History Main / FireAndBrimstoneHell

* In ''VideoGame/{[Hades}}, the Asphodel Meadows are actually islands surrounded on all sides by damaging magma. The alteration from the myths (where the meadows were merely dull and dreary), is justified by saying that at some point the firey river Phlegethon flooded and overflowed them.

** One of them refers to the image as something [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions "from a fable you once heard in childhood"]], which may be [[WriterOnBoard Roddenberry's]] way of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sneaking in his humanistic views]].

* [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner "Curses! I've gone to Hell! How unfortunate!"]]

* Daffy Duck winds up in Hell in a last ditch effort to avoid being drafted in "Draftee Daffy." But the little man from the draft board even shows up there!

* The ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' series of games (particularly Doom 3) feature just this kind of hell.

** The Infinite Layers of the Abyss presumably has a few layers with the "fire-dominant" trait, but as previously mentioned, tanar'ri are not actually immune to fire damage, so the better-known layers are characterized more by features like rivers of salt or forests of viper-trees.

* Hell in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' seems like a [[HellOfATime pretty cool place]] at first glance, being an opulent casino full of games and money and alcohol and all that good stuff. Of course, it's meant to lure in patrons to fatten them up with "good luck" and tempt them into [[DealWithTheDevil raising the stakes and gambling their souls]]. When you go down into the basement for the final battle with the [[{{Satan}} big guy himself]], you find it's all the opulence is just a nice tasty piece of bait and Hell is actually fire and lava and tortured souls.
* In ''VideoGame/MutantFootballLeague'', The Malice Hellboys' stadium takes place in a scorching hell filled with lava pits and sand worms that can eat unsuspecting players. The broadcasters often comment on the suffocating heat before the game.

* {{Deconstructed}} in ''[[https://youtu.be/uPLeAvtMcik BADLOGIC]]'' when a recently killed thief points out torturing sinners for their evil deeds would make {{Satan}} a "good guy", despite his protests. [[spoiler:The devil eventually concedes and offers the thief one wish.]]

* Satan rules over one in ''Film/TheDevilsMessenger'', although most the scenes in Hell take place in the ovwercrowded waiting rooom.

* Miseryville on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' is heavily implied to be such (and was explicitly so in the pilot), with the citizenry composed entirely of demons and "misery" as the stand-in for eternal torment and suffering. However,it is a [[AHellOfATime somewhat more tolerable version]] than most.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDame'' uses a river of molten lead dumped out of the cathedral during the climax to represent Hell.

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': The Nether, the largest of the game's two [[AnotherDimension alternate dimensions]]. The setting is underground, in a massive system of caverns filled with oceans and waterfalls of lava. Almost everything else is made of a kind of stone which perpetually burns if set on fire and looks suspiciously like flesh, with the exception of patches of semi-solid magma and "Soul Sand", which is covered in patterns highly reminiscent of screaming, agonized faces. The old development name for this dimension was even called "Hell", but Notch decided against a religious term (although the Nether's sole biome is still called Hell). [[EverythingsDeaderwithzombies Zombie]] [[PigMan Pigmen]], [[MagmaMan Magma Cubes]] and giant tentacled monsters named [[GiantMook Ghasts]] roam this dimension's landscape, while pitch-black Wither Skeletons and fiery Blazes haunt its abandoned fortresses.

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--> '''Paisley:''' And in this Hell of eternal damnation, there will be fire, and brimstone, and much screaming and gnashing of teeth!
--> '''Toothless old geezer at the back of the church:''' Wo' abou' if ye haven' any teef lef'?
--> '''Paisley:''' Teeth will be provided!

** An eternity with [[TheScrappy Neelix]]? Perhaps the most terrifying Hell ever conceived.

[[FridgeLogic Note the curious discrepancy]]; despite rebelling against {{God}}, devils in hell are [[PunchClockVillain doing some kind of job with awe-inspiring diligence and consistency]]. This job arguably makes Hell someplace someone doesn't want to go; which theoretically helps God. Some theorize that Hell [[HeavensDevils is thus part of God's plan and still under His employ]], which may or may not [[GodIsEvil put his infinite goodness into doubt]] depending on who you ask; or else devils get something out of torturing souls. {{Mana}}, perhaps. Or maybe they're just [[ForTheEvulz sadistically amusing themselves]]. Another popular theory in fiction is that it was originally a prison, but {{Satan}} took it over; subverting its mechanics.

[[FridgeLogic Note the curious discrepancy]]; despite rebelling against {{God}}, devils in hell are [[PunchClockVillain doing some kind of job with awe-inspiring diligence and consistency]]. This job arguably makes Hell someplace someone doesn't want to go; which theoretically helps God. Some theorize that Hell is thus part of God's plan and still under His employ, which may or may not [[GodIsEvil put his infinite goodness into doubt]] depending on who you ask; or else devils get something out of torturing souls. {{Mana}}, perhaps. Or maybe they're just [[ForTheEvilz sadistically amusing themselves]]. Another popular theory in fiction is that it was originally a prison, but {{Satan}} took it over; subverting its mechanics.

