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The Nothing After Death

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The Nothing After Death	comment	The Nothingness is an afterlife where souls go to a bleak, featureless Plane of (Non) Existence. Whether or not this "non-existence" involves the souls existence and whether or not souls are consciously aware of the lack of existence around them is Depending on the Writer. Not to be confused with the idea that there is literally nothing after death: no darkness, no featureless planes, no conscious awareness, simply a Cessation of Existence. Some people find that thought comforting; to others, it is worse. This trope is when there is something after death, and that something is empty space. Sometimes this is used as an Ironic Hell against a Flat-Earth Atheist, but just as frequently, Nothingness does not discriminate and everyone, good and bad, goes there. This one of many ways to depict Hell, since isolation isn't exactly peachy. A step below Purgatory and Limbo, within which, bleak or dull though it may be, at least there's something. A possible explanation for Death Amnesia, and a possible destination for those who are Barred from the Afterlife. Compare Void Between the Worlds, another type of empty dimension. See also White Void Room, which may be the easiest visual way to depict the Nothingness. A frequent purpose for people who try to build an Artificial Afterlife is to avoid this or the Cessation of Existence. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
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The Nothing After Death / int_10d303a2	comment	Shin Megami Tensei IV describes the afterlife as "Where the dead endure nothingness while awaiting reincarnation". But before you can even get that, you have to wait in line, and the line is long. So long, that Charon asks for a bribe so he can just revive you.
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The Nothing After Death / int_11d0af1	comment	In His Dark Materials, The afterlife is a flat, featureless plane where the only thing that breaks up the monotony is random harpy attacks. Will and Lyra arrange for everyone in there to get oblivion instead, which is a far better (in the protagonists' opinions) fate, as it allows the atoms making up a person's ghost to distribute themselves back into the physical world. Oblivion of consciousness, yes, but a roundabout return to life. Those who fall into the Abyss in the world of the dead experience almost exactly this. Their souls continue to fall into the nothingness for eternity.
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The Nothing After Death / int_12381dc	comment	Zigzagged in Divinity: Original Sin II. There is an afterlife, known as the Hall of Echoes, and mortals tend to hang around a bit as spirits before finally crossing over. However, once they do so, the gods stand ready to consume them, completely annihilating their souls.
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The Nothing After Death / int_14494034	comment	Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): When San attempts to view Vivienne's memories of her first death and subsequent revival, due to her apparently having had a temporary Cessation of Existence when dead, San instead just sees a Nothing. San is subsequently terrified of the prospect that he might enter such a Nothing if he and Vivienne die permanently.
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The Nothing After Death / int_1688bcd5	comment	The Thornton Wilder play Our Town depicts the afterlife in this manner. There is no Heaven. There is no Hell. Every spirit, good and bad, is stuck together, sitting on their tombstone for all eternity. And even though you are given Mental Time Travel powers that let you relive any day of your life, all this does is further drive home to you how much of your life was wasted.
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The Nothing After Death / int_191723a6	comment	The Beyond, by Lucio Fulci. The afterlife is depicted as a blank gray wasteland littered with corpses.
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The Nothing After Death / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	Played with in an episode of Batman (1966), believe it or not. In "The Riddling Controversy", the Riddler — who has already come close to crossing the Moral Event Horizon by stealing money intended for starving children — buys a device from a Mad Scientist that the scientist claims causes matter to completely disappear. The Riddler tries out the device on his hat — and once it has disappeared, he tells the scientist "Make it come back now"... only to be told that the technology to reverse the device's effects has not been created yet. So the things — and, potentially, people — that the Riddler causes to disappear are still somewhere, but it's obviously some place no one on Earth can see (and assuming the scientist never completes his research, they will stay in that strange place forever). Delighted with the results, the Riddler threatens to make Gotham City Police Headquarters disappear unless City Hall legalizes all crime in Gotham. When he hears that Commissioner Gordon, Chief O'Hara, and their bomb squad have refused to evacuate the building, the Riddler is completely without remorse: "Let [Gordon] go down with his building". Pretty grim for a series that was essentially a comedy, and on which only two characters ever died onscreen.
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The Nothing After Death / int_1b21bd20	comment	Terror Island: Aorist's afterlife is the sit around doing nothing forever variety. Uniquely for something like this, it's blue. It's the infinite blue plane of death.
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The Nothing After Death / int_1bb28c63	comment	In The Witch and the Beast, all souls are bound in a cycle of reincarnation. When a necromancer raises a zombie, the soul is forcibly drawn back into the body which permanently severs them from the cycle. On their second death, they will instead enter the Void, an empty plane where the soul will exist alone, its mind aware enough to perceive itself but unable to do anything else for all eternity.
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The Nothing After Death / int_1f140feb	comment	The Elven afterlife, the "Halls of Mandos", is described in much these terms in The Silmarillion, though it's usually temporary, more of a holding cell before elves are reincarnated. Except for the really weary elf and the really sinful elf. For Dwarves, though, this is indeed their fate. They remain in the halls, waiting till Doomsday. Humans go to the Timeless Halls of IlÃºvatar (God) until doomsday, when all the afterlifes will merge into the New Arda.
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The Nothing After Death / int_223c2a48	comment	Invoked in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild; there is one character you come across who claims to be a fortune teller. He says that sees a future of "Blackness, a dark, endless void that you will soon occupy!" He then reveals himself as a Yiga clan member and tries to kill you.
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The Nothing After Death / int_227431b6	comment	In Runaways, Alex, and later the Gibborim, end up in an empty whiteness after kicking the bucket. Alex suggests it's a minimalist form of Hell - he tried to earn his way out by advising Molly (who thought he was Gert), but is still trapped at the end of the original run.
