History Main / OutOfTheInferno

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Touma pulls this against [[PlayingWithFire Stiyl Magnus]]. Later, Accelerator terrifies Itsuwa by causally walking through flames.

* In the second season of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', when Anies is attacked by a fire mage, she is engulfed in a fireball. The bad guy thinks he's won and is set to go on his merry way. However, Anies jumps out of the flames, the only thing missing being her cape, and proceeds to run that mage through with her sword.

* Mayu of ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'' 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.

* Played straight with Lina in the opening for season 1 of ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'' and with Duclis in season 4, but subverted with [[spoiler: Phibbrizo]]. He staggers out with large pieces of his body missing and disintegrates one step in front of the heroes.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': [[The Koopa General does this after his giant kart is destroyed by Mario and Donkey Kong while on Rainbow Road. He's already been acting unhinged but this is the point where he fully decides it's personal and unleashes his own personal attack: [[VideoGame/MarioKart the Blue Shell attack]].]]

** 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.

* ''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.

* Literature/{{Discworld}}:
** In ''Literature/ReaperMan'' Death (aka Bill Door) walks out of a burning house, a small girl in his arms, ''smouldering''.
** Played with in ''Literature/IShallWearMidnight'', where walking through flames serves as a plot point in defeating the big bad. [[ArcWords "The hare jumps into the fire..."]]
* 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.
* Lieutenant Harsmith leads a squad straight through a forest fire right into the enemy, in ''Literature/InvasionOfKzarch''.
* ''Literature/TheWarGods'': During ''The War God's Own'', Bahzell destroys a temple to Sharna by having his allies spread as much flammables around as they can find, then channeling Tomanak's power to give it a boost. End result: flames billowing out of the temple's entrance engulfing Bahzell, who walks deliberately out of the fire unharmed.

* Super Steve by Machinae Supremacy. The fire it knows me and/ I can through the blaze without a mark.

* From Literature/TheBible (Book of Daniel, chapter 3) we have Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, three of Daniel's friends, who refused to worship a golden image, were thrown into a blazing-hot furnace, and walked out unharmed, accompanied by "a son of God."

* 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.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]]'s Big Entrance in ''Brawl'' and onwards during multiplayer matches.
** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'':
*** [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach]] gets a scene like this while holding her parasol, on the fight above the Halberd in the Subspace Emissary. Later, the four ships fly out of the explosion created when the Halberd was shot through by the Subspace Gunship.
*** The Ancient Minister in [[spoiler: ROB's reveal]]. Though that's not exactly walking ''out'' of the flames, and more fighting unhindered ''while [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]]''.

* Played straight in the PC game ''VideoGame/AdventRising'', in a cutscene, by the main character. Carrying the second female lead. Using a force shield bubble. And flying. The inferno in question is the self-destruct sequence of a base stationed on top of a volcano. To be fair, you (humans) being a deity is pretty much the point of the game. [[http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8356/adventrisingscreenzg7.png Screen]]
* Done with a slight variation in ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia''. On two occasions, Ramirez ominously emerges from flames in order to confront the main characters. On both occasions, the flames are the aftermath of heavy bombardments against the defenceless, which he initiated. In both occasions, he's a HopelessBossFight as well.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
** The monster Mr. X had one of these in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''--he fell into a smelting vat and emerged later with his trenchcoat burned off and wiggling tentacles showed underneath.
** The monster Nemesis had one of these in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''-- he emerged from fire with his trenchcoat burned off and wiggling tentacles showed underneath. This is a [[Franchise/MegaMan notable exception]] [[CapcomSequelStagnation from a company]] that's known for originality.
** Also, Bitores Mendez of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. Leon ignites some gasoline by his feet setting off a 6 foot high explosion. Not only does Bitores survive, but he proceeds to grow 5 inch nails, grow 5 feet taller, and get 2 more limbs. The only thing Leon succeeded in doing was burning his coat... and pissing him off.
** The [[ImplacableMan Ustanak]] walks completely unfazed out of the flames after Jake attempts to blow him up by [[ExplodingBarrels shooting a barrel]], making the poor guy ''quickly'' change his tune:
--> '''Sherry:''' [[RunOrDie RUN!]]
--> '''Jake:''' Eat this! ''(explosion)'' Okay... we go with your plan. ''(runs)''

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomUnderFireTheCrusaders'', upon Regnier's first appearance you are told to lure him into a forest and proceed to light said forest on fire using your archer's fire arrows, [[TemptingFate followed with a comment of how the enemy have fallen]] along with some praise of a job well done. Cut to a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKzHs6iibbk scene of the fire]] with Regnier's entire unit marching out unaffected, as the music starts up.

