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* ''[[Inception]]'' had Cobb rescue Fischer and Saito from the deepest subconscious.
** Funnily enough, Limbo's closest to {{spoiler|his deepest unconscious, as he's the only one who's been down there long enough (local time) to build anything.}}
** And, of course, Mal became {{spoiler|[[The Missingno]] and [[The Ophelia]]}} because Dom's attempt to rescue her from Limbo [[Gone Horribly Right|worked much too well.]] {{spoiler|Dom planted the idea that they should kill themselves to get out of Limbo in her mind, but the idea was so firmly implanted that she ended up killing herself in waking life. After that, Dom's subconscious projection of Mal tormented him with memories of the botched Orphean Rescue and played havoc with damn near every one of his dream schemes. Dom eventually conquered her with a complete inversion of the
* ''[[Poltergeist]]'': Carol Anne is kidnapped by the ghosts and taken to the astral plane where they are trapped.
* The low-budget film ''Tequila Body Shots'' doesn't even hide the fact that the climax will be this: The protagonist's name is Johnny Orpheus. Plus...guess what he uses to bring his love interest back from where she is?
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* [[Greek Mythology|Orpheus]], [[Trope Namer|duh]]. When Orpheus's wife died, he entered the underworld and convinced Hades to let her return to the world of the living. However, Hades allowed it on the condition that Orpheus lead his wife back without looking at her until they're on the other side. Unlike the majority of the examples on this page, though, he ultimately failed in his quest.
* Similar to Orpheus is Izanagi, creator-god in [[Japanese Mythology]]. His wife Izanami died giving birth to the fire-god Kagutsuchi and fell to [[The Underworld]], The Yomotsu. Izanagi traveled down the cavernous realm of the dead, [[Values Dissonance|only to be repulsed by his wife who is]] [[Body Horror|now an eternally decaying, maggot-ridden corpse]]. He fled the underworld as fast as he can while being chased by the local demons and Izanami throwing lightning at him. Eventually, he made it to the surface, and closed the way to the underworld with a huge boulder.
* Similar to both of the above (this ''is'' an archetypal trope, after all) Ishtar's Descent Into The Underworld is one of the most well-known stories of Babylonian Mythology. In it, she [[Captain Obvious|descends into]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the underworld]] but [[Enemies with Death|angers its queen, Erseshkigal]], and is trapped there. As the goddess of fertility, this is bad for the living
* In the ''[[Heirs of Alexandria]]'' series, {{spoiler|Maria}} assumes a Persephone like role to become Queen of the Underworld and use her powers to save everyone. Upset that she was tricked into this; {{spoiler|Benito}} travels to the Underworld and Hades gives him a very Orphean-task. Return to the living world without looking back. {{spoiler|Benito}} cheats by having one of their companions, a knight; walk in front of him on the way back, so he can {{spoiler|look in the reflection of the knight's armor and thus not have to succumb to temptation.}}
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