| 1 | %% Art by Danny Hahlbohm |
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| 3 | [[caption-width-right:350:Today's weather will be partly cloudy with a chance of salvation.]] |
| 4 | Fluffy Cloud Heaven is taking millennia of belief and art on "{{Heaven}}", and [[TheThemeParkVersion boiling it down to a Hallmark card]]. |
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| 6 | {{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.[[note]]These guys are really called ''putti'' and may represent (among other things) innocence and fun, or guardian spirits keeping an eye on things.[[/note]] 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 St. Peter who stands in front of them and 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. |
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| 8 | Depending on the version, animals may be frolicking about, ready to meet their owners from when they were alive, or they might be waiting down at Literature/RainbowBridge. |
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| 10 | Note that you probably won't find an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Ophanim or Seraphim]] among the inhabitants; not that they're any less angelic than any of the other residents here, but more the fact that [[AngelicAbomination they don't quite fit the scenery.]] - Be not afraid, indeed! |
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| 12 | 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 SchoolPlay. 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. |
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| 14 | Fluffy Cloud Heaven may be the home of Hollywood angels, who are less like something out of ''any'' established religion and more like {{fairy godmother}}s and godfathers. Some only offer banal homilies to their clients; others provide supernatural aid, but none of them smite the unrighteous, Old Testament style. |
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| 16 | Don't expect to find this description in any religious text. Nowadays the use of this depiction is [[DiscreditedTrope usually meant either as satire or for very young children]]. The exceptions almost invariably treat the depiction as a simple visual short-hand. |
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| 18 | 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 LevelInTheClouds, which may be fluffy but is still very terrestrial. Characters who die in a story often DiedHappilyEverAfter before coming here. The destination when WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath. We may also get to see some CelebritiesHangOutInHeaven. |
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| 20 | As a side note, the actual origin of this depiction comes from Early Christians, many of whom were formerly of the Greek religion, conflating Heaven with Mount Olympus and angels with Apollo, god of light and music (hence why angels are often shown playing harps). |
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| 23 | !!Examples: |
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| 25 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 26 | |
| 27 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 28 | * A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtwCf5WWUU Nespresso ad]] shows Creator/GeorgeClooney being killed by a falling piano and arrives at the Pearly Gates, with Creator/JohnMalkovich as either St. Peter or God. |
| 29 | ** The Nespresso commercial was accused of plagiarizing a commercial from Lavazza, an Italian company, which also showed characters in a fluffy heaven which has seemingly nothing better to offer than coffee. The commercial received some negative attention due to a series of interviews to elementary school children who claimed in a worrying number that heaven was "a place where you drank coffee". |
| 30 | ** Inverted with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geskgx5hCwk&list=PLohhUA8zx3EQ2dbKwFGp1H4QH_0YCtgv6 commercials of Segafredo]], a competitor of Lavazza's, that (in what is most certainly a TakeThat) are set in a FireAndBrimstoneHell complete with [[HotAsHell sexy she-devils]], and their coffee is shown as being the only thing that can free sinners from their eternal torment, albeit temporarily. |
| 31 | %%* The ads for Philadelphia Cream Cheese. |
| 32 | * {{Subverted}} in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnIjgw5A-iI this]] ''Advertising/GotMilk'' ad, where a man dies and enters a perfectly white realm filled with light and giant cookies. The twist is that all the milk cartons are empty, leading him to realize he's actually in Hell. |
| 33 | * Commercials for Hebrew National hot dogs take place here, to prove the point that they "answer to a higher authority". |
| 34 | * A commercial for the Toys/{{Tamagotchi}} Angel takes place here with two girl angels.[[note]]Although one of them might be a girl devil...[[/note]] |
| 35 | * Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese has a series of commercials depicting angels in heaven full of clouds. |
| 36 | [[/folder]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 39 | * ''Anime/MagicalPokaan'' sends Yuuma to the Fluffy Cloud Heaven, to the extent that she even says "Ahhhh, it's so fluffy and comfy!". She ends up getting bored, though, so she's simply sent back to Earth. |
| 40 | * In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', there is a variation on this. Fluffy clouds abound, and when a character dies they get a halo over their head. Heaven itself is [[CelestialBureaucracy run in a modern fashion]]. Everyone who works there wears white collar clothing typical of an office setting, and everyone seems extremely stressed. From the check-in point (where one awaits judgment) good beings are flown on a plane to a paradise, while bad beings are dropped through the clouds and into the Home for Infinite Losers (or Hell in the uncut version). The true warriors are allowed to visit Gods for training and an eternity of exercise. |
| 41 | * ''Anime/QueensBlade'': A standard Fluffy Cloud Heaven appears as the home of Nanael, complete with Greco-Roman architecture lying about. |
| 42 | * The ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' Tribute Comics included in the pamphlets for TheMovie adaptations typically ends with a scene showing all the named characters who have died in so far in the [[AlternateContinuity movie continuity]] watching over the characters from this type of heaven. Even [[spoiler:[[TragicVillain Precia]] and [[PureMagicBeing Reinforce]]]]. |
