History Main / HollywoodFire

** In what might be a CallBack to the above (to the point of reusing the music), ''Film/SpiderMan2'' features a powerless Peter Parker heading into a burning building to save a toddler. The fire itself plays it straight as there should be a lot more smoke billowing out of the building, not just the flames in every window. On the other hand, Peter is shown being treated for smoke inhalation by the paramedics as the firefighters finish putting out the blaze.

* ''ComicBook/TheNewTeenTitans'': Averted during the "ComicBook/WhoIsDonnaTroy" arc. [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna]] recalls her rescue from a burning building by Wonder Woman as a toddler, while there are dramatic flames dancing through the apartment it seems the reason Donna survived while the adults all died was that she was too small and low to the ground to have the same level of smoke inhalation.

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[[caption-width-right:196:Where there's smoke, there's... wait, where's the smoke?]]

* In ''Anime/{{Monster}}'', Johan walks into a sea of flames while daring Tenma and Nina to shoot him. He's utterly unharmed. Of course, since he may literally be TheAntichrist, an immunity to fire wouldn't be out-of-character.

* Averted in ''Anime/JuniTaisenZodiacWar''. The dangers of a burning building are played realistically when [[spoiler:Horse is trapped in a burning building. While his SuperToughness protects him from the flames, the smoke overwhelms and eventually kills him when he becomes disoriented and unable to breathe]].

* Averted in ''LightNovel/JuniTaisenZodiacWar''. The dangers of a burning building are played realistically when [[spoiler:Horse is trapped in a burning building. While his SuperToughness protects him from the flames, the smoke overwhelms and eventually kills him when he becomes disoriented and unable to breathe]].

* Frozone and Mister Incredible are able to talk and move normally while rescuing people from a building fire in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. [[JustifiedTrope Although it helps that one has]] [[AnIcePerson ice-based powers]], [[JustifiedTrope and the other has]] SuperStrength.

* Perhaps the most egregious example in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is the city of Stratholme that has been on fire for more than ''half a decade''. Despite this, people entering the streets of this inferno don't even face a penalty for the burning environment.
** In the Culling of Stratholme instance, Arthas comments that the fire is just as dangerous to your party as the undead. Except it ''still'' isn't.

* Averted [[spoiler: for Esmeralda]] in the stage version of ''Theatre/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', unlike in [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney the animated version.]] [[spoiler: Quasimodo rescues her from being burned at the stake, only for her to die of smoke inhalation after the subsequent battle.]]

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** Phoebus leaps into a burning mill and rescues the family inside with no injury to either himself or them.
** When Esmeralda is nearly [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]] at the climax, she's trapped in the fire for almost a full minute before Quasimodo rescues her, but the flames never touch her. Though she does lose consciousness from smoke inhalation, she's perfectly fine after she revives. Quasimodo isn't injured either as he pulls her from the pyre, then grabs the burning stake from its foundation to fight off the soldiers.

* In ''Manga/{{Life}}'', one chapter involved characters inside a burning, run-down hospital. The heat doesn't seem to hurt them much though.

* In ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'', the Hulk brings down a helicopter which, thanks to the law of conservation of momentum, continues to move toward him and Betty Ross despite being turned into burning wreck. The Hulk shelters Betty with his own body, but they are still engulfed in an inferno that should have roasted her alive despite the big green meatshield. '''[[RuleOfCool HULK LAUGH AT PUNY PHYSICS!]]'''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'':

* Averted [[spoiler: for Esmeralda]] in the stage version of ''Theatre/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', unlike in [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the animated version.]] [[spoiler: Quasimodo rescues her from being burned at the stake, only for her to die of smoke inhalation after the subsequent battle.]]

* ''Anime/IlSolePenetraLeIllusioni'', episode 1. Akari does end up passing out, but that had more to do with getting strangled by a daemonia.

* In the first episode of ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' this seems to be the case when the two lead ronin [[BattleAmongstTheFlames launch into a duel inside a burning teashop]]. Ultimately, [[RealityEnsues they're knocked out by the smoke]] and pulled from the ruins by less-than-helpful rescuers.

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# For the safety of everyone on set. Typically, a film crew is only a few yards away from where the fire is, and the actors are sometimes 'in' the fire itself. In a RealLife fire, the film crew would be dead, the camera and film would be destroyed, and the actors and stuntmen would be extra crispy. Among other things.

# For the safety of everyone on set. Typically, a film crew is only a few yards away from where the fire is, and the actors are sometimes 'in' the fire itself. In a RealLife fire, the film crew would be dead, the camera and film would be destroyed, and the actors and stuntmen would be extra crispy. Among other things.

It should be noted that the entire reason it appears this way is for two main reasons:
1. To give the viewer something to see as smoke often blocks sight down to a foot or less above the floor.
and 2. For the safety of everyone on set. Typically, a film crew is only a few yards away from where the fire is, and the actors are sometimes 'in' the fire itself. If the fire was the real deal, the film crew would be dead, the camera and film would be destroyed, and the actors and stuntmen would be extra crispy.

* Averted in ''LightNovel/JuuniTaisenZodiacWar''. The dangers of a burning building are played realistically when [[spoiler:Horse is trapped in a burning building. While his SuperToughness protects him from the flames, the smoke overwhelms and eventually kills him when he becomes disoriented and unable to breathe]].

* Averted in ''LightNovel/JuuniTaisen''. The dangers of a burning building are played realistically when [[spoiler:Horse is trapped in a burning building. While his SuperToughness protects him from the flames, the smoke overwhelms and eventually kills him when he becomes disoriented and unable to breathe]].

* In the first episode of ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' this seems to be the case when the two lead ronin [[BattleAmongstTheFlames launch into a duel inside a burning teashop]]. Ultimately, they're knocked out by the smoke and pulled from the ruins by less-than-helpful rescuers.

[[caption-width-right:196:Where there's smoke... wait, where's the smoke?]]

* There's a bit in ''Discworld/GoingPostal'' where this trope is explicitly reference. Moist von Lipwig goes into a burning building to save a cat, and doesn't leave when he has the opportunity because "A man that goes into a burning building to save a cat and does so, is a hero. A man that comes without a cat is just a toff."

** When Esmeralda is nearly [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]] at the climax, she's trapped in the fire for almost a full minute before Quasimodo rescues her, but the flames never touch her. Though she does lose consciousness from smoke inhalation, she's perfectly fine after she revives.

* Averted in the stage version of ''Theatre/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', unlike in [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the animated version.]] [[spoiler: Esmeralda is rescued from being burned at the stake, only to die of smoke inhalation after the subsequent battle.]]