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The typical fate of characters that enter Hell is a horrific one: tortured by demons for all eternity. That's not the case with this guy. He'd much rather be the demons' boss than their victim. This trope is where a character is sent to wherever it is that evil people go when they die and decides to take over. Depending on the setting, it may be where everyone, good and bad, goes, but rest assured that this character will make himself king of them all. It takes an especially devious, powerful, and/or determined character to accomplish this given the heavy odds stacked against him. After all, isn't the afterlife run by gods? These are beings of might and wisdom far above the souls that come in for torment. Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? often happens in these cases. Ambition Is Evil will likely come into play. It's "better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven", right? According to Milton, that's what Lucifer thought when he set up a kingdom down there. Likewise, that's likely motivating this particular character. It's possible that they believe they can do a better job of ruling Hell. Whether this means Eviler than Thou or creating Ascended Demons, this trope overlaps with God Job. On the flip side, if they never intended to follow through on taking the Devil's job but are forced to anyway by metaphysical laws, they'll find out that Someone Has to Do It. You Kill It, You Bought It and Klingon Promotion are related tropes; a character takes the position by killing the previous holder of the position. See also The Usurper and Kill the God. Compare To Hell with This Infernal Job, where the Devil voluntarily quits his job. May cause the character to be Barred from the Afterlife if he doesn't qualify for Heaven and the existing management of Hell is afraid to let him in. It doesn't have to be the Judeo-Christian idea of the devil or hell to count. Any local equivalent will do. In other words, Crystal Dragon Devil. |
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In Sengoku Basara, Nobunaga claims to have taken over when he returns to the mortal realm in the third game. In this case it's questionable whether Demon King Nobunaga was truly human to begin with, even the first time around. | |
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Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten: If you lose to Fuka during your battle with her, she decides to take over the Netherworld before she takes over the human world, and enlists the defeated Valvatorez and Fenrich as her servants in the process. | |
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Preacher (2016): The end of Season 3 saw The Saint of Killers blow Satan's brains out. Adolf Hitler, a resident of Hell, seizes the opportunity to take over. | |
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Disgaea Dimension 2: For a hat trick, should Laharl's group lose to Sicily in the second chapter, she ends up taking over as Overlord of the Netherworld. Her being an angel aside, it takes little time for her to be quickly accepted as a near Universally Beloved Leader. And in Chapter 3, if Laharl's group loses to Barbara, the Krichevskoy Group's champion, she becomes the Overlord, but since Barbara was conditioned for her entire life to follow others' orders, she has a harshly unsuccessful reign, causing the throne to be open once more. | |
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Eric revolves around this, ultimately inverted when the original demons marginalise the moderniser Astfgl in a meaningless desk job with an impressive-sounding title, but no real power or responsibility. | |
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This is one of the endings in Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, where the Boss is abducted by Satan, and their Best Friend Johnny Gat descends to Hell to free them. After beating up Satan, Johnny can choose to take over the place, returning the Boss and Kinzie to the mortal world, on the account that "they'll be down here in no time". | |
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The Salvation War: This is humanity's stated goal in the first novel and they don't plan on calling it a day after that, either. | |
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Samurai Shodown: The dream match of the series (Tenkaichi Kenkyakuden) pits you for a final stage against a Demon-possessed Gaoh, who has apparently taken over Hell by abusing his demonic power. The first picture that greets you before fighting him is him stomping the head of Lucifer. | |
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Escape from the Moon: In the sequel The Mare From the Moon, the Royal Sisters don’t want to banish Spliced to Tartarus; this is one of the reasons, as they fear her researching the creatures there, and the nature of Tartarus itself, turning them to her own benefit and making her even more dangerous. | |
