History ConvectionSchmonvection / VideoGames

* Averted in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' in the beginning. The forest Fou Lu is walking through is set on fire, and he seemingly has no problem with it, which would make sense considering his claims of AGodAmI. Only for him to come out the other side and be unable to take on an ambush due to how much he was weakened by the fire, especially due to his strong affinity for water. Then he gets knocked out in one hit. In a later scene he wakes up covered in bandages and is unable to walk before collapsing, with his new caretaker telling him to take it easy because he's seen men die from burns as bad as that.

* Quite a few ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' Gym Leaders have lava inside their gym, inside their room (in the case of the leagues), or are located near lava.

** While not strictly a lava hazard, Magcargo's Pokédex entry lists its body temperature [[ArtisticLicensePhysics as being]] ''[[ArtisticLicensePhysics twice as hot as the surface of the sun.]]'' Just let [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWQpe-QN-o this guy]] explain the further implications of this, especially in regard to ultraviolet radiation. A Pokémon trainer standing near a Magcargo gets ''35 million times more'' UV radiation than an average lifeform would get from the sun.

** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness]]'' has it in the Cipher lair on Citidark Isle. Part of the place is oozing with lava and you have to push metal crates into the pits to block the lava so you can get the chests and proceed to the next area. You do get a "it's too hot to approach" if you try to approach the chest before dropping the crate, and the [[MemeticMutation ceiling peon]] complains that he got hot waiting for you but that's it. No way the ground would really be cool enough to walk on that fast. The crates might survive a while, but they'd soon be red-hot and possibly molten.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' has a battle with the Noble Arcanine boss in the middle a lava lake. You can also summon ride Pokémon later on and ride around the burning mountain with no one suffering any damage.

** Taken up to eleven in cold planets, where the player will freeze up without proper environmental protection no matter where they are, including the molten core of the planet. If they remove their enviornmental protection pack, wait long enough to start losing health, and then walk in lava, [[YinYangBomb they will boil to death while they are also succumbing to hypothermia]].

* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac: Repentance'': Isaac cannot be harmed by the magma of the Mines floor at all. The rooms with the burning rocks should be super heated, but he can stand right next to the pits or even be right over them with flight. Using the Flush! item, which floods a given room, cools it to rock, but otherwise Isaac does not interact with it. [[spoiler:The magma or boiling hot blood in the Beast's arena ''can'' harm Isaac, but only if he flies right down in to it. Otherwise he spends the whole battle in a molten cavern without suffering any harm from the heat. The Beast's fight is a side-scroller rather than top-down like most of the game, allowing the player to descend in to the magma.]]

* The Xbox ''VideoGame/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' game not only has Buffy casually crossing a stone bridge over lava with just a casual comment about the heat, but there's also a level fought in an active foundry with molten metal all around the place. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in some dialogue, though.

* Arachnia in ''VideoGame/{{Bug|1995}}''. Bug can be perfectly fine even when he is on a rock floating on a sea of lava. But once he [[AshFace touches]] [[OneHitKill the]] [[ImMelting lava]]...

Countless [[VideogameTropes video games]] have LethalLavaLand levels [[LavaIsBoilingKoolAid that you don't lose health for just being in]]. For example:

* Firmly averted in ''[[VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery ADoM]]''; not only will being in the Tower of Eternal Flames slowly roast your character to death (unless he's very fire resistant) and destroy his equipment, it will also boost his speed if he's of the reptilian Drakeling race. (Similarly, hanging around the game's only ice level will cause slow death by freezing unless you have cold resistance.)

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla:'' In the "Dawn of Ragnarok" DLC, the Muspels have left trails of lava everywhere they go. Odin's perfectly fine so long as they don't step on it, at which point they will burst into flames... which can then be extinguished by rolling. That the DLC is partially a severely scrambled memory might leave ''some'' wiggle room.

* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' Batman infiltrates an active steel mill via a smokestack, and has to navigate around molten steel with no real ill-effect, save for falling into it. However, hot steam from busted pipes can hinder your progress later on.

* Part of one of the later stages of ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis2'' takes place inside an active volcano that Dylan can run around in (while wearing body armor, no less) with no problems despite coming perilously close to the lava flows.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':

** In ''Ghost Babel'', fire and electrified floors just knocks you back. Then you reach the Power Plant, where supposedly the rain water flooded the basement and pools of water will shock you. And what else is in the basement? A power generator. So, touching electrified water should fry a human alive and still... Just causes you some damage and knocks you back.

* The Underworld stage of ''[[VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Ninja Gaiden II]]'' for the Xbox 360. The usual rules of the trope are applied, made even sillier by the fact that you're running around on molten rock in ''socks.'' But you can fall into deep lava-which very slowly damages you-and SWIM IN IT LIKE IT'S WATER.

** In the first game, the fight with Mr. Skops. You can be hanging off a ledge with your feet dangling inches above the lava and not die.

* In ''VideoGame/SaveTheLight'', lava is dangerous only when party members fall into it, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation even Garnet, who is lavaproof]] in [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the original show]], unless she's wearing the Fireproof Badge or feeling the immunity effects from Feelawesome Tea or the Immunity Badge.

* ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'':

** Most obviously demnstrated by the magma at the bottom of the map. Typically it's seperated from the rest of the map by the [[Unobtanium amazingly isolating]] abyssalite, but sometimes, there will be a small gap in the layer, filled with other rocks. Now, the magma below will not flow up through the hole (it's not under pressure), but the rock ''will'' conduct its heat. And even though rock isn't exactly a great heat conductor, even a tiny gap will quickly heat the area around it to scalding temperatures.
** You can't have a whole bunch of machinery generating heat as a side effect and ''not'' expect your surroundings to slowly warm up, and if the space is small enough and not cooled for everything to slowly succumb to entropic heat generation. This aspect has a tendency to slowly sneak up on players not actively monitoring the heat inside their base, and has caused [[DisasterDominoes the downfall of many a beginner's colony]]. You'll thus need to deal with this somehow, either by

** You'll need to account for the heat if you want to keep your farming under control, as plants require specific heat ranges to grow.

* Averted in a realistic manner in ''Videogame/OxygenNotIncluded''. You can't have a whole bunch of machinery generating heat as a side effect and ''not'' expect your surroundings to slowly warm up, and if the space is small enough and not cooled for everything to slowly succumb to entropic heat generation (though there ''is'' one explicitly entropy-violating cooling system late-game). You'll need to account for the heat if you want to keep your farming under control, and to make sure your entire habitat doesn't become uncomfortably (then unsurvivably) hot from the top down.

* ''VideoGame/JurassicPark'' for the Sega Genesis and ''VideoGame/JurassicPark2TheChaosContinues'' for the SNES both feature levels set inside a huge volcano, with pits of lava you must jump over. As long as you don't touch the lava, you can run around just inches from it and be perfectly fine.

* Arachnia in ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}''. Bug can be perfectly fine even when he is on a rock floating on a sea of lava. But once he [[AshFace touches]] [[OneHitKill the]] [[ImMelting lava]]...

*** The game both {{avert|edTrope}}s and plays this trope straight. While Link seems immune to the heat waving off of the lava pools and rivers in the Dodongo Caverns as a kid, when he goes into the Fire Temple as an adult, he has to wear a [[AWizardDidIt special magical tunic]] to protect himself from the heat, otherwise he'll overheat and die. None of the later games, however, seem to reference this and Link goes into many more fire dungeons without harm.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'':

* ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheInfernalMachine'' has a section where you have to venture inside an active volcano. Indy can get ridiculously close to the lava and show no sign of discomfort. However, the death animation if you fall in the lava is actually pretty realistic: Indy doesn't just burn up; his whole violently explodes.