History Main / PlaceWorseThanDeath

** When ComicBook/SpiderMan goes on live television to say that he's switching sides during ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}, he says that the prison that unregistered heroes are being sent to is in the Negative Zone, which is like New Jersey... but ''worse''.

--->'''NO! NO, NOT DETROIT! PLEASE! NO! [[AnythingButThat ANYTHING BUT THAT!]]] NO! NO!"'''

--->'''NO! NO, NOT DETROIT! PLEASE! NO! [[AnythingButThat ANYTHING BUT THAT]] NO! NO!"'''

--->'''NO! NO, NOT DETROIT! PLEASE! NO! [[AnythingButThat ANYTHING BUT THAT]]! NO! NO!"'''

* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''
-->'''English Bob:''' I thought that you were dead .\\
'''Little Bill Dagget:''' I heard that one myself, Bob. Hell, I even thought I was dead. Till I found out I was just in Nebraska.
* ''Film/InBruges'' regards the title city as such.
-->"Maybe that's what Hell is, the entire rest of eternity spent in fucking Bruges."
* ''Film/Hairspray2007'': "Good morning Baltimore! There's the flasher that lives next door, there's the drunk on his barroom stool; they wish me luck on my way to school..." (Most Creator/JohnWaters films tends towards an affectionate mocking of his hometown, though.)

* In ''Film/WaynesWorld'', Wayne and Garth use a backscreen that's flashing exotic locales to which the two make fun of the stereotypes associated with those places. Then the backscreen flashes Delaware, and the two can't think of ''anything'' associated with Delaware.

* In ''Film/AlienResurrection'', Johner half-seriously says that he'd rather face the Aliens than go to Earth.
* As James Gandolfini's character in ''Film/InTheLoop'' so eloquently said, while talking about WarIsHell: "This is the problem with civilians wanting to go to war. It's terrible, horrible, and once you've been there you never want to go again unless you absolutely fuckin' have to.... It's like [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys France]]."
* In the film ''Film/{{Disclosure}}'', Tom Sanders is offered a transfer to Austin, Texas. This is later described as similar to "a duck making a lateral move to 'à l'orange'", or in other words similar to being roasted and eaten. Part of this may have less to do with any general shittiness of Austin, and more to do that Sanders knows that the transfer is a thinly veiled plot to get rid of him. The Austin branch is due to close in six months, meaning that the company could transfer him, pay him six months of salary and then quietly let him go, instead of having to handle the messy sexual harassment suit he is caught up in.
* The [=LeQuint=] Dickey Mining Company in ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is a mining company infamous for its cruel treatment of their slaves, such that Stephen, the head house slave of Candyland, considers being sold to them worse than being castrated, whipped to death, thrown to the Mandingos, or even ripped apart by Stonesipher's dogs. [[spoiler:Django narrowly avoids winding up there after the Candyland shootout]].

* ''Film/InstructionsNotIncluded'': During the trial to see if Valentin is fit to remain Maggie's father, it's mentioned that his job (stuntman) is one of the three most dangerous jobs in the world. The other two are construction worker and bus driver in Mexico City.

* According to ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', the main form of punishment for a monster is permanent banishment to the human world, though, given that the monsters believe that [[HumansAreCthulhu humans, especially children, are deadly]], this is justifiable.

** During the "A Fistful of Yen" sequence in ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', a captured CIA agent is defiant at [[BigBad Dr. Klahn's taunts]]... only to start screaming for mercy when he is to be... [[AC:taken to Detroit.]]

* In ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'' Arthur Dent says, "When I was little I used to have this nightmare about dying - all my school friends went to Heaven or Hell and I was sent to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southend-on-Sea Southend]]!"

* There is a story by Creator/IsaacAsimov about a man being exiled, with his attorney insisting that the punishment is way too harsh. In the end, it is revealed that he is sent [[spoiler:from the perfectly controlled and conditioned underground cities of the Moon, to the eternally unstable surface of Earth.]]
* In the Literature/AgentPendergast novel ''Literature/BookOfTheDead'', Agent Coffey threatens the prison guards with termination and transfer to North Dakota. When everything comes crashing down on him, Coffey is heavily demoted and transferred to North Dakota.

-->'''Princess Sara:''' Well, the poll only had two choices: '''One''', be ruled over by King Steve forever, '''two''', get a sword through your head. We lost '''52%''' of participants.

* Creator/BrianClevinger's [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/08/16/interlude-00-hes-a-fighter-not-a-webcomic-artist/ opinion of Alabama]] from ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' - [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/03/30/episode-401-civility-before-hostility it's hell.]] There's also an in-universe one in Corneria.
-->'''Princess Sara:''' Well, the poll only had two choices: '''One''', be ruled over by [[TheCaligula King Steve]] forever, '''two''', get a sword through your head. We lost '''52%''' of participants.

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* One episode of the American ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' had as a Scene From A Hat "Versions of Hell without fire or brimstone". Greg presented it as driving eternally in Mississippi. They also repeat the joke for Fresno and Seattle.
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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
Used as a riff in the ''Film/WarOfTheColossalBeast'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E19WarOfTheColossalBeast episode]] :

** While watching ''Film/MacAndMe'' in [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S12E01MacAndMe the revival series]]: "When visiting Bakersfield, California...reconsider."

* Used as a riff in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E19WarOfTheColossalBeast presentation]] of ''Film/WarOfTheColossalBeast'':
-->'''Maj. Barrett:''' There's no place in the civilized world for a creature that big.\\

* ''Franchise/{{Robocop}}''. [[http://supergaydetroit.blogspot.com/2011/02/10-reasons-robocop-statue-is-bad-idea.html Then comes the people who want to put a RoboCop statue in the city...]]

* The [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fluffy pony]] group fic ''The Fall of Cleveland'' has a developer build a theme park for Fanfic/{{fluffy pon|y}}ies (small, fluffy man-made life forms often kept as pets) in Cleveland, a plan approved by the mayor in a desperate attempt to make ''some'' money for the city. However, the developer has rigged the park to explode as part of a plan to make his creations, "fuzzy ponies", the only biotoy on the market. The story ends with a massive tidal wave of fluffy ponies overwhelming the park, a herd getting into the local nuclear power plant, and Lake Erie swallowing the city.

* Baron Zemo sends some of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's allies there (and says sending people there is a FateWorseThanDeath) during the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' CrisisCrossover.

** When ComicBook/SpiderMan goes on live television to say that he's switching sides during ComicBook/CivilWar, he says that the prison that unregistered heroes are being sent to is in the Negative Zone, which is like New Jersey... but ''worse''.

* In the Disney Channel Original Movie, ''Film/TheLuckOfTheIrish'', BigBad Seamus makes a deal with Kyle to return the latter's lucky coin after losing a bet, and to "live forever in the land of [Kyle's] father, in the shores Erie." Seamus misinterprets Erie as Kyle mispronouncing Eire, the Irish word for Ireland, and is horrified when Kyle corrects him that his dad's from Cleveland, and Seamus gets transported ''into'' Lake Erie.

* The Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses [[WebVideo/TGWTGYearOneBrawl Anniversary Brawl]] begins with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic singing an ode to Chicago, (Oh what an adequate morning!) loaded with {{Take That}}s to Chicago that make it sound like this.

** Malachite, who was banished to a Starbucks {{Expy}} after being defeated in the third year anniversary of Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.

'''Andy Parsons:''' For Middlesborough, take the exit marked "Hell", and then lose the will to live.\\