Hell Gate
is a Doom (2016)/Gate crossover by nivlac.
The Gate opens, but brings with it horrible demons that now blight the land. With this demonic horde however, also comes their bane, a man... clad in green plate.
On May 7, 2020, the author deleted the story and rebooted it. The next day, by fan request, the author returned the original version of the story to fanfiction.net.
The original version of the fanfic contains examples of:
- Asshole Victim: The Imperial army were planning to use the Gate to invade another world so they can loot and take slaves. They instead opened a portal to Hell and got slaughtered by demons.
- Break the Haughty: Rory cockily boasts to Ankoriss that he has no way of winning against her. But immediately afterwards Ankoriss demonstrates his inhuman powers by neck choking her, informing her that he had fought and killed other Apostles prior to meeting her, and giving her a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown until killing her off for real.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The Doom Slayer come across a ramshackle fortress occupied by bandits and slavers, and, enraged, slaughters all of its occupants without even bothering to waste his guns on practically weak mortals.
- Death by Adaptation: Rory and Lelei.
- Death of a Child: The Doom Slayer is pissed to find the bodies of two elf children with their throats torn out from the demons' massacre on Tuka's village.
- Developing Doomed Characters: At least two Imperial characters introduced in the first chapter.
- Tirus Has a girl waiting back home that he wants to marry rather than wanting to fight in wars. He gets his wish by abandoning the army once the demons attack, but only to be killed off by bandits/slavers, who captured his bride-to-be.
- Oros has a daughter waiting back home and he gets stomp to death by a Baron of Hell.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: The flame dragon is swarmed to death by demons and its corpse is used by Ankoriss for as of yet unspecific ritual.
- Doomed Hometown:
- Tuka's village is massacred by demons, and the elves are either turned into zombies or used as building material for the Gore Nest.
- Coda Village also gets ravaged by demons as the villagers were too slow to evacuate despite being repeatedly warned by survivors from the demons' attacks days earlier. Lelei appears to be the only named survivor as she was outside the village.
- Escort Mission: The Doom Slayer winds up in picking up Tuka after coming across her doomed village. He finds watching over her a hindrance in his eternal crusade against the demons. By the time he meets Rory, he promptly dumps Tuka in the Apostle's care.
- Evil Counterpart: Ankoriss is this to the Doom Slayer.
- Evil Versus Evil: The bandit army, made up from the deserters from Alnus Hill, and demons fighting each other over their attempt to overrun Italica. Unsurprisingly it is the demons who ends up winning.
- Frying Pan of Doom: The Doom Slayer kills a bandit with a heated up frying pan. First by roasting the sorry bastard's face off and then using it to splattering his brains.
- Giant Foot of Stomping: Imperial soldier Oros gets stomped to death by a Baron of Hell.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: The Doom Slayer ripped a bandit's head off (along with its spinal cord) not unlike how Kratos dealt with Helios, and using it as an improvised flail to flog another bandit to death.
- Harmful to Minors: Pina and her Rose Knights come across a village that suffered a demon attack, where several children are seen sitting next to freshly dug up graves of their dead parents. Some are too traumatized to talk, including one child who lost his entire family except his grandfather.
- Hell on Earth: The premise of this story is essentially Falmart taking the place of Earth in Doom II.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: The Doom Slayer views any evil humans (bandits, rapists, slavers, etc.) no different from demons and thus giving him just cause to kill them in the most brutal way possible.
- Kill the God: If Ankoriss is telling the truth or exaggerating, the Falmart gods are stated to have already been or in the process of being killed by the scourge of Hell.
- Killed Offscreen:
- After Tirus fled from Alnus Hill, his fate is found out by the Doom Slayer from Tirus' lover who sadly confirmed that he had been killed off by bandits.
- Cato is not found alive when the demons attacked Coda. Lelei only last saw him going to the village to get supplies just as the demons attacked.
- Language Barrier: The Doom Slayer doesn't understand the Falmart language and has to rely on VEGA making the translations. At the moment VEGA is slowly translating the language bits.
