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{{quote|''"And she's buying a stairway to heaven"''|'''[[Led Zeppelin (Music)|Led Zeppelin]]''', "Stairway to Heaven"}}
Sometimes when a character [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence|ascends to a higher plane of existence]] they also have to ascend the stairs to that higher plane of existence -- Which is usually a [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]] or a [[Celestial Bureaucracy]].
For example, in [[The Bible (Literature)|Genesis 28:12]], Jacob dreams of a stairway (or ladder, translators disagree) connecting earth to [[Heaven]] with angels going up and down it. The [[Ancient Egypt|Ancient Egyptians]] actually tried to ''build one'' (known today as the Step Pyramid of Djoser).
A more "modern" take is to replace the stairway with an escalator; though even that iteration of the trope is [[Older Than Television]], dating back to at least to the 1941 movie ''Here Comes Mister Jordan''.
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Contrast [[Hellevator]]. Not to be confused with [[Space Elevator]].
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