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* Hell is the main setting in the sitcom ''Series/YourPrettyFaceIsGoingtoHell''.

* ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier'': Visited at the end of Blue's quest. Hell resembles a stereotypical FluffyCloudHeaven, complete with angels fluttering about... Until you fight the Hell's Lord and he shifts from his humanoid form to his monstrous one, causing the realm to transform into a more classic depiction.[[spoiler: [[AllHereInTheManual Saga Essentials]] mentions this was the result of a Mystic using the rings from Riki's Quest to wish for Heaven. Since the rings are inherently evil, he got what looked like Heaven but it was actually Hell in disguise.]]

** In ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'''s Ancient Gods [=DLCs=], Hell's origins are finally revealed. [[spoiler:Hell was once a realm known as Jekkad, the first and original creation of Davoth, who back then was the original Father. He sought immortality for his people, and created the Maykrs for the purpose of finding this secret. But when the Maykrs found the secret, they feared what Davoth would become and betrayed him, stealing his power of creation and his name, and sealing his realm off from the rest of creation. Davoth's rage transformed the realm of Jekkad into what we know now as Hell, Davoth himself would become the Dark Lord of Hell, and the people of Jekkad would become the very first demons]].

** In ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'''s Ancient Gods [=DLCs=], Hell's origins are finally revealed. [[spoiler:Hell was once a realm known as Jekkad, the first and original creation of Davoth, who back then was the original Father. He sought immortality for his people, and created the Maykrs for the purpose of finding this secret. But when the Maykrs found the secret, they feared what Davoth would become and betrayed him, stealing his power of creation and his name, and sealing his realm off from the rest of creation. Davoth's rage transformed the realm of Jekkad into what we know now as Hell, and the people of Jekkad would become the very first demons]].

** In ''DoomEternal'''s Ancient Gods [=DLCs=], Hell's origins are finally revealed. [[spoiler:Hell was once a realm known as Jekkad, the first and original creation of Davoth, who back then was the original Father. He sought immortality for his people, and created the Maykrs for the purpose of finding this secret. But when the Maykrs found the secret, they feared what Davoth would become and betrayed him, stealing his power of creation and his name, and sealing his realm off from the rest of creation. Davoth's rage transformed the realm of Jekkad into what we know now as Hell, and the people of Jekkad would become the very first demons]].

** In ''DoomEternal'''s Ancient Gods [=DLCs=], Hell's origins are finally revealed. [[spoiler:Hell was once a realm known as Jekkad, the first and original creation of Davoth, who back then was the original Father. He sought immortality for his people, and created the Maykrs for the purpose of finding this secret. But when the Maykrs found the secret, they feared what Davoth would become and betrayed him, stealing his power of creation and his name, and sealing his realm off from the rest of creation. Davoth's rage transformed the realm of Jekkad into Hell, and the people of Jekkad became the very first demons]].

* The ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' games all involve teleportation experiments in a future space setting that have accidentally opened portals to Hell. Something of a HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace plot, except the games make it clear that what the scientists call hyperspace actually is Hell, which is mostly portrayed with [[FireAndBrimstoneHell seas of lava, brimstone mountains, and a burning red sky]].

* It's possible that the lower level of the Ancient Cistern in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' is hell. It's full of zombies, bones, poisoned water, it's like the underworld in every way. Link even CLIMBS OUT OF THIS AREA BY A ROPE at one point, which has been used a few times to show people escaping hell.
** And they do establish a devil in Majora's Mask, whom Sharp sells his soul to.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' lampooned the concepts of Heaven and Hell mercilessly, with a likeable Satan and an underworld that often [[AHellOfATime doesn't seem particularly bad]], especially given since virtually nobody except Mormons go to Heaven. Hell has a ''million times more people than Heaven'', making it the largest Hell in all of fiction. In the show, it is usually depicted as a cavern with stock footage of a volcano erupting in the background, while in TheMovie, it's a large rocky CGI wasteland underneath a swirling fire votex.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' lampooned the concepts of Heaven and Hell mercilessly, with a likeable Satan and an underworld that often [[AHellOfATime doesn't seem particularly bad]], especially given since virtually nobody except Mormons go to Heaven. Hell has a ''million times more people than Heaven'', making it the largest Hell in all of fiction.

