Fiery Sensuality

Too hot to handle.

Wound up, can't sleep, can't do anything right, little honey,
Oh, since I set my eyes on you
I tell you the truth
T-t-t-twistin' like a flame in a slow dance, baby
You're driving me crazy
Come on, little honey, come on now
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, yeah smoke on the horizon
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, oh smoke stack lightning, smoke stack lightning

— "Fire Woman" by The Cult

Fire is often used to represent lust, sex, and passion. In fiction, this will be expressed by having characters with fire themes or abilities being far more in touch with their sexuality than just about anyone else or be explicitly designed for Fanservice. This trope is most commonly used with women, but male characters can qualify as well. As fire is often seen as a masculine element, a fiery sensual female can be seen as possessing stereotypical masculine traits (a high sex drive) mixed with more overt feminine ones. However, some examples may also have features besides sexuality and may be The Lad-ette or a Tomboy with a Girly Streak.

Compare Water Is Womanly. Contrast An Ice Person and Ice Queen, which often go hand in hand with one another. Sister Trope to Flames of Love, which is about a setting where loving takes place, not the people who do it. See Firemen Are Hot for another trope associating fire and sex.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• The Familiar of Zero: Kirche is a fire mage and has a special talent for using her sexuality to get what she wants. Few males have the willpower to say no to her.
• Tales of Wedding Rings: Granart Needakitta is the red-skinned, red-haired Cat Folk princess of the Land of Fire and keeper of the Rings of Fire. She is by far the most passionate and sexually assertive of the five ring princesses, and she also wears the least amount of clothing among them.

Asian Animation

• Pucca: In "Hot and Bothered", Ho meets Hottie, the goddess of the fire swamp, who has red hair in the shape of a fire, and can manipulate flames. She is quite flirtatious toward him and they fall in love.

Card Games

• While not universal, Fire Elementals in Magic: The Gathering have frequently been portrayed as beautiful naked women made out of fire going all the way back to the very first edition of the game. The "Red Hot Hottie" seen at the top of the page is a Lampshade Hanging of this cliche coming from 'Unhinged' one of the game's parody sets.

Comic Books

• The DCU:
  • Justice League International: Bea da Costa, aka Fire, is a lovely Brazilian woman with the ability to combust into green flames. She tends to wear very revealing outfits and has worked as a model, showgirl, and even an internet glamor girl.
  • Emperor Joker: One of the members of the Justice League in the new reality created by the Joker is Scorch, a demonic woman with fire powers. During Superman: Arkham, she flirts with her teammates Ignition and Bizarro, and even comes on to Superman. She later reappears during Joe Kelly's run in the main JLA title, as a love interest to the pyrophobic Martian Manhunter.
  • Teen Titans: Starfire is a gold/orange-skinned alien princess with the power to absorb ultraviolet radiation and release it as powerful blasts of heat. She is known for her Stripperiffic outfits and open sexuality.
• Fantastic Four: Frankie Raye is an extremely attractive woman who turns out to have fire powers of her own after she started dating Human Torch. She eventually becomes a herald of Galactus using the codename Nova, and prior to her death was romantically engaged with numerous male cosmic heroes like Firelord and even Silver Surfer for a brief time.
• X-Men: Jean Grey's phoenix powers are often viewed as a metaphor for female desire and sexuality, and how it can cause harm if corrupted.

Fan Works

• We Are All Pokémon Trainers: Chiyo is an attractive woman who does cam modeling and happens to be a psychic with barrier-related pyrokinetic abilities.

Films — Animated

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney): A more literal case occurs during the sequence of "Hellfire" when Frollo sees an apparition of Esmeralda in the flames. The song's lyrics even compare Frollo's lust for Esmeralda to an all-consuming fire.

Literature

• "A Girl And Her Lantern'': Candles in the form of sexy girls are seen. And they're magical.
• The Runelords: Being close to a fire-magician fills people with consuming, destructive lust. This is contrasted with the wholesomeness of the earth element, whose magicians fill people with an urge to procreate.

