History Main / LavaAddsAwesome

* Why have a standard DisneyVillainDeath for the BigBad in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' when you can have a DisneyVillainDeath with lava?

* ''VideoGame/{{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 is a tedious process[[note]]older builds used to destroy the bucket, consuming it like the lava. Later on, that was patched so the bucket remains, but it has to be manually removed so another can be put in its place; even with clever use of hoppers, the system still needs constant attention, as filled buckets don't stack[[/note]], and depending on the map you may have to construct a portal to the Nether just to have a steady supply of lava. Then you run into the problem that getting the obsidian to create the Nether portal is best done with lava... [[MortonsFork GAH!]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', the main dining room on Syndrone's island base features flowing lava walls as ''decor''. Elsewhere on the island, Mr. Incredible drops the Omnidroid v.8 into a lava lake and thinks he's won. Cue the robot rising from the lava glowing orange-hot to continue the fight, even more dangerous than before.

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** This childhood game is PlayedForLaughs in [[http://xkcd.com/735/ this]] xkcd strip.

** This childhood game is PlayedForLaughs in [[http://xkcd.com/735/ this]] Webcomic/Xkcd strip.

** This childhood game is PlayedForLaughs in [[http://xkcd.com/735/ this]] Webcomic/xkcd strip.

** This childhood game is PlayedForLaughs in [[http://xkcd.com/735/ this]] xkcd strip.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter 4'' has the village of Harth, which is set next to a volcano. After restoring the lava flow, you get to see lava run through a creek in the middle of the village, which is used by the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Troverians]] for their [[TheBlacksmith forging operations]].

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'' does it with a {{DLC}} map called Magma. It's a Japanese village destroyed by lava. [[ViolationOfCommonSense One would think that said village would be too dangerous to be an effective base]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', the main dining room in Syndrone's island base features flowing lava walls as ''decor''.

* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': In episode 9, during an underwater mission, Gary has to rescue Quinn (who has been knocked out by a rock). Then magma starts to break through the Earth’s crust due to the effects of the breach in space. As Gary, Quinn and Mooncake try to reach the surface, streams of lava shoot out of the walls around them, instantly solidifying into glowing hot rock spires. At one point, Mooncake uses his powers to blast a way through such a lava stream.

* 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.

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', the ultimate spell of Earth element wouldn't be awesome enough without it.

* {{Anime/Naruto}}'s [[MsFanservice 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.

* ''{{VideoGame/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 is a tedious process[[note]]older builds used to destroy the bucket, consuming it like the lava. Later on, that was patched so the bucket remains, but it has to be manually removed so another can be put in its place; even with clever use of hoppers, the system still needs constant attention, as filled buckets don't stack[[/note]], and depending on the map you may have to construct a portal to the Nether just to have a steady supply of lava. Then you run into the problem that getting the obsidian to create the Nether portal is best done with lava... [[MortonsFork GAH!]]

* ''{{VideoGame/Terraria}}''

* [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 White 2]] has Reversal Mountain filled with lava. [[AvertedTrope Those who bought Black 2 will have water instead]].
* ''{{VideoGame/Marathon}}'' has parts of the eponymous spaceship filled with lava for no other reason than RuleOfCool. There is lava in the next two games, as well, but at least some of this is in underground caverns where it would presumably make sense to have magma. Other cases in these games use RuleOfCool as well. In addition to all these examples, the Pfhor ships have some kind of coolant fluid which basically behaves as another kind of lava.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'': You can find an ECHO log where Handsome Jack tries to alleviate his workers' concern over the ecological damage they are doing to the region now known as [[{{Mordor}} Eridium Blight]].

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* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'' does it with a {{DLC}} map called Magma. It's a Japanese village, [[CaptainObvious destroyed by lava]]. [[ViolationOfCommonSense One would think that said village would be too dangerous to be an effective base]].

* ''WrathOfTheTitans'' has little to do with Greek myths overall, and its Kronos has nothing in common with the original version from the mythology, but ''boy, does he look great in lava''!

One way to make an artifact, weapon, or situation even better is to get lava involved somehow. After all, if something is already [[RuleOfCool pretty awesome]] on its own, that said something would be ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome really freakin' awesome]]'' if it happens to be using ''burning magma'' in the process. It doesn't matter if the lava is even relevant; just the inclusion of a flowing fiery-orange flow is enough to invoke the sense of raw power -- ''strong enough to melt'' '''''MOUNTAINS!''''' -- barely held in check.