This document outlines Jacob Carmody's concept of a hell organized by circles of increasing sinful behavior, using examples from Marvel and DC comics characters. The circles include deceitful liars like Loki, betrayers like Terra, thieves like Catwoman, slothful characters like Sentry, abusers like Hank Pym, rapists like Doctor Light, and 10 circles of murderers ranging from unintentional to genocide, with examples like Thanos, Scarlet Witch, and Ozymandias. The sinners are punished in ironic ways related to their sins.
This document outlines Jacob Carmody's concept of a hell organized by circles of increasing sinful behavior, using examples from Marvel and DC comics characters. The circles include deceitful liars like Loki, betrayers like Terra, thieves like Catwoman, slothful characters like Sentry, abusers like Hank Pym, rapists like Doctor Light, and 10 circles of murderers ranging from unintentional to genocide, with examples like Thanos, Scarlet Witch, and Ozymandias. The sinners are punished in ironic ways related to their sins.
This document outlines Jacob Carmody's concept of a hell organized by circles of increasing sinful behavior, using examples from Marvel and DC comics characters. The circles include deceitful liars like Loki, betrayers like Terra, thieves like Catwoman, slothful characters like Sentry, abusers like Hank Pym, rapists like Doctor Light, and 10 circles of murderers ranging from unintentional to genocide, with examples like Thanos, Scarlet Witch, and Ozymandias. The sinners are punished in ironic ways related to their sins.
This document outlines Jacob Carmody's concept of a hell organized by circles of increasing sinful behavior, using examples from Marvel and DC comics characters. The circles include deceitful liars like Loki, betrayers like Terra, thieves like Catwoman, slothful characters like Sentry, abusers like Hank Pym, rapists like Doctor Light, and 10 circles of murderers ranging from unintentional to genocide, with examples like Thanos, Scarlet Witch, and Ozymandias. The sinners are punished in ironic ways related to their sins.
MARVEL COMICS AND DC COMICS) By Jacob Carmody NOTES BEFOREHAND The Marvel/DC logos on each slide are to let the audience know if the characters mentioned as examples belong to DC or Marvel I have ordered my circles of hell according to the severity of the sins. I went from the least severe sin, being deceit, to the most deceitful sin, which is the destruction of an entire species. DECEITFUL The deceitful sinners are those who have lied and tricked others on several occasions. Things such as lying about someone looking nice does not count, but rather lies such as lying in a court of law about a crime do count and those people are sent here.Their punishment is to be wander in a constant state of confusion through a pit of lava. This is to symbolize the confusion and potential pain they cause others by lying. Loki, the God of Mischief, has seen to lie and trick several characters throughout his history in Marvel comics. One of his more popular instances is when he tried to trick his half-brother Thor into fighting the Hulk, which led to his inevitable defeat and the formation of the Avengers. BETRAYERS The betrayers are in Hell because of their going against others by exposing them to danger or by going behind someones back, destroying their trust. Since their went behind others backs and betrayed them, the betrayers punishment is to be forced to lay on their stomachs while a bright star scorches their backs. A betrayer in DC comics is the former Teen Titan: Terra. In the widely recognized and popular story Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, the character Terra is seen to betray her teammates by helping the organization H.I.V.E. kidnap the Teen Titans. THIEVES Thieves are the sinners who have taken the possessions of others on one or more occasion. The punishment for thieves was that they must fight amongst each over a large pit of gold coins, symbolizing their taking from others by making them take from each other. This is also used to mock the saying honor among thieves, for they show no honor by fighting like wild animals. Selina Kyle A.K.A. Catwoman is a famous thief that operates in the fictional city of Gotham. SLOTHFUL Slothful sinners are the people who intentionally did not assist others due to either laziness or other reasons. They chose to sit aside while others suffered. Their punishment is that since they sat aside while others were suffering, they are forced to watch visions of their loved ones being tormented and tortured for all of eternity, never knowing that it is not reality. During the World War Hulk story, the Sentry (one of Marvels most powerful superheroes) is seen as being slothful as he chose to sit aside as