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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Koati}}'': Calli (a bird) is able to fly Pako and Nachi over the mouth of a volcano and doesn't even get an AshFace from it.

* Lampshaded in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU50VfygcrA this]] [=YouTube=] parody of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', where both Anakin and Obi-Wan stop to wonder how they're able to stand so close to the lava without being immolated.

* Lampshaded in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU50VfygcrA this]] YouTube parody of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', where both Anakin and Obi-Wan stop to wonder how they're able to stand so close to the lava without being immolated.

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] apparently doesn't exist in fiction land, even though Earth would be a horrible place without it.[[note]]How does no weather, no ability to reduce your body temperature, and no marine life sound? Worse still, that's just the beginning of what would happen.[[/note]] Instead, heat seems to propagate more like electricity -- mostly just via conduction, so as long as you don't actually touch the source, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well, and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure Schmoverpressure. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]], heavy ash fall, and [[OminousFog deadly pyroclastic flows thundering down from the volcano's summit]]. There is also a Fumes, Schmumes variant, where a [[AcidPool pool of hazardous liquid]] that should be offgassing dangerous fumes is perfectly safe as long as you don't touch it.

* Subverted in one issue of ''ComicBook/XForce'', where Wolverine's OppositeSexClone, [[Characters/X23LauraKinney X-23]] was above a vat of molten metal, and falls. The next time we see her, all her hair has burned away and she has third-degree burns all over. Her shirt was burned away too, making Elixir give her his. Turned out she bounced off the side of the vat to the ground, but the brief exposure to the heat was still enough to harm her. She has a HealingFactor so she got better.

* Crystar The Crystal Warrior. For the purpose of having a civil war, the loyalists to the old king and his heir Crystar are turned into living crystal men, and the rebel faction are turned into living lava men. The obvious solution of just spraying water on the bad guys didn't come up in this comic's brief run.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'': At one point, Characters/{{Ma|rvelComicsMagneto}}gneto had a base in the Antarctic surrounded by lava, the only thing keeping the lava from destroying the base was a force field. Yet, when the device controlling the force field is destroyed the lava only slowly leaks in before it finally bursts in. Magneto survives by using his powers to create a magnetic sphere to keep it away from him, whereas Jean creates a telekinetic bubble for herself and the rest of the team, and it somehow keeps the heat out.
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': In one issue, Donald was able to fly with no problems few centimetres above the lava on his [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon Extransformer]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':

** In crossover story ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot'', Robin is thrown into an atomic reactor, but he is hauled out of there by Characters/{{Batgirl}}. Since his body does not touch the flames, he is completely unaffected by the searing heat or the lethal radiation.
* ''ComicBook/{{Swordquest}}: Fireworld'': Mostly played straight. The characters run around a LethalLavaLand with gouts of flame everywhere, but suffer no ill effects aside from profuse sweating and a constant thirst.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: {{Handwave}}d in one of the ComicBook/WonderGirl Impossible Tales. Diana jumps into a bubbling volcano to retrieve her lasso, and while doing so thinks to herself how handy it is all Amazons "train" to be more heat resilient since a regular person would die doing what she's doing.

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] apparently doesn't exist in fiction land, even though Earth would be a horrible place without it.[[note]]How does no weather, no ability to reduce your body temperature, and no marine life sound? Worse still, that's just the beginning of what would happen.[[/note]] Instead, heat seems to propagate more like electricity -- mostly just via conduction, so as long as you don't actually touch the source, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well, and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure Schmoverpressure. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]], heavy ash fall, and [[OminousFog deadly pyroclastic flows thundering down from the volcano's summit]]. There is a Fumes, Schmumes variant, where a [[AcidPool pool of hazardous liquid]] that should be offgassing dangerous fumes is perfectly safe as long as you don't touch it.

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] apparently doesn't exist in fiction land, even though Earth would be a horrible place without it.[[note]]How does no weather, no ability to reduce your body temperature, and no marine life sound? Worse still, that's just the beginning of what would happen.[[/note]] Instead, heat seems to propagate more like electricity -- mostly just via conduction, so as long as you don't actually touch the source, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well, and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure Schmoverpressure. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]], heavy ash fall, and [[OminousFog deadly pyroclastic flows thundering down from the volcano's summit]].

There is a Fumes, Schmumes variant, where a [[AcidPool pool of hazardous liquid]] that should be offgassing dangerous fumes is perfectly safe as long as you don't touch it.

