History Main / FireAndBrimstoneHell

A FateWorseThanDeath that in some stories happens after death, just as FluffyCloudHeaven is TheThemeParkVersion of {{Heaven}}, Fire And Brimstone Hell is the Theme Park version of {{Hell}}. Generally, if it isn't an IronicHell, HellIsWar, the BloodyBowelsOfHell or AHellOfATime, it's this. And even then, you can expect the odd brazier and stalactite.

* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'': Red Mountain is like this, complete with ghostly prisoners and giant stone skulls that shoot fire, with some [[DropTheHammer very large metal hammers]] and random religious symbols thrown in for good measure. Although it seems to represent the [[LethalLavaLand Lava Reef Zone volcano]] from ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic And Knuckles]]'', it doesn't look much like it.

* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'': A part of Hell is the River of Flame, which is classical fire and brimstone. Other parts of Hell include great, dark, ashen plains. This in contrast to the first ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' which envisioned Hell as [[BloodyBowelsOfHell a land of bones, blood and mutilated corpses]].

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'': The series' Septian Church preaches about Gahenna, a variation of this. In ''the 3rd'' game, it is an exportable area due the cast entering multiple planes created based on unconscious desires due to the RealityWarper Aureole device, and follows the aesthetic combined with a whirling vortex background. If the player makes it to the bottom of the optional Abyss dungeon within Gahenna, they are rewarded with the 15th Star Door, and it's retelling of The Angel of Slaughter's childhood as a SexSlave and her StepfordSmiler compatriots.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':Netherrealm is a {{Mordor}} that fits the classical Hell to a T.

** "[[Recap/StewieGriffinTheUntoldStory Stewie B. Goode]]": In a brief scene, Stewie is trapped in Hell, represented by a motel room with Steve Allen. Just as Steve starts to take off his shirt and says, "Alright, let's do this," Stewie wakes up, having had a near-death experience. Averted when it's shown that Allen just wanted him to help fix his shirt. [[MundaneAfterlife Then Allen turns on the TV and discovers that they show nothing but]] ''Series/WhosTheBoss'' reruns.

** Indev, the earliest publicly available version of the game with a Survival mode, used finite island maps surrounded by sea instead of the later game's infinite, procedurally generated ones. At world creation, the player could opt for one of four map themes; one of these, called Hell, replaced all water with lava, lowered the overall light levels, and produced an unusually high amount of mushrooms on the island.

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The common portrayals of this afterlife is as a vast cavern or system of caverns, with rocky pillars, stalactites and stalagmites scattered around. Fire, {{hellfire}} or regular, is common and plentiful -- pits of flame, random infernos, rivers of lava, and beds of live coals are all ubiquitous features of the decor. The inhabitants are endless crowds of sinners in ragged clothes, strapped to racks, dangling in cages, or trudging along in miserable files, while [[BigRedDevil red-skinned]] [[HornedHumanoid devils with horns]] and tails poke them around with their pitchforks. Sometimes, it's actually shown to be underground ''[[PhysicalHell literally]]'', but most of the time it's AnotherDimension.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', a Soul Reaper's job is to redeem souls that have turned into Hollows, allowing them to pass on to the Soul Society...however, those who committed heinous crimes ''before'' dying are condemned to Hell upon their defeat, implied to be of the fire and brimstone variety. [[spoiler:Hell is briefly seen both in the manga (first when Rukia sends a particularly evil Hollow there, and later again when Szayel and Aaroniero are thrown into it) and then in more detail in ''Anime/BleachHellVerse'' (which has Ichigo ''breaking into it'')]].
* Hell in ''Anime/HellGirl'' is generally shown to be [[IronicHell tailored in some way to a person's wrongdoings]]. In the first season, however, Ai would sometimes warn her clients of what accepting her [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] would entail through a short vision of what they would suffer in Hell. While a variety of torments were shown, Ai most often showed her clients visions of fire and brimstone.

* Neron and other comic book devils live in a Fire and Brimstone Hell, unless it's a Creator/{{Vertigo|Comics}} book. The damned souls of mortals are all ''self-exiled'' - they impose their own punishments and compel Hell to torture them because they think they deserve it. (Of course, the demons eventually set up an economy based on these souls, which makes them anxious to collect more.)
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': When Neron nabs Wondy, [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie]], ComicBook/{{Artemis}}, and [[ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} Jason Blood]] off the street the corner of the underworld he pulls them to is firey with vast pools of lava, however even when later writers had Hades become manned by a GodOfEvil it remained a dark relitivly quiet and cold bit of underworld.
* The first time Hell appears in ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'', it's just like Earth but is filled with all the world's stupid, petty and shallow people, who all [[MinorInjuryOverreaction react in a ridiculously over the top manner to minor annoyances]]. Later, when Squee looks in the basement of Senor Diablo's earthly house, it's classic fire and brimstone.
** The premise, of course, is that just being surrounded entirely by people who deserve to be in Hell is Hell itself. [[Theatre/NoExit As Sartre said]], "Hell is other people." Literally.
*** It is also implied to be Satan's punishment for rebelling against god -- being forced to run the repository for human ingrates for the rest of all eternity. By the time Squee rolls around, this no longer seems to be the case, however.
** The same premise is used in Creator/CSLewis's ''The Great Divorce'', where Hell is merely a very dull city; everyone is entirely solipsistic, to the point of violently repulsing anyone who attempts to get in line for the bus in front, or even behind, them.
** Sometimes, there are varying degrees: The ''first'' circle of Hell can be this, while the worse circles are all fire, brimstone and torture.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' the Saint of Killers is so full of hatred, he causes Hell to quite literally freeze over.
* Hell is initially shown to be this in the ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' comics, but as the story progresses it turns out that this is only a tiny facet of the underword, the rest of it is much bigger & ''much'' [[EldritchLocation weirder]]...
* As revealed in his ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'', Jack Chick is very much a "grim, fiery underworld now, lake of fire later" man.
** Some of the "grim, fiery underworld" part is indicated to be a visual TranslationConvention, however, from a close reading of "[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0052/0052_01.asp No Fear?]]" in which he refers us to several specific passages from Literature/TheBible. These describe it as a "bottomless pit" and "outer darkness" in addition to the fire and brimstone. Depicting flaming sinners tumbling endlessly through infinite darkness with even the flames providing no light, however, wouldn't work very well with visual story-telling. Ironically, "No Fear?" is nearly the only comic in which he even gives us a [[http://media.chick.com/tractimages67491/0052/0052_09.gif glimpse]] of what this would be like.
* Creator/MarvelComics Hell-Lords are demons that control their own dimensions. Most of those "pocket hells" are based on this version, especially Mephisto's. It's almost certainly done on purpose, because every single one of the Hell-Lords is trying to convince everybody that he is real {{Satan}} and his Hell is real Hell. Also when Hell-Lords and rulers of other kinds of afterlives (like Hades from Myth/GreekMythology or Hela's domain from Myth/NorseMythology) choose to combine them into some kind of "MMORPG Afterlife", something like that was created in between.
** The brimstone is also specifically there in some parts, as [[ComicBook/XMen Nightcrawler]] travels through that dimension when he teleports, bringing back smoke retaining the smell.
* In the Disney comics [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]] parody "Mickey's Inferno" (USA publication: ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]]; no kidding!), Hell is depicted this way, with oafish demons torturing sinners. There is the twist that if a damned soul does good deeds in Hell, he can redeem himself and ascend to Heaven; in one case, a good deed amounts to defending fellow inmates from the demons' torture.
* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Hell is a fiery subterreanean landscape where the souls of the wicked are tortured by Lucifer and his giant red demons.
* Hell as depicted in ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' is usually in the form of this, the few times that it appears.
* Referenced in ''ComicBook/SupermanSmashesTheKlan''. A young Clark is accused of being demon-possessed after he floats into the air and shoots [[HeatVision "the fires of hell" from his eyes.]] The local sheriff takes a whiff of Clark and notes that the boy doesn't smell like fire and brimstone, concluding that if he truly is possessed by a demon, then it's the lousiest demon in all of creation.