the Hulk went about his plans to get revenge on the Illuminate, which could lead to the potential destruction of New York. ABUSERS The abusers are people who have taken advantage of something for their own personal reasons. The punishment of abusers is to be left in a small, pitch black room where they can only cause harm to themselves and not to others. The original Ant-Man (Hank Pym) was seen to physically abuse his wife and fellow Avenger known as The Wasp (Janet van Dyne), on several occasions. SEXUAL ASSAULTERS/RAPISTS These are the people who have sexually assaulted or raped another person on at least one or more occasion. The sexual assaulters and rapists are punished by being hung upside down from the roof of a cave while furies bite at their flesh. They are also completely naked, which is used as an ironic punishment because they are to be stripped of their dignity by being hung like this, just like how they took away the dignity of their victims. The character Doctor Light raped Sue Dibney, wife of the Elongated Man during the Identity Crisis comic book event. MURDERERS These are the sinners who have taken the life of one or more people Includes 10 Ditches Unintentional Adult Parent Sibling Spouse Child Unborn Unpunished Multiple Genocidal MURDERERS DITCH #1 (UNINTENTIONAL) These are the murders of those who accidentally caused the death of another person. These sinners are all of eternity re-watching their accidental murders, as to never forget the guilt that they felt when they committed their sin. Example: Superman, in the game Injustice: Gods Among Us, was drugged into fighting his greatest enemy, Doomsday. However, it turns out that the drugs made him hallucinate his enemy, and instead he was fighting his wife Lois Lane, whom he killed along with their unborn child. MURDERERS DITCH # 2 (ADULT) This ditch contains those who have killed another person, specifically an adult. These people are forced to continuously die the same way that they killed, and once they die they are reborn and they must go through it over and over again for all of eternity. An example of this kind of murderer is Maxwell Lord, who shot and killed the Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) during the Countdown to Infinite Crisis. MURDERERS DITCH #3 (PARENT) Sinners in this ditch have killed one or both of their parents. They are punished by being forced to huddle together for warmth, since their parents provided them with the warmth of love and shelter. An example of this is Thanos the Mad Titan. Thanos murdered his parents in order to impress Death (as in the embodiment of death itself), whom he was madly in love with. MURDERERS DITCH #4 (SIBLINGS) Sinners are take here for the murder of siblings and also the murder of cousins and other family members that are not ones parents. The punishment in this ditch is that the sinners arms are fused together and are constantly shoving and pushing into each other, symbolizing the bonds between siblings as well as the feuds that can erupt between siblings. John Diggle, A.K.A. Spartan, kills his brother Andy in the TV series Arrow after Spartan and the rest of the main cast are betrayed by the seemingly reformed Andy (who was under the control of the villain Damien Darhk). MURDERERS DITCH #5 (SPOUSE) This is the circle for sinners who have murdered their spouses. Sinners in Ditch #5 are in constant pain as their hearts are constantly tearing and repairing itself, so that they can suffer the same heartbreak that their spouses must have experienced when they were killed. We seen an example of this type of murderer in Avengers Disassembled. In the Avengers Disassembled storyline, the Scarlet Witch is seen as going insane. She destroys Avengers Mansion and kills her teammates Ant-Man (Scott Lang) and Hawkeye, as well as Scarlet Witchs husband, the synthezoid Vision. MURDERERS DITCH #6 (CHILD) The souls in this ditch are here because they have murdered a child, specifically those under the age of 18. The sinners here have long swords pierce through their bodies and into the ground to keep them in place, and each sword is symbolic of a year of life the sinner took from their victim(s). Heretic is a clone of Damian Wayne A.K.A. Robin was artificially aged into adulthood, and is responsible for the death of Damian during the events of Robin R.I.P., making him an example of a sinner in this ditch. MURDERERS DITCH #7 (UNBORN) This circle is for people, primarily women, who have killed unborn children. Most of these deaths were due to abortions, but anyone who has caused the intentional death of an unborn child is sent here. These sinners are to spend eternity in small pods filled with boiling blood where they will suffer. The pods symbolize the wombs that the unborn children died