punishment in the afterlife theme
A character (or their soul) is posthumously tortured because of wicked things that they did while alive.
16 total · 3 choice · 10 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tftc1989e4x08 | choice | The gunslinger Billy Quintaine found himself in a saloon of the dead, among the victims of his past revolver duels. |
| tftc1989e6x01 | choice | The story features the popular notion of a hell-like environment in which sinners are punished in a ironical manner that supposedly befit the crime. Specifically: Geraldine and Austin had, in life, been unscrupulous lawyers. They were therefore made to function, eternally, as lowly defense attorneys in a Kafkaesque courthouse full of perverse laws and sadistic judges. The experience drove Austin to jump at the opportunity to commit suicide. |
| tz1959e1x28 | choice | We saw the ironic afterlife punishment meted out to petty gangster Rocky. |
| nightgallery1x05b | major | The survivor's punishment for breaking the maritime law of women and children first was to drift the seas in a lifeboat and be picked up by doomed ship after doomed ship. |
| nightgallery2x09d | major | Randy Miller died and went to Hell's waiting room. Randy Miller found himself in hell's waiting room after dying in a car crash. |
| nightgallery2x12b | major | Mr. Gringold trapped William Sharsted in a ghoul infested version of Sharted's past. |
| nightgallery2x18a | major | Gunslinger Sam Dichter found himself in a saloon of the dead among a number of miscreants who were awaiting divine judgment. |
| tftc1989e6x03 | major | Although it is never made clear, the tortuous cycle of repeats began shortly after Rolanda had just committed the mortal sin of murder and gotten killed by the police. We must ponder the interpretation that she was suffering a run-of-the-mill ironical punishment in the afterlife. |
| tz1959e1x10 | major | U-boat captain Carl Lanser was condemned repeat his ruthless sinking of a passenger ship every night for eternity, only as a passenger aboard the ship, rather than as captain on the U-boat. |
| tz1959e3x09 | major | Lutze was made to undergo the same horrors he had imposed on the inmates in the Twilight Zone. |