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** Red Mountain/Dagoth Ur was belching smoke in ''TheElderScrollsIArena'' as well. It didn't erupt there either, though just as in ''Morrowind'' you had to visit the vulcano towards the end-game.
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If ever a volcano appears on screen in a work of fiction its eruption is inevitable. The existence of a volcano is, in itself, a [=~Chekhov's Gun~=]. There's no sense in having it around ''unless'' it explodes, because otherwise the story is robbed of a clear dramatic conflict. (Unless you're just planning to have an awesome climax fight over the [[LavaIsBoilingKoolAid roiling magma]] which all [[DidNotDoTheResearch dormant volcanoes]] are filled with.)
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If ever a volcano appears on screen in a work of fiction its eruption is inevitable. The existence of a volcano is, in itself, a [=~Chekhov's Gun~=].ChekhovsGun. There's no sense in having it around ''unless'' it explodes, because otherwise the story is robbed of a clear dramatic conflict. (Unless you're just planning to have an awesome climax fight over the [[LavaIsBoilingKoolAid roiling magma]] which all [[DidNotDoTheResearch dormant volcanoes]] are filled with.)
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* The Toba catastophe theory, which not only reduced humanity to a few thousand individuals (fortunately, that wasn't enough back then), but may also have been the true cause of the last ice age, which it was coincidentally followed by. In fact ''all'' supervolcanic eruptions can lead to an ice age.
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* The Toba catastophe theory, which not only reduced humanity to a few thousand individuals (fortunately, that wasn't enough back then), but may also have been the true cause of the last ice age, or at least hastened its arrival, which it was coincidentally followed by. In fact ''all'' supervolcanic eruptions can lead to an ice age.
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* ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' features a lactose-intolerant volcano. Worshiped by vegetarian cannibals.
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* ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' features a lactose-intolerant volcano. Worshiped by vegetarian cannibals.
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* The Toba catastophe theory, which not only reduced humanity to a few thousand individuals (fortunately, that wasn't enough back then), but may also have been the true cause of the last ice age, which it was coincidentally followed by. In fact ''all'' supervolcanic eruptions can lead to an ice age.
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* The Toba catastophe theory, which not only reduced humanity to a few thousand individuals (fortunately, that wasn't enough back then), but may also have been the true cause of the last ice age, which it was coincidentally followed by.
* Inverted with permafrost. Due to its involvement in climate change, it is not really permanent at all, and it contains a huge amount of carbon dioxide and methane (both greenhouse gases) frozen within it, assuming if the above was true.
* Inverted with permafrost. Due to its involvement in climate change, it is not really permanent at all, and it contains a huge amount of carbon dioxide and methane (both greenhouse gases) frozen within it, assuming if the above was true.
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** Death Mountain is shown to be spewing ash and rocks when Link first arrives in TwilightPrincess.
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* Used gloriously in the climax of ''[[JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' Part 2. [[spoiler: The final battle takes place near a volcano. [[BigBad Cars]] has achieved godhood and is completely impervious to anything [[TheHero Joseph]] throws at him. So what does Joseph do? Infuse said volcano with [[BattleAura Hamon]] energy so it erupts and sends Cars flying into space, where he aimlessly drifts around as a frozen block of ice and eventually goes insane from loneliness.]]
* Seen in ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', where it proves that the planet, like everything else in the series, is HotBlooded. Several characters explicitly compare Kamina to a volcano.
* Seen in ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', where it proves that the planet, like everything else in the series, is HotBlooded. Several characters explicitly compare Kamina to a volcano.
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* Used gloriously in the climax of ''[[JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Part 2. [[spoiler: The final battle takes place near a volcano. [[BigBad Cars]] has achieved godhood and is completely impervious to anything [[TheHero Joseph]] throws at him. So what does Joseph do? Infuse said volcano with [[BattleAura Hamon]] energy so it erupts and sends Cars flying into space, where he aimlessly drifts around as a frozen block of ice and eventually goes insane from loneliness.]]
