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* [[wikipedia:Harrowing of Hell|Jesus might count as this.]]
** At the very least, he qualified as having done this in ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' - At several points, references to the Harrowing of Hell are made by residents, and Dante sees the level of destruction that was done by Jesus at a few points.
* In the fifth book of ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians|Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'', Percy and Nico go 'downstairs' {{spoiler|to take a dive in the River Styx.}} When Hades finds Percy, he is pretty pissed. Using his new badass upgrade, Percy hacks through the legions of the Underworld and ends up ''threatening the lord of the dead''.
* In ''[[Sandman Slim]]'' by Richard Kadrey, the main character is a modern-day magician, betrayed and sent to hell where he kills countless demons in the fighting pits until he is recruited as an assassin of demon lords and ultimately escapes. The book begins when he first returns to earth, [[Took a Level In Badass|looking for revenge]].
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'''Satan:''' … … … We have the position of "Prince of Hell" still open.
''' {{spoiler|Adam:}}''' Brilliant. }}
* In the ''[[Death Note]]'' fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3886569/1/The_Prince_of_Death The Prince of Death]'' by K. Kotone [[The Prince of Death|Light becomes Prince of the Shinigami Realm.]]
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== Music ==
* The [[Manowar]] song "Dark Avenger" is the story of a man who was horribly wronged by local village elders, and eventually killed. When he enters Hades, the "Gaurdion of Lost Souls", (voiced by [[Orson Welles]]) offers him a job. The man is equipped with a magic blade which was forged in brimstone and tempered in the tears of the unavenged dead, as well as a pitch-black horse with flaming eyes to carry him back to Earth the Guardion tells him to "seek payment, not only for thine own anguish, but vindicate the souls of the Unavenged". The song than is told by the Dark Avenger's perspective, which he mostly spends listing the fates of his targets.
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== Religion ==
* Jack, as in Jack O'Lantern. May not qualify, as it was cunning rather than fighting prowess and/or attitude, and he wasn't actually 'kicked out'; after being refused entrance to Heaven, the legend states that Jack tried to enter Hell, but for what he'd managed to do to the devil while alive, he was refused entry. (According to some versions of the legend, Satan was apparently scared he'd manage to trick his way into running the place.) Given that he's barred from both eternal destinations, he wanders the earth, his path lighted by a coal he takes from hell. (Usually is given, sort of 'here, take it, now GET OUT!') The coal, of course, is the light from the titular lantern.
* According to one version, the first thing the bodhistava Guanyin did upon her first death is to start preaching. Immediately she was converting demons and sending them to the Western Paradise. Lord Yama, the boss down there, was afraid she'd empty the place and told her to go back to world of the living.
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** Exactly why would that be a bad thing?
** Doom's a constant global threat with a diminutive country. What would he do with a frakking ''dimension'' at his command?
*** Well, for the brief time in Children's Crusade he had [[Scarlet Witch|Wanda Maximoff]]'s [[Reality Warper|reality-warping]] powers. Mostly, he showed off, made dramatic threats, and then took on the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]], [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]], and some other major Marvel superhero team for a bit all at once.
* There was a DC miniseries called ''Human Defence Corps'' about a bumbling everyman in a military group who deals with JLA-style emergencies. Their first adventure is against vampires (nebbish everyman takes one for the team). Their last adventure involved going to Hell, taking down the Devil, then using the now-vampiric bumbler to institute a ''regime change''.
* As of the ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Captain Britain and MI:13]] Annual'', {{spoiler|[[Beware the Nice Ones|Meggan]]. She led a band of rebels and then helped forge them into a new country in order to spread hope in Hell.}}
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* Black Mage of ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' managed to pull this off when he was killed by Lich. But since he's the universe's [[Butt Monkey]], it didn't last very long...
