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* In the first episode of ''SamuraiChamploo'' this seems to be the case when the two lead ronin 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.

* In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVI'', the party's visit to Thamasa culminates with them having to enter a burning house to rescue Relm. Despite the fact that the walls are completely ablaze and the halls are patrolled by flaming, self-exploding bomb monsters, the heroes have no trouble breathing or walking around, even taking the opportunity to sidetrack for some rare loot. It's not until after the boss fight that the group realize they're trapped and collapse. [[spoiler:Even then, Shadow comes to the rescue, because ninjas are too cool for flames.]]

Related to ConvectionSchmonvection and OutrunTheFireball. Often the only explanation for how a [[TheHero Hero]] can walk OutOfTheInferno and not be burnt to a cinder.

* Averted thoroughly by ''FiremanSam'', which was as realistic as the special effects and the target demographic permitted; fires create large amounts of smoke, and they also made a point of showing the crew donning proper breathing apparatus before entering a burning building. Considering that every episode contained AnAesop about fire safety this is only natural.

* Frozone and Mister Incredible are able to talk and move normally while rescuing people from a building fire in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''.

* Frozone and Mister Incredible are able to talk and move normally while rescuing people from a building fire in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that Frozone is AnIcePerson (even if he's out of water), while Mister Incredible is invulnerable.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Fridge Brilliance.]] The reason Frozone is dehydrated even though he knew that he was going off to do Hero Work is because his body is passively using all of his water to keep him alive in the burning building.

* 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." Paraphrased.

* Averted in the [[{{Hobos}} hobo]] movie ''EmperorOfTheNorth''; Ernest Borgnine's character briefly climbs inside a burning boxcar, and proceeds to almost cough his lungs out from smoke inhalation.
* 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, he still admits that he was hurt.

* 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 AnIcePerson (even if he's out of water), while Mister Incredible is invulnerable.

* A simplistic ([[RuleOfFunny and parodic]]) version appears in ''HotShots!: Part Deux'': President Tug Benson enters Saddam Hussein's palace, [[BuildingSwing swings on a rope]] and falls into a fireplace... but emerges moments later, saying, "My skin's made of asbestos. Tanning parlor accident at Dien Bien Phu."

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* The firefighters in ''{{Backdraft}}'' were caught in several fires that should have roasted them alive, protective gear or not.
* Most "firefighter" movies like ''Film/{{Ladder 49}}'' and ''{{Backdraft}}'' do try to avoid this trope, mostly because in that genre of movie it's a lot harder to get away with not doing the research.

-> It's a living thing, Brian. It breathes, it eats, and it hates. The only way to beat it is to think like it. To know that this flame will spread this way across the door and up across the ceiling, not because of the physics of flammable liquids, but because it wants to.
-->-- Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale, {{Film/Backdraft}}

* In the first ''Film/{{Spider-Man}}'' film, Spidey and the Green Goblin have what amounts to a business meeting inside a raging inferno. 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.

In Hollywood, fire is dangerous and deadly, but not enough for the protagonists to charge in and get everyone out just in time without turning into a human torch, or so much as a first-degree burn.

In [[RealLife reality]], any fire of that size would generate far more heat (easily around 1,000 degrees Celsius) than any human being could survive. More importantly, any large burning area would be completely filled with very dense and very deadly smoke (the vast majority of people who die in fires are killed by the smoke, which could be considered a mercy for those who would otherwise have burned to death, but not so much for those (more numerous) who would otherwise have escaped or never been reached by the flames).

* Averted in ''TheTerminator''. Kyle Reese causes the fuel truck the eponymous 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.

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

** Subverted in the first season, first episode: 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.

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* In ''HighlanderIITheQuickening'', Connor [=MacLeod=] is hit by a fuel truck that promptly explodes. Even given the fact that he is immortal and heals quickly, he should have been vaporized given the heat created by the fire, But no... he strides out of the fireball completely unharmed, accompanied by dramatic music and a wind that causes his BadassLongcoat to blow behind him.

* In ''CharliesAngels: Full Throttle'', ImplacableMan Seamus O'Grady survives a roaring inferno. There is no explanation for this.

* In [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie version of]] ''NeedfulThings'', Leland Gaunt survives when Dan Keaton blows up Gaunt's shop with both he and Gaunt still inside. Of course, this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because Leland Gaunt is actually the Devil in disguise.

* Every time Charlie [=McGee=] uses her powers in ''Firestarter''. Especially near the end where she's throwing fireballs and setting everything around her on fire just by walking by.

* In the beginning of ''Consider Phlebas'', the main character finds himself in a ship attacked by a [[TheCulture Culture]] spaceship. Said ship was hidden in the local ''sun''. Yep: the ship (which is sentient) ''willingly'' went ''inside'' the sun in order to surprise the enemy: one would wonder why the Idirans bother to keep fighting at this point.

* Film/{{RoboCop}} survives being caught in a gas station explosion with only a little soot on his [[DirtForcefield improbably shiny armor]].

In Hollywood, fire is dangerous and potentially deadly, but it's not ''that'' deadly.

* There's a bit in 'Going Postal' 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." Paraphrased.

* ''AloneInTheDark''(2008) is pretty blatant with its otherwise innovative fire system. No [[ConvectionSchmonvection convection]] or deadly smoke here.
* In ''FinalFantasySix'', the party's visit to Thamasa culminates with them having to enter a burning house to rescue Relm. Despite the fact that the walls are completely ablaze and the halls are patrolled by flaming, self-exploding bomb monsters, the heroes have no trouble breathing or walking around, even taking the opportunity to sidetrack for some rare loot. It's not until after the boss fight that the group realize they're trapped and collapse. [[spoiler:Even then, Shadow comes to the rescue, because ninjas are too cool for flames.]]

Fires are always an opportunity for major drama and heroics: How better to show that TheHero is a real {{Badass}} than by having him literally walk through fire? And how better to show that he's selfless than by having him [[HeroicFireRescue save someone (preferably a child) from a burning building]]? Hollywood Fires are distinguished by lots and lots of flames... so many flames, in fact, that they cover nearly every object around. The flames obscure sight and form obstacles that can be dramatically jumped through. Burning debris is all over the place and falls from the ceiling to dramatically block escape routes.

** Subverted in the first season: 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 in the very first episode, when Claire rescues someone from a burning train wreck. Sure, she was burnt bad enough to need to [[GoodThingYouCanHeal heal]], but considering she's just walked through a massive fire, her clothes are still in pretty good shape.