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Disgaea Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: It's revealed that the "God of Demon Overlords'' got so powerful from killing hundreds of other Demon Overlords that she started becoming an Eldritch Abomination. To escape this fate, she gave herself Easy Amnesia and reincarnated herself. Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice: If you kill the final boss with just human Almaz alone, he becomes an Overlord, in style much like Prier. The Final Boss himself is an "Evil God" due to being a Hero who killed countless Overlords. Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten: If you lose to Fuka during your battle with her, she decides to take over the Netherworld before she takes over the human world, and enlists the defeated Valvatorez and Fenrich as her servants in the process. Disgaea Dimension 2: For a hat trick, should Laharl's group lose to Sicily in the second chapter, she ends up taking over as Overlord of the Netherworld. Her being an angel aside, it takes little time for her to be quickly accepted as a near Universally Beloved Leader. And in Chapter 3, if Laharl's group loses to Barbara, the Krichevskoy Group's champion, she becomes the Overlord, but since Barbara was conditioned for her entire life to follow others' orders, she has a harshly unsuccessful reign, causing the throne to be open once more. |
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In the video for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)", Lil Nas X easily takes out the Devil himself with a Neck Snap. | |
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In a highly atypical variation in Scary Go Round, Erin Winters is almost literally Put on a Bus to Hell, but she later makes a surprising return in Bad Machinery. A bonus strip reveals that she defeated Robot Hitler with "girlish pluck" (and Battle Armour) and became Queen of Hell, but got bored after a few years and defeated a Threshold Guardian demon to get back to the surface. Later developments in the continuity have her returning to Hell and reclaiming the throne, although her moody temperament causes some problems. | |
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In the Redwall fanfics by Quinlan of Redwall, the first Big Bad, Hardin, is dead by the end of the first story. Then, in the latest, we find out he overthrew Vulpuz as the Lord of Hellgates. | |
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See the Trope image. On The Simpsons, a church carnival had a mirror that showed what people would look like in Hell. While it showed Lisa in rags and being tormented by fire, it showed Corrupt Corporate Executive Mr. Burns in a crown and flowing robe and eating Smithers' head. "Excellent!" | |
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In Dominic Deegan, Karnak fell into Hell after fighting back the Demon of War, Dal Balor, several years before the beginning of the webcomic. Though he was mostly involved in small-time evil, his badassery jumped to epic levels during the War in Hell arc. In a few days, Karnak rips through thousands of Mooks with a bloodied sword, an in-depth knowledge in demonic spine removal and no shirt on. After a quick detour due to bad weather, Karnak travels to the top of a mountain, kills several demon lords, destroys all the souls of the Chosen and subsequently nukes Hell. At the end of the arc, Karnak turns from a lower demon lord with no followers left to the only demon left standing. He becomes the King of Hell due to the lack of adequate competition. | |
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As of the Captain Britain and MI13 Annual, Meggan. She led a band of rebels and then helped forge them into a new country in order to spread hope in Hell. | |
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BloodRayne: the backstory says that Satan became the ruler of Hell by usurping the throne from the game's villain Belial. | |
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Krisis Reina De Argenzuela: If Kris falls into one of the Bottomless Pits, she will go directly to Hell. She will be put in charge, and after a while, Hell will run out of fire, no tridents will make it pass the customs, and there will be high taxes for horns. | |
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In Odin Sphere, after Odette is slain by Gwendolyn and Armageddon begins the Halja release King Gallon and pledge themselves to his service since Odette's death has left them bereft of a master and Gallon is the most powerful being in the underworld. Gallon leads the armies of the dead in an omnicidal campaign against the living, fulfilling his role in Armageddon as one of the Five Disasters. | |
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A Practical Guide to Evil: So feared is one former Dread Empress that if ever her name is mentioned, every Praesi character present immediately prays to the Gods Below to ensure that she never comes back to Creation. When she died, half her Legions of Terror went down with her, and it's widely held that she may have tried to conquer Hell when they all ended up there. Such is the cultural memory of Dread Empress Triumphant note May She Never Return. The Dead King also famously invaded and conquered one of the Hells. |
