History Main / FireandBrimstoneHell

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* Creator/LarryNiven and Jerry Pournelle wrote a novel, also titled ''Literature/{{Inferno}}'', that revisits Dante's hell with a few modern updates for 20th-century sins. The protagonist is a somewhat self-deprecating [[AuthorAvatar hack science fiction writer]], and his guide is a longtime resident of Hell [[spoiler:named Benito Mussolini]].

Common features of such a location include underground cavern-like decor, plenty of {{hellfire}} and [[LethalLavaLand lava]], and red-skinned [[HornedHumanoid devils with horns]] and tails poking the souls of sinners around with their pitchforks. Sometimes, it's actually shown to be underground ''[[PhysicalHell literally]]'', but most of the time it's AnotherDimension.

** After getting killed by Stewie, Vern and Johnny reappear, Vern as a ghost, and Johnny in hell. Vern's explanation? "[[PaedoHunt Johnny liked little boys.]]"

* ''Literature/TheFaerieQueen'' Book I: Despair uses an image of Hell filled with fire, sulfur, and brimstone (oh my) to strike fear into Redcrosse and convince him that killing himself is preferable to sinning in the future and going to Hell. The use of this depiction by a villain implies that Spenser might not like those who use it in real life.

A place with filled with darkness and shame\\

* "Ain't Gonna to Hell for Anybody", a song Music/BobDylan performed on his 1980 tours during his Evangelical Christian phase, but never formally recorded (it eventually got released on a ''Bootleg Series'' volume). Bonus points for being [[LyricalDissonance a bright uptempo song]].

* Shows up in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' season four; [[EnemyMine Robin and Slade]] have to descend there to save Raven's soul [[spoiler: and Slade's mortal body]] in the finale.

* The ancient [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Egyptian]] depictions of the TheUnderworld, such as the Book of the Dead, feature what is probably the UrExample of this: lakes of liquid flame, tended by fire-breathing goddesses and serpents, where the damned are burned. It's unclear whether they suffer forever or just get cremated to deny them an eternal afterlife.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'': In "Heavenly Puss," Tom is apparently killed and is unable to gain passage on the Heavenly Express due to his constant persecution of Jerry. He is given a chance to redeem himself by getting Jerry to sign a certificate of forgiveness but he only has an hour to do it, or else. Tom is shown a monitor which shows a fire-and-brimstone Hell with a devil version of Spike the bulldog calling out "Give him to me now! Send him down!"

** The episode "Heff in a Handbasket" plays the trope straight.

-->'''BigRedDevil''': ...you whizzed on the electric fence, didn't ya?

* 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.

* The 1970 ''{{Film/Scrooge 1970}}'' musical with Albert Finney has a usually-cut-for-syndication scene of Ebenezer finishing his 'Yet To Come' sequence by being grasped by enormous chains and dragged down to this sort of Hell. Even though nowhere near as bad as some depictions, for a Christmas movie, even at what all know to be the scary part, it was a bit surprising to see.

* Combined with {{Squick}} in Creator/ChuckPalahniuk's ''Literature/{{Damned}}''

** When you fight Mundus, the second half of the battle does in fact take place in a lake of fire.
** In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 4'', one boss introduces itself as "The conqueror of the Fire Hell." However, said location is never shown.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

* Any references to "hell" in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' series means "the Buddhist hells." In ''Subterranean Animism'' the Ancient City is located in a now unused district of hell. Snowfall suggests the city is part of a former cold hell while the Hell of Blazing Fires below it may have once been a hot hell (in fact, the Blazing Fires appears to be nothing but a sea of fire so it goes further than your typical Fire and Brimstone Hell). As of that game in the series, they were re-lit due to the Yatagarasu's power in Utsuho and it was opened back up as a formal hell destination.

* [[spoiler: Dark Crater]], the final level of [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers ''Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky'']], is supposed to be a stand-in for Hell.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' invokes this with the Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith, two demon infested lava levels.

* In ''VideoGame/RobinsonsRequiem'', whenever you die the main character Trepliev1 [[NightmareFuel is subject to a fiery torture in what looks like Hell]], depicted in a single image of his face on fire and twisting/contorting while surrounded by the skulls of the previous dead, along with creepy-as-hell music accompanying it. Some versions of the game even have a version of this image that slowly morphs Trepliev's face into a creepy skull.

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* In a brief scene in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s movie, Stewie is trapped in Hell, represented by a motel room with Steve Allen. Just as Steve starts to take off his shirt and says, "Alright, let's do this," Stewie wakes up, having had a near-death experience. Averted when it's shown that Allen just wanted him to help fix his shirt. [[MundaneAfterlife Then Allen turns on the TV and discovers that they show nothing but]] ''Series/WhosTheBoss'' reruns.

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies: Fire-and-brimstone depictions of Hell were frequently used in several cartoons, while others made reference to them. Some examples:

* Out of all Abrahamic religions, UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} is probably the most explicit and unambiguous when describing Hell as a fiery place of torment. Hell in the Literature/TheQuran is called Jahannam (the Arabic translation of Gehenna), though it also has a lot of {{Deadly Euphemism}}s like the Fire (An-Nar) and the Blaze (Al-Jahim). Sinners will be tortured in {{Hellfire}}, their only nourishments being boiling hot water and a fruit called Zaqqum, which will never abate their hunger. Rather than Satan, Hell is guarded by Malik, an angel who is loyal to God in [[GoodIsNotSoft dispensing the ultimate punishment to sinners]].

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-->'''Karnak''':You don't get how this place works, do you? No one is happy here. Nothing good lasts, even for the punishers. That's why '''every''' demon lord or would-be ruler tries to escape this '''pit'''. This is a realm of misery and torture for '''all''' who dwell here. This is '''Hell'''.

--> '''Grandma Wolfe''': I like it here! It's warm!

-->'''Devil''': This is the fourth circle of Hell?
-->'''Smeck''': Hey, this is a tough course. Look at that fringe - I mean, you hit it in there and you're looking at a 10 for sure.

-->'''Bart''': Is there anything I could do to avoid coming back here?
-->'''Devil''': Yes ... but you wouldn't like it.
-->'''Bart''': Okay. See you later.

-->'''Captain''': Now where the ''devil'' do you suppose Dishonest John got to?
-->'''Cecil''': Heck if I know!