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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Only a fool fights in a burning house."''|Seldom heeded [[Star Trek
Battles are awesome. Know what's [[Rule of Cool|even more awesome]]? [[Incendiary Exponent|Having a battle while the area is on fire!]]
▲{{quote|''"Only a fool fights in a burning house."''|Seldom heeded [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Klingon]] proverb}}
Yes, it seems that, in many instances of fiction, the epic battle between good and evil occurs during a wildfire of some sort. These fires are often caused by explosions, random lightning hitting a tree, or by the hero/villain him/herself. In either case, it makes the battle itself more dramatic and more exciting to the viewer.
▲Battles are awesome. Know what's [[Rule of Cool|even more awesome]]? [[Incendiary Exponent|Having a battle while the area is on fire!]]
▲Yes, it seems that, in many instances of fiction, the epic battle between good and evil occurs during a wildfire of some sort. These fires are often caused by explosions, random lightning hitting a tree, or by the hero/villain him/herself. In either case, it makes the battle itself more dramatic and more exciting to the viewer.
This will always be extremely guilty of [[Convection, Schmonvection]]. As long as you don't touch the fire, you'll be fine. Also, you won't tend to see smoke inhalation affect the combatants much, even though [http://www.emedicinehealth.com/smoke_inhalation/article_em.htm smoke inhalation is the most common killer in real fires.]
Compare [[Battle in
See also [[Ring of Fire]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In the Soul Society arc in ''[[Bleach]]'', Captain-Commander Yamamoto's battle with Captains Kyoraku and Ukitake, though largely unseen, counts.
* In [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** In the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* ''[[Space Pirate Mito]]'': During the first half, Aoi, Mito's son, keeps having flashes of a memory involving his mother fighting Ranban while flames swirled around them.
* ''[[
* The [[Night of the Living Mooks|Mariage]] from ''[[All There in the Manual|StrikerS Sound Stage X]]'' of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' set every place they attack on fire. This naturally culminated in a final battle in the burning {{spoiler|[[Amusement Park|Marine Garden]]}} where the StrikerS and [[Sibling Team|N2R]] unit had to fight them while suppressing the fire and rescuing any survivors at the same time.
* ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'': Perhaps jested at where Jin and Mugen are fighting ferociously and a fire breaks out. The two swordsmen ignore their surroundings as if used to fighting in these conditions or too focused to care. The building collapses and they pass out before they can continue their fight. The wise choice would have been to take the fight elsewhere...
* The ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Pokémon Special]]'': Naturally, most battles against [[Playing
* The final showdown between Tamahome and Nakago, as well as the one before that, in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''.
* The fight between [[Rurouni Kenshin|Kenshin]] (and company) and Shishio takes place amidst the fires of an oil refinery in Shishio's base. Of course, Shishio's motif is fire - when he unleashes his ki, it's commented that the flames rise in response.
* [[Monster (
* The finale of the first episode of ''[[Berserk]]'' has Guts facing off against the Baron of Koka Castle as the village they are in is burning down.
* The final battle of ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' has the hero facing the [[Big Bad]] in the hold of a burning ship. The flames are so hot that they melt the gold bars in the hold, ignoring the fact that [[Did Not Do the Research|the melting point of gold is 1064 degrees Celcius, which would easily be hot enough to rapidly reduce the wooden ship to ash and cook both fighters alive before they could exchange more than a few blows]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[
* When [[Spider
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* In ''Cradle 2 the Grave'', Su (played by Jet Li) fights Ling on the airport where the helicopter circled it with oil and its explosion [[Ring of Fire|lit the circle on fire]].
** Which bears parallels to another [[Ring of Fire]] showdown in ''Romeo Must Die''.
* The battle between Godzilla and Monster X/Keizer Ghidorah in ''[[Godzilla]]: Final Wars'' features a brief scene where both monsters stand amongst the flaming buildings of where Tokyo once stood and shot energy blasts at one another.
* This happens in ''[[Felidae]]'' as well, due to Pasacal/Claudandus accidentally knocking over a computer and causing it to explode.
* At the end of ''The Four Musketeers'' (1974), a battle between the title characters and the Cardinal's men partially occurs in a burning building after a lantern is knocked into a pile of straw.
* Happens during a battle between Gamera and Irys in ''[[Gamera]] 3: Incomplete Struggle''.
* Happens in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode III'' - Lava, of course, but it fits. There's also a [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] comic where [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1021418.html Vader fights a resurrected Darth Maul]. Lava is involved.
* The climax of ''[[Backdraft]]'': the fire {{spoiler|proves far more dangerous than the villain ever was.}}
* ''[[Spider-Man (
* The fight in the hotel at the climax of ''[[
* The climactic fistfight in ''The Power Of One''.
* Happens twice in ''[[Legend (
* ''[[Batman Begins]]'' has this twice: first time is in the League of Shadows HQ when Bruce Wayne suddenly decides "Thanks for all the ninja training, but you guys kind of suck. Laters!" and the second is when the League hits Wayne up at his manor and are like, "We didn't appreciate your tone back there. Uncool."
