History Main / HellOfAHeaven

* ''WhatDreamsMayCome'' has a doctor who goes to heaven after a car-accident. Some time later he finds out that his wife, consumed by grief at his death, committed suicide, which is a major-league sin, condemning her to Hell. Without her, Heaven just ain't all that heavenly, and so he decides to go to hell to retrieve her, all Orpheus-style.

* One version of the classic Indian epic ''{{Mahabharata}}'' has a very similar scene to the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E84TheHunt Twilight Zone example]] making this OlderThanFeudalism.

* In ''CaseyAndAndy'', Andy was punished by being [[http://galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=179 forced into heaven]]. [[spoiler:[[http://galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=12 His girlfriend is Satan]], so Hell would not be a punishment for him. [[http://galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=37 But then...]]]]

** Another ''TwilightZone'' episode, "A Nice Place To Visit", played with this trope. A career criminal finds himself in a reality where his every desire is fulfilled, but quickly grows to hate this reality. When he begs his guide through this world, "I don't belong in Heaven, please send me to the Other Place!" his guide answers, "What made you think this was Heaven? This '''is''' the other place!"

* On ''AmericanDad,'' Francine renounces her belief in God when her pastor tells her that Roger, who the family thinks has died, wouldn't get into Heaven. ([[FridgeLogic Which doesn't make much sense]], since Francine, unable to admit that Roger was an alien, claimed he was a pet, so it's not like the pastor's claim was necessarily valid.)

* ''ChickTracts''. Heaven is only open to those who embrace Jack Chick peculiar brand of evangenical Protestantism. Everyone (and we do mean ''everyone'') else is damned to Hell.
** And seeing how this particular God seems to epitomize every single one of Richard Dawkin's criticisms of the old testament god [[GodIsEvil (bloodthirsty, sadistic, infanticidal, hypocritical, petty and frankly insane)]], and that Chick depicts many of those who get to heaven as being [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]] who only signed up to the aforementioned brand of fundamentalism to save their own skin, its status as "heaven" is more than questionable

* One version of the classic Indian epic ''{{Mahabharata}}'' has a very similar scene to the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E84TheHunt Twilight Zone exampl]]e making this OlderThanFeudalism.

* One version of the classic Indian epic "The Mahabharata" has a very similar scene to the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E84TheHunt Twilight Zone exampl]]e making this OlderThanFeudalism.

* In ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', the first words we hear from Cordelia in Heaven are: "I'm ''bored''."

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a gas leak causes people to have visions of Heaven. [[DiscoDan Disco Stu's]] vision is, obviously, a nightclub full of disco music, dancers...and FrankSinatra, who tells Stu "For me this is Hell, ya dig!"

* One version of the classic Indian epic "The Mahabharata" has a very similar scene to the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E84TheHunt Twilight Zone exampl]]e making this OlderThanDirt.

* The ''TwilightZone'' TOS episode "The Hunt" [[PlayingWithATrope plays with]] this trope. A recently dead hunter decides not to enter Heaven when a "gatekeeper" tells him that his dog can't go in with him. Soon afterwards, an angel tells him that the gatekeeper was trying to trick him into Hell, which is why the dog wasn't allowed in: "A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the Devil can't fool a dog!" The hunter and his dog enter the real Heaven together.
** [[OlderThanTheyThink One version of the classic Indian epic "The Mahabharata" has a very similar scene.]]

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a gas leak causes people to have visions of Heaven. [[DiscoDan Disco Stu's]] vision is, obviously, a nightclub full of disco music, dancers...and FrankSinatra, who tells Stu "For me this is Hell!"

* In ''GoodOmens'', we get the impression from Crowley that Heaven's a boring place with few composers, theaters and films. "''Listen, the point is that when the bird has worn the mountain down to nothing, right then...then you still wouldn't have finished watching The Sound of Music. And you'll enjoy it.''"

* The ''TwilightZone'' TOS episode "The Hunt" [[PlayingWithATrope plays with]] this trope. A recently dead hunter decides not to enter Heaven when a "gatekeeper" tells him that his dog can't go in with him. Soon afterwards, an angel tells him that the gatekeeper was trying to trick him into hell, which is why the dog wasn't allowed in: "A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the Devil can't fool a dog!" The hunter and his dog enter the real Heaven together.

* The ''TwilightZone'' TOS episode "The Hunt" [[PlayingWithATrope plays with]] this trope. A recently dead hunter decides not to enter Heaven when a "gatekeeper" tells him that his dog can't go in with him. Soon afterwards, an angel tells him that the gatekeeper was trying to trick him into hell, which is why the dog wasn't allowed in: "A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the Devil can't fool a dog!" The hunter and his dog enter the real heaven together.

* RichardMatheson's ''WhatDreamsMayCome'', source of the aforementioned FilmOfTheNovel.

* The ''TwilightZone'' TOS episode "The Hunt" [[PlayingWithATrope plays with]] a trope. A recently dead hunter decides not to enter Heaven when a "gatekeeper" tells him that his dog can't go in with him. Soon afterwards, an angel tells him that the gatekeeper was trying to trick him into hell, which is why the dog wasn't allowed in: "A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the Devil can't fool a dog!" The hunter and his dog enter the real heaven together.

-->--'''The Sparks''', "Here in Heaven"

* In an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', a gas leak causes people to have visions of Heaven. [[DiscoDan Disco Stu's]] vision is, obviously, a nightclub full of disco music, dancers...and FrankSinatra, who tells Stu "For me this is Hell!"

It's not about Heaven being bad in general, it's about how things are bad for one person. For example, maybe Heaven has a strict No Pets Allowed policy. While for some people being in a place with animal-less Christians would be wonderful, for others it "a hell of heaven"

In this trope the ''actual'' heaven is horrible in their view, so do not confuse it with ThisIsntHeaven! Compare InfernalParadise for when it's only horrible for outsiders to the faith and HellOfATime for when hell is fun for a specific person.