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The Nothing After Death / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Umineko: When They Cry has the depths of oblivion, a horrible, horrible, horrible place where pieces go when they die. There isn't much information about it, but it is known that being locked in a small room for thousands and thousands of years until you manage to fix a logic error in your story is like jumping off a ten-story building compared to it, which is like jumping off a hundred story building. Erika doesn't seem fazed by it though. It's described as an endless dark dessert that those with the willpower or imagination can use it as a tool, with Maria drawing from it to create life, Erika using it to image new lockroom mysteries and solve the previous games, and Featherine placing the Golden Land in it to make it impossible for anyone to interfere the world, suggesting it's closer to a blank canvas then true nothingness.
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The Nothing After Death / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In Holiday of Future Passed, Ned mentions that he remarried Maude's ghost who lamentably informs him that there's nothing but a meaningless void on the other side. Ned just brushes it off.
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The Nothing After Death / int_271c1469	comment	In Death Parade, people who die are judged by arbiters who decide whether they will be reincarnated or not. The people who are denied reincarnation are sent here. Notably, the main character from the above-listed Death Note makes a cameo at one point, where it is implied he is chosen to be sent here.
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The Nothing After Death / int_2a8d8e6f	comment	Gotham: After Jerome is brought back from the dead, he describes the afterlife as a place of absolute and featureless darkness.
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The Nothing After Death / int_2b70efd4	comment	This is the entirety of Hell in the Old World of Darkness game Demon: The Fallen. The ultimate punishment to the fallen angels was to be left in a sensationless, featureless void for all eternity. They made it even worse soon enough. While not quite the Nothing "After Death", since it isn't the afterlife (the fallen didn't die and humans don't go there), it's the same idea.
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The Nothing After Death / int_33909389	comment	Inferno (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle), a book by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle as a 20th century update of Dante, has the protagonist stuck in his own pocket universe of nothingness after death until he finally breaks down and calls out to God to rescue him.
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The Nothing After Death / int_35c6c0d2	comment	In the Earthsea series, the land of death is presented as a dark, dry, unchanging place where the dead keep their names, but not their spirit.
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The Nothing After Death / int_38c57aa2	comment	Eberron: Dolurrh, the only provable afterlife, is like this. Souls go there and slowly lose their memories and waste away, until they eventually fade into nothingness. Most religions either claim they have some way of avoiding it (the Silver Flame claims its worshipers join the Flame on death, while seekers of the Blood of Vol work to obtain divine apotheosis) or that there's something that comes after the fading (vassals of the Sovereigns believe that after fading from Dolurrh souls will join the Sovereigns beyond). To make this even bleaker, unlike in most Dungeons & Dragons settings, religions in Eberron are truly based on faith, rather than verifiable fact. So no one has any actual proof that there's anything waiting for them besides emptiness.
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The Nothing After Death / int_3b88d68c	comment	In The Divine Comedy this is how Limbo, the first circle of Hell, is described. An utterly dark land of no pain, no harm... and no hope. All you can hear are the sighs of the virtuous non-christians: trapped because they were virtuous enough to avoid Hell, but did not give themselves to God to meet him in Heaven (whether they have to climb). Dante downplays the "nothingness" here since there's a city in this wasteland, full of the Light of Human Reason, where all the pre-Christian philosophers and scientists have built a home for themselves. However, while it's nice, it's not Heaven nor can the people there hope to reach it because The Light of Human Reason is not a true substitute for God's divine salvation.
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The Nothing After Death / int_3ce49a8d	comment	In Mystery Babylon, Red saved Kick Girl from getting sucked into the Pit along with every other demon on Earth by removing her Mark of the Beast. As a consequence of this, however, if she dies by non-mortal means before earning a new Mark, her soul will go to an infinite void rather than to Heaven or Hell. Kick Girl has had nightmares about this, and regards it as a worse fate than going to Hell.
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The Nothing After Death / int_3f214754	comment	I'm the Grim Reaper: This is the Ninth Circle of Hell; an empty void of deep space, without air or light, that a soul can exist in for eternity. It's as horrifying as it sounds.
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The Nothing After Death / int_3fba115d	comment	The main antagonists in Planescape Survival Guide are tied to the Nothing, a force of ultimate destruction that once held sway over all existence, but was defeated by the Eldest, the first God.
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The Nothing After Death / int_426a7572	comment	The Warner Brothers (and sister) of all people ends up in one of these, when Wakko dies after eating too many meatballs in an eating contest in Sweden, and is claimed by The Grim Reaper from The Seventh Seal. Mind you, the Warners dont stick around for long.
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The Nothing After Death / int_42ffb88e	comment	One Tale from the SCP Foundation revealed what happens when SCP-447 makes contact with dead bodies; it brings them back to life. They tell that there's simply nothing there for anyone, and the reason 447 isn't allowed to go near dead bodies is because people can't accept how pointless it all is. An odd example, considering one of the characters from the original SCP article is literally Satan and has had several conversations with God. Another SCP is forbidden knowledge of what happens after you die. The Foundation brought a man back from the dead and at first he claimed that he experienced nothing, but after he was caught trying to make a deal for immortality, he admitted that he experienced something far worse than Hell that made him want to never die again. He was trapped in his corpse the entire time he was dead, completely conscious and experiencing everything that happened to his body as it rotted away in agonizing detail. Anybody who learns about this must either be killed or have their memories of it erased. It is possible however that this isn't what happens to everyone when they die and that he only experienced this as a side effect of the method used to resurrect him. An apparently significant phrase in the article, "Belief is the key" suggests an alternate, more uncomfortable possibility. What happened to the resurrected 05 may ''not'' be the default afterlife for all human beings. Just those who learn about it by, say, reading about his experience.
