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{{quote|''Using Surf to cross ''lava''?!''|'''Lance''', ''[[Pokémon Special]]''}}
Real Life lava is ''molten rock''. (The subterranean version is called magma.) Imagine an entire lake of electric-stove heating elements, all glowing red-hot. Its viscosity ranges from water-like fluidity to 100,000 times greater. It is an opaque emitter of reddish-yellow light. Its temperature is typically 700-1200 degrees C; coming within a dozen yards of it can inflict fatal burns.
In fiction,
Lava's animation is likely to be just as bad, especially in works where the technology and artistic technique to draw bubbling and flowing are limited. (Games are the worst offenders here, since the CPU power necessary to plausibly model fluid dynamics is often more than it would take to run the entire game, minus the fluid-dynamics model.) Lava will look like someone tipped a barrel of red Kool-Aid in a lake; if something falls in, it will still be visible, through the red tint of cherry flavor.
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Compare [[Sand Is Water]]. Sometimes a subtrope of [[Palette Swap]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': Several times Kouji fought near flowing lava. Since he always was inside his [[Humongous Mecha]] it is [[Hand Wave
** [[Mazinkaiser]] paid homage to that episode with one scene where the titular [[Humongous Mecha]] was tossed into the crater of Mount Fuji. The lava also seems less dangerous than it should be in this instance. However, given what kind of punishment Mazinkaiser shrugs off throughout the series, withstanding a lava bath seems almost trivial.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has an example where Asuka needs to dive into a volcano. While the story makes a point to show how both she and her Eva need special equipment to even ''enter'' the caldera (though [[Super Prototype|Eva-01]] doesn't, [[Hand Wave
** In a related instance, she has to wear a plugsuit specially modified to beat the heat of the volcano, suffering great embarrassment over how it inflates and makes her look morbidly
** Then again, neither should the 8th Angel that just happens to look like a Lava Fish. When in doubt, an AT Field did it. Weirder things have been done by AT Fields anyway...it seems to actually alter reality around the Angel when used.
** ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'' handwaves the vision as some kind of [[Everything Sensor]], which might have been lifted from [[All There in the Manual|the manual]].
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== Film --
* ''[[The Core]]'' seems to present the ultra-high pressure liquid metal at the core of the earth as being thin as water and just about as clear, just slightly yellow-orange tinted. Being under such high pressure, the "liquid" core really functions more like a solid (denser than lead), and it's most certainly not the transparency and color of tang.
** Movie convenience. Wouldn't be much of a movie, take that as you will, if the outside views were fully based on reality now wouldn't they. As for the viscosity...least of problems present.
*** Of course, the movie may have been a lot more interesting if they didn't have any outside views, and we were limited to the same visual detectors as the crew.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' {{spoiler|Gollum and the Ring tumble into the magma within Mount Doom. Gollum splashes around and sinks, and the ring stays afloat. The rock slowly melts, and the ring melts instantly upon hitting the rock.}} Chalk it up to some combination of [[Rule of Cool]], [[Artistic License]] and [[A Wizard Did It]].
** Although interestingly, when the Ring hits the lava it quickly flashes up its fire-
** Furthermore, in one of the interviews for the appendices of the Extended Edition, the creators of the film note that they wanted to have one last moment of suspense before the ring ultimately
* Averted in ''[[Spy Kids|Spy Kids 3D: Game Over.]]'' The "lava" is a bunch of computer pixels, so they have no effect on the player.
* In ''[[The Terminator|Terminator 2: Judgement Day]]'' the T1000 falls into molten metal<ref>(Okay, not lava but close enough.)</ref> that mysteriously splashes just like coloured water.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In the story ''[http://www.gamebooks.org/show_item.php?id=913 Under Dragon's Wing]'', the [[
* Strangely enough, ''[[Dungeons
** It also a type of shark that lived in molten lava.
** 4th edition outright averts it. The rules are "If you touch it and aren't fully immune to fire, you die." No damage. Outright death.
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* In the original ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'', it not only was a cheap recolor of dungeon water, but also completely invisible in the dark.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]'': Why is the lava darker than the water?
** ''[[Ocarina of Time]],'' however, has denser lava. Mind you that, by ''denser'', we mean ''you can walk on it''.<ref>There are places where falling on the lava, such as Death Mountain Crater, counts as falling into a [[Bottomless Pit]] due to the player's inability to get out (no climbable walls and too much flinching to aim the Hookshot if Link has it), but we can assume Link somehow climbs back up</ref>
** Death by falling into lava in ''[[Twilight Princess]]'' uses the same animation for [[Quicksand Sucks|drowning in quicksand]]. You can also ''fish'' in the lava (you won't catch anything, of course), indicating that the game simply thinks of it as retextured water with an added [[Super Drowning Skills|contact penalty]].
* Believe it or not, the [[The Moral Substitute|Christian-themed]] ''Zelda'' clone ''Spiritual Warfare'' partially averted this by showing lava in the demon stronghold seethe and bubble compared to the two different animations for water textures; it's harmfulness is irrelevant since you can't walk into it. It had its own recoloring in the form of boiling green slime.
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** There's also a memo you can find in one of the final levels that was sent by the manufacturer of their fake lava, stating that while it looks far less realistic than previous versions (the lava in NOLF2 looks terrible compared to the first game), it is far hotter.
* In ''[[Lemmings]]'', lava looks like bubbling, red-orangey water, and causes [[Super Drowning Skills|the same kind of death]] as any of the other types of water.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls
** Well, it
** Most likely the case, as lava in [[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind|Morrowind]] is treated fairly realistically (you don't sink when you step on it, you can't swim in it, and it doesn't flow like water). Can stand next to it all day without minding, though. Cryodiil doesn't have much in the way of active tectonic activity, where Morrowind is set on a large volcanic island.
* Most of the lava in ''[[Donkey Kong Country]] 2'' is treated as a [[Bottomless Pit]]. However in one level you can cool the lava down in order to swim through it.
**
*** The reason in this case is because the level in the screenshot is a [[Palette Swap]] of the Sunken Ship level type, with the "lava" being a unique twist to it for the [[Lethal Lava Land]] world.
*** Or how jumping on a seal's back allows him to cool it down. (Though at least that remains [[Magic A Is Magic A|internally consistent]]; you later use the same seals again for a [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]).
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* ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]] Nuts & Bolts'': The first level has lava inside a volcano that is just water with a different color. [[Justified Trope|It fits the theme, however, of a level with inflatable trees, clouds moved by a water mill, and a horizon provided by LCD screens.]]
* In ''[[Fate]]'', lava encountered in the Dungeon is a recolor of water. You can catch fish in it.
* In ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deception]]''. One Death Trap is a lava pit and when knocked into it your opponent still has time to make gurgling sounds as they melt in the lava. The same goes for [[Hollywood Acid|the acid pit]].
* It's possible that it's not even supposed to be lava, but at any rate the Last Cave in ''[[Cave Story]]'' has pits filled with a red liquid that damages you. Aside from its color and its ability to damage you, it is identical to the water found elsewhere in the game.
* ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' had ''translucent'' red lava. Partially averted in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' with their opaque lava, but objects and enemies still fall right through it like water.
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