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The Always Lawful Good Chronic Hero has died after a life of stopping to help. He Goes Into the Light and... it's Fire and Brimstone? "Cower, mortal! Your Soul Is Mine!!" The dead are not ending up in their correct afterlife. The forces of evil may be nabbing good souls, either before they complete their journey to their final reward, or actually kidnapping them from paradise after they arrive. Souls have so many uses, after all, and even if they didn't, this is a great way to snub the Council of Angels. And when Hell Invades Heaven, there'll be that many less enemies to deal with. Alternately, it may not be specifically malicious. The Obstructive Bureaucrats running the Celestial Bureaucracy may have cocked things up or perhaps the Afterlife Express hit the wrong switch-track. In these cases, you can also end up with unrepentant monsters trashing Fluffy Cloud Heaven. A third option is an Infernal Paradise, where the character has gone to what would be a genuine eternal reward for an insane cultist or someone Too Kinky to Torture, but it's not what he was expecting. Compare This Isn't Heaven, where a character's personal heaven turns out to be an Ironic Hell; Hell of a Heaven, where it's not as enjoyable as advertised; and Barred from the Afterlife, where a soul can't even pass on in the first place. ALERT! Death Trope ahead! You will be Spoilered Rotten! Hit the back button, hit the back button! |
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In Preacher (2016), Jesse accidentally sends Eugene to Hell after using his Compelling Voice (which at this point he doesn't really know how to use) when he snaps at him, "Go to Hell!" In the next season, we see that Hell is having some glitches, although whether this is due to Eugene erroneously being sent there or God being out of Heaven is anybody's guess. | |
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In the DK Vine feature Bitching About Brawl, the recently deceased Tom Poston and Chris Benoit had ended up in Hell and Heaven respectively. Pit was in the middle of bringing Benoit to Hell to exchange him with Poston when he first visits Bob O. Friend. | |
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The Far Side has a cartoon of a man and pigs in Fluffy Cloud Heaven, captioned "Through an unfortunate celestial error, Ernie is sent to Hog Heaven." | |
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In The Salvation War, Heaven has been closed off for centuries. Everyone who otherwise would have gone there has gone to Hell instead, no matter how Faithful they were. | |
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Tom, from Tom and Jerry, appears to have been killed in "Heavenly Puss" and goes to Heaven where the conductor to the Heavenly Express won't grant him passage because of his persecution of Jerry. The conductor does say that if Tom can get Jerry to sign a certificate of forgiveness, he'll be granted passage. But he has only an hour or he'll wind up in Hell, where a devil avatar of Spike the bulldog waits for him. Tom does get Jerry to sign the certificate, but he's too late and he plunges right into the boiling cauldron the devil bulldog has for him. Fortunately for Tom, it was all just a dream. | |
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Inverted in All Dogs Go to Heaven where Charlie, despite being a self-centered Jerkass, ends up going to Heaven after being murdered by Carface because dogs are naturally good animals. It becomes straight after he uses his Life Watch to return to life until his Heroic Sacrifice earns himself redemption. | |
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The Simpsons; In "Bart Gets Hit By A Car" when Bart gets Hit by a car, he goes up an escalator to Heaven. A computer voice tells him not to spit over the side. When he does this, it turns into a Surprise Slide Staircase that takes him to Hell. Luckily he later wakes up in hospital. The second sketch in "The Simpsons Spin Off Showcase" has Grandpa getting hit by a car, his Winged Soul Flies Off at Death but collides with a plane and falls back to Earth, ending up haunting Moe's Love Tester machine. As the intro says he "floated up toward Heaven and got lost along the way". At the end of "Simpsons Bible Stories" The Rapture happens and Lisa (but no other Simpson) is being lifted bodily into Heaven. Homer grabs her ankle and makes her go to Hell with the rest of the family. One of the shorts in "Now You Museum, Now You Don't" has Homer dying and being so heavy that the Stairway To Heaven falls so that the other end is in Hell. |
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At first it seemed like this happened to Siggy in Dominic Deegan when Karnak grabbed his soul and brainwashed him. The "Knight Vision" arc reveals that Siggy earned his place in Hell with gusto. Karnak just made him his slave once he got there. | |
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In Final Fantasy IX, souls return to The Lifestream of the planet they came from. The Evil Plan of Garland is to reroute the souls of the entire population of Gaea through an artificial tree which will "cleanse" them (purge them of identity) and then reroute them to his planet, Terra, so that the long-dead Terrans that created him will be reborn. | |
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In the Supernatural episode "Taxi Driver", Bobby Singer was sent to Hell instead of Heaven because Crowley, the King of Hell, had a personal grudge against him and enlisted a rogue Psychopomp to reroute him from his final destination. The Winchester brothers break into Hell and rescue him. | |
