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[[File:dore-circle3.jpg|link=Divine Comedy|frame|[[No Exit|Hell is other people]]. ''Lots'' of other people.]]
{{quote|''"Once upon a time, there was a place that wasn't a place. It had many names: Avernus, Gehenna, Tartarus, Hades, Abaddon, Sheol... it was an inferno of pain and flame and ice, where every nightmare had come true long since. We'll call it Hell."''|[[Neil Gaiman]]}}
Hell's the place where bad people go and [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|burn forever]] when they die. Or Hell's the place where bad people go and freeze forever when they die. Or,
for the more [[Nietzsche Wannabe|nihilistically minded]], it's the [[The Nothing After Death|pain of nonexistence]], where everyone goes when they die. It might be an [[Crapsack World|evil world]] where the forces of [[Dark Is Evil|darkness]] [[Villain World|rule everything]]. Or it's an evil world where the forces of darkness are held prisoner. It might be [[The Bible|the Outer Darkness, with wailing and gnashing of teeth]]. Or it could be a [[The Epic of Gilgamesh|dusty wasteland inhabited by dreary, half-bird people]]. Sometimes it's [[Crapsack World|Earth]], and even if it's not, Hell's often portrayed as eagerly looking for [[The Legions of Hell|opportunities to expand]]. Hell's almost certainly the opposite of [[Heaven]], and sometimes it's portrayed as being at war with Heaven, though the theological basis for this idea is [[Did Not Do the Research|a little shaky]]. Maybe Jean-Paul Sartre was right, and [[No Exit|Hell is other people]]. Or [[Stephen King]] was right, and '''Hell''' is repetition. Whatever else it is, Hell's almost certainly [[Ironic Hell|ironic]].
Hell is many things for many religions and philosophies, but a few pop-cultural constants have emerged over time. [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|Hell used to be considered a fiery, literally subterranean underworld]] ruled by a [[Horned Humanoid|horned]] [[The Devil|devil]] and, while this interpretation still lives on in cartoons and parodies, the trend for more recent treatments almost always involves placing Hell in [[Another Dimension
The inhabitants of Hell are usually divided between human prisoners and their [[The Legions of Hell|demonic captors]], though occasionally the demons are simply high-profile prisoners themselves, and sometimes they're the only inhabitants: modern fantasy stories and video games in particular tend to use Hell as a form of [[Sealed Evil in
In modern horror and fantasy, Hell's often given [[Hell Gate|portals]] that can send living people back and forth between the two worlds. A portal usually serves as the vehicle for a living hero to [[To Hell and Back|stage a rescue]] of a loved one from Hell, or for someone to [[Like a Badass Out of Hell|break out out on their own]]. The more recent idea of Hell as a parallel reality, though, gives such gateways a more mystical aspect: whereas classical ideas used famous caves as tunnels into the underworld, modern hellgates are usually invisible until opened by magic. Sometimes the magic itself is the gateway, and can be opened from anywhere, usually via a [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]] or an [[Artifact of Doom]].
The theological roots of Hell, and the modern pop-cultural image of it, come from a variety of sources, from Christian beliefs to Greek and Egyptian mythology to medieval literature. In more recent times, Asian conceptions of the afterlife, particularly the Chinese and Japanese ideas of Hell, have attained some prominence in the West, particularly through video games and anime. The idea of a moral dichotomy in the afterlife, with different fates reserved for the virtuous and the wicked, goes back to [[Egyptian Mythology]]. Making Heaven and Hell entirely separate places is a relatively recent idea from Judeo-Christianity. Many other ancient religions gave the same bland afterlife to everyone who died, save for those lucky few favored by the [[Powers That
Trying to separate the reality of Hell from its [[The Theme Park Version|theme park version]] is a hopeless cause. Not only is the reality of Hell debated, but what's realistic and what's not often depends on who's being asked. Many evangelical Christians believe that Hell is a literal, lake of fire filled with evil spirits. More liberal theologians often take the position that Hell is the willful separation of the soul from the light of God, and that any suffering beyond that is [[Self-Inflicted Hell|self-inflicted]]. Perhaps for this reason, many serious stories about Hell that are set in the "[[Plausible Deniability|real world]]" won't even try to directly depict Hell, and rely more on what the characters who've been there have to say about it. Sometimes this [[Offscreen Afterlife|lack of an onscreen Hell]] is explained by saying that seeing it would [[Go Mad
Stories that don't necessarily want to deal with the religious angle, but still want to use the basic idea of Hell for dramatic purposes, might use a thinly disguised "dimension of pain and suffering" instead. If it's a story with some science fiction elements, this'll often take the form of [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]].