* Seen in''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', where it proves that the planet, like everything else in the series, is HotBlooded. Several characters explicitly compare Kamina to a volcano.
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* ''CodeGeass'' ''Anime/CodeGeass'' [[spoiler:is an exception to the "Mount Fuji never erupts" rule, as Lelouch deliberately sets it off near the end.]]
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* ''{{The Legend of Zelda}}: {{Ocarina of Time}}'', to fulfill the requirements of a [[LethalLavaLand completely different trope]]. The only one that actually erupts is in Oracle of Ages. ''Ocarina'''s Death Mountain does erupt just enough to rain flaming boulders on you whenever you get near the summit. It also lets out a shockwave when Volvagia is defeated, but the only effect is to clear the skies, knock that guy on the Kakariko rooftop flat on his back and get ash trapped in a nearby Goron's eyes. Another one erupts in ''Oracle of Seasons'' when Link deliberately uses bombs to set it off.
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* ''{{The Legend of Zelda}}: {{Ocarina [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time}}'', Time]]'', to fulfill the requirements of a [[LethalLavaLand completely different trope]]. The only one that actually erupts is in Oracle of Ages. ''Ocarina'''s Death Mountain does erupt just enough to rain flaming boulders on you whenever you get near the summit. It also lets out a shockwave when Volvagia is defeated, but the only effect is to clear the skies, knock that guy on the Kakariko rooftop flat on his back and get ash trapped in a nearby Goron's eyes. Another one erupts in ''Oracle of Seasons'' when Link deliberately uses bombs to set it off.
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* In [[Film/AlvinandtheChipmunks ''Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked'']], the Chipmunks, David Seville, the Chipettes, and Ian Hawke are all accidentally marooned on a tropical island. Later on, Jeanette notices that the volcano on the island is about to erupt, and the climax of the film involved all of the them trying to get off the island before it does so.
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* ''GoldenSun''. Mt. Aleph. I think that about covers it.
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* ''GoldenSun''.''VideoGame/GoldenSun''. Mt. Aleph. I think that about covers it.
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* Mount Fuji figures rather prominently in the second arc of ''KazeNoStigma'', and the mission is to prevent a demon from making it erupt. But that would be boring. Cue the cataclysmic final confrontation in a lava-field!
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* Mount Fuji figures rather prominently in the second arc of ''KazeNoStigma'', ''LightNovel/KazeNoStigma'', and the mission is to prevent a demon from making it erupt. But that would be boring. Cue the cataclysmic final confrontation in a lava-field!
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* Averted in ''[[NancyDrew Creature of Kapu Cave]]'', in which the danger Nancy encounters around a volcano isn't from it erupting.
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* [[spoiler:Averted in the finale of]] ''{{Resident Evil}} 5''.
* In ''{{Pokemon}}'' Ruby/Emerald, one group is actively ''trying'' to cause the volcano to erupt, while you and the other group have to prevent it. (In Sapphire, the other group is trying to cool it down so it can turn into a lake instead; this is treated as an equivalent act of evil despite the [[FridgeLogic obvious but unstated difference]] that blowing it up will kill people while cooling it down will not).
* In ''{{Pokemon}}'' Ruby/Emerald, one group is actively ''trying'' to cause the volcano to erupt, while you and the other group have to prevent it. (In Sapphire, the other group is trying to cool it down so it can turn into a lake instead; this is treated as an equivalent act of evil despite the [[FridgeLogic obvious but unstated difference]] that blowing it up will kill people while cooling it down will not).
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* [[spoiler:Averted in the finale of]] ''{{Resident Evil}} 5''.
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* In''{{Pokemon}}'' Ruby/Emerald, ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Ruby]]''/''Emerald'', one group is actively ''trying'' to cause the volcano to erupt, while you and the other group have to prevent it. (In Sapphire, ''Sapphire'', the other group is trying to cool it down so it can turn into a lake instead; this is treated as an equivalent act of evil despite the [[FridgeLogic obvious but unstated difference]] that blowing it up will kill people while cooling it down will not).
