'' and getting the rest of the group (which don't look particularly worse for the wear even though they're standing in the middle of a rock in a lake of magma) to safety. After this, he allows himself to cooly sink to his apparent death. [[spoiler: He survives]]

* Averted and noted in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' during Vegeta's fight with Magetta, a magma-spewing robot. To make up for Magetta's lack of flight, there is a barrier around the ring and Vegeta cannot run into it--but the barrier also traps the magma's heat, which is so intense it even affects Vegeta in Super Saiyan form.

* In ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'', there are quite a few episodes that involve the Booma-Dooma Volcano (Known as the [[CaptainErsatz Kilauea Volcano]] in Japanese). In Episode 10, Kirby and co. help Chief Bookem rescue Tuff from the volcano. In Episode 48, Kirby fights the Demon Beast Fire Jelly inside the volcano itself. And in Episode 66, Kirby pours some hot liquid provided by Nightmare Enterprises into the volcano so it can erupt and ''melt all the snow'' in Cappy Town.

* In ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'', there are quite a few episodes that involve the [[CaptainErsatz Kilauea Volcano]]. In episode 10, Kirby and co. help Chief Borun rescue Bun from the volcano. In episode 48, Kirby fights the Demon Beast Fire Jelly inside the volcano itself. And in episode 66, Kirby pours some hot liquid provided by Holy Nightmare Co. into the volcano so it can erupt and ''melt snow'' in Pupu Village.

* Averted and noted in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' during Vegeta's fight with Magetta, a magma-spewing robot. To make up for Magetta's lack of flight, there is a barrier around the ring and Vegeta cannot run into it--but the barrier also traps the magma's heat, which is so intense it even affects Vegeta in Super Saiyan form.

* In ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'', there are quite a few episodes that involve the [[CaptainErsatz Kilauea Volcano]]. In episode 10, Kirby and co. help Chief Borun rescue Bun from the volcano. In episode 48, Kirby fights the Demon Beast Fire Jelly inside the volcano itself. And in episode 66, Kirby pours some hot liquid provided by Holy Nightmare Co. into the volcano so it can erupt and ''melt snow'' in Pupu Village.

* Also averted in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. No volcanoes, but the final enemy is a [[ThePhoenix phoenix]]-HalfHumanHybrid who can generate as much flame and heat as he wants. With one swipe of his wings, or a wave of his hands, he can toss a gout of flame that, aside from ''[[CaptainObvious burning]]'', it heats up the air around it and the resulting pressure actually punches through solid rock. Later in the fight, when this enemy's BattleAura causes the rock to melt into magma, Ranma tries to shield himself from it with a frozen boulder. The boulder (which took the brunt of the hit) is disintegrated and Ranma himself is scorched despite never coming into contact with the magma. In the end, even when the foe ''isn't'' emitting any flame, the extreme heat in the air around him is what makes Ranma's final attack possible.

** Yamamoto's [[spoiler:Bankai dries up the moisture around Soul Society, but other than that, no real effects are shown. Played right to the edge with Zanka no Tachi West: Zanjitsu Gokui which shrouds him in flames that he claims are 15,000,000 (fifteen million) degrees. Just to give you some idea on that scale, the surface of the sun is a mere 5500 (five thousand five hundred) degrees. His Bankai produces temperatures comparable to the ''core'' of the sun. Though Yamamoto declining to use his Bankai against Aizen despite it being a desperate fight to the death might count as an subversion of this trope; they were fighting on Earth, which is presumably less durable than Soul Society, and wouldn't be able to handle a second sun appearing on its surface.]][[note]]There is also the fact that Aizen primary power is hypnosis, therefore aoe attacks have much better chance of hitting him. Yamamoto's original plan was to blow up the entire city and he spent the whole battle pouring his energy into this spell.[[/note]]

* Yellow's second battle against Lance in the ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'' takes place in and around the crater of an active volcano. Despite being inches from the lava, Yellow is fine thanks to riding on the Substitute shaped like a surfboard that Pika makes.

** When Ace was [[spoiler: freed from the execution platform]], he held onto Luffy...with a tunnel of flames around them. Yet Luffy looks no worse for the wear.

** It's particularly ridiculous when it's revealed that Natsu's flames can burn through metal. Yet they rarely seem to burn anyone severely.