History Main / DraggedOffToHell

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', failing your warlock companion Wyll's questline in Part II results in this as punishment for failing to keep up his end of his DealWithTheDevil.

** Whenever you finish off a boss, it gets dragged to hell by a bunch of clawing red arms (save for [[spoiler:Jubileus, the FinalBoss]], who gets [[HurlItIntoTheSun launched into the sun instead]]). This also happens to Bayonetta on the game over screen if you choose not to continue.

* ''VideoGame/Doom3'' has this happen with you. No, seriously. You survive and proceed to chew up Hell, though.

'''Since this is a {{death trope|s}}, it will include some spoilers.'''

Like Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, not all versions of hell are inescapable. See EscapedFromHell and RescuedFromTheUnderworld, though this is typically the absolute worst fate anyone can receive, as any and all torments covered under FateWorseThanDeath can and given the nature of eternal suffering probably will apply with the addition of it starting with death.

* This is the fate of the title character of Music/StevenWilson's "The Holy Drinker" after he gets into a DrinkingContest with the devil and loses.

Being Dragged Off to Hell (or if being clever, Descending to a Lower Plane of Existence) is a common villain fate, especially for those who previously made a DealWithTheDevil. In an inversion of AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, they are dragged off screaming by some kind of eldritch force (generally in the form of a bunch of arms reaching out for them), leaving no body behind.

** In the original ''Anime/YuGiOh'' anime, Yami Bakura does this to Bonz, Sid, and Zygor. After Bonz loses a Shadow Game, Bonz is dragged into the Shadow Realm by an unknown force, along with Sid and Zygor. This was ''Hell'' in the dub. The original scene from the manga had Yami Bakura simply kill Bonz, which was a bit more gruesome, although not as severe. What's worse, ''this is never brought up again'', and none of the characters are ever seen or heard from again.

* Being a demon-heavy series with a focus on HeavenVersusHell, ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' actually features very little dragging of people off into the Burning Hells. Unless you count [[TheQuisling Nihlathak]] from ''VideoGame/DiabloII'''s "Lord of Destruction" expansion, the last Elder of Harrogath who made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with Baal]] to hand over the Relic of the Ancients to him in return for Harrogath's safety, which got him the full Dragged Off To Hell treatment when he was defeated by the player.

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', there is an alley in the town of Morioh inhabited by the ghost of Reimi Sugimoto, victim of serial killer Yoshikage Kira. The only way to proceed safely through the alley is to turn after walking twenty feet, and to not look back: otherwise, the hands of a hundred ghosts will drag you to the afterlife ''in pieces''. Koichi was barely saved by Rohan wiping his memory of looking behind. [[spoiler:Yoshikage Kira]] is not so lucky after his DeathByAmbulance, where he ends up in the alley and gets sent to his reckoning.

** In a more literal sense, but using the same alleyway, Rohan Kishibe gets rid of [[spoiler:Cheap Trick]] by tricking him into looking behind. To add insult to injury, he uses Heaven's Door (whose power forces victims to obey anything written on them) to write "I'm going to Hell" on him as he's dragged off (though Rohan notes he's not sure if Hell actually exists or not, if it does exist he wants to make sure that's where [[spoiler:Cheap Trick]] ends up).

* This happens to one Hollow (or specifically, the soul of the serial killer that turned into said Hollow Shrieker) in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. When most Hollows are killed they evaporate and go to the Soul Society, having been purified and allowed to continue in the cycle of reincarnation between the two worlds. In Shrieker's case, the gates of Hell appeared behind him and a giant arm impaled him on a sword and dragged him through. This is what happens to any human who committed grave sins of their own free will in life, as opposed to after transformation into a Hollow.

* This is the ultimate fate of [[TheButlerDidIt Ramsley]] in ''Film/TheHauntedMansion''. [[{{Irony}} Ironically, he's dragged to Hell after he tells everyone else that]] ''[[{{Irony}} they]]'' [[{{Irony}} can go to Hell]]. He also happens to be a ghost too, so it’s literal at that too.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Near the end of the Alicization arc, Kirito defeats Gabriel Miller/Vector, who has killed his childhood friend/fiance, Alicia Klingerman, [[EnfanteTerrible when he was just a child]], and many others over time just to please his curiosity of the human soul. After finding his corpse, Gabriel's soul is reunited with "Alicia's" (presumably a demon masquerading as her given how "she" acts). She immediately grabs him, promising they'll always be together, and Gabriel screams endlessly as "Alicia", along with other spirits, drags him into Hell to be tormented by the memory of his victims ''forever''.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', this happens to Gilgamesh at the end of the Unlimited Blade Works route. Since the Grail couldn't find a human vessel to use, it attempted to be born through Gil, as he gained a human body at the end of ''LightNovel/FateZero''. However, since he isn't technically living, he merely dies along with it.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Morty's Mind Blowers", in a {{flashback}}, the duo meet a DeathSeeker alien who asks Rick to kill him in order for him to die a warrior's death and get to his race's Heaven, but when Morty asks if he has any proof of it, he gets cold feet and winds up being hit by a car. They then see his spirit get dragged down by demons while Rick comments "They have a Hell and it does not look good."

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* DraggedOffToHell/AnimeAndManga
* DraggedOffToHell/FanWorks
* [[DraggedOffToHell/LiveActionFilms Film - Live-Action]]
* DraggedOffToHell/{{Literature}}
* DraggedOffToHell/LiveActionTV
* DraggedOffToHell/VideoGames
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* Allegedly Music/{{Gorillaz}} guitarist Noodle was dragged to Hell when the devil couldn't get hold of Murdoc. It's unclear whether this is actually true, but she definitely went missing for a long time [[spoiler:[[EscapedFromHell and now is back but injured and packing impressive firepower]]]].
* "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, with the God of Hellfire dragging some poor sap into Hell.
* Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart made the VillainProtagonist of ''Theatre/DonGiovanni'' suffer this fate at the hands of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK1_vm0FMAU Commendatore]] in one of the most famous scenes in all of opera.

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* This has been used as a mind game by Wrestling/TheUndertaker and Wrestling/{{Kane}} to intimidate their opponents. Undertaker first used this against [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] after Diesel cost him a shot at the WWE Championship. [[UnexplainedRecovery Diesel was perfectly fine the next time he showed up.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': This has happened to [[CosmicPlaything Stumpy]] [[TheyKilledKennyAgain more than once]].
** It also happens to Quack Quack in "[[spoiler: Let's Play Hopscotch]]", where Mr. Cat tricks him into thinking that a path to Hell is the way to Heaven.

Like Ascend To A Higher Plane Of Existence, not all versions of hell are inescapable. See EscapedFromHell and RescuedFromTheUnderworld, though this is typically the absolute worst fate anyone can receive, as any and all torments covered under FateWorseThanDeath can and given the nature of eternal suffering probably will apply with the addition of it starting with death.