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See also [[Heaven]] and [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The [[Never Say "Die"|Shadow Realm]] in the English dub of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', because death is too much for children to deal with, but an eternity of being [[Mind Rape
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' has Hell (or the [[Bowdlerise|Home for Infinite Losers]] in the English dubs). This is not depicted as torture (even has an amusement park), though if the dead villains like Frieza and Cell cause trouble, Pikkon will be sent to beat them up and lock them in prison for a while.
** In ''Dragonball GT'', however, Frieza and Cell send Goku to a new area where there is torture, where their plan backfires.
* ''[[Berserk]]'''s [http://skullknight.net/encyclopedia/world/universe/ cosmology] is rather complex, but a lot of its realms would certainly seem Hellish in the eyes of any mortal, particularly the Nexus, which is where {{spoiler|the Band of the Hawk were transported following the activation of Griffith's Crimson Behelit}}. The actual Hell is the Abyss, where the souls of both people and demons go after death and where {{spoiler|[[God Is Evil|the Idea of Evil]]}} resides.
* In one of the early episodes/chapters of [[Bleach]], a gateway to Hell is opened for a particularly evil hollow. Hell itself wasn't elaborated upon or mentioned again until the fourth movie, where it's shown to be a Dante's Inferno-ish like Multi-layered domain. The first level is a strange floating city-like structure with pathways, the second level is just a bunch of small islands and the third level is a stereotypical potrayal of Hell, complete with [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|lava and brimstone]].
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', the gateways to the various Hells are in a rather distant corner of the Spirit World. Apparently they differ in punishment factor, though at least one ({{spoiler|the one Toguro chose for himself}}) is ten thousand years of brutal multilation.
* In ''Digimon'' Season 2, the Digimon Emperor goes into the Dark Whirlpool or something like that and extracts data from Devimon, who was destroyed by Angemon in Season 1. While good Digimon are reborn whenever destroyed, it appears the evil Digimon go here.
** Hell is vaguely hinted at in the Season 1 episode "No Questions, Please", when Vademon tells Izzy that his curiosity makes him greedy and will have him sent to Hell ("A very unpleasant place", he says).
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', Shishio, his girlfriend, and one of their cronies end up in hell, which is depicted as a dark place full of skulls...which he aims to take over from Lord Enma himself.
== Comic Books ==
* [[Marvel Comics]] often features an evil dimension called "Demonic Limbo" in its storylines. While technically not a part of the afterlife, its inhabitants are called demons, and it certainly [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|looks the part]]. In Marvel's fictional history, Dante's ''[[Divine Comedy|Inferno]]'' was actually based on that dimension (and [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|Dante's real adventures]] and battle against its ruler). The Stygian Deep, Mephisto's home realm, occasionally serves the same role, as did the dimension [[X-Men
* [[The DCU]] has a single Hell, although it is typically divided amongst a variety of warring rulers. The exception was for a brief time during the late '90s and early '00s, when the demon lord Neron seized total control. He was eventually deposed and demoted after making an unsuccessful attempt to conquer [[Heaven]].
* Hell in ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' is a seemingly ordinary city with a gigantic eye where the Sun should be, staring down at people all the time. This renders them obsessively paranoid, vain and violent, as each person thinks the eye's watching him alone and the smallest personal slight or accidental faux pas is rendered unbearable.
** Hell in the Johnnyverse evolved as Vasquez continued to make comics in it. While its original conception is heavily allegorical, when it comes up in ''Squee!'' it is pretty much classic fire and brimstone Hell. This is still played for laughs though, as another part of Squee's [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine|dinner with Devil and his antichrist son Pepito.]]
