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See also [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]. See [[Patchwork Map]] for when this occurs in the overworld.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** When you go to [[Cloudcuckooland]], you can look down and see the ice mountain and the lava mountain. There is no explanation for the two zones being right next to each other.

** Banjo's no stranger to this trope: the first game featured ''two'' [[Eternal Engine]] levels that were also [[Down the Drain]].<ref>Clanker's Cavern and Rusty Bucket Bay</ref> [[That One Level|Yes, they're just as they sound.]] It also has a [[Lost Woods]] that was occasionally a [[Slippy Slidey Ice World]].

*** ''Tooie'''s first level, Mayahem Temple, combines [[Jungle Japes]] with [[Temple of Doom]].

*** The last regular level of ''Tooie'', Cloud Cuckooland (which happens to come right after Hailfire Peaks), combines [[Bubbly Clouds]], [[Level Ate]], the inside of a [[Death Mountain]], and several other things.

*** A desert level called [[Shifting Sand Land|Dust Hill Zone]] was dropped from the game early in the development cycles. Its art was meant to be reusable for a separate winter level. Some fan mods restore this level and implement the art reuse as a mid-level transition from desert into snow.

** Mid-way through [[Lethal Lava Land|Lava Reef Zone]] of ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles (Video Game)|Sonic and Knuckles]]'', the lava cools and the stage becomes much more crystalline. If you're playing as Sonic, a small cutscene causes the volcano to start again.

** ''[[Sonic Chaos]]'' had the [[Eternal Engine|Mecha]] [[Green Hill Zone]], simultaneously subverting both of the ''Sonic'' series's most distinctive settings by combining them.

** Red Mountain from ''[[Sonic Adventure (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure]]'' is [[Death Mountain]] for the first part, [[Lethal Lava Land]] for the second, with some [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] overtones. (But only as Sonic do you get to go through both halves. For Knuckles it's all [[Death Mountain]], and for Gamma it's all [[Lethal Lava Land]].)

** Coral Cave in ''[[Sonic Rush Series (Video Game)|Sonic Rush Adventure]]'' mixes [[Under the Sea]] with [[Underground Level]]. It's a pretty-looking place, too.

*** Machine Labyrinth is a ''[[Steampunk]]'' [[Eternal Engine]].

*** Pirates' Island is [[Remilitarized Zone]] [[Underwater Ruins]].

** [[Marathon Level|Eggmanland]] from ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'' combines the standard [[Eternal Engine]] level akin to the ones from other Sonic games with [[Lethal Lava Land]] and [[Circus of Fear]] features.

** Planet Wisp from ''[[Sonic Colors (Video Game)|Sonic Colors]]'' is a [[Green Hill Zone]] level, which features large [[Eternal Engine]] structures. Also Aquarium Park is a combination of [[Wutai]] and [[Under the Sea]].

*** Colors does this a lot - Starlight Carnival is a [[Casino Park|carnival theme park]] [[Space Zone|in space]], Tropical Resort is a [[Palmtree Panic]] theme park, and Asteroid Coaster is an [[Eternal Engine]] theme park. Sweet Mountain is a [[Remilitarized Zone]] set in [[Level Ate]]. Considering the whole game is Eggman's amusement park divided into different planets, it makes sense.

** ''[[Rayman Origins]]'' goes for broke in this department. Although the [[Jungle Japes|first area]] and [[Palmtree Panic|fourth area]] are straightforward, the Desert of Didgeridoos is a combination of [[Band Land]], [[Shifting Sand Land]], and [[Gusty Glade]], Mystical Pique is a [[Temple of Doom]] slash [[Death Mountain]], Moody Clouds is an [[Eternal Engine]] [[Bubbly Clouds]], and Gourmand Land? That [[Incredibly Lame Pun|takes the cake]], by combing the classic [[Hailfire Peaks]] themes of [[Lethal Lava Land]] and [[Slippy Slidey Ice World]] with [[Level Ate]], along with [[Palmtree Panic]] and [[Eternal Engine]] as cocktail umbrellas.

* Because of their very nature, the dungeons from ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series generally combine [[Temple of Doom]] with a myriad of other tropes, with the occasional non-Temple Of Doom level.

** Snowhead Temple from ''[[Majoras Mask]]'' would be a [[Lethal Lava Land|fire-themed dungeon]] in the traditional Zelda vein, if not for the fact that half of it is frozen over.

** ''Oracle of Seasons'' contributed the Sword & Shield Maze to this trope. It consists of two floors, one full of lava (shaped like a sword), the other full of ice (shaped like a shield). To progress at some point, you have to drop magical ice cubes into the lava to cool it down.

* ''[[Prey]]'' largely takes place in a biomechanical spaceship that combines aspects of an [[Eternal Engine]] and a [[Womb Level]].

* The Darkice Mines in ''[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Star Fox Adventures]]''. In fact, the game loves to mix up the local [[Temple of Doom|Temples O' Doom]] with others: Volcano Force Point with [[Lethal Lava Land]], Ocean Force Point with [[Down the Drain]], and the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon|Krazoa Palace]] with [[Gusty Glade]].

* ''[[Donkey Kong]]'':

** Despite its name, Sky Land in ''[[Super Mario Bros 3 (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros 3]]'' is only sky-themed in the second half, after Mario climbs the spiral tower skyward. Until then, the levels he explores are [[Green Hill Zone]]-themed.