Like AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, not all versions of hell are inescapable. See EscapedFromHell and RescuedFromTheUnderworld, though this is typically the absolute worst fate anyone can receive, as any and all torments covered under FateWorseThanDeath can and given the nature of eternal suffering probably will apply with the addition of it starting with death.

** Carface, the bulldog antagonist, made a pact with the demonic BigBad Red (who is, of course, [[CatsAreMean a cat]]). At the end, he gets dragged to hell with the revelation that he sold his soul - thinking that all he was selling was the soles of his shoes.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', this is the fate of Lord Barkis Bittern after the dead learn it was he who murdered Emily. It should be noted that they waited until he drank the poisoned wine meant for Victor before dragging him off to the land of the dead.

* Pretty much the norm in the traditional Myth/{{Faust}} legend and any DealWithTheDevil story in which a) the human doesn't win, or repent in time, and b) doesn't just go to Hell after death.

* This has been used as a mind game by Wrestling/TheUndertaker and Wrestling/{{Kane}} to intimidate their opponents. Undertaker first used this against [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] after Diesel cost him a shot at the WWE Championship. [[UnexplainedRecovery Of course, Diesel was perfectly fine the next time he showed up.]]

** The 5th Edition adventure module ''TabletopGame/BaldursGateDescentIntoAvernus'' features an entire city being...well, dragged off into Avernus, the first layer of the [[CirclesofHell Nine Hells of Baator]]. [[spoiler: The holy city of Elturel, and all of its inhabitants, were dragged there as part of Zariel's plan to gather many mortal souls for the Blood War. Depending on the players' choices during the adventure, it can be returned to Toril or be trapped in Avernus forever.]]

* In pretty much every version of the Don Juan story (including Molina's original, Creator/{{Moliere}}'s ''Dom Juan'', and Mozart's ''Theatre/DonGiovanni''), Juan accepts an invitation from a statue of someone he murdered, the father of one of his conquests, and when the statue returns for him, a portal opens up into Hell and Juan enters. If the production doesn't have the budget for that, though, he may just collapse and describe this happening to him as he dies.

* Parodied with the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/youre-going-to-brazil "You're Going to Brazil" meme]], which features people being dragged to, of course, [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Brazil]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Not literally, but Malachite's fate has definite elements of this, as she is chained and dragged down to the depths of the ocean while trying desperately to escape. [[spoiler:Although it turns out that Jasper ''[[CombatSadomasochist enjoyed]]'' being roughed up by Lapis]].

* The ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' book ''Inferno'' introduces Hell and its metaphysics to the setting. It's perfectly possible to open a gate to Hell... but when it pops open, everyone in the immediate vicinity has to fight not to get dragged in (and if they fail, there's no coming back). It also happens in a metaphysical sense, as everyone who looks on the mouth of Hell has to make a Morality check - not because they did anything wrong, but because [[GoMadFromTheRevelation they stared into the incarnation of all sin]], and that can screw with even saints.

%%* Lich in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''.

Like AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, not all versions of hell are inescapable. See EscapedFromHell and RescuedFromTheUnderworld, though this is typically the absolute worst fate anyone can receive, as any and all torments covered under FateWorseThenDeath can and given the nature of eternal suffering probably will apply with the addition of it starting with death.

Like AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, not all versions of hell are inescapable. See EscapedFromHell and RescuedFromTheUnderworld, though this is typically the absolute worst fate anyone can receive.

