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9	[[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/DoctorStrange https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dormammu_hulk_4026.jpg]]]]
10	[[caption-width-right:350:Dormammu will have you [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 burn to cinder in chaotic flame]].]]
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12	->''"Some say the world will end in fire,\
13	Some say in ice.\
14	From what I've tasted of desire,\
15	I hold with those who favor fire..."''
16	-->-- '''Creator/RobertFrost''', "Fire and Ice"
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18	Fire is destructive, chaotic, and painful to touch. It has destroyed buildings, killed millions of people, scarred others, and depending on who you ask, [[FireAndBrimstoneHell may torture you even after death]]. Because of all the destruction and blood lost to it, it will often be associated with evil. Whether it's [[TechnicolorFire orange, red, blue, or green]], it's always going to be evil. The fire doesn't even have to be your ordinary campfire, it could be the [[{{Hellfire}} unholy fires]] of FireAndBrimstoneHell itself or a similarly evil variant.
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20	This trope has many uses. Fire could be used to create the atmosphere for the BigBad's throne room or arena. A VolcanoLair or even a big fiery place with lots of volcanoes could be the [[{{Mordor}} domain]] of the evil emperor. The villain may have [[PlayingWithFire control over fire]], appear WreathedInFlames, or even be [[MyBloodRunsHot (literally) hot-blooded]] themselves. Nonetheless, fire will be associated with evil.
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22	SuperTrope to InfernalBackground and EvilLivingFlames. Can occasionally overlap with LightIsNotGood since fire also produces light, and also with FanaticalFire and {{Pyromaniac}}. [[OppositeTropes Contrast]] with EvilIsDeathlyCold and HolyBurnsEvil.
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29	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30	* The [[MonstrousHumanoid Titans]] from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' have a low-key variant of this, being noted to possess an [[MyBloodRunsHot abnormally high body temperature]]. In particular, the Colossal Titan constantly emits clouds of steam from its body and is able to release pressurized blasts as a defensive mechanism, as well as [[spoiler:igniting his own body]] to injure anyone who gets close.
31	* Fana from ''Manga/BlackClover'' is a violent and unstable mage with great hatred for the Clover Kingdom, and a powerful user of Flame Magic who has the power of the Fire Spirit Salamander.
32	* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'':
33	** Zhuqiaomon is a phoenix and serves as an antagonist, as he loathes humans and is the one responsible for sending the Devas to the human world.
34	** The D-Reaper's red mass gives off tremendous heat. Its final plan to devastate the human world is to link the substance of all of its mass around the globe and increase its temperature high enough to sterilize the planet of all life.
35	* ''Anime/DragonBallGT'': Nuova Shenron controls fire, and generates heat so intense he's a WalkingWasteland. [[ZigZaggingTrope That being said]], he's the [[NobleDemon most noble]] of the Shadow Dragons and an AntiVillain.
36	* ''Manga/FairyTail'' has the villain Zancrow from Grimoire Hearts, who is a fire Godslayer and an amoral jackass who burns alive his own companions.
37	* [[BigBad The Emperor of Darkness]] from ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' is a living pyre of flames.
38	* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'': William ''sets everything on fire''. Serious {{Pyromaniac}} tendencies, even though it appears to be mostly used because fire is incredibly good at destroying evidence of his crimes. His final plan even culminates in setting all of London on fire. He's also generally associated with fire as motif.
39	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
40	** To some degree, even Ace. While he's generally a likable person, he is still a reckless, dine-n'-dashing criminal nonetheless who is (wrongly) considered to be evil via his bloodline in-universe and holds a bounty of 550,000,000. Oh, and of course, he is made of fire.
41	** Taken further by the villain Akainu, who's made of frigging [[MagmaMan magma]].
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44	[[folder:Arts]]
45	* The only sinister characters in ''Art/TheApotheosisOfWashington'' are the tyrant king and his followers, who stick out because a few of them are seen with torches trying to burn down [[{{Arcadia}} Ceres's agricultural utopia]]. In case the evil wasn't clear enough, the fire isn't light-bearing so much as smoke-spewing, covering [[DarkIsEvil the tyrants with smoke and shadow]].
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48	[[folder:Comic Books]]
49	* Classic ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' villain [[Characters/DoctorStrangeEnemies Dormammu]] provides the trope image, being a creature with a head of fire.
