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[[File:ragnaros_sulfuras_4664ragnaros sulfuras 4664.jpg|link=World of Warcraft|rightframe|"Check out my giant lava warhammer! Isn't it cool? <ref>[[Don't Explain the Joke|Y'know, cause it's really not cool at all! It's Hot!]]"</ref>]]
 
{{quote|''"We need... lava, of course, more lava and... deadly traps! Oh yeah!"'' (adds "even more lava" to the diagram)|'''[[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser]]''', ''Bowser's Evil Plan''}}
 
[[Stealth Pun|Figuratively speaking.]]
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Often invokes [[Convection, Schmonvection]]. Also see [[Awesomeness Is Volatile]] and [[Incendiary Exponent]].
 
And to be clear: ''Magma'' refers to the material while it's still underground and not yet erupted from a volcano. ''Lava'' is the stuff when it's above ground.
 
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The snarky narrator for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f46kAiy5BPA this commercial] (for Hershey's chocolate, of all things) [[Black Comedy| dunks the poor woman in lava to make the pitch.]]
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', the ultimate spell of Earth element wouldn't be awesome enough without it.
* ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'': [[Humongous Mecha|Mazinger-Z's]] [[Home Base]] was located on the foot of Mount Fuji. Such a perfect setup was used for animating many battles and squirmishes would have been less cool without the [[Climactic Volcano Backdrop]], the characters brawling around a [[Lava Pit]] or soaring above Mount Fuji's crater. In one episode, Dr. Hell attempted to set an eruption off to bury the Photon Research Institute beneath tons of lava. In another episode, Mazinger-Z was tossed into a volcano. In the [[Gosaku Ota]] manga episodes, [[The Dragon]] Baron Ashura's master plan involved to set volcanic eruptions off throughout Japan...
** ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'': One of the weapons of Marquis Janus' [[Island Base]] was an artificial volcano built on the island could vomit rocks and lava when Janus needed.
* [[Naruto (Anime)|Naruto]]'s [[Ms. Fanservice|Mizukage]] Mei can use Lava as a combination of fire and earth, in addition to her water, fire, earth and acid skills. She pulls [http://kaiafa.deviantart.com/art/Mei-Terumi-Yoton-Gif-203312081?q=favby%3Abrandonhanns%2F45210890&qo=21 this] outta her sleeve.
outta her sleeve. -->
 
 
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* In ''[[The Incredibles]]'', the main dining room in Syndrone's island base features flowing lava walls as ''decor''.
* The final showdown of ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' has Anakin and Obi-Wan duking it out on the lava planet of Mustafar.
* ''[[Dragon BallDragonball Evolution]]'' has one inside a volcano where the [[MacGuffin]] is located.
 
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* Many depictions of [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]], especially visual works, will have bubbling pools and flowing streams of lava as background elements.
* Luke Skywalker [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands|spontaneously develops]] the ability to ''walk on lava'' in the first book of the ''[[Jedi Academy Trilogy]]''.
{{quote| Luke walked across the lake of fire.<br />
He did not think about it. The lava refused to touch his feet. Only [[Sentient Cosmic Force|The Force]] burned bright around him. One step after another, he strode across the flaming rock, letting himself see nothing but his goal until he stood again on solid ground on the far side of the lake of fire, with Gantoris and his people. }}
 
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' has the druid spell "Vulcan Bomb", which attacks a target with a stream of lava.
** Complete Arcane also has the arcane spell Transmute Stone to Lava.
* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering (Tabletop Game)|Magic the Gathering]]'' has [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&name=%7C%5BLava%5D%7C%5BMagma%5D 37 cards] that refer to lava or magma. They're all [[Incendiary Exponent|red]].
 
