History Main / CityOfTheDamned

-->-- '''Music/GreenDay''', "Jesus of Suburbia"

When these cities are given names, they are often referred to as Dis or Pandemonium, after this trope's formative examples in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' and ''Literature/Paradise Lost''.

When these cities are given names, they are often referred to as Dis or Pandemonium, after this trope's formative examples in the Divine Comedy and ''Paradise Lost''.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Hellaverse}}'':

When Hell is a city, it often represents the worst things you could imagine about cities: inescapable poverty, omnipresent street crime, PoliceBrutality, corrupt and uncaring government, arson (because what is Hell [[FireAndBrimstoneHell without a little fire?]]), [[IndustrialGhetto factories spewing pollution in the air and drinking water]], child labor, public buses reeking of piss, and all you'll have to eat are each other and [[TakeThat that Burger King]] next to the bottomless pit. The biggest difference between Hell and TheBigRottenApple is that all of the police and rich people exploiting you have [[BigRedDevil red skin and horns on their heads]], the pimps and prostitutes are all SuccubiAndIncubi and suicide isn't an option.

** Hades, Asmodeus' Principality, is a massive urban sprawl of howling subways, flaring sodium lights, and choking smog, ringing the rest of Hell.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Belzebubs}}'', Sloth and Lucyfer spend their vacation at the city of Dis in Hell while their grandmother looks after their kids. Aside from the demons and the actual depictions of damned souls being tortured like in ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'', it is otherwise portrayed as a nice tourist destination with romantic restaurants and Segway tours.

* [[https://pleated-jeans.com/2011/07/27/a-handy-map-of-hell/ Here's a handy map of Hell from Pleated Jeans. Yes, it appears to be a city.]]

If Hell is [[CirclesOfHell divided into Circles]], the City setting is reserved for only one of them, the rest of Hell including lush countrysides [[HellIsWar in perpetual war]], oceans full of dead fish and sea monsters, [[FireAndBrimstoneHell volcanic calderas]] and [[BloodyBowelsOfHell pulsating caverns of blood and bone]]. In these cases, the urban Circle may be portrayed as being where the leadership of Hell resides. When these cities are given names, they are often referred to as Dis or Pandemonium, after this trope's formative examples in the Divine Comedy and ''Paradise Lost''.

** ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'' (and its [[WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel full series counterpart]]) is set in Pentagram City, the capital of Hell and a massive metropolis where [[WretchedHive lawlessness and mindless self-indulgence]] reign, populated by demons who at one point or another were humans whose sins sent them to Hell. Once a year, a temporary fix to the Pride Ring's OverpopulationCrisis in the form of a yearly culling by angels occurs, inspiring Charlie to create the Happy Hotel to help rehabilitate demons.
** ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': While not much of Imp City, where I.M.P.'s offices are located, is shown, much of the other [[CirclesOfHell Rings]] besides Pride are featured, with a lot of the demon inhabitants there being as if not even more corrupt, sadistic and callous as the inhabitants of Pentagram City. The Lust Ring being a RedLightDistrict, the Greed Ring an IndustrialGhetto dominated by organized crime and so forth.