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* Dougal County in ''[[Squidbillies]]'' certainly qualifies.

* ''[[Divine Comedy|Dante's Inferno]]: An Animated Epic:'' Imagine an afterlife where very few people actually ascend to heaven, but most suffer in the nine circles of hell for the sins they committed in life. In hell, where mankind's sins have caused Lucifer to grow in power, not worshipping the Christian faith not only sends you to limbo for all eternity despite the good deeds you have done in life, even unbaptized babies must reside in the first circle through a fault not entirely their own (this was where Dante's stillborn malformed child was held). Then there's Dante's mother, who upon committing suicide, was sent to The Wood Of Suicide by Minos where she is turned into a fleshly tree growing in eternal pain. And of course there are the rest of the nine hells, like Gluttony, a wet fleshy realm where Cerberus (who looks nothing like a three headed dog mind you) swallows the gluttonous and condemns to a fate of everlasting hunger. This all isn't surprising since the animated short is based on the video game which itself is based on Dante's ''[[Divine Comedy]]''. Lucifer sums it up to Beatrice perfectly:

'''Lucifer:''' "No... you don't understand. The Earth is another form of Hell. And men are its demons." }}

* In the other [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479008/ ''Dante's Inferno''], Hell is a huge urban landscape in total disarray. The punishments of the damned are more or less the same as the original, but the images (and the actual damned themselves) are updated so viewers will recognize them. [[Marilyn Monroe]] is among the suicides turned into trees, Limbo is a slum where Virgil and company are essentially bums, and identity thieves take on the appearance of whoever passes by. In this case, it's [[Black Comedy|played for laughs]].