| 43 | * While Heaven itself is never shown proper in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', depictions of it, both symbolic and literal, are usually shown with golden clouds: |
| 44 | ** In ''Stardust Crusaders'', after [[spoiler:Iggy and Avdol die]], Polnareff sees their souls taking the forms of gold clouds looking at him from the sky. |
| 45 | ** Again in ''Stardust Crusaders'', [[spoiler: when Joseph temporarily dies, his soul has a cloud-like appearance.]] |
| 46 | ** 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.]] |
| 47 | ** In ''Golden Wind'', [[spoiler: Bruno (who was technically undead at this point)]]'s soul was finally able to ascend to the sky after [[spoiler: the effects of Chariot Requiem was undone.]] Similiarly, [[spoiler: Abbachio's soul was shown alongside his former partner in the clouds after the Gang learns about his corpse and his final actions.]] |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Arts]] |
| 51 | * ''Art/TheApotheosisOfWashington'': Washington's holy abode has few distinguishable features besides being covered in clouds and having some large source of light being covered by them. |
| 52 | * ''Art/PsycheAndCupidBouguereau'': In "Cupid and Psyche as Children", "Psyche and Love", and "The Rapture of Psyche", the title characters are in the Heavens together and all we can see is a relaxing landscape of white clouds. |
| 53 | * ''Art/DisputationOfTheHolySacrament'' by Creator/RaphaelSanzio shows [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ]] and the saints sitting on clouds floating above a Eucharistic celebration. Interestingly, the painting tries to make this a JustifiedTrope by showing that the clouds are filled with little angels that support everything that lies above the clouds. |
| 54 | [[/folder]] |
| 55 | |
| 56 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 57 | * ''ComicBook/{{Cattivik}}'': In ''Cattivik in Paradiso'', Cattivik reaches the Pearly Gates by means of a hot air balloon to find a cloudy paradise populated by robed and haloed blessed souls. After a few misadventures, including trying to steal the halos of the blessed after mistaking them for gold and a brief stint leading the Heavenly choir, he steals St. Peter's robe and uses it to parachute back down to Earth. |
| 58 | %%* ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'': Fluffy Cloud Heaven appears in some tracts, such as "This Was Your Life". This being ''the'' Jack Chick, however, he's far more interested in FireAndBrimstoneHell.%%How is the trope used? |
| 59 | * ''ComicBook/TheChroniclesOfWormwood'' by Creator/GarthEnnis. The AntiChrist visits Fluffy Cloud Heaven with the permission of Jesus (who is a brain damaged black man, no really). It's the typical sort, with a few inversions. It acts as the de facto hell for terrorists, who are the nannies for babies' souls in Heaven. Each terrorist gets seventy babies to take care of. Think about it. |
| 60 | * ''Franchise/TheDCU'' has sometimes featured Fluffy Cloud Heaven, often with the {{justifi|edTrope}}cation that Heaven doesn't ''really'' look like this, but it's something [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith mortals can comprehend]]. In the CrisisCrossover ''Day of Judgement'' a side-door in Fluffy Cloud Heaven leads to Grey Cloud Purgatory. It's also established in the DC Universe that the afterlife tends to be what the deceased ''wants'', or what they think they ''deserve'', so if a good person expects Fluffy Cloud Heaven and desires it, that is what they will get. |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'': When Scrooge has a near-death experience and briefly ends up among the deceased [=McDucks=], the afterlife manifests as a field of scattered clouds where the souls of the dead, looking exactly as they did in life, amuse themselves by playing an endless game of golf. |
| 62 | * ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'': Subverted. The entrance to Fluffy Cloud Heaven is covered in filth and grime. Heaven itself is fairly standard. |
| 63 | * ''ComicBook/MrNatural'' has him getting hit by a car and waking up in Fluffy Cloud Heaven. He's amazed at the angels singing hymns, "the whole shtick!" God greets him and asks how he likes it, and Mr. Natural chuckles that it's a little corny and outdated. God is insulted and has him booted back to Earth. |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/PoodlesFromHell'': After spending some time in an ordinary-looking break room (pop machine, coffee, napkins, trash can) you enter Fluffy Cloud Heaven, where you get all the stuff back that you ever lost. You ride around in a limo -- you hit all the green lights... |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 68 | * ''Magazine/PrivateEye'': One arc in the ''Celeb'' strip has the protagonist apparently dead and wandering about in a Heaven of this type. It's eventually revealed that he's in a coma and hallucinating it. |
| 69 | * ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': Parodied to... well, death. Whenever Heaven features in some capacity, it always does so as a scattering of clouds peopled by souls in white robes and with halos and small wings, with Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates to decide who does and doesn't get in. When [[{{Hell}} the other place]] shows up, of course, it's always a FireAndBrimstoneHell. |
| 70 | ** "Welcome to Heaven. Here's your harp." "Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion." |
| 71 | ** Two dead people standing on a cloud. One has a shotgun and is bringing down live birds. "Are you sure you're supposed to be doin' that?" |
| 72 | ** Someone gets sent to "hog heaven" by mistake. It's Fluffy Cloud Heaven [[SpeciesSpecificAfterlife with pigs]]. |
| 73 | ** "... wish I'd brought a magazine..." |
| 74 | ** Life on Cloud Eight. |
| 75 | ** Colonel Sanders has an unpleasant surprise, upon finding statues of chickens outside the Pearly Gates. |
| 76 | * Cartoonist Creator/GahanWilson is also fond of this trope. One of his cartoons shows some angels (and by "angels" we mean "guys in cheap robes with wire halos and cardboard wings") standing around in a small grubby room labeled "Heaven", with one of them commenting "I expected the place to be a lot more classy!" |
| 77 | %%* ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'': Played straight. Also, dead relatives return to Earth to [[SpiritAdvisor talk to the living]].%%Played straight how? |