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During the 2011 Alpha Flight series, it was revealed that between his appearance in the "Wolverine in Hell" arc and his return during Fear Itself, Puck overthrew Ba'al and took his seat, only leaving to save his teammates. | |
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A lyric in the Manowar song "The Power": | |
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Supernatural: This is technically what Crowley did with a few hundred years of bureaucracy, backstabbing, and otherwise Machiavellian business. He died, went to Hell, became a demon, worked his way up the ladder to head of purchases, survived the demises of every other major demon in Hell in the countdown to the Apocalypse as all Lucifer's faithful raced into the fray to assure his victory... and then defected to Team Free Will and helped seal the head honcho back in his cage and save the world. After the dust settled and with Azazel and Lilith both dead, he approached the remaining Princes of Hell who had abandoned Lucifer's cause long ago and lived in exile, but none of them were interested in becoming King of Hell and offered the throne to him instead. Even many seasons later, after angering every other being more powerful than himself that still exists, all of whom try to usurp him, he retains his hold on this position. He's rather responsible about it, too. "This isn't Wall Street, this is Hell. We have a little something called integrity!" After Crowley finally dies at the end of Season 12, Season 13 sees Asmodeus (the previously-retired last of the Princes of Hell) swoop in to take over, even putting a severely-weakened Lucifer in his place when he tries to reassert himself. However, by the end of the season, both of them are dead as well, and Season 14 reveals that there's no one left to fill the Evil Power Vacuum, leaving Hell leaderless. Then, in Season 15, Crowley's mother Rowena dies, only to later be shown to have somehow taken over, becoming the new Queen of Hell. |
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: The Shivering Isles expansion pack, the Daedric Prince of Madness Sheogorath is testing mortals to find one worthy of granting his godhood to. Their job will be to defend his dimension of depravity and despair from destruction by his true non-mad (but even eviler) personality which asserts itself at the end of every era. | |
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Married... with Children: Invoked when Peg woke up from an accident with amnesia. | |
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The Chronicles of Wormwood has the first miniseries end with Satan being sent away along with God. The void left by the Devil is eventually filled in the concluding Last Battle miniseries when Pope Jacko goes to Hell and becomes the new lord of the infernal realm. | |
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Steve Earle's "The Unrepentant" ends like this. | |
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In most settings, Asmodeus is the Overlord of Hell but there are suggestions that he was not the first. A few Planescape sourcebooks about Hell mention the "Ancient Baatorians", creatures that ruled Hell before he came along and exterminated most of them. The Elder Evils book introduces an Eldritch Abomination named Zargon as Asmodeus' predecessor, though by his statline, Zargon's power has degenerated significantly, since it's possible for mortals to kill him. Some sources (and The Gates of Hell fan setting) indicate this is actually a deliberate gamble. Asmodeus is a mere avatar of the true Overlord of Hell, who had staged him overthrowing an earlier avatar to make others underestimate Hell. |
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Xena: Warrior Princess: Xena defeated the previous ruler of Hell, Mephistopheles, and learned that as a result, she either had to rule Hell or let all of the demons loose on Earth. She decided to Take a Third Option and corrupted Lucifer and had him take her place. Her justification was that his Holier Than Thou act was hypocritical anyways. | |
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Makai Kingdom: The backstory of Seedle, the Overlord of the Underworld, is that he was once a samurai who got lost down there — and ended up taking over the place. Actually, he was killed by a woman he was about to rape, but he still took over. Said woman was burned at the stake for killing a "hero" but she also took over her own Netherworld after her death. | |
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Head Trip: This happens in a fanfic Mal reads in wherein Mal falls in love with the Devil Guy and attacks Satan so they can be together. | |
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Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice: If you kill the final boss with just human Almaz alone, he becomes an Overlord, in style much like Prier. The Final Boss himself is an "Evil God" due to being a Hero who killed countless Overlords. | |