50	* Willy Pete is the only character in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' with fire-related powers. His body burns hotter than the sun, and he can fill a room with flames that incinerate everyone in it upon entering. He's also evil in its purest, most sadistic form.
51	* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' has Heat Wave, who occasionally [[VillainTeamUp teamed up]] with [[EvilIsDeathlyCold Captain Cold]] to encompass ''both'' villainous temperature extremes.
52	* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Surtur, one of Thor's longtime foes, is a massive giant made of fire who lives to destroy the world, having burned down ''entire galaxies'' in the past.
53	* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' villain Nightflame is a sorceress who has control over fire. In ''ComicBook/DemonSpawn'', she burns down streets and whole buildings as she looks for Supergirl.
54	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
55	** In her [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 original incarnation]], Zara is a former slave girl turned cult leader who uses pyrotechnics to fake pyrokinesis. Modern depictions of the character give her the genuine ability to create and control fire.
56	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': It doesn't show up much when [[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]] manifests his own body other than his glowing fiery eyes, but when he possesses people, they tend to start smoking before being burned up from the inside out leaving nothing but flickering fire, ash, and some skeletal remains.
57	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': The giant demonic entity D'grth, whom Stalker traded his soul to ages ago, has glowing eyes and a jagged glowing mouth and flame and smoke curling from his body.
58	* [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants Pyro]] from ''ComicBook/XMen'', whose power is control over fire, is almost always a villain. The same goes for the movie version in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' and ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''.
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61	[[folder:Fan Works]]
62	* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz''
63	** Cody's Quirk is called "Flame" that allow him to create, control and transform into fire. He was also the first person of the DeadlyGame to attack Luz's team with intent to kill for the prize money.
64	** Millie is a member of the Emperor's Coven who has no problems trying to assassinate Luz, a 14-year old girl, and fire spells are so hot that it could melt through skin and bone. [[spoiler:Not that did any good against Luz's [[BarrierWarrior Forcefield Projection]].]]
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67	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
68	* ''Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon'':
69	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': EvilSorcerer Jafar conjures a wall of fire to attack Aladdin before [[OneWingedAngel transforming]] into a gigantic Cobra, with the flames becoming his coils.
70	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' In the final segment, the ObviouslyEvil Chernobog covers himself in fire.
71	** ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' has the Firebird, representing the natural chaos and destruction of a volcano.
72	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': Hades has [[FlamingHair blue fire for hair]] (which takes on its usual reddish color when he's enraged), and he's the BigBad and god of the underworld.
73	** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'': [[KnightTemplar Judge Claude Frollo]], despite his self-proclaimed [[ChurchgoingVillain piousness]] is often associated with burning and hellish imagery, even having a whole [[VillainSong song]] in which he emphasizes [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the fire and brimstone of Hell]] that he believes will smite those who tempt him as he struggles with his {{Lust}} for Esmeralda.
74	** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'':
75	*** Scar sings his VillainSong in a geothermically-active area with geysers, steaming vents, and lava.
76	*** At the climax, fires caused by lightning set the stage for the battle against Scar.
77	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': Te Kā, the demon who defeated Maui and tries to kill anyone who approaches the island of Te Fiti, is a giant lava monster. [[spoiler:She's not really evil, though, just stuck in a blind rage.]]
78	** ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Maleficent is often surrounded by eerie green flames. She [[ScaledUp becomes a fire-breathing dragon]] at the end of the film.
79	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons'': Ommadon the Fire Wizard is the only evil member of the four elemental wizards.
80	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'', the antagonist Sunset Shimmer's sun motif serves to parallel Twilight's star theme. She also gains [[spoiler:FlamingHair and fire magic in her demon form]].
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83	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
84	* ''Film/TheSpiritOfTheSword'' features a power struggle between five clans, modelled after the five elements, but the only clan which is fully evil is the Spirited Fire Clan, whose leader, the Fire Demon God, is a black magic practitioner who delights in killing his victims via his fire-breathing snake-headed staff.
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87	[[folder:Literature]]
88	* In ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheEmergedWorld'', the Land of Fire is one of the first lands fallen under [[BigBad the Tyrant]] and is a very bad place to live in. Furthermore, both the [[CoDragons evil twins Sameion and Dameion]] and the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Black Dragons]] in general came from that land.
