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* The Galaxy Cauldron from the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga.
* Something similar is seen in the [[Anime]] ''[[Mushishi]]''. The Lifestream is good for life in general, but it's dangerous to look at for long periods of time. Why? {{spoiler|Well, let's just say we hope you don't terribly miss [[Eye Scream|the use of your eyes]].}}
* The Akasha in [[Nasuverse]] is the place where souls of the deceased are recycled to create new souls. However, it is also described as "the root of everything", as the concept of time does not apply; if a conscious being somehow manages to enter, it is basically [[The Nothing After Death]]. Akasha is also where [[Fate/stay night|the magi]] strive to reach, as "connecting" with Akasha allows the use of True Magic, which are miracles beyond the scope of current science or magecraft, such as [[Tsukihime|Zelretch's]] alternate dimension travel.
* In the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', the souls of people who die in our Universe is {{spoiler|converted to energy that fuels alchemy in their Universe}}. Ouch.
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|End of Evangelion]]'', there is a brief scene where Shinji Ikari is watching all the souls gathered from Third Impact flowing around in the Black Moon like a stream of water. Not really a surprise since the entire movie is a [[Downer Ending]].
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== Comic Books ==
* [[Comic Book Tropes|Comic book]] example: The Speed Force in [[The DCU]] is sometimes portrayed like this.
** In essence the Speed Force acts as the Valhalla for all speedsters who use it directly when they die. It's not completely certain why this happened but it's believed that when Barry Allen was hit by the lightning bolt that gave him his powers that it simultaneously made him the first user of the Speed Force and sending the Speed Force throughout time and the multiverse. Since Barry is the first person to have the Speed Force every step he takes causes the Speed Force to grow making it it's own dimension.
* The Keywork in [[Coheed and Cambria|The Amory Wars]] is a subversion: the souls are tortured and used as a fuel source for the entire galaxy. In fact, {{spoiler|there is an entire race, called Stars, who were created just for there to be more souls to burn.}}
* There was an issue of ''Stormwatch'' (''[[The Authority]]'''s predecessor) where it was revealed that Heaven and Hell were cosmic siege engines locked in an endless war, powered by the souls of the dead. There was a bar next to a nuclear testing range with a wall of photos of physicists who'd ended their lives at ground zero of a nuclear blast to deny either side their soul.
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== Live Action TV ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2TZhruT-Xs This performance] by Harry Belafonte on [[The Muppet Show]].
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** ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' has a similar conflict running behind the scenes; the [[Evil Plan]] is to {{spoiler|prevent the souls of the people of Gaia from reincarnating, so the souls of the people of Terra can replace them}}.
** The Farplane in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' and ''Final Fantasy X-2''. A young Spiran genius named Shinra speculates on its use as a power source, and as it turns out, [[Word of God|that wide-eyed boy's descendants developed space travel, found a planet with a similar afterlife, and made his dream come true]]. [[Don't Explain the Joke|I'm talking about the Planet from FFVII]].
** The basic motivation of the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' is to turn the world's remaining human population into this in order to get the attention of his long-vanished god.
* Glaive Le Gable in ''[[Wild Arms 2]]''.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' has [[MacGuffin|Kingdom Hearts]].
* In the game ''[[Darwinia]]'', each creature has a digital "soul" that rises into the sky and merges into a soul collector which hovers over the world when they die, and which feeds them back down as a rain of souls on another location, where they go on to be processed into new creatures. In this manner, even the souls of [[The Virus]] that infects the digital world of Darwinia can be reincarnated as clean darwinians. One virus creature permanently destroys the souls of those it eats, however.
* The {{spoiler|Chroma}} in ''Fahrenheit'' a.k.a. ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)]]''. While its nature is not fully explained (which might place it into [[The Force]] category instead), it ''is'' mentioned that {{spoiler|this is where all living things derive their life energy from, hence, a person with high concentration of chroma in their body (like Lukas) is extremely energetic, like, bare-handedly-fighting-off-a-police-squad-and-then-jumping-atop-of-a-moving-train energetic.}}
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]: Digital Devil Saga II'', the Sun holds the "data" of dead people until they reincarnate. Or, at least, it used to, before [[After the End|something went horribly wrong]]...
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* The Sea of Souls in [[King's Quest VI]].
* How Mantra is portrayed in ''[[Asura's Wrath]]''. {{spoiler|Controlled by Chakravartin, a God who's a major asshole that thinks he does good deeds by testing the demi-gods that use the mantra he bestowed upon them by sending monstrous gohma to try and kill them.}}
== Webcomics ==
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