* The Ring That Commands Fire in ''VideoGame/ConquestsOfTheLongbow'' makes you immune to fire. At one point, Robin uses it to rescue Marian when the Abbot tries to burn her as a witch. [[YetAnotherStupidDeath This assumes that you remembered to put it on before plunging into the fire.]]

* Baal does a variant at the end of ''VideoGame/DiabloII'', where everything behind him is catching on fire after he passes it. Well, he ''is'' the Lord of Destruction...
* ''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.
--> Aaaaahahahahaha! I AM BOOLETPROOF!
* Occurs in the opening movie of ''Neo VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' with Bill Rizer and Jaguar after they blow up the giant robot at the end with rocket launchers.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis 3'', the protagonists Alan and Wesley do this when the base they were fighting in collapses.
* Mega Man does this in the credits of ''VideoGame/MegaMan7''.
* When Phoenix does this in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and ''[[UpdatedRerelease Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3]]'', run away because she's just become [[GameBreaker Dark Phoenix]].
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', after her transport is brought down by one of Shepard's party members, a Cerberus agent/robotic infiltration unit rises and stalks from the flames of the crash uninjured. For bonus points, her synthetic flesh has been burnt away to reveal a metal underlay and glowing eyes - very much like a certain other robotic infiltrator that endured a vehicle crash.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', this is done by [[BigBad The Elder One]]/[[spoiler:Corypheus]] when he meets the [[PlayerCharacter Inquisitor]] face-to-face for the first time.
* 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]]/[[LoadBearingBoss boss]] explosion, [[AlwaysClose regardless of how much time you've got left after reaching the exit]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Grrlpower}}'' Has Maxima do this with one of her ''own'' massive explosions, as a show of power and warning to potential supervillains. Later, Maxima tanks a hit from Bombshell and Sydney calls what happens next "the most predictable thing ever" and says Bombshell had better not "even dare to look surprised."
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace's final showdown with [[ArchEnemy Damien]] ends with him about to [[TakingYouWithMe self destruct]] rather than taking up Grace's offer to redeem himself. Grace reluctantly decides to save herself, but is still caught in the explosion, and would have probably died (or not[[note]]if you take into account her fireproof fur, perhaps only hurt[[/note]]), if not for [[spoiler: [[DeusExMachina the timely intervention]] of a character from the [[AlternateUniverse Alpha]] [[TheMultiverse Universe]] sheer chance (or not[[note]]if she was already monitoring the battle nearby since the target of her task ''was'' in the immediate area[[/note]]), happened to appear in the main universe in the same place and the same time to do an almost completely unrelated task]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': [[spoiler:Rose and Dave literally rise out of the Green Sun, completely unharmed[[note]]okay technically they were killed by its creation and just CameBackStrong[[/note]], possibly millennia after creating it themselves. It's unspeakably badass]].

* ''WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ'' in its reboot has [[BigBad Metallix]] do this during the fight with Yoshi. After a brutal fight between the two over a [[{{MacGuffin}} Chaos Emerald]], Yoshi manages to trap Metallix in an egg and throws it into a wall which then explodes. It seems like [[HopeSpot the fight is over]] until it's revealed that Metallix is still alive. Metallix walks out of the flames, with it quickly becoming clear that he's completely ''pissed'' and thrashes Yoshi to near death.

