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* One of the most iconic moments in the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' franchise takes place near the end of ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs A's]]'' when Vita attacks an untransformed Nanoha, causing part of the roof they're on to burst into flames. [[YouMonster Vita's comment]] when Nanoha emerges unscathed is one of the main reasons for Nanoha's FanNickname, "The White Devil".

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* Played straight in "The Tarnished Angel" storyline of Creator/KurtBusiek's ''ComicBook/AstroCity''.
* From ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' there's the scene where in the aftermath of the detonation of a horrendously powerful nuclear weapon when the smoke clears Superman is shown to be alive and virtually unharmed. His fellow heroes aren't so fortunate.
* But the trope is not quite averted in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. Superman has just had a close encounter with a nuke and been slapped down hard in the middle of the desert. He blasts his way out of the puddle of radioactive glass but is seriously short of Yellow Sun power and is cut off from the source by an immense cloud of sand and a violent magnetic storm, which he doesn't have enough Up-Up-And-Away to get clear of. [[spoiler: He survives only by sucking up a load of stored solar energy from several square miles of jungle, leaving him in a bad way but able to flee the conflagration.]]

* In the 2003 ''Anime/FullMetalAlchemist'' anime, [[spoiler:Pride]] pulls this against Mustang. He even lets slip he let Mustang incinerate him on purpose since he's never had a chance to test his HealingFactor before this.

* During the climax of ''Film/{{Rampage}}'', Davis Okoye distracts Lizzie from George by firing at her with a downed AK-47 Apache's machine gun. As she closes in, he then launches all of the copter's missiles and rockets into her face, creating a massive explosion and smoke cloud. A few seconds later Lizzie's roaring maw emerges from the smoke at him.

* [[https://twitter.com/F1/status/1333103417347219457 Watch]] as UsefulNotes/FormulaOne driver Romain Grosjean emerges from the burning wreckage of his car and scurries away. [[RealityEnsues This being reality]], he's not as unscathed or unfazed as most fictional examples - you can see him frantically shaking his singed hands to cool them down - but considering the crash could easily have ''killed him'', it's still incredible to witness.

* Mayu of ''LightNovel/GoshuushouSamaNinomiyaKun'' gets a similar scene after she sets off nearly every trap and then some on an island, also being called a devil. Though in this case, it was by the soldiers she was sending flying.

** In ''[[Anime/DigimonSavers Digimon Data Squad]]'', [[spoiler:[=ShineGreymon=] Burst Mode fights Belphemon/Kurata in the city. After easily dodging all of Belphemon/Kurata's attacks and causing great pain to them with his flame swords, [=ShineGreymon=] Burst Mode lights the whole street on fire and combines this with a [[TheSlowWalk slow walk]] toward Kurata and one of the most absolute hate-filled {{Death Glare}}s in anime history, all to incite incredible fear in the horribly evil MadScientist before finally finishing him off.]]

* [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Anya]] attempts to do this in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' when she reappears before Negi. She does pretty well, too, until she caps it off with a dramatic FlungClothing that ends up with her robe catching on fire. Then, when she tries to put it out, her hair catches on fire. Then, when she runs around in a panic, her skirt catches on fire. See, kids? This is why you shouldn't try this at home.

* Happens in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' whenever a unit survives a flamer/heavy flamer/inferno cannon attack, meaning potentially anyone can do this, but it's most commonly invoked with Space Marines and Necrons.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer Fantasy}}'' the spell 'Fulminating Flame Cage' can cause this effect. The unit becomes trapped in a fiery cage and takes damage if it moves. So half the unit will invoke this trope by marching out the fire. The other half...[[KillItWithFire not so much.]]

* Mokou in the VideoGame/{{Touhou}} [[FanVid fan video]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xlWuJngdWw&feature=related Blazing Heart. See 2:22.]]

* The scenes that play upon level completion in ''{{Videogame/Descent}} II'' end with the Material Defender escaping into space right after being engulfed by the [[ReactorBoss reactor]]/boss explosion.

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* [[{{Mascot}} The Guy]] on the cover art of Music/{{Disturbed}}'s ''Indestructible'' album.

* In ''[[Anime/DigimonSavers Digimon Data Squad]]'', [[spoiler:[=ShineGreymon=] Burst Mode fights Belphemon/Kurata in the city. After easily dodging all of Belphemon/Kurata's attacks and causing great pain to them with his flame swords, [=ShineGreymon=] Burst Mode lights the whole street on fire and combines this with a [[TheSlowWalk slow walk]] toward Kurata and one of the most absolute hate-filled {{Death Glare}}s in anime history, all to incite incredible fear in the horribly evil MadScientist before finally finishing him off.

* Last episode of the ''Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'' anime, Hikaru pulls this off, to everybody's joy.

