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{{quote|I long for death, not because I seek peace, but because I seek the war eternal.|'''Cardinal Armandus Helfire''', ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''}}
[[Fluffy Cloud Heaven|Sitting around all eternity playing a harp]] not your idea of paradise? [[Mundane Afterlife|Reality without the bad parts]] sound a bit... dull? Some cultures, particularly the ancient Norsemen, inspired their warriors with stories of a different afterlife. Those who fell in battle would go to a land of eternal, glorious war, their days spent fighting each other in [[Friendly Enemy|friendly combat]] and their nights spent feasting, with any who fell earlier [[Death Is a Slap
Contrast [[Hell Is War]], where a violent afterlife is a form of punishment.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[
* This is the idealized vision of Japan of [[Social Darwinist|Shishio Makoto]], [[Big Bad]] of the [[Rurouni Kenshin]] universe: It is a country wherein ''"the flesh of the weak is food for the strong"'', and only warriors as great as he may ''survive,'' eventually creating a ''universally'' strong Japan that can hold its head up with pride in the international arena. A vision truly worthy of respect, nightmarish cruelty notwithstanding.
* In Shin [[Getter Robo]] Armageddon, {{spoiler|after cutting Jupiter in half, Ryoma, Hayato and Benkei are sucked into a giant space vagina where they will spend all eternity fighting alongside parallel reality versions of themselves against aliens who gain power by sucking up god's evolutionary divine energy.}} {{spoiler|In ''New Getter Robo'', that Ryoma seems to end up there, too}}. Fans oftentimes refer to this as "Getter Valhalla", some going so far as to posit that it was created by the actions of other versions of the same characters in the other various Getter Robo manga and [[OVA|OVAs]].
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* [[Discworld]] features it as one of many afterlives, complete with Valkyries showing up to ferry the souls of dead warriors (and one slightly confused college professor) there. The Nac Mac Feegle, on the other hand, believe that they're already dead and the [[Discworld]] ''is'' their Valhalla.
* The Xenexian afterlife in ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]]'' involves perpetual fighting; whether you fall or survive, you wake up the next day to the same battle.
== Live Action TV ==
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* Is it any surprise that [[Star Trek|Klingon]] heaven, Sto'Vo'Kor, is described as this?
** The best part is that their belief system not only features this, it says they ''set it up themselves'', after [[Klingon Promotion|''killing off their gods'']]. They were, apparently, "Too much trouble."
* In ''[[
* In ''[[True Blood]]'' this trope is literally invoked in all it's [[Norse Mythology]] glory when Eric remembers being fatally wounded in some Viking raid. He is turned into a vampire instead.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* Big Boss from ''[[Metal Gear]]'' tried to make this ideal ''on Earth'' by making a giant fortress called "Outer Heaven," a world where Warriors will ''always'' be needed, honored and respected, ''never'' to be callously and ungratefully discarded of by nations like his mentor/adoptive-mother The Boss was. (This would be followed by Zanzibar Land, after Outer Heaven's destruction.) Of course, he did this by [[War for Fun
** Vindel Mauser from ''[[Super Robot Wars Advance]]'' held the same ideals, believing that peace breeds corruption and decay and attempting to cause perpetual chaos and war ''across all dimensions'', believing that the benefits of it (advances in technology amongst other things) outweighed the costs.
* The Hall of Heroes in ''[[
* Quake III Arena's [[All There in the Manual|background story]] indicate player are fighting in Arena Eternal, a extradimensional structure created by an super advanced alien race called [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Vadrigar]]. They populated the Arena Eternal with the greatest warriors in all of time and space whom they kidnap at the split moment before they die a heroic death, for entertainment. It's basically a SF version of Valhalla.
* In [[Runescape]], the not-so-intelligent goblins think they will go to their ancestral homeland Yu'Biusk upon death in combat, where they will fight eachother for all eternity. In the end, it turns out that Bandos, god of war and the one who brought them to Gielinor, has lied to them. Yu'Biusk is nothing but a toxic wasteland, devestated by war since millenia.
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[
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