History Main / PersonalizedAfterlife

SuperTrope of SelfInflictedHell, IronicHell and NostalgiaHeaven. Polar opposite of OnlyOneAfterlife. The ArtificialAfterlife may or may not involve this level of personalization.

** The Good Place is divided into neighborhoods of about a hundred people designed specifically to accommodate them. Eleanor for instance has a modest house decorated with clown pictures as the "other" Eleanor who was supposed to go there in her place would have liked. [[spoiler: But this particular "Good Place" is actually an experiment of the Bad Place to psychologically torture the four human main characters; the rest of the residents are demonic actors.]]

** There's also the "Medium Place" created to accommodate Mindy St. Clair, a woman who didn't fit into either the Good or Bad places. The entire place is tailored to fit Mindy's tastes and interests in the most mediocre way possible e.g. she's provided with her favourite beer but it's always at room temperature.

** [[spoiler:Mannequin/Alan Gramme was a tinker specializing in enclosed environments who went murderously insane after his family died.]] He gets trapped inside a replica of his family's house, with his actual family gone (with all the pain he caused, he can't go where they've gone) and his dad stopping by to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.[[note]]Wait, so insanity in which, by definition, you don't have control of your mind and therefore can forget about free will being a factor, doesn't net you a pass, but torture does? Or is it a [[DoubleStandard different reason altogether?]][[/note]]

* ''FanFic/QueenOfBlood'' shows this happening with the [[spoiler: Slaughterhouse Nine]], doubling as IronicHell. Each gets sent to a separate environment crafted to torment each one individually based on their sins in life ([[spoiler: There are two exceptions- Bonesaw/Riley gets to go to heaven because Jack Slash tortured her to the point where she was not acting under her own free will in performing her atrocities, and Burnscar/Mimi gets to be reincarnated because most of her evil deeds were because her power messed with her head]]).

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'''Raphael:''' ''(dismissively)'' He's devout. Trumps everything.

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* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' with TheRapture shows Steve and Hayley being shown to their rooms in Heaven after their ascension, where everything meets their desires and needs. A unicorn trots out of Steve's room and poops out a pile of pepper jack cheeseburgers. [[spoiler: After Stan dies at the end his room is shown to be an exact replica of his pre-Rapture home, with the exception of a dead and stuffed Klaus hanging on the wall.]]

** [[spoiler: Shatterbird, a silikinetic who caused perhaps the most direct pain of the Slaughterhouse Nine through using her power as a terror weapon, is sent to a beach and tormented with the screams of her victims until she has experienced all their pain.]]
** [[spoiler: Mannequin/Alan Gramme was a tinker specializing in enclosed environments who went murderously insane after his family died. He gets trapped inside a replica of his family's house, with his actual family gone (with all the pain he caused, he can't go where they've gone) and his dad stopping by to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.[[note]]Wait, so insanity in which, by definition, you don't have control of your mind and therefore can forget about free will being a factor, doesn't net you a pass, but torture does? Or is it a [[DoubleStandard different reason altogether?]][[/note]]]]
** [[spoiler: The Siberian/William Manton's cannibalistic serial-killing rampage was caused by his failing to save his daughter Annie, and his punishment is Annie telling him how she hates him for what he'd done and never wants to see him again, followed by a GroundhogDayLoop of the moment she died, followed by her turning into The Siberian and eating him alive.]]
** [[spoiler: Hatchet Face, a HeroKiller, is pursued by a wolf pack, now the prey instead of the predator.]]
** [[spoiler: Crawler gets one while ''still alive'', due to Dragon throwing him into space during the Slaughterhouse fight. Thanks to his adaptive power, he survives not only four years in empty space, but also over a century on Jupiter where his trajectory eventually carries him, becoming increasingly more immobile and twisted from the constant pain and damage from the environment. Finally, Crawler's shard cuts the connection, and the hostile environment of Jupiter consumes him after another century. We dont get to see his actual afterlife]]
** [[spoiler: Downplayed for Jack Slash, the leader of the group. By mutual consent of both Heaven and Hell, whoich considers his evil to be so petty and pointless that even they want nothing to do with him, Jack's soul is completely erased from existence, not even considered worthy of a custom punishment, which is in turn a massive blow to his ego for the last 30 seconds of conscious thought he has left.]]

* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' is divided up into neighborhoods of about a hundred people designed specifically to accommodate them. Eleanor for instance has a modest house decorated with clown pictures as the "other" Eleanor who was supposed to go there in her place would have liked. [[spoiler: But this particular "Good Place" is actually an experiment of the Bad Place to psychologically torture the four human main characters; the rest of the residents are demonic actors.]]

** [[spoiler: Mannequin/Alan Gramme was a tinker specializing in enclosed environments who went murderously insane after his family died. He gets trapped inside a replica of his family's house, with his actual family gone (with all the pain he caused, he can't go where they've gone) and his dad stopping by to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.[[note]]Wait, so insanity in which, by definition, you don't have control of your mind and therefore can forget about free will being a factor, doesn't net you a pass, but torture does? Or is it a [[DoubleStandard different reason altogether?]][[/note]]

** [[spoiler: Mannequin/Alan Gramme was a tinker specializing in enclosed environments who went murderously insane after his family died. He gets trapped inside a replica of his family's house, with his actual family gone (with all the pain he caused, he can't go where they've gone) and his dad stopping by to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]

** [[spoiler: Downplayed for Jack Slash, the leader of the group. By mutual consent of both Heaven and Hell, who considers his evil to be so petty and pointless that even they want nothing to do with him, Jack's soul is completely erased from existance, not even considered worthy of a custom punishment, which is in turn a massive blow to his ego for the last 30 seconds of conscious thought he has left.]]