| 78 | %%* ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'': Sherman goes here after being hit on the head with a speedboat.%%Goes where? |
| 79 | %%* ''ComicStrip/FrankAndErnest'': "I'm driving the Air Force nuts with my Frisbee!" |
| 80 | * There's a famous cartoon by Benita Epstein showing St. Peter leaning over from his desk addressing a little black cat sitting on a cloud in front of the half-open Pearly Gates. Pete's line, of course, is: "Well, in or out?" |
| 81 | [[/folder]] |
| 82 | |
| 83 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 84 | * In ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'', [[spoiler:Superman]] arrives here, only to meet [[spoiler:Captain America]] and told it is not his time yet. |
| 85 | * ''[[https://my.w.tt/oJ97Jv70VT How Can It This Be]]'', [[spoiler: Music/SpiceGirls]] are brought here, becoming angels and meeting supernatural fans. It even comes with a concert stage. |
| 86 | * In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', Elysium, the Smurfs' version of Heaven, combines this with a golden ShiningCity version of the Smurf Village... or at least it did in the version Empath visited in "Smurfing In Heaven" before he realized that it was a supernatural illusion created by Ares the god of war. |
| 87 | * ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Played with 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. However, 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. |
| 88 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10916587/17/A-Lion-and-His-Cub A Lion and His Cub]]'' this is where Harry shows up after being (temporarily) killed by Voldemort. While there's plenty of clouds, it's also full of plants and animals, and its denizens are robed but lack wings or halos. |
| 89 | [[/folder]] |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 92 | * In ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'', Scrat dies and goes to fluffy cloud squirrel heaven where he encounters an enormous golden acorn. Unfortunately, that acorn proves just as frustratingly elusive to him as all the rest, as Sid performs CPR on him and brings him back to life just as he is reaching out to touch it. |
| 93 | * ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' has this in spades. The sequel makes no attempt to hide how boring it could be to spend an eternity in a heaven like this, complete with a song called "It's Too Heavenly Here". |
| 94 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', Kenny is [[HopeSpot about to be welcomed]] into Fluffy Cloud Heaven complete with topless angels before he falls into Hell. [[spoiler:He gains re-entry at the end with his HeroicSacrifice.]] |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 98 | * Heaven in ''Film/TheFrighteners'' is half this, half bright-white-light. Hell, on the other hand, is half fire 'n' brimstone, half gigantic Lovecraftian worms that gobble souls up and then dive back into the abyss. |
| 99 | * In ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'' Bill and Ted go to a perfectly white realm filled with ornate towers and light to talk God into helping them find someone smart enough to defeat their [[EvilTwin Evil Robot doubles]]. This Fluffy Cloud Heaven is a tribute to that in the 1946 film ''Film/AMatterOfLifeAndDeath'', in which David Niven's character shuttles between our world and Heaven as a result of a bureaucratic mix-up. |
| 100 | * The ending to ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' sums up the tone of the movie - a huge explosion turns all the principal characters into angels playing harps on puffy, white clouds. All except Jimmy Bond, who instead goes to "a place that is terribly hot." |
| 101 | * In ''Film/StardustMemories'', Woody Allen's filmmaker character is incensed when behind-his-back ExecutiveMeddling slaps a happy ending in Fluffy Cloud "Jazz Heaven" to his deliberately somber movie. |
| 102 | * In the historical film ''Film/BlackRobe'', Christian missionaries in the year 1634 have a lot of difficulty converting Native Americans because this is how they describe heaven to them. The Native Americans find the concept immensely unappealing. |
| 103 | * Heaven is depicted in ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'' as a kingdom on top of a plane of puffy clouds and untainted cities where people only wear white with giant, golden {{Holy Halo}}es. People can also get anything they want here, including weed and a Music/BackstreetBoys reunion. |
| 104 | * In ''Film/JesusBro'', Rick meets Santa Christ in this sort of heaven, though it looks rather sparse due to being a cheap soundstage. [[spoiler:That is to say, Rick is actually on a cheap soundstage InUniverse; Santa Christ notes that faking heaven in this way is a better alternative than taking him to the actual clouds because one moment's lapse in concentration will send Rick falling to his death]]. |
| 105 | [[/folder]] |
| 106 | |
| 107 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 108 | * This is an UnbuiltTrope in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', which helped codify much of Western thought about the afterlife. Sure, Dante's [[HeavenAbove Heaven is above the Earth]], but he doesn't describe it as with bunch of farts playing harps in the cloud, but as a realm where spirits use their MindMeld powers to form into giant sentient eagles and crosses everywhere from the Moon to the farthest stars of the universe all while having joy more intense than the heat of a lightning bolt. |
| 109 | * Christian apologist Creator/CSLewis subverts this trope in ''Literature/TheGreatDivorce'' where instead of an ethereal and possibly boring fluffy cloud heaven, heaven is a beautiful country that is much more real than Earth (which is described as merely a shadow of heaven). When spirits from Earth or Hell try to walk on the grass in Heaven, it stabs through their feet, because everything there is more real than them. In this book, it is Hell that is described as insubstantial and dreadfully dull. This is more or less how he describes "Aslan's Country" in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' as well. |
| 110 | * Paradiso, one of the Seven Heavens in the ''Literature/AstralDawn'' series, is modeled after this modern {{Flanderization}} of Heaven. |