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* In ''[[AlanDeanFoster Icerigger]]'', the Place-Where-The-Earth's-Blood-Burns conveniently waits to blow itself to pieces until the protagonists just happen to arrive there.
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** Also used as a sort of BookEnds, in that during Kamina's final battle, simply combining Gurren and Lagann causes avolcano to explode, and during Team Super-Galaxy Dai-Gurren's final battle in the movies, they create a giant volcano several times bigger than the galaxy they're standing on out of sheer badassness , [[MadeOfExplodium for the sole purpose of making it explode]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And it looks awesome!]]
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* BobDylan's "Black Diamond Bay", which spends several verses setting up a bunch of characters only to have a volcano erupt and [[ShootTheShaggyDog kill everyone]].
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* Averted in ''{{Mother 3}}''. The volcano never erupts... [[spoiler: until the very end of the game, but then again, the WORLD is erupting.]]
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* Averted in ''{{Mother ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}''. The volcano never erupts... [[spoiler: until the very end of the game, but then again, the WORLD is erupting.]]
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* A season 1 episode of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has Aang and Sokka discover a volcano is ready to explode while hiking up there for other reasons. Apparently the townspeople used to monitor it, but stopped doing so once a fortune teller moved in and they figured she'd just tell them if the volcano erupted.
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* A season 1 episode of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has Aang and Sokka discover a volcano is ready to explode while hiking up there for other reasons. Apparently the townspeople used to monitor it, but stopped doing so once a fortune teller moved in and they figured she'd just tell them if the volcano erupted.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' had a villain named Red Volcano attempting to destroy Earth by setting off one of these. And guess where.
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* Averted in BeastWars. The volcano under the Predacon base never erupts, despite the ever molten lava. Also the volcano the Maximals move into doesn't erupt either, because [[TimeTravel they know]] it doesn't erupt [[TransformersGenerationOne until 1984]].
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** Team Aqua are aquatic Pokemon-biased ecoterrorists. The main problem with them cooling the volcano down would be the destruction of the habitat of all the Fire-type Pokemon that live in and around it.
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* ''FinalFantasyMysticQuest'': The volcano erupts at the end of the Lava Dome stage. That's right, while you're ''inside'' it. And the lava flow cools quickly to make a new path you can walk along. ConvectionSchmonvection.
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* ''FinalFantasyMysticQuest'': ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'': The volcano erupts at the end of the Lava Dome stage. That's right, while you're ''inside'' it. And the lava flow cools quickly to make a new path you can walk along. ConvectionSchmonvection.
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* The leading contender for the cause of the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction (also known as [[ApocalypseHow The Great Dying]] and an event that puts the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction to shame) is the eruption of the Siberian Flood Basalts, the ''largest'' volcanic event known to have occurred on Earth.
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* Used gloriously in the climax of ''[[JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' Part 2. [[spoiler: The final battle takes place near a volcano. [[BigBad Cars]] has achieved godhood and is completely impervious to anything [[TheHero Joseph]] throws at him. So what does Joseph do? Infuse a volcano with [[BattleAura Hamon]] energy so it erupts and sends Cars flying into space, where he aimlessly drifts around as a frozen block of ice and eventually goes insane from loneliness.]]
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* Used gloriously in the climax of ''[[JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' Part 2. [[spoiler: The final battle takes place near a volcano. [[BigBad Cars]] has achieved godhood and is completely impervious to anything [[TheHero Joseph]] throws at him. So what does Joseph do? Infuse a said volcano with [[BattleAura Hamon]] energy so it erupts and sends Cars flying into space, where he aimlessly drifts around as a frozen block of ice and eventually goes insane from loneliness.]]
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* Used gloriously in the climax of ''[[JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' Part 2. [[spoiler: [[BigBad Cars]] has achieved godhood and is completely impervious to anything [[TheHero Joseph]] throws at him. So what does Joseph do? Infuse a volcano with [[BattleAura Hamon]] energy so it erupts and sends Cars flying into space, where he aimlessly drifts around as a frozen block of ice and eventually goes insane from loneliness.]]
