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* Averted in {{Hancock}} where we see the eponymous hero after putting out an apartment fire. His clothes are mostly burned away and, for all of his invulnerability, still admits that he was hurt.

* In ''CowboyBebop'', Spike causes Wen to crash into a gas station, which explodes. Wen survives.

* Frozone and Mister Incredible are able to talk and move normally while rescuing people from a building fire in ''TheIncredibles''. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that Frozone is an ice-producing hero (even if he's out of water), while Mister Incredible is invulnerable.

* In ''{{Anime/Monster}}'', Johan walked into a sea of flames while daring Tenma and Nina to shoot him. He was utterly unharmed, a fact that caused Tenma to hesitate actually shooting at him in stunned amazement.

* Frozone and Mister Incredible are able to talk and move normally while rescuing people from a building fire in ''TheIncredibles''. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that Frozone is an ice-producing hero (even if he's out of water), while Mister Incredible is invulnerable.

* In ''{{Monster}}'', Johan walked into a sea of flames while daring Tenma and Nina to shoot him. He was utterly unharmed, a fact that caused Tenma to hesitate actually shooting at him in stunned amazement.

* Subverted in the first season of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Claire stepped from the gutted remains of her home (after sedating Ted before he went critical and took out the neighborhood) covered in third-to-fourth-degree-burns. of course, given her powers, by the time she made it into her father's arms halfway across the lawn she [[HealingFactor merely needed a shower and some clothes]]. But she was, for a time at least, hurt by the fire.
* Played straight between Volumes 3 and 4, when Sylar is incapacitated by a shard of glass into his brainstem, said to be the only thing that will kill a healer for good. When the building burns down around him, the glass melts first and he survives, despite the fact that a fire hot enough to melt glass would have burnt him to nothing long before.

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** Subverted in the first season of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Claire stepped from the gutted remains of her home (after sedating Ted before he went critical and took out the neighborhood) covered in third-to-fourth-degree-burns. of course, given her powers, by the time she made it into her father's arms halfway across the lawn she [[HealingFactor merely needed a shower and some clothes]]. But she was, for a time at least, hurt by the fire.
** Played straight between Volumes 3 and 4, when Sylar is incapacitated by a shard of glass into his brainstem, said to be the only thing that will kill a healer for good. When the building burns down around him, the glass melts first and he survives, despite the fact that a fire hot enough to melt glass would have burnt him to nothing long before.
* In one episode of ''{{Smallville}}'', Clark does the same thing to protect a young boy from a meteor. The flames engulf both, but since the boy is "shielded" by Clark, he's naturally unharmed.

** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] given that Wen's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld practically]] [[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortal]] thanks to the [[GreenRocks moon fallout]], and only [[KryptoniteFactor similar rocks]] can cause him to age and by extension kill him.

* In the first ''{{Spider-Man}}'' film, Spidey and the Green Goblin have what amounts to a business meeting inside a raging inferno... and then they start fighting.
** In what might be a CallBack to the above, the second movie features a powerless Peter Parker heading into a burning building to save a toddler.

** Though of course what state the pile of people they're carrying are in is a bit more dubious.

** And his coat doesn't even have healing factor.

** Or Nyarlathotep. The book makes it clearer, though it's still subtext as to what exactly Gaunt is.
* 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!]]'''

*** Perhaps he did. Future Claire survived what was essentially a nuclear bomb while standing at ground zero, and they do have the same powers.

** FridgeLogic sets in when you remember the meteor is basically a huge lump of Kryptonite. How the hell did Clark even move near that thing?

* A BossFight in ''ResidentEvil 4'' takes place in a small wooden barn during an all-consuming gasoline fire. This has no effect on anything at all except for creating minor visibility issues.
** The ceiling is high enough to keep the smoke from reaching the player before the fight is over, but the heat still doesn't seem to be a problem.

* TheBible plays with this trope in the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, friends of the prophet Daniel. All three refuse to bow down to an idol made by their conqueror, Nebuchadnezzar, so Nebuchadnezzar has them thrown in a furnace. They escape unharmed. (Of course, they had [[DeusExMachina a supernatural being show up and protect them from the flames]]...) However, the guards who threw them in were killed by the fire, apparently the furnace really was that powerful.

* TheBible features this with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, friends of the prophet Daniel. All three refuse to bow down to an idol made by their conqueror, Nebuchadnezzar, so Nebuchadnezzar has them thrown in a furnace. They escape unharmed. (Of course, they had [[DeusExMachina a supernatural being show up and protect them from the flames]]...)

* Averted in ''TheTerminator''. Sarah Connor causes the fuel truck the titular cyborg is driving to explode. The insuing fireball burns away the Terminator's clothing and flesh, revealing the metal skeleton underneath. The metal is also shown to be a very strong futuristic alloy.
** Just to nitpick, Sarah Conner didnt cause the truck to blow up, Kyle Reese did when he shoved a pipe bomb into one of its hose pipes. Sarah wasnt much of an Action Girl in the first movie sadly. She took her level in Badass right at the end though.

* ErgoProxy was once caught in an explosion. Rather than get burned, he was able to PowerWalk OutOfTheInferno. Apparently, fire has stopped being hot in the future.
** Or maybe he was able to walk because he has super powers?

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[[caption-width:237:Indoor Hollywood fires tend to have more flame and less smoke.]]

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[[caption-width-right:237:Indoor fires in {{real life}} tend to be harder to see due to all the thick smoke.]]

* TheBible features this with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, friends of the prophet Daniel, all refuse to bow down to an idol made by their conqueror, Nebuchadnezzar. So Nebuchadnezzar has them thrown in a furnace. They escape unharmed. (Of course, they had [[DeusExMachina a supernatural being show up and protect them from the flames]]...)