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* Losing a ''Anime/{{Bakugan}} Brawl'' when a Doom Card is in play automatically results in being sucked into the Doom Dimension for the unlucky Bakugan that loses, which is pretty much the Bakugan Hell. Thankfully, the Brawlers win a bet that allows all the Bakugan sent there to be set free after being sent there themselves. According to WordOfGod, this happened to [[BigBad Naga]] when he was defeated, though we don't see it.
* This is the fate of pretty much any Apostle that dies in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''. We see two examples in the course of the manga: [[spoiler:the Count after he refuses to sacrifice his daughter to save his life and be reborn, and Wyald after Zodd rips him in half for trying to kill Griffith before the Eclipse]].
** It's also the inevitable fate of everyone who [[spoiler:gets branded for sacrifice (no exceptions), gets killed by an apostle or was unwittingly working for one (lots of people) or is filled with hatred at the moment of their death (life in Midland is cruel, so even more candidates available).]] As you can imagine, Hell is a really crowded place in this universe, and [[EasyRoadToHell it's ridiculously easy to end up there]]...at least, if you get "lucky", you have a chance to "merely" become a restless spirit that haunts the area in which it died. This is because the afterlife in ''Berserk'' is part of the Astral Plane, which is affected by human beliefs and emotions, meaning that eons of human suffering and hatred has shaped it into what it is rather than deliberate design by a malicious God. [[spoiler: This is also the source of the Idea Of Evil, the personification of humanity's desire for a reason to their suffering, the secret BigBad of the series and the closest thing the setting has to a God. It didn't create the afterlife or humanity, but embraces it's purpose as a source of suffering, and is behind nearly every bad thing that happens in the series and it's backstory, including the creation of the God Hand.]]
* This happens to one Hollow (or specifically, the soul of the serial killer that turned into said Hollow Shrieker) in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. When most Hollows are killed they evaporate and go to the Soul Society, having been purified and allowed to continue in the cycle of reincarnation between the two worlds. In Shrieker's case, the gates of Hell appeared behind him and a giant arm impaled him on a sword and dragged him through. This is what happens to any human who committed grave sins of their own free will in life, as opposed to after transformation into a Hollow.
** In the fourth movie, this happens to ''Ichigo's younger sister Yuzu''. Ichigo and some of his friends have to ''literally'' go to Hell to rescue her. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, the main villain gets dragged off to an ''even deeper'' level of Hell than he's already in.]]
* The Gehenna Gate in ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' contains a bunch of figures and resembles a ball pit. Should anyone go into the gate, the figures latch on and drag them down; a fate the protagonist narrowly avoids.
* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'':
** All [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Devils]] that are killed on Earth end up in Hell-- and if they're killed in Hell [[TrappedInAnotherWorld they get dragged off to Earth]].
** [[spoiler:During the International Assassins arc, Denji and the group are teleported to hell by a contract between "Santa Claus" and the Hell Devil. All the full-blooded devils start freaking out because Denji's presence almost immediately causes the Darkness Devil to attack them all.]]
* In ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'', MonsterOfTheWeek Sepikmon was a [[ISeeDeadPeople spirit medium]] Digimon who sought to kill Kiyoshiro and drag him across the River Styx in PurgatoryAndLimbo because [[BlueAndOrangeMorality he didn't know how to befriend the living]]. Thanks to a lucky PhoneCallFromTheDead, his partner Jellymon is able to save him and [[InvertedTrope drag them both back to the world of the living]].
* At the end of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler:Father, the BigBad]] is dragged screaming into the GateOfTruth and receives an IronicHell. By extension, this is the fate of any alchemist who attempts to resurrect the dead, although after being taken, they are sent back alive (minus an organ or limb).
** If you consider the "In Memorium" omakes to be canon, then Shou Tucker's fate is ultimately this (since we see Nina and Alexander in Heaven, while he's being engulfed by flames below). Given that no other villain save Father receives such a fate, this says a ''lot'' about just how horrific Tucker truly was.
* In ''[[Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro GeGeGe No Kitaro (2018)]]'', an episode focuses on a man and his employee boarding a train heading towards an unknown location. During the trip, the man experiences several hallucinations of familar deceased people, including his employee. After the train reaches its stop, Kitaro appears and reveals that the man was DeadAllAlong and he was such a MeanBoss during his life, he drove a majority of his staff to suicide and was killed by their vengeful spirits. Immediately, they return and hold him down as he screams while the train heads towards its destination, straight to Hell.
* This is essentially the premise of ''Anime/HellGirl''. By entering into a contract with Ai Enma, those who use Hell Correspondence can have those who have grievously wronged them (or as evidenced in later arcs, just pissed them off) sent to Hell, with the price being their own damnation upon death.
-->"This is vengeance, so I am to ferry you to Hell."
* Rare heroic example in ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'': [[spoiler:This is what happened to Minako-sensei after she pulled an HeroicSacrifice for a young Nube. Years later, when Nube finds out about this, he's forced to fuse both her soul and the demon that killed her (Baki) [[SealedEvilInACan inside one of his hands]].]]
* In ''Manga/InuYasha'', whenever the eyes the Soul Piper spirit are fully open, it drags the spirits of children into hell. This was almost the fate of Mayu, the spirit of a little girl who died in a fire.
** In the third movie, BigBad Sounga opens a gateway to hell intending to suck everyone on Earth into it. [[spoiler: This is foiled when he is killed by Inuyasha and Sesshomaru, and his lifeless body falls into hell before the portal closes)]]
** In The Final Act, the technique Meido Zangetsuha can, when complete, suck an enemy straight into hell, condemning them to eternal damnation. The first significant use of this is when Sesshomaru uses it on the demon Shishinki.
*** A less fatal instance happens when a Hell Hound swallows [[spoiler:Rin and Kohaku]] and goes through a Meido into the underworld. [[spoiler:Kohaku]] survives the trip due to [[spoiler:the Jewel Shard in his back]], while the trip kills [[spoiler:Rin, who is saved from being sucked into the deepest depths of hell for damnation, and later revived. Sesshomaru gets Kohaku out as well]].
*** The attack is also quite notably used on [[spoiler:Naraku]], but his soul is able to escape damnation.
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', there is an alley in the town of Morioh inhabited by the ghost of Reimi Sugimoto, victim of serial killer Yoshikage Kira. The only way to proceed safely through the alley is to turn after walking twenty feet, and to not look back: otherwise, the hands of a hundred ghosts will drag you to the afterlife ''in pieces''. Koichi was barely saved by Rohan wiping his memory of looking behind. [[spoiler:Yoshikage Kira]] is not so lucky after his DeathByAmbulance, where he ends up in the alley and gets sent to his reckoning.
** In a more literal sense, but using the same alleyway, Rohan Kishibe gets rid of [[spoiler:Cheap Trick]] by tricking him into looking behind. To add insult to injury, he uses Heaven's Door (whose power forces victims to obey anything written on them) to write "I'm going to Hell" on him as he's dragged off (though Rohan notes he's not sure if Hell actually exists or not, if it does exist he wants to make sure that's where [[spoiler:Cheap Trick]] ends up).
* In ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji'', magical law involves charging the spirit with a sentence that is appropriate for the crimes it has committed, and summoning an entity to carry out the sentence. In most cases, the spirit is taken away to Hell, but some spirits with lesser crimes are sent to the River Styx instead (meaning they'll eventually go to heaven), and in one case, Muhyo sends a spirit who stayed around to help his friends complete a mural directly to heaven.
* In the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'' episode "Ghoul Daze!", the VillainOfTheWeek is an [[EnfantTerrible evil]] CuteGhostGirl that attempts to inflict this on the protagonists. TheGrimReaper Pokémon Dusknoir spends the entirety of the episode protecting them from it but [[DarkIsNotEvil gets accused of being the real threat due to its frightening appearance]], before it saves their lives and banishes the girl back to TheUnderworld.
* This happens to [[spoiler:Shiva]] in ''[[AudioPlay/SaintBeast Saint Beast: Seijuu Kourin Hen]]''.
