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 In many episodes of the television show South Park, Satan appears. Hell in the series is an overpopulated place where several famous people as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Lady Diana and Mahatma Gandhi seem to live next to more obvious people as Adolf Hitler. Only Mormons seem to go to Heaven. |
In a deleted scene from the 1999 theatrical theological comedy Dogma, the ex-Muse Azrael (played by actor Jason Lee) explains that there have been past and current "versions" of Hell. When Hell was first formed it was meant to hold Lucifer and the rebel angels and was merely a place devoid of the presence of God. To those who had previously been in the presence of God, this was punishment enough. Azrael goes on to say that when humanity was created, Hell was infected with a disease of sorts.
Believing that God could never forgive their sins, many humans came to Hell and subconsciously demanded to be actively punished, although that was not their due. Slowly but surely (and reminiscent of the doctrine of responsibility assumption), Hell became a "suffering pit" to contain all these gluttons for punishment.
According to Azrael, Hell is far more horrifying for the fallen angels residing there than for the Damned themselves, as the angels not only have to endure the absence of God, but also the unending howls of the Damned as they undergo torture essentially at their own hands. This concept of Hell, originally found in DC Comics´ Swamp Thing, as written by Alan Moore, also appeared in Neil Gaiman´s successful Sandman series of graphic novels.
 The video game series Devil May Cry features Hell as a location to battle through. The name of the main character Dante is a reference to The Divine Comedy, as is his twin brother Vergil.
The 2004 Insane Clown Posse album The Wraith: Hell´s Pit is a concept album about Hell.
The first Fear Effect game deals extensively with the Chinese concept of hell, replete with its aforementioned political ramifications. Several of the later levels actually take place in the Chinese hell.
The famous PC game series Doom also involves the concept of Hell, but with a science-fiction twist, as a future teleportation experiment accidentally opens a gate to Hell, releasing demons. Hell is treated in the Christian conception, replete with Satanic symbols and corporeal demons, as a parallel universe of crimson skies, black mountains and oceans of fire.
The first game in the Quake computer game series involves an invasion by forces from Hell. Note however, that the rest of the series has nothing to do with this concept.
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