* ''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.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'':
** At the beginning of the series, Clark uses his [[PubertySuperpower developing powers]] to [[HerosFirstRescue save a family from a crash]]. After their van goes up in flames, he emerges with a small child -- he protected her, and his [[NighInvulnerability superhuman toughness]] protected him.
** Subverted in the finale when Superman fights ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}. 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 {{glowing|EyesOfDoom}} {{red eyes|TakeWarning}} 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' gives a few examples:
** [[TheJuggernaut Apocalypse]] is running amok somewhere in Mexico; all other X-Men around have failed to dent him. Enter Magneto, who drops a few communication satellites on him, resulting in this trope.
** Also happens with Rogue when Mastermind possesses her and forces her to acquire everyone's powers. Pyro sets her on fire and starts laughing, only to have her [[TheSlowWalk slow walk]] out of the flames courtesy of Colossus's [[MadeOfIron powers]]. Complete with ClothingDamage, too.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. Starscream, who has had a ''very'' bad day, is walking away with the PowerCrystal and looking truly disgusted with the universe. He ignores the Autobots, who blast him from behind after he walks past. When the flames clear, the only change in Starscream is that he is ''now facing them,'' and looking every bit as pissed. He proceeds to open a ''serious'' can of whoop-[[CallARabbitASmeerp skidplate]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', [[ActionMom Lois]] cuts the hoses on the flamethrower that [[EnfantTerrible Stewie]] is using and it blows up. He leaps out of the fire a minute later.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', this happens a lot since about half the cast are fireproof. In one instance, Lobo does this from an explosion he created by tossing a car on someone and stomping on it [[EveryCarIsAPinto so it exploded]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', the Shredder does this during his first fight with the turtles, causing Michelangelo to remark "he's like the Shreddernator or something."
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': Terry does this when rescuing a child from a burning building. His Batsuit is flame-resistant.
* The Goddamn Batman does it in the "Crossfire" episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', [[spoiler:[[PersonOfMassDestruction Avatar Roku]]]] does this during the Winter Solstice. Though, to be fair, it's less coming out of the inferno than bending the inferno to his will.

* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "A Song of Knives and Fire": Stan tries to do this as he carries Francine out of a flaming warehouse, but he's been horribly burned by the flames while Francine is unscathed due to being wrapped in Stan's firefighter uniform. He then opens his mouth to say something and all he can let out is a [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl high-pitched scream]] of pain.

* Varied in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', where the [[ImplacableMan Saint of Killers]] takes a direct hit from a nuclear bomb that, we are later told, killed 800 people in the surrounding area almost immediately. Some scenes with the other characters later, cut to the Saint ''inside'' the inferno with still-spotless clothes. "Not enough gun."

* When Franchise/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 ...]]
* Machinesmith has his robot helpers take out the Secret Service in Camp David, steal the nuclear "football" and use his powers to take the launch codes out of the mind of the President. He gloats that he just needs to start WWIII and kick off "the age of the machines." Suddenly, a figure is shown marching through the flames of a downed helicopter, a shield in one hand, and Machinesmith's jaw drops open. ComicBook/CaptainAmerica is here and Machinesmith knows he's screwed.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk does this. A lot.
* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': Tighten gets a ''chilling'' UnflinchingWalk out of the flames of Megamind's destroyed [[HumongousMecha battle suit]]. It's pretty much the point in the film where you realize [[FromNobodyToNightmare he's no longer the childish goof he started out as]].

* 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-"Like Death rendered in metal from the flames". 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. Aside from appearing in [[OnceAnEpisode every movie]], the final shot of the opening credits in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' is a T-800, standing undamaged in the nuclear fire and staring at the viewers with [[RedEyesTakeWarning blood-red eyes]].
* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger is good at this trope in general. In ''Film/RawDeal1986'' he plays an ex-FBI agent turned sheriff who fakes his own death before going undercover as a mob hitman. He drives his squad car into an oil refinery, opens a few valves then blows it up with a flare pistol. Cue shot of Arnie riding out of the flames on a motorcycle.
* Done with V (or is it?) in ''Film/VForVendetta'', utterly terrifying one of the few survivors.

* In ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'', [[spoiler:all the imprisoned miners]] emerge from the smoke after one of the most intense explosions ever filmed blew everything around them to splinters.

* ''Film/{{Twister}}'': Jo and Bill emerge from [[spoiler:an F5 tornado]] without so much as a scratch.
* The Creator/JohnWoo movie ''Film/HardBoiled'' has a big one of these near the end of the movie by [[spoiler:the BigBad Johnny Wong after the hospital is blown straight to hell]]. And to make matters even worse, [[spoiler:he's [[PutDownYourGunAndStepAway taken Tequila's partner Alan hostage]]]].