89	* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', a good deal of Hell is burning hot ([[EvilIsDeathlyCold though some of it is icy cold]]). Heretics in the 6th circle are punished with flaming tombs, the violent against others in the first part of the 7th circle are immersed in boiling blood, blasphemers, usurers, and sodomites are in the last part of the 7th circle, desert with fire raining down from the sky, simoniacs (8th circle, 3rd Bolgia) are stuck upside-down in holes with flames burning at their feet, corrupt politicians are immersed in boiling pitch, and evil counselors (8th circle, 8th Bolgia) are trapped within individual tongues of flame. ''Inferno'' does avert associating Satan with fire, as he's trapped in the lowest level of hell (for traitors) -- [[EvilIsDeathlyCold a frozen lake]].
90	* In the ''Literature/FirebirdTrilogy'', the evil within Firebird's mind manifests as black flames.
91	* There's a powerful Dark Art spell in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' called "Fiendfyre", which creates a wicked mass of demon-shaped flames that can backfire in the hands of an inexperienced caster. However, it's also one of the only things capable of destroying [[SoulJar horcruxes]].
92	* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'':
93	** The eye of Sauron is described as being rimmed in fire; his hand is burning hot as well, which is why his ring glows when it's on his finger. The land he rules from, {{Mordor}}, is an ashen wasteland dominated by an active volcano. During the Siege of Barad-dûr, Sauron slew Gil-galad (and possibly Elendil) with the heat of his hands as they wrestled. His being burning hot makes sense, given that he was a Maia of fire before he [[FallenAngel fell]].
94	** The Balrogs, which have the ability to shroud themselves in fire and are armed with fiery whips. The Balrog of Moria uses a flaming sword.
95	* ''Literature/ANecklaceOfFallenStars'': Stafgrym uses a fire-based spell to bind Kippen. The spell is one of the more destructive in existence.
96	%%* Saint Dane in ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure''.
97	* In ''Literature/TheRealmsTrilogy'', [[{{Satan}} Ashar]] is the god of fire, and his minion Taws is a creature that has great fire-related powers.
98	* In ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'', Obi-Wan senses Anakin in the Force "burning like a fusion torch" just before their lightsaber duel. Throughout the book, Anakin has thought of his rage as a blast furnace in his heart, and during the climactic duel, Darth Vader lets it out.
99	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
100	** Those who are opposed to the religion of R'hllor consider the titular god as this, as he craves for sacrifices by immolation. To Red Priests like Melisandre, though, the sacrifices are necessary to prevent [[EvilIsDeathlyCold The Great Other]] from enveloping the world in darkness.
101	** Valyria after the Doom is an [[{{Mordor}} inhospitable wasteland]] said to be inhabited by fiery demons and other malevolent things. The seas surrounding it are boiling hot, and the sky is red all the time. Nobody who ventured there came back unharmed, with most flat out never returning. The one person who did return, Aerea Targaryen, suffered a fatal fever that no maesters could heal; when she was submerged inside water, hot slimy ''things'' burst out from her skin but died upon impact with cold water.
102	* ''Literature/{{Underworlds}}'': The fire monsters of the Babylonian mythology, which Loki plans on using to burn down the human world.
103	* In Creator/MichaelMoorcock's ''The War Hound and the World's Pain'', Lucifer takes the form of a human being covered in flames.
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106	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
107	* ''Series/Charmed1998'': With all the [[FantasyKitchenSink demons, ghosts, sorcerers, evil priestesses, alchemists, elves, trolls, banshees, and general baddies]] inhabiting the world (and underworld), it's expected for at least a few to be able to manipulate fire. [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]] are often shown throwing streams or balls of fire at the sisters. Some demons can even teleport by turning into fire or flames. In one particular arc, Phoebe basically has an unborn devil brewing in her stomach and she temporarily gains the ability to throw blue fire. Also, in the eighth season, Christy, an agent of the {{Big Bad}}s, had the ability of pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire.
108	* In ''Series/{{Encantadia}}'', there are four kingdoms that have each been given an elemental gemstone to guard. The kingdom of Hathoria guards the Gemstone of Fire and its inhabitants, who have [[PlayingWithFire fire-based elemental powers]], become the antagonists of the show when they threaten to take the other elemental gemstones for themselves and subsequentially start a war between the kingdoms over it.