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Overlord. The title character does this in the Expansion Pack "Raising Hell". However by the end of the game he's trapped in the realm, but has The Legions of Hell at his command. | |
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Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: It's revealed that the "God of Demon Overlords'' got so powerful from killing hundreds of other Demon Overlords that she started becoming an Eldritch Abomination. To escape this fate, she gave herself Easy Amnesia and reincarnated herself. | |
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2000 AD strip Bec And Kawl had this occur. Kawl's uncle Nick is, in fact, Satan. He ends up indisposed while Margaret Thatcher takes over Hell with the intent to privatize it. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In most settings, Asmodeus is the Overlord of Hell but there are suggestions that he was not the first. A few Planescape sourcebooks about Hell mention the "Ancient Baatorians", creatures that ruled Hell before he came along and exterminated most of them. The Elder Evils book introduces an Eldritch Abomination named Zargon as Asmodeus' predecessor, though by his statline, Zargon's power has degenerated significantly, since it's possible for mortals to kill him. Some sources (and The Gates of Hell fan setting) indicate this is actually a deliberate gamble. Asmodeus is a mere avatar of the true Overlord of Hell, who had staged him overthrowing an earlier avatar to make others underestimate Hell. Some mortals who worship devils aspire to follow this trope after death, and imagine swiftly climbing the infernal hierarchy to become a mighty pit fiend and take part in Hell's vicious politics to become a contender for control of one of the plane's layers, if not all of Baator itself. Most aren't aware that becoming a devil involves being hideously tortured until no trace of a soul shell's original identity remains, so it is extremely rare for a dead mortal to be instantly reborn as a mighty devil and still retain their personality. This trope combined with Original Position Fallacy is used to explain why people still perform evil in life despite the proven existence of a hellish afterlife for sinners (and corresponding ones for good-doers): No evildoer is able to imagine that they'll be among the wretched damned but will automatically be a leader. Due to the nature of Forgotten Realms, the title of God of Death has changed hands multiple times. Jergal was the first, but grew tired of it and handed it over to Myrkul and Bhaal, gods of the Dead and Murder respectively. Myrkul kept the job for a while, making sure to make the previously neutral afterlife as shitty as possible because he's an ass, but was eventually slain by heroes during the Times of Trouble (he got better). The utterly insane Cyric took over for a little bit, but eventually the post got handed over to Kelemvor, who's relatively benevolent (although he still has to maintain some of Myrkul's old policies). |
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Mortal Kombat The game's manual states Shinnok became ruler of the Netherworld by deposing Lucifer, which is the only reference to Judeo-Christianity in the entire series. Noob Saibot has this as his Arcade Ending in Mortal Kombat 9 - with his powers boosted by Quan Chi in order to assassinate Shao Kahn, he is able to break free of Quan Chi's control and make a secret deal with the rival Realm of Chaos. After the Realm of Chaos severely weakens the Netherworld in a surprise attack, Noob Saibot seizes control and becomes the new King of Hell. Liu Kang's ladder ending in Mortal Kombat X has him taking over the Netherrealm following his victory over Shinnok. He and Kitana also co-rule the Netherrealm in the story mode's ending. |
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Old Harry's Game,: Smug Snake Evil Genius Roland Kingworthy attempts this in season 5. He starts by bringing the demons onto his side with his effortless charm. Satan talks his army out of attacking, and Roland immediately claims he was attempting to expose the treacherous demons. Satan doesn't believe a word of it, and has an abyss he's been saving specially... | |
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Dwarf Fortress: When the Hidden Fun Stuff gets unleashed, it usually spells the end of a fortress. However, some fortresses not only beat back the demons, but take the next step and launch a full-scale invasion of Hell and take the place over, such as what happened in Waterburned, the succession game hosted on This Very Wiki. | |
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Noob Saibot has this as his Arcade Ending in Mortal Kombat 9 - with his powers boosted by Quan Chi in order to assassinate Shao Kahn, he is able to break free of Quan Chi's control and make a secret deal with the rival Realm of Chaos. After the Realm of Chaos severely weakens the Netherworld in a surprise attack, Noob Saibot seizes control and becomes the new King of Hell. | |