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The Nothing After Death / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Season 11 reveals the existence of "the Empty", a void separate from the other afterlife dimensions (Heaven, Hell, etc.) that is implied to be this. In the episode "Form and Void", the Reaper Billie tells Sam that the Reapers are all fairly pissed that the brothers killed their boss (Death himself) at the end of the last season, not to mention they've been sick of the two of them repeatedly dying and coming back to life for a good while now, so the next time they die, Billie will personally send their souls to the Empty to ensure they'll never be able to come back again. It's later confirmed that the Empty is a black void predating God and Amara and all of reality, and that it's actually where the consciousnesses of angels, demons and The Soulless go when they die, where they sleep for eternity. The Empty is also itself sentient, although it doesn't like it when forces within reality force it to awaken from its slumber.
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The Nothing After Death / int_452aa4f	comment	In the final episode of Tales from the Borderlands, after Helios has crashed and Jack has tried one last time to kill Rhys by forcing him to strangle himself to death with his own arm, Rhys begins ripping out all his cybernetics to get Jack out of his body for good, effectively killing him. Jack realizes what Rhys is doing, and starts frantically begging him in earnest to stop, even dropping to his knees, saying that he doesn't want to go back to being dead.
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The Nothing After Death / int_468bebb0	comment	Several Terry Pratchett Discworld novels have the dead transported to a featureless desert of black sand, leaving you alone with your beliefs. This may not be a true example, because it's implied that there is an afterlife at the end of the desert. On the other hand, for souls that are too afraid of being alone with their beliefs to cross the desert, this can act as The Nothing After Death. Meanwhile, at least one golem that ended up in this desert has simply laid back and relaxed, finding a nothingness with no work to do a true paradise. It is, however, confirmed that the afterlife contains no pickles or chutneys. There's jam. Jam works.
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The Nothing After Death / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Arthas' last words are thought to refer to this. In Cataclysm, Sylvanas gets killed after being ambushed in Silverpine. Once resurrected by her Val'kyr, she describes her afterlife as "nothing", citing it as the reason for why the Forsaken need to avoid the Undeath Always Ends trope. Sylvanas's short story on the official website reveals that after the Lich King's death, she committed suicide and found herself in a void where her soul was being torn apart. Arthas was there, and he had been reduced to the equivalent of a little boy huddling in the corner and crying. Then the val'kyr revived her, forming their bond that comes into play in Silverpine.note Sylvanas' short story even mentions she experienced the true afterlife when she was killed by Arthas. Being torn from it when she was raised as a banshee for the first time was what twisted her into the bitter leader of the Forsaken. The Shadowlands expansion reveals that the nothingness is intentionally artificial; Arthas and Sylvanas ended up in the Maw, the Warcraft version of Hell dedicated to devouring the power of its prisoners' souls by isolating them in sensory-deprivation chambers, while spiritual abominations eat their essence. Slowly. While the Maw is intended for the blackest of hearts, something happened that forced everyone who died afterward to be Rerouted from Heaven and go straight into the Maw. This may explain the undead's instant emo attitude when they're resurrected.
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The Nothing After Death / int_49dd8810	comment	Pierre Tombal: A particularly odd example. God and the Grim Reaper apparently exist in this universe, but the dead don't seem to go to either Heaven, Purgatory, Hell or any other sort of afterlife. They just spend their days and nights on the cemetery as residents.
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The Nothing After Death / int_49ff762	comment	Torchwood: In "They Keep Killing Suzie", after bringing Suzie back, she explains that the afterlife consists of total darkness, with nothing but the footsteps of an ominous creature that lurks within The Rift. In "Dead Man Walking", Owen notes that there was nothing he can remember, raising the possibility of Death Amnesia. That also may have been an effect of the resurrection gauntlet, since Owen experienced the same thing after he was brought back, albeit with a different glove, but since the only person who ever comes back from death without the gauntlet is Jack, and his description of death is just that there's nothing, it's possible that normal death is literally nothing rather than a featureless plane. Suzie and Owen weren't especially nice people, however, so there is another interpretation. In series eight of the parent show Doctor Who, however, this is all vaguely contradicted. There are a bunch of deceased people in a matrix, but even after that matrix ceases function, there seems to be ... a somewhere after — though considering that it is the Time Lords, they might have simply been moved to another version of the matrix through the use of time-travel.
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The Nothing After Death / int_4a45a0ff	comment	Esther of [un]Divine claims there's no Heaven of Hell, just simply nothing when you die. Being a demon, she likely knows from experience.
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The Nothing After Death / int_4b57d678	comment	The eponymous character of Murphy Brown spends an entire episode asking people about their thoughts on the afterlife after asking herself what she will tell her son when he is old enough to ask where people go where they die. Miles ends up having a freak-out after speculating that it may be this trope, described in terms much like the ones at the top of the page.
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The Nothing After Death / int_4c68b443	comment	In The Sculptor, Death shows David a vision of the afterlife, represented by two pages of blank, white paper.
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The Nothing After Death / int_4d468d6f	comment	Madison from American Horror Story: Coven claims this is what's in store for people in the afterlife - a cold nothingness void. This is one of the reasons why she's so empty after being revived. She seeks comfort in Kyle, because he also experienced that empty void. Ultimately averted when the existence of hell is confirmed. Though it is possible that those not wicked enough simply go to the cold, empty void.
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The Nothing After Death / int_5022a2c4	comment	Xena: Warrior Princess: After realizing that she will never get the satisfaction she desires no matter how much revenge she gets, this is Callisto's one desire. Subverted quite ironically, as she experiences more versions of the afterlife than any other character except for this.
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The Nothing After Death / int_52eb7183	comment	Irregular Webcomic!: The Infinite Featureless Plane. Though it's more of a transitional phase, and we're never shown the real afterlife.
