Basic Trope: Lava appears underground, no matter where you are. If you are underground, Bam. Lava.
- Straight: Everytown, America is allegedly located in one of the Plains States of the Midwest, but just underneath the town (or its underground structures if need be) are boiling pools of lava/magma.
- Exaggerated: Everytown, America's sewer system is backed up because lava is flowing through it.
- Downplayed: Everytown, America's cave networks are warmed by lava even deeper underground, but no lava immediately appears in caves.
- Justified:
- Everytown, America is located near a volcano, or perhaps an earthquake has brought up a large surge of it.
- The cave is indeed beneath Everytown, America, just so, so deep that it is at the bottom of the Earth's crust.
- The Earth in the setting has a different geological or geographical history, and it just so happens there's a deep fault line and hotspot running down North America's miiddle.
- A being made of Living Lava makes its home underneath the town, and it brought the lava with it.
- Inverted:
- There are towns underneath every pool of lava.
- Everytown, America has geysers and bubbling hot springs but the caves underground have no magma and are cool and damp no matter how deep they are.
- Subverted:
- Magma occasionally comes bursting up through vents in caves, but there are no significant volumes.
- The lava is actually runoff from some sort of underground steel mill, thus not technically even rock.
- The lava is actually some red or orange liquid like ketchup or orange juice, lampshading another trope
- A movie or TV show is being filmed within the show; the lava is made of red oatmeal and is part of the set.
- Double Subverted: ...And then volumes of real lava appear.
- Parodied:???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Everytown, America has caves which are cool, damp, and there is no sign of even the slightest hint of the color red in their dark reaches for miles.
- The show is set in Hawaii, where finding lava beneath the surface is realistic.
- Enforced: The dub translated Fuji, Shizuoka into Chinatown, Manhattan, and today's episode focused on tunneling into the formers namesake mountain.
- Lampshaded: "We literally just went ten feet underground, and my shoes are melting. In Toronto."
- Invoked: a man who melts everything he touches tries to go spelunking.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Earth burned out long ago, none of its caves have lava.
- Discussed: "Since when does Kansas have lava?"
- Conversed: "That lava has to be a fake. There isn't any lava in Kansas!"
- Deconstructed: The ground is so hot that it is unsafe to build any sort of buried infrastructure. Without water pipes, sewage pipes and another infrastructure, residents start to abandon the town.
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