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'''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]:''' You're ''complaining'' because it wasn't ''more'' difficult?!? Are you ''nuts''?!

* ''Literature/{{Stormslayer}}'' has the player's hero crossing the River of Fire while exploring Mount Pyre, which doesn't result in any damage to the player's stamina.

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 really hot.

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. This is despite the fact that just about every kid has probably placed their hand over a burning candle at some point and noticed that it gets painfully hot well before actually touching the flame, or stood near something producing steam (a hot bath, boiling kettle, cup of tea/coffee...) and felt the heat coming off it without needing to feel it by hand. RuleOfPerception also has a hand in this trope; viewers can't feel any heat, so obviously there isn't any. This is especially applicable to VideoGames, where having to dodge both lava ''and'' the invisible heat it gives off [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality would be rather irritating]].

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.[[note]] And if the lava is fresh enough, it's also releasing all sorts of interesting gases that do the human body no good to breathe, but that's wandering a bit from the subject.[[/note]]

[[MagmaMan Lava]], that primal force of creation and destruction, is ''really, '''really''' hot''—between 700°C and 1,200°C hot (or between 1,300°F and 2,200°F).

[[LavaAddsAwesome As awesome as lava is,]] most TV writers and video game developers forget that "really hot" 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.[[note]] And if the lava is fresh enough, it's also releasing all sorts of interesting gases that do the human body no good to breathe, but that's wandering a bit from the subject.[[/note]] Put your hand in front of an open flame and you have an idea of how hot that room, cave, or EternalEngine ''should'' be. While it's possible for the outer layer of lava to cool, forming an insulating shell where the inner layer still flows but people can get close to it relatively safely as long as they don't touch it, this is never seen in fiction where red-hot lava flows [[LavaIsBoilingKoolAid as free and exposed as river water]].

* In ''Film/SpiderMan2'', Doctor Octopus builds what is effectively a miniature sun. Characters standing a few feet away show no signs of feeling the heat. Later he sinks it, and there's not even a whiff of steam.

* Played absolutely straight, with deliberate intent, in [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/373989/your-alicorn-is-in-another-castle Your Alicorn Is In Another Castle]]. Twilight's first investigation of the platforms floating over the lava in Bowser's kingdom discovers that they don't conduct the heat into her hooves. In fact, the lava doesn't conduct any heat into the air: anything drifting up gets about a hoof-height above the molten rock and stops right there. She quickly concludes that the local physics are a little weird.

* Taken to ridiculous extremes in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'', where Sid manages to raft along a river of lava then have some of it ''splash'' on him without getting at all hurt.

* It is common for Marvel characters who have undergone cryonic suspension to need zero time to thaw. In ComicBook/UncannyXMen2015, several mutants who wanted to wait out the terrigen cloud in cryonic suspension are alive again the moment the liquid nitrogen is drained from their caskets. The same goes for [[Characters/MarvelComicsBuckyBarnes the Winter Soldier]] whenever he was released from suspension by the Soviets.

Lava is also rarely found just calmly lying around--when it slows, it has time to cool and harden. 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.]] This is a subtrope of ArtisticLicensePhysics.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1982}} Volume 2]]'' issue #1, the titular heroine shields two people from a shower of molten steel. Her indestructible cape blocks the cascade of metal but it should not protect them from the intense heat.
* In an issue of Franchise/{{Superman}} story ''Comicbook/KryptoniteNevermore'' Superman flies over a volcano. It makes sense that he is not affected because he is invulnerable. However in issue #238 a group of criminals use a magma-hose. The nozzle is specially tempered but they are still too near from the stuff.
* In a [[ComicBook/ThePunisher Punisher]] / ComicBook/CaptainAmerica crossover, a mook tries to invoke this (and is kind enough to explain it as he does so): if firing a bazooka at the shield causes it to bounce off, shooting it so it explodes short of the shield will let the heat (which will go around) do the work.