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The Nothing After Death / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: The Elven afterlife, the "Halls of Mandos", is described in much these terms in The Silmarillion, though it's usually temporary, more of a holding cell before elves are reincarnated. Except for the really weary elf and the really sinful elf. For Dwarves, though, this is indeed their fate. They remain in the halls, waiting till Doomsday. Humans go to the Timeless Halls of IlÃºvatar (God) until doomsday, when all the afterlifes will merge into the New Arda. The first Dark Lord Morgoth often tries to convince humans that there is nothing beyond the physical world, and "God" (Eru) does not exist, so therefore his followers should worship Morgoth himself. Particularly, in The Children of HÃºrin he taunts the captive hero HÃºrin that there is nothing in the void beyond the world, and he knows because he has been there. Even after Morgoth's defeat, his right-hand lieutenant Sauron adamantly denies Eru, and sets up temples for Morgoth-worship. As Tolkien himself pointed out, Word of God on God as it were, this is inherently hypocritical: it is impossible for either Morgoth or Sauron to be a "true atheist", because they are fallen Angels that have literally met and interacted with God (Eru) in the past. Peter Jackson's live-action adaptation gives Sauron new lines, when he's talking to Frodo when he puts the Ring on at Bree. The lines aren't from Sauron in the book, though they do echo what Morgoth said to HÃºrin in the Silmarillion: "There is no life in the Void! Only death!"
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The Nothing After Death / int_59da62aa	comment	Invoked in Fallout: New Vegas: Mr. House's dying curse to the Courier if they choose to kill him has him wishing them this.
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The Nothing After Death / int_5b28dc78	comment	In Hoshin Engi, when Taikobo is apparently killed, he finds himself in this sort of situation and wonders if this is what death is. However, it was something else entirely.
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The Nothing After Death / int_5e1213a8	comment	Neverwhere: When asked what death is like, the Marquis de Carabas says "It's very cold, my friend. Very dark and very cold".
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The Nothing After Death / int_5e150650	comment	One of the Ebon Dragon's powers in Exalted can do this to anyone he kills.
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The Nothing After Death / int_60c66fd3	comment	Though we know thanks to other entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that there is an afterlife, and more than one, Shuri tragically comes to believe this is the case during the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Not only did her prayer to save T'Challa's life from his illness go unanswered, but her loved ones did not appear to reunite with her once she took the synthetic heart-shaped herb, leaving only the monstrous Killmonger to confront her. With this, she bitterly laughs off being asked to respect her brother and mother's memories, since as far as she is concerned, they are dead and their souls and ideals with them. Ramonda finally appears to Shuri during the climax from the Ancestral Plane, however, finally convincing Shuri that her loved ones are still there for her.
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The Nothing After Death / int_6301a00a	comment	Reynaldo The Assassin: Demons go to "The Abyss" when they die. They are, however, allowed to bring one item with them (possibly even a Get out of the Abyss Free Card).
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The Nothing After Death / int_64ff8dac	comment	After Slade's death in Cleverman, his soul is seen vanishing into a black void. This might be because of a side-effect of his occult dabblings, or it might be simply that the afterlife despised him.
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The Nothing After Death / int_658ffd77	comment	In Wednesday and the Weeping Angel, Wednesday believes that angels give people false hope that there is something besides oblivion after death.
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The Nothing After Death / int_68fb14d3	comment	In I Will Fear No Evil, the protagonist â€“ a voluntary brain transplant donor â€“ thinks he may be in this state, until his sensory nerves reconnect.
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The Nothing After Death / int_69fa7496	comment	Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In a parody/adaptation of Moby-Dick, the main characters are at one point swallowed by the white whale, Pinocchio style. Since at first it's very dark inside the whale's belly, one of the characters, not realizing that he's still alive â€” though inside the whale:
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The Nothing After Death / int_6abaae36	comment	Played with in The Lion King Adventures. While good people go to Heaven/the Great Beyond upon death, this is the fate that awaits evil-doers.
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The Nothing After Death / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: The 3.5 Tome of Magic introduces a class called Binders whose shtick is dealing with souls who have experienced this. For whatever reason, they are barred from any sort of afterlife and exist in a state of nothingness, and are thus willing to "bind" to the Binder and grant him some of their power in return for getting to exist once more. Two examples of beings this happened to are Acererak from Tomb of Horrors (serves him right for what he put a generation of gamers through), and a thief who thought it would be funny to repent at the last moment, thus "stealing" his soul from Olidammara the god of thieves. Olidammara was impressed, but couldn't very well let such a great thief belong to any other deity, so he banished him from existence instead.
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The Nothing After Death / int_6b9e3624	comment	At the end of The Tale of the Princess Kaguya the People of the Moon come to get Kaguya and place a Cloak of Forgetfullness above her, which symbolizes a young woman dying tragically young and experiencing a featureless Limbo.
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The Nothing After Death / int_6cb3f822	comment	The Saga of Biorn: This is the fate that the old Viking warrior Biorn wants to avoid, determined to die in glorious battle and go to Valhalla rather than die of old age and go to the blank, featureless Helheim, where the souls of the dead stand around doing absolutely nothing, bored out of their minds. Unfortunately, the nuns he saved during the battle that killed him give him a Christian burial, which acts as a Post-Mortem Conversion and sends him to Fluffy Cloud Heaven instead... which is exactly like Helheim except fluffier and cloudier (and full of nuns).
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The Nothing After Death / int_6de38434	comment	The Sea Inside: That's what Ramon (who is going to kill himself) believes is waiting for him, after Rosa asks him to show her a sign from the grave if there's life after death.
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The Nothing After Death / int_71a2d83d	comment	This seems to be the standard fate of supernatural beings in The Vampire Diaries. To be specific, the souls anyone who died while existing in a supernatural state (i.e. vampire, werewolf, witch, hybrid, etc) goes to a place known simply as the "Other Side". In this state, while one can see and hear the living world around them, they are entirely unable to interact with those who are still alive and are implied to have little to no contact with those also trapped in this situation.
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The Nothing After Death / int_75a8287b	comment	If the medium is to be believed then this is what befell the murdered husband in Rashomon.
