History Main / FluffyCloudHeaven

* At the end of Blue's Story in ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier'' for the original [=PlayStation=], ''Hell'' resembles Fluffy Cloud Heaven...until Hell's Lord shifts from his humanoid form to his monstrous one.
* Celestia in ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' resembles this.

* The DiscOneFinalDungeon of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' is a variation of this with a somewhat melancholy ballad as the theme music, and the party remarks that it's like "a storybook version of heaven." Like other dungeons, it's made from the thoughts of the person who "created" it, when they were [[ItMakesSenseInContext thrown into the TV]], namely [[spoiler:a combination of Nanako(the victim)'s desire to see her dead mother again (one of her Social Link events has her happy to hear you say that you think dead people go to heaven), and Namatame(the kidnapper)'s belief that the TV world was a safe haven (and to a lesser extent, his messiah complex).]]

{{Heaven}} takes place in the clouds, which are [[SolidClouds solid enough]] to walk on, and expect much HeavenlyBlue. Besides the clouds, the landscape consists chiefly of white, fluted columns in a generic Greco-Roman style. [[ArtisticLicenseReligion Humans become angels after they die.]] They are [[WingedHumanoid given wings]], a long white robe, a lyre/harp and a HolyHalo that is literally a golden glowing ring that floats over their heads. Smaller SuperDeformed cherubs à la Cupid may float around too. Other than that, it's not exactly clear what people do. If {{God}} exists in Fluffy Cloud Heaven at all, he's a [[GrandpaGod giant white-haired, bearded man wandering around or sitting on a huge white marble throne]]. There is often a line in front of [[ThePearlyGates the "Pearly Gates"]] of [[WannabeLine people wanting to get in]] (because Heaven itself can't find an [[CelestialBureaucracy efficient]] way to deal with a line of people), with an angel based on St. Peter who acts as a bouncer. [[JudgementOfTheDead He'll read his book about all the naughty and nice things someone has done, and then either let them in]] or send them to Hell via a {{trapdoor}}. Often he has a desk right in front of the gates. Sometimes there's even a computer on it.

{{Heaven}} takes place in the clouds, which are [[SolidClouds solid enough]] to walk on, and expect much HeavenlyBlue. Besides the clouds, the landscape consists chiefly of white, fluted columns in a generic Greco-Roman style. [[ArtisticLicenseReligion Humans become angels after they die.]] They are [[WingedHumanoid given wings]], a long white robe, a lyre/harp and a HolyHalo that is literally a golden glowing ring that floats over their heads. Smaller SuperDeformed cherubs à la Cupid may float around too. Other than that, it's not exactly clear what people do. If {{God}} exists in Fluffy Cloud Heaven at all, he's a [[GrandpaGod giant white-haired, bearded man wandering around or sitting on a huge white marble throne]]. There is often a line in front of the "Pearly Gates" of [[WannabeLine people wanting to get in]] (because Heaven itself can't find an [[CelestialBureaucracy efficient]] way to deal with a line of people), with an angel based on St. Peter who acts as a bouncer. [[JudgementOfTheDead He'll read his book about all the naughty and nice things someone has done, and then either let them in]] or send them to Hell via a {{trapdoor}}. Often he has a desk right in front of the gates. Sometimes there's even a computer on it.

{{Heaven}} takes place in the clouds, which are [[SolidClouds solid enough]] to walk on, and expect much HeavenlyBlue. [[ArtisticLicenseReligion Humans become angels after they die.]] They are [[WingedHumanoid given wings]], a long white robe, a lyre/harp and a HolyHalo that is literally a golden glowing ring that floats over their heads. Smaller SuperDeformed cherubs à la Cupid may float around too. Other than that, it's not exactly clear what people do. If {{God}} exists in Fluffy Cloud Heaven at all, he's a [[GrandpaGod giant white-haired, bearded man wandering around or sitting on a huge white marble throne]]. There is often a line in front of the "Pearly Gates" of [[WannabeLine people wanting to get in]] (because Heaven itself can't find an [[CelestialBureaucracy efficient]] way to deal with a line of people), with an angel based on St. Peter who acts as a bouncer. [[JudgementOfTheDead He'll read his book about all the naughty and nice things someone has done, and then either let them in]] or send them to Hell via a {{trapdoor}}. Often he has a desk right in front of the gates. Sometimes there's even a computer on it.