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Liu Kang's ladder ending in Mortal Kombat X has him taking over the Netherrealm following his victory over Shinnok. He and Kitana also co-rule the Netherrealm in the story mode's ending. | |
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The Vampire Diaries: It was revealed that Katherine Pierce was sent to Hell where she manipulated Arcadius, AKA the Devil, from the minute she arrived. She eventually returned, became an ally of Kai Parker, and, after Cade's death, became the queen of Hell. | |
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Hitler Rants: Some Downfall parodies feature Hitler winding up in Hell, and it's usually implied that he's now running the place. | |
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Due to the nature of Forgotten Realms, the title of God of Death has changed hands multiple times. Jergal was the first, but grew tired of it and handed it over to Myrkul and Bhaal, gods of the Dead and Murder respectively. Myrkul kept the job for a while, making sure to make the previously neutral afterlife as shitty as possible because he's an ass, but was eventually slain by heroes during the Times of Trouble (he got better). The utterly insane Cyric took over for a little bit, but eventually the post got handed over to Kelemvor, who's relatively benevolent (although he still has to maintain some of Myrkul's old policies). | |
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For most of Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, it's implied or outright stated that God and Satan are truly eternal beings unlike the Incarnations themselves (who are just the current officeholders of positions in a sort of Cosmic Bureaucracy). The sixth book For Love of Evil reveals that this isn't true; the Satan depicted in the previous books has held the office for several hundred years, but is still a newcomer compared to the current God (who has been around for about two millennia). To ensure competence, the new holder of the office has to prove himself by forcing the previous incumbent to agree to serve him, or the previous incumbent can re-take the position. There are a couple of management changes in the book (including both successful and failed examples). | |
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The Simpsons: One of the Halloween issues has Ned Flanders voluntarily take over for the Devil, who's gotten bored with his job. Ned does so well that the higher-ups let him take the job full time, resulting in Hell turning into a tediously dull shopping mall of a place. Bart and Homer are utterly horrified. | |
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Some sources (and The Gates of Hell fan setting) indicate this is actually a deliberate gamble. Asmodeus is a mere avatar of the true Overlord of Hell, who had staged him overthrowing an earlier avatar to make others underestimate Hell. | |
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Fantastic Four: When Doctor Doom was dragged down to Hell, Reed Richards undertook an elaborate plan to pull him back out before he took the place over, which he estimated would have taken a matter of weeks. | |
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Final Fantasy II: Killing the Emperor the first time backfires because he takes over Hell and returns to Earth, raising Hell's capital from the earth to serve as his new base. In the remakes, it turns out this is the "evil side" of his soul doing the work - the "good side" ascends to Heaven and takes over that, too. The novelization even depicts the Emperor meeting Satan after he dies, who is about to take his soul — so the Emperor kills him. | |
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The Gods of Arr-Kelaan: Ronson is trapped in Hell. His weapon, the rubber mallet, semi-inadvertently kills Satan... and Ronson gets stuck with the job. Until he figured out it was a scam and managed to close it down. | |
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Shadow Police: By the end of Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?, the team have evidence that the Smiling Man has killed (or otherwise disposed of) Satan and taken over Hell; twisting it to fit his own ends. | |
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Some versions of "Stagger Lee" end up with Stag killing or defeating the Devil and becoming the ruler of Hell. | |
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Princess Maker 2 : If the player character's daughter is skilled in magic and fighting but has a lot of sin, she'll eventually kill the Lord of Darkness and end up taking his place. | |
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In Dragon Ball GT, Piccolo rejects his well-earned Heel–Face Turn and starts trashing Heaven in order to get into Hell to help Goku fight Super 17 by going after Gero and Myuu who are supporting him from there. After the fight is over, he's shown bringing order to the endless chaos and protecting Hell's leaders, becoming more of an authority figure than they ever were. | |