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Not only does ''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]'' feature [[Lethal Lava Land|Melty Molten Galaxy]], a planet made of lava, but it's caught between ''two other planets'' '''also''' made of lava -- alava—a ''lava solar system.''
** The [[Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game)|sequel]] has Melty Monster Galaxy, which is inhabited by the titular monsters, who are often the same size as the planets they live on.
* One of the weapons in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' is the Lava Gun, a modified flamethrower that shoots a continuous stream of lava.
* ''[[Demons Souls (Video Game)|DemonsDemon's Souls]]'' has the Lava Bow, which instantly transforms any arrow fired from it into a flaming lance.
** ''[[Dark Souls (Video Game)|Dark Souls]]'' has two [[Lethal Lava Land]] levels. There are also the Chaos Pyromancies, the most powerful fire spells, which leave pools of lava on the floor when used.
* ''[[Diablo]]'' features the spell "Volcano", which spews forth lava. "Molten Boulder" applies as well, but is a round, condensed form of lava.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'': Many fire-based spells, such as the Shaman spell "Magma Totem", features spell effects giving the impression of lava. Their icons also depict lava/magma in different forms.
** ''Molten Core'' has [[Magma Man|Ragnaros the Firelord]], who wields Sulfuras, a gargantuan lava warhammer. In the ''Warcraft'' D20 RPG and trading card games, Sulfuras is available as a treasure.
*** Players can craft a [http://www.wowpedia.org/Sulfuras,_Hand_of_Ragnaros miniature version].
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'': One of early objectives usually is digging down to magma sea due to extreme usefulness of this liquid. Magma allows you to run furnaces without consuming fuel and makes a great source of weapon-grade high value stone, as it reacts with water, producing mineable obsidian (and steam). It can be pumped around and even scooped with minecarts and interacts with floodgates and pressure plates much like water, as long as equipment touching it is heat-resistant enough - there's even an internal token for "magma-safe" materials. Ask for help on the forum, and someone will suggest solving your problem with lava. If you're already using lava, you should try using more. DF wiki used to be on domain "df.magmawiki.com" for a reason.
* Ask for help on the ''[[Dwarf Fortress (Video Game)|Dwarf Fortress]]'' forum, and someone will suggest solving your problem with lava. If you're already using lava, you should try using more.
** If your problem is too much lava, [[Elves Versus Dwarves|then what are you? Some kind of Elf?]]
* ''[[Metroid Prime]]: Hunters'' features the Magmaul, which is basically a magma grenade launcher.
* The underground realm of the Deep Roads in ''[[Dragon Age (Video Game)|Dragon Age]]'' has a lot of lava, to the point that the dwarves have lava fountains and lava waterfalls as decorations in the same way surfacers might use water.
* ''[[Minecraft (Video Game)|Minecraft]]'' allows you to collect and use lava in constructions. If you can avoid being burned by it, of course. Lava also happens to be the longest-lasting heat source for furnaces; unfortunately, using a lava bucket in a furnace will destroy the bucket, and depending on the map you may have to construct a portal to the Nether just to have a steady source of lava.
** Of course, there you run into the problem that getting the obsidian to create the portal is best done with lava... [[Morton's Fork|GAH!]]
* Any fire-base dungeon in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series, especially volcano levels in the [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|Death]] [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|Mountains.]] Usually, you also have to fight [[Goddamned Bats|burning bats]] and huge monsters that set themselves on fire.
* The strongest crafting material in ''[[Terraria (Video Game)|Terraria]]'' is Hellstone. Which appears in lava pits. And emits lava when mined.
** Obsidian is created by dumping water into lava -- inlava—in relatively small quantities in the normal game and ''enormous'' quantities if you build a [[Good Bad Bugs|generator]].
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* One episode of ''[[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars (Animation)|Star Wars the Clone Wars]]'' has a character killed in battle behind enemy lines. He's "buried" by having his shrouded body placed on a river of lava, whereupon it catches fire and drops over a lava fall.
* Why have a standard [[Disney Villain Death]] for the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' when you can have a [[Disney Villain Death]] with lava?
 
 
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* A favorite game of young children is to climb and jump all over the living room furniture while avoiding falling into the "lava" floor below.
** This childhood game is [[Played for Laughs]] in [http://xkcd.com/735/ this] xkcd strip.
** And in an episode of ''[[RWBY Chibi]]''.
* Lava lamps are quite popular for their aesthetic qualities, but that's not necessarily "real"“real” lava...lava…
** [[xkcd]]'s ''what if?'' has [https://what-if.xkcd.com/122/ other ideas].
 
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