* Sephiroth from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' does a badass walk ''into'' the flames of Nibelheim. It's become his signature scene and has constantly been reproduced in other games. The first trailer for ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' shows Sephiroth walking out from lava this way. It was followed by a characters in which all the {{Big Bad}}s from the first ten games in the series do this -- after which the lava turns into Chaos.

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* Mandatory Literature/{{Discworld}} example: In ''Reaper Man'' Death (aka Bill Door) walks out of a burning house, a small girl in his arms, ''smouldering''. A subversion in ''I Shall Wear Midnight'' uses this as a plot point in defeating the big bad.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', Meet the Medic: The Heavy gets his first Ubercharge as he's facing down a dozen charging Soldiers. The first thing to emerge from the cloud is the Heavy's new GlowingEyesofDoom.

* Jafar from Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' does this in an ominous way when Aladdin calls him a snake during the final battle. Jafar is fazed by neither the fire nor Aladdin's comment, calmly replying, "A snake, am I? Perhaps you'd like to see how (hisses with snake tongue and changes his voice) sssss-snake-like I can be!" Cue Jafar getting ScaledUp with his OneWingedAngel snake incarnation.

* [[TheStarscream Starscream]] pulls one off before his boss battle in the video game version of ''Anime/TransformersArmada''.

* Anime/{{Madlax}} does that in the first episode with an exploding tank.

Everything around someone explodes and catches on fire. NoOneCouldSurviveThat.

* The Balrog revealed in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''.

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** The monster Nemesis had one of these in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''-- he emerged from fire with his trenchcoat burned off and wiggling tentacles showed underneath. Of course, this is a [[VideoGame/MegaMan notable exception]] [[CapcomSequelStagnation from a company]] that's known for originality.

* Megaman does this in the credits of ''VideoGame/MegaMan7''.

* In a late episode of ''Anime/CodeGeass R2'', Lelouch walks out of the flames caused by his mind-controlled puppets' attacks as part of a scene that quickly became another notch on his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome belt.

* In ''[[Anime/DigimonSavers Digimon Data Squad]]'', [[spoiler:[=ShineGreymon=] Burst Mode fights Belphemon/Kurata in the city. After easily dodging all of Belphemon/Kurata's attacks and causing great pain to them with his flame swords, [=ShineGreymon=] Burst Mode lights the whole street on fire and combines this with a [[TheSlowWalk slow walk]] toward Kurata and one of the most absolute hate-filled {{Death Glare}}s in anime history, all to incite incredible fear in the horribly evil MadScientist before finally finishing him off. This is without a doubt a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome]].

* A SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome in the ComicBook/{{Daken}}[=/=]ComicBook/{{X 23}} crossover is the pair standing through an explosion, and subsequently strolling out of the flaming wreckage of Malcolm Colcord's lab.

* A scorched Chuck Yeager in ''Film/TheRightStuff'' emerging from his own plane wreckage. Plus it was a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. Whilst fighting [[FutureMeScaresMe Dark Danny]], Danny slaps an anti-ghost belt onto him, weakening the villain considerably, he then punches him into a petrol truck. Dark Danny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments accidentally blows it up with his hair]] engulfing the area in flames. Danny floats down, looks at the fire, and walks away. Dark Danny then emerges from the fire, unscathed, and casually rips off the anti-ghost belt with one hand. He then proceeds to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the crap out of Danny.]] ''Awesome''.

* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', after CorruptCorporateExecutive and [[spoiler:shape-shifting Terminator]] Catherine Weaver kills all of the personnel at the secret warehouse in the desert, she blows it up while [[UnflinchingWalk calmly walking away]], and gets engulfed by the resulting fireball. Naturally, she walks out of the fireball without any damage.
* One Kull Warrior did this in ''Series/StargateSG1''. Since they are [[NighInvulnerability Nigh Invulnerable]], it didn't bother that one too much.

* The [[Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaigers]] frequently invoke TransformationIsAFreeAction to protect themselves from incoming attack, leading to this. However, the most epic version is when Gokai Gallon falls under heavy fire and is engulfed in a massive explosion. Cue a completely transformed [[HumongousMecha Gokai-Oh]] charging straight out of the flames and ready to kick some tail.
* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Hothead," [[PlayingWithFire Coach Walt Arnold]] engulfs Clark Kent in massive flames and thinks he's won, only for Clark to nonchalantly step out of them.