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* Subverted in ''JackieChanAdventures'', where the Monkey King makes a Hawaiian volcano erupt... with lava made out of gelatin.
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->''And to top it all off,\\
The volcano erupts!''
-->-- ''Trouble In Tahiti'', describing a tropical ClicheStorm
If ever a volcano appears on screen in a work of fiction its eruption is inevitable. The existence of a volcano is, in itself, a [=~Chekhov's Gun~=]. There's no sense in having it around ''unless'' it explodes, because otherwise the story is robbed of a clear dramatic conflict. (Unless you're just planning to have an awesome climax fight over the [[LavaIsBoilingKoolAid roiling magma]] which all [[DidNotDoTheResearch dormant volcanoes]] are filled with.)
This is especially if a volcano is explicitly [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong not supposed to erupt]], thereby surprising practically everyone and driving them into a panic. The likelihood goes up to an absurd degree whenever someone actually asks whether or not the volcano will explode, and is weakly comforted by the other person saying [[MillionToOneChance Oh, it's not going to erupt. It's inactive. Do you have any idea how unlikely an eruption would be]]?
Obviously TruthInTelevision. Volcanoes (even dormant ones - there's a reason they're called dormant and not ''dead'') are very dangerous things and can go off without warning, which is why most governments monitor active volcanoes within their territory.
Mount Fuji, a national symbol of Japan, is a notable exception, but then again, nobody ever makes a big deal about Mt. Fuji being a volcano, so it's not like it's ever a plot point. And let's just hope they never address the existence of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Toba a certain lake in Indonesia]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park a certain national park in Wyoming]]...
Not to be confused with AppeaseTheVolcanoGod.
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* Seen in ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', where it proves that the planet, like everything else in the series, is HotBlooded. Several characters explicitly compare Kamina to a volcano.
* ''CodeGeass'' [[spoiler:is an exception to the "Mount Fuji never erupts" rule, as Lelouch deliberately sets it off near the end.]]
* Mount Fuji figures rather prominently in the second arc of ''KazeNoStigma'', and the mission is to prevent a demon from making it erupt. But that would be boring. Cue the cataclysmic final confrontation in a lava-field!
* In the ''Striker'' -world exist several stoneplates, that are parts of the mappa mundis, a macguffin, that show specific points of the world, where you can errupt Firesnakes thing. One of those places is of course, Mt. Fuji
* Subverted in ''MagicKnightRayearth'', in which the volcano that [[BigBadassWolf Rayearth]] resides in, although active and spewing out a thick column of smoke, is never seen erupting violently.
* Averted in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}''. Though a volcano exists and it's the site of several duels, it never erupts.
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* Three-quarters subverted in ''{{ElfQuest}}''. The volcano near Sorrow's End doesn't blow its top, it just rumbles very loudly. The rumbling triggers a stampede that the Wolfriders have to deal with. And then played straight in a much later storyline when the first major eruption in centuries coincides with an invasion.
* The island of Pulau-Pulau Bompa in ''[[{{Tintin}} Flight 714]]''.
* CarlBarks manages to pull one in a story set in Volcanovia... a country where even most ''back yards'' have active volcanoes. Volcanovians are so used to eruptions they no longer even pay attention to them, and only fear the huge [[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?num=9&loc=1947/W_OS_147-02&s=date Old Ferocio]] will awaken. And by the end of the story...
* Lampshaded in TheLosers.
->Jensen: Of course, it shoulda been '''obvious'''! I mean, what '''else''', right...? Moment we set foot on an island with a '''volcano''', of '''course''' it's gonna blow...!
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* ''Krakatoa: [[YouFailGeographyForever East]] of Java''.
* ''[[DantesPeak Dante's Peak]]''.
* ''{{Joe Versus the Volcano}}'', natch. This is how Joe ''[[ConvectionSchmonvection is saved from being sacrificed to it]]''.