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Near the end of the Alicization arc, Kirito defeats Gabriel Miller/Vector, who has killed his childhood friend/fiance, Alicia Klingerman, [[EnfanteTerrible when he was just a child]], and many others over time just to please his curiosity of the human soul. After finding his corpse, Gabriel's soul is reunited with "Alicia's" (presumably a demon masquerading as her given how "she" acts). She immediately grabs him, promising they'll always be together, and Gabriel screams endlessly as "Alicia", along with other spirits, drags him into Hell to be tormented by the memory of his victims ''forever''.
* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
** In the original ''Anime/YuGiOh'' anime, Yami Bakura does this to Bonz, Sid, and Zygor. After Bonz loses a Shadow Game, Bonz is dragged into the Shadow Realm by an unknown force, along with Sid and Zygor. This was ''Hell'' in the dub. The original scene from the manga had Yami Bakura simply kill Bonz, which was a bit more gruesome, although not as severe. What's worse, ''this is never brought up again'', and none of the characters are ever seen or heard from again.
** This happened to ''all'' the Dark Signers in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' after losing to the Signers, even the ones who didn't deserve it, although it was a subversion in that there was no screaming or flashy display involved; they simply turned to dust.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':
** Havoc, being the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Hell/Tartarus, is capable of doing this by [[SwallowedWhole swallowing a condemned soul whole.]]
** When Havoc isn't the one to do it, there have been occasions when another deity has done this. In the case of the [[EnfantTerrible Nameless Filly]] who killed Cupid (dooming untold numbers of innocents to being [[RetGone erased from existence]] and felt no remorse at all for it), Venus personally threw her soul into Havoc at the end of her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
** Various versions of Fluttercruel have had some version of this trope attempted on them (either to Oblivion or Tartarus, depending on how evil they were), but none have actually succeeded.
* In ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyMeets'', [[spoiler:Princess Luna saves Applebloom from The Elm Street Slasher [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], by ''impaling him with her horn and throwing him back into hell'']].
** Sadly, [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash]] is subjected to this fate, after [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} Cuphead and Mugman]] incapacitate her, in "Cuphead Meets", thanks to a past DealWithTheDevil she made. [[spoiler:Though Cuphead and Mugman do [[BittersweetEnding plan on freeing her, after they're done with their own debt]]...]]
* ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular'' has this happen at the end of the story "Come and See" from the eighth edition, [[spoiler: with [[{{Satan}} the Devil]] dragging Gaz down to Hell]]. Though this seems to have only been symbolic of [[YourSoulIsMine the soul being taken]], as the character in question is then shown physically in a hospital, albeit in an EmptyShell state.
* ''Fanfic/MyRidonculousRace'': In Russia Dwayne is about to lower his son into the Kola Borehole when the hole erupts with fire and a demon pops up out of it to drag him down to the underworld. Thankfully it was only an ImagineSpot.
* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'': As it is a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' crossover, Sunset and friends witness this happen to a particular Hollow early on in the fic, and they get Hell's purpose explained to them. [[spoiler:As it turns out, however, Hell is also the place the Zero Division has been imprisoning otherwise-innocent souls they believe are a threat to the new world they intend to create. One such soul was Sunburst, who wasn't even a Hollow and just a recently killed innocent, right in front of Human Starlight Glimmer (who was the one who did the ritual that was ''supposed'' to just send him on to Soul Society). Her determination to find out ''why'' he was sent to Hell and stumbling onto the Zero Division's intentions is what prompted her severing ties with Soul Society, betraying Discord, and becoming one of the major antagonists [[WellIntentionedExtremist in her goal to stop them]].]]
* ''Fanfic/{{Boldores and Boomsticks}}'': A cenitaur gets dragged back down its tunnel and dispatched a second later by a horde of Alolan Diglett, fighting all the while.
* ''Fanfic/ALoudAmongDemons'': after destroying almost the entirety of D.H.O.R.K.'s forces and nearly killing their top agents, the curse on Lincoln finally activates and winds up dragging him back to hell. However, unlike most examples of this trope, this is actually a GOOD THING for him since it put him safely back at I.M.P. headquarters without so much as a scratch.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* At the end of ''Film/BigTitsZombie'', Maria is dragged off to Hell by the Blue Ogre after she attempts to cast Rena down the Well of Souls.
* ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle'': Immediately after being told to "Go to Hell", Madison Lee is kicked through a board on a stage and shoots an opened gas pipe as she falls, causing her to be engulfed in flames.
* Satan shows up in person to drag John Constantine to Hell in ''Film/Constantine2005'' [[SuicideIsShameful for his two suicides]]. [[spoiler:However, his second suicide not only helped save the world, by calling Satan to collect his soul John gets him to deal with an usurper, John asked for the soul of the sister of a friend who was trapped in hell to be free. This [[HeroicSacrifice selfless act]] redeems John and he ends up getting dragged off to ''Heaven''; the best Satan can do is to heal Constantine's cancer, dragging him back to Earth. Only in order to give him another chance to screw up, but it's Satan, after all.]]
* ''Film/DragMeToHell'' has it right there in the title. Those who piss off Sylvia Ganush get a GypsyCurse placed upon them that involves being tormented for three days and nights by a demon known as the Lamia, after which they are forcibly dragged into the depths of Hell. This happens to a little kid in the opening of the movie, and the bulk of the movie has protagonist Christine getting the curse put on her and doing all she can to try and break it so that she doesn't suffer this fate. [[spoiler:She fails, and is ultimately dragged to Hell in the final scene.]]
* When Martin manages to save Rose by having sex with her in ''Film/ExtraOrdinary2019'', there are no more virgins left for Christian to sacrifice, the portal closing right after Christian falls into the pit.
* The fate of the two serial killers turned serial ghosts Patricia Bradley and Johnny Bartlett in ''Film/TheFrighteners'', as they are carried off screaming to Hell from the gates of Heaven in the mouth of a horrific-looking demonic worm monstrosity. As Cyrus quips in the aftermath of this event:
-->'''Cyrus:''' Ah, the good ol' express bus to Hell. No lines, no wait!
* ''Film/Ghost1990'': When both of Sam Wheat's murderers are killed (the hitman who carried out the crime [[spoiler: and the "friend" who ordered the hit itself]]), a group of small shadowy creatures appear from the shadows themselves and drag their spirits to the underworld.
* This is the ultimate fate of [[TheButlerDidIt Ramsley]] in ''Film/TheHauntedMansion''. [[{{Irony}} Ironically, he's dragged to Hell after he tells everyone else that]] ''[[{{Irony}} they]]'' [[{{Irony}} can go to Hell]]. He also happens to be a ghost too, so it’s literal at that too.
* In ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'', the psycho Slick, after being shot by the Hobo, is spiritually carried away to Hell in the charred school bus that he previously incinerated a bunch of little kids in.
* As promised by the title, the end of ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' shows Jason getting pulled down into Hell after he is stabbed with a certain magical dagger. This course of action leaves only his trademark hockey mask behind, which is then dragged down by [[spoiler:[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]]].
* ''Film/LeftForDead'': When Clem shots Mobius with his own infernal six-shooter, his soul emerges from the hole in his chests and plunges straight into the ground; leaving his empty shell to collapse to the ground.
* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'':
** [[PlayingWithATrope Partly done]] to Imhotep in ''Film/TheMummy1999''. In this instance, the part dragged to the Underworld is the spirit that granted him his immortality, making his body mortal.
** Happens to Imhotep again in ''Film/TheMummyReturns'', after his DespairEventHorizon.
** The fate of the Emperor in ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor''.
* In ''Film/RedheadBehindTheLookingGlass'', the villain suffers this fate when the heroine's mother (whom he had previously used as HostageForMacGuffin) tells him "Oh, go to hell!"... while holding the Wishing Nut in her hand.
* In the Syfy flick ''Film/RockMonster'', the animated stone giant drops through a magma-filled crack in the earth, and it grabs its villainous conjurer and pulls him down with it. It's strongly implied that they wind up in Hell, not just underground.
* Lady van Tassel's eventual fate with the Hessian whom she cursed to make her servant of revenge at the end of ''Film/SleepyHollow1999''.