* The ''[[
** In the comics Hell falls more in line with the DCU (or at least Vertigo) conception of Hell, even dealing with events from other comics (like Lucifer leaving, and the resulting power vacuum). It's much more of a Biblical Hell, with the fire and brimstone, desiccated wastelands, and a wide variety of bizarre and horrible demons finding unique and terrible ways to torture people. It seems to work on its own internal rules, however, which mostly serve to keep the demons in check against one another, and to a lesser extent against humans. Of course, after being flipped off by Constantine one to many times the devil (not Lucifer, but the Devil) starts breaking the rules.
* ''[[Spawn]]'' centers around Hell and its secret war with Heaven in the modern world. This version of Hell's definitely the [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|fire and brimstone]] variety, with each level ruled by a different demon lord.
* "[http://www.jtillustration.com/hell Hell Lost]" tells the story of the inevitable Counter Revolution in Hell, as the fallen angels inevitably realize they not only got a raw deal, but that Hell, quite simply, sucks balls.
== Film ==
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* ''[[Hellbound Hellraiser II]]'' depicts a gothic-looking, otherworldly area of Hell (or, at least, a very Hell-like dimension [[From a Certain Point of View|that promises unimaginable sensations]]) called the Labyrinth, where the people who [[Schmuck Bait|solve a cursed puzzle box]] end up. [[Like a Badass Out of Hell|Escape is possible]], and the first two movies focus more on human villains who've returned to the real world and [[Our Vampires Are Different|need blood]] [[Self-Constructed Being|to restore their bodies]] than on [[The Legions of Hell|the cenobites themselves]].
* In ''[[Event Horizon]]'', the ships first attempt at [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]] [[Gone Horribly Wrong|goes horribly wrong]], and apparently [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|hyperspace really]] ''[[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|is]]'' [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|a scary place]], because the original crew killed one another in really [[Squick|gruesome]] ways. According to a later character, whose sanity has [[Sanity Slippage|slipped]] a little thanks to the [[Genius Loci]] of the ship, where it went was ''[[Up to Eleven|worse]]'' than hell and that "hell is just a word."
== Literature ==
* Dante Alighieri's ''[[Divine Comedy|Inferno]]'' is the [[Trope
* [[Homer]]'s ''Odyssey'' and Virgil's ''Aeneid'', which introduced the River Styx, Cerberus, the descent with a guide into the underworld, and various [[Ironic Hell|ironic punishments]] for the sinners. Other Greek and Roman myths, such Orpheus descending into the Underworld, Persephone's abduction by Hades, and Hercules capturing Cerberus also helped create many of the [[To Hell and Back]] trope's elements.
* ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' also sets most of its story in Hell, particularly in the demon capital Pandemonium, as Lucifer and the rest of the demons plot their next move against God. It's a much more passive setting than in the Divine Comedy, and human sinners are never seen (since, at this point, Adam and Eve are the only humans around).
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* [[The Bible]], of course, is the [[Trope Codifier]] for the Western concept of Hell as the wicked's everlasting punishment, but it's surprisingly short on details. Revelation describes a lake of fire that those who aren't listed in the Book of Life are cast, which may or may not be the same thing as Hell, while Jesus describes "the outer darkness" as a place for the wicked. The main words used in the New Testament for describing it are Hades, Tartarus and Gehenna, the first two coming from Greek mythology while the latter's a Hebrew reference to the burning of garbage and the bodies of condemned criminals.
* Norse mythology brings us the word Hell from "Hel", the goddess of the dead, though it doesn't exactly have a matching concept; Niflheim, the cold abode of the dead that she ruled, was [[The Nothing After Death]] for everyone except the greatest warriors.
* In ''[[
* Buddhist texts call Hell [[wikipedia:Naraka (Buddhism)|Naraka]], which can be divided into two categories: the icy Hell and the fiery Hell. The cold one has no demons, but the victims must spend an extremely long time there, alone and naked. The worst of these Hells, Mahapadma, is so cold that the victim's body cracks into pieces. The fiery Hells are much more ''active'', with Yama's attendants torturing victims to death in various ways. The victims quickly revive, only to suffer the same fate again and again, for a very long (though not endless) time. The worst of the fiery Hells (and the lowest of all the hells), Avici, is reserved for those who commit one or more of the Five Grave Offenses (murder of one's father, murder of one's mother, murder of a Arhat or enlightened being, shedding the blood of a Buddha, and causing a schism within the Sangha, the community of Buddhist monks and nuns), and life and suffering in this Naraka lasts the longest out of all the hells put together.