109	* In one episode of ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'', "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E5MindOverMatter Mind Over Matter]]", a group of scientists enter the mind of a patient who has bad memories of his dad trying to make him kill his girlfriend. The dad is surrounded by flames, along with everything else, while screaming at him.
110	* ''Series/StargateSG1'' references how flames are typically associated with demonic influence in human mythology and suggests it's due to the influence of the [[NeglectfulPrecursors Ancients]] keeping the [[JerkassGods Ori]] -- who use fire as a symbol the same way Christianity uses crosses -- at bay.
111	* ''Series/TwinPeaks'' has this as ArcWords: "Fire, walk with me".
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114	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
115	* Burning hot {{hellfire}} is usually associated with evil things in Abrahamic religions; understandable, given that most of the faiths were born in a blisteringly hot desert area (i.e. the Middle East), it only makes sense for the population to condemn heat but welcome cold. Contrast this with the areas near the North Pole: Northern Europe, Siberia, and Northern Canada, whose indigenous people usually associate hell with [[EvilIsDeathlyCold deathly cold things]].
116	** UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}}, at least in its early stages, is an aversion, as the underworld, Sheol, is instead thought of as a grim and depressing place, but not hot (kind of like the Greek Hades or the Norse Hel).
117	** Literature/TheFourGospels constantly describe {{Hell}} as [[FireAndBrimstoneHell "the furnace of fire" or "unquenchable fire"]] to emphasize how painful the separation from God will be. This imagery is used more dramatically in the [[Literature/BookOfRevelation Apocalypse]], where every evil-doer is thrown by Christ into an eternal "lake of fire" to burn alongside the Devil and his ilk. Because of these Biblical images, [[TropeMakers the West began to associate fire with evil]] and now {{Satan}} and {{Hell}} are usually represented in pop culture as being associated with fire. ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' is a notable aversion of this, since Satan is trapped in the ''coldest'' part of hell.
118	** In UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}, the jinn ([[OurGeniesAreDifferent genies]]) are beings made of fire. While they are not inherently evil (they are like humans in that they can choose to be good or bad), one of them, Iblis/Satan, is undoubtedly bad. Also, Hell has flames that burn so hot they're pitch black.
119	** Inverted with the Seraphim (the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent highest order of angels]]) whose name means "burning ones", and are usually depicted as [[MultipleHeadCase four-headed dragonlike creatures]].
120	* In Myth/JapaneseMythology, the god of fire, Kagutsuchi, is [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood not so much evil as being thoroughly misunderstood]], but his birth was [[DeathByChildbirth what killed his mother]], the matriarch god Izanami, making her the first god to be sent into the Underworld. His father, the patriarch god Izanagi, meanwhile, [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild immediately killed him]]. These days, the opinion is [[BrokenBase mostly split]] whether to consider him as [[{{Demonization}} the ultimate Satan figure]], or [[DracoInLeatherPants pity him]].
121	* Loki from Myth/NorseMythology was thought to be the God of Fire, though it turned out to be a linguistic confusion (and probably [[HijackedByJesus a conflation with Satan]]). His name actually seems to come from "lopt", which means "air". There ''is'' a separate god, or rather, jotunn, of fire called Logi, but he is more of a PunchClockVillain. Norse mythology has an entire class of fire jotnar who live in [[LethalLavaLand Muspellheim, the realm of fire]]. They are morally questionable, as with other jotnar, though specific characterization is difficult because they don't appear much, except in [[{{Gotterdammerung}} Ragnarok]], where their leader, Surtr, notably became the figure ultimately responsible for annihilating the entire universe by [[SetTheWorldOnFire setting it on fire]].
122	* Inverted in UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}}, where fire is associated with [[GodOfGood Ahura Mazdha]], and thus good.
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125	[[folder:Podcasts]]
126	* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' has this as a recurring theme -- in several episodes, sinister and probably-magical goings-on are accompanied by a sharp and inexplicable increase in the ambient temperature. This usually means the presence of [[spoiler:the Desolation, sentient PrimalFear of pain, loss, and destruction, manifesting most often as destruction by fire. Its cultists, who worship it as a god of fire (minus any of fire’s benevolent connotations), have their flesh replaced with molten-hot wax]].
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129	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
130	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
131	** The ChaoticEvil Balor demon can immolate (create flames around) itself. It was inspired by the balrog in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
132	** The Efreet, the fire-based genies, are Lawful Evil on the whole, dwelling in the despotic City of Brass. That said, the fire tends to take a backseat to the JackassGenie part.