* ''Film/{{Stardust}}'': The ghosts of the Princes of Stormhold serve as a GreekChorus throughout the movie as they cannot move on to the afterlife until a new king has been chosen. At the end of the movie [[spoiler:Tristan is revealed to be their nephew]] which finally allows them to move on. Six of the princes turn into blue-white orbs that rise up towards Heaven. Septimus, the most villainous of the lot, instead turns into a red orb and drops down to the ground indicating he's going to Hell.
%%* Happens to the villains of ''Film/Supergirl1984''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
* In ''Film/TalesFromTheHood3'', this winds up being [[SerialKiller William]]'s fate after the Devil gets the ghosts of his victims to kill him.
-->'''Satan:''' [[{{God}} He]] gets the good ones, and me... I get ''you.''
* ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'' does this twice with [[spoiler:Satan]]: First in a flashback explaining the origins of the Pick of Destiny, and secondly at [[spoiler:the climax of the movie when JB seals Satan back in Hell after breaking his horn]]. In both cases, though, there aren't really any hands - it's an invisible force which does the (very forceful) dragging - though there are pentagram-style portals to the underworld involved.
* Happens to Creator/AdamWest's chracter in ''Film/ZombieNightmare''.
-->'''Crow:''' ''(thoroughly impressed)'' '''''WOW!''''' So Hell's right there!\\
'''Servo:''' Yeah. That's why you should call before you dig.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In Literature/TheBible, specifically in the book of Numbers, God has two families dragged alive and screaming down into Sheol for disobeying him.
* In the second ''Literature/BlackLondon'' book, ''Demon Bound'', it's what's supposed to happen, but Jack Winter just sort of willingly goes along to hell after lots of having tried to get out of it already because his DealWithTheDevil deadline is up.
* In ''[[Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus The Blood of Olympus]]'', [[spoiler:this fate befalls [[TheSociopath Bryce Lawrence]], when Nico banishes him to the fields of Asphodel, [[FateWorseThanDeath turning the former into a nameless spirit]]]].
* In "The Friar's Tale" in ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'', an evil [[CorruptChurch Summoner]] gets dragged off by a [[NobleDemon friendly]] [[SatanIsGood demon]].
* In ''Literature/CastleHangnail'', the evil sorceress is nearly dragged off to the Land of Shadows by a LivingShadow, but is saved by the heroine.
* This is the fate The Hunter in the ''Literature/ColdfireTrilogy'' is trying to avoid. He actually started out as a Prophet, but since in this setting [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve belief becomes reality,]] getting excommunicated from his own church and slandered as the Antichrist was [[FateWorseThanDeath very, very bad news for him.]] To avoid this fate he made a DealWithTheDevil with "The [[EldritchAbomination Unnamed]]," which would grant him immortality so long as he served them with evil. Then in the second book he [[NiceJobFixingItVillain screwed up by performing a selfless act of good,]] and... well. [[KnightTemplar Damien]] has to go and get him back.
* In ''Literature/DifferentSeasons: Apt Pupil'', this is implied to happen to [[spoiler:Dussander]] as he dies.
* ''Literature/TheVoyageOfStBrendan'': When St. Brendan and his monks sail past a volcano, a sinful monk is seized by invisible demons and dragged through the crater into Hell.
* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', the sinners in the next-to-last round of the [[CirclesOfHell last circle of Hell]], who [[SacredHospitality betrayed their guests]], get sent there instantly, while [[SinInvitesPossession a demon possesses the sinner's body]] on Earth.
* In the ''Literature/DragonKnight'' series, this happened to the evil magickian Malvinne after one of his {{deathtrap}}s encroached on the Kingdom of the Dead (which in this setting is an actual place).
* In ''Literature/TheEyesOfKidMidas'', the protagonist Kevin casually tells Bertram, the school bully, to go to Hell. Since Kevin is wearing a pair of RealityWarping sunglasses, the ground opens up beneath Bertram and swallows him. [[RhetoricalRequestBlunder Uh...whoops.]]
* The DealWithTheDevil story ''Literature/EnochSoames'' has the title character dragged off after Satan grants his wish to see his standing among writers 100 years in the future (it turns out to be nonexistent). This makes for a case of IronicName, since the Biblical Enoch experienced the [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence opposite trope]].
* ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: Army of Terror'' has the spectral Kivan wraiths haul off the one responsible for killing them all and turning their world into a GhostPlanet.
* In ''Literature/TheGolgothaSeries'', Biqa is unwilling to kill Raziel, but also knows that there is no prison in the world capable of holding him. He therefore hands custody of Raziel over to Lucifer, who drags him bodily to hell.
* In ''Literature/TheGrimReapersApprentice'', this is the fate of a family in the third chapter, giving Jax a chance to introduce himself as the Devil.
* The ultimate fate of the title character in Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/HerbertWestReanimator'' is to be carried off to an uncertain fate by the reanimated corpses he created.
* In ''Literature/TheHollows'' series, if a demon escapes from a summoning circle, it can do whatever it wants to you, up to and including taking you to the demonic underworld.
* The fate of both Nicolae Carpathia and Leon Fortunato as they both are pushed by Michael the archangel into the Lake Of Fire in the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book ''Glorious Appearing''.
* In the Creator/JosephPayneBrennan short story "[[Literature/TheBordersJustBeyond Lottman's End]]," thief, swindler, murderer and all-around ne'r-do-well Charlie Lottman is on his deathbed, friendless and alone except for a priest. As he nears his end, a demon arrives with the intent of dragging him to hell. [[spoiler:It turns out that Lottman had one redeeming quality, however; he couldn't stand to see animals suffer, and was always kind to [[PetTheDog dogs]] in particular. As the priest watches in awe, the ghosts of every single dog Lottman was ever kind to appear and surround his bed, protecting him from the demon, preventing him from being taken to hell when he dies.]]
* ''Literature/TheNightOfWishes'': The fate the main villains are attempting to avoid. [[spoiler:They fail and even get Property of Hell stickers courtesy of the archdemon's representative.]]
* ''Literature/SandmanSlim'' deals with a sorcerer who had this happen to him when he was betrayed by his cabal. The first book opens [[EscapedFromHell just as he gets out]].
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Theon Greyjoy's storyline seems based on these Hell morality plays. [[spoiler:He betrays his foster-brother Robb Stark when the Ironborn, led by his father Balon Greyjoy, attack the North and takes Winterfell, capturing Robb's young brothers Bran and Rickon Stark.]] Theon takes advice from "Reek", a necrophiliac prisoner who helped the deceased Ramsay Snow, [[BastardBastard the Bastard of Bolton]], murder Lady Hornwood, and performs more evil acts under their guidance, [[spoiler:even murdering two boys and passing them of as his foster-brothers, then murdering some of his men to cover this up.]] He finally sends Reek to the Bolton seat, [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace the Dreadfort]], to gather additional forces, and a Bolton army destroys the Northmen sent to retake Winterfell. However, Reek [[spoiler:then reveals himself to be Ramsay, betraying Theon, sacking Winterfell, and taking Theon back to the Dreadfort to be tortured, similar to morality plays ending with the lead being Dragged Off To Hell. Ironically as a result of his torture, which Theon feels he deserves, Theon comes closer to redeeming himself.]]
* In ''Literature/StarlightAndShadows'', Shakti challenges Liriel to a priestess duel where they summon an avatar of Lolth, to see who truly has the goddess's favor. The avatar sides with Liriel and banishes Shakti to the Abyss. However, Liriel worries that Shakti could eventually return, as Lolth is well known for being capricious in her judgements. [[spoiler:Indeed, impressed by the ruthless cunning Shakti uses to survive in the Abyss, and her continued loyalty to Lolth despite the goddess favoring Liriel over her, Lolth eventually praises Shakti's perseverance and sends her back home with additional power and blessings.]]
* Averted in Christopher Stasheff's ''Literature/AWizardInRhyme'': the main villain sold his soul to a major devil in return for earthly power. At the end when he is defeated, the devil literally shows up to take his soul to hell. The afore-mentioned good wizard invokes a spell/prayer (in this world they are very close) and Saint Moncaire appears, banishes the devil and saves the villain's soul. (In the afterword, the author explicitly stated that he wanted to write a fantasy book which reflected the feeling of the people in the Middle Ages that God, Satan, devils and saints regularly interacted with ordinary people (albeit in subtle ways) and that prayers and curses were dangerous things to invoke.)
** In a later book in the series, Matt finds out that he really shouldn't have said "damn that stick" when a tree limb was obstructing him, as he literally caused it to be dragged off to hell. While it was a blameless inanimate object ''before'' he damned it, it returns [[CreateYourOwnVillain as a conscious enemy]].
* In ''Wolfie'' by Theodore Cogswell, this is what [[{{Satan}} Dr. Arsoldi's colleague]] will do to him if ever [[YouHaveFailedMe a murder goes awry]].