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The Nothing After Death / int_761a48d7	comment	Iron Fist (2017): After the resurrected Harold Meachum kills his assistant Kyle in a random outburst, he says to the corpse, "It's okay. I've been where you're going. It's not so bad. It's just... nothingness." In a later episode, Harold elaborates to Joy on what it was like for him in between his death from cancer and his resurrection by the Hand.
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The Nothing After Death / int_76686539	comment	When Matriarch Benezia lies dying in Mass Effect, she expects to see light, like the millenia old Asari religion promised her, but instead sees and feels nothing.
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The Nothing After Death / int_7668653b	comment	A deleted scene from Mass Effect 3 would have had Ashley asking Shepard about what he experienced while he was dead before Cerberus brought him back. Shepard could have answered with this trope.
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The Nothing After Death / int_7894fb5d	comment	One theological position derived from The Four Gospels is that the suffering of Hell comes from its utter isolation, emptiness and separation from God after glimpsing His incredible glory. See The Outer Darkness for more.
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The Nothing After Death / int_78974fd8	comment	Psychonauts 2: This is what the brains preserved by the Hall of Brains experience. When Raz enters the brain of Helmut Fullbear, it's a void of total darkness inhabited by only his sense-deprived consciousness with almost none of his memories. When placed inside a host body, Helmet is overwhelmed by all the sensations he's missed out on and Raz must help him reconnect with all of his lost senses to remember who he is.
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The Nothing After Death / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: When Matriarch Benezia lies dying in Mass Effect, she expects to see light, like the millenia old Asari religion promised her, but instead sees and feels nothing. A deleted scene from Mass Effect 3 would have had Ashley asking Shepard about what he experienced while he was dead before Cerberus brought him back. Shepard could have answered with this trope.
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The Nothing After Death / int_7a9e5e8a	comment	In The Reader (2016), most people in the book's setting believe in this, and that the only way a soul carries on is by telling their stories.
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The Nothing After Death / int_819b8c9e	comment	In the Warehouse 13 episode "Time Will Tell", MacPherson claims to have experienced this between burning to death in a house fire and resurrecting. He's shocked to learn that Artie experienced a more pleasant afterlife following his own temporary death.
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The Nothing After Death / int_825bbe31	comment	The queen in Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen has a nightmare where the Odd Sisters tell her that this is her fate if she doesn't kill her daughter Snow White. Her soul will rot and after years of misery she will die, however not even in death will she find peace. The Magic Mirror will keep her alive even in death. She'll be stuck in perpetual darkness forever and be unable to escape. This all foreshadows the Queen's spiral from Beauty to Beast and the ending where she becomes trapped in the mirror after her suicide.
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The Nothing After Death / int_8424e37b	comment	Anyone who dies in Immortality Syndrome and is brought back claims this. They usually end up deciding that life is nothing but pain and misery and the best option is to kill everyone everywhere to put an end to the torment of existence. However, this is proven to be a side effect of being resurrected. Bubbles is killed and brought back, but it has little effect on her as she knows that there's more to life than misery. The sequel, Immortality Relapse, reveals that this outlook can be countered by using Antidote X to bring the resurrected back to their senses, implying that the "doom and gloom" outlook they'd gained might be more of an evil driving force than an out and out decision.
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The Nothing After Death / int_849f9b70	comment	In Mind Game, this is where the souls of the dead are dumped by God.
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The Nothing After Death / int_84e40670	comment	The first Dark Lord Morgoth often tries to convince humans that there is nothing beyond the physical world, and "God" (Eru) does not exist, so therefore his followers should worship Morgoth himself. Particularly, in The Children of HÃºrin he taunts the captive hero HÃºrin that there is nothing in the void beyond the world, and he knows because he has been there. Even after Morgoth's defeat, his right-hand lieutenant Sauron adamantly denies Eru, and sets up temples for Morgoth-worship. As Tolkien himself pointed out, Word of God on God as it were, this is inherently hypocritical: it is impossible for either Morgoth or Sauron to be a "true atheist", because they are fallen Angels that have literally met and interacted with God (Eru) in the past.
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The Nothing After Death / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX has the infamous Necron, who isn't exactly foreshadowed all that well by any account; but as the True Final Boss this seems to be what most agree that, at best, is what it's supposed to represent.
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The Nothing After Death / int_86814e56	comment	In Final Fantasy VI, if you die during the opening segment, you see Terra on a black screen, as she basically sums up that she's trapped in a cold, dark nothingness, before offering you the opportunity to load your save. It is for practically everyone after they die, the only difference is the lead character will be on the screen instead of Terra.
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The Nothing After Death / int_885e1bec	comment	In the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Recursive Fanfiction Following the Phoenix, this is what all human souls ended up experiencing after Atlantis disappeared without building a decent afterlife or resurrection method, even though they had already created souls. They justâ€¦ floatâ€¦ in some unspecified dimension/region of space called the Ether by Cadmus Peverell, in a sleep-like state. They can be called back thanks to the Resurrection Stone or end up as ghosts, but in either case, those thus brought back are unable to form original thoughts or change their minds about anything, though they can chat about when they were alive.
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The Nothing After Death / int_88f055ec	comment	Not shown or even explicitly described as such, but perhaps evoked in Full Metal Jacket:
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The Nothing After Death / int_8960fd02	comment	In Vinland Saga, a dying viking is disturbed to find no valkyries coming for him despite the great deeds he accomplished just before collapsing from his wounds, only greater darkness. In his last moments he concludes that there is no Valhalla or any afterlife at all. It's not known for sure if this is true or not for the setting, as earlier Thorfinn had a vision of Valhalla during a dream... except it wasn't the glorious, fun loving Warrior Heaven people imagine, but a land where the dead are gruesome, rotting corpses eternally battling and hacking each other apart.
