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** At the very end of the series, {{spoiler|after absorbing God}}, Father creates a miniature sun in the palm of his hand. No one in the room so much as notices any heat, and his hand is unharmed. Of course, when you're precipitating nuclear fusion with a thought, convection is the ''least'' of the laws of physics that you're screwing with.
* Averted in the [[Filler]] Arc "Asgard" of ''[[Saint Seiya]]''. God Warrior [[Playing with Fire|Hagen]] of [[Stellar Name|Merak Beta]] lures the [[An Ice Person|ice-and-cold-wielding]] Saint Cygnus Hyoga into the depths of a volcano. While Hagen's Cloth and his own supernatural [[Battle Aura|Cosmo]] explicitly protect him from the heat (and, indeed, the lava enhances his attacks,) Hyoga has to spend such a ''considerable'' amount of his cooling Cosmo just to ''survive'' in the volcano, let alone ''attack'' his enemy, that he completely exhausts himself doing so.
* Also averted in ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma
** Near the beginning of the series, Ranma is stuck as a girl because the [[Pressure Point|Full-Body Cat's Tongue]] makes him (or, rather, her) unable to stand heat, so he can't change back into a man because he can't even touch hot water. Thus, he performs [[Wax On, Wax Off|a method of speed-training based on snatching chestnuts from an open fire]] --supposedly, [[When You Snatch the Pebble|if he can grab these chestnuts from the flames without being burned, he'll be fast enough to steal the Cat Tongue cure]] from [[Trickster Mentor|Cologne]]. Problem is, even the air around the flames is unbearably hot to him, and ''he can't even get close to the flames'' in order to ''begin'' training.
** Averting this trope is also the very basis of the ''Hiryuushoutenha'' --[[Calling Your Attacks|Flying Dragon Ascend-to-Heaven Wave]]-- and its many variations. It's based on making the opponent hot with anger, thereby making them release an equally hot [[Battle Aura]], while the practitioner exudes an ice-cool aura himself. Training for this technique involved, at one point, practicing dodging while on top of a boulder in the middle of a boiling hot spring. Keeping cool ''despite'' the heat was the entire point of the session. Akane then [[Stop Helping Me!|tried to help Ranma]] by wearing especially-insulated flammable gauntlets and explicitly use convection to simulate the effect... but she didn't foresee the flames jumping onto her ordinary, non-insulated clothes.
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* ''[[Journey to The Center of The Earth]] in 3-D''.
* The ending to ''[[Godzilla]] 1985'' has the monster being trapped in a volcano. Not surprisingly, he's not affected at all by either the lava itself or any of the intense heat. Of course, he ''is'' Godzilla.
* In the movie ''[[Danger: Diabolik]]'', most famous for being the subject of the final episode of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', the eponymous character dons a protective suit near the end to keep him safe as he melts down a large bar of gold. He claims that in such a suit he could swim through the sun (though he doesn't say so, he presumably means he could survive the ordeal as well). While this itself is fairly stupid, one has to take notice that there is a noticeable gap between the bottom of the visor and his helmet, as if he didn't shut it properly. Although this does not appear to present a problem when he is later sprayed with molten gold and survives.
* The 2005 movie ''[[House of Wax]]'' has the main characters escaping from said house as it melts and burns. Not bothered by the heat at all.
* In ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]] 2'', Doctor Octopus builds what is effectively a miniature sun. Characters standing a few feet away show no signs of feeling the heat.
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** The same joke is used again (or before?) in the ''Hork Bajir Chronicles".
* ''[[Journey to The Center of The Earth]]''. The protagonists are lifted out of [[Hollow Earth]] by riding up an erupting lava tube on a raft of fossilised wood (it's even more silly in the 1959 movie where they're using a large metal altar dish).
