Tropes
- Appease the Volcano God: Island natives try to stop eruptions by heaving human sacrifices into the volcano's crater.
- Chekhov's Volcano: If a volcano is shown or mentioned in a story, it will inevitably erupt at some plot-critical point.
- Climactic Volcano Backdrop: Adding an erupting or smoldering volcano to a climactic scene for dramatic effect.
- Convection, Schmonvection: Lava can only hurt you if you touch it, because molten rock certainly doesn't radiate extreme heat.
- Lava Adds Awesome: Adding molten lava to something makes it more visually appealing.
- Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid: Lava is depicted as behaving like superheated red water, flowing far more quickly and fluidly than the real stuff does.
- The Lava Caves of New York: Adding volcanism in places where by all rights there shouldn't be any.
- Lava Magic Is Fire: When fire magic creates lava
- Lava Pit: A pit or moat full of lava helps give a note of extra danger when characters have to cross or jump over a gap in the terrain.
- Lava Pot Volcano: Volcanoes depicted as constantly active cauldrons of molten rock.
- Lava Surfing: Surfing on lava.
- Lethal Lava Land: The fire-themed video game level.
- Living Lava: Living beings made out of the stuff.
- Magma Man: Lava-themed Elemental Powers.
- A Molten Date with Death: Death by immersion in or exposure to lava.
- Plug the Volcano: An erupting volcano is silenced by plugging the crater with a large object.
- Volcano Lair: Supervillains like making their lairs inside volcanoes.