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* In ''ComicStrip/ScaryGary'', Hell is depicted as a fiery landscape with sharp, jagged rocks. When a portal to Hell opens up in Gary’s basement, it actually warms the house up so much that it saves Gary money on the heating bill, and so he tells Leopold to leave it as-is.

* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'': Tartarus, the afterlife of the damned, resembles this -- or at least it did in the version Empath was thrust into in "Smurfing in Heaven" [[spoiler:before he realizes that both it and the Elysium he visited aren't real]]. The one Lord Balthazar is cast into in "Empath and the Golden Magic Bird" is pretty much real and very much scary to the old wizard.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' uses a river of molten lead dumped out of the cathedral during the climax to represent Hell. This is partly a callback to Frollo's earlier song about the fires of hell.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeysChristmasCarol'': The open grave Scrooge [=McDuck=]-as-Ebenezer Scrooge gets thrown into during the "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come" sequence at the end is actually implied to be this depiction of Hell.

* The Hell of ''Film/DragMeToHell'', though not actually seen.
* The Hell in ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'' is somewhat like this. Being floating islands chained the to the main devil himself. When the two go to talk to him, the devil traps them in steel like corridors with rooms based on their worst nightmares (i.e. a psycho Easter bunny, a very creepy grandma and a DrillSergeantNasty) making it akin to an IronicHell as well.
* The Hell in ''Film/TheBlackHole'' is certainly this with [[spoiler:Reinhardt imprisoned for eternity, while standing on a tall rock looking over the fire and brimstone. It is also an ironic hell when you consider what else is there with him...]]
* In ''Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth,'' a priest tells Pinhead, "You'll burn in Hell!" Pinhead retorts, "Burn? What a limited imagination!"
%%* Played straight in ''Film/{{Hideaway}},'' based on a Dean Koontz novel.
* Elements of this version of Hell can be seen in ''Film/BigTitsZombie''.
* The 1970 ''Film/Scrooge1970'' musical with Albert Finney has a usually-cut-for-syndication scene of Ebenezer finishing his 'Yet To Come' sequence by being grasped by enormous chains and dragged down to this sort of Hell. Even though nowhere near as bad as some depictions, for a Christmas movie, even at what all know to be the scary part, it was a bit surprising to see.
* Alluded to in ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'' with the Underworld parking garage, which is deep below the earth and features flame jets to deter intruders.
* Appears briefly at the end of ''Film/TalesFromTheHood'' when the Devil transforms into a giant demon in a fiery Hell.
* Creator/GeorgesMelies clearly loved playing {{Satan}}, and a fiery grotto with gleeful (often dancing) demons occurs time and again in his pioneering works of early film. See ''The Merry Frolics of Satan'', or any of his several adaptations of ''Faust'', or pretty much any Méliès film with the word "Infernal" in the title.
* Satan rules of one these in ''Film/DeadInTombstone''.
* Mustafar, the volcanic planet where Darth Vader dueled Obi-Wan and suffered his grievous injuries in ''[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Star Wars Episode III]]'', is a clear stand-in for Creator/GeorgeLucas' vision of Hell.
* ''Film/DarkAngelTheAscent'': The movie opens in a classical fiery hell, with rows of people being led around by the demons to suffer their fates.
* ''Film/{{Purgatory}}'': The entrance to Hell is a river of fire.
* In ''Film/TheManWhoCouldWorkMiracles'', Constable Winch finds himself in Hades after Fotheringay tells him to "go to blazes!". There are flames everywhere and it is hot enough to scorch his notebook and melt his boots.
* Satan rules over one in ''Film/TheDevilsMessenger'', although most of the scenes in Hell take place in the overcrowded waiting room.

* A joke parodied the wording of this trope once, featuring Ulster Unionist politician and minister Reverend Ian Paisley, a man known for his obnoxious views towards Catholics, Nationalists, homosexuals and everyone else he doesn't like. In this joke, he is delivering a sermon describing a Hell much like this:
--> '''Paisley:''' And in this Hell of eternal damnation, there will be fire, and brimstone, and much screaming and gnashing of teeth!\\
'''Toothless old geezer at the back of the church:''' Wo' abou' if ye haven' any teef lef'?\\
'''Paisley:''' Teeth will be provided!