* ''FanFic/QueenOfBlood'' shows this happening with the [[spoiler: Slaughterhouse Nine]], doubling as IronicHell. Each gets sent to a separate environment crafted to torment each one individually based on their sins in life ([[spoiler: There are two exceptions- Bonesaw/Riley gets to go to heaven because Jack tortured her to the point where she was not acting under her own free will in performing her atrocities, and Burnscar/Mimi gets to be reincarnated because most of her evil deeds were because her power messed with her head]]).

* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' with TheRapture shows Steve and Hayley being shown to their rooms in Heaven after their ascension, where everything meets their desires and needs. A unicorn trots out of Steve's room and poops out a pile of pepper jack cheeseburgers. [[spoiler: After Stan dies at the end his room is shown to be an exact replica of his pre-Rapture home.]]

* Part of the belief system of UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} that gets spoofed in ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' is the belief that good Mormons with receive their own ''planet'' in the afterlife. Kevin Price, one of the protagonists, hopes that his planet will resemble Orlando, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} with replicas of [=SeaWorld=], [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Walt Disney World]], and a minigolf course.

* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' with TheRapture shows Steve and Haley being shown to their rooms in Heaven after their ascension, where everything meets their desires and needs. A unicorn trots out of Steve's room and poops out a pile of pepper-jack cheeseburgers. [[spoiler: After Stan dies at the end his room is shown to be an exact replica of his pre-Rapture home.]]

** Afterlives are based on where the person in question believes they'll be going, which means you can have cases of the innocent suffering in hell and villains going to a heaven (those who don't believe in anything end up in a desert). This might not seem fair, but nobody ever said it had to be.
** Although it was subverted in ''Discworld/RaisingSteam'' when a dwarf terrorist says he'll be going to paradise. Death lets him down none too gently (the gods of the Disc are shaped by belief, and the terrorists are a minority group whose fundamentalist interpretation of dwarf religion is followed by only them).

** Heaven appears to work like this - an enormous cluster of personalized [[HappyPlace Happy Places]], with the Garden at the very centre. When Sam and Dean visit, they each get to relive some of their fondest memories - Dean's are associated with family, Sam's with freedom and independence. It's possible to move between them if know how, but only "soulmates" ever share a heaven by design.

SuperTrope of SelfInflictedHell, IronicHell and NostalgiaHeaven. Polar opposite of OnlyOneAfterlife.

** Afterlives are based on where the person in question believes they'll be going, which means you can have cases of the innocent suffering in hell and {{Complete Monster}}s going to a heaven (those who don't believe in anything end up in a desert). This might not seem fair, but nobody ever said it had to be.

By now, most people will admit that not everyone would want to spend eternity in the same place as everyone else, and really FireAndBrimstoneHell seems a bit boring by now. One potential solution is, assuming an infinite amount of space for everybody, is to give people their own individual heavens or hells.

SuperTrope of SelfInflictedHell, IronicHell and NostalgiaHeaven.

* In the French comic ''Le Dernier Troyen'' (the TrojanWar, RecycledInSpace) has the protagonists visiting the underworld, seeing some of their friends and enemies who'd died. To their consternation, some of their friends are in horrifying torment, while their despicable enemies are enjoying perfect bliss. When they ask Hades about it, he answered that everyone shares the afterlife, but the dead decide what they become in it. Their friends thought they deserved to suffer eternally for failing to defend Troy, while their enemies had such a high opinion of themselves that they thought they deserved no less than the Elysian Fields.

* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]", a robber is killed by a policeman and finds himself in a world where a mysterious man named "Pip" gives him as much money as he wants, a luxury apartment, soulless facsimiles of people to do whatever he wants with, and everything goes his way all the time. But, eventually he gets bored with the lack of challenges and asks Pip to take him to "The Other Place", [[spoiler: only to learn that he isn't in Heaven.]]
* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' is divided up into neighborhoods of about a hundred people designed specifically to accommodate them. Eleanor for instance has a modest house decorated with clown pictures as the "other" Eleanor who was supposed to go there in her place would have liked. [[spoiler: But this particular "Good Place" is actually an experiment of the Bad Place to psychologically torture the four human main characters, the rest of the residents are demonic actors.]]

* Part of the belief system of [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]] (the Mormon church) that gets spoofed in ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' is the belief that good Mormons with receive their own ''planet'' in the afterlife. Kevin Price, one of the protagonists, hopes that his planet will resemble Orlando, Florida with replicas of [=SeaWorld=], [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Walt Disney World]], and a minigolf course.

SuperTrope of SelfInflictedHell, IronicHell and NostalgiaHeaven

SuperTrope of SelfInflictedHell.