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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"And she's buying a stairway to heaven"''|'''[[
Sometimes when a character [[Ascend to
For example, in [[The Bible
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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If the character doesn't make it in, the stairs may turn into a [[Surprise Slide Staircase]] to Hell.
Named after [[A Matter of Life and Death|the British film]], although the later [[
Contrast [[Hellevator]]. Not to be confused with [[Space Elevator]].
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== [[Anime]] ==
* In ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' when Spike was [[Mushroom Samba|high on mushrooms]] he hallucinated a stair case that he climbed infinitely (he was really just stepping on the the same step of a real set of stairs) and meets a frog:
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'''Spike''': Obnoxious little frog. }}
** Also of note is the series' finale, where {{spoiler|Spike dies while [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|descending]] down a staircase from the [[Executive Suite Fight]]}}.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''Here Comes Mister Jordan'' -escalator
* ''[[A Matter of Life and Death]]'' (which was released as ''
* ''The Heavenly Kid'' - escalator
* ''[[Futurama]]: Beast With a Billion Backs'' has the golden escalator version, although subverted as {{spoiler|they lead to a planet-sized being, who sent shkler/sklis image to primitive man, thus creating our universe's concept of [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]].}}
* Averted/lampshaded in the movie ''Soultaker''... leading to a hilarious exchange on the respective ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode:
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'''Tom Servo''': ''Shut up!''
'''Brad''': There is no
'''Tom Servo''': ''Zep is '''never''' wrong, man''!
'''Mike Nelson''': ''Is '''[[Black Sabbath
** Notable in that the movie does have an elevator to... some form of the afterlife. (Which looks suspiciously like a boiler room.)
* ''Jacob's Ladder'' - stairs
* [[Inverted]] in ''[[Night
* Unsurprisingly, in ''[[Angels in America]]'', considering the story's biblical underpinnings, Prior Walter literally climbs a flaming ladder into heaven.
* ''Cabin In The Sky'' shows Eddie Anderson and Ethyl Waters ascending a Stairway To Heaven to close the movie.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[
* Satan travels past an ornate stairway into heaven in ''[[Paradise Lost]]''.
* ''Angels of the Silences'' by Simon Bestwick uses one of these as the gateway for ghosts to cross over to the afterlife.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Within the Heaven of ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* May and her pops, and later Albert and his mother Dorothy ascend the stair version in ''[[Clock Tower (
* In ''[[The Simpsons]] Game'', the characters go to heaven by ascending a stairway made of everything in the Simpsons' house.
* In [[
** [[Sequence Breaking|Unless you long jump]] [[Speed Run|up the stairs]] ''[[Good Bad Bug|backwards.]]''
* [[Scribblenauts]] has a level where you must get some bad guys into heaven. Now, you could [[Awesome Yet Practical|just tie them to a pegasus and drag them up with chains]], but if you summon a stairway, hey presto, they just float up and you win the level.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* There was an [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010922.html escalator to hell] featured in an early ''[[
** [[Mass Effect|Or not...]]
* ''[[Order of the Stick]]'''s Lawful Good afterlife once had an escalator, but the monks thought it made things too easy. So they reverted to climbing a mountain in order to reach enlightenment. The strip is appropriately titled [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0493.html "Led Zeppelin Lied to Us All"].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** Another example from ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
== Theater ==
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== Other ==
* The Egyptian Pyramid Texts refer to a ladder or stairway by which the deceased king may [[Ascend to
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