* [[UnbuiltTrope In spite of everything]], Dante's ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]'' actually ''averted'' this trope for the most part. Naked flames do feature, but only four of the twenty-four divisions of Dante's Hell (heretics lie in flaming tombs, blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers are in a desert with fire raining down, simoniacs are stuck upside down with flames burning at their feet, and evil counselors are stuck in individual tongues of flame) and just one of the seven regions in his Purgatory (the seventh terrace, for the repentant lustful). You are as likely to be boiled, drowned, shredded, chopped, frozen, or suffer any number of other creative torments as you are burnt in Dante's ''Inferno.'' [[SerialEscalation Furthermore]], Satan (along with other traitors) is imprisoned in the deepest level of Hell-Cocytus, [[EvilIsDeathlyCold a frozen lake]].
* Creator/LarryNiven and Jerry Pournelle wrote a novel, also titled ''Literature/InfernoLarryNivenAndJerryPournelle'', that revisits Dante's hell with a few modern updates for 20th-century sins. The protagonist is a somewhat self-deprecating [[AuthorAvatar hack science fiction writer]], and his guide is a longtime resident of Hell [[spoiler:named Benito Mussolini]].
* Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'' series has a Hell that is like this in many places. It's revealed through later books that Hell has many regions, including a "mock Heaven" for souls that have been [[CelestialBureaucracy incorrectly sent to Hell and can't now be returned to Heaven]].[[note]]Heaven is actually pretty dull and Mock Heaven is ''much'' more fun, because the current Satan is, all things considered, a pretty nice guy once you get to know him, though he works fairly hard to keep people from finding that out.[[/note]]
* Justified in Creator/JamesBranchCabell's ''Jurgen'' in that the Hell the protagonist visits is based on his father's opinion of what Hell should be like.
* The Hell of John Milton's ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' is more of a Fire and Brimstone Hell than Dante's--for instance, Satan is, in the opening, chained to a lake of brimstone. Everything in that land is constantly burning, although the fallen angels don't mind too much. Some demons argue for exploring, mining and making the most of their existence in Hell.
* In ''Literature/APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungMan'' by James Joyce, Stephen regains his religion after hearing a particularly frightening description of fire-and-brimstone hell from a preacher.
* ''Borgel'' by Creator/DanielPinkwater has a version of Hell that's like this and ''literally'' TheThemeParkVersion: it's presented as a major interdimensional tourist attraction. Borgel says he doesn't really know what goes on inside, but says that he does know that if you didn't like it, you'll have a lot of trouble getting your money back.
* Played with in ''[[strike:Faust]]Literature/{{Eric}}'', where the Discworld version of Hell is a Fire and Brimstone Hell... but the inmates have realized that they no longer have corporeal bodies, and so there's nothing requiring them to ''feel pain'' any more. The new King of Hell has shaken things up by introducing mental rather than physical tortures, but the actual demons are just as upset about this as the "clients".
* In a series of books ''for children'' (frequently quoted by atheists making emotional appeals), the nineteenth-century missionary priest John Furniss (pronounced "furnace"?) provided vivid word-pictures of Fire and Brimstone Hell:
-->See! It is a pitiful sight. The little child is in this red hot oven. Hear how it screams to come out. See how it turns and twists itself about in the fire. It beats its head against the roof of the oven. It stamps its little feet on the floor of the oven. You can see on the face of this little child what you see on the faces of all in hell -- despair, desperate and horrible! ... [[BlatantLies God was very good to this child.]] Very likely God saw that this child would get worse and worse, and would never repent, and so it would have to be punished much more in hell. So God, in His mercy, [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth called it out of the world in its early childhood.]]
-->[[CouldThisHappenToYou Perhaps at this moment, seven o'clock in the evening, a child is just going into hell.]] To-morrow evening at seven o'clock, go and knock at the gates of hell, and ask what the child is doing. The devils will go and look. Then they will come back again and say, the child is burning! Go in a week and asked what the child is doing; you will get the same answer -- it is burning! Go in a year and ask; the same answer comes -- it is burning! Go in a million of years and ask the same question; [[OffscreenInertia the answer is just the same]] -- it is burning! So, if you go for ever and ever, you will always get the same answer -- it is burning in the fire!
* In ''Literature/{{The Guardians|MeljeanBrook}}'', Hell is a huge realm with many areas. The traditional fire and brimstone area is The Pit, where the souls of damned humans and disobedient demons are tortured.
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* In the "Tale of Thorstein Shiver" from the Icelandic ''[[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Flateyjarbòk]]'', the eponymous protagonist has a conversation with a demon who relates to him how the heroes of the pagan past are doing in Hell; namely, that Sigurd Fafnisbani fires the oven, and that Starkad the Old is up to his ankles in burning flames. When Thorstein remarks that these seem relatively mild punishments, the demon calmly clarifies that Sigurd ''is'' the firewood, and that Starkad's head is pointing downward.
* ''Literature/PointHorror Unleashed'' features this in ''Fright Train'' as the carriage gets hotter and hotter, the air around them begins to smell of sulphur and they are served by a polite but hot tempered man dressed in red and black called Nick. Aside from the horrific visions each passenger has (save for the protagonists), the depiction is so stereotypical, you wonder why none of them figure out what's going on until they reach their 'final destination.'

* In the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' novel ''Literature/WorldOfWarcraftSylvanas'', Sylvanas is shown several afterlives. One is described as a sea of liquid fire and molten earth which Sylvanas assumes is an obvious hell-like realm, but it turns out instead to be a paradise for a black eel creature that lives inside fire. However, when Sylvanas realizes that the eel is alone and will never see her family and loved ones again in the eternity of death, she comes to the conclusion that it ''is'' in fact hell, and so are all other afterlives.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]" (with footage re-used in "The Menagerie"), the Talosians briefly inflict the illusion of Fire and Brimstone Hell on Captain Pike. Furthermore, if Pike does not behave, the Talosians threaten to go deeper still into his mind for experiences ''even worse!''
** One of them refers to the image as something [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions "from a fable you once heard in childhood"]], which may be [[WriterOnBoard Roddenberry's]] way of sneaking in his humanistic views.
* The Hell in ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' is shown like this.
* Played with in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. The demonic hierarchy seem to be able to change Hell's shape at will, with the Fire and Brimstone version featuring occasionally. The first glimpse we get of Hell is through the Devil's Gate in the final episode of Season 2, and what we see is a rock passageway lit from below by what looks like fire or lava. Then, subverted in the last episode of Season 3, when we see someone actually ''in'' Hell, which looks like a thunderstorm with metal chains and sharp hooks everywhere, with the guy himself in the middle of it. Finally, in Season 6, we see someone else remember Hell, and it is a completely straight Fire and Brimstone Hell. Then later once Crowley is in charge of hell, it's just people waiting in line in a dingy hallway. ''Forever''. They take a number and join the queue. And once they get to the front of the line? They go back to the end.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' had a memorable series of spoof commercials called "Where You're Going," which depict people – mostly yuppies and others who had scorned the poor and less-fortunate – suffering in a stereotypical Hell following their deaths. A chorus gleefully sings, "You're going to Hell," followed by an announcer (and superimposed notice): "A message from Almighty God."
** The message was basically an unexpected punch line at the end of what looked like a typical 1980s ad celebrating yuppie materialism.
** Another when Creator/PatrickStewart hosted. He plays Satan trying to seem fierce and mean, but is continuously mocked by those who should be scared because he chokes on a grape or uses the phrase "til the cows come home."
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode [[Recap/StargateSG1S3E12JolinarsMemories Jolinar's Memories]], Sokar, the Gou'uld who has taken the identity of Satan, has a moon Netu deliberately terraformed to resemble this interpretation of Hell, complete with active volcanoes, lava flows, and underground chambers lit by burning torches.
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': Not all of the underworld looks like this (most of it being just dark caverns and tunnels), but select places do.
* ''Series/KingdomAdventure'': [[SorcerousOverlord Zor]][[{{Satan}} dock's]] lair is a cave with a lot of ([[RogerRabbitEffect cartoon]]) fire in the background, clearly intended to evoke this.