- Mood Whiplash: After seven chapters of carnage and deaths, the Doom Slayer gets fed up with the Rose Knights trying to convince him to fight for the Empire and react by (non-fatally) whipping silly to the Rose Knights like a father to a spoiled child.
- Neck Lift: Ankoriss neck-lift Rory to tell to her face that all her gods are dead before slamming her skull into the ground.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The Doom Slayer gives one to the Fat Bastard bandit chieftain by breaking his limbs and fingers, drowning him in a latrine, rip his ear off, gagging him with a dirty sock, and dumping him in a mass grave.
- No Social Skills: Along with being a complete mute, the Doom Slayer is not used to socializing with other people and he doesn't want to because all he cares about is killing demons.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Ankoriss had fought and killed other Apostles prior to meeting Rory.
- Powerful and Helpless: Being in an unknown world and getting too focus on chasing demons without a thought, the Doom Slayer finds himself lost in Falmart. Furthermore, he couldn't be everywhere at once to stop the demons from massacring the next random village.
- Running Gag: Whenever the Doom Slayer punches someone's head off it will always be written "knocking his <space> Fucking <space> head off."
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- Lowly Imperial soldier Tirus, who was initially part of the Empire's aborted invasion to Hell, quickly drop his shield and ran for his life the moment the soldier next to him gets melted by an Imp's energy blast.
- When Ankoriss attacked Italica and killed Rory, several soldiers broke ranks and fled but only to be killed off by Ankoriss.
- The Siege: Italica is under siege by both an army of deserters and demons. The city ultimately fell to the demons led by Ankoriss.
- This Cannot Be!: Rory's shocked reaction from hearing from Ankoriss that the Falmart gods are all dead.
- Villains Want Mercy: At least two bandits tried to beg the Doom Slayer to spare their lives. He doesn't.
- Wham Episode: Chapter 8, Rory and Lelei are killed by Ankoriss, and Italica finally falls to the demons.
- What the Hell, Hero?: An elderly villager vent his anger on Pina over the Empire for doing a poor job on warning and protecting their subjects from the demon invasion that had cost the lives of his son and two grandchildren. Specifically on how the Empire doesn't even bother to provide horses to messengers to quickly warn the villages about the demons.
- The Worf Effect: Apostles like Rory meets their match against Hell's champion Ankoriss. Ankoriss noted that he found out the hard way that Apostles can't be killed (technically), but he can take away their strength by eating their hearts and they would then be exorcised from reality.
- Zombie Apocalypse: With so many Falmarters massacred by demons, the ranks of the undead rises and flooded the countryside. The Doom Slayer eventually finds a field filled with the undead and proceed to mow them down.
The rebooted version of the story contains examples of:
- Agony of the Feet: Tirus' left foot is badly wounded from stepping on a glass shard while running away from the demon massacre. He is forced to painfully remove the debris from his sole in order to prevent infection.
- The Darkness Gazes Back: When the Imperial army enters the Gate, they are greeted by numerous glowing orange demonic eyes before being set upon by said demons.
- Death of a Child: Elven children in Tuka's village are not spared from the demon massacre. One elven girl is devoured whole by a Cacodemon.
- Fantastic Racism: The elven elder Gonoval doesn't have a very kind view towards humans given how the elves were driven to near extinction by humans.
- Heroic BSoD: Tuka is left badly traumatized from having witnessed her father and along with everyone in her village killed by demons and turned into zombies.
- Named by the Adaptation: The Intern is given the name Daniel Suzuki.
- Off with His Head!: The Doom Slayer punches a Marauder in the head so hard it comes off.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Emperor Molt doesn't care about the Empire's peasants on a personal level, but he protects them from the demons as they are still vital for stabilizing the Empire with producing food and contributing soldiers.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Tirus starts running the moment he enters the Gate filled with glowing demon eyes looking right at him.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Tirus is alive in this story and is promoted from being a one-off character.
- Take Up My Sword: After the Marauder is killed, Tirus picks up his axe and finds the courage to fight the demons.