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World of Warcraft: In the "Edge of Night" short story Sylvanas Windrunner vaguely remembers that the afterlife she visited before she was forcibly raised as a banshee by Arthas was pleasant. When she attempts suicide in this novel she discovers that she and all other Forsaken are damned to the Maw instead, a hellish afterlife with no escape. During the events of Legion the "machine of death" broke. Rather than souls being judged and assigned to appropriate afterlives, all souls are being drawn into the Maw. This in turn triggered the events of Battle for Azeroth as Sylvanas was deliberately providing more souls to the Jailer. Played up for horror during Shadowlands, as we see the effects of the broken system first hand, the afterlives are dying and running out of Anima, the energy they need to function, this forces the leaders of the 4 major afterlives into some hard choices, like the Winter Queen sacrificing souls scheduled to reincarnate like the Wild God Ursoc. We also discover that the Night Elven Goddess Elune allowed the attack on Teldrassil to happen because she intended for those souls to go to Ardenweld to help with the Anima drought, apparently unaware that the system was broken, and said break being the cause of the drought. After the jailer is defeated, part of Slyvanas' punishment for her actions is to remain in the maw and help sort out the souls that don't belong there, though it's stated this task could take an eternity to finish. |
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"Charlie's Inferno" by That Handsome Devil is about a man who gets taken to Hell because his name isn't on the guestlist of the angel guarding Heaven. | |
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The Detective Inspector Chen novel Snake Agent begins when a young woman scheduled to go to Heaven is photographed by a brothel in Hell. Turns out that she's not the only one, and the villain's plan involves doing it wholesale. | |
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Skyrim: Kodlak Whitemane, harbinger of the Companions, wants to go to the Nordic afterlife of Sovngarde but, since he's a werewolf, knows that Hircine, Daedric Prince of the Hunt and Monster Progenitor of were-creatures, will claim his soul after death instead. Kodlak is killed when his home is attacked by werewolf hunters, but the Dragonborn is able to break his curse after his death, freeing his soul from Hircine's realm. Kodlak's parting words suggest that he might gather some other warriors from Sovngarde and invoke this trope himself with a raid to rescue some of the other dead werewolves' souls from Hircine's Hunting Grounds. A few of the Companions refuse to use the cure when it's found, preferring Hircine's realm anyway. The Dawnguard DLC reveals that the souls of sapient mortal beings (Men, Mer, etc.) who are soul-trapped in Black Soul Gems are forced to spend eternity in the Soul Cairn, a pocket realm of Oblivion ruled over by the mysterious Ideal Masters. It is a bleak and desolate place. As part of the events of the main quest, the Dragonborn ends up in Sovngarde and can invoke this trope by soul-trapping the spirits of the dead there, forcing them to the Soul Cairn instead. |
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In Exalted, the Sidereal Exalted did this with the Solar Exaltations. Normally, when a Solar Exalt dies, their Exaltation returns to the god Lytek to be polished up and sent onto their next incarnation. When the Sidereals murdered the Solars, they sent a hit squad to Lytek's office to hold him prisoner and capture the returning Solar Exaltations to prevent the Solars from reincarnating. | |
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An episode of Eek! The Cat has Eek dying and winding up in the Celestial Bureaucracy. This shouldn't have happened in the first place, because Eek hadn't used up all nine of his lives yet. Then, a damned soul asks Eek to hold his rap sheet while he "goes to the bathroom", so Eek winds up getting sent to Hell in his place. However, Eek is so optimistic that the torments of Hell don't affect him at all, and he succeeds at all the Sisyphean tasks the Devil sets for him. Eventually the bureaucracy works out the mistake and returns Eek to life, resetting his life card back to nine lives as an apology. | |
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Pathfinder: The "River of Souls" that carries the dead across the Void Between the Worlds and into the Outer Planes is guarded by powerful angels and fiends alike, so this trope is rare but possible. The Night Hag Mage Species tries to trap souls for barter, while one variety of Omnicidal Maniac Daemon exists solely to devour souls from the River. Certain magical effects can also cause souls to be perverted from their intended afterlife. Those trapped in soul gems with Trap the Soul remain imprisoned until the gem is broken. These gems can be swallowed by outsiders for power, which condemns the soul to one of the lower planes. A more direct method is Hellfire Ray, an evil spell which condemns any target to Hell if it kills them. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In the module A Paladin in Hell, during the funeral of a powerful paladin, the entire temple hosting the service is dragged into Hell to claim his soul. The players have to travel to Hell, find the temple, and free his soul. Oh, and the module is close to Tomb of Horrors in terms of unfair difficulty. In the Forgotten Realms setting, souls that end up in the Fugue Plane (those that were religious but didn't devote themselves to a specific patron deity, those who betrayed their creed, and atheists) can have this happen to them courtesy of fiends. The baatezu (a.k.a. devils, Lawful Evil fiends) have an agreement with the Fugue Plane's administration that they can try to talk unclaimed souls into going with them, while the tanar'ri (a.k.a. demons, Chaotic Evil fiends) simply resort to mass kidnapping. |