* The playfield for ''Pinball/DevilsDare'' is a fire and brimstone hell completely covered in flames.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has [[{{Pun}} a hell of a lot of hell-like planes]], but certain [[CirclesOfHell layers]] of those planes fit this trope better than others.

** The [[NeutralEvil yugoloths']] current home plane of Gehenna consists of an endless series of volcanic mountains rising into a void, seemingly without base or peak. Its four layers are only differentiated by their level of volcanic activity, with the third mount of Mungoth being so quiet as to be cold and snow-covered, and the fourth mount of Krangath is dead and silent.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Infernum}}'' is set entirely in this sort of Hell. Demons torment souls to extract a substance called "iliaster", which is food and drink to them, and it is ''not'' a pleasant place. It's not all fire and flames, though- in fact, as Hell technically consists of a whopping huge crater punched by the crashlanding of the Fallen Angels, fire and flames are actually a minority. Starting on the surface and going down the nine "Circles" of Hell, you have lifeless desert (Emptiness), icy mountains locked under perpetual thunderstorms (Tempest), swamps and mires and mudflats (Tears), volcanic badlands (Toil), war-scarred wastes (Slaughter), urbanized ruins (Industry), lush jungles sharing borders with a river of flame and a desert (Delight), a massive volcanic range (Malebolge) and an eternally shifting city (Pandemonium). And that's not getting into other notorious landmarks, like the river Cocytus, a river of unnaturally cold jet-black ice that emerges from beneath the volcanoes of Malebolge and forms a barrier around Pandemonium... [[LampshadeHanging and the demons want to know just how that frickin' works too]].

** Plenty of torture happens in Hell, but not with punishment in mind -- demons want to extract [[{{Mana}} essence]] from souls, and one of the most efficient ways to do this is to torture them until they give up their daily-regenerated point of essence. Pony up quickly, and you're let off the rack. Outside of that, quality of afterlife varies between Principalities and the individual shade's luck; many find themselves used as target practice in infernal battlefields or guinea pigs in infernal labs, and the luckless souls sent to Abaddon can expect little beyond having their souls torn apart to fuel the local Prince's necromantic experiments, but others can achieve positions of relative comfort, if not a lot of respect, within the organizations of their ruling Princes.

* In ''Theatre/{{Hadestown}}'', Hades has renovated the Underworld into a nightmarish factory full of unnatural light and heat where his workers toil endlessly, which greatly displeases Persephone since it isn't supposed to be that way.

* Mister Toad's Wild Ride in [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland/Magic Kingdom Park]] fits this trope to a T at the end after Mr. Toad is "killed" by a train. Potentially terrifying, especially when it gets really hot when you are in hell (it never really gets what someone from north of, say, Oklahoma would consider ''cold'' in either Orlando or Anaheim, but they keep the heaters in the hell section of the ride turned up year-round). The ride no longer exists in the Magic Kingdom Park in Florida (it was closed down and replaced with a Franchise/WinnieThePooh-themed ride), but the original in Disneyland in Anaheim is still there.

* ''VideoGame/Afterlife1996'': You ''build'' the Fire And Brimstone Hell, with [[HurricaneOfPuns punny punishments]] based on the SevenDeadlySins, such as "Another Man's Shoes" -- guess where the damned are put in?
* ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'': The erebus maps this kind of hell, although they are primarily based off of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek myths]].

* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'': The planet [[GoshDangItToHeck Heck]], and [[WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim the cartoon]] as well. It's worth noting that Heck has a touch of IronicHell in it -- as the soundtrack starts with ''Night on Bald Mountain''... and then cuts off halfway through and is replaced with elevator Muzak (punctuated with anguished screams).

* The final mission of ''VideoGame/ThiefTheDarkProject'', "The Maw of Chaos," is set in the Trickster's realm - underground, featuring a lot of lava rivers and monsters.
* ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier'': [[spoiler:When fighting the Final Boss of Blue's Scenario, when Hell's Lord shifts forms, the FluffyCloudHeaven disappears and the true colors of Hell take shape]]

* ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'' features this exact hell with damned soul wandering through the burning wasteland in the background.

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Any references to "hell" in the series refer to "the Buddhist hells." In ''VideoGame/TouhouChireidenSubterraneanAnimism'' the Ancient City is located in a now unused district of hell. Snowfall suggests the city is part of a former cold hell while the Hell of Blazing Fires below it may have once been a hot hell (in fact, the Blazing Fires appears to be nothing but a sea of fire so it goes further than your typical Fire and Brimstone Hell). As of that game in the series, they were re-lit due to the Yatagarasu's power in Utsuho and it was opened back up as a formal hell destination.
* ''VideoGame/AmberJourneysBeyond'': One of the ghosts you [[UnfinishedBusiness help out]] is [[spoiler:a crazed, UFO-obsessed gardener named Brice, who killed a girl he had been stalking for some time, prior to killing himself out of grief. When Brice figures this out, he suddenly hears what he thinks is a UFO arriving, complete with lights going out. But as he opens a hatch to investigate, his soul is dragged away -- along with the hatch -- into a firey-orange vortex of thunderclouds. It's arguably one of the most horrifying scenes of the game.]]

** The Nether, the largest of the game's two [[AnotherDimension alternate dimensions]]. The setting is underground, in a massive system of caverns filled with oceans and waterfalls of lava. Almost everything else is made of a kind of stone which perpetually burns if set on fire and looks suspiciously like flesh, with the exception of patches of semi-solid magma and "Soul Sand", which is covered in patterns highly reminiscent of screaming, agonized faces. The old development name for this dimension was even called "Hell", but Notch decided against a religious term (although the Nether's sole biome was still originally called Hell). [[PigMan Piglins]], [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Zombie]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Piglins]], [[LivingLava Magma Cubes]] and giant tentacled monsters named [[GiantMook Ghasts]] roam this dimension's landscape, while pitch-black Wither Skeletons and fiery Blazes haunt its abandoned fortresses. The 1.16 update (given the self-explanatory title of the "Nether Update") massively overhauled the region by adding forests of giant tree-like fungi and blackened crags of solidified volcanic basalt as new biomes, huge strongholds patrolled by Piglins, and herds of aggressive boar-like [[FullBoarAction Hoglins]], among other new features.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': The Underworld contains flame-shooting fire imps, burrowing bone serpents, slimes made of lava and literally bats out of hell, and flying demons that relentlessly try to make you dead. In the Underworld, you can also find shadow chests, which contain various fire- and evil-themed weapons, and hellstone, which provides necessary armor and tool upgrades.
* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'': Red Mountain is like this, complete with ghostly prisoners and giant stone skulls that shoot fire, with some [[DropTheHammer very large metal hammers]] and random religious symbols thrown in for good measure. Although it seems to represent the [[LethalLavaLand Lava Reef Zone volcano]] from ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic And Knuckles]]'', it doesn't look much like it.

