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* In the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode "Denial", the team falls into a pit, at the bottom of which is a pool of lava. A trap door closes over the lava in time to catch them (though not before taking out [[NighInvulnerability Superboy's]] [[FelonyMIsdemeanor boots]]), and while Aqualad notes that the floor ''should'' be burning hot and Kid Flash warns him that if he pulls open the trap door, the backdraft from the lava will roast them alive, neither are true. Of course, this is all due to the fact that they're in [[RealityWarping Dr. Fate's tower]], and reality warped itself to their benefit after they convinced the tower they had legitimate reasons for breaking and entering.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Mock 5"[[hottip:*:Which was itself a parody of ''Anime/SpeedRacer'']], in which no one seems to really care about the ''raging river of lava'' following a group of soapbox racers. (Monkey even ''eats'' some of the lava, and doesn't react accordingly until he's told what it is.)

* There are several examples from the ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' games. These can be handwaved by the fact that Rock, [[VideoGame/MegaManX X]], and [[VideoGame/MegaManZero Zero]] are all robots; Rock is described as being made of titanium, which has a melting point of 3,034 degrees Fahrenheit, ''beyond'' lava's temperature which peaks at about 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit.
** The problem here is that even though they are unaffected by the convection, lava is still an instant kill for some reason.

**** The most {{egregious}} example is the episode Jake Suit, in which Finn and Jake touch ''volcano lava'' and only his hat gets burnt. [[spoiler: That is, until Finn drops them into it. Next time we see them, they're covered in bandages.]]

*** averted in the fire kingdom, which is stated, and ever shown, to be so hot that only can be entered if you first get a fire-proof spell on you.

* [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in ''KidIcarusUprising''. Palutena uses her power of cooling to keep Pit from burning to death in the [[LethalLavaLand Phoenix Mountain]], though Pit still complains about being sweaty. Touching the lava still hurts Pit, but he might not even get burned from it. The idol for the Phoenix Mountain outright states that the climate is so hot that humans can't survive there.

* Two of the levels in the edutainment platformer ''VideoGame/MathRescue'' not only have lava pits everywhere, they also have [[BeyondTheImpossible lava STAIRS that you can walk on]].

* In an episode of the original ''KnightRider'', the car runs over a lava spillage not once, but ''twice''. The tires are a little melted, but the Magical Impregnable Alloy protecting KITT is just a little dirty. [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=brOfsNAQfU8 You can see it here in all its... glory?]]

* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' has the trio fighting a fire monster, in which they ''do'' respond to its heat in battle. They end up leading it to the water/lake.

** 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.]]

** Now the manga's gotten in on the act with the revelation that [[spoiler:Akainu]] is a ''magma'' Logia. He's duking it out with [[spoiler:Whitebeard]] and while he is doing pretty well, he's not doing as well as he should given the fact that HE'S MADE OF FRIKKIN LAVA! Hell, he gives a magma punch ''in the face'' to [[spoiler:Whitebeard]] and only the part of his face he touched was injured.

** Once again, when [[spoiler: Ace is impaled by Akainu's fist]], it makes a clean wound, with only minor burns around the hole. This could be explained by his Logia powers, but then what about Luffy and Jimbei? Akainu attacked them too, and the same thing happened. [[spoiler: Sure they were badly injured and Luffy gets an [[XMarksTheHero X-shaped ]][[GoodScarsEvilScars scar on his chest]]]], but considering it's magma, they should have been reduced to smoldering, molten corpses. Not to mention that Jimbei punches Akainu and leaves his fist in the magma for a few seconds and then pulling it out with only minor surface
** Now there is Punk Hazard, where half of the island is covered in flames so hot the buildings are melting. The crew only complain its hot but are able to navigate it without much difficulty.

* In the second episode of ''PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', Moltor holds Andrew Hartford over a river of lava, in an attempt to get the [[MacGuffin Corona Aurora]]. Andrew suffers no ill effects from being so close to the lava.

*** [[FridgeBrilliance Or not.]] Avatar is as SteamPunk as it gets. If the Boiling Rock's A/C is powered by heat and steam, they're sitting on a have a never ending power source. And the Cooler's could easily be the product of air conditioning. AC units can frost up from overuse. How convenient would it be take that excess cold and funnel it into capsules that could be used for disciplinary reasons on firebenders. Now what this can't account for is how exactly did they BUILD something like that in the middle of a boiling volcano.

** Homer continues to writhe in agony because, as GeorgeTakei mentions afterward, Orangina is "loaded with wasabi" (and orange concentrate in your eyes would burn like hell anyway).

* On an episode of ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', Clark saves his rival Whitney from a fireball by covering his back with his body. We actually see the fireball engulfing Whitney's uncovered front, and we are shown that the blast super-heats Clark's body to the point that his father is burned just by touching him, but Whitney is fine.

* ZigZagged in the second {{CallOfDutyBlackOps2}} map pack, with Magma. There is fast, raging lava river going down the middle of the map, which you can stand near with no problem. Stand near the recently cooled rocks and you '''will''' take damage however.

* In the "Read it and Weep" episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', this trope is played straight by Daring-Do in her book, in which she removes the statue from its resting place á la ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', triggering a trap that causes the floor melts away and ne replaced entirely by a rising lava flow. Aside from visibly sweating, Daring shows no ill effects from being in such close proximity to the lava.

* ''VideoGame/Boktai'' juggles this so bad it is annoying. Touching magical stationary fireballs, will-'o-wisps or certain cubes will launch you back flying, usually burning or frozen (slowed down). But there are stages where you are dangerously close to lava and nothing happens! Of course, you take damage and gets knocked back if you touch lava, also getting burned for a couple of seconds, but you won't instantly die. Now, if you ever walk too close to a ledge you can fall off into the water, you will instantly die. So, Water is instant death, but Lava isn't? Good job, Konami.