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In The Saga of Biorn, the eponymous viking is seeking honorable death in battle in order to gain entrance into Valhalla. After many failures at finding a worthy opponent, he suffers a mortal blow while defending a convent of nuns from a giant. As Biorn ascends the stairs to his reward, the nuns repay him posthumously with a Christian burial, causing him to wind up in Fluffy Cloud Heaven which turns out just as boring as the Helheim he was desperately trying to avoid. | |
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In The Skinjacker Trilogy, children who get lost on their way to heaven end up in Everlost, somewhere halfway between Earth and the afterlife. They each "wake" in Everlost with a coin in their pocket, and when it is their time to move on, they will do so when they hold the coin. | |
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Grim Fandango: Big Bad Hector is stealing tickets to the Number Nine express, a luxury train that takes the most virtuous souls directly to the next underworld, and selling them to people who don't deserve them. However, the tickets he's selling are counterfeit, he's hoarding the real ones for himself in a desperate bid to balance out a life of evil. Luckily, the gatekeepers aren't that stupid, and have specific protocols for anyone trying to buy their way to salvation: they re-schedule all the counterfeiters onto a specialized bullet train that literally jumps off the rails and straight to an artificial version of Christian Hell. Unfortunately, this doesn't help the people that were cheated. | |
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In the Forgotten Realms setting, souls that end up in the Fugue Plane (those that were religious but didn't devote themselves to a specific patron deity, those who betrayed their creed, and atheists) can have this happen to them courtesy of fiends. The baatezu (a.k.a. devils, Lawful Evil fiends) have an agreement with the Fugue Plane's administration that they can try to talk unclaimed souls into going with them, while the tanar'ri (a.k.a. demons, Chaotic Evil fiends) simply resort to mass kidnapping. | |
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In Dante's Inferno, Beatrice, who is the wife of Dante is dragged into hell because Dante cheated death. Dante has to descend into hell to save Beatrice's soul. | |
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In Jon's story of Issue #39 of Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose, we are catered to a hypothetical story about what would happen after his death. As he ascends to Heaven (being a catholic hero), a Valkyrie escorting a viking Einherjar crashes into him, accidentally knocking the viking right into his Heaven as the valkyrie escorts Jon to Valhalla. Unfortunately for Jon, it was right then and there he is recruited into the beginning of Ragnarok. | |
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In the Incarnations of Immortality series, the system for processing souls is rather messed up, due to God slacking off. In On a Pale Horse, Zane, the new Death, is unsatisfied with babies going to Purgatory, and manages to get the system adjusted to send them to Heaven instead. Later on, when Parry takes over running Hell in For Love of Evil, he realizes a large portion of souls arriving there don't deserve it, and tries to show them A Hell of a Time instead. Eventually, he instigates The Plan to get God replaced. | |
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In Ghost Story, Harry Dresden encounters an angel sent to a critically-wounded Father Forthill to escort him safely to Heaven if he dies. She explains that Hell would steal even the souls of saints if they could get away with it, and the nether zone of the afterlife is unsafe enough that the souls working there need an angelic security guard. | |
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In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Kenny is denied access to heaven, and he falls straight into Hell, all while a song plays deriding him for his poor choices in life sung by James Hetfield. | |
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The Onion reports that this happened to Mother Teresa. | |
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In the module A Paladin in Hell, during the funeral of a powerful paladin, the entire temple hosting the service is dragged into Hell to claim his soul. The players have to travel to Hell, find the temple, and free his soul. Oh, and the module is close to Tomb of Horrors in terms of unfair difficulty. | |
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In Lexx, in the third season, the heroes stumble across the afterlife. In the Heaven section, they come across the soul of a nasty individual who betrays them all and joins Prince's forces, while the Hell planet has a bunch of enslaved homosexuals who don't have any sort of malice in them. Prince does mention the reincarnation process does sometimes screw up. | |