* At the conclusion of ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur 2]]'', you enter the Soul Edge and confront its spirit, Inferno, in a massive burning, barren landscape. The stage is named "Tartarus", and the announcer all but states that you've entered Hell.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' invokes this with the Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith, two demon infested lava levels.
** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' has the arena where you fight [[spoiler: [[TheWarSequence the Burnt Ivory King and his knights]]]], complete with the shrieking [[HellIsThatNoise wails of the damned]]. [[spoiler: It is an [[NostalgiaLevel intentional recreation]] of the the Bed Of Chaos in the aforementioned Lost Izalith, if not the original deal itself.]] It's [[HailfirePeaks quite a shift from the frozen citadel above]].
* The Demon Inferno and the Flaming Inferno levels from ''VideoGame/CatacombAbyss'' and ''VideoGame/CatacombArmageddon'' respectively are pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/HellgateLondon''; the ambient lighting in the area leading up to the Hellgate becomes a bleached orange, while the gate itself is a fiery orange. But on the other side, the color temperature shifts to a drab, greyish-blue rocky wasteland.
* The final level of ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'' is appropriately called "Hell" and is exactly what you'd expect; rivers of flames, lava waterfalls, fireballs regularly shooting out of the rivers, and the like.
* In ''VideoGame/RobinsonsRequiem'', whenever you die the main character [=Trepliev1=] [[NightmareFuel is subject to a fiery torture in what looks like Hell]], depicted in a single image of his face on fire and twisting/contorting while surrounded by the skulls of the previous dead, along with creepy-as-hell music accompanying it. Some versions of the game even have a version of this image that slowly morphs Trepliev's face into a creepy skull.

* In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhMonsterCapsuleGB'', Seto Kaiba's RPG world is a literal representation of Hell, though only the first layer has fire. The second layers deal with lightning and darkness.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'': Upon entering the underground area of the castle, you pass through a room with a flaming background and fight Cerberus as a miniboss. The rest of the area resembles caves and features lava lakes and contains many fire based enemies. [[spoiler:Inverted in the inverted castle where the same area is frozen over although in that one it's technically at the top.]]

* [[spoiler:Medic]] pays a visit here in the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' comics, after being shot. It takes the form of [[CelestialBureaucracy the Devil's reasonably nice office]], but rocky spikes, rivers of magma, and an awful lot of orange light can be seen out of the windows.
* Stygia in ''VideoGame/NexusWar'' games manages to be both this and EvilIsDeathlyCold simultaneously, side by side. Some later versions of the game let demons spread the fire and brimstone to the mortal world to add a PhysicalHell subsidiary.
* The Hell Dimensions of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' most commonly feature volcanic landscapes, sulfur deserts, flesh-rending sandstorms, and the colossal ruins of technological marvels. It's later revealed that Hell used to be a lot like Earth, and its current appearance is mainly due to its ongoing collapse into entropy following its abandonment by [[OurAngelsAreDifferent the Host]].
* The VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon of ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'' is situated in Avernus, the first layer of Baator which is also known as The Nine Hells. It's pretty much ashes and lava everywhere.
* Hell in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' seems like a [[AHellOfATime pretty cool place]] at first glance, being an opulent casino full of games and money and alcohol and all that good stuff. Of course, it's meant to lure in patrons to fatten them up with "good luck" and tempt them into [[DealWithTheDevil raising the stakes and gambling their souls]]. When you go down into the basement for the final battle with the [[{{Satan}} big guy himself]], you find that all the opulence is just a nice tasty piece of bait and Hell is actually fire and lava and tortured souls.
* In ''VideoGame/MutantFootballLeague'', The Malice Hellboys' stadium takes place in a scorching hell filled with lava pits and sandworms that can eat unsuspecting players. The broadcasters often comment on the suffocating heat before the game.
* The final levels of ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'' where Kurosawa the ninja confronts the Demon Lord is depicted in this manner, with floating platforms over rivers of lava.
* The three hell-themed levels of ''VideoGame/XenaWarriorPrincess'' plays this absolutely straight. There are rivers and lakes of molten lava, stone dragon heads which breathes fire at Xena, and in order to advance to Hades' quarters (to demand Hades to release her) Xena must cross a rotating stone bridge over a bottomless pit surrounded by lava waterfalls.
* The Maw in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is essentially Hell in all but name. It's a stygian wasteland intended to be TheAlcatraz for the worst souls in existence, which are tortured for eons and turned into mindless wraiths, but in ''Shadowlands'', something happens that causes ''every'' soul of the recently deceased to get sent there regardless of how they acted in life.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', the Asphodel Meadows are actually islands surrounded on all sides by damaging magma. The alteration from the myths (where the meadows were merely dull and dreary) is justified by saying that at some point the firey river Phlegethon flooded and overflowed them.
* The second half of ''VideoGame/SuperColumbineMassacreRPG'' has the [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Columbine High School killers]] Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold waking up in Hell after they kill themselves, with heavy influence drawn from the Hell levels in the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' games. Whereas the first half of the game was extremely easy on account of none of your victims being able to fight back, this part brings more difficulty as you now face demons trying to kill you. For Eric and Dylan, though, getting to play out their ''Doom'' fantasy for real turns it into AHellOfATime.
* The Master Extra Stages in ''Super Monkey Ball Gaiden'' are set in hell, with the stage names having MythologicalThemeNaming, and the fall out zone being lava surrounded by spike and pitchforks.
* Infernal Dimension in ''[[VideoGame/FallingFred Clicker Fred]]'' represents such place. You take the role of the Infernal Business' boss, forcing unfortunate souls to collect money for you from a path full of deadly traps, surrounded by the lava, seperated into endless number of stages with increasingly dark names like "Opening of Wrath", "Bridge of Bleeding", "Untidy Cave of Decay" and "Unknown Nowhere of Suffering". It also seems to serve as a hell for multiple dimensions, since the resident infernal management is able to summon multiple versions of the same person from parallel universes.
* The player visits one of these in ''VideoGame/NorthernJourney'', complete with [[BigRedDevil horned, fireball-throwing devils]] to fight.

* Netherrealm from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' is a {{Mordor}} that fits the classical Hell to a T.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'': The series' Septian Church preaches about Gahenna, a variation of this. In ''the 3rd'' game, it is an exportable area due the cast entering multiple planes created based on unconscious desires due to the RealityWarper Aureole device, and follows the aesthetic combined with a whirling vortex background. If the player makes it to the bottom of the optional Abyss dungeon within Gahenna, they are rewarded with the 15th Star Door, and it's retelling of The Angel of Slaughter's childhood as a SexSlave and her StepfordSmiler compatriots.