* A standard Fluffy Cloud Heaven appears as the home of Nanael in ''Anime/QueensBlade'', complete with Greco-Roman architecture lying about.

* Parodied by the Belgian one-page series ''Passe-moi l'ciel!''.

* Parodied to... well, death, in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'':

* Played straight in ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus''. Also, dead relatives return to Earth to [[SpiritAdvisor talk to the living]].
* Sherman goes here in ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'' after being hit on the head with a speedboat.
* ''ComicStrip/FrankAndErnest'': "I'm driving the Air Force nuts with my Frisbee!"

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Partly played straight in “The Gift.” Mittens is [[BigDamnReunion reunited in the afterlife]] with Bolt and Rhino, who predecease her. There are checkout counter style lines for admission. It’s also an ideal place where one can call up all knowledge, art, or culture for enjoyment, and its residents mingle and talk in cocktail party fashion. Inverted in that it’s based on Eastern karmic principles (even referred to as Nirvana instead of Heaven) and beings can’t enter until they have learned all their required life lessons.

-->'''Colbert:''' I'll get a harp, I'll have a mint julep and I'll ask UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan questions.
-->'''Bishop N.T. Wright:''' And you'll be sitting there like that guy in ComicStrip/TheFarSide cartoon, saying "Gee, I wish I'd brought a magazine".

* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}: The Beast with a Billion Backs'', it is revealed that this version of Heaven takes place on a [[spoiler:planet-sized, tentacled alien from another universe, who indicates that Earth's depictions of Heaven were influenced by an image of his dimension that he transmitted telepathically to the minds of their artists. Among other things, the "clouds" are a vapor the alien exudes, and stereotypical humanoid "angels" with wings and halos are present, but they're not even sapient; they're just birdlike creatures who eat the parasites on his surface.]]
** The idea is played with when Leela says [[GoodIsBoring it's boring]] because everything is so wholesome, and we then see that people indeed have regular orgies.
** Shows up again in "The Ghost in the Machines" with "Robot Heaven."
* It isn't an afterlife, but Care-a-Lot, where the ''WesternAnimation/CareBears'' live, is the same idea. They even have cars made of clouds and rainbows. One commercial for the toys had kids visiting the place in a hot air balloon.
* The racist Uncle Ruckus dreams in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The Passion of Reverend Ruckus" of briefly visiting "White Heaven". He is met by Ronald Reagan, who explains that there are many "separate but equal" heavens for the various races, but strongly hinting that White Heaven is better.

-->'''Beavis:''' Uhh, this is beginning to suck. Do I get into Heaven or not?
-->'''St. Peter:''' ...umm, no.

* In a nod to the above, Cloud City in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall''.
* The Land of Myth, although not an afterlife, resembles this in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs''.

---->[-Of course we couldn't have gone for the-]
---->[-[[DealWithTheDevil all-inclusive]] [[AHellOfATime luxury pack]] at [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the other place]],-]
---->[-being stuck in this one room, all clouds, no AC,-]
---->[-with [[KitschCollection grandma figurines playing instruments]] for the rest of eternity,-]
---->[-[[SarcasmMode now that sounds much more fun]]. -]

In a RageAgainstTheHeavens setting, Fluffy Cloud Heaven will have its tackiness emphasized: Halos are fake and hung up via a metal strip at the back of the neck, like in a child's school play. Elements of Fluffy Cloud Heaven may be used as [[CrapsaccharineWorld a disguise for "the truth."]] In other, more beneficent settings, heaven is whatever is pleasant to its inhabitants; if they ''want'' Fluffy Cloud Heaven, they [[FisherKingdom get Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]; however silly. Or it might be an AfterlifeAntechamber to the ''real'' Heaven; which nobody talks about.

