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* Within the Heaven of ''InNomine'' by Steve Jackson Games is "Jacob's Ladder" which reaches up into the [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Higher Heavens]] and the direct presence of God. Only mortals can climb the ladder; angels must stay in the lowest Heaven (unless called) until the War is won.

* Within the Heaven of ''InNomine'' by Steve Jackson Games is "Jacob's Ladder" which reaches up into the Higher Heavens and the direct presence of God. Only mortals can climb the ladder; angels must stay in the lowest Heaven (unless called) until the War is won.

For example, in [[TheBible Genesis 28:12]], Jacob dreams of a stairway (or ladder, translators disagree) connecting earth to {{heaven}} with angels going up and down it. Of course, this makes the trope OlderThanDirt.

** More specifically, a staircase shaped like a cat's paw.

* May and her pops, and later Albert and his mother Dorothy ascend the stair version in ''[[Game/ClockTower Clock Tower 3]]''.

* There was an [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010922.html escalator to hell]] featured in an early ''SchlockMercenary'' strip... 'course, since that takes place in the far future, escalators are probably anachronistic by then.

-->'''Mike Nelson''': ''Is '''[[BlackSabbath Sabbath]]''' wrong too, man''?

-->'''Mike Nelson''': ''Is '''Sabbath''' wrong too, man''?

** Also of note is the series' finale, where [[spoiler:Spike dies while ''descending'' down a staircase from the ExecutiveSuiteFight]].

** Also of note is the series' finale, where [[spoiler:Spike dies on a staircase]].

* In SuperMario64, there is a staircase that you can get to, but if you open the door to it before you have the key, it goes up basically forever, no matter how much you climb there's still more ahead. But turn around and you've only gone up a handful of steps.

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** Also of note is that Spike [[spoiler:dies on a staircase]].

* In the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical {{Cats}}, the way to the cats version of heaven, the Heavyside Layer, is apparently a large golden staircase that descends from the rafters during the final number.

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* ''TinyToonAdventures: [[{{OVA}} How I Spent My Vacation]]'' - appears as ''[[TheThemeParkVersion theme park]] rides''; there's the titular StairwayToHeaven (pictured above)...and the '''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Bullet Train To]] [[GoshdangItToHeck Heck!]]'''

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* Another example from ''TheSimpsons'', this time a subversion: one of the foolish projects that the people of Springfield embark upon is an escalator to nowhere that looks an awful lot like an escalator to heaven. This is a parody of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_to_Nowhere bridge to nowhere]], except this escalator literally just ends in a giant fall.

* Another example from ''TheSimpsons'', this time a subversion: one of the foolish projects that the people of Springfield embark upon is an escalator to nowhere that looks an awful lot like an escalator to heaven.

** Also of note is that Spike [[spoiler: dies on a staircase]].
* Subverted in ''KannazukiNoMiko''. The stairway that Chikane going up to at the shrine of the moon led to her solitary imprisonment, which is required to save the world. [[spoiler: It's better in the manga, where Himeko decided to stay with Chikane at the shrine on the moon.]]

* ''TinyToons: [[{{OVA}} How I Spent My Vacation]]'' - appears as ''[[TheThemeParkVersion theme park]] rides''; there's the titular StairwayToHeaven (pictured above)...and the '''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Bullet Train To]] [[GoshdangItToHeck Heck!]]'''

* In the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical {{Cats}}, the way to the cats version of heaven, the Heavyside Layer, is apparently a large golden staircase that decends from the rafters during the final number.

* ''TinyToons: [[{{OVA}} How I Spent My Vacation]]'' - appears as ''[[TheThemeParkVersion theme park]] rides''; there's the titular StairwayToHeaven(pictured above)... and the '''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Bullet Train To]] [[GoshdangItToHeck Heck!]]'''

* May and her pops ascend the stair version in ''[[ClockTower Clock Tower 3]]''.

*unknown ''WoodyWoodpecker'' cartoon - Buzz Buzzard has just been [[AnvilOnHead crushed by a large object]], ahd he arrives at a lobby with elevators to both heaven and hell with Woody as the doorman: one opens and the angelic operator says "Going up" and woody forces it closed, the other opens and the demonic operator says "going down" and Woody gives Buzz Buzzard a kick in the rear forcing him into the elevator