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* ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'', the fourth movie in the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' film series.

* ''VideoGame/{{Afterlife}}'', a 1996 videogame.

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This is a disambiguation page. Afterlife may refer to:

* ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'', the fourth movie in the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' series.

* ''ResidentEvilAfterlife'', the fourth movie in the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' series.

Tropes related to the afterlife are listed below. See also DeathTropes.

* AfterlifeAntechamber
* CessationOfExistence
* DeadToBeginWith
* DeathAmnesia
* {{Heaven}}
** FluffyCloudHeaven
** StairwayToHeaven
* {{Hell}}
** FireAndBrimstoneHell
** BloodyBowelsOfHell
** SelfInflictedHell
** IronicHell
** CirclesOfHell
** ToHellAndBack
*** RescuedFromPurgatory
** LikeABadassOutOfHell
** YouAreWorthHell
** {{Hellevator}}
* MundaneAfterlife
* TheNothingAfterDeath
* OffscreenAfterlife
* {{Psychopomp}}
** AfterlifeExpress
** TheGrimReaper
** {{Valkyries}}
* TogetherInDeath

* {Psychopomp}}

* Psychopomp

** Valkyries

* AfterlifeExpress

This is a disambiguation page.

If you are looking for the videogame see: VideoGame.{{Afterlife}}.

If you are looking for the trope about the afterlife, please stay tuned to this space.

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[[caption-width-right:258:The box opened in the middle so neither side was the correct choice.]]

->''The last word in sims!''

''Afterlife'' is a resource management game released in 1996 by LucasArts. In it, you play as a sort of celestial mayor called a "demiurge," with the ability to design a custom afterlife for the dead. It's sort of like ''Sim City'', only the citizens are the souls of the departed and you are punishing them for their sins or rewarding them for their good virtues.

Help can be summoned to you by in the form of an angel called Aria, and Jasper, the demon who really wishes he wasn't here right now. It's not all easy, though- multiple random (and weird) events can happen and mess up things badly. Like many life sims, the game doesn't end in the traditional sense, but you can lose the game in multiple ways.

Just remember [[NoFairCheating not to cheat too many times]]. If you do, the [[StarWars Death Star]] will come and start destroying everything you've built.

Not to be confused with the ITV1 show of the same name, or the 2009 film starring ChristinaRicci, LiamNeeson, and JustinLong.
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This game features examples of:

* AndIMustScream - Most of the Lust punishments.
* AWorldwidePunomenon - [[HurricaneOfPuns Almost everything has puns in its title or description.]]
* BatOutOfHell - Literally. And buildings hit by their droppings [[CursedWithAwesome increase productivity.]]
* BloodyBowelsOfHell - The punishment "The Bowels of Hell".
* CelestialBureaucracy
* {{Clap Your Hands If You Believe}}
* CrystalDragonJesus - the fake religions
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}- Jasper
* DeathIsntPermanent - if you believe in reincarnation, that is.
* {{The Ditz}}- Aria.
* EndlessGame - like most Simulation Games, it never ends.
** Not exactly, it's very possible to lose the game. Train too many angels and demons, and the unemployed ones decide that whole War-Between-Heaven-And-Hell thing would ''really'' solve their boredom. Lose too many Souls, and ThePowersThatBe perform the [[RocksFallEveryoneDies Heaven and Hell Fall, everyone vanishes]] miracle.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - most fate structures
* FemaleAngelMaleDemon
* FluffyCloudHeaven
* FireAndBrimstoneHell
* GameplayAutomation - The automatic balancing of buildings.
* {{Good Angel Bad Angel}}- Parodied. Aria's the nicer of the two, but she is by no means the smartest.
* FunWithAcronyms - Almost everything. [=EMBOs=] are '''E'''thically '''M'''ature '''B'''iological '''O'''rganisms. When they die, they become SOULs, '''S'''tuff '''O'''f '''U'''nending '''L'''ife.
* HeyItsThatVoice - ''{{Diablo}} 2'''s Tyrael was voiced by Jasper Wormwood, your demonic assistant in ''Afterlife''.
* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse - Actually, [[SurferDude Surfers of the Apocalypso]].
* IronicHell - Most of the punishments qualify to some extent, and there's actually a low-level building that crops up every once in a while that deconstructs the concept; the amount of time the demons within spend finding the most IronicHell conceivable is actually rather inefficient.
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards Heaven is easier to run early in the game, because Heaven prefers short travel times for [=SOUL=]s to walk, while Hell perfers the Damned walk a long time. As the game goes on, and both plane's road systems become more complex, and Aria ''will'' inevitably start whining about it, and there's ''nothing you can do''.
* LoadingScreen - Which has jokes, of course.
* LogoJoke
* ManOfWealthAndTaste - Jasper dresses in a snazzy business suit.
* MundaneAfterlife: A lot of the heavenly rewards bring to mind an indefinite vacation at an expensive resort hotel, something like a cross between Center Parcs and Disneyland.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent - or, "Our [[FunWithAcronyms SOULs (Stuff Of Unending Life)]]"
* PostModernism - one of Heaven's fate structures is... "Game of AfterLife", in which the [=SOUL=]s play a Heaven/Hell building game
* PoweredByAForsakenChild - ''Omnibolges'', massive buildings capable of punishing billions of [=SOUL=] at a time, are the remains of other Hells that were so actively evil that they collapsed in upon themselves. The horrible thing is that these buildings are still fully-functioning Hells themselves. That table? A super-compressed Lust punishment. That coffee cup? A super-compressed Sloth punishment.
** Interestingly, Heaven gets something similar with their Love Domes. Instead of collapsing upon themselves, Love Domes are other Heavens that [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming became so happy and peaceful]] that [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence the entire Heaven ascended to pure happiness.]] That chair you're sitting on is composed of ''trillions'' of heavenly [=SOULs=].
* ShoutOut - from the rewarding structure "Casino Royale" to the punishment "The Real Underworld", passing by the Death Star mentioned above (it's a LucasArts game, after all)
* ThePowersThatBe
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* IronicHell

* FunnyAneurysmMoment One of the punishments for Wrathful sinners? Terrorville, a world that experiences terrorist attacks nonstop. The picture of this particular punishment is a tall building on fire.

* HilariousInHindsight - "Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim" is a reward structure where the blessed soul can control an entire galaxy from the smallest microbe to the largest space races. The building is a hand holding a orb containing a spiral galaxy. [[{{Spore}} Does this remind you of anything?]]

* JustOneMoreLevel

* SwirlyEnergyThing - Good/Bad Vibes.

** Not exactly, it's very possible to lose the game. Train too many angels and demons, and the unemployed ones decide that whole War-Between-Heaven-And-Hell thing would ''really'' solve their boredom. Lose too many Souls, and ThePowersThatBe perform the Heaven and Hell Fall, everyone vanishes miracle.

* AWorldwidePunomenon

** Not exactly, it's very possible to lose the game. Train too many angels and demons, and the unemployed ones decide that whole War-Between-Heaven-And-Hell thing would ''really'' solve their boredom. Lose too many Souls, and ThePowersThatBe perform the [[RocksFallEveryoneDies Heaven And Hell Fall, Everyone Vanishes]] miracle.

Not to be confused with the ITV1 show of the same name, or the 2009 film starring CristinaRicci and LiamNeeson.

->''The last word in simulations!''

Not to be confused with the ITV1 show of the same name.

* HeyItsThatVoice - [[MisterBibs This troper]] was never surprised in {{Diablo}} 2 that [[spoiler: the Archangel Tyrael was actually Baal, a demon]]: The 'angel' was voiced by Jasper Wormwood, your demonic assistant in ''Afterlife''.

* {{The Tetris Effect}}