%%* [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner "Curses! I've gone to Hell! How unfortunate!"]]
* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} and {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''[[https://youtu.be/uPLeAvtMcik BADLOGIC]]'' when a recently killed thief points out torturing sinners for their evil deeds would make {{Satan}} a "good guy", despite his protests. [[spoiler:The devil eventually concedes and offers the thief one wish.]]
* The standard depiction of hell in ''WebAnimation/DarkMatter2525''. PlayedForHorror when combined with EasyRoadToHell in some of his videos.
* [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] in ''WebAnimation/HellsBelles''. Fire and brimstone is the standard decor, but there are perhaps infinite variations. It's not uncommon for people sent to hell to get a [[IronicHell personalized hell]]
* {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Defied|Trope}} by ''WebAnimation/TektonTV'' in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q5vGcpx1sY "Hell No! Shame On You!"]]. Tekton finds this view of the afterlife childish, and argues that a SelfInflictedHell is more accurate to the Bible.

* Affirmed ''and'' subverted in ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy''. Satan's realm Hell is a realm of [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment sulfur, fire, and brimstone.]] But since she's in rebellion against God, she sees no reason to torture souls whose only crime is disobeying God. The only souls she tortures are those who have ticked her off personally. (Which includes UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, who just ticks a lot of people off for some reason.)
* Played almost straight in ''Webcomic/{{Remember}}'' and by extension ''Webcomic/AvatarBattleRoyale'', where Hell is almost identical in composition to aforementioned Dungeons & Dragons Hades, except ''Levistus'' rules in ABR.
* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' plays this on occasion, if it wants to (but is far more prone to FluffyCloudHeaven). One of the few times it was actually directly seen was 'Atheist Hell'. Which ''looked'' like this trope, but the torture was far worse: Poorly reasoned proof of Satan's existence, for all eternity.
* Hell appears occasionally in ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', appearing almost exactly like this page's description. The major difference is that, because [[GoodBadBugs weapons randomly turn into other objects in the comic]], the devils poke the souls of the damned with [[{{Filth}} gay porn magazines]].
* Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Mindmistress}}'', wherein after [[PsychopathicManchild Alvin's]] mind takes over one of the (currently [[LethalLavaLand deep, deep underground]]) [[HumongousMecha Unstoppable Ones]] he assumes he's been confined to Fire and Brimstone Hell for his sins. The [[ManipulativeBastard man who sent him there]] [[SureLetsGoWithThat does nothing to abuse him of this notion]].
* Played straight in ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' for the most part. However, along with the fire and brimstone sections, there are also sections devoted to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment The Song That Never Ends]] and an area with nothing but rocks (boredom hell).
* In ''Webcomic/PricklyCity'', a full-blown supporter of Kevin can be found by digging for it. The panel shows flames and a pitchfork, with actual speaker offstage.
* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}''. Baby Blue and Fuschia keep the damned from rising out of the fires with their pitchforks. At least Baby Blue does, nowadays.
* In ''[[http://www.jtillustration.com/hell Hell Lost]]'' the Infernal Realm is inspired by both Dante and Milton. Ledges, instead of circles, step down and break out into the Frozen Continent. Macabre demons inspired by Bosch and Bruegel mix with more modern realizations, and the realm itself is riven by political rivalries and intrigue that leads to an inevitable but long awaited Counter Revolution.
* ''WebComic/SandraAndWoo'', the Devil [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2018/04/02/0976-ffa500-hell/ explains]] that Hell is a bit more subtle than the "lake of fire".

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' bounced between this and not being so bad. It's just that {{Satan}}'s an AffablyEvil PunchClockVillain who gets along with {{God}} (and he's gay.) He tortured people, but you get the feeling it's really his job. His boyfriend, Saddam Hussein, on the other hand...
** Satan frequently hosts parties, too - even a Christmas celebration! Also, because this show's FluffyCloudHeaven is reserved only for Mormons, plenty of good people show up here. In fact, Heaven's actually extremely dull, crossing this Hell over with AHellOfATime.
** Once Saddam Hussein was even sent to Heaven because he didn't consider Hell much of a punishment. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Eternity with a bunch of Mormons on the other hand...]]

** "[[WesternAnimation/SatansWaitin Satan's Waitin']]", a 1954 short starring Tweety Bird and Sylvester. After Sylvester crashes to the sidewalk while chasing Tweety, he "loses" a life and appears before a Satanic bulldog; behind him is a fiery pit, where several bulldogs are waiting to get at the puddy tat. As the cartoon progresses, Sylvester's "other lives" arrive in Hell as the cat continues to get clobbered while chasing Tweety. Eventually, Sylvester – realizing he doesn't want to go to Hell – stops chasing the bird ... but ends up there anyhow when two bank robbers blow up a safe using too much nitroglycerine.
** "Devil's Feud Cake," starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and Yosemite Sam. Here, clips from several past Bugs-Yosemite cartoons are cobbled together with alternate endings, all with Sam getting the worst end of things. After each "death," Sam appears before Satan, who wants Bugs' soul, and goads him into continuing after that varmint. When Sam dies (after being mauled by lions, in an encore of "Roman Legion Hare"), Satan offers "one last chance" to get Bugs, but Sam quickly dons a devil's costume and decides he'd rather stay in Hell! ("If you want him, you can get him yourself. I'm staying!" (EvilLaugh)).
** Daffy Duck winds up in Hell in a last ditch effort to avoid being drafted in "Draftee Daffy." But the little man from the draft board even shows up there!
** This is the Hell where the Warner Brothers and their Sister end up in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode30 Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled.]]" It is where sinners are tortured by being thrown into lakes of fire, poked with pitchforks, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking forced to watch reruns of]] ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking The Facts of Life]]''. True to Warner form, the kids proceed to torment Satan until he can't stand it anymore, culminating in ''freezing Hell over'', leading to him kicking them out of Hell and into Heaven instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has Robot Hell, a PhysicalHell built by the adherents of the Church of Robotology to hold any members who violate the oath of membership and sin. As soon as a Robotolgist sins, the red -and-horned Robot Devil will kidnap them and bring them to the red-painted walls of Robot Hell where they will suffer in lakes of fires while enduring cheesy musical numbers [[IronicHell suited to their sins]]. In a nod to the inspiration of the pop-image of [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Hell]], the robot underworld is located under an amusement park ride called ''The Inferno''.
* [[strike:Hell]] Heck in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' starts out as a Fire and Brimstone Hell until [[FluffyTheTerrible Peaches]] removes the backdrop, saying that it's only for the tourists.
** The episode "Heff in a Handbasket" plays the trope straight, but refers to the realm as "Beautiful, Lovely, You-Know-Where."
---> '''Grandma Wolfe''': I like it here! It's warm!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBaskervilles'' was set in a literal theme park version of Hell. Called Underworld: The Theme Park, the place was run by a man who ''thinks'' he's the Devil called Nicholas Lucifer III who enforces a GoodIsBadAndBadIsGood over the whole place.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Shows up in the season four finale, when [[EnemyMine Robin and Slade]] must descend there to save Raven's soul [[spoiler: and Slade's mortal body]].
* Shows up in ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''.
* This is the type of Hell in ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'':
-->'''Squid Devil''': You are raped by fire all day! And the days are longer down there. You know what we have to drink? Fire, [[UnusualEuphemism motherstuffer]], that's what! And dinner? That's a root, that makes you thirsty for more flippin' fire! It's ridiculous what I have set up down there!
* Miseryville on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' is heavily implied to be such (and was explicitly so in the pilot), with the citizenry composed entirely of demons, lava and fire being plentiful, and "misery" as the stand-in for eternal torment and suffering. However,it is a [[AHellOfATime somewhat more tolerable version]] than most.
* ''WesternAnimation/GodTheDevilAndBob'' depicts Hell this way, although Satan has to keep an eye on it or people start slacking off. They once turned the entire fourth circle into a golf course when he wasn't looking.
-->'''Devil''': This is the fourth circle of Hell?\\
'''Smeck''': Hey, this is a tough course. Look at that fringe - I mean, you hit it in there and you're looking at a 10 for sure.