| 111 | * Subverted in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/JobAComedyOfJustice.'' Protagonist Alex dies and goes to Fluffy Cloud Heaven, only to learn that it's deadly dull and overrun with CelestialBureaucracy. The scene is taken directly from Heinlein's favorite book, ''Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice'' by Creator/JamesBranchCabell. Except that it's [[spoiler: run by the hero's grandmother, who lambasted the god-above-God into making it this way.]] |
| 112 | * In ''Literature/ForLoveOfEvil'', Satan is trying to take over partly because he's seen that heaven is a fluffy totalitarian police state and wants to free the souls there. One of his reforms in Hell is the creation of a Mock-Heaven annex for souls that have ended up in Hell by bureaucratic error or because of Heaven's excessively rigid standards; it is also a Fluffy Cloud Heaven because that's what people expect. |
| 113 | * In Creator/MarkTwain's "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven", Heaven at first is like this - but it is later revealed that this is because that's what most people expect, and Heaven tries to make people happy by giving them anything they want. Most people eventually wise up and develop more interesting lives in Heaven later. |
| 114 | ** Mark Twain also lampoons Fluffy Cloud Heaven in ''Letters from the Earth'', written from Satan's perspective while visiting Earth. |
| 115 | ** He does it ''again'' in ''Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn.'' Huck is presented with this vision as a motivator for being good. It doesn't work very well, because he finds the whole idea incredibly boring. |
| 116 | ---> Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. So I didn’t think much of it. But I never said so. |
| 117 | %% * ''Literature/TheWishList'' features a heaven much like this, including St. Peter examining case files by computer (it's played for laughs to an extent). The FireAndBrimstoneHell, needless to say, is even sillier. |
| 118 | * In the ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' stories young Davy has been studying this concept of heaven. He remarks that he doesn't want to go there until he's really, ''really'' old, and wonders if they'll let him play a harmonica instead of a harp. |
| 119 | * In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid,'' Rowley draws a cartoon where the character goes to Fluffy Cloud Heaven. The character foolishly reminds St. Peter of the time he stole candy as a child and gets tossed off a cloud, shouting the comic's catchphrase "ZOO-WEE-MAMAAAAAA!" |
| 120 | * A short story collection by Creator/AnthonyHorowitz includes ''Howard's End''; a story about a bully who dies and cheats his way into Heaven, which is depicted as a clean place above the clouds. He swiftly gets bored of the endlessly peaceful and uneventful world, feeling himself begin to lose it, and shouts that he lied to get in, shouldn't be there and deserves to be in Hell, which he imagines to be more eventful. [[spoiler:"St. Peter" simply turns around and tells him that [[ThisIsntHeaven he already is]].]] |
| 121 | * In ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'', Gus says he doesn't believe in Heaven by dismissing it as a cartoon-ish realm of clouds and rainbows, but does say he believes in "something" after death. |
| 122 | * In ''Literature/LoveAnthony'', this is Beth's idea of heaven, as she's vaguely Christian but was never actively religious. After her mother died, she wished she had something more solid to believe in - it's hard for her to picture her mother sitting on a cloud, surrounded by naked winged babies. |
| 123 | * Heaven in ''Literature/DerMuenchnerImHimmel'' consists of SolidClouds that are even strong enough to carry harps while still being white and fluffy. |
| 124 | [[/folder]] |
| 125 | |
| 126 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 127 | * The concept is mentioned in ''Series/BlackAdder''; |
| 128 | -->'''Edmund:''' You see, the thing about heaven is that heaven is for people who like the sort of things that go on in heaven. Like, well, singing, talking to God, watering pot(ted) plants. |
| 129 | * Creator/StephenColbert, as a right-wing satire created by a devout Catholic, naturally has a very stereotypical (and more than slightly mangled) view of religion, and of Heaven: |
| 130 | -->'''Colbert:''' I'll get a harp, I'll have a mint julep and I'll ask UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan questions.\ |
| 131 | '''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". |
| 132 | * ''Series/{{Burnistoun}}'': DJ Jesus lives in a land in the sky surrounded by clouds, where his white-bearded father, God also lives. |
| 133 | * Creator/LennyHenry imagined the 'House Band in Heaven' on his show - Music/ElvisPresley, Music/OtisRedding, [[Music/{{Carpenters}} Karen Carpenter]], Music/JimiHendrix, Music/KurtCobain... and George Formby on ukelele; "'[[OopNorth Ey up]] Mr Hendrix can I 'ave a go? (sings) 'Ey Joe... where you goin' with that gun in yer 'and?' |
| 134 | * In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', the Heavenly Saints live in Magitopia, a Fluffy Cloud Heaven-like AlternateUniverse. There are buildings here, actually: expect the inside to be [[WhiteVoidRoom endless with no signs of walls or doors, and stark white all around (including the pillars and any furniture.)]] However, this being {{sentai}}, the Saints themselves are PeopleInRubberSuits instead of {{Winged Humanoid}}s. Some of them command HumongousMecha while others just become giant sized on their own. |
| 135 | * Notably averted in the HBO adaptation of ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica''; whether or not it is played this way on-stage can vary by production. |
| 136 | * In an animated skit on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', the gentlemen end up on a fluffy cloud in heaven... While women on a cloud below beg them not to jump. They are eventually rescued by firemen. Arriving on a fire-fluffy-cloud. |
| 137 | * An entire season ([[BritishBrevity all ten episodes]]) of the Norwegian comedy show ''Fleksnes Fataliteter'' revolved around the main character dying and ending up in front of the Pearly Gates. But St. Peter doesn't allow him entrance, and instead makes him watch various scenes from his life (which partly includes [[ClipShow footage from earlier seasons]]). |
| 138 | * In ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', 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). |
