Legendary Salamander in Popular Culture - Fire Elementals

Fire Elementals

• In Poul Anderson's short story "Operation Salamander" (1956), fire elementals appear as lizard-shapes hidden in flame.
• In the Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series (1995–2005), salamanders are portrayed as lesser fire elementals.
• In Dungeons & Dragons, salamanders are serpentine beings who dwell in metal cities in the Elemental Plane of Fire. The Flamewalkers of the Warcraft series are based on these.
• In the Warcraft series, the salamander (elemental) is the flame-loving cousin of the fire elemental, originating from the Firelands on the Elemental Plane. Compare salamander (beast), above.
• In the Castlevania: Circle of the Moon video game, Nathan can summon Salamander to provide him with fire-elemental magic.
• In the Nintendo DS game Lost Magic, the Salamander is one of the four elementals, found in Blaze Lake; attacks using fireballs.
• In the Super Sentai series Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGo-V, Salamandes and his infant form Drop are homeage to the Salamander and the constellion Leo. Both were brought into the US adaptation Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue as Olympus and Impus respectively.
• Salamander is one of the eight elemental spirits featured in the Mana series. Unsurprisingly, he represents the fire element.
• In Joseph Delaney's The Last Apprentice Book 6: Clash of the Demons,the most powerful type of fire elemental often takes on the form of a salamander.
• In the manga and anime series Naruto, Hanzō, who was nicknamed Hanzō of the Salamander, used Fire Style.