** "Bart Gets Hit By A Car": Bart appears to be ascending into Heaven, but after spitting over the rail (which he was told not to do), he gets sent to this version of Hell (though the Devil is purposefully depicted as scrawny). Bart gets sent back because it's not really his time, and he doesn't seem particularly concerned about avoiding this fate - shrugging off changing his ways.
-->'''Bart''': Is there anything I could do to avoid coming back here?\\

** "Homer's Triple Bypass": After suffering the latest in a series of heart attacks, Homer wakes up to say, "Oh, Doctor, I was in the most wonderful place with fire and brimstone."
** "Treehouse of Horror IV: The Devil and Homer Simpson": After Homer makes a DealWithTheDevil for a doughnut, he's sent to this sort of hell. There, Homer is sent to the "[[IronicHell ironic punishments]]" department, where he is forced to eat thousands of doughnuts. However, because of his insatiable appetite, Homer eats all of the doughnuts ... and (with his body in a humorously bloated state) demands that Satan give him more!
*** A later Treehouse of Horror episode has Bart and Lisa be sent to the School of Hell, which is situated in a firy hell and where all students (including Bart and Lisa) have demonic appearances and learn about how to deliver [[IronicHell properly ironic]] eternal torment to sinners. Bart likes it so much he ends up transferring there.

** At the end of the Bible Tales episode, the Simpsons discover that Judgement Day has begun while they slept through church, and the family are sent to hell together, shown as a staircase leading underground with fire coming out of it. Once they're descended, you hear Homer screaming in pain and horror, but it turns out to be because the barbecue down there was out of hotdogs, and they were serving german potato salad and coleslaw with pineapple.

* Shows up near the end of the unaired ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short "Minnie Takes Care of Pluto."
* In the 1960s ''The Adventures of Superboy'' episode "A Devil of a Time", Superboy spots a couple of crooks while wearing [[HalloweenEpisode a Halloween devil costume]]. He pretends to be Lucifer come to grant them three wishes, and ultimately takes the crooks "home" with him to a volcanic crater in order to ScareEmStraight.
* Appears briefly at the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' episode "[[Recap/RenandStimpy2x04SvenHoek Sven Hoek]]".
-->'''BigRedDevil''': So, you whizzed on the electric fence, [[FingerWag didn't ya]]?
* At the end of [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery-directed MGM cartoon]], ''WesternAnimation/BlitzWolf'', this is where [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf Wolf]] winds up after getting killed.
-->'''Adolf Wolf:''' Have I been blown to...\\
'''A bunch of devils:''' Eh, it's a possibility.
* A ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'' cartoon had [[DastardlyWhiplash Dishonest John]] controlling a genie, who was an inept goofball. As John's about to get captured, he wishes to go somewhere he can't be caught - and the two end up in Hell, in devil costumes.
-->'''Captain''': Now where the ''devil'' do you suppose Dishonest John got to?\\
'''Cecil''': Heck if I know!
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' features a dimension sustained by ChaoticEvil called the Nightosphere which is this trope. Apparently, however, the dead don't go there.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** "Holy Crap" has a scene where Peter imagines being in Hell where he meets UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, UsefulNotes/AlCapone, UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth, and...ComicBook/{{Superman}}, who's in there for killing a hooker.
** In a brief scene in "Stewie B. Goode", Stewie is trapped in Hell, represented by a motel room with Steve Allen. Just as Steve starts to take off his shirt and says, "Alright, let's do this," Stewie wakes up, having had a near-death experience. Averted when it's shown that Allen just wanted him to help fix his shirt. [[MundaneAfterlife Then Allen turns on the TV and discovers that they show nothing but]] ''Series/WhosTheBoss'' reruns.
** "Peter's Daughter" had a variant for dogs, showing Satan taunting the dogs by using a vacuum, which dogs are known to hate.
** WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} appears there in "Dial Meg for Murder" for being involved in [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the September 11th attacks]].
** After getting killed by Stewie, Vern and Johnny reappear, Vern as a ghost, and Johnny in Hell. Vern's explanation? "[[PaedoHunt Johnny liked little boys.]]"
* ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'': Snafu went there at the end of "Spies". Incidentally, the devil wore a lapel pin with a swastika on it. Also, we get a glimpse of Hell again in "Hot Spot".
* An episode of the 90's cartoon version of ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' has Stanley accidentally sell his soul to Satan, or "Bob" as he's called in the show, and The Mask ends up being taken to the Underworld, which is portrayed as this trope, filled with ironic punishments, such as nothing on TV except daytime talk shows, everyone being forced to wear polyester clothes, and the food consists of lima beans, rice cakes and lettuce. Thankfully, The Mask manages to get his soul back by beating Bob in a dance off.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' episode "Hanging By a Thread" shows the Ghostbusters visiting Hell depicted as this, and with caves and lava (or maybe blood) rivers.
* ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'': In "Heavenly Puss," Tom is apparently killed and is unable to gain passage on the Heavenly Express due to his constant persecution of Jerry. He is given a chance to redeem himself by getting Jerry to sign a certificate of forgiveness, but he only has an hour to do it, or else. Tom is shown a monitor which shows a fire-and-brimstone Hell with a devil version of Spike the bulldog calling out "Give him to me now! Send him down!" In the end, [[spoiler:it turns out to be AllJustADream]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Parodied in "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret Hill". Peggy gets a job as a teacher at a Catholic school by lying about being a nun. One night, Peggy has a nightmare in which she gets sent to Hell and suddenly the flames die out. That's when Hank comes in to service the tanks.
-->'''Hank:''' It's a clean-burning Hell, I tell you what!
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'', Hell exists as a [[PhysicalHell literal underworld]], accessible by a {{Hellevator}}. Suitably volcanic and ruled by Satan, with a strict hierarchy of demons who can be promoted or demoted at his whim. Damned souls are each subjected to their own {{Ironic Hell}}s in cells where they are forced to endlessly watch projected scenes from the worst moments of their lives — with the popcorn forever out of reach.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' short "WesternAnimation/RedHotMamma" has Betty wanting to be somewhere warmer, but ends up wandering through hell.

