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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' episode "Jack and the Lava Monster", Jack is challenged by a lava monster who built a labyrinth of such lethal hazards that only the mightiest warriors would survive to reach him. As it turns out, he is actually a Viking warrior imprisoned in a body of stone by Aku, and [[DeathSeeker seeks to die in honorable combat]], as that is the only way one can gain acceptance into Valhalla. (Jack complies, and he gets his wish. The episode ends with the warrior - in his original, young human form - looking down from Valhalla as Jack walks away.)

* The Ancient Greeks believed in a realm called Elysium, the hall of heroes.

* ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' is a milder example. According to WordOfGod, the world of ''Build Fighters'' is where ''Gundam'' characters go when they die, a peaceful heaven where they can enjoy the excitement of mobile suit combat as a game rather than real warfare.

* Knuckles mentions in ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2'' that the rest of the owls and echidnas have passed onto the great battleground in the sky.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': While most races go to the plane matching their alignment when they die as is normal with D&D, dwarves (who worship the Norse pantheon) only get to if they die in honorable combat, or alcohol poisoning. If they die of disease or accident they are [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0737.html claimed by Hel]]. [[spoiler: This becomes a major plot point when the gods start planning to destroy the world before the Snarl can break loose, because Hel would get all the souls of the dwarves who died in the process she starts messing with the vote.]]

* Big Boss from ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' tried to make this ideal ''on Earth'' by making a giant fortress called "Outer Heaven," a world where warriors will ''always'' be needed, honored and respected, ''never'' to be callously and ungratefully discarded of by nations like his mentor/adoptive-mother The Boss was (this would be followed by Zanzibar Land, after Outer Heaven's destruction, and then two of his three {{clon|ingBlues}}ed sons trying to create their own versions of Outer Heaven). Of course, he did this by [[ForeverWar trying to start perpetual worldwide warfare]]. The Patriots then perverted this by [[WarForFunAndProfit creating a world economy dependent on war]].

* Grig from ''Film/TheLastStarfighter'' believes that death is a primitive concept and likes to think his fallen comrades are "battling evil in AnotherDimension"

** The ''[[Series/StarTrekDiscovery Discovery]]'' episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS3E09TerraFirmaPartOne Terra Firma Part One]]'' implies that the Terrans of the MirrorUniverse believe in something like this as Georgiou keeps talking about wanting to die in battle and mentions that anyone she kills will be her servant in the afterlife.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E03WellAlwaysHaveTomParis We'll Always Have Tom Paris]]", the only part of his Lieutenant Schaxs' resurrection story we get to hear is that he went to a spiritual battleground called the Black Mountain and had to fight three faceless apparitions of his father.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': The first arc of Becky Cloonan's run sees Diana finding herself in one of the most famous examples from world mythology, Valhalla, where her lack of memory sees her joining the other warriors to fight and die on the field each day and drink and celebrate in the halls at night.

-->-- '''Where Silent Gods Stand Guard''', ''Music/AmonAmarth''

* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has one of these in the form of the "Grand Kai's planet", where the universe's mightiest heroes spend all eternity perfecting their fighting skills. The criteria seem to be based on valor rather than deeds -- [[spoiler:Krillin and Yamcha wind up there after being mopped up by Majin Buu in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'']]. The afterlife in general is based around combat. While the good pass on to Heaven as spirits and the evil end up imprisoned in the Home for Infinite Losers (it's a nice place, but you have to live with the fact that you're a loser for all eternity), the heroic get to keep their bodies ''and'' travel the afterlife to receive training from various deities. Even the villainous get to keep their bodies as long as they fought courageously, but they're locked up in actual prison cells in HFIL. The only downside is if you die as a dead man [[KilledOffForReal your soul is obliterated,]] with no resurrections at the day's end like other incarnations of this trope.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has one of these in the form of the "Grand Kai's planet", where the universe's mightiest heroes spend all eternity perfecting their fighting skills. The criteria seem to be based on valor rather than deeds -- [[spoiler:Krillin and Yamcha wind up there after being mopped up by Majin Buu]]. The afterlife in general is based around combat. While the good pass on to Heaven as spirits and the evil end up imprisoned in the Home for Infinite Losers (it's a nice place, but you have to live with the fact that you're a loser for all eternity), the heroic get to keep their bodies ''and'' travel the afterlife to receive training from various deities. Even the villainous get to keep their bodies as long as they fought courageously, but they're locked up in actual prison cells in HFIL. The only downside is if you die as a dead man [[KilledOffForReal your soul is obliterated,]] with no resurrections at the day's end like other incarnations of this trope.