133	** Of the archomentals (powerful evil elemental beings), the most consistently prominent is Imix, the Prince of Evil Fire Elementals.
134	** ''Al Qadim'' has the Brotherhood of the True Flame, a society of evil fire elementalist wizards. They tend to fight for monopoly about as much as for superiority of their element, though.
135	* Khorne in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' is associated with heat as a result of his status as a [[WarGod god of war]] and [[UnstoppableRage wrath]]. Several of his daemons are associated with things like burning swords or molten bronze.
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138	[[folder:Theme Parks]]
139	* Lord Darkenon, the antagonist of ''Theatre/PoseidonsFury'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]], uses fire throughout his appearances, particularly as a weapon.
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142	[[folder:Toys]]
143	* ''Toys/HeroFactory'': Fire Lord, the BigBad of the second arc.
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146	[[folder:Video Games]]
147	* Deathbringer, the final boss of ''VideoGame/BattleFantasia'', is a demonic suit of AnimatedArmor that is constantly WreathedInFlames. He also [[NoSell shrugs off any and all damage]] where the player isn't ''also'' [[ManOnFire on fire]].
148	* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': The Wasp King is a violent, foul-tempered madman who wields rare and deadly fire magic. He takes this up to eleven in the game's climax, where [[spoiler:he turns on an enormous flame-spitting machine in Giant's Lair (actually a stove, as seen from bugs' perspective) that nearly wipes out a village full of friendly roaches]].
149	* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': Dracula has always been associated with fire, from his trademark three-fire balls to giant meteors.
150	* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'': Pyron is an evil being, said to be the physical embodiment of the sun. Like Inferno, he too is made of living flames.
151	* ''VideoGame/{{Dragonfable}}'': The BigBad of Book 2, Wargoth, is a fiery warlord from another dimension intent on turning Lore into a burning wasteland, just like he did to the Atealans' homeworld. [[spoiler:Turns out he's the magical half of Warlic.]]
152	* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': Multiple of the [[EldritchAbomination Outer Gods]] are associated with flame and fire, and [[ElementalRivalry harbor an antagonistic relationship]] with the [[WorldTree tree-focused]] [[GodOfOrder Greater Will]]. There's the [[CombatSadomasochist Formless Mother]], whose blood-red {{Hellfire}} is spilled with its own blood, and the [[{{Cyclops}} Fell God]] of the ancient fire giants, who Queen Marika waged a war to wipe out. However, no other Outer God represents this more than the [[KillItWithFire Frenzied Flame]], a [[GodOfEvil malevolent]] and [[GodOfChaos madness-inducing]] deity that [[TheHeartless feeds off of despair and suffering]], [[PowerBornOfMadness inspires outbreaks of insanity]] with its LovecraftianSuperpower, and seeks to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all life in the world]]. [[spoiler:If you want, [[EarnYourBadEnding you can help it succeed]], burning the Erdtree and destroying the world; if she's still alive, Melina will swear to hunt you down.]]
153	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
154	** Used to dramatic effect in Sephiroth's iconic UnflinchingWalk through fire in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''.
155	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has Ifrit, the primal god of the Amalj'aa beast tribe also known as the "Lord of the Inferno", whose command over flames is potentially ruinous.
156	* ''VideoGame/GeminiHeroesReborn'' is a superhero-themed action game, and the HiddenVillain, Trevor Mason, is the one with pyrokinesis. He even looks downright Satanic, being shrouded in flames with burning eyes when he fights you as the last boss.
157	* [[AlignmentBasedEndings The evil end]] of ''VideoGame/InFamous2'' gives Cole fire powers.
158	* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'': [[spoiler:Hades gains flaming hair in the final battle, after being decapitated.]] In addition, [[spoiler:Pyrrhon turns on the other gods to try to gain control of the Aurum, and may have been planning to do so the whole time]].
159	* The overall villain of the Arson case desk in ''VideoGame/LANoire'' is [[spoiler:a former flamethrower who served under Cole in the Pacific during World War 2. He brought his weapon home with him]]. While it might seem inevitable that the villain of that part of the game would be so inclined, [[spoiler:he was essentially TheDragon (made to burn down houses for profit), until the manipulations of his psychiatrist backfired and finally drove him into full on AxCrazy territory, and he suddenly burst in, [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere strangled the Doctor]], and kidnapped the {{Love Interest\|s}}]].