* ''Series/{{The 100}}'': How Bellamy managed to get blasted out of an air vent by a fiery explosion, not only without injury, but with his clothes intact, is never explained.
* In addition to the scene from [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire its source material]], where Daenerys walks into her husband's raging funeral pyre and emerges the next morning completely unharmed with her three baby dragons after the flames have burned down in ashes and embers, ''Series/GameOfThrones'' also gives us a scene where [[spoiler:Daenerys locks the assembled khals of the Dothraki in a holy building in Vaes Dothrak, then [[KillItWithFire sets the whole thing on fire]]. Due to her Targaryen ancestry, she emerges with only her clothes burnt off, with all the khals dead. [[AssholeVictim No one's mourning them]]]].
* ''Series/GoodOmens'' has Crowley walk (physically) unscathed out of the flaming ruins of Aziraphale's bookshop [[HoYay to the accompaniment of Queen's "Somebody to Love"]].

* Most of the villains of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' have done this at least once, but Cell in particular seems pretty fond of it.
** The squishy sound his feet make as he walks inspires terror in all but the stoutest and most glow-y Super Saiyan!

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''

* Rock from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' specifically mentions Roberta, who just blew up the bar he and the others were in, is probably going to do this [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} and complains that they don't have Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger to help them.]] They get out of there before she does, and the [[ShoutOut blatant references to the movie]] continue throughout the episode.

** Inverted in The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon. The BigBad, having just had his most powerful Pokémon (a Mirage Mewtwo) defeated, turns around and walks into his burning castle.

* When ComicBook/SpiderMan first fights the Juggernaut, he runs a fuel tanker right into the villain, causing a massive explosion. Spider-Man is actually concerned that he killed the Juggernaut until [[OhCrap ...]]

* The ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series is very fond of this one, and definitely popularized it. In fact, the whole series exists ''because'' of this trope: Creator/JamesCameron based the first film on a fever dream he once had, in which a robot skeleton strode out of an inferno after a fleeing woman.
** [[Film/TheTerminator The first Terminator]] was heavily damaged, unlike most of the others; the flames burned off his skin and clothes, revealing the metal skeleton underneath. Unfortunately for the heroes, a Terminator's artificial skin is purely for infiltration purposes. Burn that off and while it can no longer pass as human, it's still an [[ImplacableMan implacable]] KillerRobot.

* Used in ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening'', when Connor [=MacLeod=] gets hit by a fuel truck. Fortunately, he's just regained both his youth and immortality, allowing him to stride out of the resulting fireball unharmed, dramatic music blaring, long coat blowing, sword clenched in his hand, Christopher Lambert doing his best "badass face" (okay, [[DullSurprise vacant stare]], but it is Christopher Lambert).

* The title character does this in the original ''Film/RoboCop1987'' film. Robo calmly strides out of an exploding gas station, with only a minor amount of surface soot on his [[DirtForcefield improbably shiny armor]], and shoots out the back tire of Emil's motorbike as he tries to flee the scene.
* Happens again in the opening of ''Film/RoboCop2''. After his car has had two rockets shot at it, causing it to flip over and then shot up and blown up, [=RoboCop=] steps out of the destroyed police car, no worse for wear and ready to take out the criminals that did it.

* ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': The Millennium Falcon manages to make it out of the interior of the Death Star a split second after the explosion.
** [[spoiler: Luke Skywalker]] walks out of a massive red dust cloud completely unscathed in Film/TheLastJedi after getting [[MoreDakka more dakkaed]] by a bunch of First Order Walkers on Crait. Justified, since [[spoiler: [[AstralProjection he's not really there.]]]]

* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', Sam successfully [[OutrunTheFireball Outruns the Fireball]], [[spoiler:but then Megatron emerges from the fireball and kills him. Megatron is then ''re-engulfed'' by the explosion, and Sam fortunately gets better]].

* In ''Film/KamenRiderIchigo'', Takeshi Hongo does this when [[spoiler:he is revived from his temporary death, detonating his funeral pyre in the process.]]

* ''Literature/GoodOmens'' has NobleDemon Crowley walking unscathed out of a burning bookstore, just after the firefighters have started saying things like 'Poor guy. Horrible way to die.'
** Not as good as when he stops the Bentley to ask a random passer-by for directions. Said passer-by spends most of the conversation wondering whether it's a good idea to point out that ''the car is on fire''.

* The Ophidian Guard from the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novel ''[[Literature/GreyKnights Hammer of Daemons]]'' can march through the flames created by their master's BreathWeapon thanks to their armour. From the first novel, the Knights themselves ran through burning fuel without stopping or being affected.
** A subversion of sorts occurs in ''[[Literature/HorusHeresy The Last Church]]'' when [[spoiler: Uriah]] walks ''into'' the inferno.