| 139 | * Referenced in the ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' episode, "My Way Home," where J.D. and Turk discuss their plans to meet up "by the milkshake pool on the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot lesbian]] cloud" in Heaven after they both die. |
| 140 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' heartwarmingly played it straight in a tribute to Rodney Dangerfield. In the sketch, St. Peter reads a list of questions to the late comedian, then simply says, "Okay, you can get in." RD is amazed at this, and St. Peter admits, "I just wanted to hear those jokes one last time." RD is nearly reduced to tears upon realizing that he has finally gotten some respect. |
| 141 | * In one episode of ''Series/HappyDays'', a nun visits a sick Fonzie in the hospital and he asks her about Heaven, worried that he might "end up on a cloud with a bunch of nerds." The nun assures him that there will be separate "cool clouds" and "nerd clouds." |
| 142 | * ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' did a tv show parody "Quincy, Cartoon Coroner" where the title character (Joe Flaherty) investigates the deaths of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon characters. Appropriately, the show ends with him getting blown up by a CartoonBomb and ending up here. |
| 143 | * ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Gordon Brittas showed up here after his death in "The Last Day", complete with Pearly Gates, and a white colour scheme. He even gets white clothes once he gets in proper. He doesn't last there long though, since St.Peter and the other angels couldn't stand him. |
| 144 | [[/folder]] |
| 145 | |
| 146 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 147 | * Invoked and rejected by Music/{{Rammstein}}'s song "Engel". The chorus, translated: |
| 148 | -->''Only when the clouds have gone to sleep\ |
| 149 | you can see us in the sky\ |
| 150 | we are afraid and alone\ |
| 151 | God knows I don't want to be an angel'' |
| 152 | * Played with by Music/TalkingHeads: |
| 153 | --> ''Heaven / Heaven is a place / A place where nothing / Nothing ever happens...'' |
| 154 | * Played with by Music/{{Radiohead}}: |
| 155 | --> ''When I'm at the Pearly Gates / This'll be on my videotape...'' |
| 156 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song ''Everything You Know Is Wrong'' has him dying as a result of an infected paper cut and winding up in Heaven where he get the room next to the noisy ice machine for all eternity. |
| 157 | * Music/FlightOfTheConchords informs us, "There are angels in the clouds.... [[IntercourseWithYou doin' it.]]" |
| 158 | * Music/{{Sparks}}' video for "[[Music/No1InHeaven The Number One Song in Heaven]]" uses a white background and fog machine to invoke this image. |
| 159 | * "Clouds" by Before You Exit is one of the few examples not to play this trope ironically... [[{{Tearjerker}} at all.]] |
| 160 | * Despite Christian parody band Music/{{Apologetix}}’s belief in [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the inverse]], they refute this trope in “Heaven Isn’t Like That”, to the tune of Music/CollectiveSoul’s “Shine”. |
| 161 | * Referenced in "Help Pour Out the Rain (Lacey's Song)" by Buddy Jewell: |
| 162 | -->The moment was custom-made to order\ |
| 163 | I was ridin' with my daughter on our way back from Monroe\ |
| 164 | An' like children do, she started playin' twenty questions\ |
| 165 | But I never could've guessed one would touch me to my soul\ |
| 166 | She said: "Daddy, when we get to Heaven, can I taste the Milky Way?\ |
| 167 | Are we goin' there to visit, or are we goin' there to stay?\ |
| 168 | Am I gonna see my Grandpa? Can I have a pair of wings?\ |
| 169 | An' do you think that God could use another Angel\ |
| 170 | To help pour out the rain?" |
| 171 | [[/folder]] |
| 172 | |
| 173 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 174 | * [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niflhel Niflhel]] of Myth/NorseMythology is more or less Fluffy Cloud Hell. |
| 175 | * Pure Lands in Buddhism are often depicted as Fluffy Cloud places. Pure Lands are paradise-like realms where practicioners can live confortably and easily attain enlightenment. Pure Land Buddhism as the name implies centers around rebirth in there. |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:Print Media]] |
| 179 | * It has been noticed that whenever a famous person (naturally, only people who were famous for doing good things) dies, there will be an [[PoliticalCartoons editorial cartoon]] showing that person in Fluffy Cloud Heaven, either making some wisecrack to the angels/other dead people about what they're famous for or discovering that the angels/other dead people are fans of theirs. |
| 180 | ** Randall Mario Poffo, a.k.a. "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. |
| 181 | ** One that turned up in ''USA Today'' had late comedian George Carlin arriving here with the implication he was in trouble for having [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] religion so often in his act, which seems like a cruel TakeThat. |
| 182 | ** Also, when Richard Nixon died, he went here but apparently had to listen to the Watergate tapes for all eternity. |
| 183 | ** Another shows Rosa Parks being invited to sit in the front of a heaven-bound bus. |
| 184 | ** James Doohan had a great one in the British ''Daily Mirror'', where St. Peter phones God to tell him "I've just beamed up Scotty". |
| 185 | ** One cartoon after Johnny Carson's death showed him standing at the Pearly Gates where St. Peter assures him that "Every cartoonist who draws me saying 'Heeeere's Johnny!' will be going straight to Hell." |
| 186 | ** When radio cricket commentator Brian Johnston died, a Private Eye cartoon paid homage to his usual nicknaming habit by showing him entering the Pearly Gates and cheerily saying "Morning, Godders!" to the Almighty. |
| 187 | ** When Creator/BillyMays died, ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'' made a [[http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20090629 comic]] about it. |
| 188 | ** ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' has one about [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-of-snkrs/pearlygates/ Christopher Hitchens]], complete with LampshadeHanging. |
