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{{trope}}
{{quote|"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat; Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."|[[The Bible
The road to hell is sometimes defined to be so wide that people with basically slight or even no sin will go to hell anyway. This is typically done to make sure that people stick to very straight and very narrow path. Some of authors have taken this ease of entry into hell [[Up to Eleven]], making it not just easier, but almost automatic entry into hell for everyone. This tends to lead into [[It Gets Easier]] as once one is doomed already, doing some of worse things will not change anything.
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* Leer at lady... HELL!
* Have someone damn you to hell... HELL!
* [[Hoist
This is related with [[Moral Event Horizon]] only with bar set so high that nearly everyone has already fallen into irredeemably evil. Compare with [[All Crimes Are Equal]]. [[Failure Is the Only Option]] is related to this trope. Usually a form of [[Disproportionate Retribution]].
If in-universe example basically sends everyone to hell, it belongs to this trope.
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* All that's needed to go to Hell in ''[[Hell Girl]]'' is for someone to dislike you enough to be willing to make a deal to send you
* ''Literally'' going to Hell seems to be pretty rare in [[Bleach]], but since your other options for afterlives are a desert where monsters hunt you until you become one of them and a depressing slum where you will live poverty while ruled over by unquestionable overlords (unless said overlords recruit you, in which case you will serve as a soldier until the aforementioned monsters manage to brutally kill you), going ''figuratively'' to Hell (that is, being sent to an awful and inescapable afterlife is, to the best of our knowledge, a complete certainty.
== [[
* [[Chick Tracts]] simultaneously play this straight and invert it: everyone is going to hell for the slightest, and least objectionable, of sins. However all you have to do is accept [[The Fundamentalist|religion as defined in it]] and you'll spend eternity in heaven, no matter how horrible your previous actions. Some older tracts which pushed this "logic" far past the breaking point were pulled out of circulation by Chick himself when he realized that the massive [[Moral Dissonance]] was too much for virtually anyone not as extreme in their beliefs.
* In both the [[The DCU|DC]] and [[Marvel Universe|Marvel]] 'verses there have been examples of people getting sent to Hell with magic, rather than through any fault of their own. Granted, in most such cases they were able to get out later.
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* Apparently, being sent to hell is so easy that a single curse can do it in ''[[Drag Me to Hell]],'' regardless of how good you've lived your life or what you've done.
* The Bible verse at the top of the page is quoted directly by William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) in ''[[Se7en]]'', and the sentiment is central to the motivation of the film's [[Poetic Serial Killer]] antagonist.
* ''[[Deconstructing Harry]]'': The fifth floor of Hell is for subway mothers, aggressive panhandlers, and book critics; the sixth is for right wing extremists, serial killers, and lawyers who appear on television. On the floor Harry gets off on, he meets the guy who invented aluminum siding.
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[
* Unsurprisingly, this structures much of the characters' journey in the 17th-century Christian allegory ''[[The
== [[Music]] ==
* ''[[Thomas
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''So thick beset with thorns and briers?
''That is the path of righteousness,
''Tho after it but few enquires.
''That lies across that lily leven?
''That is the path to wickedness,
''Tho some call it the road to heaven. }}
* There's a cover of ''[[Thomas
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[The Void (
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]: There was one strip about a priest being sent to hell... [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=471#comic for this reason.].
* ''[[
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'''Dave''': God would ''never'' allow that to happen!
'''Satan''': Sssss. That's what you think. The Other Guy doesn't care if you live or die. You're supposed to settle for eternal life. }}
* In [[
** {{spoiler|Then again Sister Mary is all part of the [[Dream World]] of an angst filled teenager in a coma so she's rather overblown.}}
* No matter how hard he tries to make up for his actions, [[Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell]]. Inverted, however, with a character who has so much ''good'' karma that she can get away with almost anything.
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' isn't quite as extreme as some examples, but it's hard to say what Slick did to really deserve his various trips to Hell. (And then there are the people who fall into hellpits by not looking where they're going, or the guy who mistook the Devil for a T-shirt salesman and now burns while wearing a shirt that says "I made fun of the Devil" . . .)
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* A definite example in [[South Park: Bigger, Longer
** In the ''[[South Park]]'' [[Verse]] the only people who can get into heaven are Mormons. '''''Everybody''''' else goes to hell.
*** Which is why Hell is presented as way more fun, and getting stuck with the [[Acceptable Religious Targets|Mormons]] is at one point presented as [[A Fate Worse Than Death]].
* ''[[Futurama]]'': There's one robot church that has an easy condemnation to Robot Hell for robots. According to his agreement with his new church, all Bender has to do is sin ''once'' to be dragged off to Robot Hell.
** Ironically, they never mention robots who never joined that church going to Robot Hell, so Bender may have been better off if he had never converted.
** [[Bad Santa|Robot Santa]]'s naughty setting kind of falls under this trope. He condemns Scruffy to the naughty/death list just for picking his nose. Apparently Zoidberg is the only one who meets his standards.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'',
** Parodied and subverted
** In a ''Treehouse of Horror'' episode where Bart and Lisa are [[Dragged Off to Hell]], they find that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Stuff_the_Little_Devil Hot Stuff the Little Devil] is being tormented in "Super-Hell" (where ''really'' evil sinners are) because [[Take That|his comic was so lame]]. Also, he meets a teacher there who is regarded as evil because she was head of the teacher's union. ([[Card-Carrying Villain|And proud of it]], although she's the [[Affably Evil]] type.)
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[[Category:Evil Tropes]]
[[Category:Heel Face Index]]
[[Category:Morality Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Easy Road To Hell]]
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