![]() ![]() He and the aliens each see the other's idea of heaven as this trope. He is horrified - he wanted to go to Fluffy Cloud Heaven. In one short story, he deliberately invokes this: the protagonist finds himself in the heaven of an alien race, which is full of beer, women, and song.In the satirical short story "Heavens Below - Sixteen Utopias" by John Sladek, one of the Utopias is a family picnic in a garbage dump, with the family eating the garbage as if it was a heavenly feast.The hero heads out to see for himself where everyone has been going and it turns out that being a Jovian rocks so hard that their explorers don't want to come back. In this story, people turn themselves into native lifeforms to explore inhospitable worlds and it works great until people stop coming back from exploring Jupiter. At least one Speculative Fiction story ("Desertion" by Clifford Simak also published as a chapter in his «City») does this for the surface of Jupiter.Depending on where they fall in science marching on, Speculative Fiction stories might feature the hellish surface of Venus this way for their Venusians.The frog monsters seem overjoyed, while Johann is horrified. He eventually gives them a séance and manages to send them on to an afterlife that appears to be filled with Eldritch Abominations. In B.P.R.D., Johann has to deal with the ghosts of some frog monsters who don't know how to pass on.Hey, a suicide bomber gets 72 virgins! For everyone else, heaven truly is heaven regardless of faith of lifestyle: as long as they didn't do much intentional harm, they're good. Inverted in The Chronicles of Wormwood, where one man gets sent to Heaven as he wanted, where he has to take care of 72 screaming babies for all eternity.Not only did Salt become a Dark Messiah to the infected, he also enacted a century-spanning plan for them to follow in order to make this paradise last forever. Crossed: Beauregard Salt, a Serial Killer so monstrous that the virus that transformed mankind into rage-fueled predatory psychopaths couldn't make him any worse than he already was - the man didn't even notice that he got infected - sees the Crossed-ravaged world as paradise.When the latest Dax arrives, he actually weeps with joy. It's so terrible, that an actual Nazi is just one more face in the crowd. It's a Wretched Hive of endless night, crime, violence and death. In Supreme, Daxia is a pocket dimension where all the various iterations of Darius Dax, the most evil human being in the universe, go after their reality is "revised".When he questions Etrigan about why his mother isn't in heaven, Etrigan states that one chooses their heaven, and his mother's heaven is being his father's tormentor in hell. In Secret Six, Catman's parents are both dead, and he meets them both on a visit to hell-his abusive father chained up, and his mother a lioness who continuously eats and shits out the father ad infinitum.Not to be confused with This Isn't Heaven, which is when something that seems Heavenly turns out to be a twisted form of Hell. Contrast A Hell of a Time and Hell of a Heaven. Most instances of Warrior Heaven are this for non-warrior cultures (who may mistake it for Hell Is War). Or, if they deliberately sought it out, a Hell Seeker. If a character ends up in one of these, they may have been Rerouted from Heaven. However, if the person knows from the start that their god is going to bring mayhem and rain of fire in its wake, but sincerely sees this as the epitome of ultimate bliss, then you have an Infernal Paradise. If someone believes the god they are trying to summon is going to bring on a new era of hugs and puppies, only to discover to their horror that all it does is unleash mayhem and rain of fire upon the world, it's not this trope. Not all shady cults and religious nuts belong in this category. off to outsiders (to say nothing about some people in reality). ![]() However, some people in fiction have built their religion around an idea of paradise that might seem a little. A vision of paradise that is anything but that - to the average observer, anyway.
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