160	* Brand, the Burning Vengeance, in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is pretty much the fire counterpart to [[EvilIsDeathlyCold Lissandra]], a wicked spirit that wants nothing but to end the world in fire. His skill pretty much revolve around burning his enemies to death.
161	* Ganon uses flames as an attack in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''.
162	* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'' has the balrog Tar-Goroth who rises from a pit of lava, burns wood [[WalkingWasteland simply by being near it]] and leaves flaming footprints wherever he walks.
163	* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': Played straight for the Fiery Castle, which used to be the villains' evil hideout (and, as the name suggests, is surrounded by fire and volcanoes) but inverted for the Super Moshi HQ which is located in a perpetually-erupting volcano, and averted for the Diavlos, a mostly-benevolent race of monsters with lava powers, and several Moshlings with fire-powers, including the Amazing Blazing Raisins and the Fiery Frazzledragons.
164	* Areas controlled by [[ComputerVirus the virus]] in ''VideoGame/NeonXSZ'' will have occasional areas of fire.
165	* King Onyx from ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' may not be flat-out evil, but he's still a tremendous {{Jerkass}} [[spoiler:and ends up burning down Ringford Forest and annihilating the fairies during Armageddon]].
166	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
167	** Team Magma from [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire the third generation]] has an affinity for fire, but they're only evil in ''Ruby'' and ''Emerald''. They are allies in ''Sapphire''.
168	** Team Flare from [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY the sixth generation]] has a fire motif, with tacky [[FireIsRed red-orange]] uniforms and [[FieryRedhead red hair]] on most of the Grunts. [[spoiler:Although their boss Lysandre is fought in an arena resembling [[BattleAmongstTheFlames the surface of the Sun]], his Pokémon of choice is actually a [[SeaMonster Gyarados]], not a Fire-type Pokémon.]]
169	** ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduces Chi-Yu, a Dark/Fire legendary Pokémon who brought ruin to an ancient empire together with its three partners (one of them being EvilIsDeathlyCold, too) until the four were sealed in hidden shrines across the region.
170	* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', Iblis is a fire being and one of the two main villains of the game.
171	* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'': The BigBad Inferno takes the form of a living, humanoid flame in most of his appearances (with the exception of his playable appearance in ''Soulcalibur'', where he is given a body that is simply on fire for technical reasons). Normally he is unable to exist outside of his pocket dimension so battles against him take place there, where he can have form. At times his body has other parts in it like bones or organic greaves in addition to the flames.
172	* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'': Typically seen during Akuma's win pose where dark flames appear on his shoulders. This doubles as his taunt in subsequent games.
173	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Bowser's trademark ability is to breathe fire, and he's usually surrounded by flaming or flame-like objects like lava and stars in the main platformers.
174	* Jinpachi Mishima of ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' fame can spit fireballs which take up 3/4 your lifebar; plus, in ''VideoGame/Tekken5: Dark Resurrection'', his whole body is surrounded by [[WreathedInFlames flames and lava]]. Oh, and he's also the final boss of ''Tekken 5'' and the aforementioned ''Dark Resurrection''. Ironically, he is probably one of the most just characters in the series, or at least, [[WhiteSheep he is just compared to his family]].
175	* In ''VideoGame/TitanQuest Ragnarök'', after fighting your way through both Asgardians and Jotuns, you descend Yggdrasil's roots to reach the real BigBadDuumvirate composed by [[GodOfEvil Loki]] and [[ElementalEmbodiment Surtr]] in the scorching land of magma and ashes that's Muspelheim.
176	* Utsuho Reiuji (a.k.a. Okuu), the BigBad of ''VideoGame/TouhouChireidenSubterraneanAnimism'', throws giant suns at you... [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN HELL]]!
177	* The main enemy/TheManBehindTheMan of the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Burning Legion]]. Also, many of its creatures are wreathed in flame; the Infernals spring to mind.
178	* In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', among the first things seen in the story are shots of Reshef and Pegasus surrounded by fire.