* Myth/NorseMythology brings us the origin of the word "Hell" from "Hel", the goddess of the dead, though it doesn't exactly have a matching concept; Helheim, or Niflhel as it was also called, the cold abode of the dead that Hel ruled, was closer related to TheNothingAfterDeath rather than some posthumous punishment. Norse people believed in different possible destinies for the Afterlife [[http://norse-mythology.org/concepts/death-and-the-afterlife/ including rebirth]] and a holy mountain where, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Norse_paganism according to]] Wiki/TheOtherWiki the members of the Norse clans would lead lives similar to the ones they had lived in the world of the living. Some psychic people could look into the mountain and what they saw was not intimidating, but instead it was a scene with a warm hearth, drinking, and talking. Though Valhalla awaits (some of) those who die in battle, the idea that only warriors avoided Hell is a misconception... All that said, though Hel's realm was no Hell, there was a punishment waiting for the worst of the worst, dishonorable villains that would be turned away by any and all hosts; they were sent to Nastrond, a fortress located in an abandoned corner of Niflheim, deep under Yggdrasil's roots, where they would be just within the reach of [[EldritchAbomination Níðhöggr]].

* An episode of the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' anime has a paper box gadget which can suck people who do bad things (like [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking lying, stealing things, wasting food, or even killing a bug]]) into it, where they are tortured in different chambers as in the Asian folk religion version of Hell... until they grab the white rope to get out of the gadget or tamper with the gadget.

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* {{Hellgate}}: The way in and out of Hell is a pair of doors meant to look scary.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In one of the early episodes/chapters, a gateway to Hell is opened for a particularly evil hollow; it's said that only people who were unforgivably evil in their human lives go to Hell. Hell itself wasn't elaborated upon or mentioned again until the fourth movie, where it's shown to be a Dante's Inferno-ish multi-layered domain. The first level is a strange floating city-like structure with pathways, the second level is just a bunch of small islands and the third level is a series of plateaus filled with an acerbic yellow liquid. The [[FourIsDeath fourth]] is a seemingly endless desert of blue dunes made from the remains of those who have [[CessationOfExistence died again]]. The fifth and lowest layer presents a stereotypical portrayal of Hell, complete with [[FireAndBrimstoneHell lava and brimstone]].

* In ''Film/EventHorizon'', the ship's first attempt at FasterThanLightTravel [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]], and apparently [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hyperspace really]] ''[[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace is]]'' [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace a scary place]], because the original crew killed one another in really [[EyeScream gruesome ways]]. According to a later character, whose sanity has [[SanitySlippage slipped]] a little thanks to the GeniusLoci of the ship, where it went was ''[[UpToEleven worse]]'' than Hell and that "Hell is only a word."

* Hell is the main setting in the sitcom [[Series/YourPrettyFaceIsGoingtoHell Your Pretty Face is going to Hell]].

* Hell is the main setting in the sitcom [[Series/YourPrettyFaceIsGoingtoHell ''Your Pretty Face is going to Hell'']].

* Hell is the main setting in the sitcom [[''Series/YourPrettyFaceIsGoingtoHell ''Your Pretty Face is going to Hell'']].

* Hell is the main setting in the sitcom [[''Series/YourPrettyFaceIsGoingtoHell'' Your Pretty Face is going to Hell]].

* Hell is the main setting in the sitcom [[''Series/YourPrettyFaceIsGoingtoHell Your Pretty Face is going to Hell'']].

* Hell is the main setting in the sitcom [[Series/YourPrettyFaceIsGoingtoHell Your Pretty Face is going to Hell]].

* Hell is the main setting in the sitcom [[YourPrettyFaceIsGoingtoHell Your Pretty Face is going to Hell]].

* Hell is the main setting in the sitcom Series/YourPrettyFaceIsGoingtoHell.

* Hell is the main setting in the sitcom Series/YourPrettyFaceIsGoing toHell.

* Hell is the main setting in the sitcom Series/YourPrettyFaceIsGoingtoHell.