* A scorched Chuck Yeager in ''Film/TheRightStuff'' emerging from his own plane wreckage.
* Leland Gaunt does this in the movie version (though not the original novel) of ''Film/NeedfulThings'', after Dan Keaton realizes that Gaunt made him a pawn just as much as he'd imagined the rest of the town had been doing to him, and blows up the entire Needful Things shop, with himself and Gaunt in it. Of course, since Leland Gaunt is actually The Devil in disguise as a humble antique dealer, his immunity to fire is to be expected (indeed, it didn't surprise the protagonist at all).
* In the movie version of ''Film/{{Casshern}}'', the robot army incinerates a building. This prompts Casshern's badass walk right out of the building, girlfriend in his arms, and is the beginning of the single biggest robot ass kicking in the entire movie.
* Shows up in ''Film/BatmanForever'', after Two-Face blows up a gas main right on top of Bats.
* The Balrog revealed in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing''.
* Played with in ''Flesh + Blood'': the castle is on fire and hero's party is getting the hell out when the antihero/villain wanders in from another direction, bloody and rather pissed. Then ''he'' has to jump back in a hurry as part of the roof collapses. He's later seen crawling out of the chimney, very scorched and ''extremely'' pissed.
* In ''Film/HeroicTrio'', the main characters blow up the BigBad, only for his bloodied skeleton to emerge from the flames, ready to continue the fight.

* In ''Film/BattleRoyale'', [[spoiler:as Mimura and friends are killed by Kiriyama, Mimura ends the battle by blowing up a massive propane tank bomb. The three heroes arrive on the scene, and it looks like everyone's dead...but then Kiriyama emerges out of the inferno, blinded, with TearsOfBlood running down his face]].
* The giant jumping spiders from ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'' do this somehow.
* Towards the end of the opening premonition in ''Film/FinalDestination2'', the last girl due to die in the multi-car pileup is pinned in the wreckage of her car while a tractor trailer barrels through the wall of fire caused by the rest of mayhem, bearing down on her like the wrath of God.
* ''Film/TheRunningMan''. After Ben ignites a barrel of flammable material, Fireball just strolls through the flame.
* In the opening of ''Film/BabylonAD'', Aurora is seen in a fireball reflected in the protagonist's eye.

* ''Film/IAmNumberFour'': Number Six's intro has her doing an UnflinchingWalk, the explosion engulfs her, leading to her nonchalantly walking out if the fire protected by an energy shield.
* After being caught inside an exploding gas station, the titular evil car in ''Film/{{Christine}}'' proceeds to drive out ablaze and continue to chase down a victim.
* ''Film/EndOfDays'': The Devil blows up a crowded restaurant in his first scene for kicks. The blast engulfs him as he walks out the door, but he then appears out of the flames with his human vessel completely unharmed.
* In ''Film/KamenRiderIchigo'', Takeshi Hongo does this when [[spoiler:he is revived from his temporary death, detonating his funeral pyre in the process]].
* In ''Film/HalloweenII1981'', [[ImplacableMan Michael Myers]] does this after being caught in an explosion at the film's climax. He collapses moments later, [[NotQuiteDead supposedly dead]].
* Parodied in ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'', when President Benson accidentally plunges into Saddam Hussein's massive roaring fireplace, and then steps out a few seconds later, scorched but unharmed. [[NoodleIncident His skin is made of asbestos, due to a "tanning parlor accident" in Dien Bien Phu]].
* At the end of ''[[Film/LeftBehind2000 Left Behind: World at War]]'', TheAntichrist Nicolae Carpathia's headquarters are destroyed by a missile strike while he's inside [[spoiler:speaking with the U.S. President, [[HeroicSacrifice who has the missile's]] [[SuicideAttack homing transmitter in his pocket]]]]. The film closes with a shot of the flaming wreckage, out of which Carpathia emerges completely unscathed and [[{{Pun}} mad as Hell.]] (To be fair, [[spoiler:the President]] knew that Carpathia [[ProphecyArmor can't die]] until [[Literature/BookOfRevelation the midpoint of the Tribulation]]; the objective of the attack was to slow him down by destroying his base of operations.)
* A semi-common trope in the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films. Godzilla himself has emerged from explosions caused by the military and Mechagodzilla's massive barrages, and twice from inside erupting volcanoes. Destoroyah's Perfect Form was revealed as a massive explosion heralding it died down.
* During the climax of ''Film/{{Rampage}}'', Davis Okoye distracts Lizzie from George by firing at her with a downed Apache Helicopter'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.
* In ''Film/TheBatman2022'' as the Penguin is fleeing the Batmobile on a crowded freeway, he gleefully gloats after the Batmobile was swallowed up in a fiery tanker-truck explosion, [[OhCrap only to look in his rearview mirror and see it shooting out of the flames, and hurtling directly towards him.]]