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8-Bit Theater : Black Mage overthrew the Lord of Hell when he was killed by Lich. Since he's the universe's Butt-Monkey, it didn't last very long but from this point on the entire universe, including all The Legions of Hell, have a vested interest in keeping him alive. When this is the reaction to his arrival on the mortal plane, it's no wonder. Everyone, everyone knows they are completely and utterly screwed if he gets back down to Hell. | |
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A number of Code Geass fics involving the Peggy Sue concept mention this trope during the pre-time travel part of the story as a reason not to send Lelouch vi Britannia to Hell and instead back in time (though fanfics are divided if he actually would go to Hell or Heaven after the events of the series, if Heaven would accept him, nor as to how the afterlife even works in the CG verse) The movie continuity differs in this however as any fear of the continued employment of the Devil is unwarranted as Lelouch got resurrected before he could take over hell. | |
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Ghost Rider: Nobel Kale takes over Hell after slaying Mephisto and Blackheart, then sends Dan Ketch back to Earth, releasing him from his duties as Ghost Rider. | |
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Attempted in Lucifer (2016). After Lucifer quit, he left hell with no management whatsoever. The demons needed someone to be in charge, but since only an angel could sit on the throne of hell and none of the angels were remotely interested, there were no options. Until the demons found out that Amenadiel had a half-human son. The demons plotted to kidnap the child to raise him to be the new king of hell. | |
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Referenced in Grim Tales from Down Below - during a flashback to the days of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Mandy outright states that she doesn't mind in the least that Grim will eventually take her — she knows that she's going to Hell, but she's already planning how to take over when she gets there. As it turns out, however, she doesn't have to kill anyone to become the Empress of the Deadlands - she marries into the position instead. | |
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Magic: The Gathering's Kamigawa block is an interesting example. Unlike some examples of this trope, Hidetsugu charged into Hell in the first place to give the All-Consuming Oni of Chaos a piece of his mind after it chickened out after O-kagachi soundly defeated it. He isn't heard from again until the end of the book, where he shows up, gives a respectful greeting to the Plane's new guardians, and demonstrates that he's absorbed his former master's essence by dealing out a much needed comeuppance to the Chessmaster behind the whole mess. | |
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Lady Death was originally a mortal woman named Hope who made a bargain with a demon to renounce her humanity and serve Hell if the demon rescued her from death. Arriving in Hell, she discovered a civil war was raging. Lady Death led an uprising against the Lords of Hell. During the final battle, Lucifer cursed her never to return to Earth while the living walked. Lady Death swore an oath that she would circumvent Lucifer's curse by exterminating all life on Earth. Lady Death finally ended Lucifer's control over her by casting him through Heaven's Gate (a place where evil cannot go), and in doing so became the new ruler of Hell. In the spinoff Purgatori, a blood-clone of Purgatori tried to convince the demon Cremator to seize the throne from Lucifer Morningstar with a specially-designed demon-destroying blade, planning to dispose of him afterwards. This met with partial success since Lucifer was left as a shadow of his former self, but then the real Purgatori shows up in Hell to kill Cremator and absorb her clone. It becomes a subversion since Purgatori decides not to take Lucifer's throne for herself and instead leave him in charge but is unable to defend himself from any future runner-up. |
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In the expansion for Neverwinter Nights, the protagonist can use Mephistopheles' True Name to force him into slavery and take over the devil lord's Hell dimension him/herself. Alternately, they can choose to rule together, though in that case the epilogue implies Mephistopheles betrays them. Either way, you'd still be subject to the Lord of Hell, Asmodeusnote Mephistopheles is the lord of a single layer of Hell, while Asmodeus is the lord of the lowest layer of Hell and overlord of Hell as a whole — part of the reason for Mephistopheles' scheme in the game was to gain the power to usurp Asmodeus. | |
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Over the course of Damned, Madison slowly works her way up the demonic ranks, beating the tar out of the likes of Hitler and Napoleon, to improve her station in the underworld. Satan himself watches this unfold from a distance, since he is grooming her to help him usher in his coming war with heaven. | |