Music

• The Cult: The titular character of "Fire Woman" is a femme fatale whose beauty and allure are likened to fire.
• The music video to "Steam" by Peter Gabriel features Gabriel as a man made of water dancing with women made of fire, the result being, of course, steam.

Tabletop Games

• Dungeons & Dragons: Tieflings have an innate link to fire thanks to their infernal heritage granting them a natural ability to cast some fire-based spells. They are also generally depicted as being attractive and seductive thanks to having a racial bonus of charisma.

Video Games

• The Dead Case: The church ghost has the appearance of a woman with a stylized figure and a body made of flames. She is described as "kind of sexy for a ghost".
• The Elder Scrolls: Atronachs are elemental creatures from the realms of Oblivion, one for each of the Fire, Ice, Lightning magicka elements and then some. Initially, all Atronachs resembled nondescript humanoid males, but come Morrowind, each Atronach was given a unique design, and the Flame Atronachs became androgynous flaming specters covered in black armor with accentuated hips and narrow waists. Come Oblivion their bodies became slender and female, and this design philosophy persisted through Skyrim and Online.
• The King of Fighters: Mai is a ninja with fire attacks, a revealing red outfit, and a very curvaceous figure.
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: Din is the titular Oracle of Seasons. She has a red Color Motif, wears a form-fitting outfit to accentuate her curves, flirts rather shamelessly with Link, and is introduced as a sensual dancer. She even serves as the Trope Image for The Seductress of The Three Faces of Eve. While she is not directly associated with fire, she is named after and associated with Din, one of the three Golden Goddesses of Zelda lore, who is closely associated with fire whenever she is referenced.
• Mortal Kombat: Tanya is a Femme Fatale and evil sorceress who specializes in seduction, manipulation, and fire magic.
• Persona 5: Ann Takamaki is a fashion model whose looks are not only acknowledged in-universe but also used as a distraction. Her Persona specializes in fire spells.
• ''Smite: The Norse Sun goddess Sol takes the form of a curvaceous woman made entirely out of raging fire, stark naked (albeit lacking attributes) aside from a few body markings.
• A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky: A Charm Person user's direct magical attacks and moves involve flame, such as "releases a wave of fire" "combusts into flames" to heal herself, and being attacked by fire-element attacks just heals her, All There in the Script has her art be called Succubus, who bares her covered underside at the screen.
• Warcraft: While in the game itself the fire elementals look like a man Wreathed in Flames, in the game manual, the creature is drawn as a curvy female shape with Flaming Hair.

Visual Novels

• Wicked Lawless Love: Sascha is a suave, flirtatious incubus with fire powers.

Web Video

• Nostalgia Critic: The Critic lampshades this trope in his review of Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale when he gets to the part where the heroes enter a dragon's cave to retrieve the elf's head and are helped by a fiery aparition in the shape of a nude fairy. The Critic even references the fiery apparition of Esmeralda from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
  I swear animated films are trying to create a fetish for sexy fire.

Western Animation

• Gravity Falls: Pyronica is a PG example. She is an interdimensional criminal who appears to be made out of pink and white flames. She has one of the more risque designs of the henchmaniacs as she looks look like she's only wearing a pink cape, white tights, white disconnected sleeves, and pink stiletto pumps. It's also too specific to be a convenience that she has a long tongue, her butt is also seen when she jumps out of the temple before it's covered by her cape, and how she's constantly shown with an hourglass figure.
• Superman: The Animated Series: "Where There's Smoke" introduces Volcana, a fairly attractive and quite literal Fiery Redhead. She returns in Justice League with a more sexualized outfit and the villain Firefly is shown to be quite smitten with her.
• Tom and Jerry Tales: In "Freaky Tiki", Tom and Jerry anger a shapely Hawaiian volcano goddess who wears nothing but a bikini top and skirt made of flames.
• The Wacky World of Tex Avery: In one Power Pooch episode, PP spots a very attractive female walking down the street. To demonstrate her hotness, she leaves a trail of fire everywhere she goes.

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