* Subverted by ''{{Volcano}}'': The movie is about a volcano suddenly emerging from the La Brea tar pits, so it doesn't get to loom threateningly in the background.
* In the JamesBond movie ''YouOnlyLiveTwice'', the SPECTRE base is in an extinct volcano. At the end the SelfDestructMechanism causes an eruption.
* ''TheIncredibles'' had a variation. The volcano on Syndrome's island never erupts, but the rocket that Syndrome launches from inside the dormant cone is certainly reminiscent of an eruption, and it menaces Dash and Violet in much the same way.
** This is because Syndrome's island is a riff off of the SPECTRE base in ''YouOnlyLiveTwice''.
* Mt. Fuji actually does erupt in Akira Kurosawa's ''Dreams''. Of course it is, "just a dream."
* Averted in the film ''Lady Hamilton'' (1941), in which the smoking presence of Mount Vesuvius is used simply to establish the locale in Naples.
* ''When Time Ran Out...'', Irwin Allen's last DisasterMovie, is about this.
* ''TwoThousandTwelve'', and guess where it eupted.
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* ''[[LordOfTheRings Return of the King]]'': Mount Doom after the Ring is destroyed. In fact, Mount Doom all the time.
* ''[[Literature/TheRomanMysteries The Secrets of Vesuvius]]'': Mount Vesuvius's eruption, resulting in the destruction of Pompeii. Based on RealLife.
* DragonridersOfPern plays with this trope, in the (chronologically) first book, the site of Landing, the colonists first settlement on Pern, is on a plateau between three volcanic cones, two of which are thought to be extinct and one dormant, sure enough a few decades after arriving they start getting signs show up that the dormant volcano is getting ready to blow. Surprisingly they actually begin plans to evacuate Landing and move the majority of the population to the more geologically stable northern continent, unfortunately all the schedules for moving equipment supplies was based on the dormant volcano being the one to blow so stuff nearest to that was given priority, and that's what they were watching for signs how long was left. Cue the actual eruption coming from one of the supposedly extinct ones a lot closer to the town, and a mad scramble to get the last loads of supplies and people out of the way. Averted in all the other books in that every single Weyr on the northern continent is specifically stated to be inside a volcanic crater but not a single one of them ever proves to NOT really be extinct
* Subverted in ''JourneyToTheCentreOfTheEarth'': the volcano our heroes descend in remains dormant, or the book would be rather short. The protagonists then get erupted out of another volcano, but since this one isn't introduced earlier (it only gets in the novel when it erupts) it's hardly an example of this trope.
* Surprisingly averted in the ''ColdfireTrilogy'', which takes place on a very seismically active world that has lots and lots of volcanoes. There's at least one visited in each book: 1) in Black Sun rising, they visit a pirate base located in a caldera, which doesn't erupt; 2) in When True Night Falls, the main villain builds his base on a volcanic plane, but actually uses magic to make sure that the volcano is ''always'' venting, thus keeping pressure from building up; and 3) in Crown of Shadows, the series climax is set on a plotfully important volcano, which also does not explode.
* Invoked in CodexAlera. High Lord Kalare rigs a local volcano to erupt when he dies, but the First Lord deliberately forces said volcano to erupt prematurely. Later the First Lord sets off another volcano under the capital in a YouShallNotPass moment.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has the eruption at Pompeii. This, of course, has the benefit of being an eruption that everyone should know is going to happen. Well, aside from the Pompeiians, anyway.
* ''{{Lost}}'' subverts this trope in a strange way. The Island is of the volcanic nature and said volcano was very non-gently namedropped in Season 3, with hints of its future importance from producers. However, it has never been brought back again since and even though the Final Episode features a certain location ''resembling'' an active volcano crater, it definitely isn't one.
* The novel ''Flip-Flopped'' features a vulcanologist whose dormant Hawaiian volcano flares up again.
* ''[[Series/TheRomanMysteries The Secrets of Vesuvius (TV adaption)]]'': Mount Vesuvius's eruption, resulting in the destruction of Pompeii. Based on RealLife.