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The Nothing After Death / int_8a063c55	comment	In The Gods of Arr-Kelaan, the dead are placed in an endless, flat plain, punctuated only by an impassable chasm until the person's god makes a way to pass the chasm and a custom afterlife on the other side.
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The Nothing After Death / int_8a10bde9	comment	It's suggested Ulquiorra wound up here in the opening chapter of A Hollow in Equestria before Discord found him and brought him to Equestria. At times he wonders if he was better off in the nothingness.
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The Nothing After Death / int_8b957d5d	comment	In Life, the Universe and Everything, this is how Arthur Dent experiences death when he hasn't died or even been injured in any way but is just caught unawares when he stumbles into an immersive VR room while it is powering on.
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The Nothing After Death / int_8c5f856b	comment	In Being Human (UK), undead characters tell outsiders that heaven is like your typical Fluffy Cloud Heaven, but confide amongst each other that it's more like a long, dark corridor, where the only other people are "the men with sticks and ropes" who wait at the end. In the Series 1 finale, Annie (the ghost) realizes that she is about to "move on" when a literal door to the afterlife materializes. One of her friends asks her if the door leads to "something good, or... something else?" Annie replies, "I think it's something else". In Series 2, after Annie has been dragged through the door against her will, she complains of having to fill out forms. By the end of Series 4, both a good and bad afterlife have been strongly hinted at; Word of God has further confirmed that the original cast was reunited in the afterlife.
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The Nothing After Death / int_8dd462a9	comment	After being paralyzed in a cave-in, Batwoman commits suicide so her teammates can heal her in a nearby Lazarus Pit. After being revived, she describes death as being "like riding a roller coaster in the dark".
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The Nothing After Death / int_971b0368	comment	In SaGa Frontier, near the end of Blue's game, you're told that trying to use Gate magic, which normally allows you to teleport between the regions, will result in you being "cast away into the eternal oblivion".
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The Nothing After Death / int_9ab32c13	comment	In Pony POV Series, this technically exists, but it's only one of several afterlives and not the one most end up it. It is the domain of Entropy, the Concept of Heat Death and the End of All Things, and is were half of the souls of those erased from existence end up (their Shadow of Existence to be exact, their light returning to Fauna Luster to be reborn). It's implied those who strongly desire to no longer exist after death end up here as well, but that's only implied and never shown.
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The Nothing After Death / int_9bafe00f	comment	He also offers a more nightmarish subversion in Perelandra: Weston becomes possessed by Earth's Oyarsa (Satan) and subsequently becomes an animated corpse. Towards the climax, Weston resurfaces, apparently having experienced damnation. His description matches this trope, but Ransom also infers the added twist that the damned all eventually merge with Satan for eternity. Ransom also comes to doubt Weston's account—it's possible that the demon was simply imitating Weston in an attempt to discourage Ransom. The speaker referring to Perelandra as "Perelandra" instead of "Venus" might seem to be a clue in favor of this, except that the real Weston is also on record as saying that the Old Solar names for the planets are their "real names," and so he prefers to use these.
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The Nothing After Death / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls series generally averts it. The souls of the deceased can go to a number of different afterlives, largely depending on what deities the deceased in question worshiped or swore servitude to in life. These range from a couple types of Spirit World to variants of a Warrior Heaven to the Daedric Planes to even reincarnation via the "Dreamsleeve". There are a few known exceptions, however: The worshipers of Sithis, referred to as a "great void" and a primordial force representing chaos, join him in the "The Void" surrounding creation. Joining Sithis in "The Void" is the desired afterlife for members of the Dark Brotherhood, an organization of assassins which doubles as a cult to Sithis. Sentient beings who have had their souls trapped end up in in the Soul Cairn, an unaligned plane of Oblivion ruled by the mysterious Ideal Masters. It is a barren wasteland the souls are forced to wander for all eternity.
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The Nothing After Death / int_a144cb39	comment	In the Moral Orel episode "Grounded": Orel has a near-death experience where he finds himself floating in nothing, although he ends up in a replica of his church. He's brought back to consciousness, but keeps having NDEs in an attempt to find more.
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The Nothing After Death / int_b2de643f	comment	In Paprika, death is symbolized as a black hole if you're in the dying person's mind. And due to the MacGuffin's Assimilation power, things get worse from there.
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The Nothing After Death / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: The Red Priestess Melisandre is shown Beric Dondarrion, a knight-turned-outlaw who has been killed and resurrected six times. Jon Snow also describes this as being the case after Melisandre brings him back from the dead in Season 6.
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The Nothing After Death / int_b939dfff	comment	The Night House: Beth says that when she died she saw nothing, and this leads her to term her and Owen's existential fear "the Nothing".
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The Nothing After Death / int_bd184166	comment	The Neverending Story: "The Nothing". Characters from Fantastica who are swallowed are "reborn" in the real world - as lies (at least that's what Gmork claims). It's implied that The Nothing is caused by people in the real world becoming less honest and happy.
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The Nothing After Death / int_bd61868d	comment	Batman Vampire: Dracula claims this is the case, and that between death and reawakening as a vampire is just blackness. Then again, this IS a setting with vampires, werewolves and werecats so who knows what the truth is. Batman certainly can't tell, since he wasn't vampirized through regular means. Horrifyingly played straight for vampires who are staked but whose heads are not cut off — they're trapped in a Fate Worse than Death, stuck in a kind of twilight nightmare state in their own decaying bodies, aware only of a bloodlust they have no way of quenching. They can be revived from this state by removing the stake.
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The Nothing After Death / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger: Marle's temporary "death" is described like this, but it's not clear whether it was really death, since she never existed at the time; Chrono Cross later hints that she was in the Tesseract (AKA The Darkness Beyond Time), a place where erased timelines go when they are superseded. Later on you can find a "Book of Life", opened to a page that reads "All life begins and ends with Nu", a rather silly pun on "Mu" (Nothingness) and made sillier by the fact that there's a Nu standing right next to the book.
