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** At one point early on, Ichigo purges a Hollow whose sins before becoming a Hollow were so great he could not go on to Soul Society (which is saying something considering it's inhabited by the likes of [[ManipulativeBastard Aizen]], [[BloodKnight Zaraki Kenpachi]] and [[MadScientist Kurotsuchi Mayuri]]), after which the Gates of Hell open up and [[DraggedOffTohell pull him in]].

** At one point early on, Ichigo purges a Hollow whose sins before becoming a Hollow were so great he could not go on to Soul Society (which is saying something considering it's inhabited by the likes of [[ManipulativeBastard Aizen]], [[BloodKnight Zaraki Kenpachi]] and [[MadScientist Kurotsuchi Mayuri]]), after which the Gates of Hell open up and pull him in.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'': Temen-ni-gru is more of a Hell''tower'', but it is still a link that opens a portal between the Demon World and the Human World.
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'': Various giant monolith hellgates dot the island of Fortuna, guarded by the big demons that Nero and Dante face. Part of the BigBad's plan is opening one portal in Nero's hometown to justify the Savior's existence. They eventually get destroyed by Dante.

* Crops up at one point early on in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Ichigo purges a Hollow but because his sins before becoming a Hollow were so great he could not go on to Soul Society (which is saying something considering it's inhabited by the likes of [[ManipulativeBastard Aizen]], [[BloodKnight Zaraki Kenpachi]] and [[MadScientist Kurotsuchi Mayuri]]) a {{Hellgate}} opens up and pulls him in. There's also the Garganta, which allows people to enter Hueco Mundo, the home of hollows.

** Sigil, detailed in ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', is a massive city filled with portals to the Outer Planes, including the Lower Planes, portals that might be obvious or so well hidden they might be opened accidentally. The Hive Ward, Sigil's [[TheCityNarrows City Narrows]], has its own unique flavor of Hellgates called "Ooze Portals," which are seemingly ordinary mud puddles that act as portals to the Paraelemental Plane of Ooze, Mud and Slime. If you step in one, it will try to drag you through on a one-way trip. They may also randomly extrude slimy pseudopods in an effort to reach out and grab victims, or just billow clouds of lethally poisonous fumes into the air.

* TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons has multiple.
** Sigil in ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' is a massive city filled with gates to outer planes. The Outer Planes include locations like Gehenna, the Abyss, Pandemonium, and, of course, the Nine Hells. Several of the Gatetowns also qualify. The Hive Ward, Sigil's CityNarrows, has its own unique flavor of Hellgates called "Ooze Portals", which are seemingly ordinary mud puddles that act as portals to the Paraelemental Plane of Ooze, Mud and Slime. If you step in one, it will try to drag you through on a one-way trip. They may also randomly extrude slimy pseudopods in an effort to reach out and grab victims, or just billow clouds of lethally poisonous fumes into the air.
** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': Neverwinter, a densely populated city on the Sword Coast, is just filled with these, specifically places where you can pass to Neverwinter's Shadowfell counterpart, Evernight.

* The eponymous spaceship in ''Film/EventHorizon'' opens a gateway to hell (or a hell-like dimension) when testing the first interstellar drive.

* In ''FanFic/TheBugTypeQueen'', Mr. Fuji creates a machine to poke a hole into the Spirit World in Lavender Town. It... goes about as well as you'd expect and Agatha of the Elite Four is called in to deal with it.

* ''FanFic/ADragonInShiningArmour'' has the dark rifts, though they're usually only large enough for [[TheCorruption dark data]] to escape.

* In ''FanFic/EquestrianAllianceProjectOblivion'', the Protean Cybernetics Corporation ([=ProteC=]) has created a technology capable of sending matter instantaneously over long distances. Unfortunately, it proves to function equally well as a Hell gate, resulting in an alien invasion.

* In ''FanFic/YuYuGiDigiMoon'', any dimensional portal or may potentially become a door to Hell.

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', that the town of Sunnydale was built on a Hellmouth (a portal between Earth and Hell) is a major plot point throughout the series, beginning with the series premiere "Welcome to the Hellmouth" and continuing right up to the series finale. Sunnydale was literally founded on account of the Hellmouth (as part of a generations-long evil plan), and plots by various {{BigBad}}s to open the Hellmouth--and the efforts of Buffy and her friends to keep the Hellmouth (at least mostly) closed--are a recurring theme.

* ''{{Series/Garth Marenghis Darkplace}}'': Darkplace Hospital is built over the very gates of Hell itself.

** Apparently, whatever horrors were committed in the temple of the Zakarum under Kurast in ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}} II'' weakened the fabric of reality enough that it was easier to create a portal into Hell from there. This may have been because Mephisto didn't want to reveal himself to the world yet, though.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' has so many of these, it seems like people almost trip over them on the way to the store. Residents of one dimension of the {{Multiverse}} or another seemed to invade Gensokyo on an almost annual basis. It doesn't help that Yukari Yakumo can create portals to any dimension she wants at her whim.

* In the fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', it turns out [[spoiler:Raven herself is one. The prophecy states that "The gem was born of evil's fire, the gem shall be his portal" and she is the gem.]]

* ''The Gates of Hell'' by Auguste Rodin is a monumental sculptural work directly inspired by the Creator/DanteAlighieri poem ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]'', with many of the various figures used in it later recycled into many of Rodin's more famous works like ''The Thinker'' and ''The Kiss''.

%%* The Hellmouth in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer.''

* ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow]]''[='s=] castle was built on "The Mine of Judgement" which leads directly into "The Abyss".

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Gengar is one in its Gigantamax form. When it Gigantamaxes, according to Sword's Pokédex entry, it's rumored that Gigantamax Gengar's gaping maw leads directly to the afterlife.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Gengar has is one in its Gigantamax form. When it Gigantamaxes, Gengar's mouth is opened wide. According to Sword's Pokédex entry, it's rumored that Gigantamax Gengar's gaping maw leads directly to the afterlife.

%%* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has a few of these.

* The GateOfTruth in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' contains "The Truth" (which looks suspiciously like "The Gate of Hell" sculpture in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]]). Anyone who enters it will gain PowerAtAPrice.

* ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'' has the EBN goons drag Eurydice through a door to the Underworld; after Orpheus turns around, it closes automatically to reveal a solid wall behind it. [[spoiler:A second one is later discovered in a shady parking garage that cna only be traversed with a special skateboard.]]

** Sigil in ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' is a massive city filled with gates to outer planes. The Outer Planes include locations like Gehenna, the Abyss, Pandemonium, and, of course, the Nine Hells. Several of the Gatetowns also qualify.

%%* The Hellgates in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry''.

* In Myth/NorseMythology, the gate to Hel is called "Helgrindi" which translates to "Hellgate".