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* 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.

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. This, too, can be attributed to RuleOfCool.

* ''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.

** Visser Three has a morph that can fire lethal amounts of heat (enough to boil a person alive) and even being near it is described as standing in front of an open oven.

* 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.

** I t's safe to fly over a lava pit -- but the careful reader will note that there are runes on the wall, and that the runes spell out that they are a spell, to keep in the heat, thus justifying the survival.

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

* 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/TheIncredibles'' has plenty of fun with lava. Mr. Incredible gets awfully close to it during his first fight with the Omnidroid, while the Omnidroid actually falls into the lava, and emerges unscathed, even though it's so hot it's glowing orange. Maybe heat resistance is another of Mr. Incredible's superpowers (he seemed just fine in the scene in the burning apartment); maybe the Omnidroid was made from heat-resistant {{Unobtainium}}. Either way, there's no excuse for non-superpowered Syndrome (and presumably Mirage) not being cooked alive by the secret passageway with [[CoolButInefficient walls made of flowing lava]].

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.]] This is a subtrope of ArtisticLicensePhysics, and a common inaccurate portrayal of UsefulNotes/{{Energy}} (in this case, thermal energy) in fiction.

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, and a common inaccurate portrayal of UsefulNotes/{{Energy}} (in this case, thermal energy) in fiction.

* 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.

-->-- '''Mike Nelson''', ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' Podcast/RiffTrax

* The ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'''s ComicBook/HumanTorch can safely carry people and objects by extinguishing the flame on his hands. Being right next to the ''rest'' of his flaming body is apparently not a problem (though, admittedly, it would be much hotter above the Torch than next to him). It has been said that The Human Torch can control who/what he burns with his flame. It's not always followed, though.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': 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 ''ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|1984}}'', when the Torch uses his "nova flame" to take out ComicBook/{{Ultron}}, it burns so hot that it melts clean through the surrounding solid-metal walls and floor. When the smoke clears, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, who was standing a few yards away and protected only by huddling his upper body behind his shield, is perfectly unharmed. Apparently, his body's melting point is a lot higher than that of whatever alien metal was used to build Doombase. His shield absorbs kinetic energy, not heat.

** ''ComicBook/Supergirl1982'': In the first issue, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} 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 crossover story ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot'', Robin is thrown into an atomic reactor, but he is hauled out of there by ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}. Since his body does not touch the flames, he is completely unaffected by the searing heat or the lethal radiation.

* Subverted in one issue of ''ComicBook/XForce'', where Wolverine's female clone, ComicBook/{{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.

'''ComicBook/{{Robin}}:''' You're ''complaining'' because it wasn't ''more'' difficult?!? Are you ''nuts''?!

* {{Averted}} in ''Fanfic/TheWarOfTheMasters''.

** The sequel, ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfJafar'' has Aladdin trapped on the side of a pillar of rock floating around an open lava pit, and Jafar even hits with a beam to make it sink faster. When Iago manages to kick Jafar's lamp into the lava after taking a near-fatal hit, Al manages to catch him, and then climbs to the top of the pillar as it sinks. By the time another rock pillar falls and he uses it to get to the edges of the lava pit to climb up and out, he is mere ''inches'' from the lava, and has two close scrapes with death: the first when his pillar finally sinks and he jumps to the other, and when he nearly is squished as the pit closes after Jafar's FamilyUnfriendlyDeath. Granted, this could be justified by the first rule of the Genie: ThouShaltNotKill, but even then the heat alone should've roasted Al and Iago.

[[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 Schmoverpressure. 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.

See also: LavaPit, LavaIsBoilingKoolAid, BattleAmongstTheFlames, DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud, HailfirePeaks, HollywoodFire, ThermalDissonance, HarmlessElectrocution, LavaSurfing, AMoltenDateWithDeath, and HarmlessFreezing. ToastedBuns and LavaAddsAwesome are related tropes.

* What does the titular character of ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' do when he flies right next to the Sun? Why, charge up his solar batteries, of course! Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]], because WALL•E is one of many robots who were assigned to fix Earth after humans destroyed it so much it became uninhabitable. He would've been built to withstand the extremely high temperatures from the destruction of the ozone layer, although whether this would've allowed him to fly right next to the ''Sun'' and survive is debatable.

