Stairway to Heaven: Difference between revisions

[[File:1201422029941.jpg|link=Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (Animation)|rightthumb|400px|Not much of a ride, is it?]]

Named after [[A Matter of Life and Death|the British film]], although the later [[Led Zeppelin (Music)|Led Zeppelin]] song is better known.

{{quote| '''Frog''': This here's the stairways to heaven. You know that, don't you?<br />

* ''[[A Matter of Life and Death]]'' (which was released as ''[[Stairway to Heaven]]'' in the US) -escalator

{{quote| '''Brad''': Zach... Led Zeppelin was wrong, man.<br />

'''Tom Servo''': ''Shut up!''<br />

'''Brad''': There is no [[Stairway to Heaven]].<br />

'''Tom Servo''': ''Zep is '''never''' wrong, man''!<br />

'''Mike Nelson''': ''Is '''[[Black Sabbath (Music)|Sabbath]]''' wrong too, man''? }}

* [[Inverted]] in ''[[Night Onon the Galactic Railroad]]'' - while the characters are exploring the Heavens, they find a stairway that apparently leads down to Earth.

* In ''[[Keys to The Kingdom|Keys to the Kingdom]]'', there's a magical staircase that you can go on that will ''eventually'' take you where you want to go, but with a bunch of seemingly-random 'landings' that consist of various different places, worlds and times. While walking on the staircase once, Suzy Turquoise Blue runs into someone she used to know before she became a Piper's child.

* Within the Heaven of ''[[In Nomine (Tabletop Game)|In Nomine]]'' by Steve Jackson Games is "Jacob's Ladder" which reaches up into the [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence|Higher Heavens]] and the direct presence of God. Only mortals can climb the ladder; angels must stay in the lowest Heaven (unless called) until the War is won.

* May and her pops, and later Albert and his mother Dorothy ascend the stair version in ''[[Clock Tower (Video Gameseries)|Clock Tower 3]]''.

* In [[Super Mario 64 (Video Game)|Super Mario 64]], there is a staircase that you can get to, but if you open the door to it before you have the key, it goes up basically forever, no matter how much you climb there's still more ahead. But turn around and you've only gone up a handful of steps.

* There was an [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010922.html escalator to hell] featured in an early ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' strip... 'course, since that takes place in the far future, escalators are probably anachronistic by then.

* ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' "Heavenly Puss" - escalator

* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" - escalator. He spits over the side clearly pushing his [[Karma Meter]] over to the dark side and get gets sent to hell, by [[Hellevator]].

** Another example from ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'', this time a subversion: one of the foolish projects that the people of Springfield embark upon is an escalator to nowhere that looks an awful lot like an escalator to heaven. This is a parody of the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_to_Nowhere:Bridge to Nowhere|bridge to nowhere]] (which several near-useless bridges have been dubbed), except this escalator literally just ends in a giant fall.

* ''[[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]]'' "Satan's Waitin'" - escalator to both Heaven and Hell. Unfortunately for Sylvester, the up escalator is corded off.

* ''[[Woody Woodpecker (Animation)|Woody Woodpecker]]'' cartoon "Wet Blanket Policy" - Buzz Buzzard has just been [[Anvil Onon Head|crushed by a large object]], ahd he arrives at a lobby with elevators to both heaven and hell with Woody as the doorman: one opens and the angelic operator says "Going up" and woody forces it closed, the other opens and the demonic operator says "going down" and Woody gives Buzz Buzzard a kick in the rear forcing him into the elevator

* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (Animation)|Tiny Toon Adventures How I Spent My Vacation]]'' - appears as ''[[The Theme Park Version|theme park]] rides''; there's the titular [[Stairway to Heaven]] (pictured above)...and the '''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Bullet Train To]] [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|Heck!]]'''

* The Egyptian Pyramid Texts refer to a ladder or stairway by which the deceased king may [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence]], and many Egyptologists think that the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the first stone pyramid ever built, was designed to physically provide this stairway.

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