** In Diamond is Unbreakable, [[spoiler: Shigechi]] 's soul is shown ascending to the sky after their death. Similiarly [[spoiler: the resident ghost girl Reimi ascends to Heaven at the end of the Part.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Afterlife}}'', you build a Fluffy Cloud Heaven, though the angels are the working force instead of the residents (and some souls can become angels through training).

* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has the "Overthere", a land of clouds and Nimbis for Good Players who [[NeverSayDie got their Game Over]]. Not to be confused with ''other'' more mortal cloud lands in the SuperMarioBros universe, of which [[BubblyClouds there are quite a few]].

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* ''Literature/DantesInfanzia'':
-->Tall spires and glorious palaces rose on the horizon. Bright lights and auras shone forth. There were two suns right now. Dante didn't know how he knew, but this was Heaven. It’s like how one knows Disney World as soon as the giant Mickey ears come into view. There was something hardwired into his brain to recognize this place and know what it is. This though was the Taj Mahal, the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Disney World, and the Emerald City of Oz all rolled up into one and multiplied times infinity. Since the Tower of Babel, no human language has been able to accurately describe Its grandeur.

-->''First if the clouds have gone to sleep\\

-->'''Bishop N.T. Wright:''' And you'll be sitting there like that guy in Series/TheFarSide cartoon, saying "Gee, I wish I'd brought a magazine".

* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}: The Beast with a Billion Backs'', it is revealed that this version of Heaven takes place on a [[spoiler:planet-sized, tentacled alien from another universe, who indicates that Earth's depictions of Heaven were influenced by an image of his dimension that he transmitted telepathically to the minds of their artists. Among other things, [[spoiler:the "clouds" are a vapor the alien exudes, and stereotypical humanoid "angels" with wings and halos are present, but they're not even sapient; they're just birdlike creatures who eat the parasites on his surface.]]

* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}: The Beast with a Billion Backs'', it is revealed that this version of Heaven takes place on a [[spoiler:planet-sized, tentacled alien from another universe]], who indicates that Earth's depictions of Heaven were influenced by "messages" from his dimension. Among other things, [[spoiler:stereotypical humanoid "angels" with wings and halos are present, but they're not even sapient; they're just parasites.]]

* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}: The Beast with a Billion Backs'', it is revealed that this version of Heaven takes place on a [[spoiler:planet-sized, tentacled alien from another universe]].

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-->''First if the clouds have gone to sleep
-->you can see us in the sky
-->we are afraid and alone
-->God knows I don't want to be an angel''

** Randall Mario Poffo, AKA "Macho Man Randy Savage," may not have had an official editorial cartoon, but he did die just before a certain religious cult's predicted Rapture was supposed to happen. Internet fan art depicts him in Heaven, in costume, delivering a flying elbow slam to an unsuspecting Jesus before he can rapture the people of Earth. Macho Man died so that we may live.

* ''WebOriginal/DantesInfanzia'':
--> ''Tall spires and glorious palaces rose on the horizon. Bright lights and auras shone forth. There were two suns right now. Dante didn’t know how he knew, but this was Heaven. It’s like how one knows Disney World as soon as the giant Mickey ears come into view. There was something hardwired into his brain to recognize this place and know what it is. This though was the Taj Mahal, the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Disney World, and the Emerald City of Oz all rolled up into one and multiplied times infinity. Since the Tower of Babel, no human language has been able to accurately describe Its grandeur.''

This is the most popular sub-trope of HeavenAbove, which covers any association of the divine and the sky. See also the Hallmark version of Hell, FireAndBrimstoneHell. Not to be mistaken for BubblyClouds, which may be fluffy but is still very terrestrial. Characters who die in a story often DiedHappilyEverAfter before coming here. The destination when WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath.

* In ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', the whitelighters' domain ("[[NotUsingTheZWord Up There]]") looks like this, with clouds, white pillars, and a white-robed dress code (that Leo ignores because jeans are more comfortable).

* A commercial for Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}} Angel takes place here with two girl angels.[[note]]Although one of them might be a girl devil...[[/note]]