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** In the Avatarverse, lava is created by superheating rock. Simple enough, except that certain individuals have such mastery over it that they can do this themselves with their mind alone. Next is the applications of lavabending: one of the Red Lotus, Ghazan, is imprisoned on a wooden prison in the middle of the ocean, so no earthbending for him for almost 13 years. He gets a few pebbles thrown into his cage, and creates a lava shuriken. Said shuriken is able to slice through wood like a lightsaber yet doesn't burn it, and doesn't seem to burn anyone it hits or is near. In later episodes, Ghazan forms a lava moat around an island when the Red Lotus are under attack; destroys an entire mountain (air temple included) and almost roasts the Krew alive. If the Boiling Rock represents schizophrenia, lavabending must be bipolar.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': {{Justified|Trope}} by Captain Planet, who can not only swim through molten lava and be completely unharmed, but can also ''use it to heal himself''. As dangerous as they are to humans, lava flows and volcanoes are still part of the Earth's natural ecosystem, which Captain Planet is a Physical Avatar of. The Planeteers themselves, however, have no such excuse.

** Subverted in "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", when they go to Japan and the family falls in the Lava on a game show. Turns out it was simply Orangeade, yet Homer continues to scream "It burns!" because (as [[Creator/GeorgeTakei Wink]] mentions afterward), it's "loaded with wasabi" (and orange concentrate in your eyes would burn anyway).
** The trope image comes from "Bart vs. Australia". In this instance, the pay phone has already rung, suggesting it works fine, while the person responding isn't burned until he falls into the lava from [[TooDumbToLive not letting go of the phone]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' : This comes up with Flame Princess, a being of living fire, fairly often.

** In "The Awakening," Aang stands on top of solid but still-glowing lava rock in bare feet without getting burned. Curiously there is a subversion in the same scene, as his wooden glider caught on fire by just being next to a lava stream that Aang had just stepped by. In a later episode, Aang, Sokka, and Toph are running through tunnels within a dormant volcano with no problem running over the rock crust that has formed over a river of magma or soaring over an underground lake of the stuff. Strangely enough, in "The Avatar and the Firelord," a major character actually dies from the toxic gases released by an erupting volcano.
** Subverted in "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSozinsCometPart3IntoTheInferno Sozin's Comet]]", the Gaang is riding in a stolen airship while [[spoiler:the other ships burn everything below]]. Toph, a blind girl, feels the heat radiating from below and comments that "that's a lot of fire, isn't it?". Later, Aang hides in a sphere of rock while the BigBad pummels the sphere with fireblasts. A cut to Aang shows him visibly sweating inside.
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoilingRockPart1 The Boiling Rock]]" is just straight up schizophrenic: the titular Boiling Rock is a prison on an island in the middle of a ''boiling lake in the crater of a volcano''. It should be like a constant sauna in there since it's hot enough that a hot air balloon can't keep in the air, yet it doesn't seem to be a real problem. However there is ''conduction'', as regular ships can't get across the lake without getting so hot as to burn the travels: they tried an insulated boat, and the prison uses a gondola on a high rope.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': One episode involves Bruce Wayne battling a ninja rival, Kyodai Ken, on an erupting volcano. The climax of the fight comes when they are separated on the rocks, and Bruce [[SaveTheVillain throws a rope for the ninja to catch, thinking that if Ken jumps while Bruce pulls, Ken could make it.]] The ninja kicks the rope away, but not before giving a look that both says, "I don't want your help," and almost looks as though he is thinking, "Please, don't be so stupid."

* The ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' episode "Hot Stretch". Aliens use a stolen fusion device to unleash lava on the surface. The lava flows in rivers down city streets without setting anything on fire and people stand next to it with no harm (although the heroes do sweat a lot, which is more than seen in many shows).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ewoks}}'': Subverted in the first episode, where Morag has sparked a massive forest fire and dammed the river to hamper the Ewoks' attempt to fight it. Wicket suggest using Master Logray's big supply of fire foam and airdrop bags of it from their gliders. Chief Cherpa nixes that idea since the wild winds caused by the massive fire's convection currents would cause the gliders to crash into the flames. However, that complication is solved by the small winged whisties who volunteer to guide the gliders safely around the currents while still getting to the best areas to bomb.

* In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mechanical_Monsters the second episode]] of the early [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons Fleischer]] ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' animated series, a villain with his own foundry tries to make Lois Lane talk by slowly lowering her into a giant vat of molten iron. She shows no signs of distress, even when she falls and Superman has to grab her ''mere inches'' above the surface of the vat. (For reference, iron has a melting point of 1538 °C/2800 °F)
** Likewise, in "Volcano" Lois is right next to molten lava and is completely unaffected, even doing a hand-over-hand climb over a field of lava without being even singed.
** This is amended in later episodes, where Lois Lane is imperiled by fire, and passes out or is burned outright by the heat.
* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'': ZigZagged in "Volcanus Erupts". Razor needs a heat suit to get close enough to the titular fire demon to plant a bomb in his weak spot. However, when Volcanus grabs Commander Feral's helicopter, the aircraft doesn't melt, and Feral is able to climb out through the smashed windshield and grab a lifeline the SWAT Kats drop him, with no ill effects from the heat that must be pouring off of the hand holding his copter.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': One episode involves Bruce Wayne battling a ninja rival on an erupting volcano. The climax of the fight comes when they are separated on the rocks and Wayne [[SaveTheVillain throws a rope for the ninja to catch, thinking that if he jumps while he pulls he could make it.]] The ninja kicks the rope away, but not before giving a look that both says "I don't want your help" and almost looks as though he is thinking "Please, don't be so stupid."

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The trope is treated as a game of ping pong.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', in addition to using the same examples (Firebenders casually throw around fire and lightning with little to no protection and no one ever gets so much as singed), actually continues the trend set by its predecessor, in the form of LAVABENDING... In the Avatarverse, lava is created by superheating rock. Simple enough, except that certain individuals have such mastery over it that they can do this themselves with their mind alone. Next is the applications of lavabending: one of the Red Lotus, Ghazan, is imprisoned on a wooden prison in the middle of the ocean, so no earthbending for him for almost 13 years. He gets a few pebbles thrown into his cage, and creates a lava shuriken. Said shuriken is able to slice through wood like a lightsaber yet doesn't burn it, and doesn't seem to burn anyone it hits or is near.
** In later episodes, Ghazan forms a lava moat around an island when the Red Lotus are under attack; destroys an entire mountain (air temple included) and almost roasts the Krew alive. If the Boiling Rock represents schizophrenia, lavabending must be bipolar.
** The Red Lotus prisons themselves. One is in the middle of a dormant volcano, and houses a master (and psychotic) waterbender, Ming Hua. Played straight as they have to import water in barrels and completely restrain her in order to hydrate her due to the heat of the volcano. On the flipside of this is the prison created for P'Li, a combustionbender. Her prison is located in the North Pole, hundreds of feet in the ice. It is so cold that she cannot generate the energy necessary to light a finger on fire, much less launch an attack. Get hit by a fire blast once she escapes though, and she is back in business.