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* Frank Ticheli's ''Vesuvius.'' An orchestrated piece about the title volcano. Does one NOT expect the song to suddenly get loud and vicious?
** Said loud atmosphere is what actually makes it a difficult piece to perform, since amateur musicians choose incorrect places to "erupt."
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* ''{{Dungeons and Dragons}}'' adventure "In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords." The city of Suderham lies in the caldera of an extinct volcano. Guess what happens by the end of the module? The entire campaign of "The Shackled City Adventure Path" is [[spoiler:based on the bad guys trying to cause a dormant volcano that has a city built into it's crater to erupt in order to fuel their demonic artifact.]] Possibly averted in that the characters have the ability to stop it (though are not required to for the completion of the campaign).
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* ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' features a lactose-intolerant volcano. Worshiped by vegetarian cannibals.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMario'', Mt. Lavalava erupts.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG: Legend of the Seven Stars'' features a volcano that does not erupt, although one NPC does comment it looks like there's a lot of activity around it. The level doesn't count as much of a LethalLavaLand either. Neither of these points, however, detracts from the dragon boss fight.
* ''GoldenSun''. Mt. Aleph. I think that about covers it.
* ''{{The Legend of Zelda}}: {{Ocarina of Time}}'', to fulfill the requirements of a [[LethalLavaLand completely different trope]]. The only one that actually erupts is in Oracle of Ages. ''Ocarina'''s Death Mountain does erupt just enough to rain flaming boulders on you whenever you get near the summit. It also lets out a shockwave when Volvagia is defeated, but the only effect is to clear the skies, knock that guy on the Kakariko rooftop flat on his back and get ash trapped in a nearby Goron's eyes. Another one erupts in ''Oracle of Seasons'' when Link deliberately uses bombs to set it off.
* The second ''DarkSun'' game, ''Wake of the Ravager'', had a volcano level; if you took too long to complete it, the volcano would blow and you'd get a NonstandardGameOver. Unfortunately for those playing on modern computers, the game clock seems to run on processor speed, so unless you know how to adjust the proper settings, it is impossible to complete the level and, by extension, the game, before the volcano blows.
* ''TheElderScrolls 3: Morrowind''. The game takes place near a huge volcano, but it does not erupt; it only belches clouds of ash.
** Red Mountain already erupted some time ago; the result is the Vvardenfell district of Morrowind.
** Between the game and [[TheElderScrollsNovels the book]] it does erupt. Vvardenfell was rendered uninhabitable.
* Inevitable in ''DwarfFortress'': If there's lava somewhere on the map, it will eventually be pumped onto the surface by the player. There's a bug where if a volcano is spawned overlapping a bottomless pit on a local map, the result is an instantaneous eruption, forest fire, and death.
** Not quite inevitable nor an eruption anymore; since there are no bottomless pits and volcanoes don't naturally erupt, any lava/magma flooding is engineered by the player, due to shortsighted or deliberate design. Knowing that magma is present in every map leaves abusing it as the only dwarfy thing to do, volcanoes simply open up options much sooner.
* [[spoiler:Averted in the finale of]] ''{{Resident Evil}} 5''.
* In ''{{Pokemon}}'' Ruby/Emerald, one group is actively ''trying'' to cause the volcano to erupt, while you and the other group have to prevent it. (In Sapphire, the other group is trying to cool it down so it can turn into a lake instead; this is treated as an equivalent act of evil despite the [[FridgeLogic obvious but unstated difference]] that blowing it up will kill people while cooling it down will not).
** Well, cooling it would ruin the livelihoods of the people in the nearby town, who rely on the volcano's geothermal energy for things like heating their apparently famous hot springs, and might affect tourism. Not as evil as setting the volcano off, but not particularly nice, either.
* Averted in ''{{Mother 3}}''. The volcano never erupts... [[spoiler: until the very end of the game, but then again, the WORLD is erupting.]]