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'', where Hell is a rocky wasteland that makes everyone fight amongst themselves for superiority. The only torturing is done by the superior guys, under their own will. Occasionally, ''hellfire'' rains from the sky, which are more like comets, but that's about it.
** Later double subverted by the testimony of an expert, revealing to an upstart newcomer that, regardless of rocky wastelands and selfish people, Hell really ''is'' inherently a punishment, it's just ''subtle'' about it.
--->'''Karnak:''' You don't get how this place works, do you? No one is happy here. Nothing good lasts, even for the punishers. That's why '''every''' demon lord or would-be ruler tries to escape this '''pit'''. This is a realm of misery and torture for '''all''' who dwell here. This is '''Hell'''.

* Interestingly subverted in ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]" where a criminal named Rocky Valentine dies and thinks he's gone to heaven because everything goes his way. But he eventually becomes sick of what he thinks is Heaven and wants "to go to that other place". This is when he is told that he ''is'' in "that other place". Final words of the episode: "...an angry little man, who now has everything he could ever ask for, and has to live with it forever."

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/HellFire1956": (ImpliedTrope) The explosion of an atomic bomb is said to be literal HellFire; fire from hell.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'': In "Heavenly Puss," Tom is apparently killed and is unable to gain passage on the Heavenly Express due to his constant persecution of Jerry. He is given a chance to redeem himself by getting Jerry to sign a certificate of forgiveness but he only has an hour to do it, or else. Tom is shown a monitor which shows a fire-and-brimstone Hell with a devil version of Spike the bulldog calling out "Give him to me now! Send him down!" In the end, [[spoiler:it turns out to be AllJustADream.]]

Common features of such a location include underground cavern-like decor, plenty of {{hellfire}} and [[LethalLavaLand lava]], and [[BigRedDevil red-skinned]] [[HornedHumanoid devils with horns]] and tails poking the souls of sinners around with their pitchforks. Sometimes, it's actually shown to be underground ''[[PhysicalHell literally]]'', but most of the time it's AnotherDimension.

** In appearance, Sheol, the realm of the Demon Prince of Fire, is the fiery, smoking vision of Hell that mortals often fear. A massive volcano sits in its center, constantly streaming with lava and wracked by eruptions that send fiery debris falling on the landscapes; rivers of fire and molten rock crawl away from it and across the landscape, while clouds of smoke and ash choke the skies. Scattered across Sheol are more familiar landscapes -- cities, forests, valleys and the like -- but all burning, constantly rebuilt just to be set on fire. Belial's destructive, pyromaniac demons love it there; the souls of the damned are left to cling to shelves of barren rock, choking on smoke and ash, wincing from the flying cinders, dodging volcanic debris, and trying not to be captured by gangs of demons eager to extract essence from them by methods involving the creative use of live coals, heated pokers and napalm.

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* [[UnbuiltTrope In spite of everything]], Dante's ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]'' actually ''averted'' this trope for the most part. Naked flames do feature, but only in four of the twenty-four divisions of Dante's Hell (Heretics lie in flaming tombs, blasphemers, usurers, and sodomites are in a desert with fire raining down, simoniacs are stuck upside down with flames burning at their feet, and evil counselors are stuck in individual tongues of flame) and just one of the seven regions in his Purgatory (the seventh terrace, for the repentant lustful). You are as likely to be boiled, drowned, shredded, chopped, frozen, or suffer any number of other creative torments as you are burnt in Dante's ''Inferno.'' [[SerialEscalation Furthermore]], Satan (along with other traitors) is imprisoned in the deepest level of Hell-Cocytus, [[EvilIsDeathlyCold a frozen lake]].

* [[UnbuiltTrope In spite of everything]], Dante's ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]'' actually ''averted'' this trope for the most part. Naked flames do feature, but only in four of the twenty-four divisions of Dante's Hell (Heretics lie in flaming tombs, blasphemers, usurers, and homosexuals are in a desert with fire raining down, simoniacs are stuck upside down with flames burning at their feet, and evil counselors are stuck in individual tongues of flame) and just one of the seven regions in his Purgatory (the seventh terrence, for the repentant lustful). You are as likely to be boiled, drowned, shredded, chopped, frozen, or suffer any number of other creative torments as you are burnt in Dante's ''Inferno.'' [[SerialEscalation Furthermore]], Satan (along with other traitors) is imprisoned in the deepest level of Hell- Cocytus, [[EvilIsDeathlyCold a frozen lake]].

-->-- '''Squirrel Nut Zippers''', "Hell"

[[FridgeLogic Note the curious discrepancy]]; despite rebelling against {{God}}, devils in hell are [[PunchClockVillain doing some kind of job with awe-inspiring diligence and consistency]]. This job arguably makes Hell someplace someone doesn't want to go; which theoretically helps God. Some theorize that Hell [[HeavensDevils is thus part of God's plan and still under His employ]], which [[GodIsEvil may]] or [[InMysteriousWays may not]] put his infinite goodness into doubt depending on who you ask; or else devils get something out of torturing souls. {{Mana}}, perhaps. Or maybe they're just [[ForTheEvulz sadistically amusing themselves]]. Another popular theory in fiction is that it was originally a prison, but {{Satan}} took it over; subverting its mechanics.

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': Hell features in several strips, always as a network of tunnels filled with gouts of flame. Its inhabitants are devils, who all have horns and red skin, wear high-collared capes, wield pitchforks and have a fondness for BlackComedy. The souls of the damned, who resemble their living selves but clad in rags, are subjected to a variety of punishments, generally either physical labor or imprisonment in one of Hell's many prison cells, though often with some CoolAndUnusualPunishment aspects.
-->“Okay, sir, would you like inferno or non-inferno?... Ha! Just kidding. It’s all inferno, of course—I just get a kick out of saying that.”