* Brutally and repeatedly averted in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', where fire magic almost always heats the air and sets nearby objects ablaze. In one case, a vampire used a flamethrower on Harry in a tight corridor, and he used his shield bracelet to deflect the napalm - but the bracelet only stopped the napalm jelly, while the ''heat'' from the jelly proceeded to roast his hand to the point that even with his wizardly [[Healing Factor]], it's still somewhat limited in use and covered in scar tissue for the rest of the series so far. Harry mentions on several occasions that summoning and directing fire requires a ''lot'' of force in order to make sure everything that's not the target doesn't get incinerated, and once that force is released, you'll still have to deal with the convection issue.
* In the ''[[Jedi Academy Trilogy]]'', Luke once walks through lava to impress a prospective student. He's stated to be using the Force to direct the heat away from his feet, so it's not much of a stretch to assume that he includes the rest of his body.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' novel ''Q&A'', the away team find themselves maneuvering through a lava field by jumping from rock to rock. Science officer Kadohata [[Lampshade Hanging|points out]] that the heat should be affecting them even if they don't touch the lava, but stops once security officer Leybenzon asks her is she's complaining that things should be more difficult. (The planet was created by [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]], and works however they want it to.)
* In [[Aaron Allston]]'s ''[[Galatea in 2-D]]'', Roger is not burned by nearby lava. Justified because [[Art Initiates Life|it's his imaginary world]], and he hadn't thought of whether it would kill.
* Averted in French Sci Fi novel ''[[Malevil]]''. The cast is celebrating in a cool 55º Fahrenheit castle cellar when [[World War III]] occurs. Within a minute the cellar is an incredible 150ºF. Emmanuel is struggling to breathe and strip off his clothes when he realizes the flagstones he's lying on are burning hot. He realizes with horror that the stone cellar may soon function as a stone ''oven'' and broil them all alive, it doesn't occur to him to consider what temperatures ''outside'' the insulated underground chamber must be like.
* Averted in ''Low Red Moon'' by [[Caitlin R Kiernan]], where a character magically creates [[Light the Way|an orb of light]] above his palm. The main character notices that his companion's hand is blistering and burning as he continues to maintain the light. Yes, children, light creates heat.
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* Played straight on ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The End of the World". Solar heat is shown to be a terribly lethal thing to let through, with special sun visors to block it out. But when the visors come down, the victims have plenty of time to scream and DUCK to avoid them (with mixed success, depending on the room and whether the Doctor is nearby). The walls seem to stand up to the energy reasonably well, too.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Basics, part II", the "don't touch the lava" rule is very much in effect when, during an evacuation from a volcanic eruption, Chakotay rescues an alien girl who's somehow gotten herself stranded on a piece of rock.
** The ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' series finale includes a scene where [[The Omnipotent|Q]] takes Picard back to primeval Earth. There are flaming pools of lava all around them, but Picard doesn't even seem to sweat. (Maybe Q shielded them from it?)
* In an episode of the original ''[[Knight Rider]]'', the car runs over a lava spillage not once, but ''twice''. The tires are a little melted, but the Magical Impregnable Alloy protecting KITT is just a little dirty. [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=brOfsNAQfU8 You can see it here in all its... glory?]
* ''[[Myth Busters]]'' once tested firewalking over charcoal. The build team found out that coal is actually a decent insulator; the top being much cooler than the underside, and that the proper technique is a casual walk. This is because when running, more weight is concentrated on less area, causing a persons feet to dig into the coals; potentially causing severe burns.
** It's a favorite trick of "life coaches" to demonstrate firewalking over wood or charcoal. Ask them to repeat the feat with a comparatively ''cooler'' metal plate.
* An episode of ''[[Eureka]]'' deals with a miniature sun springing into being over the title city, creating an unending, superhot day. It keeps growing and getting hotter until it collapses a silo, melts the tires on a Jeep and fries the circuitry on a rocket. No people suffer any ill effects worse than sweating, and the idea that a small sun might cause a fire in the forest it's hovering over is never even mentioned.
** Another episode features a giant artificially created pocket of magma somewhere under the city, which could pop up anywhere unless Carter diverts it into the nearby lake. Having done so, the lava spurts out of the tunnel he made and into the lake... while Carter stands right next to it, making his usual pithy comment.
