Climactic Volcano Backdrop: Difference between revisions

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* At the climax of the second season of ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball Z]]'' when Goku is fighting Freeza and the planet Namek is collapsing, lava geysers go off behind them - and even ''before'' Freeza blasts the planet's core, a column of lava erupts behind Goku at the climax of his "I am the Super Saiyan" speech.

* The [[Final Battle]] between Joseph Joestar and Cars in the ''[[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' "Battle Tendency" arc happened on the top of an erupting volcano.

* ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'': Several climatic battles happened next to volcanoes and lava pools. In episode 25 Kouji fought Aeros B2 and B3 next to Mount Fuji's crater, and lava bubbled and spilled out of the pool as they brawled, threatening with engulfing them. In one manga chapter penned by Gosaku Ota, Kouji and Holzon V3 battle took place into the crater of Mount Fuji, with the sheer walls of the volcano as background, toxic fumes rising and swirling around them and magma sizzling and churning under their feet. And then you have the episode where Mazinger-Z got dunked in lava...

** ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]:'' One battle between Great Mazinger and Marquis Janus took place in Janus' [[Volcano Lair]]. As Tetsuya battled Janus and her troops, the volcano erupted and vomited lava, rocks and cinders, walls crumbled down and the place collapsed around them. It happened in the [[Gosaku Ota]] manga episodes.

* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', the battle of the Dai-Gunten took place with a background of erupting Volcanoes. Also, from the movie ''Lagann-Hen'', they manage to somehow, through sheer-hot-bloodedness, summon a galaxy-sized volcano [[In Space]].

* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', ''The Return Of The King'', Frodo and Sam at [[Lava Pit|an entrance to MountDoom]].

* Naturally, in the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Fires of Pompeii". Notable in that the climax takes place ''inside'' Mount Vesuvius. Oh and {{spoiler|the Doctor has to make it erupt to save the world.}}

* ''[[Champions (Tabletop Game)|Champions]]'' adventure "Nova" in Adventurers Club magazine #4. The adventure takes place in a crater in a volcanically active part of Iceland. At some point during the final conflict a nearby volcano may erupt, covering the area in lava.

* In the sidescrolling [[Super Mario Bros.]] games, Bowser's castles almost always featured lava.

** The 3D Mario games carry on this tradition as well. ''[[Super Mario 64 (Video Game)|Super Mario 64]]'' has you duking it out with Bowser on a chunk of land floating in the middle of a lava pool. The final battle in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]'' takes this [[Up to Eleven]], though, when the climactic fight takes place ''[[Beyond the Impossible|in the middle of a sun]]''.

* In the fire temple in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' you fight on top of a pillar jutting out over a huge lava pit and Ganon's castle is floating above a huge lava pit.

* The final missions of ''[[Guild Wars (Video Game)|Guild Wars]] Prophecies'' take place in a volcanic area.

* The final battle with Wesker in ''[[Resident Evil 5 (Video Game)|Resident Evil 5]]'' is in an active volcano.

* {{spoiler|Dark Crater}}, the {{spoiler|(real)}} final level of ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers (Video Game)|Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky]]''.

* [[Lethal Lava Land|Arachnia]] in ''[[Bug! (Video Game)|Bug]]!'' has one in the background. {{spoiler|Bug pushes the [[Big Bad]] into it [[Chekhov's Volcano|after he defeats her]].}}

* The second stage of the fight with [[Big Bad|Mundus]] in ''[[Devil May Cry (Video Game)|Devil May Cry]]'' involves him fighting you inside a volcano. Mundus stands waist-deep in lava, with Dante having to hop on rock platforms to get close enough to attack him. He'll also summon dragons made out of lava to fight you.

* The battle with the Vigoor Emperor in ''[[Ninja Gaiden (Video Game)|Ninja Gaiden]]'' also takes place inside a volcano. For his first form, Ryu must leap from floating platforms in order to attack him, while in his second form, he stomps about in the lava while Ryu is stuck on a convenient patch of rock.

* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', a lot of season 3 took place in the Fire Nation and there were at least two active-volcano episodes. "The Boiling Rock" and "The Eclipse" each had volcanic elements. And "The Fortuneteller" from season 1 had a volcano erupt in the Earth Kingdom.

* The climax of the Disney [[Direct to Video]] film ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin: The Return of Jafar]]'' involves [[Big Bad|Jafar]] tearing up the ground to reveal a sea of magma underneath as an attempt to trap the heroes, but then the [[Heel Face Turn|now-reformed]] Iago [[Family-Unfriendly Death|throws his lamp in the lava...]]

** The climax of ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book 2]]'' is very similar, with Mowgli, Shanti, Ranjan, Baloo, and Bagheera luring [[Tony Jay|Shere]] [[Knight of Cerebus|Khan]] into a volcano where they then throw him into the very bottom of said volcano and crush him with a stone tiger head (although he was still alive even after he was hit by [[Sublime Rhyme|said stone tiger head)]], [[Fridge Horror|just in time for the vultures to arrive...]]

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