The embedded disclaimer "(if you believe in an afterlife for the just and unjust)" is sufficient for me.
No, the other one.
It looks like it would be better with a simpler, "this is in contrast to belief systems that have different afterlives depending on if the person is morally upstanding or corrupt," or something better worded. Things like "you'd think" and "you'd be wrong" very rarely have a place in descriptions.
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Suggested rewrite:
What the afterlife consists of may vary wildly; perhaps everyone suffers in Hell, is rewarded in Heaven, or heads to the Spirit World. Why there is only one place dead souls go to also varies; Devil, but No God and God Is Evil are popular reasons, but can also be explained by Satan Is Good or an Omnibenevolent God. In any case, moral choices and conduct in life play no part in where characters go after death.
Contrast The Underworld, where there's technically only one afterlife, but said afterlife is diverse enough to grant rewards and punishments to the inhabitants. Compare Self-Inflicted Hell (or Heaven), if the single afterlife has the same conditions for all, but the perceptions of the resident can make it Heaven or Hell for themselves depending on who they are.
Edited by crazysamaritan on Jan 20th 2019 at 2:24:59 PM
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No, the other one.
I'd be careful about defining other tropes on this page. The Underworld says, "Some versions of the Underworld judge the dead and grant them different living standards ... depending on their conduct in life." That means some other versions don't grant different living standards.
Otherwise I like the rewrite.
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Only One Afterlife's description starts with this:
"This is a situation where regardless of personal morality, you're sent to the same place after death by default. Whatever the actions one may have initially committed in life, anyone who dies gets sent to the same fate.
Here is an example of such a situation so you can better understand. Let's say you're meeting two characters for the first time. You find out that one character is a veritable saint and the other is a rude and completely unfriendly person who has committed crimes that you would believe had grievously crossed the line. You would think (if you believe in an afterlife for the just and unjust) that the saint would go to one and the sinner would go to the other, right? In this case, you're dead wrong."
This trope assumes that the default model of afterlife is "heaven or hell (or maybe purgatory and/or limbo?)" and then says that this trope subverts that kind of thought.
My issue with this is that, well, it (heaven or hell) is indeed the popular way of how the afterlife works but certainly not the only one. Do we need to mention the prevalence of this model in the description?
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