** 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 [[Franchise/MegaMan notable exception]] [[CapcomSequelStagnation from a company]] that's known for originality.

* The title character from ''Anime/ErgoProxy'' invokes this once. The point of the scene is apparently to illustrate just how tough he is, especially the part where he ''steps in a pool of burning fuel barefoot without [[FeelNoPain feeling it]]''.

* ''Bio Booster Armor Manga/{{Guyver}}'' has this happen to Sho [[spoiler: after the battle with Enzyme II]]. A zoanoid throws a car containing an unconscious Sho into a light pole, who awakens in time to bioboost and walk out of the flames. [[spoiler: His Guyver automatically de-equips shortly afterward as a result of his psychological trauma over having [[HeroicBSOD killed Enzyme II, who was really his father turned into a zoanoid.]]]]
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** All seven (so far) [=JoJos=] have [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow survived injuries that should have killed them]] including losing hands, getting blown into near-space from a VOLCANO, getting stabbed in the lungs by wooden stakes, being shot in the back and left for dead, and having knives thrown at one of them by a time-stopping vampire that threw them in a way that seemed like they were all thrown at the same time. And yet there is no real equal to Jotaro. [[spoiler:''He stopped time'']]. This actually justifies exchanging the iconic steamroller for an oil tanker in the OVA.

* 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. Nanoha then calmly walks out of the fire, completely unscathed and clad in her Barrier Jacket, leading Vita to [[YouMonster call her the devil]].

* Phoenix Ikki of the ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' anime, has his resurrection scene with the fire that was burning a forest and his brother, he appears out of the fire carrying his brother and extinguishes all the fire with his cosmos. Not surprising given his control over fire, and him generally being a badass.
* Tetsuo Shima from ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' has a big scene where he faces down some tanks after doing this.
* 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 Arnold Schwarzenegger to help them.]] They get out of there before she does, and the [[ShoutOut blatant references to the movie]] continue throughout the episode.
* Guts does this in the Lost Children Chapter of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' while fighting the moth-like Apostle Rosine, and is just part of several scenes during that fight when he, a flesh-and-blood human (save for his artificial arm), is far more terrifying than the demon he seeks to kill. And he survives at least one of those fiery encounters by gutting the cocoons above him that held [[spoiler: the abducted children the Apostle was turning into pseudo-elf Apostle spawns]] and letting the fluid that was suspending the half-creature inside drench him. Plenty of {{Squick}} moments in that Chapter.

* Occurs in ''Manga/ZatchBell'' when a bookkeeper uses a flame spell, and Folgore emerges...though not ''completely'' unscathed: it burned his pants seat, showing his bare ass.