* Subverted by Mike Rowe in ''[[Dirty Jobs]]''. Standing at least 20-30 feet away from a fresh lava flow, he remarked that "insanely hot was an understatement; it was hotter than hell". They had to get into special suits to get close, since the radiant heat was enough to burn their skin but seeing as the show centers on appreciating just how difficult everyday jobs are and strives for every aspect this is not too surprising.
* In the ''[[Sanctuary]]'' episode "Pax Romana", two characters in insulation suits (which leave much of the head and hands exposed) leisurely execute a medical procedure surrounded by molten rock a few meters below. There's a dramatic close call where one of them falls extremely close to the lava. Sadly, her hair fails to start smoking.
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== [[Multiple Media]] ==
* Several characters in ''[[Bionicle]]'' participate in the sport of lava surfing with no adverse effects. Handwaved in that they're cyborgs, most of whom have some form of heat resistance.
** Only Matoran of fire, who have a greater heat resistance, do it for sport. Other characters surf on lava only if needed to escape. It was also mentioned that Toa of fire could survive a few seconds in lava. No one thinks that it is stupid to surf for sport on a liquid which kill you if you fall.
** Played very straight in the movie ''Mask of Light'', wherein Takua (''not'' a Fire Matoran) fishes the eponymous mask out of a lava flow with his bare hands, and only feels the hotness after holding it in his hand for a moment. Then, he hops onto his comically frail lava surf board... on all fours, with his fingers clinging onto its sides (literally hanging into the lava), but suffers no ill effects.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
Countless [[Video Game Tropes|video games]] have [[Lethal Lava Land]] levels [[Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid|that you don't lose health for just being in]]. For example:
* Averted in ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star
** Some ''[[Star Fox Adventures]]'' levels contain lava, none of which is harmful to be near, but which causes damage for as long as Fox stands on it.
* In ''[[Super Mario 64]]'', you can jump great distances, land in lava, and only lose three hit points.
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* In the ''[[Thief]]'' games lava is harmless as long as you tiptoe around it, but coming into even the slightest contact with it will kill Garrett instantly. This is taken to an even more ridiculous extreme in the Thief Gold mission "The Mage Towers" where the interior of the Fire Tower is built almost entirely out of metal and there's a huge lava pool sitting right smack in the middle. In addition to convection, shouldn't the intense heat conduct through the metal and immolate any non-mages on contact?
* Treated somewhat schizophrenically in ''[[Guild Wars]]''. Lava isn't that huge a deal, and running in it will only cause you to take burning damage. This is true for pretty much the entire endgame of ''Prophecies'' (The final boss fight is in a volcano's ''caldera!''), several [[PvP]] arenas, and much of the endgame of ''Eye of the North''. The Desolation in ''Nightfall'' however consists of many, ''many'' sulfurous flats that are fatal within seconds to step on.
* Taken to a ridiculous extreme in the Underworld stage of ''[[Ninja Gaiden|Ninja Gaiden II]]'' for the Xbox 360. The usual rules of the trope are applied, made even sillier by the fact that you're running around on molten rock in ''socks.'' But you can fall into deep lava-which very slowly damages you-and SWIM IN IT LIKE IT'S WATER.
** That's because [[Conservation of Ninjutsu|he's a ninja]]. The same also applied to the previous game.
* Lovely scene in ''[[Myst]] III: Exile''. Not only can you stand comfortably on a platform inches above a room filled with lava, but after the lava drains away, the floor and all surfaces are ''instantly'' cool enough to touch.
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** ''[[Oblivion]]'' and ''[[Skyrim]]'' have the same problem with cold. You can run around stark naked in a blizzard with no problems whatsoever. ''Morrowind'' is the same with the ''Bloodmoon'' expansion, and ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall|Daggerfall]]'' takes it one step beyond by actually allowing you to go stark naked in a blizzard, rather than just stark underwear.
* In ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]: Hordes of the Underdark'', there is a lava river running through the otherwise totally frozen over Cania. Oddly, it's averted the other way around; you do take cold damage in Cania unless you're near pretty much any fire except the lava river above.
