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{{trope}}
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▲[[File:hellonearth01_4025.png|link=Heroes of Might and Magic|right|If Hell is a [[Sealed Evil in A Can|can]], this is what happens when that can is opened.]]
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{{quote|''"Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time."''|''[[
A subtrope of [[The End of the World
As an End of the World scenario, most of the time when this shows up in media, it's an [[Evil Plan]] that has to be stopped lest all be lost, and usually does get stopped [[Just in Time]]. But in some stories and series, the end has already happened, or happens in story, and now the heroes have to survive and hopefully find a way to either kill the demons or send them back where they came from and make sure that this doesn't happen again.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The latest arc of the ''[[Berserk]]'' manga has this happening due to {{spoiler|Griffith/Femto redirecting the Skull Knight's dimension-warping attack into Shiva, the [[Eldritch Abomination]] form of [[Complete Monster|Emperor Ganishka]], and using its power to fuse the planes of existence together with the mortal world}}.
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== Comic Books ==
* This is the backstory of ''[[Battle Pope]]''.
* ''[[Hellboy (
* ''[[
* This is the plot of the ''[[Inferno (Comic Book)|Inferno]]'' storyline in Marvel, with all New York-based superheroes wrapped up in the madness (though the main storyline happens in the ''[[X-Men]]'' titles).
* In the Venom storyline Circle of Four, Blackheart unleashes hell on Los Angeles and attempts to spread it across the world.
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== Film ==
* The Arnold Schwarzenegger movie ''[[
* The second ''[[Warlock (
* ''[[
* In ''Swimming to Cambodia'', Spalding Gray thinks the world is bad enough as is.
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* ''[[Hellraiser III Hell On Earth]]''. The title is a dead giveaway.
== Literature ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: ''[[
* Some mythologies say that at the end of time, the dead or damned would overrun the Earth, either leading it to be a utopia (some Native American religions), or signaling the time of Ragnarok ([[Norse Mythology]]).
* In James Blish's ''Black Easter'', the Valley of Death materializes (appropriately enough) at Death Valley.
* Mike Carey's ''[[Felix Castor]]'' novels
* In the ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novel ''The Traitor's Hand'', a Slaneeshi cult is trying to turn an entire planet into a warp portal where daemons can enter the physical plane at will.
* This is the ultimate plan of [[Big Bad|The Nameless One]] in the ''[[
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** The Wishverse, which was created when Cordelia wished that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale, definitely counts as this.
** Glory intended to use Dawn to get home. This would incidentally cause every other dimension to fuse into earth, leading to massive influx of demons. The Master also intended to open the Hellmouth to cause this.
* ''[[
** And the end of season 5 and After The Fall gave us the Hell-A demon playground, at least until it was undone by the [[Powers That Be]].
* In ''[[Supernatural]]'', {{spoiler|Sam breaks the final seal by killing Lilith and unleashes Lucifer from his imprisonment. Lucifer's intention now is to do this, make Hell on Earth. And he's going to do it soon. Really. Any day now. We promise. It's coming...}}
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In the fan-made ''[[
* Obviously, ''[[Deadlands]]: Hell on Earth''. The demons in question were {{spoiler|the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse}}.
* Oh, and while we're at it, ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]''. The poles of the Warhammer planet are literal gates of Hell.
* ''[[Warhammer
** To make things worse, because the number of psykers born is increasing every year, and the Astronomican (Humanity's source for [[Faster
* In ''[[Magic:
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', the [[Eldritch Abomination|Yozis]] are trying to cause an unusually literal form of this trope. Thanks to their surrender oaths, they're physically incapable of leaving [[Hell]]...so their big plan is to have [[Deal
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Doom]] II: Hell On Earth'' has this right in the title, and [[Exactly What It Says
* The entries in the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' series which involve the Order and its God imply that a successful birth of God would result in Hell on earth. Whether or not this is possible is actually questionable, but the easy assumption is that the result would resemble the [[Dark World|Otherworld]], so none of the protagonists ever feel inclined to let it happen and find out.
** Well, it depends on which part of the Order you listen to. Some think their god will bring about Paradise (above-said Otherworld, which may or may not simply reflect an individual's or group's psyche), while others think the
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
** In ''Nocturne'', {{spoiler|you can ''make'' Earth into Hell. As in, a world for demons until the next Conception occurs}}.
** In ''[[Strange Journey]]'', a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] known as the Schwarzwelt is spreading across the Earth and a research team is sent in to investigate. What they find inside is an [[Ironic Hell]] representing humanity's sins, filled with demons whose leaders are hostile ''at best'' towards humanity. {{spoiler|The angels who oppose the demons are just as bad.}}
* ''[[Darksiders]]''
* Infernals and Hell terrain the [[Fall From Heaven]] mod for ''[[Civilization]] 4''.
* Technicly it's not Earth, but this is what Zenon's Curse does in ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]''.
* ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'': {{spoiler|1=More like "Hell on the Caribbean" in Chapter 5, since LeChuck has regained his voodoo powers after [[Hero
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== Western Animation ==
* On ''[[South Park]]: Bigger, Longer And Uncut'', this happens when {{spoiler|Terrence and Phillip are executed.}}
* On one episode of Disney's ''[[Hercules (
* Shows up in ''[[Teen Titans (
* In the episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' where Homer thinks that the Apocalypse is occurring after watching a parody of the ''[[Left Behind]]'' films, no one actually believes him, and as a result one night, Homer actually imagines himself going to Heaven and notice this happening to Earth on one of God's monitors.
== Real Life ==
* While only theory and conjecture, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadean#/media/File:Hadean.png Hadean Era] of Earth's prehistory (4.6 billion years ago) might have certainly have resembled this Trope.
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