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181	[[folder:Webcomics]]
182	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' with the "master of fire". Damien as a SelfFulfillingProphecy is bad enough, and then we have [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-26 this]] dream. Not that it wasn't nasty enough as is, but [[http://www.ookii.org/egs/uryuom/ as translated from Uryuomoco]] -- [[spoiler:"Death. It Is Time For The End Of Man. This Master of Fire Shall Inherit The Earth. My Very Presence Eats Away At Your Flesh"]].
183	* ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'' has Jagganoth, one of the seven Demiurges, who is both set up to be the comic's final villain but also heavily associated with fire and heat. He leaves flaming footprints behind when he walks and [[WalkingWasteland simply being near him is fatal to regular humans]], as his body temperature is high enough to boil other peoples' blood at a distance.
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186	[[folder:Web Videos]]
187	* ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'': [=HitTheTarget=] [[spoiler:and Veeva Dash]] live in a fortress surrounded by lava, and are heavily associated with the Nether, which is basically [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Minecraft Hell]]. However, the fortress is also built in/near a cold, snowy biome, making the island HailfirePeaks territory.
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190	[[folder:Western Animation]]
191	* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', this is supposedly a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Racial Trait]] of Fire Elementals, [[CardCarryingVillain according to the Fire King]] at least.
192	* The Fire Nation in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is the instigator of the war on the three other nations. While played completely straight with [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai]] and his daughter, [[TheDragon Princess Azula]], it's gradually subverted in that some of them are actually decent people and actually allies of Aang and his friends, and Aang himself must master and understand firebending to restore balance. Prince Zuko, the original firebending villain that Aang faced against, is depicted as a highly sympathetic and tragic character with [[NobleDemon countless heroic traits]], and eventually [[HeelFaceTurn switches sides to teach him]].
193	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' introduces Captain Nemesis, a superhero who turns villain when he gets annoyed at Ben being more popular than him. For their final battle in that episode, his PoweredArmor is rigged in such a way that it becomes increasingly hot with each attack. Ben beats him by using [[MakingASplash Water Hazard]] to rapidly cool the suit then absorb the moisture from it, turning it into brittle junk.
194	* [[BigBad Father]] from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' liberally uses his fire powers.
195	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Mr. Cat is often associated with fire, and the intro to [[Recap/KaelooS3E1LetsPlayTheVerySpecialEpisode the season 3 premiere episode]] depicts him as some kind of supernatural entity with flames coming from his body.
196	* Drekk, one of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''' [[RoguesGallery recurring villains]], is an alien with fire powers.
197	* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterBeach'': One of the monsters, Dr. Knutt, is kind of an antagonist, lives in a volcano and its appearance consists in a [[TerrifyingTiki Hawaiian mask surrounded by flames]].
198	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
199	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom]]", Tirek's magic has a fiery color and he uses {{Fireballs}} to fight the superpowered Twilight at the climax of Part 2.
200	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E10ARoyalProblem A Royal Problem]]", [[spoiler:Daybreaker, Celestia's borderline-insane, egotistical SuperpoweredEvilSide, has a strong and prevalent fire motif. Her mane and tail are twin plumes of living flames, and she can breathe jets of fire. When she sits on Celestia's throne, she fills the entire hall with pillars of flame]].
201	* Hotstreak from ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' is a pyrokinetic and one of Static's toughest and most recurring enemies. Even before he got his powers, he was a nasty piece of work; his EstablishingCharacterMoment has him harassing Frieda and beating up Virgil when he tries to put a stop to it.
202	* [[CanonForeigner Volcana]] from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' is a pyrokinetic. [[DarkAndTroubledPast Once a teenager named Claire Selton who struggled to control her powers, Claire was taken away by government agents who sought to use her as a weapon]]. After escaping from their custody, she became a fugitive and crossed paths with Superman. While she seemed set up for a HeelFaceTurn, her later appearances have her back as a villain.
203	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
204	** The Fallen is one of the original 13 Transformers who turned on the others to serve [[GodOfEvil Unicron]]. Due to the unholy energies empowering him, he's constantly on fire. Or rather, he ''was'', since this aspect of his character has fallen (har-har) by the wayside, although most of his subsequent interpretations have kept a charred-looking black and orange color scheme.
205	** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' has the base of the Predicons on top of a lava flow, and Megatron's [[TheDragon right-hand man]] is the {{Pyromaniac}} Inferno.
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208	->[[VideoGame/MegaManX7 BURN TO THE GROUND!]]

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