Basic Trope: Someone escapes from Hell.
- Straight: Bob ends up dying and going to Hell, and manages to find a way out.
- Exaggerated: Bob gathers up everyone else who is currently condemned to Hell and gets all of them out.
- Downplayed:
- Bob ends up escaping Hell and simply becoming The Undead afterwards.
- Bob mostly just leaves Hell.
- Justified:
- Bob wasn't supposed to go to Hell for whatever reason.
- Escaping from Hell is possible, and Bob knew it.
- Bob is just that awesome.
- Inverted:
- Subverted:
- Bob is about to escape from Hell, but Satan stops him.
- Bob appears to have escaped, but then it turns out that he attained spiritual enlightenment on the journey and was actually let free by God.
- Double Subverted: He successfully escapes later.
- Parodied:
- Bob goes to Hell and is faced with Satan. He merely remarks "Screw This, I'm Outta Here" and leaves.
- Hell is pretty much a Cardboard Prison.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob repeatedly decides in favor of and against escaping from Hell.
- Averted: Nobody ever goes to, or escapes from, Hell in the first place.
- Enforced: As a way of resurrecting Bob.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Bob gains demonic powers after his stay in Hell, which he uses to his advantage.
- Defied: Satan tries to get Bob to stay in Hell.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied:
- It's not specified if the place Bob escaped from is in Hell, but it's a very fiery place with a Big Red Devil.
- Bob is in Hell, and in subsequent scenes is shown to have left Hell with no explanation.
- Played for Laughs: Bob escapes hell by aggressively taunting Satan and forcing him to read the Bible, causing Satan to get annoyed and throw him out of Hell.
- Played for Horror: Bob was a very evil person when he died, and now that he's turned into a demon after being in Hell, well...
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