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* ''ComicBook/XStatix'': Venus' search for her family - who were seemingly vaporized when her powers first turned her into a ball of sentient energy - eventually reveals that they are all alive and well; her powers had teleported them all into a pocket dimension, and they'd just assumed that they had all died and gone to Heaven.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': In ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' ComicBook/{{Colossus}} emerges from his prison in the Benetech compound and takes out several guards before ComicBook/KittyPryde stops him. When Colossus recognizes Kitty's voice, he falls to his knees and sobs "Am I...God please...am I finally dead?"
** In a flashback scene in ''ComicBook/XMenGold'' #28, Colossus recalled this moment and confirmed that he genuinely thought he was in Heaven since the first thing he saw after escaping was Kitty, the woman he still loved.

* In an early ''ComicBook/{{Thorgal}}'' comic, Thorgal falls into a gorge and wakes up days later in a beautiful garden. He's initially convinced that he's in Valhalla, but in reality he's in a magical place BeneathTheEarth.
* In an ComicBook/ArchieComics story, a chemistry lab explosion knocks Mr. Weatherbee out. When he comes to, the first thing he sees is Betty and Veronica in angel costumes for a school play and he assumes he's gone to Heaven. Then he sees Archie in a devil costume and flees in horror.
* ''ComicBook/TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers'' - Norbert the Nark sneaks into the Freaks' apartment looking for drugs. He cuts open their inflatable sofa, which was filled from their nitrous oxide tank. He gets a big whiff and hallucinates that he's in Heaven, and blissfully decides he doesn't need his gun or his clothes. He's later seen skipping naked down the street, and later at the police station can't remember a thing.
* In ''ComicBook/XStatix'', Venus' search for her family - who were seemingly vaporized when her powers first turned her into a ball of sentient energy - eventually reveals that they are all alive and well; her powers had teleported them all into a pocket dimension, and they'd just assumed that they had all died and gone to Heaven.
* In ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' ComicBook/{{Colossus}} emerges from his prison in the Benetech compound and takes out several guards before ComicBook/KittyPryde stops him. When Colossus recognizes Kitty's voice, he falls to his knees and sobs "Am I...God please...am I finally dead?"

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-->'''Shoeless Joe Jackson''': Hey! Is this heaven?
-->'''Ray Kinsella''': No. It's Iowa.

-->'''Bruce''': Is this heaven?
-->'''God''': No, this is Mount Everest. You should watch the Discovery Channel more often.

-->'''Spider-Man:''' Am I... dead? Why does Heaven smell like a wet dog? ''[notices that Wolverine is standing behind him]'' Oh... nevermind.
-->'''Wolverine:''' ''[growls]''

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "The Death Of Eric Cartman", Cartman assumes that he is a ghost when all of the other boys stop speaking to him.

--> '''Phil:''' I must be in Heaven now. (opens his eyes, sees Oskar) Oh no! Oskar's here! This must be the other place!
* Inverted and Parodied in the episode "Squidward The Unfriendly Ghost" of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''. Spongebob and Patrick thinks that they [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed]] Squidward after melting down a wax statue of him and, when he comes off the shower with his bathrobe, they think that it's his ghost and start to beg him for pity. Squidward decides to take advantage of this and makes being his servants in order to not suffer his "ghost wrath", but Patrick and Spongebob are so clumsy taking orders that they end up making Squidward angry. Spongebob thinks that he's angry because he didn't have a proper funeral and couldn't AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, so he calls all of Bikini Bottom to bury Squidward. Even more angry, Squidward gives up and reveals [[NotQuiteDead the truth]]. Spongebob and Patrick grab the IdiotBall and [[CassandraTruth still don't believe him]], Spongebob claiming that Squidward isn't accepting his own death, and then [[FloatingInABubble put him in a bubble]] in order to "get him up to the Great Beyond". The last scene shows a scared Squidward, trapped in the bubble and floating in the sky with seagulls flying around him.