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In the Onimusha games, Oda Nobunaga makes a Deal with the Devil in the first game of the series, just prior to the heroes killing the Demon King. He then takes command of the Demonic Realm for the next two titles of the series (and the Game Boy Advance game Tactics.) | |
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In the Left Behind 4chan strategy game Left Beyond, the people of Egypt set up a program to train warriors and scientists to withstand the pain or burning so that they may terraform and conquer Hell, just before the Final Battle is scheduled to happen, in case they lose. | |
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Hercules: The Animated Series has Hecate, a demigoddess who stole Hades' power and set herself up as the new head of the Underworld. Unlike Hades, she has a plan to improve the Underworld...by actively killing the living. It takes a lot of persuasion for Hercules to help Pain and Panic get rid of her and save Hades' unlife, but he eventually does it. | |
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Tales from the Flat Earth: The Queen of Hell (or "Innerearth") was a human queen, Narasen, who owed Death a thousand years of servitude. However, she was too much of a queen to act as anyone's servant, and Uhlume, lord of Death, instead abdicated much of his role to her. He decided he liked roaming the Earth, but the inhabitants of Hell want him to come back and relieve them of Narasen's harsh rule. | |
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Tom Smith's "Sheep Marketing Ploy" is a song pitching a series of horror movies named Death Sheep following Fenton, a sheep who takes over Hell after being pulled down there by Lucifer. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne: The True Demon ending shows the Demi-fiend at the head of a massive demonic army, ready to conquer the universe. In this game, it's a bit ambiguous whether or not it's this trope at play or whether the Demi-fiend is 'merely' a supremely powerful general of Chaos. The fact that the final boss of this route is Lucifer (As opposed to every other game's Chaos route, including this games Demon route, where Lucifer is an ally) implies that you've killed Lucifer and taken his position. | |
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Escape from Hell (1990) includes Adolf Hitler scheming to overthrow Satan and take over Hell. | |
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Diablo: The protagonist of the original becomes the Dark Wanderer in the sequel after losing his battle of wills to contain the evil by embedding Diablo's soulstone in his forehead, eventually being entirely possessed and mutating into Diablo Himself. Something very similar happened with Tal-Rasha and the Lord of Destruction, Baal. | |
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Disenchantment: At the start of season 4, Bean manages to trick her mother Dagmar into marrying Satan. Dagmar quickly proceeds to make Satan a Henpecked Husband and becomes queen of Hell. | |
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In Please Stop Eating The Hell Butterflies, it's revealed that Urahara conquered hell because he was bored. Yamamoto was not happy. | |
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The Avengers fanfic named Legends, the one who has taken over Hell is Doctor Doom. He's naturally pissed when he sees his killer, Arcade, arrive. His proposed punishment? A millennium of torture until the new Deadpool arrives to hand him over to Dormammu. | |
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In La Pucelle: Tactics, Prier can become a Demon Overlord if she goes too far deep into the Netherworld and kills the present one. She appears as such in the Disgaea series as an Optional Boss. This is apparently based on a legend in Japanese mythology where one will become a youkai (demon) if they "bathe in the blood of 1000 youkai." | |
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Lucifer: Christopher Rudd manages to go from damned soul to sex-toy for the nobility of Hell into one of the nobility himself and eventually ruler of Hell. Then he reforged the damned souls and the demons into an army to storm heaven. And won. | |
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The Sandman (1989): In Preludes and Nocturnes, when Dream is freed after a human lifetime of imprisonment, he finds that his helmet is in the hands of a demon and journeys to Hell to retrieve it. Several demons tell him that much has changed since he was gone, but he doesn't believe them until meeting Lucifer, who reveals that he has been demoted of sorts: He is no longer sole ruler of Hell, sharing power with his co-rulers Baalzebub and Azazel. Season of Mists revolves around Lucifer deciding To Hell with This Infernal Job, banishing the demons and the damned, sealing the place up, and giving the key to Dream. After Dream has received a variety of offers from others eager to claim the place, it's taken out of his hands: God assigns two of his angels to run Hell, because Someone Has to Do It. |