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* At various points during the second series of ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'', the forces of purgatory repeatedly try to drag Annie (not a villain) into the afterlife. [[spoiler:They succeed in the finale.]]
* In the 1970s British TimeTravel show ''Timeslip'' the villain is dragged screaming through a time portal at the end. Whatever's on the other side will probably be pretty hellish for him.
* ''Series/{{Brimstone}}'' was a late '90s Fox tv show where a cop who died and went to Hell has been sent back to Earth to recapture 113 [[InfernalFugitives damned souls]] who escaped. The way to bring them back was attack [[EyeScream their eyes]] which results in the damned soul's body breaking up into light that gets sucked out of this reality.
* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}''
** Angel in the second season finale on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', is sacrificed by Buffy and dragged to hell to prevent the ritual Angelus started to drag the entire world there, mere moments after regaining his soul. With tears in her eyes she kisses him, then stabs him with a sword, as he cries out to her, before being sucked into the portal. When he comes back in season 3, in a feral state, it is implied that a couple of months on Earth, could have been hundreds of years of torture for him.
** Almost happens to Spike on ''Series/{{Angel}}'', but avoided by turning Pavayne, the ghost trying to do so, into a human. Pavayne himself, of course, was a necromancer who was seeking to avoid being dragged off to hell by making other people suffer it instead of him; and when Angel [[AndIMustScream trapped him in a box forever]], this was a fate that was different from the hell he was evading but [[FateWorseThanDeath just as bad.]]
* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', [[spoiler:the second season ends with Barry deliberately creating a time remnant of himself to both stop Zoom's DoomsdayDevice and to cause [[ClockRoaches Time Wraiths]] to appear. He rightly assumes that the Wraiths will be more pissed off with Zoom for repeatedly messing with the timeline than Barry, and the Time Wraiths partly [[RapidAging drain Zoom's life force]] and then drag him off into wherever they exist. It's hinted that this happens to all speedsters who mess with the timeline and that the Time Wraiths are all former speedsters themselves]].
* ''Series/GhostsUS'': In "The Vault", Hetty's philandering husband Elias's ghost is discovered to have been trapped there for centuries, after being sealed there in life after sleeping with the architect's wife. Angered that the house is owned by a living, he continues to be the same pain in the ass he was in life, spitefully ruining Sam and Jay's chance at hosting a posh wedding, which would get them huge amounts of publicity for their B&B. Though Hetty, while angry, offers him a chance to change for the better like she has, [[RedemptionRejection Elias refuses]] and proudly boast that he will continue to be the evil, cruel hearted bastard for the rest of eternity. A disappointed Hetty tells him off, then to everyone's horror the floor opens up beneath him and he "goes down on them".
* ''Series/TheHauntingHour'': Jake Skinner was bad boy who screwed over his only friend to escape from Death by offering his friend's soul to take his place. However, Death never accepted the trade and demanded his soul instead. Skinner tries to get out of getting his punishment by [[MoralEventHorizon killing his girlfriend and offering her as compensation]]. Fortunately, she survives and Death takes him away forever. The reaper even [[PetTheDog released Skinner's former friend]] after claiming the soul he wanted.
* ''Series/Hellbound2021'': This Korean Netflix series from Creator/YeonSangHo is about a global phenomenon where an "angel" appears before a person and [[HarbingerOfImpendingDoom pronounces doom on them]]. At the appointed time, three hellish beings give the victim a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown before taking them to Hell.
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': Two joined examples in Season 2 and two variations in Season 3.
** Season 2: After putting on the Mask of Anubis and not realizing that its powers will reject him (as he's not Nina [[TheChosenOne the Paragon]]), [[spoiler:Rufus Zeno is pulled into the air and thrown into the Egyptian underworld (which looks very much like Hell). Senkhara, who because of a weakened state caused by the Osirian (Eddie), has possessed Rufus' body]] and is thrown in with him at the same time.
** Season 3: Caroline Denby gets too close to the staff while trying to make sure Eddie and KT fail to lock Ammit back inside the underworld and at that moment, Ammit swoops down and consumes her. Eddie is able to get the key back into the staff though and lock Ammit back into the underworld.
* On ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', this happened to Astra as a young child, the EquivalentExchange demanded by the demon who brought her mother BackFromTheDead.
** In Season 4, Constantine uses this as his default method of dealing with magical fugitives, until the heroes decide that ''maybe'' condemning every single fugitive to Hell is DisproportionateRetribution.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': This is almost the fate of a majority of the main cast at the end of the Camelot/Dark One Arc, as Nimue, Hook and the Dark Ones from the Underworld, curse them all to take their place on Charron's barge.
* ''Series/OneLifeToLive'': In the final days of the ABC run, long time villain Mitch Lawrence is finally killed off. He is then dragged off by two other, more recent villains, to a fitting punishment for all of his crimes.
* This happens to [[BigBad Queen Bansheera]] at the end of ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue''; the Rangers [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor and Diabolico]]]] trap her in the Shadow World, populated by the spirits of all the demons who appeared over the series.
* ''Series/{{Reaper}}'', involves a schlub in a dead-end job at hardware megastore who's been selected by the Devil to hunt down and capture [[InfernalFugitives escaped souls]].
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', this is the fate of all who make a DealWithTheDevil. Hellhounds come for them, rip them apart and drag their souls to hell.
** There is a particularly dramatic version of this in the Season 3 Finale when [[spoiler: Dean Winchester is torn apart by hell hounds and the last shot is of his bloodied soul, hanging from hooks and crying out for his brother.]]
** In the Season 5 Finale, this is PlayedWith when [[spoiler: Sam Winchester, having allowed Lucifer to occupy his body, takes control and jumps into the pit, dragging Michael along with him and thereby averting the apocalypse.]]
** In Season 15, [[spoiler: Castiel finally admits to being in love with Dean and is [[OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire immediately dragged to The Empty]], a desolate hell for angels.]]
* This is the fate of more than one protagonist in the horror anthology ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside''.
* Katherine Pierce, from ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', after having evaded death countless times throughout the series, including when her real body died (after which she hitched a ride in Elena's and took over), Katherine is ''finally'' dead (which, despite her becoming something of an EnsembleDarkhorse early on in the show, [[TheScrappy is a relief at this point given how one-note her character had become]]), and after dropping a [[TheReveal revelation]] on Bonnie, is actually ready to go to the other side. She touches Bonnie, and then... nothing happens. Until a great gust of wind comes from nowhere, and ''something'' grabs Katherine by the ankles and yanks her, screaming and clawing at the floor, into a nameless black abyss. The kicker? Her spirit was ''in a Church'' when this happens.
* ''Series/WellingtonParanormal'': After being released into the afterlife, one of the spirits in episode 3 is seen getting grabbed by a demon arm and pulled into a fiery pit, while the others are examples of DisappearsIntoLight.