** You're also in hell, so normal laws of physics may not apply.
* Somewhat bizarre in ''[[La Tale]]'', not only will lava not hurt you unless you touch it, but you can sit in it and regain HP faster than the lava takes it away.
* Lava or the "molten metal" on board the ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' ship only damages you if you directly touch it, but the green slime on board the Pfhor ship damages you while you're jumping over it.
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** That said, the trope is also [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the same game: in the composer's notes for the track to the sixth level, ZUN talks about how lava levels are pretty common in shooters, and then states, "I guess it's normal for shrine maidens to fly above lava. Crows also."
** As for the Utsuho battle, don't forget the danmaku rule: she has no right to kill the protagonist, therefore she's using a much weaker version of her full power. (Although this bring about another question, spellcard rules were introduced since Reimu's death would spell [[The End of the World as We Know It|doom for Gensokyo]], but that's what Utsuho whats to do anyways, why does she follow them?) If Utsuho was going all out, Reimu and Marisa would probably quickly have been reduced to piles of glowing green ashes on the floor.
*** She follows them because Utsuho just wants to [[Kill It with Fire|burn up all Gensokyo]] and use it as the new Hell - killing Reimu on the other hand would mean [[Critical Existence Failure|it goes poof and disappears as if it never existed]]. After all, if you enjoy seeing things burn, you will need fuel.
* ''[[Donkey Kong Country]] 2'' has several lava stages. Touching the lava kills you, the rest of the stage gives no problems.
** And even then, you only die if you submerse yourself completely (the lava is just your bog standard [[Bottomless Pit]]). You're perfectly safe as long as part of your sprite is poking above the lava.
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* While in ''[[Golden Sun]] 1'' you could get heatstroke by walking through a particularly warm desert, you can walk through a volcano (Magma Rock) in ''The Lost Age'' with nothing happening to you.
** That desert wasn't just hot though, it was very clearly stated to be EVIL.
* ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' is the ''Most. Guilty. Ever''. The final battle takes place ''on a lava flow.'' Not on the lip of a volcano or a catwalk several dozen feet above lava or even on top of a levitation barge skimming a dozen feet above lava. ''On the actual lava flow''. You crash a ''stealth bomber'' into a ''pool of lava''. And it ''just floats there''. Then you get out of the plane, and have a casual gun battle ''on islands of rock floating in lava''.
** You might need an HDTV to see it, but if you look closely it is also ''raining molten lava'' all over the place during the entire fight. Granted, it's unrealistic lava rain (basically just normal rain but red, no ash or anything), but still it's red hot and hitting normal humans with exposed skin but they don't seem to mind at all.
** Averted in the prototype of ''[[Resident Evil 2]]''. The Research Facility was planned to be set on fire, and you would need a special vest to protect you from the heat.
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* [[Wii Sports]] Resort, where apparently being inside a volcano is perfectly safe, as long as there're guardrails.
* Part of one of the later stages of [[Dino Crisis]] 2 takes place inside an active volcano that Dylan can run around in (while wearing body armor, no less) with no problems despite coming perilously close to the lava flows.
* In ''[[The Godfather (video game)|The Godfather]]: The Game'', one of the [[Finishing Move|Execution Styles]] involves [[Murder by Cremation|tossing an enemy gangster into a large oven and cooking him alive]]. You can stand right next to the oven, hold the gangster right next to it... but as long as you don't actually toss him in, he won't take damage. Neither will you. For better or worse, you can actually see smoke wafting out, as well as hear a whooshing sound if you stand right next, suggesting that it really should be quite hot.
* A slight aversion in classic [[Text Adventure]] ''[[Adventure]]'' (also known as ''[[Colossal Cave]]''): heat isn't an issue, but trying to walk across a (magical) bridge across the shaft of a volcano causes the PC to die from the toxic gases unless {{spoiler|wearing [[Guide Dang It|the mithril ring]].}}
* Quite a few ''[[Pokémon]]'' gym leaders have lava inside their gym, inside their room (in the case of the leagues), or are located near lava.