* One of the [[Wing Commander (
* In ''[[
* In his chilling short story "Other People" [[Neil Gaiman]] portrays Hell as a single room, the walls covered with instruments of torture, where a single soul enters, and the demon goes through each instrument of torture over and over again, until the pain of each becomes bearable. Then they start picking through the soul's mind, making them relive and reexperience every lie and misdeed, every mistake, all their doubt and guilt. And then... well, you'll have to read it.
* In the [[The Culture|Culture]] novel, ''Surface Detail'', Hell, or the appropriate equivalent is a very real possibility. It should be noted that that the Culture Universe is based on incredibly advanced technology, such as recording mindstates (which are often analogised as 'souls'). A variety of afterlifes can be created in the form of flawless computer simulations. Whilst the vast majority are benign or pleasant, some civilisations deliberately create a Hell simulation to send their dead to. The more horrifying thing about this is that most of the Hell builders think that it's a good idea. Needless to say, the running of Hell programs is one of the very few things the Culture actively dislikes and makes a point of making this known.
* In ''[[
* Played interestingly in the ''[[Riftwar Cycle]]''. The cosmology of that series is layered, with at least fifteen "circles"- seven heavens, the mortal plane, and seven hells (there may be more, but anything above the highest heaven or below the lowest hell is completely incomprehensible to human minds). The catch is that which parts are "heaven" or "hell" are subjective, since everyone sees their own circle as the default, so to angels the mortal plane is actually part of Hell, while to the demons its part of Heaven. Each circle down is progressively nastier- the circle just below the mortal plane is very similar to it, albeit far more brutal, while the fifth circle down is the most classic [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|hell]], and is home to [[The Legions of Hell]]. The sixth and seventh hells are little mentioned, but are said to be the home of [[Eldritch Abomination
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' shows us the Klingon idea of Hell in the episode ''Barge of the Dead''. At first appearing as a barge sailing through a sea of blood, when it arrives at the gates of Hell, B'lanna finds that it's actually an [[Ironic Hell]], as her version is Voyager itself, lit dim and red, with the crew at their most callous and mocking, on a journey that will never end. But the episode's ending leaves open the possibility that it was [[All Just a Dream]].▼
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' shows us the Klingon idea of Hell in the episode ''Barge of the Dead''. At first appearing as a barge sailing through a sea of blood, when it arrives at the gates of Hell, B'lanna finds that it's actually an [[Ironic Hell]], as her version is Voyager itself, lit dim and red, with the crew at their most callous and mocking, on a journey that will never end. But the episode's ending leaves open the possibility that it was [[All Just a Dream]].
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' occasionally featured the Underworld in its stories, and it usually doesn't appear as anything more than an expansive, misty cavern, or the windowless palace of Hades. Hercules does, however, get to visit his dead family in the [[Heaven|Elysian Fields]].
** Ditto for ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', except more of Tartarus was shown than in Hercules.
* In the third season of Lexx, the crew finds themselves orbiting two planets called Fire and Water. The planet Water, as the name suggests, is almost entirely water, While Fire is a waterless desert. As it turns out, {{spoiler|Water and Fire are the Lexxverse's equivalents of Heaven and Hell, respectively}}
* ''[[
** The [[Grand Finale|series finale]] did finally show what lay beyond the [[Hell Gate|Hellmouth]] that lies hidden beneath Sunnydale, and which many of the show's villains had sought to end the world by opening. However, we still see nothing more than a huge cavern at the very entrance of the hellmouth, filled with Turok-han. No comment was made about where the giant tentacle monster, the first to come out on previous openings of the hellmouth, went (it may have been killed during "The Zeppo," since [[Noodle Incident|we never learn the details of that fight]]).