* [[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''.

* The ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'''s ComicBook/HumanTorch can safely carry people and objects by extinguishing the flame on his hands. Being right next to the ''rest'' of his flaming body is apparently not a problem (though, admittedly, it would be much hotter above the Torch than next to him). It has been said that The Human Torch can control who/what he burns with his flame. It's not always followed, though.
* 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.

-->'''[[spoiler: [[ChessMaster Grinner]]]] "You...You can't do that! [[spoiler: [[VerbalTic A-heh]]]], [[LampshadeHanging seriously, there's like, convection and stuff. You surviving is rude.]]''

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* ''Series/BlakesSeven'':
** Averted in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E6CityAtTheEdgeOfTheWorld City at the Edge of the World]]". Avon points out that firing a laser cannon at point-blank range would kill the firer with the reflected heat and energy. The VillainOfTheWeek is [[TooDumbToLive crazy enough to do it anyway]].
** The ''Liberator'' [[NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont can't fire its own neutron blasters without a flare shield being put up first]] to prevent this.
* Subverted by Mike Rowe in ''Series/DirtyJobs''. Standing at least 20-30 feet away from a fresh lava flow, he remarked "That is insanely hot!" and then added in the subsequent voiceover, "insanely hot was an understatement; it was hotter than hell". They had to get into special suits to get close since the radiant heat was enough to burn their skin, but seeing as the show centers on appreciating just how difficult everyday jobs are and strives for every aspect this is not too surprising. In other episodes, Mike has similar experiences with molten glass and molten steel -- on the latter job, his face shield melted.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Played straight in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]]. Solar heat is shown to be a terribly lethal thing to let through, with special sun visors to block it out. But when the visors come down, the victims have plenty of time to scream and DUCK to avoid them (with mixed success, depending on the room and whether the Doctor is nearby). The walls seem to stand up to the energy reasonably well, too.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42"]]: The heat shields are the one thing stopping everyone on the ''Pentallian'' from getting fried as the ship falls into a sun.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]] justifies how the Doctor and Donna can run around ''inside'' Mount Vesuvius without getting burned to a crisp by explaining that the villains are stealing most of the volcano's energy for their own purposes.
** The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33PrequelPondLife "Pond Life"]] mini-episodes preceding Series 7 feature the Doctor surfing a lava flow using nothing but a surfboard. However, this is ostensibly PlayedForLaughs due to the Doctor's rather off-hand over-the-phone comments about it.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire "Dragonfire"]] has a strange inverted version with Kane. He freezes people to death with his bare hands... but since he can't stand warm (or even non-liquid nitrogen) temperatures, the body heat of his victims should burn him horribly at the same time.
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'':
** An episode deals with a miniature sun springing into being over the title city, creating an unending, superhot day. It keeps growing and getting hotter until it collapses a silo, melts the tires on a Jeep and fries the circuitry on a rocket. No people suffer any ill effects worse than sweating, and the idea that a small sun might cause a fire in the forest it's hovering over is never even mentioned.
** Another episode features a giant artificially created pocket of magma somewhere under the city, which could pop up anywhere unless Carter diverts it into the nearby lake. Having done so, the lava spurts out of the tunnel he made and into the lake... while Carter stands right next to it, making his usual pithy comment.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': This applies to both sides of the "ice and fire" theme of the series. Dragonfire works similarly to firebending from ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' in that characters generally will not experience burns as long as they do not directly touch the flames. [[spoiler: This gets especially ridiculous in the season 7 episode "The Spoils of War", in which Bronn and Jamie avoid the massive column of fire Drogon produces by inches and come out of it unscathed.]] Similarly, the White Walkers are cold enough to instantly extinguish any fire that comes within a few meters of them and have blades so cold that steel shatters upon contact, yet somehow the characters avoid instant frostbite when in their presence.
* ''Series/HardyBoysNancyDrewMysteries'':