** While not strictly a lava hazard, Magcargo's Pokedex entry lists it skin [[You Fail Physics Forever|as being]] ''[[You Fail Physics Forever|twice as hot as the surface of the sun.]]'' Just let [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWQpe-QN-o this guy] explain the further implications of this, especially in regard to ultraviolet radiation. {{spoiler|A Pokémon trainer standing near a Magcargo gets ''35 million times more'' UV radiation than an average life-form would get from the sun.}}
** Then again, the Pokemon world's idea of scientific investigation is to send a ten-year-old out to catch 'em all. The fandom strongly suspects the kids themselves are writing the entries and [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|have no sense of scale]].
** Camerupt fits into this as well, as does the aformentioned Torkoal.
** ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]''/ Platinum has Stark Mountain, which has this trope all over the place-the character is walking all around lava pools
** ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]'' has a lava pool area with one of the Team Magma grunts just making a comment about his ear burning.
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* It's interesting to note that ''Kyrandia'' (an old DOS adventure game by Westwood) has a puzzle in which there is a massive lava flow going under a bridge. Seemingly played only for drama, when your character begins to cross the bridge he catches fire and burns up painfully. To get through you need to find a scroll of freezing to turn the lava into ice.
* Played mostly straight in the ''[[Dungeon Keeper]]'' games:
** In the first one, you can build wooden bridges over lava and they'll last forever, and your creatures can cross them with no ill effects. Flying or levitating creatures can fly right over lava with no problems, and even creatures that happen to get knocked into lava won't die instantly, though they will take damage and die fairly quickly if they can't get out of the lava in time (except for the ones that are immune, like Demon Spawns and Hellhounds).
** The second game at least makes an attempt to subvert the trope in that there are two types of bridges: wood and stone. Wooden bridges will burn away shortly after being built over lava, while stone will last forever, and again, creatures can cross these bridges just fine.
* In ''[[Adventures of Lolo]]'', there are plenty of rooms with lava and the hero is just fine. For the most part, it functions exactly like water, with one major exception; bridges built over lava will burn down, either on a set timer or after walking over it a certain number of times.
* Tragically/Hilariously averted with the ''[[Minecraft]] Alpha Update 1.0.15'', where lava got the ability to light nearby flammable blocks on fire. The exact point where [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensued]] was when people loaded their saves and had their [[Violation of Common Sense|wooden houses with lava fountains]] burnt down. [http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=22404\]
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* Possibly [[Justified]] in ''[[Starcraft]]''. The levels on [[Lethal Lava Land|the planet Char]] are full of lava that has no effect on any units. Of course, the Terrans are all wearing [[Powered Armor]] (we know it can survive hard vacuum easily), the Protoss have shields, and the Zerg originally evolved on a similar planet.
* ''[[Vessel]]'' plays this completely straight. You can even run through lava splashes if you are fast enough. Though lava doesn't seem ''that'' hot in this game, as water cools it down pretty easily.
* Twice ([[Timey-Wimey Ball|well, sort of twice]]) during Season Two of ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'', the duo wind up stranded on a small rock outcropping surrounded by lava. As you learn when you revisit the scene later, though, {{spoiler|it's Hell, and physics may not apply}}.
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* In ''[[The Road to El Dorado]]'', the main characters are chased across a cracking layer of volcanic rock by a large stone jaguar. Lava comes within inches of splattering on them. But it must not be very hot itself, because the stone critter pops right back out.
* In ''[[Brother Bear]]'', Koda and Kenai traverse a field of heat (supposed to be lava...) This is impressive for two reasons: Kenai gets continuously hit by jets of steam (a la Princess Bride and the Swamp) and the nearby areas are covered in SNOW!
* [[Justified]] by [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|Captain Planet]], who can not only swim through molten lava and be completely unharmed, but can also ''use it to heal himself''. As dangerous as they are to humans, lava flows and volcanoes are still part of the Earth's natural ecosystem, which Captain Planet is a Physical Avatar of.
* In an episode of ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]'', Jake, in order to get ahead in a race against other dragons, utilized his experiences as a boarder and used a piece of rock to ride a lava flow, and he wasn't hurt a bit--as long as he didn't touch the lava. (Perhaps justified or handwaved due to him being a dragon (and in dragon form at the time), particularly one whose inherent element was fire, but still.
