Hell
Locations called Hell existed in several universes. They could be a location within a wider universe, a pocket dimension in sync with a more mundane universe, or a universe all of their own.
Nature
Hell was generally a place of evil and suffering, populated by Demons and ruled over by the Devil. It was a place of eternal punishment, or at the very least imprisonment, for the damned, souls who had once been living mortals and had been found unforgivably corrupt upon death. It was occasionally possible for a living person to be physically, forcibly dragged to Hell. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Vs Hell)
History
Conquered by Jenny Everywhere
One universe's Hell was accessed from a gate located in a limbo area, which led into a descending spiral staircase. The damned would be tried by one of at least six robotic demon judges for their “sins” (as defined by a rather antiquated divine plan which included things like “Not making any of the correct animal sacrifices” as damnable offences, not to mention such things as homosexuality).
For unclear reasons, the local incarnation of Jenny Everywhere was once snatched from her bed and pulled into Hell. She was condemned to “having a goat stuck to her head”; as the demon showing her around reluctantly admitted, the demons had run out of good ideas for ironic punishments around 1993, and were now making them up at random. Rejecting the punishment, Jenny escaped her captors and then faced the Devil.
Drawing on the mental fortitude granted to her by her multiversal nature, Jenny overthrew the Devil and declared this to be “Day One of the Republic of Hell”, proposing to organise the damned and other wayward souls into some kind of off-kilter utopia. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Vs Hell)
Connected to the Strange and Wonderful House
When Lady Elshanor was drafted by the Strange and Wonderful House to pass judgment on a man who'd stolen from the Fountain of Youth in the Throne Room, she pressed a button on her throne that caused a trap-door to open directly between his feet, casting him into Pandemonium, (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: The Throne Room) which was part of Hell. It was close to the centre of the Earth, and had its centre a magnificent golden palace, “wrought from the resources the depths of the Earth brought”, “marvellously and lovingly crafted from the labour of angels”. In the main hall, where the man Rohinder fell, stood the high, golden throne of the Devil. Rohinder reflected, when he arrived in Pandemonium, that it was just as Milton had described it. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: The Throne Room)
In Reality Z-25 31-H
The Hell of Reality Z-25 31-H was a flaming underworld which existed beneath the Earth's crust, (COMIC: Hell Is Too Good For Him) also described as the “realm of eternal damnation” and as a “dimension of eternal suffering”. (COMIC: Journey Out Of Misery) It was ruled by the Devil and his consort Mephista, and was the natural destination of sinful souls, including the so-called “Worst Man in the World”, Armstrong Fatbuckle. After Fatbuckle proved too much of an offensive nuisance for even the Devil himself to handle, he became the first man to be banned from Hell, being “forced” to return to the mortal world as an undead skeleton (something Fatbuckle actually quite enjoyed). (COMIC: Hell Is Too Good For Him)
After Kelly killed him in a fit of rage, Jenkins also ended up in this Hell. Realising that she needed him alive and close by for her powers to work, Kelly soon had the witches Alicia and Babs perform a ritual to allow her to visit Hell without truly dying. There, she was welcomed by the Devil and matter-of-factly sold him her soul in exchange for Jenkins's resurrection. Finding her ruthlessness off-putting and her casual manner irritating, the Devil agreed to the bargain and quickly catapulted the Two back to the land of the living. (COMIC: Journey Out Of Misery)
The Ratreyfian Underworld
In one universe, Hell was subdivided within a number of “nations”, independently governed by demon lords with their own legion. One of them was the Ratreyfian Underworld, which was overseen by the Grand High Lord Grallyx until he was trapped inside a book by Jenny Everywhere. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell) Grallyx was later described as a “former King of Hell”. (PROSE: The Wiki Adventures of Lord Grallyx)
In Ecord
In the fantasy world of Ecord, the High Priest once summoned a monstrous — but, interestingly, killable — creature known as the Spawn of Fashan from “the stygian bowels of the lower hells”. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Eye of Argon)
Other references
One of the works of art within the Gallery of the Strange and Wonderful House was “a Cubist painting showing the depths of Hell”. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: The Gallery)
When Grandmother Ginger first used the Key of Enecloog on the Jenny Everywhere of Reality 18, Jenny shouted “What the Hell?!”. Due to the Key's function, this originally shaped the mindscape to which the Key transported her and Ginger into a hellish underworld made of all Jenny's dark thoughts, with Jenny Nowhere standing in for the Devil. (PROSE: The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere)
A version of Nowhere was apparently sent to Hell by Jenny Everywhere (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral) after she destroyed Everywhere's toaster. (COMIC: Death of Jenny Everywhere's Toaster) However, she escaped. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral)
Pythagoras-858 once metaphorically referred to the uninhabitable Planet Venus of the 97th Cosmos as “Hell”. (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians)
Behind the scenes
Hell, one of the notorious recurring elements in real-world human beliefs about the Afterlife, can be considered a public-domain concept in its own right.
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