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{{trope}}
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[[Hell]] can be depicted in many different ways. From the classic [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]], where sinners burn for eternity, to a more [[Circles of Hell|organized structure]] with different sins punished in different ways, sometimes going all the way to [[Ironic Hell|torments personalized to the individual]]. Then there's this [[Nausea Fuel|decidedly]] [[squick]]y version.
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See also [[Womb Level]], [[Evil Is Visceral]].
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== [[Anime]]
* The depiction of the Nexus from ''[[Berserk]]'', where Guts and the Hawks wind up when Griffith calls the Godhand during the Eclipse, is very much one of these.
* Inspired by the [[Divine Comedy]], ''[[Saint Seiya]]'''s version of Hell is [[Circles of Hell|structured]] in several locations or "Prisons". The Sixth Prison is a lake of boiling blood, whereas those who sin of greed are devoured by Cerberus in the Third Prison.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has the endless blood-filled [[Pocket Dimension]] inside Gluttony's stomach.
== [[Card Games]] ==▼
* While it does have a sky and thus isn't as claustrophobic as most of the examples here, the terrain in the hellish shard-plane of Grixis in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' is said to made of bones and decaying flesh. Even its cities are referred to as "necropoli."▼
** Phyrexia is a more straight example, complete with [[Divine Comedy|nine spheres]].▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Played with slightly In Clive Barker's ''[[Imajica]]'', as it's like being inside a *dead* being. The First Dominion (where the souls of the dead travel) {{spoiler|is the physical embodiment of the god Hapexamendios, and when he dies, his flesh—i.e. the entire universe—begins to rot with expectedly squicky results.}}
== [[Live
* The descriptions of Hell on ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' vary, depending upon who's describing it. However, in the second season, one demon {{spoiler|Meg, who's currently possessing Sam,}} describes it as "a prison made of bone and flesh and blood and fear."
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲=== [[Card Games]] ===
▲* While it does have a sky and thus isn't as claustrophobic as most of the examples here, the terrain in the hellish shard-plane of Grixis in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' is said to made of bones and decaying flesh. Even its cities are referred to as "necropoli."
▲** Phyrexia is a more straight example, complete with [[Divine Comedy|nine spheres]].
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* In the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' ''[[Planescape]]'' multiverse, some layers of the abyss are like this. [http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh_abyss_planes.html Zegrentilandib]
{{quote|"This plane is sentient, and Prime-like, but with fleshy ground"}}
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* Hell in the first ''[[Diablo]]'' consisted of what seems to be bony walls filled with blood. The Nest in ''Hellfire'' was even more organic, but less infernal.
** [[Averted Trope]] in Diablo II, where some parts of Hell look like [[Floating Continent|islands floating in the void]].
* While not a straight example as he's not in an actual hell, the main protagonist of
* [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon|Infinity]] from ''[[Breath of Fire II]]'' is the game's Hell analogue where [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Deathevans]] and his demon horde are [[Sealed Evil in a Can]], and is completely made out of ''pulsating flesh''.
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* ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'' has all kinds of hell, but [[Complete Monster|Drip]]'s lair certainly fits this trope.
* The [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003959 Land of Pulse and Haze] in ''[[Homestuck]]''.
* Vast swathes of the [[Black Bug Room]] that is [[Kagerou|Kano Jurgen's mind]] comprise cavernous rooms made of red, lumpy, veiny flesh. The doors to some of these are even [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104111635/http://www.electric-manga.com/22/26.html labeled] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104112448/http://www.electric-manga.com/22/28.html for your] [http://www.kagerou.org/46/05.html convenience].
* [[Demon Eater]] might qualify, although it's ambiguous whether this actually Hell or merely another dimension with an utterly bizarre ecosystem. So far at least we've never seen any humans there, alive or dead.
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