History Main / FierySalamander

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series has Fire Geckos, giant Geckos that breathe fire. They appear in ''Fallout 2'' and ''Fallout: New Vegas.''

* In ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', Kirche's familiar is Flame, a fire-breathing salamander the size of a large dog.

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', the successor to the eponymous game, [[Myth/NorseMythology ALfheim Online]], has a multitude of races, with the "Salamander" race being particularly adept with fire magic.

* ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' has a common salamander enemy named Candlemander appearing in Dino Jungle that can turn into a ball of fire.

* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': when Antimony helps a boy in Good Hope Hospital [[spoiler:pass on]], the fire that [[spoiler:killed him and his family]] is represented by a salamander until Antimony realises what happened.

* Jake, the hero of ''VideoGame/DemonFront'', has an alien salamander as his CoolPet who can provide backup for its master by breathing an entire wall of fire covering the other half of the screen, incinerating enemies who got in the way.

* The ''[[OurAngelsAreDifferent Seraphim]]'', of all people. Some abrahamic despictions of the Angels distinctly despict them as dragon/serpent-like (their name is a corruption of "sarap", "fiery", more often than not connected with the word "nahash", "serpent") and associated with Fire.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': Agnaktor is a giant, magma-spewing reptile.

** Agumon and his digivolutions, who are all dinosaur-like, orange-coloured, fire-breathing digimons who tend to become more dragons-like in later forms.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has a couple of creature cards that share the type of salamander, like [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=6117 Scalding Salamander]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=3458 Pyric Salamander]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4817 Flowstone Salamander.]] They are all aligned with Red, the color most strongly connected with fire. There are also other fiery lizard type creatures, like [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=19845 Lava Runner]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=289214 Bellows Lizard]].

** Giant salamander eggs have been used as a source of warmth, in ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/page-4#post-6355744 A Call from Home]]''

* ''VideoGame/NuclearThrone'': The toughest non-boss enemies in the Scrapyard are giant mutated Fire Salamanders. Their bodies are black, but have juts of flame coming from the sides of their heads, in a way that causes them to resemble the axolotl subspecies.

** In various games, Death Mountain is filled with fire-resistant, fire-breathing lizards called Dodongo. Other reptilian creatures, especially dragons, have been known to breathe fire.

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** Salandit, another Fire-type, is a lizard-like Pokémon with a pattern on its tail that resembles lava and generates flames when it attacks.

* The [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships British military]] used the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_Salamander Alvis Salamander]] as an off-road fire truck and airport crash tender.
* Not in a literal sense, but there really is a species of salamander simply known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_salamander fire salamander]]. While it has no mystical fire power, it ''is'' poisonous.
* By the same token, the Japanese Firebelly Newt [[https://www.thesprucepets.com/thmb/TT-a7AGZXvbqAbOqIGbqfyU5OD0=/960x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/GettyImages-523757096-580f91435f9b58564c063908.jpg didn't earn its name for nothing]].

** Salandit, another Fire-type, is a lizard-like Pokémon with a pattern on its tail that resembles lava and generates flames when Salandit attacks, in addition to the Pokemon's name referencing this trope.

The trope is named after the salamander, a mythological animal depicted as a fire-breathing lizard or a wingless dragon. Nowadays, the name is given to a real animal who actually isn't a real reptile, but a small amphibian with a lizard-like shape. However, alchemists would often attribute them mystical properties, such as the ability to survive fire, or even extinguish it by the mere coldness or their blood. As a result, the legendary counterpart of the salamander stayed in the memory, and has been raised to the rank of ElementalEmbodiment of Fire, and also part of its subtrope, AlchemicElementals.

* ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'': Elsa, Anna, and their friends encounter a series of elemental creatures in the Enchanted Forest. The fire elemental is a small, adorable lizard called Bruni that can move at remarkable speed and produces vivid purple flames from its body.

Since ReptilesAreAbhorrent, expect a frequent association to [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]], HellFire and FireAndBrimstoneHell. Exceptions do exist, however: a dragon or dinosaur-themed protagonist can sometimes be associated with fire as a way to reinforce his [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy hot-blooded temper and bravery]] rather than his evil nature. Those exceptions seem to be especially popular in japanese culture, where the connection of reptiles and dragons with evil isn't as strong as it is in Occident.

* In ''Literature/TheCaseOfTheToxicSpellDump'', salamanders have a MundaneUtility as a domestic heat source; Fischer complains that the one in his apartment building's water tank is sleeping when he takes his shower. There's also a reference to megasalamanders, which appear to be {{Magitek}} intercontinental missiles.

* On the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', Salamanders are creatures that absorb sunlight and store it in a special organ, then release it in a bright burst to scare predators. They've thus been adopted for use as flashbulbs in photography. In ''Literature/MovingPictures'', salamanders trained to maintain a more constant release are used in clicks projectors.

* In ''Literature/Fahrenheit451'', the firemen are emblemized by a salamander, to go with their purpose of ''starting'' fires.

** [[Anime/DigimonXrosWars Shoutmon]] and his evolutions are depicted as fiery despite being sound-themed. The sounds are converted into flames. And then there's him being HotBlooded.

** Agunimon, [[{{Expy}} who was vaguely a humoinoid Agumon warrior from the fourth]] season's, two of his attacks in Japanese were Burning Salamander and Salamander Break. Additionally his [[LeitMotif Character Song]] is named ''Salamander''. Almost all Digimon related to the Agu/Greymon lines are this trope.