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The Nothing After Death / int_c0d295c4	comment	In the Team Fortress 2 supplementary comic Loose Canon, Mr. Blutarch Mann knows there's nothing after death because he is hooked up to a machine that revives him daily. However, various other material shows different perspectives of the afterlife, including a traditional Fluffy Cloud Heaven and Fire and Brimstone Hell, suggesting that this nothingness might've been an Ironic Hell crafted for Blutarch personally.
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The Nothing After Death / int_c1e861db	comment	King's short story "The Jaunt" is about a teleportation machine which transports the body instantly from one location to another, but consciousness takes what seems like millions of years to get there. For this reason, anyone who uses it has to be rendered unconscious before teleportation. They found out the hard way by offering a convicted murderer his freedom in exchange for testing it after it killed a lab rat; he managed to say "it's eternity in there" before dying of a heart attack. A man disposed of his cheating wife by pushing her in with no destination; his defense at his murder trial was that she wasn't actually dead, but the jury thought that was actually worse. The Mafia used it as a "Jimmy Hoffa" machine, but their victims had the considerable fortune of already being dead.
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The Nothing After Death / int_c3657bf5	comment	Dracula claims this is the case, and that between death and reawakening as a vampire is just blackness. Then again, this IS a setting with vampires, werewolves and werecats so who knows what the truth is. Batman certainly can't tell, since he wasn't vampirized through regular means.
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The Nothing After Death / int_c3f3cfc8	comment	Featured rather ironically (heaven, purgatory and hell are all identical, except that the TV explaining the situation is increasingly cheaper in the worse afterlives) in Fifty Percent Grey.
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The Nothing After Death / int_c43df4d8	comment	In series eight of the parent show Doctor Who, however, this is all vaguely contradicted. There are a bunch of deceased people in a matrix, but even after that matrix ceases function, there seems to be ... a somewhere after — though considering that it is the Time Lords, they might have simply been moved to another version of the matrix through the use of time-travel.
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The Nothing After Death / int_cd1550c5	comment	In The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, "todash space" is the void outside the universes. People don't usually go there at death, but they can be trapped there, and the entire multiverse is in danger of collapsing into it. The occasional Eldritch Abomination roams through it eating the unfortunate—or maybe that's better than staying out there forever? King's short story "The Jaunt" is about a teleportation machine which transports the body instantly from one location to another, but consciousness takes what seems like millions of years to get there. For this reason, anyone who uses it has to be rendered unconscious before teleportation. They found out the hard way by offering a convicted murderer his freedom in exchange for testing it after it killed a lab rat; he managed to say "it's eternity in there" before dying of a heart attack. A man disposed of his cheating wife by pushing her in with no destination; his defense at his murder trial was that she wasn't actually dead, but the jury thought that was actually worse. The Mafia used it as a "Jimmy Hoffa" machine, but their victims had the considerable fortune of already being dead.
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The Nothing After Death / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball: This is what happens to anyone killed by King Piccolo and his creations (until they're brought back at least), since they are creatures of pure evil. The first sign of Piccolo Junior's dangerously approaching Heelâ€“Face Turn is that Goku and Raditz were allowed to pass on to the afterlife (King Kai's planet and Hell respectively) in Dragon Ball Z.
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The Nothing After Death / int_cfd860dd	comment	Nasuverse: The concept of The Origin is fundamentally similar to this, expounded on by The Garden of Sinners. After death, souls just exist in the Origin, waiting to be recycled.
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The Nothing After Death / int_d0c91630	comment	Invoked in BlazBlue by Ragna during his Astral finish:
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The Nothing After Death / int_d616724d	comment	At least one afterlife of League of Legends is like this. While happens to those claimed by Kindred is up in the air, Mordekaiser notably expected to pass into the "Hall of Bones," a warrior's afterlife alongside his gods and victims, but instead found himself in a barren, sandy wasteland devoid of anything except the shades of the dead. Through force of will, he was able to build the nothingness into a fortress, and Mordekaiser now works to stock the afterlife with as many raw materials and slaves as possible.
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The Nothing After Death / int_d9e5ee89	comment	Hellblazer: John Constantine runs across a fallen angel turned Eldritch Abomination ruling over one of these. Expressly stated to be worse than Hell, it is a grey waste full of the souls of suicides, lining up to be devoured by the creature inhabiting that plane.
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The Nothing After Death / int_da90986c	comment	The musical adaptation of Beetlejuice plays with this. While the Netherworld has some sort of a hierarchy and day-to-day life, it is described by Juno as a numb, lonely "endless abyss of nothingness" where everybody who has ever died eventually ends up. There is the implication the only beings who can freely come and go are humans who accidentally wander in or demons. When Lydia goes into the Netherworld to avoid her fate with Beetlejuice, she tries to find her mother and is shocked to find the Netherworld is so big and empty that she could search for all eternity and never find her, even comparing it to the "emptiness of space".
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The Nothing After Death / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal: GLaDOS suggests this or worse.
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The Nothing After Death / int_dc72c82f	comment	Fallen London: The bodily soulsnote If you sell your soul, this residual soul is the player character. of those who permanently die end up in the Far Shore, a realm of far too many bodies and far too little space. Whatever was originally there has since been long buried under mountains of decaying corpses. Meanwhile, their spiritual souls are devoured by gods or used to power A Hell of a Time.
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The Nothing After Death / int_df277244	comment	In American Gods, people who pass judgement are permitted to choose their destination. Shadow asks for Cessation of Existence but ends up with a version of this trope where he's mindlessly happy. He ends up getting brought back to life anyway.
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The Nothing After Death / int_e6275a02	comment	Looking for Group: The Demiplane of Suck might qualify as this, being naught but empty white space.