** The Freezeflame Galaxy in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]''. Though because each level is broken up into "missions", it was actually quite rare to encounter both the fiery and icy parts of the stage at one time. Shiverburn Galaxy from [[Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game)|the sequel]] plays the trope much more straight, though.

** ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' has Cosmic Cove, which goes from [[Under the Sea]] to [[Slippy Slidey Ice World]] at the flip of a switch. In addition, there's Freezy Flake, which has a planet that allows you to [[Convection Schmonvection|roll snowballs across pools of lava]]. There's also Chompworks Galaxy, which combines [[Eternal Engine]] with [[Lethal Lava Land]].

** Dry Dry Desert from the first Paper Mario is a [[Shifting Sand Land]] with its own [[Temple of Doom]]. As was [[Shifting Sand Land]]'s [[Trope Namer]] from Super Mario 64, with its central pyramid.

* ''[[Lost Planet]]: Extreme Condition'' has this as the basic premise of the ''entire game''; the first half of it mostly takes place on the [[Slippy Slidey Ice World]] surface of E.D.N. III, while the secondhalf takes place in searingly-hot volcanic regions.

* In ''[[Rocket Robot On Wheels|Rocket: Robot On Wheels]]'', the level "Pyramid Scheme" is a jungle level with a pyramid, a river, and isn't that hazardous... until you step on a special Sun/Moon pad, which switches the level to and from [[Lethal Lava Land]] mode.

* As lampshaded by Lisa in ''[[The Simpsons]] Game'': "How can a cold place be so close to a hot one?"

* The penultimate stage in ''Little Fighter 2'' is an ice-covered landscape with raging volcanoes in the background. Appropriately, the [[Mini Boss]] of the stage is Firzen, who uses fire and ice attacks.

* Frostfire, [[Warmup Boss]] (no pun intended) of ''[[City of Heroes]]'' is this trope personified, using fire and ice [[Elemental Powers]]. His unique map is an office that's been alternately frozen and set on fire, and [[Best Level Ever|famously features an ice half-pipe]].

* [[Kirby]] examples:

** Floria in ''Milky Way Wishes'' in [[Kirby Super Star]] has four different levels connected by doors (winter, summer, fall, and spring). Likewise, the technically final planet, Halfmoon, is an unusual mixture of [[Space Zone]] and [[Jungle Japes]].

** In ''[[Kirby Mass Attack (Video Game)|Kirby Mass Attack]]'', several stages in Sandy Canyon are a rather contradictory combination of [[Temple of Doom]] and [[Eternal Engine]].

* [[Guild Wars]] has two. Shing Jea Island is an Eastern-looking [[Green Hill Zone]]/Slippy Slidey Ice World, and the Maguuma Jungle is a wasteland filled with red rocks, [[Jungle Japes]], and [[Bubblegloop Swamp]].

* The ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' expansion Hordes of The Underdark has Cania, the eight plane of hell, which is a frozen wasteland with rivers of lava. The characters even point out the physical impossibility of this, and that it must be supernatural. In fact, it goes a bit deeper than that; the rivers of lava flow through the ice ''because'' it's impossible. The arbitrary landscape is designed to torture the mind.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has a few of these, as if its patchwork geography weren't already schizoid enough. The icy continent of Northrend is home to Sholazar Basin, a tropical forest preserved by Titanic magic. There's a spot in the east called the Avalanche where the Titans' defenses are broken and the snows of Icecrown are invading it. Un'goro Crater in southern Kalimdor is a similar example -- a tropical jungle sandwiched between two deserts and preserved by the Titans. The world PvP area of Wintergrasp is even more of a mishmash, featuring a jungle plateau and a volcanic caldera amid ice, water, and snow. Similarly, Dragonblight has the dragonshrines, microcosms of life, nature, and fire in the snowy wasteland. In all of these cases, [[A Wizard Did It]], explicitly.

* The [[Katamari Damacy]] - esque wii game [[The Munchables]] features one in it's last stages. It's actually a frozen island and a volcano cut in half and sawed togheter like Dr. Frankenstein's resort.

* In ''[[Heretic]]'', the Ice Grotto level is a cross between a [[Slippy Slidey Ice World]] and a [[Lethal Lava Land]].

* ''[[SSX (Video Game)|SSX]]'', known for its [[Crazy Awesome|creative]] snowboarding courses, featured a level called Aloha Ice Jam. [[Word of God]] says it is set on an iceberg towed to sunny Hawaii. The level features snow, ice, penguins, giant metal death-fans, torrential rivers, giant tiki heads, molten lava, ice platforms and sand -- more or less in that order.

* In ''[[Little Big Planet|LittleBigPlanet 2]]'', you get Victoria's levels, which are a mixture of [[Level Ate]] and [[Eternal Engine]]

* The planet Effluvia in ''Adventures of Rad Gravity'' is one third [[Down in The Dumps]], one third [[Lethal Lava Land]], and one third [[Eternal Engine]].

* Ilvern Ruins in ''[[Ys (Video Game)|Ys]] III'' is a [[Temple of Doom]] in [[Lethal Lava Land]].

* Volcano Castle in ''Bonk's Revenge'' is a [[Lethal Lava Land]] in a [[Ruins for Ruins Sake|ruined]] [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|castle]]. Fireball Field is a combination of [[Lethal Lava Land]] and [[Green Hill Zone]].

* Limewater Cave in ''[[Ys (Video Game)|Ys]] VI'' is two thirds [[Underground Level]], one third [[Under the Sea]].