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Fantozzi in paradiso ("Fantozzi in Heaven"), one chapter of the long-running Italian series of Fantozzi films starring the eponymous unlucky office clerk, ends like this. Fantozzi dies and his soul is scheduled to go to Heaven, but the airplane getting the souls there is hijacked by celestial terrorists, and he finds himself in front of the Buddha, who forces him to be reincarnated... in a newborn Fantozzi. | |
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A variation occurs in Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act V. After Rason, mind-controlled by the Otonashi sisters, breaks up with her, Kurumu succumbs to Death by Despair and ends up in Hell; the Lord of Hell explicitly states that he drew her soul to Hell before it could go to Heaven. Rather than torture her, however, he wanted to knock some sense into her, having been revealed back in Act II to be Kurumu's biological father. Through his efforts, Kurumu unlocks a new Super Mode, and the Lord of Hell sends her back to Earth to reclaim her man. | |
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In Wakfu, Sadlygrove dies in the first season finale. In the second season we see his soul ascending to join the Legend (Iop Warrior Heaven essentially), but then his soul is dragged back down by Rubilax. Rubilax then shoves Sadlygrove's soul into his original sword prison while he takes over Sadlygrove's body for his own purposes. It ultimately turns out for the best since this eventually leads to Sadlygrove coming back to life in his own body. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Tamriel's many religions offer differing ideas of just what happens to a mortal's soul upon death. Some cultures, like the Proud Warrior Race Redguards and Nords, have their own versions of a Warrior Heaven. The Imperial Church of the Divines seems to imply that the souls of the faithful dead end up in Aetherius, the realm of magic. The Altmer (High Elves) believe in reincarnation, and have been known to Mercy Kill undesirable offspring so that their souls have the chance to be reincarnated in better forms. The Dunmer (Dark Elves) practice ancestor worship (among other forms of worship), and call upon the spirits of their honored dead for guidance and protection. All of that said, it is known that some souls are claimed by the Daedric Princes or other such divine beings, usually as part of a pact made when the mortal in question was still alive. In this case, the mortal's soul goes to the realm of the deity in question to serve for eternity. Skyrim: Kodlak Whitemane, harbinger of the Companions, wants to go to the Nordic afterlife of Sovngarde but, since he's a werewolf, knows that Hircine, Daedric Prince of the Hunt and Monster Progenitor of were-creatures, will claim his soul after death instead. Kodlak is killed when his home is attacked by werewolf hunters, but the Dragonborn is able to break his curse after his death, freeing his soul from Hircine's realm. Kodlak's parting words suggest that he might gather some other warriors from Sovngarde and invoke this trope himself with a raid to rescue some of the other dead werewolves' souls from Hircine's Hunting Grounds. A few of the Companions refuse to use the cure when it's found, preferring Hircine's realm anyway. The Dawnguard DLC reveals that the souls of sapient mortal beings (Men, Mer, etc.) who are soul-trapped in Black Soul Gems are forced to spend eternity in the Soul Cairn, a pocket realm of Oblivion ruled over by the mysterious Ideal Masters. It is a bleak and desolate place. As part of the events of the main quest, the Dragonborn ends up in Sovngarde and can invoke this trope by soul-trapping the spirits of the dead there, forcing them to the Soul Cairn instead. |
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The Good Place: The basic premise is that Eleanor Shellstrop finds herself in a heavenly realm for a life of saintly good works she didn't do, and has to prevent her similarly saintly neighbors from discovering her real self. Later on, she learns that Jianyu was also mistakenly sent to the Good Place and is actually a petty criminal named Jason instead of the Buddhist monk he was believed to be. Even later on, she meets the other Eleanor Shellstrop who was mixed up with her and got sent to the Bad Place as a result. However, it turns out all of this has been a gigantic lie — Eleanor and Jason are exactly where they should be because they've been in the Bad Place all along, the other Eleanor is actually a demon pretending to be the real Eleanor's good counterpart to further add to her guilt, and most of her ludicrously pure neighbors are demons as well to annoy her with their "goodness" (a few of her neighbors are real humans unknowingly sharing her torment). In season 3 it's revealed that nobody actually ends up in the Good Place, regardless of how good they are, due to the archaic "points system" used to decide who goes where. |
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Jack: Hell loves to find ways to corrupt souls or get them into Hell on a technicality, like counting ''accidentally'' falling to your death as a suicide. In one notable instance however, the government discovered a way to resurrect the dead... which went horribly wrong, as it caused souls seized from Heaven and Purgatory to have a massive freak out and try to commit suicide to go back, which sent them to Hell. | |