| 189 | ** There were so many doing this to Creator/SteveJobs that [[https://cdn.mobilesyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/807-e1319559795303.png one depicted him complaining about how inappropriate they were for a Buddhist]].[[note]][[ArtisticLicenseReligion This ignores]] how most real Buddhist traditions do believe people can be reborn in heaven-like realms of being, such as the Deva realms or the aforementioned Pure Land, [[https://religiondispatches.org/steve-jobs-reincarnated-as-divine-half-yak/ with one controversial Thai Buddhist leader]] claiming he actually did wind up in the former.[[/note]] |
| 190 | ** The death of Creator/ChristopherReeve inspired hundreds of cartoons. One has him in the standard white robe, St. Peter handing him a pair of wings, and he laughs and says "No thanks, I'd prefer to walk!" When Dana Reeve died, many cartoons showed her husband in his Superman suit flying with her to Fluffy Cloud Heaven. |
| 191 | ** A famous one shows a cat sitting before the half-open Pearly Gates making up his mind... St. Peter says "Well, in or out?" |
| 192 | [[/folder]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 195 | * ''Angel Bunny'': The decals on the toys often depict this, with Angel Bunny and her friends playing among the clouds. |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 199 | * ''VideoGame/MapleStory'' has Orbis. It has clouds, heavenly music and angels. However, there are monsters that can quickly kill you if you're not at a high enough level. |
| 200 | * In the video game ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', the final enemies are demons who disguise themselves as Cupid-esque cherubs; the truth is revealed after they are killed. |
| 201 | * 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. Even before then, touching one of the "angels" leads to a fight. According to ''[[AllThereInTheManual Essence]]'', this was the result of a noblewoman wishing on the Nine Rings (the ones Riki collects in his story) for a paradise. [[spoiler:The Nine Rings are evil, so they created a Hell that looks like Heaven.]] |
| 202 | * Celestia in ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' resembles this. As does the heaven visible in ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters''. |
| 203 | * ''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 ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' universe, of which [[LevelInTheClouds there are quite a few]]. |
| 204 | * In ''VideoGame/Afterlife1996'', 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). The angels can also be residents as well (if you don't want them commuting from some other universe's Heaven), though they're segregated away from regular souls into their own special residential complexes. Got to be a trope in that somewhere... |
| 205 | * ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' plays this concept fairly straight. Cloud hopping and angelic versions of enemies from previous levels run rampant. |
| 206 | * 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).]] |
| 207 | * While it's probably not actually supposed to be heaven, Skyworld in ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' certainly looks the part. |
| 208 | * ''[[VideoGame/DragonSlayer Romancia: Dragon Slayer Jr]].'' has this as one of its areas. |
| 209 | * One death of ''VideoGame/SpaceAce'' [[https://youtu.be/4Mky7-t_nsQ?t=161 had Ace and Kimmy in heaven on the motorcycle, with Ace smiling at the camera.]] [[http://yosemite-sam.net/Solutions/SpaceAce-Walk.htm This]] walkthrough calls it Motorcycle Heaven. The [[PortingDisaster SNES version]] only had Ace in it, since Kimmy is not rescued until the end of the level. |
| 210 | * In the intro of ''VideoGame/{{Messiah}}'' Heaven is shown as basically a fluffy mass of clouds, with God's and Bob's disembodied voices talking over it. |
| 211 | * ''Goetterdaemmerung RPG'' has a Game Over scene where the player characters have become little angels. |
| 212 | * Played straight in a sense in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' where Bhava-agra, the home of the celestials, while not being a Christian realm of fluffy clouds and angels, is this trope's Buddhistic counterpart; a realm of {{Floating Continent}}s and lush greenery. Also deconstructed in a way with Hinanawi Tenshi who, rather than becoming a {{Celestial|ParagonsAndArchangels}} by her own virtue, simply trancended along with her parents after they made a BargainWithHeaven, and as such has none of the self-dicipline and maturity that typically makes a mortal ascend to Bhava-agra... So how does a being with the mind of an unenlightened mortal turn out if it grows up in a world of instant gratifications? Why, it turns into a SpoiledBrat who's willing to majorly fuck up stuff down on Earth [[ItAmusedMe just to relieve its own ginormous boredom]], that's how... According to WordOfGod, Tenshi is not malicious, though; she's just a case of ChildrenAreInnocent enforced by the lack of CharacterDevelopment a place like Fluffy Cloud Heaven would invoke. |
| 213 | * Ultra Heaven, the last World in ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall: Banana Blitz''. |
| 214 | * If Tiki dies under certain conditions in ''VideoGame/TheNewzealandStory'' he will find himself in a Heaven of this kind, where however he still has to defeat enemies and avoid spikes. The prize for completing it is [[NonstandardGameOver eternal sleep in the arms of the Goddess]]. [[spoiler: There is a way out, and finding it will make Tiki restart with one life in the level after the one he died in.]] |
| 215 | * The second stage of early Platform/PlayStation game ''Kyuiin'', a CuteEmUp, is this. Since [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4zbZm_X-O8 the players are gunning down]] rows of cherubs, angels and archangels, it may also count as RageAgainstTheHeavens, if it wasn't all inspired by fairy tales. |
| 216 | * The land of Magicant in ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' is a kingdom in the fluffy clouds created by the imagination of Maria. |
| 217 | * In ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' one of the eight sanctuaries is the Pink Cloud, a puffy pink cloud in the sky. The cloud is located in the land of Dalaam, a kingdom in the sky. |
| 218 | * This was the setting of Music/KanyeWest's cancelled iOS game ''Only One'', which was based on his late mother Donda West "travelling through the gates of heaven". |