** "Mystery of the Flickering Torch" has Frank and Joe trapped inside a small closet while a fire rages outside. They break out and dive through the flames to the outside without breaking a sweat or even a singe to their clothing. They don't even sweat when they're inside that tiny closet, with the flames raging on the other side!
** "Arson & Old Lace" has Frank, Joe, and Nancy all trying to escape a burning office building. Both Hardys are shown entering rooms with raging flames to rescue people, with no burns, sweat, or other ill effects beyond a bit of smudge and coughing. On top of that, Frank Hardy & Nancy Drew use an ''elevator shaft'' to climb to the roof & escape the fire. The room they're in is full of smoke, the shaft is shown to have flames on the floors below, yet neither Frank nor Nancy have any issues breathing nor do they cook alive while climbing this smoking-hot chimney of an elevator.
* In an episode of the original ''Series/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.
* In ''Series/LostInSpace2018'' the first episode sees a cold front coming in while Judy is diving to retrieve supplies from their submerged ship. The cold weather inexplicably freezes the water from the bottom up, as well as being so cold to freeze an entire lake in minutes but not posing the people on the surface any danger.
* Subverted on ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}''. In "Flame's End", the villain has [[DeathTrap locked him and a companion in a room]] at a nuclear power plant and he plans to flood it with the reactor's coolant water. Mac's companion points out that convection alone is going to kill them long before they have a chance to drown, scald, or be irradiated to death.
* ''Series/TheMagician'': In "Illusion of the Lost Dragon", Tony is able to keep working on a complicated puzzle lock despite the heat of a LavaPit opening up underneath him. Earlier in the episode, a young man was similarly unaffected until he fell into the lava, at which point he was instantly incinerated.
* ''Series/{{MythBusters}}'' once tested firewalking over charcoal. The build team found out that coal is actually a decent insulator; the top being much cooler than the underside, and that the proper technique is a casual walk. This is because when running, more weight is concentrated on less area, causing a person's feet to dig into the coals; potentially causing severe burns. [[ButtMonkey Adam]] found that out [[AgonyOfTheFeet the hard way]]. It's a favorite trick of "life coaches" to demonstrate firewalking over wood or charcoal. Ask them to repeat the feat with a comparatively ''cooler'' metal plate.\\
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On a similar note, the [=MythBusters=] have demonstrated that it's perfectly possible to (very briefly) dip your fingers into molten lead, if you dip them in water beforehand. The layer of water coating your skin evaporates the moment it makes contact, and water vapor is yet another excellent insulator.
* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': In "Public Property on Parade", nobody so much as breaks a sweat when standing next to Madison High School's coal fired boiler.
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers''/''Franchise/SuperSentai'':
** In the second episode of ''Series/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.
** 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.
* In the ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' episode "Pax Romana", two characters in insulation suits (which leave much of the head and hands exposed) leisurely execute a medical procedure surrounded by molten rock a few meters below. There's a dramatic close call where one of them falls extremely close to the lava. Sadly, her hair fails to start smoking.
* 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. Their clothes are also undamaged.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Basics, part II", the "don't touch the lava" rule is very much in effect when, during an evacuation from a volcanic eruption, Chakotay rescues an alien girl who's somehow gotten herself stranded on a piece of rock.
* Surprisingly averted in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Civil Defense". Sisko and O'Brien had to crawl through a cramped, metal tube surrounded by [[TechnicolorFire green fire]], and they even wrapped their hands in cloth. O'Brien passed out from the heat.
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' series finale includes a scene where [[TheOmnipotent Q]] takes Picard back to primeval Earth. There are flaming pools of lava all around them, but Picard doesn't even seem to sweat. Then again, this is [[RealityWarper Q]]; any episode he's in is bound to violate the laws of physics at least a few times over. This is supposedly the time and place where ''life on Earth'' first evolved. There shouldn't even be oxygen.
* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'': Sarah and John standing three feet from a thermite fire hot enough to melt a metal described as having more heat resistance than titanium? Right. Setting said fire indoors and not burning down the house in the process? Priceless.
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* In ''Film/AfterEarth'', Kitai is able to stand outside in an ash cloud without a breathing apparatus. In Real Life, volcanic ash particles turn to cement when they are inhaled, causing rapid suffocation. Furthermore, Kitai takes refuge in a cave with a ledge overlooking an active lava flow and is no worse for wear, and ''lights a campfire'' to make it cozier. Later on, after nearly freezing to death in the wilderness, he runs and jumps up the side of an active volcano, coming within feet of large cracks that glow with the heat of the lava.