* At one point, ComicBook/{{Magneto}} 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.
* In one issue of ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' the hero was able to fly with no problems few centimetres above the lava on his [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon Extransformer]].
* 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.
* Averted in ''ComicBook/ThePunisherPresentsBarracuda''; when President Luna falls from a helicopter into a volcano, we see him catch on fire in mid-air before he hits the lava.
* Played straight for the most part in ''[[ComicBook/{{Swordquest}} Swordquest: Fireworld]]''. The characters run around a LethalLavaLand with gouts of flame everywhere, but suffer no ill effects aside from profuse sweating and a constant thirst.
* Played as straight as possible in a ''Flash Gordon'' parody from Wally Wood's ''ComicStrip/{{Sally Forth|Wood}}''. The heroine Sally uses a {{Jetpack}} to fly around while ''completely naked,'' but doesn't suffer any injuries from doing so.
* During the events of ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage,'' Sleeper slobbers napalm all over Hybrid for Hawkeye to ignite. Both Dylan and Sleeper dramatically watch the symbiote burst into flames from a few feet away until there's nothing left but a hole in the ground. In truth, both of them should have been burnt to a crisp, as napalm burns at a temperature of 2,760 degrees Celsius or 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, about half as hot as the surface of the sun.
* ''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.
* It is common for Marvel characters who have undergone cryonic suspension to need zero time to thaw. In ComicBook/UncannyXMen2015, several mutants who wanted to wait out the terrigen cloud in cryonic suspension are alive again the moment the liquid nitrogen is drained from their caskets. The same goes for [[Characters/MarvelComicsBuckyBarnes the Winter Soldier]] whenever he was released from suspension by the Soviets.

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' and his donkey sidekick walk across a rickety bridge over a boiling lake of lava to reach a castle on the other side, without seeming to feel any heat. And a castle built on a pier of rock rising out the lava, which wouldn't even be stable in such conditions, as lava can erode, corrode, and often outright melt such piers.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': The incinerator is obviously really hot but the plastic toys remain unmelted. [[TearJerker Not that we're complaining]] though, because considering how terrifying the scene was already, this is for the best.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' has a scene like this, featuring floating rock islands that can be jumped on by ''dinosaurs''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess 2'' is a fairly big example here: the villain's evil lair is inside a volcano, with a moat full of lava surrounding the central spire that serves as his home. There is a very rickety rope and wood pulley system used to cross-one that should have been incinerated in moments of exposure. Close to the end, while the volcano is exploding (as they are want to do) the heroes are barely inches away from the bubbling, wildly frothing lava-some of it splashing within millimeters of them-and come out unscathed, despite the fact that there should have at the very least been a few singed feathers.

* The destruction of the Cave of Wonders in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', in which Aladdin isn't cooked alive while being pursued by a malevolent stream of magma and using Carpet to escape.
* Taken to ridiculous extremes in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'', where Sid manages to raft along a river of lava then have some of it ''splash'' on him without getting at all hurt.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'', Koda and Kenai traverse a field of heat (supposed to be lava...) This is impressive for two reasons: Kenai gets continuously hit by jets of steam (a la Princess Bride and the Swamp) and the nearby areas are covered in snow.
* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': When the heroes go to visit Kristoff's troll family, Olaf does not melt, or even thaw a little, despite walking between what appear to be geysers of steam, [[spoiler:and this is well before he gets his personal flurry.]] The steam suggests that the area where the trolls live has geothermal features, which are the reason why it stays clear of snow while the rest of Arendelle is snowed in.
* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', during their trip through Imagination Land, Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong cross a stream of [[JustifiedTrope (imaginary)]] lava by using floating pieces of furniture as stepping stones.

%%* The entire ending of ''Film/{{Congo}}''.

* ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'': In a scene that was not in the book, Thorin and the Company attempt to kill Smaug by flooding him with liquid gold from a Dwarven furnace (it doesn't work). There is a chase sequence where Thorin lays down on a metal wheelbarrow to [[LavaSurfing surf the river of molten gold]] that erupts from the furnace, with no ill effects whatsoever. Never mind that he should have been fried almost instantly --laying metal down over a source of heat ''is how skillets and frying pans work''. Plus, there are several times when the heroes take cover in some way from Smaug's fire breath, and are completely OK being mere feet (or even inches) away from a massive inferno. They must have [[TableTopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Improved Evasion]].[[note]]At least they got the wheelbarrow floating on molten gold part right. Iron is both less dense than gold, and has a higher melting point, so an iron wheelbarrow would float on molten gold just fine. Although it would rapidly heat up to over 1900F and glow bright yellow.[[/note]]

* The infamous Film/SyFyChannelOriginalMovie ''Film/RaptorIsland'' features a scene where the female lead runs across a tree over a river of lava. It's also a good thing air doesn't conduct heat-- at least in that movie, apparently, since that's the meaning of "convection". (Also there's heat-radiation.)

* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': Well, technically "Radiation Schmadiation." In TheFilmOfTheBook, Klaus uses Olaf's sunlight-refracting weapon to incinerate the wedding contract. The instant the sunlight hits the paper, it catches on fire. That means the thing was heated to about 400 degrees Fahrenheit just like that. Never mind the fact that Klaus perfectly lined up the device to hit such a small target, how come Olaf's hand didn't get singed? Or, you know, the stage didn't catch fire? There should at least have been smoke, considering how easily the paper went up.
* In the first ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'', the giant Foamfollower carries Covenant across Hotash Slay, a river of lava. Foamfollower, being a giant, is immune to fire and so can withstand the heat of the lava; Covenant, however, realistically would have been fried before Foamfollower even stepped into the river. There is some {{Hand Wav|e}}ing of this -- it is implied that Covenant's ring is involved.
* In Creator/SandyMitchell's Literature/CiaphasCain novels, explicitly discussed and averted. Once Cain claims that a plasmabolt missed him by a millimeter. In a footnote, Amberley points out that he would have suffered flash burns that close, so he was wrong about the distance.

* ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''. The explorers are carried up the tube of a volcano by lava on their raft of fossilized wood (an asbestos dish in the 1959 movie, a dinosaur skull in the 2008 one) which in real life would get them cooked alive (Axel notes the temperature rises to 70°C). Some editions avoid this by having them be carried up by water (which was the case for the first part of the ascent), the implication being that lava below is causing a geyser-effect to blow them out of the volcano.

* In the ''Literature/StarTrekTheNextGenerationRelaunch'' novel ''Q&A'', the away team find themselves maneuvering through a lava field by jumping from rock to rock. Science officer Kadohata [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that the heat should be affecting them even if they don't touch the lava, but stops once security officer Leybenzon asks her if she's complaining that things should be more difficult. (The planet was created by {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s, and works however they want it to.)
* In Creator/AaronAllston's ''Literature/GalateaIn2D'', Roger is not burned by nearby lava. Justified because [[ArtInitiatesLife it's his imaginary world]], and he hadn't thought of whether it would kill.
* Averted in French Sci Fi novel ''{{Literature/Malevil}}''. The cast is celebrating in a cool 55º Fahrenheit castle cellar when WorldWarIII occurs. Within a minute the cellar is an incredible 150ºF. Emmanuel is struggling to breathe and strip off his clothes when he realizes the flagstones he's lying on are burning hot. He realizes with horror that the stone cellar may soon function as a stone ''oven'' and broil them all alive, it doesn't occur to him to consider what temperatures ''outside'' the insulated underground chamber must be like.

