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* Visual novel ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' presents us with a variation of this trope, in form of {{spoiler|EMIYA (aka. Servant Archer)}}, whose attempts to fulfil his dream of {{spoiler|becoming a hero}} brought him into a situation where he only killed people "for greater good", without ever saving anyone, [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|and incapable of ending the cycle]]. [[Despair Event Horizon|He doesn't take it well]].
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Rin''': The boy who stated that he just doesn't want to see anyone cry... could only see crying humans forever.}}}}
* While one could consider it a game about a psychopath who kills psychopaths, James Earl Cash's situation in ''[[Manhunt (series)|Manhunt]]'' (series)'' is more or less this trope. While itIt's implied in the past that he was the one who hunted, (seeing as he was on deathDeath row),Row - in an interesting turn of events, he's the onehunted who'snow, beingand hunted now.though he's by no means defenseless, but even so, he's about to learn what a world would be like if criminals could do what they pleased without fear of consequences.
 
== Web Comics ==
* The furry web comic ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'', which is set in both heaven and hell (along with the living world), features this trope prominently. In its Hell, the people who end there are given punishments reminiscent of the way they lived or died, and are often denied memories from their past, making their ironic punishments even more cruel. The titular character is, at the same time, [[The Grim Reaper]] and the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of Rage with [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]], whose job, tag ''and'' amnesia are all punishment for his former sins from when he was alive. In fact, all the malevolent [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]s became that way as a result of their acts and are punished in a way symbolic of the sin(s) they personify; save for the protagonist, they all prefer to see [[The Punishment]] as more like a [[Cursed with Awesome]], even if it obviously does not work that way.
** Until it's revealed that in Jack's case {{spoiler|his [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] was a ''gift'' from [[God]]. In his last moments, Jack pleaded to forget all of the horrible deeds he had committed in life, and God complied.}}. That is why Jack is the only one of the damned who cannot remember his own sins {{spoiler|until an archangel punches him hard enough to make him remember.}}. The problem is that the only way to get out of Hell if you were a sinner in life is recognizing and atoning for your sins, which only works with people who remember their life; Jack, unable to remember the full extent of his bad actions, is locked out of that option for redemption. {{spoiler|In other words, God [[Blessed with Suck|blessed Jack with suck]] by [[Be Careful What You Wish For|taking him at his word]].}}.
** The whole basis for Hell in ''Jack'' seems to be a case of [[Be Careful What You Wish For]] and [[Literal Genie]]: A person who desperately wanted to believe his life was beyond his control suddenly found that it was; the embodiment of Lust found an endless supply of people to rape, but can't feel any of it... and, of course, the titular Jack wanted, more than anything, power over life and death.
* ''[[Dresden Codak]]'' has a two-part piece in which it is revealed that there is a "secular Heaven", which as its name states is a secular humanist idyll populated by people who refuse to believe in the anthropomorphic deity running the place. Meanwhile, "religious Hell" is populated primarily by fundamentalists of all faiths; when a character notes it makes no sense, the comment is made that God is powered by irony.
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