* The {{Stable Time Loop}} in ''{{Icewind Dale}} II'' in Dragon's Eye.
* In RomancingSaGa2 there is one [[spoiler: if you let it blow, you can get Shadow magic but lose the Salamander class character]]
* ''DragonQuestIII'' is the first DragonQuest to feature a volcano. Naturally, you make it erupt for the purposes of getting a magic MacGuffin. The quest to make it erupt takes fully a quarter of the game. Said volcano also plays a key role in the backstory -- and the AttractMode cutscene.
* ''DragonQuestVII'' plays with this: the very first thing you see upon arriving is the volcano erupting! ...In a vision, anyway, which you then have to prevent.
* ''FinalFantasyMysticQuest'': The volcano erupts at the end of the Lava Dome stage. That's right, while you're ''inside'' it. And the lava flow cools quickly to make a new path you can walk along. ConvectionSchmonvection.
* Mt. Zublo in Breath of Fire 3 erupts, blocking passage around it and an entire section of the game is dedicated to getting around it. Even having to inevitably go through it.
* Averted and possibly justified with Mt. Zaleho in ''{{Tales of the Abyss}}''. [[spoiler: Auldrant's crust has been raised some several kilometers above the planet's mantle for the past two thousand years or so, reducing Mt. Zaleho's activity. While its volcanic activity increases significantly after the land is lowered, it still doesn't seem to pose any significant danger to Daath.]]
* In KingdomOfLoathing, a volcano plays an important part in the Nemesis Quest, containing a puzzle that requires using constantly-shifting chunks of rock floating in magma as stepping stones in order to reach the final showdown with your nemesis, with the volcano erupting if you win. Lampshaded as it becomes clear that the underground tunnels you chase your nemesis through are leading into the volcano: "On reflection, this was inevitable, really. I mean, you can't just have a Final Boss Battle near a volcano. It would be like having a car chase in which the fruit cart doesn't get knocked over. Or fighting crime in a giant robot and never using Rocket Punch."
* Averted in ''Dinosaurs and Cadillacs''. Throughout the game the volcano is smoking away in the background, and though the characters keep thinking it's going to blow, it's actually the smoke from the factory concealed within.
* The last three missions of Guild wars prophecies involve reaching a volcano that, yes, erupts after the end of the last mission.
* In WorldOfWarcraft's Cataclysm Expansion, in the Goblin starting zone, there is a volcano- and inside it is a giant turtle called the "Volcanoth". You have to kill that turtle with a bunch of missiles- the death of the Volcanoth and the explosion from the missiles... triggers this trope.
* KingsQuestVII has an interesting variation. The volcano is active, but some {{Steampunk}}-type machinery in use by the trolls keep it from blowing. However, [[BigBad Malicia]] would like to use it to get revenge on Etheria, the Fairy Kingdom, even if everything ''else'' is turned to slag in the process. It's up to Valanice and Rosella to prevent this.
* SeikenDensetsu3 - the heroes shipwreck on a remote volcano island that's slated to go off at any moment (the screen even shakes from time to time with pre-eruption tremors), but of course it doesn't go off until you've accomplished all that you're supposed to and you have a way off the island. (Hooray for [[DeusExMachina conveniently passing by turtles]]!)
* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}!'' has one in [[LethalLavaLand Arachnia's]] background. [[spoiler: Bug pushes [[BigBad Queen Cadavra]] into it when he beats her, causing it to erupt]].
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* {{Lampshaded}} in ''DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', in the [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_442.php spy novel Wildy wrote]].
-->'''Jyrras:''' "Oh, of course! Nothing quite says "intelligent" like having 70 billion dollars worth of equipment next to an unstable volcano!"
* In ''{{Erfworld}}'', the city of Gobwin Knob is situated inside the caldera of a dead volcano, the walls of which provide natural defense... [[spoiler: At the end of the first book, Parson has Maggie [[MindlinkMates link Sizemore and Wanda together]] so they can deliberately "uncroak" the dead volcano for an incredibly PyrrhicVictory.]]
