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* Bjorn Hammerparty from ''VideoGame/Helheim Hassle'' is a viking teenager who is a pacifist sick and tired of the viking MartyrdomCulture (Everyone in his village including his family is looking forward to getting killed in battle to go to Valhalla) and after dieing in an accident he looks forward to beeing sent to Helheim before Odin sends him to Valhalla on a technicality (He fell of a cliff by accident and landed on a bear, which counts as a MutualKill fighting the bear) to [[WarriorHeaven fight to the death every day only to come back to life for all eternity]] which is [[HellOfAHeaven not what he wanted his afterlife to be]] so he tries to weasel out of it and get to Helheim.

* Bjorn Hammerparty from ''Helheim Hassle'' is a viking teenager who is a pacifist sick and tired of the viking MartyrdomCulture (Everyone in his village including his family is looking forward to getting killed in battle to go to Valhalla) and after dieing in an accident he looks forward to beeing sent to Helheim before Odin sends him to Valhalla on a technicality (He fell of a cliff by accident and landed on a bear, which counts as a MutualKill fighting the bear) to [[WarriorHeaven fight to the death every day only to come back to life for all eternity]] which is [[HellOfAHeaven not what he wanted his afterlife to be]] so he tries to weasel out of it and get to Helheim.

* The protagonist of VideoGame/{{Helltaker}} plunges headfirst into Hell [[ExcusePlot to find himself a harem of demon girls]].

** The Master at the end of season one, and Angelus and Drucilla in season two, are both "open the Gates of Hell" examples. While their demonic status helps explain this, Spike points out that most vampires only talk about destroying the world and are actually quite happy here, making genuine Hellseekers the anomaly.

* During Goku's special interaction with Cell in ''VideoGame/DragonBallFighterZ'', Goku reveals that he is interested to see what hell is like and even asks Cell to visit it someday. Hilariously, the latter seem to regard it as a miserable, sorrowful place but doesn't divulge any further.

* Ink Catherly from ''Literature/HitherbyDragons'' is a preteen adventurer determined to reach hell "because I'm an explorer". In this case, hell is located in an infinitely-tall tower inside her closet.

* This Buttersafe's comic "[[https://www.buttersafe.com/2017/08/31/the-worst-best-firefighter/ The Worst Best Firefighter]]" features a devoted firefighter who deliberately act like a monster in hope he get sent to Hell. He actually want to deafeat the hellfires themselves.

* In a DeletedScene from ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' - Dracula says, "If my beloved burns in Hell, so shall I..." during his FaithHeelTurn.

* WebOriginal/SailorMoonAbridged plays this for laughs with Sailor Mars, to the point that when [[KillEmAll The Scouts die in Episode 40]], the others [[GuiltByAssociation are dragged there with her]], even [[TokenGoodTeammate Amy]].

->''"Kageyama, won't you go to Hell with me?"''
-->-- '''Sou Yaguruma''', ''Series/KamenRiderKabuto''

* Weirdly zigzagged in ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent''. Demons in this setting are {{fallen angel}}s and the basic assumption is that a given demon wants to find its way to Hell... however, "Hell" is not only seen as [[InfernalParadise a positive place]], but is a highly individual concept; one demon may want to lord over a traditional FireAndBrimstoneHell, but another may just want a quiet, normal life with a human family. The rationale is that Heaven ''is'' Hell in the human sense of the words, as it means being a tool of the alien/malevolent [[DeusExMachina God-Machine]] with no free-will of one's own; with this in mind, "Hell", defined as "a complete and total separation from God", becomes a paradise.

* Parodied in the Website/{{Newgrounds}} cartoon "The Grim Reaper Show". When the GrimReaper has to judge where to send a satanist who want to join the devil's infernal legions, he cards him off to Heaven because "you're actually a pretty easygoing kinda guy".

* In a DeletedScene from ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' - Dracula says, "If my beloved burns in Hell, so shall I..." mid-FaithHeelTurn.

A Hell Seeker is a character who is actively trying to get into Hell. Literally Hell, as in [[{{Hell}} the afterlife of endless torment]]. Maybe he thinks that he will like it there, being allowed to "reign in hell" rather than becoming one of the tormented souls, perhaps thinking that he might even [[DemonOfHumanOrigin become one of the demons]]. (Such a character is usually [[OriginalPositionFallacy eventually proven wrong, ending up at the bottom of the hellish food-chain]].) Maybe he's a hardcore masochist who thinks that an eternity of torture and violation [[TooKinkyToTorture sounds great]]. Maybe he's concerned he'll otherwise [[TheNothingAfterDeath wind up nowhere at all]], or [[CessationOfExistence vanish entirely]]. Or maybe he's just trying to punish himself. Or maybe he lives in a setting where Hell is [[AHellOfATime something much cooler]] than the horrors believed in by certain RealLife religions. It might also be that someone he loves has been damned and [[YouAreWorthHell he prefers to spend eternity with them]] or is [[ToHellAndBack trying to rescue them]]. Or maybe he's just looking to kill every damn demon in sight and sees Hell as a sort of WarriorHeaven.

* Before he was killed by the [[EvilOverlord Other King]], the Comet King, Jalaketu West from {{Literature/Unsong}} sought to invade Hell so he could destroy it and free every soul trapped there, but failed completely. In order to affect Hell with [[RealityWarper his power]], he had to first be part of it. And as the resident BigGood and TheMessiah, his chances of going to hell when he died were pretty much nil, and he feared even doing evil deeds might not send him there if it was ultimately for the greatest cause possible. [[spoiler:Knowing this, his wife Robin West sold her soul to Hell, knowing Jalaketu would follow. The Comet King might not go to Hell if he did incredible evil for the sake of humanity, but doing incredible evil to rescue his wife is another story. Hell will be destroyed either way. So he became the Other King, killed a body double, and set about becoming an EvilOverlord]].

* WebOtiginal/SailorMoonAbridged plays this for laughs with Sailor Mars, to the point that when [[KillEmAll The Scouts die in Episode 40]], the others [[GuiltByAssociation are dragged their with her]], even [[TokenGoodTeammate Amy]].

* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'': The VillainOpeningScene explains the titular vampire's StartOfDarkness -- he's a [[UsefulNotes/TheCrusades Crusade]]-leader whose surviving enemies invoke RevengeByProxy by tricking his wife into being DrivenToSuicide (which, according to the main priest in said scene, means auto-damnation for her and no TogetherInDeath for Dracula). This makes him snap, invoke FaithHeelTurn, literally choose YouAreWorthHell for her sake, and perform some bizarre Satanic ritual to become... well, Dracula.

* The Other King in ''WebOriginal/{{Unsong}}'' is actively trying to commit so many atrocities that he can't possibly be denied entrance into Hell when he dies. The reason why he's worried about being denied damnation is that [[spoiler: one, he's trying to balance out a truly epic number of good deeds and virtuous actions performed back when he was still [[TheMessiah the Comet King]], and two, [[{{Satan}} Thamiel]] will take every excuse to bar his way into Hell since he knows perfectly well that if the Other King were to fully enter Hell he'd proceed to destroy the place.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal 3'', Minion (a demon) wishes to be sent to Hell in his ending. [[LiteralGenie Calypso]] complies... and sends him to [[LiteralGenie Hell, Michigan]].

* In ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal 3'', Minion (a demon) wishes to be sent to Hell in his ending. [[LiteralGenie Calypso]] complies... and sends him to Hell, Michigan.