[[FridgeLogic Note the curious discrepancy]]; despite rebelling against {{God}}, devils in hell are [[PunchClockVillain doing some kind of job with awe-inspiring diligence and consistency]]. This job arguably makes Hell someplace someone doesn't want to go; which theoretically helps God. Some theorize that Hell is thus part of God's plan and still under His employ; or else devils get something out of torturing souls. {{Mana}}, perhaps. Or maybe they're just sadistically amusing themselves. Another popular theory in fiction is that it was originally a prison, but {{Satan}} took it over; subverting its mechanics.

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': Hell features in several strips, always as a network of tunnels filled gouts of flame. Its inhabitants are devils, who all have horns and red skin, wear high-collared capes and wield pitchforks, and the souls of the damned, who resemble their living selves but clad in rags and are subjected to a variety of punishments, generally either physical labor or imprisonment in one of Hell's many prison cells.

** The brimstone is also specifically there in some parts, as Nightcrawler travels through that dimension when he teleports, bringing back smoke retaining the smell.

** Of the Nine Hells of Baator, Avernus and Phlegethos, the first and fourth layer respectively, are scorching wastelands where fireballs perpetually rain from the sky or tendrils of flame seek out trespassers. This actually works in the [[LawfulEvil devils]]' favor, since baatezu have a racial immunity to fire, while any invading [[ChaoticEvil demons]] are merely resistant to it. But the other hells are much more varied: Dis is an Orwellian metropolis with burning-hot metal walls, Minauros is a foul swamp, Stygia and Cania are both hellishly cold, Malbolge was [[BloodyBowelsOfHell recently-redecorated with the help of its previous ruler]], Maladomini is a polluted ruin, and Cania is a scorched plain broken into a web of canyons and fissures.

* Interestingly subverted in ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]" where a criminal bamed Rocky Valentine dies and thinks he's gone to heaven because everything goes his way. But he eventually becomes sick of what he thinks is Heaven and wants "to go to that other place". This is when he is told that he ''is'' in "that other place". Final words of the episode: "...an angry little man, who now has everything he could ever ask for, and has to live with it forever."

* Tartarus, the afterlife of the condemned in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', resembles this -- or at least it did in the version Empath was thrust into in "Smurfing In Heaven" [[spoiler:before he realized that both it and the Elysium he visited weren't real]]. The one Lord Balthazar was cast into in "Empath And The Golden Magic Bird" was pretty much real and very much scary to the old wizard.

* In Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'', Charlie Dog has a nightmare about Hell.
* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDame'' used a river of molten lead dumped out of the cathedral during the climax to represent Hell.

* WordOfGod says that in the universe of ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', in addition to the Land of the Remembered and the Land of the Forgotten there's another afterlife known as the Land of the Cursed. It's "a very hot place" ruled by Xibalba's brother and it's where the most wicked of souls reside after death.

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* Many, many ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoons.
-->"Ok sir, would you like inferno or non-inferno? Ha! Just kidding! It's all inferno, of course! [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor I just get a kick out of saying that]]."
* In ''ComicStrip/FrankAndErnest'', once they bring out the paper in Hell, and check they covered all the SevenDeadlySins.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Afterlife}}'', you ''build'' the Fire And Brimstone Hell, with [[HurricaneOfPuns punny punishments]] based on the SevenDeadlySins, such as "Another Man's Shoes" -- guess where the damned are put in?

* Although there are [[IncrediblyLamePun a hell of a lot of levels]], many levels of The Abyss and a number of the Nine Hells in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' are described like this. The Fourth Hell, Phlegethos, probably fits it the most. Some of the more traditional levels (such as frozen Cania) are there though as well.
* The D20 setting ''TabletopGame/{{Infernum}}'' is set entirely in this sort of Hell. Demons torment souls to extract a substance called "iliaster", which is food and drink to them, and it is ''not'' a pleasant place. It's not all fire and flames, though- in fact, as Hell technically consists of a whopping huge crater punched by the crashlanding of the Fallen Angels, fire and flames are actually a minority. Starting on the surface and going down the nine "Circles" of Hell, you have lifeless desert (Emptiness), icy mountains locked under perpetual thunderstorms (Tempest), swamps and mires and mudflats (Tears), volcanic badlands (Toil), war-scarred wastes (Slaughter), urbanized ruins (Industry), lush jungles sharing borders with a river of flame and a desert (Delight), a massive volcanic range (Malebolge) and an eternally shifting city (Pandemonium). And that's not getting into other notorious landmarks, like the river Cocytus, a river of unnaturally cold jet-black ice that emerges from beneath the volcanoes of Malebolge and forms a barrier around Pandemonium... [[LampshadeHanging and the demons want to know just how that frickin' works too]].
* The standard ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting splits the difference, with some areas completely fulfilling this trope and others subverting the Hell out of it. On the balance, it's several separate dimesions, each with multiple subdimensions, that read like a somewhat tedious version of Dante's Inferno.
* The game ''TableTopGame/InNomine'' is the hilarious Gold Standard of Tabletop Game Hell (and Heaven, for that matter), since Hell and its environs are a substantial fraction of the gameworld. However, only the domain of the Demon prince of Fire is actually filled with fire and brimstone. Some areas are merely tedious and others even manage to be amusing. While torture and suffering were part of how the evil demons powered their economy, the setting then subverts itself by basically giving all the damned an easy way out: they can simply pony up their spiritual energy every morning and then stop the torture. The demons can't drag it out of them, so the only way they can get the dead humans to pay is to bribe or threaten them (which means they must be trustworthy over the long haul, or humans will stop powering all the things demons want).