* Somewhat justified in ''Literature/EmilyTheStrangeTheLostDays''. While the liquid black rock was stated to feel as if it was burning Earwig, it does so in a nice way and apparently isn't hot per se. Basically, it's magic lava.
* Explicitly averted in the third book of ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'', ''Fire Sea'', which takes place in a subterranean world where cities are built on the shores of great lava currents to stay warm within the dying planet. It's explicitly noted that only the demigod-like Sartans and Patryns are capable of surviving in such conditions, while humans and other races with lesser magical aptitude died out almost immediately after their arrival. And the world takes its toll even on the Sartans, greatly weakening them as they focus most of their magic on simple survival.
* Averted in one short story by Creator/ArthurCClarke in which a crew of astronauts on Venus encounter an amorphous creature that appeared to try to encircle them as if to eat them. Turned out it was simply trying to avoid excess heat generated by their spacesuits' life support systems, which wasn't immediately apparent to the crew.
* The climactic scene in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' where Frodo and Sam, having destroyed the Ring and precipitated the eruption of Mount Doom, make it, utterly exhausted, to one of the last firm rocky outcrops which is surrounded by a river of molten lava. The book skirts over the issue of the sheer heat of their surroundings might in itself be fatal to them, ignores the possibility the air they are breathing might not only be superheated but poisonous, and allows a large bird to swoop down to pick them up without instantly becoming Mordor Fried Eagle or at the very least having its flight feathers scorched off. The film adaptation requires serious suspension of disbelief on this one.

** And in episode 15 of ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger'', [=GoGo=] Jet is flown right into a volcano and someone dangled down to pick up a crystal that's floating in the lava.

* ''Pinball/{{Gorgar}}'' takes place inside the monster's LavaPit, but both the BarbarianHero and the DamselInDistress suffer no obvious ill effects.

* Creator/{{Gottlieb}}'s ''[[Pinball/TeedOff Tee'd Off]]'' features a golf course set around a volcano, and the player must regularly shoot balls into it.
* ''[[Pinball/GilligansIsland Gilligan's Island]]'' has Gilligan fly over a volcano that's about to erupt, without any problems.

* Played with in ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution''. Pyrokinetics instinctively lower the temperature around their bodies, making them extremely resistant to being damaged by heat.

* Averted in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': just being near lava is dangerous, causing mechs to gain extra heat each round and dealing damage to other units based on proximity. Played straight but justified in the case of non-lava based fire, as the hex grid on maps is 30 meters per hex. A mech or tank that's in a hex next to a fire is still likely to be standing 20 meters away rather than being close enough to touch it.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
** The monster of solid fire that does not burn. [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-10-04 "Why are you crying, Dr. Physics Professor?" ]] Apparently, it's not really made of fire and just looks like it: it's a beginner's mistake when summoning certain monsters.
** Later, the mage summoning them is seen [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2011-05-03 surrounded by a barier of fire]] (some spoilers). The barrier has an appropriate amount of heat, but doesn't harm the caster, or indeed, anything not directly touching the flames. Greg immediately asks, "How haven't you burned the ceiling?"
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/110815 "I don't have to be a volcanologist to know you don't step in the lava!"]] (Technically true, but for better reasons than are dreamed of here.)
* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' now has a link to this very page as they approach the Obi Wan and Vader lava battle.
* ''[[Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja Dr. McNinja]]'': [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p56/ This page]] shows us a wooden bridge ''inside a volcano'' [[spoiler:that only starts burning once a magma eruption tears it down]]. Dan and Judy seem mildly surprised.
-->'''Alt Text:''' [[LampshadeHanging This is how volcanoes work, right]]? I won't check.
* ''Webcomic/VoldemortsChildren'': Harry [[http://www.elidupree.com/main/posts/273-voldemort%27s-children-page-81 burns Dumbledore's office]] and then doesn't seem to have any trouble standing around in the ''only spot that isn't on fire''.

* Zig-zagged for laughs in ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'': Commander Badass lights a cigarette, and his heavily-gelled hair bursts into flames. After a {{Beat}}, Badass admits to a concerned Jones that this is probably why he stopped smoking, but being on fire is apparently more embarrassing than it is harmful to him.
* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', when Yokoka enters a volcano to visit Yang's shop she walks dangerously close ([[DoesNotLikeShoes and barefoot]]) to lava, and suffers no physical harm.
* [[https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=34556&articleNo=90 A particularly blatant example]] from ''Webcomic/KirbyVsTheSqueaks''.
* [[http://wayofthemetagamer.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/34423 Lampshaded in]] ''WebComic/TheWayOfTheMetagamer''.