| 219 | * Recent ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' comics portray various characters temporarily ending up here, assuming they're not just the result of near-death hallucinations ([[spoiler:Medic]] appears to bring something back from his visit to [[FireAndBrimstoneHell The Other Place]], so it being real is plausible). It's executed with about the same level of deliberate, cultivated stupidity that you would expect from a setting where Abraham Lincoln died in a freak rocket-jumping accident. Most notably, the clouds are confirmed to house three foosball tables and a steam room, and the cherubs have surprising skill at delivering a NeckSnap. |
| 220 | * ''VideoGame/TekkenTagTournament2'': Heavenly Garden, the arena for the fight against Jun Kazama, the FinalBoss, is inspired by the Buddhist Pure Land: an idyllic water garden with lotus flowers and flying pretty birds. The sky is brightly lit, featuring colorful clouds and rainbows. When Jun is defeated and undergoes OneWingedAngel, however, it abruptly turns into [[SceneryGorn Fallen Garden]]: the water is dark blue goo, the flowers are wilted, the sky is dark, and there are visible fires in the background. |
| 221 | * ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburV'': Utopia of the Blessed, [[PocketDimension a realm inside Soul Calibur]], is depicted as this trope, complete with Greek columns, tiled floors, and a StairwayToHeaven. |
| 222 | * ''VideoGame/{{Rengoku}}'': Paradisus in the second game, desgined after {{Heaven}}, has disconnected stone platforms overgrown with plants, floating in the sky surrounded by clouds. |
| 223 | * ''Heavenly'' is set in one of these, which contains landmarks like the Wall of Good Deeds and the Hall of Adorable Niceness. |
| 224 | [[/folder]] |
| 225 | |
| 226 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 227 | * This main page from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', which portrays Homestar as an angel in Heaven. |
| 228 | * Tabor Robak's "[[http://heaven.internetarchaeology.org/ Heaven]]", an Internet art piece which combines old, animated [=GIFs=] and MIDI music into an oddly touching sort of fluffy pixel heaven. |
| 229 | * ''WebAnimation/TheSagaOfBiorn'' is about an aging Viking warrior seeking an honorable death in battle so he can go to [[WarriorHeaven Valhalla]], rather than spending eternity in the very boring Helheim. After many failed attempts, he gets his wish when saving a church of nuns from a giant monster. As he climbs the steps to Valhalla, the nuns give his body a Christian burial, causing Biorn to end up in Fluffy Cloud Heaven instead. [[HellOfAHeaven It looks exactly like Helheim, except it's full of nuns]]. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 233 | * ''Webcomic/{{Blip}}''. The clouds won't support anyone who isn't sufficiently holy. |
| 234 | %%* Subverted in [[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=1138 this]] strip from ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily''. [[spoiler:That was mean, Lakitu]]. |
| 235 | * ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' employs a variation of this, known as ''Secular Heaven'', an afterlife specifically reserved for people who don't believe in an afterlife. [[CrystalDragonJesus With dragons]]. |
| 236 | * In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the Boar seems to have gone to this when it died if [[https://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/2012-02-08 this]] comic is any indication as the ground its standing on in heaven is mostly featureless except for some lumps. |
| 237 | * Subverted partially in ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', when a bunch of monstrous creatures turn out to be cherubim: they, unlike the traditional babies with wings, more closely resemble the Ezekiel description. (Imagine a ball of eyes with six wings and insectoid jaws, and you'll have a pretty good idea.) |
| 238 | ** This depiction of cherubim owes a lot to the character Progo from Creator/MadeleineLEngle's ''Literature/AWindInTheDoor'', who is similarly depicted -- and who identifies himself as a "cherubim" rather than a "cherub", insisting that on some level he is in fact a plural entity. |
| 239 | * Used in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', when [[spoiler:Roy Greenhilt]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0485.html dies]]. This is just a sort of proto-heaven adventurers go to so that they can get sorted out in the great bureaucracy of the Afterlife; if you're approved, you get to go hang out in the first level of real Heaven until being raised or the desire for more spiritual fare sends you elsewhere. If not, you have to stay in Fluffy Cloud Heaven until that assessment changes. |
| 240 | ** It's implied that the Lawful Good heaven ascends to spiritual heights that mortals would only achieve after a long period there, but at least the entry has all the trappings of this trope. There's fluffy clouds, pearly gates, spirits peering down on the lives of the living. No St. Peter, but there's a morality-auditing angel with desk and computer. |
| 241 | ** And when Gary Gygax died, there was a special homage cartoon where he showed up and had a chat with [[spoiler:Roy]]. Also, an archon warned him not to go near the [[TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors Hall of Characters Who Died without a Saving Throw]]... |
| 242 | ** {{Subverted}} when [[spoiler: Durkon and Minrah]] die and end up in a place that looks like they're walking on clouds, which [[spoiler: Durkon]] thinks matches [[spoiler: Roy's]] description. Turns out [[spoiler: they're walking on the fluffy lining on the edge of [[PhysicalGod Thor's]] boot.]] |
| 243 | * The ''Webcomic/RoosterTeeth'' webcomic showed this in one comic, where some recently dead celebrities were [[CrossesTheLineTwice moping about being forgotten since MJ just died.]] |
| 244 | %%* ''Webcomic/SatanAndMe'''s version of heaven is this. |
| 245 | %%* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3534 a Star Wars parody features the Cloud World Heavendor.]] |
| 246 | %%* ''Webcomic/TwoLumps'' had [[http://twolumps.net/d/20110624.html this]] fanart tribute after Raistlin's death. |
| 247 | * ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' likes to use this trope, often just as a place for God and angels to hang out in or as a backdrop for afterlife jokes, sometimes making more specific jokes about it. |
| 248 | ** In the strip for [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2006-03-07 2006-03-07]], the artist's retrospectively added "votey" AltText makes fun of his depiction of Heaven by calling it the anus of a giant albino elephant. |