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The Nothing After Death / int_e7e62758	comment	This is what awaits everyone in Lamentations of the Flame Princess, according to the description of the Speak With Dead spell.
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The Nothing After Death / int_ebcb7d65	comment	Cruel and Unusual: Doris believed when she died there would be just blackness and silence, but instead has been stuck reliving her suicide for decades in the afterlife.
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The Nothing After Death / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: When Neelix is brought back from the dead in "Mortal Coil", he remembers nothing of the afterlife. Since he was expecting to be reunited with his family, you kinda feel sorry for him... Followed up on in the 5th season premiere "Night", in which Voyager is traveling through an area of space without any stars, and the Doctor gives Neelix a diagnosis of his fear:
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The Nothing After Death / int_f00d733b	comment	In the New World of Darkness, this is what all dead face. While the Underworld isn't exactly featureless, it's so empty and devoid of anything meaningful that it hardly makes a difference. Some who know about this find it kinder merely to destroy the dead and send them into oblivion than to help them pass on... to a world far worse than the one they were clinging to. The good news is that the Underworld isn't permanent, and can be avoided entirely — it's where ghosts go when they lose all their anchors but still aren't ready to let go of existence. If a ghost in the Underworld does stop trying to cling to existence — for example, because someone completed its Unfinished Business for it — it moves on from the Underworld. The bad news is that no-one is sure where they move on to. In truth, souls are supposed to return to the Supernal World upon death, thereafter to be reincarnated with no memories. The souls of Mages do this automatically, but others have a more difficult time of it. The Underworld was not part of the original cosmic order, but came into existence when the Abyss did; as the Abyss lay between the normal world and the Supernal Realms, it made contact with the Supernal difficult and usually one-way (souls come from the Supernal World.) Well, that's what the Mages think. According to Imperial Mysteries, even the archmages have never seen any soul return to the Supernal Realms. Some Mages suspect that some souls go to the Empyrean, and others think that some souls of particularly heinous individuals go to the Lower Depths or maybe the Inferno (some think that they're the same thing). However, no one is really sure.
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The Nothing After Death / int_f4a1d45b	comment	In Crisis on Infinite Earths, after the surviving positive-matter universes are merged into one, the two Supermen of Earths-1 and 2 as well as Jay Garrick and Wally West use Barry Allen's Cosmic Treadmill to find out what has happened to Earth-2 after they awakened to find themselves on a merged Earth. They soon discover their answer when the Cosmic Treadmill leads them into a dark black void of nothingness. Earth-2 Superman feels himself being pulled into this void as if that's where he truly belongs, but Earth-1 Superman pulls him back and the four of them use the Cosmic Treadmill to return to the merged Earth, where the Cosmic Treadmill was destroyed.
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The Nothing After Death / int_f74b5f80	comment	One episode of Babylon 5 warns telepaths not to linger in a dying person's mind, lest they be pulled into the black void that is death.
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The Nothing After Death / int_f849875f	comment	The afterlife in It's Walky! looks something like this, with the only point of interest being the other people who are still there. It's suggested that this is either just Purgatory or just the last hurrah before Cessation of Existence; what's certain is that souls don't stay in this state forever.
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RWBY: Destiny of Remnant (Fanfic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Stray (Dahne) (Fanfic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Lion King Adventures (Fanfic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Negotiations-verse (Fanfic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Wednesday and the Weeping Angel (Fanfic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
When the Wind Blows Alternate Ending (Fanfic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
World War Etheria (Fanfic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Beetlejuice / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Dogma / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Fast X / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Talk to Me / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Beyond / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Christmas Toy / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Dark Tower (2017) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Night House / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Tolkien's Legendarium (Franchise) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Touhou Project (Franchise) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Dark Id (Lets Play) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
American Gods / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Another / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Ariadne / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Earthsea / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
His Dark Materials / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Howling Dark / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Inferno (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Lost Gods / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Mogworld / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Percy Jackson and the Olympians / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Right Hand of God / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Skagboys / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Slaughterhouse-Five / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Something Wicked This Way Comes / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Brief History of the Dead / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Devil's Rose / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Divine Comedy / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Epic of Gilgamesh / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Executioner's Song / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Name of the Rose / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The NeverEnding Story / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Night's Dawn Trilogy / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Reader (2016) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
User Unfriendly / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
EverythingMatters	seeAlso	The Nothing After Death
Paireon	seeAlso	The Nothing After Death
QuantumGravity	seeAlso	The Nothing After Death
SchrodingersDuck	seeAlso	The Nothing After Death
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You (Manga) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Witch and the Beast (Manga) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Vinland Saga (Manga) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Rage (Band) (Music) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Revocation (Music) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Rolling With Difficulty (Podcast) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Lynching ITP (Roleplay) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Caprica / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
49 Days / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Iron Fist (2017) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Miracles / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Eric Andre Show / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Frankenstein Chronicles / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Haunting of Hill House (2018) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Sopranos / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
True Detective / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Warehouse 13 / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine (Tabletop Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Eberron (Tabletop Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Iron Kingdoms (Tabletop Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
AI Dungeon 2 (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Alan Wake II (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Aquanox (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Black Home 2 (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Chrono Trigger (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Clash: Artifacts of Chaos (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Crimson Echoes (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Exmortis (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Kingdom Hearts III (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Shadow Man (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Tales from the Borderlands (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Valheim (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey (Video Game) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Overly Sarcastic Productions (Web Animation) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Pamtri (Web Animation) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Pirates SMP (Web Video) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Solid jj (Web Video) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Yung Junko (Web Video) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Erfworld (Webcomic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
I'm the Grim Reaper (Webcomic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Irregular Webcomic! (Webcomic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Team Fortress 2 (Webcomic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
[un]Divine (Webcomic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Uncyclopedia (Website) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Teenage Euthanasia / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Torchwood / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Phoenix Requiem (Webcomic) / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Book of Life / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death

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