* Subverted in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', where there is a planet whose entire landscape gets recreated daily by a cloud of super-hot air and accompanying lava roaming over it, caused by being so close to the local star. Riddick and a few others make for escape but nearly get burned to a crisp by the sunlight. Later a character walks into the cloud and gets burned to pieces (literally). Riddick only survives in a hangar which is obviously made to survive the phenomenon, including cooling.
* ''Film/TheCore'' averts this. One crewman has to step outside safe area of the ship, never touches lava, and still burns to death. He '''is''' wearing a protective suit -- which is the only reason he can even open the door without immediately bursting into flame while simultaneously imploding from the intense heat and pressure. Previously they had to use liquid nitrogen, the ship's coolant, to exit the ship without bursting into flames. The crew is notably sweating through the rest of the movie, even while in the ship.
* In ''Film/DangerDiabolik'', most famous for being the subject of the final episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', the eponymous character dons a protective suit near the end to keep him safe as he melts down a large bar of gold. He claims that in such a suit he could swim through the sun (though he doesn't say so, he presumably means he could survive the ordeal as well). While this itself is fairly stupid, one has to take notice that there is a noticeable gap between the bottom of the visor and his helmet, as if he didn't shut it properly. Although this does not appear to present a problem when he is later sprayed with molten gold and survives.
* ''Film/DantesPeak'' has a scene where a truck drives over lava and the tires only melt ''a little''. In another scene lava starts pouring into a wooden house, that miraculously hadn't caught fire already, which surprised instead of incinerated all of the characters there. Also, when they run outside, the lava has already swept through the surrounding small pine trees, most of which were still standing. Other than that, though, it was a fairly well-researched movie, and goes into several other deadly effects of volcanic eruption beyond the lava.
* DisasterMovie ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'', among other examples of terrible, terrible science featured a scene where a main character runs down a hallway where the temperature is dropping so fast that moisture in the air turns to ice on the walls in less than a second. Despite the fact that he's only wearing normal clothes and a coat, our hero seems to be in no danger as long as he doesn't let the rapidly forming ice catch him -- the air a few feet in front of the death zone is only somewhat chilly (and moving slower than a running human). He also manages to hold back the cold entirely by entering a room with a fireplace and shutting the door, but that's a different issue.
* A similar event in the Creator/SylvesterStallone movie ''Film/DemolitionMan'' in which Phoenix holds a blowtorch mere inches away from a floor which is covered in diesel. Never mind that the fumes coming from it would have surely caught fire instantly, as long as the naked flame doesn't touch the liquid itself it's fine.
* In ''Film/DragonballEvolution'', Goku forms a series of stepping stones across a pit of lava, with corpses. The other characters walk around the edge of the area to meet back up with him. While Goku himself is extremely superhuman, and so perhaps a justified case, the corpses are less so.
* ''{{Film/Dragonslayer}}'': Galen uses a dragon-scale shield to protect himself from the dragon's flames, despite them going past it and around him, never mind the heat this should generate as well.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
** The ending to ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]'' has the monster being trapped in a volcano. Not surprisingly, he's not affected at all by either the lava itself or any of the intense heat. He ''is'' Godzilla.
** ''Film/GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth'' had Godzilla and Larva Battra open a fissure on the ocean floor during their fight and plunge into the Earth's mantle for a good part of the film. Godzilla emerges from a volcano unscathed and angry, Battra is also fine but how he got out isn't shown.
* ''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]]
* ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'' has the main characters escaping from the house of wax as it melts and burns, not bothered by the heat at all.
* Downplayed in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'':
** Willie is lowered in an iron cage towards lava. She is lowered so close to the molten rock that she should be bursting into flames.
** The poor sap who gets lowered before her ''does'' burst into flames.
** The {{novelization}} goes into full detail of how excruciating the experience is for poor Willie. At one point it even explicitly says that her eyelashes singe and her dress starts smoking, and she eventually passes out from the high temperature.
* In ''Film/IronMan2'', Whiplash manages to get Iron Man tangled in whips hot enough to melt through his armor. Even after having several entire sections of the armor torn away, several more rendered molten inches away from his skin, and then ''wrapping himself in said whips'' to get close and end the fight, Tony doesn't have any burns on his body at all. It's slightly justified because Tony was wearing a fire-resistant racing suit underneath his armor.