* Notably averted in an episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. A giant fire meteor threatens to strike Townsville. Even for most of the episode, the citizens suffer from a severe heat wave. Bubbles and Buttercup fly towards the incoming meteor to destroy it, but the intense heat simply forces them to flee (yes, not even ''[[Flying Brick|they]]'' can stand the heat) and to search for Blossom, whose current [[Heroic BSOD]] forbids her from using her [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|newly-gained]] [[An Ice Person|ice breath]].
* In ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'' Red accidentally falls into a river of lava. Then notices it's not as hot as he had thought (he's the Devil, though).
* Parodied in the ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' episode "Mock 5"<ref>Which was itself a parody of ''[[Speed Racer]]''</ref>, in which no one seems to really care about the ''raging river of lava'' following a group of soapbox racers. (Monkey even ''eats'' some of the lava, and doesn't react accordingly until he's told what it is.)
* Most [[Egregious]] example: ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' did an episode in which a planet is apparently ''half lava.'' We don't know what took half the planet's crust off. What we do know is that you can walk within ''inches'' of pools of lava... ''in a cavern that would logically be like an oven'' with that much lava and nowhere for the heat to go. However, anything thrown into lava catches fire before it hits, a nice bit of realism... if the aforementioned oven-cave hadn't been mere seconds earlier. If the characters didn't have to ''cross the lava on a rope that's only a few feet above the surface'' and do so without harm mere seconds ''later.'' Perhaps it's production values, but in none of the episode's more ridiculous examples of this trope did anyone even ''sweat.'' Going back and forth on it like that made it crazier than anything you've ever seen play the trope straight from beginning to end.
** [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in another episode; things are seen catching on fire ''before'' making contact with lava.
** This extends to the Jedi lightsabers as well. Quite often the Jedi will use their lightsabers to create passages via cutting holes through walls, floors and ceilings, leaving a smoldering hot ring of molten material around the cut. Often characters will hop right through these holes, sometimes even ''touching'' the edges with no ill effects.
* Displayed throughout ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'' episode "Twelve Hundred Degrees Fahrenheit". Taken to a ridiculous extent when both Argost and Drew ''[[Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid|swim through the volcano]]'' (wearing fireproof lizard-skin and a heatproof suit, respectively, but ''still!''). Particularly egregious in Argost's case, as the lava should have seeped in through the openings in the skin (eyes, mouth).
* ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' animated series episode "The Canyon of Shiny Stones" is all about this trope (although they do, at least, remember that volcanoes produce choking smoke).
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* Played straight in real life (?!) with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZCou2qkFKM&NR=1 this video], complete with lava.
** Yet also averted, given that he's not dipping the marshmallow ''in'' to heat it, and it melts quite a ways from the lava itself.
* Not averted in weightlessness, contrary to common belief. While it's true that there is no natural convection caused by density gradients, you still need to recycle your air - this means airflows. Also anything else moving (like a person) would set up eddies. For this reason it is possible to have a candle burning in a space station without any tricks.
* The thermal radiation is particularly harmful to a person's eyes. Looking directly into glowing lava is physically painful. If you've ever looking directly at a heating element (and you shouldn't), imagine that times thousands.
** Also one of the reasons for which gas welders [[Captain Obvious|use dark goggles]].
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* Averted with the Sun, where its corona is actually much hotter than its surface, so in real life any spaceship that orbits that close will melt and vaporize instantly, killing any astronauts onboard, even if it is only a thousand miles away from the corona.
* Averted with certain exoplanets where most scientists think that the least habitable planets for life are those mostly covered in lava.
** Due to completely different gravitational and pressure conditions than those on Earth, some exoplanets have extremely exotic surfaces -- at least one is believed to be covered in boiling hot ''ice'' (kept solid by the massive atmospheric pressure).
* One episode of [[The Magic School Bus]], though being as it is an educational show, they make it a point in the ending segment that realistically everyone would have been burned alive.
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