* Mandatory Literature/{{Discworld}} example: In ''Reaper Man'' Death (aka Bill Door) walks out of a burning house, a small girl in his arms, ''smouldering''.
** A subversion in I Shall Wear Midnight uses this as a plot point in defeating the big bad.
* Flame Trooper Brostin manages this in one Literature/GauntsGhosts novel, with the help of a large puddle of liquid fuel, a bottle of flame-retardant gel, a cigarette, and an acute case of pyromania. Notably, he refuses to get clear before blowing up himself and a whole bunch of bad guys despite knowing that the gel will ''probably'' save his life, but won't give him complete protection. He does it because he wants to look cool in front of his buddies. Oh, and because of the acute case of pyromania.
* Literature/{{Bolo}} has a lot of examples, including surviving a nuclear strike while the enemy thinks the tank is destroyed... only for the tank to emerged battered, but quite capable of killing the rest of the army the enemy has left (in some cases finally succumbing to the damage, with all of it's enemies either defeated or so badly beaten that they have to make a retreat), you can read the free to read [[http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/1439133476/1439133476___2.htm Field Test]] short story to get a taste of it.

* In Islamic tradition, there's a story about King Nimrod burning Abraham alive. Turns out Allah tames the fire and lets Abraham walk out of it safely.
** Almost certainly based on the Jewish midrash that Nimrod ordered Abraham thrown into a furnace for refusing to worship the idols of Ur Kasdim, only for Abraham to survive unharmed. Abraham's brother Haran, [[KillItWithFire on the other hand]]....

* The evasion class feature in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' allows rogues and monks (and others) to survive area-of-effect attacks and spells unscathed with a successful Reflex save.
** The Kensai prestige class in 3.5 has an ability called "Withstand" which allows him or her to make a concentration check instead of a reflex save. In effect, it allows you to essentially ignore certain effects rather than dodging them, so you can literally walk out of the inferno.

* Sephiroth from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' does a badass walk ''into'' the flames of Nibelheim. It's become his signature scene and has constantly been reproduced in other games.
** The first trailer for ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' shows Sephiroth walking out from lava this way. It was followed by a characters in which all the {{Big Bad}}s from the first ten games in the series do this -- after which the lava turns into Chaos.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''

* Ganondorf gets one of these in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', only there it's more of an [[spoiler: Out Of The Exploding Hyrule Castle.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Link goes to the top of Ganon's eight story flying castle, defeats Ganondorf, and escapes with Zelda as the castle collapses. After Navi gives a sigh of relief, Ganondorf blasts out of the rubble, shows off his Triforce of Power and transforms into Ganon, a [[OneWingedAngel Giant Pig]] with two giant swords. Needless to say, it was awesome.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' does this twice. First, Durge walks out of the flaming wreckage of his speeder bike, then Asajj Ventress emerges from the flaming wreckage of Anakin's starfighter.
** Though Asajj used the Force to clear the flames. Not sure whether that is less badass or more though.

--> Optimus: [[BondOneLiner Say farewell to arms, Megatron!]]

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. When Superman and [[EvilOverlord Darkseid]] fight at the end of the series, Superman grabs Darkseid's face so his Omega Beams get set off point-blank. There's a tremendous explosion that sends both flying. Next we see Superman weakly pulling himself out from underneath some rubble, then the camera pans over to where smoke is obscuring Darkseid, except for his [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] and we think he's about to do this... then the smoke clears a little more and we see Darkseid is badly hurt and barely able to stand. In fact, all he can do is walk towards Supes and collapse at his feet.

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Bart portrays King David and Nelson is Goliath II. After Bart throws a lamp down Nelson's throat, there is an explosion.
-->'''Bart''': Great news, everyone! Goliath is dead! Although I haven't seen his body, the blast that failed to kill me surely killed the giant.

* In the ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'' manga, there're two more Demon God androids than in the anime; the side characters come up with a plan for dealing with one that involves a concentrated attack to hit one of them (Jinnistacia) right before she fires her main attack; theoretically lowering shields to do so. The result was a tremendous explosion; [[http://www.bladeandepsilon.com/ifujinpics.htm which she walks out of]], all it did was destroy her NiceHat.

** a subversion in I Shall Wear Midnight uses this as a plot point in defeating the big bad.

* In ''[[Anime/DigimonSavers Digimon Data Squad]]'',[[spoiler: [=ShineGreymon=] Burst Mode fights Belphemon/Kurata in the city. After easily dodging all of Belphemon/Kurata's attacks and causing great pain to them with his flame swords, [=ShineGreymon=] Burst Mode lights the whole street on fire and combines this with a [[TheSlowWalk slow walk]] toward Kurata and one of the most absolute hate-filled {{Death Glare}}s in anime history, all to incite incredible fear in the horribly evil MadScientist before finally finishing him off. This is without a doubt a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome]].

* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', after [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Catherine Weaver]] kills all of the personnel at the secret warehouse in the desert, she blows it up while [[UnflinchingWalk calmly walking away]], and the fires engulf her body. Naturally, she walks out of the fireball without any damage.