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* A season 1 episode of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has Aang and Sokka discover a volcano is ready to explode while hiking up there for other reasons. Apparently the townspeople used to monitor it, but stopped doing so once a fortune teller moved in and they figured she'd just tell them if the volcano erupted.
** To Sokka's great annoyance, her fortune was still technically correct because she only predicted that the town would not be destroyed - she didn't say whether or not the volcano would actually erupt.
** Another example is explicitly averted - the Fire Nation capital is built on top of a a volcano. However, it never explodes, probably because there's enough firebenders around to "appease" the volcano, or something.
* ''{{Tarzan}}'' RecycledTheSeries.
* The plot of ''{{Garfield}} in Paradise'' involved one.
* The volcano in ''TheLandBeforeTime II'' erupts, naturally.
* In ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', the main characters and their group of explorers fall through a cave into a dormant volcano. When they assume that [[GenreSavvy it could blow at any minute]], the geology expert of the bunch says that it [[SubvertedTrope shouldn't be possible]] without a titanic explosive force. However, at the end of the movie [[spoiler: it turns out the an exploding hot air balloon will do just fine]] and the whole thing [[DoubleSubversion goes up anyway]].
* Subverted in ''JackieChanAdventures'', where the Monkey King makes a Hawaiian volcano erupt... with lava made out of gelatin.
* At the beginning of ''TransformersGeneration1'', the Transformers crash into a volcano and go into stasis, where they remain until an eruption reactivates the ship four million years later.
* Comically subverted in ''{{The Road to El Dorado}}''. The volcano starts to erupt when it suddenly stops rumbling and burps out a single puff of smoke. That Tulio just happened to shout "Stop!" at that precise instant is what convinces the natives that [[GodGuise he and Miguel were gods.]]
* Subverted in the ''SuperFriends'' episode, "Volcano." Here, the volcano never erupts considering that the alien ship that crashes into its magma pool and the superheroes trying to rescue it have enough to deal with as it is.
* ''{{X-Men Evolution}}'' had one. It erupts ''twice''.
* ''GummiBears'': The "My Gummi Lies Over the Ocean" episode.
* The volcano at Hawaii in the finale of TotalDramaWorldTour.
* The very third episode of ''SouthPark'' is called ''Volcano'' and naturally is about a Volcano eruption near the town. In more than 200 episodes since that Volcano was never mentioned again.
* Averted in BeastWars. The volcano under the Predacon base never erupts, despite the ever molten lava. Also the volcano the Maximals move into doesn't erupt either, because [[TimeTravel they know]] it doesn't erupt [[TransformersGenerationOne until 1984]].
* In the ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "Brainania," the Brain attempts to establish his own country on a volcanic island. Smart move.
* The episode of ''TheSimpsons'' where Homer actually becomes a missionary on a tropical island as an attempt for him to escape an angry mob of {{PBS}} staff ends with Homer and "Lisa Jr." accidentally causing a volcano to erupt by ringing a church bell too loudly.
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* Pompeii, of course.
* Mount Rainier is feared to be this. Largest Volcano in the lower 48, one of the broadest in the world in terms of glaciers and craigs and area. Tacoma and Seattle, with about 3.5 million people, lie nearly entirely on old mudflows from the volcano that are less than 200 years old.
* The volcanoes of the Hawaiian islands erupt (well, ooze) frequently, meaning the islands are slowly growing bigger (and volcanoes that are now underwater may someday reach the surface, as more lava builds up higher).
* The geysers, hot springs, and "paint pots" of Yellowstone National Park are all caused by geologic activity from a massive caldera that spans the whole region. Pray it never, ever explodes.
** The Yellowstone hot spot is located in Wyoming. The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory is based out of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, some 250-plus miles to the south.
* According to the documentary The Last Day of the Dinosaurs, the asteroid that caused the mass extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous period possibly caused this trope to go UpToEleven. Allegedly, the seismic catastrophes created by the impact may well have caused long-extinct volcanos to erupt again.
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