History Main / HellOfAHeaven

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7179 SCP-7179]] is a pocket of spacetime centered on a tropical island, which a few deceased individuals observed by the Foundation have traveled to after death. It's a seeming paradise where people are in perfect health, the weather is a constantly comfortable EndlessDaytime, and anyone there is offered all the vices one could ever want. And that's it; the realm never changes, the people there are mindless automatons with no will of their own and there's no way to leave, not even dying. While also there's no way to communicate with anyone trapped there, signals can be sent to us from them, which is how the Foundation documented one subject's experience. This is also how they found that [[spoiler: a factorial of ''One Googol years'' [[note]] That's a variable multiplied by every single number between one and ten to the hundredth power [[/note]] in SCP-7179 is equal to one second in our world.]]

* ZigZagged in ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel''. Heaven is an idyllic megalopolis with kind, polite residents but the angels running it suffer from a bad case of LightIsNotGood and are unpleasant {{Control Freak}}s little better than the demons below them, keeping the humans in line with BreadAndCircuses so they don't question the [[EasyRoadToHell flaws in the system]]. In the SpinOff ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' it's shown that the CelestialBureaucracy is extremely condescending and perfectly willing to banish their own to {{Hell}} for a single mistake.

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 contrast AHellOfATime for when hell is fun for a specific person. See also ReroutedFromHeaven, when they're in the ''wrong'' afterlife. Subtrope of EsotericHappyEnding.

* Apparently the viewpoint of late 7th-century Frisian king Radbod. He was drawn to the Christian faith and was about to be baptized by St. Wulfram of Sens, who was a missionary to Friesland at the time. When he asked where his pagan ancestors were, St. Wulfram responded that they were in Hell. Disgusted, Radbod declared "I will go to hell with my ancestors rather than be in heaven without them" and dismissed St. Wulfram. However, it is said that when Radbod was on the verge of dying, he changed his mind and sought baptism from St. Willibrord, another missionary, but unfortunately died before his arrival.

* ''[[Website/SCPFoundation SCP]]''''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7179 -7179]]'' is a pocket of spacetime centered on a tropical island, which a few deceased individuals observed by the Foundation have traveled to after death. It's a seeming paradise where people are in perfect health, the weather is a constantly comfortable EndlessDaytime, and anyone there is offered all the vices one could ever want. And that's it; the realm never changes, the people there are mindless automatons with no will of their own and there's no way to leave, not even dying. While also there's no way to communicate with anyone trapped there, signals can be sent to us from them, which is how the Foundation documented one subject's experience. This is also how they found that [[spoiler: a factorial of ''One Googol years'' [[note]] That's a variable multiplied by every single number between one and ten to the hundredth power [[/note]] in SCP-7179 is equal to one second in our world.]]

* In ''Film/{{Heathers}}'', the first Heather to die is seen later in a dream. She complains that Heaven is ''so'' boring. A deleted scene would've shown Heaven to be a dance party, being the only place "Heathers" and "Marthas" can get along.

* In ''Film/{{Heathers}}'', the first Heather to die is seen later in a dream. She complains that Heaven is ''so'' boring.

* A popular claim among Catholic saints is that the highest realm of Purgatory, often dubbed the "Threshold" or the "Purgatory of desire," works on this principle: there is no fire and it resembles an Earthly paradise, akin to Eden, but being cut off from God alone makes the souls endure unbearable, hell-like torments. Of course, this emphasizes that Heaven is the real paradise.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' where a man is killed by a car accident and arrives in a Heaven riddled with pedophiles (his creepy uncle), murderers ("I was a serial killer! But I repented in prison and went to Heaven!"), crusaders ("I killed hundreds in the name of our Lord!") and ''Adolf Hitler'' ("I'm just as surprised as you are"). He can't handle that it's so lax to get in and is sent back to Earth by an angel... [[CameBackWrong back into his dead mangled body]].

* In the Bible, Salvation is a free gift, ''but rewards are not''. You can be saved for accepting the Messiah, but all your achievements are burned in hellfire. Failing to do any good works in life, or following the saviour's example, makes you the Least in Heaven. You don't get any of the Five Crowns from God, none of the additional honours The Son may want for you. You end up little more than a servant in paradise, and don't inherit any authority or treasures that the children of God do.

** One issue involves a road trip to Heaven where one of the residents is a suicide bomber whose promised seventy-two virgins turn out to be infants that he's apparently stuck caring for.

* The main plan of the BigBad of ''Manga/DungeonMeshi'' is to create one of these. [[spoiler: The Winged Lion is an ancient EldritchAbomination (more accurately, its the AnthropomorphicPersonification of all magic) that feeds on desire, so it wants to put all life into its body, from which it will keep everyone in a state of eternal bliss while endlessly consuming their joy and desire produced by this.]]