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Hellblazer: This has occasionally been a back pocket threat of John Constantine. In one instance, he even got God Almighty to grant him and his friends a measure of protection by promising that, if his soul were to fall into the hands of Hell, he would likely eventually take over and turns his eyes straight towards Heaven. | |
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In Ugly Americans it appears that Satan is not one being, but a title for position that has been filled many times in history by different demons. Exactly how this is done is not known. | |
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In Dark Heart this is the backstory of the evil god Vraxor. He was originally a demon created to torment the inhabitants of Hell, but organized a revolt and took over. | |
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Helltaker: In the Examtaker DLC, Lucifer has been usurped by a demon called Loremaster, who has turned Hell into one gigantic experiment to study sin in all its depths, even turning Lucifer into a maid forced to serve Loremaster's whims. Dialogue eventually reveals that Loremaster is Azazel, the Fallen Angel who fell after Lucy encouraged Azazel to give into her curiosity about demonkind. So Lucy wanted Azazel to fall, and she did... but she fell a little too hard. | |
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In the spinoff Purgatori, a blood-clone of Purgatori tried to convince the demon Cremator to seize the throne from Lucifer Morningstar with a specially-designed demon-destroying blade, planning to dispose of him afterwards. This met with partial success since Lucifer was left as a shadow of his former self, but then the real Purgatori shows up in Hell to kill Cremator and absorb her clone. It becomes a subversion since Purgatori decides not to take Lucifer's throne for herself and instead leave him in charge but is unable to defend himself from any future runner-up. | |
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Press Start (2007): This episode has Count Vile rather humorously beating Satan in a duel (via slipping on a banana peel and getting a ring out) and claimed his right to rule Hell. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: When Dabura dies, King Enma is afraid that if he is sent to Hell (as he rightly SHOULD be, considering his sins), it wouldn't be a suitable punishment - he's already King of the Demon World. In an effort to improve him, King Enma sends Dabura to the most peaceful part of Heaven. Later in the series, Dabura is seen again and has turned into a character so peaceful and loving that the Main Characters are actually creeped out by him. In Dragon Ball GT, Piccolo rejects his well-earned Heel–Face Turn and starts trashing Heaven in order to get into Hell to help Goku fight Super 17 by going after Gero and Myuu who are supporting him from there. After the fight is over, he's shown bringing order to the endless chaos and protecting Hell's leaders, becoming more of an authority figure than they ever were. |
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Rurouni Kenshin: After dying, Shishio Makoto declared his intent to overthrow the King of Hell. Depending on how you interpret it, Shishio may or may not have succeeded in this endeavor when he visits the catatonic Kenshin in the latter's living hell during the Jinchuu arc. | |
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Some theologians claim Beelzebub has overthrown Satan himself and taken over as supreme ruler of Hell. The Dictionnaire Infernal is a notable example of this. | |
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In the Arrowverse, Astra Logue was Dragged Off to Hell as a young child. However, she was fortunate enough to be taken in by one of Hell's less demonic denizens, and grew up to be a low-level employee in Hell's hierarchy. That beat eternal torture by a longshot, but Astra decided to dream big. After the demon Neron overthrew Hell's ruling Triumvirate, and was then killed by the Legends of Tomorrow, Astra used the chaos to raid Neron's vault, seizing some of the most valuable souls in Hell, which she used to install herself in the power vacuum left behind. | |
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Catherine: If the player has made Chaos choices for the duration of the game and answered all of the final questions with freedom in mind, then he asks Catherine, a succubus, to marry him... and she agrees. He wakes up in Hell the next morning and decides to strap on a sword and start killing demons wearing nothing more than his boxers. Eventually, he transforms into an incubis and grows so powerful that everybody in Hell knows who he is and he uses Catherine's father (himself a powerful demon) as a seat. He does this while he's making out with the guy's daughter and several other succubi. | |
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