Hell of a Heaven/Playing With

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• Basic Trope: Heaven isn't exactly the happy place it's been made out to be, for a specific kind of person.
• Played Straight: Seamus O'Taku dies and goes to Heaven. When he gets there, he finds that although anime and manga are available, the trope Crack is Cheaper is very much in play.
• Exaggerated: He finds that nothing that caters to his interests is available in Heaven (not even so much as another Geek to reminisce with), and he's bored and miserable while everyone else is having a great time.
• Justified:
  • In this story, everyone goes to the same afterlife, but there's an element of punishment for misdeeds committed on Earth.
  • Seamus is in Purgatory, and part of his purification entails going without anime/manga/etc. or other Geeks to interact with.
  • In this story, Heaven is more of a state of being than a place full of Crystal Spires and Togas.
• Inverted:
  • Seamus O'Taku gets to Heaven, and finds it's an eternal anime convention, much to his delight.
  • Seamus O'Taku goes to Hell, and finds it's an eternal anime convention, but has a Hell of a Time.
  • Seamus O'Taku goes to Hell, and finds it's an eternal anime convention full of fat, hairy guys attempting to cosplay Sailor Moon, squealing YaoiFangirls, girls wearing Stripperiffic cosplay who are underage, and the infamous "Con Funk". Cue This Isn't Heaven
• Subverted:
  • Seamus is searching the cloud banks for anything relating to the geeky interests he had in life, and he finds a manga tree.
  • Alternatively, Seamus finds himself at an eternal anime convention, with no long lines, high prices, con funk, Fan Dumb, or anything like that.
• Double Subverted:
  • But upon closer inspection, the Manga hanging from the branches is all Yaoi, something he was never interested in.
  • But he eventually grows bored with it.
• Deconstructed:
• Reconstructed: Seamus learns to make do with what's there and/or petition God for something that would make the afterlife more enjoyable (or put it together himself). He has to become more well-rounded if he wasn't already.
• Parodied: See points 2 and 3 out of "inverted"
  • Any number of Literal Genie scenarios.
• Averted:
  • Seamus isn't dead.
  • Seamus goes to Hell or Purgatory, or simply to a generic world of the dead or Cessation of Existence.
  • Seamus gets exactly the type of Heaven he always envisioned.
• Enforced: Rule of Funny
• Invoked: Seamus dies, with no interests outside of his anime and manga, or friends who didn't share those interests
• Defied:
  • Heaven does its best to accomodate its eternal guests and their varying definitions of pleasure, joy, and happiness.
  • Heaven can't admit him for whatever reason(s)
• Discussed: "You think they have anime conventions in Heaven?"
• Conversed: "Not everyone likes going to those things Seamus. Especially not for all eternity."
• Played For Laughs: Almost always is.
• Played For Drama: Lots of Angst on the part of Seamus and/or an Earn Your Happy Ending scenario.