in. During the very confusing and badly-received Spider-Man comic The Clone Saga, it is implied that one of Spider- Mans greatest enemies, Norman Osborn A.K.A. The Green Goblin, caused the death of Spider-Man and his wife Mary Janes child. MURDERERS DITCH #8 (MULTIPLE MURDERS) Those that belong in Ditch 8 have committed either 2 or more murders on one ore more occasion. These sinners, like those in Ditch #2, are constantly going through the same torment that their victims went through when they were killed. In the Academy Award winning film The Dark Knight, we see an example of this in Harvey Dent A.K.A. Two- Face, who kills at least seven people near the end of the movie. MURDERERS DITCH #9 (GOT AWAY WITH IT) This ditch is for the murderers who did not receive proper justice for their crimes when they were alive. These sinners are punished by being ripped apart over and over again by their victims, so that everyone that has been hurt by the sinner can have a take at hurting their killer. The Joker is a perfect example of this type of sinner. He has been reported to have over 2,000 murder accounts, but when he is sent to court he is always been able to plead insanity. He is simply sent to Arkham Asylum, a mental illness facility, where he has continuously been able to escape from. So he has never seen proper justice for the crimes he committed. MURDERERS DITCH #10 (GENOCIDE/MASS MURDER) Ditch #10 of the Murders circle belong to the worst of the murderers; those who commit genocidal acts by killing a large group of people who usually belong to a specific ethnic group or nation Due to the large extent of the murders committed, sinners in this ditch feel every bit of pain their victims felt, except the pain never subsides or stops. The pain only grows worse and worse throughout eternity. In order to prevent a potential nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, Ozymandias (from the critically acclaimed Watchmen comic) creates an explosion in New York that kills millions of people making him a prime candidate for this ditch of murderers. EXTREMISTS/TERRORISTS The extremists and terrorists are people who used their beliefs and ideologies as an excuse to bring terror and death upon innocent people. Because of their instilling fear and terror in others, these sinners are to wander though a foggy forest as they are hunted by the embodiments of their deepest and darkest fears. If they are caught, then they are killed and go through the cycle all over again. Ras Al Ghul is an eco-terrorist whos desire for perfect environmental balance has led him to try to kill most of humanity, usually via biological weapons. DESTROYERS OF LIFE ON EARTH The destroyers are sinners whose sins have cause the destruction of the living and nonliving parts of Earth. Includes 3 Rings: Polluters Destroyers of Land Destroyers of Entire Species DESTROYERS OF LIFE ON EARTH RING #1 (POLLUTERS) The polluters are the sinners who have caused serious damage to the earth through pollution and tainting. People who simply litter will not end up here. Rather, this circle belongs to those who have gone as far as to destroy entire forests. Their punishment is that these people are constantly in a state of suffocation in a cloud of black smoke, and the smoke symbolizes the pollution they have brought about since it is a very common form of pollution. During the Infinite Crisis story, the Secret Society of Supervillains drops Chemo, a massive being who expels hazardous chemicals, onto the city of Bldhaven, killing thousands and spreading chemical waste all across the city. This makes Chemo and the entire Secret Society of Supervillains perfect examples of sinners that would end up in this ring. DESTROYERS OF LIFE ON EARTH RING #2 (DESTROYERS OF LAND) The sinners in Ring #3 of Destroyers of Earth are those who have cause the damaging/destruction of land that would otherwise be capable of sustaining life. The punishment of these sinners is to be float aimlessly in a void of darkness, as to never experience what it is like to live on a solid piece of land. Galactus, who is a cosmic entity who is know specifically for the fact that he devourers entire planets, is in this ring for the innumerable number of planets and lives he has taken over his entire fictional history. DESTROYERS OF LIFE ON EARTH RING #3 (DESTROYERS OF ENTIRE SPECIES) The destroyers of entire species have committed acts of that led to the endangerment or complete extinction of a species. The destroyers of entire species are punished by being torn apart into pieces by furies. The number of pieces they are broken into depends on how many people the sinner has killed. The Main Man himself, Lobo, killed his entire species of Czarnians simply because he loves killing and thinks it is fun.