** To be fair, he's so evil that when he first arrived, they were going to build a whole new section of Hell just for him, but without his mortal body, there was no way they could contain his incredible power, so he ended up taking over and was so evil that even the [[Demon Lords and Archdevils]] were terrified of him. Luckily they managed to stuff him back [[Power Limiter|into his body]] when his back was turned. Lately, whenever his [[Butt Monkey]] status leaves him dying, he is happy because he gets to take over Hell again. Of course, due to that very same [[Butt Monkey]] status, he's also healed or otherwise resurrected before he has the opportunity to pass on.
** From this point on the entire universe, including ''all'' the [[Legions of Hell]], have a [[Cosmic Plaything|vested interest in keeping him alive]]. When '''[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/03/20/episode-397-portents/ this]''' is the reaction to his arrival on the mortal plane, it's no wonder. Everyone, ''everyone'' knows they are completely and utterly screwed if he gets back down to Hell.
{{quote|'''White Mage:''' Did you hear that?
'''Black Belt:''' What?
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** Even more impressive considering {{spoiler|he's not even a real demon.}}
*** Well he is, at least, distinguished by being ''alive''. And as the Demon of Wounds, the line between living and dead appears to be vague for him.
** Since then there were several reveals and he had an epiphany, declared he wasn't trapped in Hell with the damned so much they were trapped in there with him, and closed off Hell to implement his unspecified new policies. He sent Miranda a goodbye projection first.
*** Incidentally, while accepting that you deserve to be in Hell and repenting and abjuring your old crimes utterly is apparently the only way to even get back into ''samsara'' circulation from Hell--as ''grass'', no less--in this setting, it is currently somewhat unclear whether Karnak was damned for some hidden fault or not. Mookie does have double standards in favor of women's rights, but a jealous betrayal of his best friends he regretted within minutes which did no one any permanent harm is literally the worst thing he ever appears to have done before jumping.
*** Perhaps he earned his place there afterward--he was alive, if in Hell, as he became a demon, but at this point he's done ''loads'' to earn it. Before [[Character Development]], we had no reason not to loathe him. (Mind you, if the people I cared about most in the world had gone on to be happy together after I threw myself into Hell for at least one of them, and then talked to and about ''me'' when I [[Came Back Wrong]] the way Miranda and Donovan do to Karnak in his first appearance, I'd do everything I could to hurt them, too.) Karnak is a [[Magnificent Bastard]], a [[Deadpan Snarker]], and an impressive [[Determinator]], but he ''is'' long since an absolute bastard.
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== Fan Works ==
* The Olympics plot of ''[[DC Nation]]''. A combination of a [[Chekhov's Gun]] placed with Troia and a Type 1 starts a [[Battle Royale With Cheese]]. Troia triggers the [[Chekhov's Gun]] and it summons a horde of fallen allies to rocket up from the underworld and join the brawl. Everyone from former [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]] (including [[Wild Card]] Terra, who decides to betray Hades!) to Easy Company...even a cadre of 9/11 First Responders. Leading the horde is Hawkman. Arsenal is on his left. Nightwing is on his right, announcing the entrance with a very loud "TITANS TOGETHER!" and a narration joke about literally being a Bat out of Hell.
* In the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' [[Continuation]] fic, the ''[[Elemental Chess Trilogy]]'', Roy Mustang becomes extremely ill in the second part. He doesn't die, but when Edward Elric pays a bedside visit, he asks if he's died and gone to hell. Ed invokes the trope by retorting that hell wouldn't want Roy if he died, because he'd probably take over.
* In a fan-made Alternate Ending of ''[[Death Note]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8fM2FBL_A&feature=fvw seen here], Light ends up in the Shinigami realm where he is punished for using the Notebook by experiencing every death he ever caused before he will [[Cessation of Existence|cease to exist]]. After a very short [[Villainous Breakdown]], he leaves with Ryuk with plans to become the Shinigami King's [[The Dragon|Dragon]] and eventually [[The Starscream|take over the realm.]]
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