[[folder:Music]]
* Allegedly Music/{{Gorillaz}} guitarist Noodle was dragged to Hell when the devil couldn't get hold of Murdoc. It's unclear whether this is actually true, but she definitely went missing for a long time [[spoiler:[[EscapedFromHell and now is back but injured and packing impressive firepower]]]].
* "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, with the God of Hellfire dragging some poor sap into Hell.
* Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart made the VillainProtagonist of ''Theatre/DonGiovanni'' suffer this fate at the hands of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK1_vm0FMAU Commendatore]] in one of the most famous scenes in all of opera.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* This has been used as a mind game by Wrestling/TheUndertaker and Wrestling/{{Kane}} to intimidate their opponents. Undertaker first used this against [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] after Diesel cost him a shot at the WWE Championship. [[UnexplainedRecovery Of course, Diesel was perfectly fine the next time he showed up.]]
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'': This happens to [[BigBad Stauf]] at the end, [[spoiler:allowing the final guest, Tad, and his older self, Ego, to presumably [[GoIntoTheLight pass on to the afterlife]]]].
* In ''VideoGame/AmberJourneysBeyond'' Brice, a UFO-obsessed [[StalkerWithACrush gardener with a crush]] on his employer's daughter, gets this once his ghostly self realizes that [[spoiler:he killed her and her parents, and that Brice himself is dead]]. It's pretty damn scary how it happens, too.
* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'':
** This actually happens in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins''. Bayek has just killed [[spoiler:Kaliset]], aka the Hyena. [[spoiler:In her black room scene, she says she gathered silica for the Order, the same silica that powers Precursor artifacts around Egypt. She begs the god Osiris to be reunited with her daughter in the Field of Reeds, but hyenas instead drag her by her heels to the Duat as she screams for her daughter back.]]
** Happens just as well in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla''. After Eivor kills [[spoiler:Sister Friedswid]], aka the Leech, [[spoiler:during the White Room conversation, she hands Eivor her Leechbook, a book of all her research before willingly allowing the ghosts of her victims to drag her down to Hell]].
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': In the most epic scene of the entire game, Batman brutally beats Hallucination Joker inside of his mind while infected by fear gas. After finally giving the clown prince of crime a well-deserved beat down, Batman forcibly drags the Joker into a prison box (with Hell appropriately written on it) to take him away forever. The Joker becomes forgotten forever and Batman finally conquers his fear of him returning.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', whenever you finish off a boss, it gets dragged to hell by a bunch of clawing red arms. Also happens to Bayonetta on the game over screen if you choose not to continue.
** [[VideoGame/{{Bayonetta 2}} The sequel]] reveals that all Umbra Witches get dragged off to hell when they die, not just Bayonetta. This is proven in full force when a trailer shows ''Jeanne'' getting this treatment.
-->'''Rodin:''' Dead witches get dragged to hell... It is what it is.
** The actual game reveals that while this ''does'' happen to Jeanne, she's being taken as a hostage in this case, requiring Bayonetta to mount an OrpheanRescue.
** This fate is also addressed in her stint in ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', fighting against [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]]. [[spoiler:On the results screen at the end, this is the last we see of her, fruitlessly trying to resist as she's dragged into the Inferno.]]
** As seen in Tag Climax, the inverse happens to [[SpearCounterpart Lumen Sages]] when they die; creepy heavenly hands appear out of a cloud and pull them up into Paradiso. Given that the series runs on LightIsNotGood, and the knowledge on [[HumanSacrifice how angels]] [[HumanResources are made]], their ultimate fate still fits this trope. Basically, if you read the lore, it's all part of the ancient deal. Witches serve Hell; Sages serve Heaven. When the time comes, they collect.
** Averted with [[spoiler:Jubileus, who burns up in the sun instead]].
* In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', there is a pitch black void called the Abyss that requires a special ring to enter, presumably because of the several hundred foot drop required to enter it. However, if you unequip the ring before defeating the boss your character is horrifyingly dragged into the darkness. You even get a special death screen saying "You were consumed by the Abyss." This element of the ''Souls'' universe lore comes back in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', where [[spoiler:High Lord Wolnir]] is graphically pulled into the Abyss he was desperately crawling out of once you destroy the holy bracelets that helped ward off the Abyss's clutch on him.
* In ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'', it's implied that [[spoiler:Come Unto Your Maker, the OneHitKill move of the FinalBoss]], does this to its victim.
* Being a demon-heavy series with a focus on HeavenVersusHell, ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' actually features very little dragging of people off into the Burning Hells. Unless you count [[TheQuisling Nihlathak]] from ''VideoGame/DiabloII'''s "Lord of Destruction" expansion, the last Elder of Harrogath who made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with Baal]] to hand over the Relic of the Ancients to him in return for Harrogath's safety, which got him the full Dragged Off To Hell treatment when he was defeated by the player.
* ''VideoGame/Doom3'' has this happen with you. No, seriously. You survive and proceed to chew up Hell, though.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series' backstory, Wulfharth Ash-King, an ancient King of the Nords who [[EternalHero has died and come back to life]] at least three times, possessed a powerful [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um]]. After defeating a troublesome tribe of Orcs, Wulfharth "shouted their chief into Hell". Later, following one of his deaths at the hands of Elves, Wulfharth himself ended up in Hell but was rescued by Kyne, the Old Nordic aspect of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Aedric Divine]] Kynareth.
* ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce EXTRAPOWER Attack of Darkforce]]'': This is actually the good guys' plan for defeating [[BigBad Dark Force]]: to drag him into the Yami world, a demon dimension, and with alien physics that are incompatible with his mothership's teleporter technology. They actually succeed in dragging him to the Yami world and collapsing it onto him, and would have won then and there if an even higher being didn't give him an out.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' features one dungeon late into ''Endwalker'' that can best be described as purgatory, and it features the souls of fallen allies helping you and fallen enemies as bosses. At the very end, the soul of [[spoiler:Fandaniel]] is dragged off by the soul of [[spoiler:Asahi]], the latter having taken... [[{{Understatement}} some]] offense to the former's betrayal of [[spoiler:Zenos]].
* In ''VideoGame/GauntletDarkLegacy'', many of the boss fights end with a defeated boss being dragged off by ''something''. The Lich is probably closest to the literal trope.
%%* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'': Kratos's death at the start. He gets better. Expect a temporary visit to Tartarus to be a feature of every installment in the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series.
