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Basic Trope: A character who desires a pleasant afterlife.

  • Straight: Alice is motivated in spending eternity in Heaven.
  • Exaggerated: Alice has the desire to get herself and others to go to Heaven.
  • Downplayed: Alice would like to be in Heaven, but doesn't actively desire it.
  • Justified:
    • Alice believes that her grandparents have went to Heaven and wants to meet with them there.
    • Alice actually has proof Heaven exists, so she acts like her good actions are the spiritual equivalent of saving up for a great vacation.
    • Alice believes or maybe even knows Heaven and Hell exist, and she doesn't want to be tortured for all eternity,
  • Inverted: Hell Seeker
  • Subverted: ???
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: Alice always talks about wanting to get to heaven and tries to make good actions, usually with disastrous results.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted:
    • Alice doesn't think about Heaven.
    • Alice doesn't believe in an afterlife.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Alice decides that it's important to think of the present time instead of eternity.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Deconstructed:
    • Alice is motivated by a desire to get into Heaven, and will do anything to get what she wants. And by anything, we really mean it.
    • In a quest for getting into Heaven, Alice commits so many bad things that she ends up in Hell instead.
  • Reconstructed: Alice's desire to reach Heaven causes her to be nice to everyone. Eventually she's spent so much time being nice she starts helping people out of genuine altruism.

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