* 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 hat.
* In the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession6SympathyForTheDevil Sympathy for the Devil]]", Wen does this after Spike makes him crash into a gas station that blows up as a result.
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' features several of these moments, notably after the Deathscythe Hell (which wasn't even finished at the time) takes a barrage of gunfire and seemingly explodes, causing the enemies to lower their guns. Afterward it steps out calmly and destroys them all.
** Another memorable one occurs during the series's final episode: A quarter fragment of the stupidly-huge space battleship Libra is falling towards Earth. Heero in the Wing Zero flies out ahead of it and turns around before attempting to line up a shot at it; the atmospheric reentry is literally peeling the armor off of the Wing Zero when he takes the shot, and Libra explodes and the screen goes out. A few seconds later a reasonably intact Wing Zero, transformed into its "Neo-Bird" flight mode, flies forward out of the explosion to general applause. Its awesomeness is only slightly reduced by Duo shouting out "He made it!" just before Zero appears.
* In ''Manga/BlackBloodBrothers'', when Zelman (a pyrokinetic) confronts [[spoiler:some members of Kabun who'd been turned into Kowloon Children]], he steps calmly out of a wall of flames, completely untouched, while his enemies are left writhing and screaming in pain behind him.
* Kittan from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' flies the King Kittan through the explosion that destroyed his Space Gunmen as a prelude to [[spoiler: his HeroicSacrifice]].
** Also, Guame's Dai-Gundo emerging unscathed after having another Dai-Ganmen (which was on fire at the time) drop onto and explode in a massive mushroom cloud. And the thing is GRINNING the whole time with a creepy frozen box for a face.
* 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 awesome-moments belt.
** Much earlier in the series, Cornelia's first appearance saw her Gloucester walking out of the flames of the Middle Eastern base she and her men just flattened.
* In the second season of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', when Anies is attacked by a fire mage, she is engulfed in a fireball. The bad guy thinks he's won and of course is set to go on his merry way. However, Anies jumps out of the flames, the only thing missing being her cape, and proceeds to run that mage through with her sword.
* Played straight with Lina in the opening for season 1 of ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'' and with Duclis in season 4, but subverted with [[spoiler: Phibbrizo]]. He staggers out with large pieces of his body missing and disintegrates one step in front of the heroes.
* Ryoko does this in the opening episode of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo''. Her next line is, "Hey! That's no way to treat a lady!"
* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' presents the first version of this in the Digimon Series, executed by Dukemon/Gallantmon in episode 36. Notable since "the inferno" had been the collateral of an earlier attack of him. The scene is a mix of [[Manga/DragonBall Gohan SSJ 2]] and KnightInShiningArmor that moves like a HumongousMecha with a BadassCape that puts out the fire. Yes, that awesome.
** In ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'', [[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.]]
* ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' does that in the first episode with an exploding tank.
* [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Anya]] attempts to do this in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' 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.
* Inverted by Johan of ''Anime/{{Monster}}''. After setting fire to the book donation ceremony, Johan calmly watches everyone scurry around like ants until Tenma finds him and pulls a hand gun on him. He then [[DissonantSerenity calmly]] walks straight towards Tenma, past him, and into the sea of flames, a single finger on his forehead for Tenma to aim at. It's only when he's been completely obscured by smoke and flames that Tenma and Nina, who arrived while this was happening regain enough composure to shoot at him.
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'':
** During the final match of the Dark Tournament between Yusuke and Toguro. Yusuke unleashes a Spirit Gun roughly 20 times larger and stronger than any other to that point. He hits Toguro with that blast, dead-on at point-blank range, the energy smashing a path through the stadium and hundreds of yards beyond. The area around Toguro's body is engulfed with flames, and it looks like he's done; as Kuwabara proclaims, "No one could have survived that!" We then see Toguro slowly get up and calmly walks back into the arena; aside from his busted shades, he suffered no damage. And when he returns, what does he say to the stunned Yusuke? "Is that all you got for me? I expected more from Genkai."
** Yusuke and Yomi both do this after Yusuke shoots an oversized Spirit Gun that explodes and sets the immediate area on fire.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' gives us several examples:
** Portgas D. Ace does this during his confrontation with Blackbeard. {{Justified|Trope}}, since, well, [[PlayingWithFire he controls flames.]]
** At the end of the Little Garden arc, Nami, Vivi, and Zoro pull this off to take Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine, having been trapped on a wax construct for the past few episode that could only be destroyed when Ussop enveloped it in a massive inferno. Zoro, of course, combines this with InfernalRetaliation.
** In a flashback, Rob Lucci is bombarded with cannonfire by pirates, and responds by [[FingerPokeOfDoom turning their captain into swiss cheese.]]
* Last episode of the ''Manga/AngelicLayer'' anime, Hikaru pulls this off, to everybody's joy.
* [[PaperMaster Konan]] from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' does this in the [[AdaptationExpansion anime version]] of her fight with the Aburame clan. Apparently, she accomplishes this by saturating her body with water, so that despite being made from paper she's ''less'' flammable than a regular person.
* Himura Kenshin, the legendary Hitokiri Battōsai (人斬り抜刀斎), is introduced in the first episode of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' handing out a can of whoop-ass to enemy swordsmen in a raging battlefield with fire.
* One ''Manga/FairyTail'' OVA opening starts with Team Natsu, Wendy, and Charle walking/flying through flames.
** Natsu kinda does this, except for the "walking out" portion. He eats the fire.
** [[GreaterScopeVillain Black Mage Zeref]] is introduced via flashback in the anime where he walks out of a blazing, destroyed city.
* Lady Kayura of ''Anime/RoninWarriors'' (Yoroiden Samurai Troopers) does this a couple of times against Ryo of Wildfire.
* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Touma pulls this against [[PlayingWithFire Stiyl Magnus]]. Later, Accelerator terrifies Itsuwa by causally walking through flames.
* In ''Anime/IGPXImmortalGrandPrix'', The Rocket crashes his mech in a flashback. He is then shown walking away from the burning mech like a badass.
* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'' Arystar Krory does this after blowing his own castle before leaving to the order. Allen and Lavi think he killed himself by staying inside the explosion, until he appears from the flames, unfazed.
* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'': Some crooks kidnapped Hyatt. When she performed her daily "no breathing, no heartbeat" routine, they tried to cremate her. While the fire was still raging, she walked out, completely unharmed. Even her clothing survived :(
* Sort of parodied at the end of the "Cinderella" storyline in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. Ranko-chan destroys the rock that was blocking the hot spring and disappears in the cloud of rock debris, dust, and steam. Then, Ranma in the male form emerges from the steam. He was trying to leave unnoticed.
* Walpugisnacht does this on ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', after Homura launches one hell of a WorfBarrage.

