You Are Worth Hell: Difference between revisions

== Comicbooks ==

* One ''[[The Simpsons]]'' comic, which gave us "Springfield In Hell" (in which [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|everyone in Springfield ends up in hell]]) plays this for laughs.

'''Homer''': [[Subverted Trope|Everything but the groin beetles]]. }}

* The original ''[[Sin City]]'' story has [[Badass|Marv]] respond to a taunt by declaring that someone is "Worth killing for. Worth dying for. Worth going to Hell for."

== Fan Fiction ==

* In [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6751038/1/Until_I_Met_You this] ''[[Death Note]]'' fanfic, [[Genki Girl|Misa]] basically tells [[Slasher Smile|Beyond]] this.

** In [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6323331/1/Bad_Romance this] fanfic, which is [[Expy|quite similar to the above writer's work,]] Misa proves this literally to Beyond by {{spoiler|having the Shinigami King resurrect him at the cost of his memories of her, letting him attempt to kill her with no negative feelings later on, letting him hide out at her apartment to get away from the police, and even ''handcuffing the two cops chasing them to a pole'' for him.}} And why? {{spoiler|She's in love with him.}}

** This should not be believable, but kind of is, because canon Misa is some kind of hystrionic psychopath who has no capacity for empathy and whose delusional romantic attachments have the capacity to completely overwhelm her sense of self-preservation.

* At the end of ''[[Rodan]]'', the military manages to kill the first Rodan by triggering a volcanic eruption. Unable to live without its mate, the second flies into the volcano and dies along with it.

* Of course in [[Muppet Treasure Island]], Kermit and Miss Piggy sing "Love Led Us Here" as they are hanging off a cliff and about to fall to their death.

Love led us here. }}

* The 1993 film ''Daybreak'' has Moira Kelly's character follow her lover into quarantine, even though she isn't infected herself.

== Literature ==

* Played straight and inverted in William Blake's ''The Clod and the Pebble.''

"And builds a hell in heaven's despite." }}

* Subverted in Dante's ''[[Divine Comedy|Inferno]]'', in which souls punished for sins of lust are bound forever to their [[Star-Crossed Lovers]], yet this only adds to their torment by serving as a perpetual reminder of their sins.

* The fifth ''[[Aubrey-Maturin]]'' novel, ''Desolation Island'' featured amoung other convicts being shipped to Australia, one Salubrity Boswell, whose husband had been sent there already, so she decided to follow him, first by getting his brother to get her pregnant so she wouldn't be hung, then by assaulting the judge who sentenced him. Stephen Maturin calls her "a female worthier of a nobler age."

* Referenced twice in the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' series, once in a chapter [[Word of God|that didn't quite]] [[All There in the Manual|make it in]]: Emmet says that he believed he was in [[Hell]] while transforming into a vampire, but Rosalie--his angel--meant it wasn't so bad. The second did; Edward thinks he's dead and either in heaven, since Bella's there, or hell, since [[Forbidden Fruit|she smells the same.]] Upon thinking it's hell, but she's still there?

* ''[[What Dreams May Come]]'', the book that [[The Movie]] (see its entry for the details) was based on.

* In ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]'', there's a scene in the novel that didn't go into the movie because it deals in Buttercup's internal monologue. She's essentially praying, mentally begging Westley to come and claim her rather than having her marry the Prince (she's unaware that {{spoiler|Westley is ''dead'' at the moment. [[Only Mostly Dead|Well, mostly dead...]]}})

* In a variation on this trope, Huck in ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' believes that if he doesn't turn in his pal Jim, who is escaping from slavery, he (Huck) will be damned. Huck decides: "All right then, I'll ''go'' to Hell!"

* At the end of ''[[Count and Countess]]'', when Elizabeth Bathory has been arrested on murder charges and sentenced to death, Vlad Dracula surrenders himself to the Holy Roman Emperor of his time period in a [[Suicide by Cop]] move. He states outright that he is following her into Hell. And he spent the entirety of the preceding novel being a [[Church Militant|fierce, God-fearing Christian]].

== Music ==

* The chorus to "A Walk Through Hell" by Say Anything invokes this trope quite literally:

my soul is useless without you. }}

* The song, "I Will Follow You Into The Dark," by [[Death Cab for Cutie]] can be interpreted as dealing with something like this:

In the blackest of rooms }}

* "Inside the Fire" by [[Disturbed]] is about the subject being convinced by his recently suicided girlfriend (might have been [[The Devil]] -- it's left ambiguous) to take his life as well so they can spend eternity together "inside the fire."

''Take your place inside the fire with her'' }}

* "Deathaura" by [[Sonata Arctica]] is about a girl who is accused of witchcraft and is burnt at the stake. The boy finally names himself (you know why) as being the one who is really responsible for the misfortunes that she had supposedly brought upon the village.

And after all these years we get to be together for all eternity... }}

* "Two Women" by Angels Of Light from their album ''How I Loved You'' (2001) is a particularly harrowing reading of this trope. {{spoiler|Thankfully, it ends on a an "up" note.}}

* "Gay Pirates" by Cosmo Jarvis, a cute sad little song about two pirates in love.

and I'll love you still in hell. }}

* This is, basically, the "Normal" ending of ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]''. If you failed to collect the Mask of the Betrayer, you can choose to bind the Soul Eater to yourself... And in return be forced to remain within the Fugue Plane forever. If you completed the [[Romance Sidequest]] your beloved will stay with you.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' - In the very long and optional Kafei and Anju sidequest, actually completing the quest will lead to reuniting the lovers [[Just Before the End|during the last two hours of the third day]]. They choose to stay [[Tear Jerker|together]], in the middle of an abandoned town with the [[Colony Drop|moon]] less than 2 hours from [[Earthshattering Kaboom|impact]], fully aware they will probably not live to see the morning. Because it deserves quoting yet again, from the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] page:

'''Link''': "..........." <ref>"[[Heroic Resolve|Yes. Yes you will. If you'll excuse me, I have a mask to destroy..."]]</ref> }}

* Something of this is there in ''[[Fatal Frame|Fatal Frame II]]'', specifically in the best ending. The protagonists, twin sisters Mio and Mayu, do get better, but only to a point, because Mayu was definitely worth hell for Mio, who faced the undead all alone and went down to even the very entrance to hell, and stared down to it to rescue her sister from falling into it, which left her blind forever. From there on, it would be Mayu who would look after Mio, instead of the other way around, like it had been for years.<br /><br />This is also present in the first game, where Mafuyu is willing to stay with Kirie at the Hell Gate for all eternity, just so that she won't have to be lonely anymore.

== Webcomics ==

* At the end of the ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' prequel ''Start of Darkness'', {{spoiler|the wizard Dorukan attacks Xykon for imprisoning the soul of his lover Lirian within a magic stone. Of course, [[Magnificent Bastard|Xykon ends up kicking his ass and imprisoning him within the very same stone]], where Dorukan's soul meets up with Lirian's.}}

{{spoiler|'''Lirian'''}}: No, no... not a prison anymore. ''([[Tear Jerker|They Embrace]]).'' }}

** Interestingly, this is probably the nicest thing Xykon has ever done. And it involves imprisoning souls. Granted, it's pretty certain he didn't ''mean'' it to be nice.