* Happens to Nick Virago in ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' when he tries to ride [[AfterlifeExpress the Number 9 train to heaven]] with a forged ticket. He's not dragged down personally, but the train he's riding is.
* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'': Scorpion does this to his opponent if he wins.
** This is the ultimate fate of [[BewareTheSuperman Regime!Superman]] should he be beaten in the Classic Battle arcade mode. Specifically, he gets dragged into the Phantom Zone and can do nothing but [[AndIMustScream scream]] as he drifts away whilst being trapped there.
* The Situation Finish for the Morioh town stage in ''VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle'' is the victim suffering this after looking back in the ghost alleyway.
* Hisako's stage in ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' features shadowy hands that reach up and grab the opponent if the stage ultra is performed on it. They drag the victim underground... until the victim sprouts back up in an attempt to escape, prompting the victor to smack them back down.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon'': At the end, [[spoiler:Malefor meets his demise when he's grabbed by a group of dragon spirits whom are implied to be the souls of his elders, who drag him down screaming into the core of the planet to an unknown but likely horrific and well-deserved fate]].
* A few fatalities in ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' feature this:
** Shinnok in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'' has a fatality where a giant skeleton hand emerges from a portal, grabs the victim, squeezes until their head pops off, and then goes back into the portal with the body, leaving the head.
** Scorpion in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'' has a fatality where he disappears into hell, and then drags his victim down through the floor. A few seconds later, their skeleton is thrown back out.
** Scorpion's fatality in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' had a giant skeletal hand reach out of the ground to drag the opponent below.
** In ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3'', Scorpion and his opponent are teleported to hell, in which a bunch of Scorpion clones pop out of the lava to savage the opponent to death.
** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', Noob Saibot uses this as his basic throwing attack. One of his fatalities has his shadow begin to drag the victim into hell, but as soon as the shadow is below the portal, Noob Saibot closes it off, [[PortalCut cutting the victim in half.]]
*** In the Story Mode, Scorpion teleports himself and elder Sub-Zero to the Netherrealm where they fought and Scorpion incinerates Sub-Zero with his skull as the only thing left.
** It should be noted that Scorpion's ending in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]]'', which provides the page image, is actually not an example of this trope, as the "soulnado" he is tossed into is a path to heaven, not hell.
* The death animation of the ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' series has the Overlord sink into a portal below his feet while his minions blow up all around him.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' has a nominal example: [[spoiler:Izanami, the TrueFinalBoss]] uses an attack called "Summons to Yomi," instantly killing any character who's at critical health, as well as [[spoiler:Thousand Curses, which she uses on you at the very end of the battle, and which involves the very creepy image of lots of hands dragging the character it's hit by off to... somewhere]].
** ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'' gave an explanation that the attacked dragged the victims [[spoiler:into a LotusEaterMachine where everything they saw was shaped by whatever they wanted to see the most. What we saw of it from Yu, however, makes it look like an IronicHell (especially since Izanami intended this to be an act of compassion feeling that was what humans wanted) since Yu's desire to not leave his friends in Inaba meant what he was experiencing was a GroundHogDayLoop of the day before he left Inaba]].
* The defeat animation in ''VideoGame/{{Pirate101}}'' for the cursed monquistadors combines this with WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath. A fissure appears below them and a large red flaming hand reaches up and grabs them dragging their body into the gap but leaves their soul which has angel wings and a halo and flies off into a patch of clouds that appear.
* A variation is used in ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' - there is a high level spell that does it, opening a portal to the Abyss under the target, resulting in him being pulled in by some demons while inflicting serious damage.
** Also happens to [[spoiler:the protagonist himself at the end of the game, unless he imagines himself out of existence]].
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** ''VideoGame/PokemonPlatinum'': [[BigBad Cyrus]] wanted to use the powers of [[SpaceMaster Palkia]] and [[TimeMaster Dialga]] to create a world [[InTheirOwnImage in his image]] on a universal scale to "free" it from TheEvilsOfFreeWill. Then '''''[[SatanicArchetype Giratina]]''''' shows up (and he doesn't look very happy), an then Cyrus ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu had the balls to taunt Giratina]]'', [[DoNotTauntCthulhu resulting in him getting an express ticket to the]] [[PhantomZone Distortion World]].
** Purple Eyes in ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'': ''Guardian Signs'' tried to do the same thing with [[TopGod Arceus]], which doesn't end well for him as he ends up being taken away to be "judged".
* When Kusaregado uses his Seppuku in ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'', he is pulled into Yomi by a group of bloody hands.
* This is the ultimate fate of [[TheDon Mr. Tayama]] in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', [[HoistByHisOwnPetard at the hands of his beloved]] [[MagicalParticleAccelerator Yamato Perpetual Reactor]], at that. This only happens if you side with Walter, though. If you side with Jonathan, then Walter simply kills him.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' - Happens to [[spoiler:Dr. Kaufman]] if he survives to the end of the game.
* Anubis' [[DeathThrows death animation]] in ''VideoGame/{{SMITE}}'' is him being pulled down to the underworld, presumably by the same Grasping Hands he uses as one of his attack abilities.
* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': According to many fans, this is what Akuma/Gouki's Shun Goku Satsu move does: pulls both him and his victim to the underworld, where they're set upon by demons based on how evil their souls are. In fact, GodNeverSaidThat. %%If you're going to say that WordOfGod said this, link the source.
* In ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital'', when a patient dies, they either float up to heaven as angels, or the ground opens up beneath them and they sink in a fiery pit.
* In the [[DownerEnding bad ending]] of the Hearts of Stone expansion of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'', [[spoiler:Olgierd von Everec suffers this fate at the hands of [[SatanicArchetype Gaunter O'Dimm]] after Geralt helps Gaunter fulfill his end of Olgierd's DealWithTheDevil. Geralt himself can [[NonStandardGameOver suffer this fate as well]] if you fail attempting to get the GoldenEnding.]] As his theme says, "He'll snare you in bonds, eyes glowing afire, to gore and torment you till the stars expire".
* ''VideoGame/XenaWarriorPrincess'' have Xena herself being cast to hell by the evil Goddess, Kalabrax, and must find her way back to the land of living to stop Kalabrax from performing a sacrificial ritual for achieving invulnerability.
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