Lava is also rarely found just calmly lying around, looking as fresh as when it first left the mantle -- when it slows, it has time to cool and harden, progressively changing in consistency from fresh caramel, to toffee, to rock. If it's been liquid for any appreciable length of time, it will probably [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAxj2ob_JoU look like this.]] Since the exterior of the lava cools down first, it also won't look orange/red unless it's very, ''very'' fresh; viscous lava flows tend to take on a silvery-grey appearance as the outside cools down, with the still orange/red-hot interior visible through cracks on its surface. This is a subtrope of ArtisticLicensePhysics, and a common inaccurate portrayal of UsefulNotes/{{Energy}} (in this case, thermal energy) in fiction.

Occasionally you may see the visual effects of convection in the form of distortion of heated air--which will still be safe to be near, as long as you don't touch the magma itself.

For some reason, the reverse is demonstrated a bit more realistically; characters will feel cold in a cave or other area that's in perpetual winter, or frigid enough to have ice form on the walls. However, as long as they bundle up, the most they'll ever get is a longing for some hot cocoa and a warm fireplace -- and, much like how standing close to lava rarely leads to overheating, FrigidWaterIsHarmless - characters can fall in freezing cold water and suffer nothing more than a case of the shivers, or at worst, pop up [[InstantIceJustAddCold inside a big ice cube]]. This, too, can be attributed to RuleOfCool (pun aside).

For some reason, the reverse is demonstrated a bit more realistically; characters will feel cold in a cave or other area that's in perpetual winter, or frigid enough to have ice form on the walls. However, as long as they bundle up, the most they'll ever get is a longing for some hot cocoa and a warm fireplace -- and, much like how standing close to lava rarely leads to overheating, FrigidWaterIsHarmless - characters can fall in freezing cold water and suffer nothing more than a case of the shivers, or at worst, pop up [[InstantIceJustAddCold inside a big ice cube]]. This, too, can be attributed to RuleOfCool.

Ever put your hand near a fire? You should feel heat emanating from it long before touching it. This applies to anything that's even mildly hot.

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] apparently doesn't exist in fiction land, even though without it the world would be a very cold place. Instead, heat seems to propagate more like electricity -- mostly just via conduction, so as long as you don't actually touch the source, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well, and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure Schmoverpressure. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]], heavy ash fall, and [[OminousFog deadly pyroclastic flows thundering down from the volcano's summit]].

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] apparently doesn't exist in fiction land. Instead, heat seems to propagate more like electricity -- mostly just via conduction, so as long as you don't actually touch the source, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well, and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure Schmoverpressure. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]] and [[OminousFog blinding, choking ash]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': The incinerator is obviously really hot, but the plastic toys remain unmelted.

Ever put your hand near a fire? You should have felt heat emanating from it long before touching it. This applies to anything that's even mildly hot.

Have you ever put your hand in front of a fire? You should have felt heat emitting from the flame long before touching it. This principle applies to anything that's even mildly hot.

Most TV writers and video game developers, however forget that part. The hero is making his way through the LethalLavaLand, but wait! There are floating rocks, he can make it across to the other side! Except in the real world, the heat coming off of the lava would have cooked him already.

Although lava is the primary offender, this also applies to any time convection is ignored for the sake of RuleOfCool, such as when a character is standing above or near a large fire, hot water, or any other extreme heat source. If you don't touch the raging inferno, boiling lake, or white-hot walls, you'll be fine. RuleOfPerception also has a hand in this trope: the writers, animators and viewers can't feel any heat, so obviously there isn't any. This is especially applicable to VideoGames, though having to dodge both lava ''and'' the invisible heat it gives off [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality would be rather irritating]].

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] apparently doesn't exist in fiction land. Instead, heat seems to propagate more like electricity -- mostly just via conduction -- so as long as you don't actually touch the source, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well, and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure Schmoverpressure. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]] and [[OminousFog blinding, choking ash]].

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] apparently does not exist. In fiction land, heat seems to work more like electricity in terms of how it propagates—as long as you don't actually touch the source, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well, and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure Schmoverpressure. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]] and [[OminousFog blinding, choking ash]].

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] apparently does not exist. In fiction land, heat seems to work more like electricty in terms of how it propagates—as long as you don't actually touch the source, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well, and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure Schmoverpressure. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]] and [[OminousFog blinding, choking ash]].

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] does not exist in TV land. [[WordSchmord Convection,]] [[TitleDrop schmonvection]]—as long as you don't touch the lava, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well, and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure Schmoverpressure. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]] and [[OminousFog blinding, choking ash]].