* The spinoff show ''[[
** Hell, this time in the proper-noun sense, would later turn up in the episode "Hell Bound", as a century-old ghost has remained free by sending other souls to Hell in his place. Although the vortex to Hell is seen, the characters and audience never find out what lies beyond it.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' generally depicts Hell as a place where demons live and where people go when they make deals with demons and are later killed by hell hounds. It is glimpsed once at the end of Season 3, where {{spoiler|Dean is killed by Lilith and the Hell Hounds and is in a yellow and black cloudy area with several chains hooked into him.}} It is later mentioned that a month is equal to several years, and that Alastair tortures people there until they agree to torture other souls.
** And from the glimpses we've seen of {{spoiler|Lucifer's cage}}, there's also a definite [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|fire]] element to Hell on this show.
** And in a late Season 6 episode, we see what's happened to Hell ever since {{spoiler|Crowley}} became the new King - he turned it into an endless waiting line. And when you finally reach the end, it ''just starts over''.
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== Radio ==
* Most of ''[[Old Harry's
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** The Nine Hells of Baator, which paid homage to Dante's version. It's also home of all types of nasty, but with a different slant along Alignment lines—the devils of Baator [[Lawful Evil|want to rule]] [[The Multiverse]], whereas the demons of the Abyss [[Chaotic Evil|want to destroy it]].
*** As of the fourth edition, [http://images.yuku.com/image/pjpeg/45536ba641a897edcc85536f05a293fe97906a7c.jpg Hell is a planet.]
** In fact, ''D&D'' has ''several'' planes of ultimate evil, collectively known as the Lower Planes. From [[Lawful Evil]] through [[Neutral Evil]] and to [[Chaotic Evil]], they are: the Infernal Battlefield of Acheron, the Nine Hells of Baator (or just "Hell"), the Bleak Eternity of Gehenna, the Gray Waste of Hades, the Tarterian Depths of Carceri (aka "Tartarus"), the Infinite Layers of the Abyss, and the Windswept Depths of Pandemonium.
* The [[
** The [[Mage: The Awakening
* In the [[
** The oWoD also had the Thousand Hells from ''[[
* ''[[Warhammer
** ''[[Warhammer
* Malfeas in ''[[
* In [[
==
* The ''[[Doom]]'' games all involve teleportation experiments in a future space setting that have accidentally opened portals to Hell. Something of a [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]] plot, except the games make it clear that what the scientists call hyperspace actually is Hell, which is mostly portrayed with [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|seas of lava, brimstone mountains and a burning red sky]].
* The ''[[Diablo]]'' games use Hell and an attempt to stop a [[The Legions of Hell|demonic invasion]] in their stories: the first game features caverns being warped into a Hellish landscape, while the sequel involves a journey straight into Hell itself, a landscape of burnt, smoldering plains of ash. The [[Diablo III
* The story of ''[[Fear Effect]]'' revolves around the dealings between the demons of the Chinese Hell and the crime syndicates of a near-future Hong Kong.
* ''[[Painkiller]]'' involves a modern man's Heaven-sent mission to assassinate the demon lords of Hell. After an extensive battle through Purgatory, Hell itself turns out to be {{spoiler|[[Hell Is War|a series of still, deserted scenes depicting war throughout the ages.]]}}
* ''[[
* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' likes to visit Hell for its last few levels in a given game.
* If you dig far enough in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', you'll eventually encounter a vast sea of magma, filled with bizarre, vicious creatures and twisted fauna. {{spoiler|That's not hell. Hell is lower. It's [[Serial Escalation|much, much, worse than anything else in Dwarf Fortress]]}}.
* In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', the area of the afterlife (known as aftergame) that dead characters end up in first is The Underwhere. Queen Jaydes (a reference to Hades) will send them to The Overthere (Heaven) if they are good, and if they are evil, will send them below to "suffer for eternity among the game-overed". This fate is clearly Hell. Shaydes sent there become Skellobits. One wonders how many of the Skellobits are any of Mario's old enemies, like Tatanga and Cackletta and the Shroobs...