* The final battle of ''[[Ninja Assassin]]''
* ''[[Tom Yum Goong]]'': The battle at the temple against the Capoeira guy and the Wushu guy.
** Inexplicably, this same fight scene took place in knee deep water.
* The final fight at the end of "[[Iron Monkey]]". On top of wooden poles, no less.
* The end of ''[[
* ''[[
* The ending of ''[[Halloween Resurrection]]''.
* Also during the climax of the first ''[[
* The final fight between [[Jet Li]] and [[Jet Li]] in ''[[The One (
* The final confrontation between Captain Miller and Doctor Weir in ''[[Event Horizon]]'' occurs in the titular ship's engine room, which Weir and/or the [[Eldritch Abomination|ship itself]] set on fire to further mess with Miller (who [[Backstory]] involves losing a crew member to a fire).
* The [[Sherlock Holmes]] movie "A Study in Terror" features a climactic fight between Holmes and {{spoiler|Lord Carfax, alias [[Jack the Ripper]]}} in a burning building.
== Literature ==
* ''[[Interview With a Vampire]]'': There are four fights in burning buildings.
* The siege of King's Landing in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. An especially deadly variety due to the fire being Wildfire, a substance that can burn on anything, even water, salt, rock or metal, and is almost impossible to put out.
* In [[
== Live Action TV ==
* The second episode of ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]'' has a showdown between Kuuga and his opponent in a burning church.
* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]] battles Angelus in a burning warehouse in the episode ''Passion''.
== Professional Wrestling ==
* ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'' Inferno Match: the ring is surrounded by gas pipes emitting (low-temp) fire. Whichever wrestler sets his opponent on fire wins. Kane is usually one of the wrestlers involved. Strangely for this being "his" gimmick match, he loses about as often as he wins.
** Actually, Kane has only won ''one'' inferno match, against MVP.
** To be fair, there've only been four of these matches, total. Kane's been in all of them and lost all but one. This is mainly because for a long time, Kane wore a full body suit that could be fitted with fireproofing, unlike his opponents. The one he won featured him in different(shirtless) attire against an opponent with more covering.
* During the ''[[WWF]]'' "Attitude Era" a championship match between Steve Austin and the Undertaker was promoted with film of the actors wrestlers stalking each other through a burning junkyard. In print promos the Artist's Rendering showed them attacked each other with car batteries, doors, etc. in the same junkyard of fire. The match itself was gimmick-free, AIR.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The climax of the ''[[
* ''[[
* An inevitable consequence of having too many Fire Aspect Terrestrial [[Exalted]] in one place. (Note: if the area contains enough wood, "too many" equals one.)
== Theatre ==▼
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[
* The last boss fight you play as Roxas ''[[
* In ''[[Tekken]] 5'' (though not [[Updated Rerelease|Dark Resurrection]]), the temple stage is this.
* [[You Should Know This Already|The final battle]] of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
* The battle vs. [[Face Heel Turn|Sticky Fingaz]] in ''[[Def Jam Series]]: Fight for New York'' takes place in a [[Ring of Fire]].
* The final fight in ''[[Soul Calibur]] 2'' takes place on an eternal field of fire. There's also a burning building stage in the third game.
* The first level of ''[[Castlevania]]'': Dracula X.
* ''[[Turok (
* ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'': The first boss fight takes place in a burning building.
** ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'': A final boss battle ends up on some sinking roks in the middle of a ''freaking lava flow''.
* ''[[
* Both battles against Berial from ''[[
* The last two stages of ''[[Touhou
** Of course, that temperature might be due to the fact that they're fueled by '''nuclear fusion''' at this point.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'': Mimiron in Ulduar, but only if you do him on hard mode (which is activated by hitting the room's [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]).
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* The climactic battle against the leader of the Ronin in ''[[Saints Row]] 2'' is a sword-fight on a burning ship.
* The final battle between Mario/Luigi and Bowser at the end of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' takes place inside the Sun!
* The Incident at Honno-ji stage in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' frequently involves fighting [[Oda Nobunaga]] in the midst of the burning temple. In the anime, Kojuro and Mitsuhide are the ones who fight there, although the heat and smoke make Ranmaru faint.
* ''[[
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' had this in the downed [[The Hunter|Vespiary]] group's base blimp. Tarvek even dived into the flame at one point.
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== Western Animation ==
* One of the most famous (and possibly triumphant) examples of this is the climactic final battle in ''[[
* In Disney's ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'', when Robin is fleeing/fighting the Sheriff in the burning tower. Unlike many Battles Amongst The Flames, Robin has the sense to try to get out of the way of the fire, though doing so by going ''up'' the tower isn't the most effective idea.
* Occurs in the episode "Lois Kills Stewie" in ''[[
* In ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[
* In ''[[
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