Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid: Difference between revisions

** [[Justified Trope]] because it actually ''is'' boiling hot water which you have to cool down in order to be able to swim through it and only years of [[Genre Savvy|Genre Savvyness]] would make you think otherwise. However, this doesn't explain [[Artistic License Physics|why the water isn't just vaporizing]] - and why it's [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|turning red]]...

*** 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.

* In ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' there is an area filled with lava that is really only water with a lava-like pattern on the surface. You can swim in it, and it's completely transparent once you dive. The only difference is that you take damage while swimming.

* Taken to extremes in ''[[Rollercoaster Tycoon]]''; lava really ''is'' just water that happens to be red and behaves exactly the same way as regular water. In the second game, when you get to design custom scenarios, you literally get to choose whether your scenario's water is blue, red, or greenish.

'''Host:''' Don't worry. That "lava" is just Orange Ade, made by our sponsor Osaka Orange Ade Concern.<br />

'''Homer:''' IT BURNS! IT BURNS!!! }}

 

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