| 249 | ** In "Dear Science", Fluffy Cloud Heaven is described as an IronicHell for those who failed to believe in science (or rather, question things as the scientific approach requires) in this life. |
| 250 | ** Fluffy Cloud Heaven is also robot Hell. All that moisture... |
| 251 | ** {{Subverted}} in [[http://smbc-comics.com/comic/conscious-3 "Conscious 3"]]: It's actually nothing but a backdrop for the soul recycler. |
| 252 | * ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': When Iori imagines reuniting with her dead son in the afterlife it’s in a paradise amongst fluffy white clouds. |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 256 | * Heaven in ''Literature/DantesInfanzia'' is never seen directly, nothing but a silhouette of it from over the walls of Eden visible. From there however, Dante describes it as "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" and that "no human language has been able to accurately describe Its grandeur". |
| 257 | [[/folder]] |
| 258 | |
| 259 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 260 | * Nearly any North American cartoon, especially ''WesternAnimation/TheGaryColemanShow''. |
| 261 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 262 | ** Spoofed. One chapter of the former shows the difference between the "Protestant Heaven", a gathering of snobby British and American [=WASPs=] dressed in polo shirts and playing crocket and badminton, and the "Catholic Heaven", with Latinos dancing to the tunes "Jarabe Tapatío", Italians drinking wine passionately making out at the dinner table, Irish drunkely brawling and then all of them gathering to break a piñata and dance like Michael Flatley. |
| 263 | ** Spoofed further in another episode where Marge forces the family to watch a Christian sitcom "about the everyday lives of angels" called ''Good Heavens''. It depicts a middle-aged angel couple sitting on clouds reading, their dull routine only broken up by the wife telling the husband that Jesus called that afternoon ("He DID?!!?") |
| 264 | ** In "Homer's Triple Bypass," Lisa imagines what would happen if Homer were to die during his coronary bypass surgery. She pictures him as an angel, messing with a cloud in the same way he messed with his hospital bed earlier: "Cloud goes up; cloud goes down; cloud goes up; cloud goes down..." |
| 265 | ** Principal Skinner mentions that his vision of heaven "wasn't clouds and angels playing harps, like at the end of so many ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges Three Stooges]]'' shorts". |
| 266 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Seen in many spot gags, with the Abrahamic, Western world version of God often featured. "God" was frequently seen with a prostitute (as part of the show's satrical look at religion). |
| 267 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 268 | ** In the aptly named episode "A Ladder to Heaven", the boys try to build a physical ladder to Fluffy Cloud Heaven to contact the deceased Kenny so he can tell them where he hid a raffle ticket. They do succeed in reaching the clouds, but find no one there. The actual Heaven turns out to really be a Fluffy Cloud Heaven. |
| 269 | ** Also shown in the episode "Best Friends Forever", where Kenny controls Heaven's army by [[ItMakesSenseInContext PSP]]. |
| 270 | ** [[spoiler: Saddam Hussein]], who has been stalking his ex-lover Satan and simply ends up back in Hell every time Satan kills him is given the ultimate punishment of sent to this Mormon Fluffy Cloud Heaven, and is borne away [[BigNo screaming]] by cheerful Mormons who want him to "join our play about why it's wrong to lie." |
| 271 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 272 | ** In ''[[Recap/FuturamaM2TheBeastWithABillionBacks The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'', it's 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. |
| 273 | ** This shows up again in "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E19GhostInTheMachines Ghost in the Machines]]" with "Robot Heaven", a be-walled cloudscapes where robot ghosts with FogFeet go after they die. Robot God also lives there. |
| 274 | * ''Franchise/CareBears'': It isn't an afterlife, but Care-a-Lot, where the Bears 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. |
| 275 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': In "The Passion of Reverend Ruckus", the racist Uncle Ruckus dreams of briefly visiting "White Heaven". He's 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. |
| 276 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' mocked this heavily as one skit featured a Fluffy Cloud Heaven that had people being regularly sucked into airplane jet engines. |
| 277 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'', Beavis is (temporarily) dead after running head-on into a wall. He rises through the clouds hearing angelic choirs ("This music sucks!") and encounters St. Peter, who reads all Beavis's bad deeds recorded in his life journal...this ends up going on a long time with no sign of ending. |
| 278 | -->'''Beavis:''' Uhh, this is beginning to suck. Do I get into Heaven or not?\ |
| 279 | '''St. Peter:''' ...umm, no. |
| 280 | * This was a very common trope during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, showing up a lot in WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes, WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry, and others. |
| 281 | * ''WesternAnimation/AngelWars'': Heaven is typically depicted either as blue skies with white puffy clouds or as full of bright golden clouds. This helps contrast the [[{{Cyberpunk}} grittier]] human world. It's also worth noting that, when [[CoolStarship The Seven]] was heading toward a hellish pocket dimension to stop it from doing any damage, the skies in front of it were dark and full of lightning. |
| 282 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': Cloud City. |
| 283 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': The Land of Myth, although not an afterlife, resembles this.%%How? |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | ---- |
| 286 | ---->[-Of course we couldn't have gone for the-]\ |
| 287 | [-[[DealWithTheDevil all-inclusive]] [[AHellOfATime luxury pack]] at [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the other place]],-]\ |
| 288 | [-being stuck in this one room, all clouds, no AC,-]\ |
| 289 | [-with [[KitschCollection grandma figurines playing instruments]] for the rest of eternity,-]\ |
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