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This is how Noble Kale became a spirit of vengeance in Ghost Rider. He was supposed to go to Heaven, but his father sold his soul to Mephisto, who, after lots of whining, convinced Uri-El not to take him to Heaven (which ended up being Mephisto's undoing...for a little while). | |
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What kicks off the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction Hail to the King (Qwapdo). The nameless main character died and was heavily implied to be going to Heaven. Then King Sombra, who recently was defeated, runs past him trying to get into the portal because of all the crystals. The portal quickly gets closed to prevent him from getting in. Then Sombra attacks the main character and they both start to get dragged downwards. To prevent this trope from playing fully, The Powers That Be quickly grab the main character and throw him into the closest thing to prevent that. That thing being Sombra's comatose body. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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In The Legend of Dragoon, the Wingly civilization built a machine that reroutes all human souls to hell (because they could, apparently). By the time of the game, the device has largely broken down so that now it only snags those souls who are in great emotional turmoil, including a main character and several bosses. For obvious reasons, the original dragoons took special care to burn Mayfil to the ground. | |
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An interesting take in All Flesh Must Be Eaten. One potential setting is in a world with reincarnation, save for a few old souls which managed to stay in place and judge what all other souls are reincarnated as. When those old souls begin fighting, the system breaks down and people begin reincarnating into dead bodies... and sometimes not even their own dead body. | |
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Mortal Kombat Trilogy has a variation with Johnny Cage. He's killed in the prologue but his soul is blocked from going to heaven by the merging of Earth and Outworld. Rather than going to the other place, instead his soul returns to earth and revives him. | |
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This is what kicks off the entire Marvel Zombies saga - Heaven finds itself under attack by a zombified Sentry, who is part of a Stable Time Loop. His attack ends up sending someone into that Marvel Zombies universe - Ash Williams, who had died in a prior story before his crossover. | |
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South Park: In an early episode (later retconned?) we learn that only Mormons get into Heaven because Mormonism is somehow the one true faith, everyone else is considered a Pagan and goes to Hell. But Satan, having had it up to here with Saddam Hussein, gets God to send Hussein to Heaven along with all the Mormons (because, to Hussein, that is Hell). God changed the rules later after realizing that there was a manpower difference between Heaven and Hell that enabled Satan to attempt an invasion. He had to accept more than just Mormons in order to stand a chance, rerouting souls from Hell in the process. |
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In Warrior Cats, when Flametail dies and goes to StarClan (the feline equivalent of Heaven), he ends up lost and winds up in the Dark Forest (Hell). The Dark Forest cats are planning war on the Clans, so Brokenstar orders Ivypool to prove her loyalty by killing Flametail's spirit. | |
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At the end of Casino Royale (1967), everyone dies and goes to Heaven including the villain, Jimmy who's there briefly before being quickly sent to Hell. | |
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pictures for sad children: Paul, after being a ghost for about a year, receives a letter admitting him to the afterlife. He should have gotten it immediately after his death, but it got lost in the mail. This causes problems when Paul decides he'd rather not pass on: since he was informed of the afterlife so late, he has much less time to fulfill the requirements to stay on Earth as a ghost. | |
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Thor: Vikings: In order to prevent the undead Viking warlord Jarl Jaekellsson from reaching Warrior Heaven, Thor hurls him into Earth's orbit, where he will remain forever without dying. The mortals who assisted Thor during the battle (descendants of the man responsible for the zombies' curse) are shown to eventually go there, despite one being a Catholic knight bent on exterminating pagans and the other a WWII German pilot. | |
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At the end of The Frighteners Bartlett and Patricia are about to be sucked into a standard afterlife portal but it quickly changes into a Sand Worm looking porta that takes them to the Bloody Bowels of Hell. | |
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In Constantine (2005), this is arguably the case with Angela's sister Isabelle, who was manipulated by demons into committing suicide and being damned, despite being a devout Catholic who would have known better. At the end, the titular character gives up his own life to let her return to heaven, and by this Heroic Sacrifice his soul is finally judged worthy of entering Heaven. The devil is so annoyed at being cheated out of his soul that he brings Constantine back to life and cures his cancer so that he has at least a few more years to screw up and get himself damned to Hell. | |
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