* At one point in ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer'' Elmont is rolled in raw dough and placed in an oven to be cooked as an hors d'oeuvre. When he frees himself a few minutes later, he's not even sweating, despite the fact that the dough he was inside visibly cooked while he was freeing himself.
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** The climactic battle in ''Film/DrNo'' takes place in a room being flooded with coolant from a nuclear reactor. [[spoiler:Dr. No survives long enough in the superheated coolant to desperately claw for a way out even when submerged above his head, and Bond is unharmed despite being mere inches away from the coolant.]]
** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' has two assassins [[MurderByCremation putting Bond inside a coffin about to be cremated]]. It starts, but a crook cancels the thing and opens the coffin nonchalantly... despite the fact that it had been inside a lit crematory and thus would be as scalding as a cake just out of the oven.
** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' has a climactic fight in a hotel that's burning down. None of the combatants have any trouble breathing, talking, seeing, or fighting. Bond even runs through flames to rescue a woman having a PTSD episode, and then the two of them run through a burning, collapsing wall. No one gets burned.
* ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''. The explorers are carried up the tube of a volcano by lava on an asbestos dish in the 1959 movie and a dinosaur skull in the 2008 one -- which in real life would get them cooked alive.
* Taken to patently absurd degrees in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom''. At one point, Owen's body is mere ''inches'' away from lava and is somehow completely fine. It's even worse with the baryonyx that attacks Claire and Franklin, who takes a splash of lava ''to the face,'' and only ''flinches.''
* Used in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'', in which two barefoot hobbits were able to walk on the rock of an erupting volcano, only a few feet from the flowing lava on either side. However, the soles on Hobbit feet are about as leathery as shoes (and in theory the rock they were walking on hadn't had time to heat up yet--rock's a pretty bad conductor). When Gollum and the One Ring fall into the Crack of Doom, neither show any signs of burning even when Gollum gets completely submerged.
* ''Film/PacificRim'': On Striker Eureka's blueprints there's mention of the "Sting-Blades" channeling thermal energy, but it's unknown if it's this or outright case of KillItWithFire. This is averted in the FinalBattle, where [[spoiler:Gipsy Danger shoves a {{Kaiju}}'s head into a volcanic vent and roasts its face in an attempt to kill it]].
* In ''Film/RobinHood2018'', Robin and Gisborne [[OutrunTheFireball outrun a cascade of molten iron]] from an overturned crucible, despite the fact the heat should have barbecued them where they stood.
* The ''{{Film/Sharknado}}'' films have been well-known for giving the middle finger to the laws of physics. A rather amusing example is in ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'', when one of the sharknados becomes a Nukenado. The heroes go to fight it and, naturally, aren't cooked from the inside.
* Subverted realistically in the ''Film/SilentHill'' movie -- a character dies from heat exposure while hanging above an open flame, and is later shown as a burned corpse, even though she is never actually lowered into the flame itself.
* Averted in ''Film/SkyHigh2005''. While the main group is [[AirVentPassageway escaping through a ventilation duct]], they ask Warren if he can use his fire powers to light the way, to which he responds “only if you want to be barbecued”.
* In the finale of ''Film/{{Species}}'', when the tar-filled pit catches fire, the temperature in the cavern should have been unbearable. However, the characters don't respond to this fact.
* 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. There is mention of a containment field, however, which might be keeping the heat in. It's designed to be a power source, so you certainly wouldn't want to be wasting any more energy as heat than you have to.
* In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', despite Molten Man growing large enough to fill up the entirety of Prague Square, no one is visibly burned, not even Mysterio when [[RammingAlwaysWorks he flies straight into it]]. [[spoiler:[[JustifiedTrope Because it's not actually there]] - "Molten Man" is simply an illusion designed to camouflage drone attacks so [[EngineeredHeroics Mysterio can make himself look like a hero]].]]