* 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. Nanoha then calmly walks out of the fire, completely unscathed and clad in her Barrier Jacket, leading Vita to [[YouMonster call her a demon]].

* 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.

-->-- ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "Once More With Feeling"

* In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' session #6, "Sympathy for the Devil," after Spike made Wen crash into a gas station that blew up as a result.

--> [[ChekhovsGun "Fire could not kill a dragon."]]
** Davos's escape from the flames at the Battle of King's Landing--which involved swimming out of an inlet full of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire Greek Fire]] and the wreckage of two fleets.

* The father in ''Film/CloakAndDagger'' does this out of a plane wreckage, for no reason other than to give the movie a Happy Ending. The scene could easily be read as in the imagination of Davey. It's quite intentionally left open to interpretation.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'':
** [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach]] gets a scene like this while holding her parasol, on the fight above the Halberd in the Subspace Emissary. Later, the four ships fly out of the explosion created when the Halberd was shot through by the Subspace Gunship.
** The Ancient Minister in [[spoiler: ROB's reveal]]. Though that's not exactly walking ''out'' of the flames, and more fighting unhindered ''while [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]]''.

* ''WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ in its reboot has [[BigBad Metallix]] do this during the fight with Yoshi. After a brutal fight between the two over a [[{{MacGuffin}} Chaos Emerald]], Yoshi manages to trap Metallix in an egg and throws it into a wall which then explodes. It seems like [[HopeSpot the fight is over]] until it's revealed that Metallix is still alive. Metallix walks out of the flames, with it quickly becoming clear that he's completely ''pissed'' and thrashes Yoshi to near death.

* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'': Some crooks kidnapped Hyatt. When she performed her daily [[IllGirl "no breathing, no heartbeat" routine]], they tried to cremate her. While the fire was still raging, she walked out, completely unharmed. Even her clothing survived :(

* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "A Song of Knives and Fire": Stan tries to do this as he carries Francine out of a flaming warehouse, but he's been horribly burned by the flames. He then opens his mouth to say something and all he can let out is a [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl high-pitched scream]] of pain.

* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk does this. A lot.

** At the beginning of the series, Clark uses his [[PubertySuperpower developing powers]] to [[HerosFirstRescue save a family from a crash]]. After their van goes up in flames, he emerges with the a small child -- he protected her, and his [[NighInvulnerability superhuman toughness]] protected him.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. When Superman and ComicBook/{{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 {{glowing|EyesOfDoom}} {{red eyes|TakeWarning}} 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.

* 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.

* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger is good at this trope in general. In ''Film/RawDeal'' he plays an ex-FBI agent turned sheriff who fakes his own death before going undercover as a mob hitman. He drives his squad car into an oil refinery, opens a few valves then blows it up with a flare pistol. Cue shot of Arnie riding out of the flames on a motorcycle.

* In ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'', [[spoiler:all the imprisoned miners]] emerge from the smoke after one of the [[UpToEleven most intense explosions ever filmed]] blew everything around them to splinters.

** 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.

See also OutrunTheFireball, for the NotSoStoic version, and BattleAmongstTheFlames, where you pass through the flames while fighting the final boss.

* 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.

* 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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--> '''Optimus''': [[BondOneLiner Say farewell to arms, Megatron!]]
--> *clomp* ... *clomp* ... *clomp* ... *clomp* ... *clomp* ([[OhCrap Optimus' expression]] is priceless)

* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' [[ActionMom Lois]] cuts the hoses on the flamethrower that [[EnfantTerrible Stewie]] is using and it blows up. He leaps out of the fire a minute later.

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