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' have the Oblivion Realms, every Daedric Prince rules one of their own. Although not all Oblivion Realms are "evil" or "bad", the one the player visits in TES IV ''Oblivion'' (by going through a ''very'' ominous Oblivion Gate) is the one belonging to the Daedric Prince of Destruction, Mehrunes Dagon. Complete with burning and scourged landscape, random [[Eldritch Abomination
** By contrast, Sheogorath's realm appears relatively benign - on the surface. Until you realize that everyone there is insane in one fashion or another...
** In-universe sources point to several of the other known Realms as being
* Oddly enough, Hell does appear in a Final Fantasy game (''[[
* Hell in ''[[Shadow Man]]'' is a vast zombie-ridden wasteland with sprawling rivers of blood where everyone goes when they die.
* The webcomic ''Ctrl-Alt-Del'' has proposed a specific hierarchy of Hell specifically related to the cardinal sins of gaming: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20090928
* ''Baldur's Gate 2'' and the ''Throne of Bhaal'' expansion feature some parts of the nine hells, including your own pocket plane and Bhaal's Throne of Blood, which is series of organic, bony islands in a void of darkness, surrounding the central island, where the 'throne' is.
* It's possible that the lower level of the Ancient Cistern in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'' is hell. It's full of zombies, bones, poisoned water, it's like the underworld in every way. Link even CLIMBS OUT OF THIS AREA BY A ROPE at one point, which has been used a few times to show people escaping hell.
** And they do establish a devil in Majora's Mask, whom Sharp sells his soul to.
* [[Guild Wars]] has the "Realm of torment", home to a god who revolted, and his followers, who play a major role in the Nightfall campaign. This version is a collection of creepy realms, but not fire and brimstone.
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* ''[[Pictures for Sad Children]]'' has paul who is a ghost going to hell, which is a latinamerican hotel (possibly mexican, since John Campbell lived in México for a while) where he meets jeremy, the main's character roommate who died and is speding his time in hell doing exactly the same thing he did while he was alive.
== Web Original ==
* [[Wikivoyage:Hell (Hades)|Wikivoyage's travel guide]] to Hell (Hades) looks to have been a 1 April prank. The wiki doesn't normally tell the voyager where to go in such blunt, unequivocal terms.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[South Park]]'' lampooned the concepts of Heaven and Hell mercilessly, with a likeable Satan and an underworld that often [[A Hell of a Time|doesn't seem particularly bad]].
* ''[[Futurama]]'' gives us Robot Hell, a subterranean, industrial hell for, well, [[Exactly What It Says
* The [[Looney Tunes]] short ''Satan's Waitin''' has Sylvester the Cat repeatedly descending to Hell and then returning to Earth as his nine lives are used up in pursuit of Tweety Bird.
** ''Devil's Feud Cake'' has Yosemite Sam going to Hell, but being offered a reprieve if he can bring [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] down to take his place. Utilizing clips from earlier cartoons, Sam is depicted repeatedly trying and [[Karmic Trickster|failing]] in this endeavor; in the end, the Devil offers him one more chance, but Sam declares, "I'm a-stayin'!"
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': In the "Devil and Homer Simpson" segment of the [[Halloween Episode]] "Treehouse of Horror IV", the Devil - in the persona of Ned Flanders - sends Homer to Hell after he sells his soul for a donut. Homer is immediately dispatched to the Ironic Punishment Division of Hell Labs, where he's strapped to a machine that force-feeds him "all the donuts in the world". (The punishment fails, however, as Homer greedily devours each and every one of said donuts with no complaints.)
* ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' had an episode where Pinky sells his soul to the devil and gets snatched away into a traditional [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]. Similarly to the ''[[Simpsons]]'' example, the devil tries various torture methods on Pinky but they all backfire because [[Too Kinky to Torture|he just thinks they're fun amusement park rides]].
* The main setting of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' is either Hell or some resonable equivolent. In [[What Could Have Been|the original pitch]], it was explicitly Hell, with Jimmy sent their by accident after dying, but in the finished product it's vague, but heavily implied. It varies between a [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] and [[A Hell of a Time]].
* In one episode of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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*** [[wikipedia:Hell, Arizona|several places with the word "Hell" in their names in Arizona]]
*** [[wikipedia:Hell for Certain, Kentucky|How about Hell for Certain, Kentucky]] [[False Reassurance|I wonder?]]
* Hell's Kitchen,
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