I feel like I've seen that in both some of the old cartoons and maybe Lois and Clark.

Stuff like dealing with lava flows by digging channels, rescuing people, etc. Usually it was movie physics volcanos, rather than say Lahars, Ashes or the problem of Lava reaching water.

Alternatively, he could just move a crank www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-0...

I mean, he did manage to be in two places at once via time travel. But it was also breaking rules.

To be fair, the Viking movie is also Hamlet.

Otoh half of all movies are Shakespeare reformulated.