* In the opening scene of ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', Spock survives for several minutes ''in the crater of an erupting volcano''. Possibly {{justified|Trope}} by the high-tech environment suit he's wearing, though the fact that his equipment survives unscathed is a bit harder to swallow. Unlike other films, this one shows the volcanic ash severely damaging the shuttle to the point that Sulu and Uhura end up ditching the craft. Scotty also warns Kirk about what would happen if the ''Enterprise'' were directly above the volcano at the moment of eruption.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In order for a plasma blade to cut through metal with no resistance, it would have to be a few ''million'' degrees, which would be enough to burn someone to ash within seconds of activating a lightsaber. Though supplemental materials mention that a lightsaber's plasma is held in place by a force field that prevents anyone or anything from being burned by the blade unless direct contact is made (and if a lightsaber blade does emanate heat, that means it was improperly constructed).
** In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Qui-Gon Jinn tries to melt through a blast door with his lightsaber; he's standing next to it at the time, with his hands inches away from molten metal, but he doesn't even get singed. Force-based protection from heat seems as reasonable an explanation as any.
** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' the final battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin takes place on a molten planet. We see that the station they are fighting on requires special shielding from the molten lava surrounding it, and when this shield is disabled the station rapidly begins to disintegrate, averting this trope. Also at the end of the fight, Anakin bursts into flames on the shore of a lava river despite never touching the actual lava. On the other, there are multiple instances throughout the fight when Obi-Wan and Anakin fight above or near unshielded lava with no ill effects, leaving this a ZigZaggingTrope. The general explanation is that they [[HandWave used the Force]] to shield themselves, and that Anakin losing all his limbs kept him from using the force properly. Also worth noting is that Obi-Wan's outfit is visibly singed in a few places, and by the end of the fight stained with sweat and soot. Lucas has also stated the [[RuleofSymbolism symbolic setting]] of fire and lava in the final battle trumped realism.
* 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.)
* Averted in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' during the final chase scene when Sarah Connor declares that it is "too hot" to approach [[NoOSHACompliance the open pit of molten metal]]. Also when Ah-nuld is lowered into the steel, his boot and pants catch fire a full foot above the metal.
* ''Film/{{Volcano}}'':
** After blocking a lava flow with concrete barriers, the fire fighters lean over the top of them, laughing.
** In the same scene, the protagonists have to rescue an unconscious fireman stuck at the far end of a fire truck's ladder. Apparently convection from a precarious position ''is'' enough to make metal melt and bend, and clothes ignite, but if you make it to solid ground you're safe even if you're ''closer'' to the lava now than you were while up on the ladder. To be fair, being ''above'' the lava would put both ladder and fireman directly in the rising column of heat, while being ''next to'' the lava wouldn't.
** The scene in the subway is an utter howler; a man is able to move around in a train car so hot it's actually ''melting'' all around him, making it so hot all the "survivors" he's rescuing would have been incinerated. Then came the part where the brave man heroically ''jumps into lava'', stupidly ''remaining conscious'' and throwing another grown adult clear of it, and then stupidly melting. And it was stupid, did we mention that?
** Also, the scene with the barriers ends with aerial drops of water onto the pool of lava to solidify it. The resulting clouds of superheated steam which engulfed everyone nearby ''should'' have scalded them all to death, but they safely (if stupidly) emerged unhurt.
* ''Film/WhenTimeRanOut'' is about a volcanic eruption that imperils vacationers in a Hawaiian resort. The characters often come implausibly close to the lava, including a daring lava-pit rescue by Creator/BurgessMeredith (as a retired high-wire artist).
* ''Film/WrathOfTheTitans'' features Cronos, a mountain-sized man made of molten rock that apparently does not give off any heat. Notably, in the climax Perseus [[spoiler:flies Pegasus down his throat]] and gets slightly singed for his trouble.
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* 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.

* ''ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore'': In one scene, 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 one issue of ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' the hero was able to fly with no problems few centimetres above the lava on his [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon Extransformer]].

* 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.
* 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.
* It is common for Marvel characters who have undergone cryonic suspension to need zero time to thaw. In ComicBook/UncannyXMen2016, 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.

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