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* ''{{Contra}} Rebirth'' subverts this trope, in that its lava will glow, but is still a viscous dark red liquid.

* In the Pokemon anime, Ash battles Blaine in a volcano. At one point an explosion by Team Rocket causes everything to shake; a wave of lava breaks against the wall of the arena and looks like nothing more than red seawater.

*** On the other hand, there are two types of hazardous liquid in Norfair. One is a dark red, and is explained to be magma, which the Gravity Suit protects from. The other is the superheated acid found only in Lower Norfair, which is an orange color, and damages Samus despite the Gravity Suit.

* ''DwarfFortress'' has a weird way with magma/lava. In previous versions (2D and 0.27.x.x/0.28.x.x), magma/lava would kill nearly anything almost instantly upon contact, and steam/mist from falling magma would kill dwarves by heat, but there were specialized workshops that ran off magma, which posed no harm to the workers. In the latest version (0.31.x), due to changes in the way heat tracking is done, magma is now more likely to drown creatures than burn them to death, and most likely to simply [[BodyHorror boil off their fat]] and have them bleed to death.

* ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' has a lava-powered barbeque.\
** Somewhat truth in advertising, you can cook with lava. http://www.dolphinbayhilo.com/cook.html

* Most of the lava in DonkeyKong Country 2 is treated as a BottomlessPit. However in one level you can cool the lava down in order to swim through it.

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* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' 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 [[SuperPrototype Eva-01]] doesn't, {{Handwave}}d as it using its [=AT Field=]) she still shouldn't have had anywhere NEAR the amount of mobility, speed, or ''sight'' she enjoys while submerged in molten ''ROCK''.
** 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 obese -- but the suit doesn't cover her head.
** 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.
** ''ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' {{handwave}}s the vision as some kind of EverythingSensor, which might have been lifted from [[AllThereInTheManual the manual]].
* In ''[[PokemonSpecial Pokémon Special]]'', Yellow ''surfs'' on lava. At one point, she even goes around in circles to create a ''lava tornado'' that sucks up Lance. (Of course, [[spoiler:Lance survives... by protecting himself with a giant ''bubble''.]])
* In the Pokemon anime, Ash battles Blaine in a volcano. At one point an explosion by Team Rocket causes everything to shake; a wave of lava breaks against the wall of the arena and looks like nothing more than red seawater.
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* Shadow Man's stage in ''MegaMan 3'' goes back and forth on this. Relatively hot-looking lava can be seen cascading in the background several times, but everywhere else in the stage, it looks suspiciously like Coca-Cola. It's hard to tell if the stage is a boiler plant and the liquid is lava, or if the place is a sewage plant and the liquid is human waste. Either way, falling into pools of the stuff will kill Megaman.

When animated, it may be just as erroneous particularly in works where the technology or artistry to draw bubbling and flowing was severely limited. Just as it moves like water, it looks like someone tipped a barrel of Kool-Aid in the lake and the rolling glurge and gaseous emissions would be a couple of round clear circles. If something fell in, you'd still see them behind the red tint of cherry flavour rather than the opaque emitter of red to yellow light that it should be. In many video games the lava is actually just water with some cherry dye and a damage script (which [[SuperDrowningSkills may not necessarily imply that water itself doesn't cause damage]]), and similarly the acid and/or toxic waste will be Lemon n Lime.

* ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' has a lava-powered barbeque.

* In ''TheElderScrollsFourOblivion'' players can swim through and under lava if they have enough hit points/health potions and the Water-Walking spell works on it. Then again, considering it's a hell deimension, it may very well be boiling blood.

* ''BanjoKazooie Nuts & Bolts'': The first level has lava inside a volcane that is just water with a different color. [[JustifiedTrope It fits the theme, however, of a level with inflatable trees, clouds moved by a water mill, and a horizon provided by LCD screens.]]

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[[caption-width:256:[[FridgeLogic What are those barrels supposed to be made of?]]]]
->''Using Surf to cross ''lava''?!''
--> -- '''Lance''', ''[[PokemonSpecial Pokémon Special]]''

[[caption-width:256:[[FridgeLogic How does it avoid burning the wood?]]]]

* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5 had a type of shark that lived in molten lava.

* In ''TheLordOfTheRings'' [[spoiler: Gollum and the Ring tumble into the magma within Mount Doom. Gollum splashes around and sinks, and the ring stays afloat since Gollum's relative body temperature apparently cooled the magma, or something. The rock slowly melts, and the ring metls instantly upon hitting the rock.]]
** Considering that the ring doesn't even get warm in regular fire, that's more a case of SufficientlyAdvancedMagic.

* Played almost literally in ''DextersLaboratory'', at the end of "Last But Not Beast".

* Played almost literally in [[DextersLaboratory]], at the end of "Last But Not Beast.