* {{Averted|Trope}} and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse. Team Kimba is in a holographic simulation of an evil lair inside a volcanic mountain, complete with a huge gap across molten lava to get to the BigBad. TheSmartGuy points out that even the toughest supers on the team wouldn't survive flying above the magma, and snarks that it isn't some stupid video game. But they have other resources.

* The paragraph [[AvertedTrope "Factual Accuracy"]] at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_floor_is_lava Other Wiki's article]] on the child game "The Floor Is Lava!" will [[DieLaughing kill]] you faster than hot lava.
* A {{Creepypasta}} [[https://cjaymarch.fandom.com/wiki/Arthur_Lost_Episode talking about a lost episode for]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' gives a very blatant example: even though the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] turned the thermostat in Arthur’s house up to 126 degrees, which is a really high temperature, Arthur doesn't suffer at all. When the rest of the main cast come in, many of them are described to be visibly sweating and burning to death due to the temperature, but Arthur, who was already there, isn't described to have any problems. In fact, it's only after he [[ItMakesSenseInContext stitches an elephant trunk to his face and sits on a swing made from the other characters' bones]] that he suffocates from the heat.
* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole: Wildemount'' takes this to its LogicalExtreme in the GrimUpNorth: thanks to ancient magical fallout distorting physical laws, snow can gather harmlessly on top of a deadly lava river, sometimes forming a bridge sturdy enough to cross over.

[[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 (but [[JustForFun/LousyAlternateTitles Radiation Schmadiation]] would sound like ILoveNuclearPower...), and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure? What Overpressure?. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]] and [[OminousFog blinding, choking ash]].

[[MagmaMan Lava]], that primal force and essence of destruction, is ''really, '''really''' hot''—between 700°C and 1,200°C hot (or between 1,300°F and 2,200°F).

[[MagmaMan Lava]], that primal force and essence of destruction, is ''really, '''really''' hot'' — between 700°C and 1,200°C hot (or between 1,300°F and 2,200°F).

[[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 (but [[JustForFun/LousyAlternateTitles Radiation Schmadiation]] would sound like ILoveNuclearPower...), and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure? What Overpressure?. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]] and [[OminousFog blinding, choking ash]].

Lava is also rarely found just calmly lying around -- when it slows, it has time to cool and harden. 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.]] This is a subtrope of ArtisticLicensePhysics.

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.

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 or any other extreme heat source. If you don't touch the raging inferno, boiling lake, or white-hot walls, you'll be fine. This is despite the fact that just about every kid has probably placed their hand over a burning candle at some point and noticed that it gets painfully hot well before actually touching the flame. RuleOfPerception also has a hand in this trope; viewers can't feel any heat, so obviously there isn't any. This is especially applicable to VideoGames, where having to dodge both lava ''and'' the invisible heat it gives off [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality would be rather irritating]].

* [[https://joshuawright.net/slack-wyrm-253.html Noted in this comic]] of ''Webcomic/SlackWyrm''. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Where the chicken encharge of baking a dragon sized black forest cake]] is forcing them to pull the cake up a volcano to bake the cake. She says "..the Lava only hurts you if it touches you."

* At one point, ComicBook/{{Magneto}} 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 keep it away from him, but it's unknown how the rest of the X-Men survived all of it.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': {{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.

* The infamous Film/SyFyChannelOriginalMovie ''Raptor Island'' features a scene where the female lead runs across a tree over a river of lava. It's also a good thing air doesn't conduct heat-- at least in that movie, apparently, since that's the meaning of "convection". (Also there's heat-radiation.)

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Averted beautifully: Anevka pumping enough electricity through her arm to flash-fry [[spoiler: her father]] releases enough waste heat to send [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051118 her entire outfit and wig bursting into flames.]]