"Down there, they twist a man's soul until he's no longer human."

—John Constantine^[src]

Hell, also known as the Underworld^[1] and Sheol,^[2] is an inter-dimensional plane of existence where demons, fallen angels, and the souls of damned humans reside. The souls that died are sent there to be tortured by the other demons for the rest of eternity. Furcifer implies that some souls who are sent to Hell can become demons as well. Certain parts of Hell are extremely hot, according to John Constantine.^[3] It was ruled by the Triumvirate of Hell, but nearly fell under Neron's rule in 2019.

After Neron's death, Astra Logue releases the Encores (infamous evil-doers who died, came to Hell, and resurrected from it to continue with their misdeeds) and plots secretly against the Triumvirate of Hell to become the new queen of Hell. After Astra left Hell to join the Legends, it's not known who rules Hell after the Triumvirate.

History

"So I grew up in Hell, had minions do my bidding, and rose to power 'til I practically ran the place."

—Astra Logue^[src]

In 2014, during a resurrection spell for Natalie Logue^[4], John Constantine accidentally summoned a demon to Newcastle who possessed Natalie's daughter, Astra Logue. John then attempted to summon a greater demon, Nergal, to expel the lesser demon out of her. However, Nergal dragged her away, damning her to Hell.^[5]

When Constantine turned the Devil's acetate's dark magic upon itself and sent the record to Hell (it was recovered after 80 years of being left behind inside the defunct Moonrise Studios), a great red-lit pathway downwards into the ground in Chicago was left in wake of the acetate's "falling" into Hell.^[6]

Constantine was somehow sent to Hell, sometime between late 2015 and early 2016.^[7] He finally got out around May 2016.^[8]

On Earth-19, specifically, the world Breacher hails from, Hell is primarily called "Sheol".^[2]

In 2018, Constantine and the Legends began utilizing a spell that sent magical creatures they encountered to Hell. These beings were formerly kept in an extra-dimensional prison alongside the demon Mallus. Notable beings that the Legends have encountered and sent to Hell include an Unicorn^[9] and the Fairy Godmother.^[3]

When Neron takes control of Ray Palmer's body, Constantine enters Hell in order to save him.^[10] In Hell, Constantine received an offer from Satan to save Ray or Astra's life. John chose Astra, but she grew up in Hell and doesn't want to be saved, so Ray was saved instead, though according to Nora Darhk, this doomed the whole planet Earth (Earth-1).^[11]

The Triumvirate of Hell nearly fell under Neron's rule in 2019 relative to the timeline of Earth-1.^[12]

When Astra began resurrecting some of history's most notorious villains on Earth-1, Constantine began traveling to and from Hell at will by ingesting blood or other essences from the so-called "Encores" the Legends captured.^[13]

Angry at Harrison Nash Wells for releasing Mobius and helping to start the Anti-Monitor Crisis (now stuck on Earth-Prime), J'onn J'onzz told Nash that he almost damned everyone to Hell.^[14]

Gary Green accompanied the Legends for a ritual to travel to Hell, without success. So he did a ritual to go with Ava Sharpe and Mick Rory to Hell and the ritual was a success. The trio were tricked and captured by Astra. Upon learning how Lachesis was manipulating her, Astra decided to choose her own destiny and leave Hell. So they returned to the Waverider.^[15] It's not known who rules Hell now after the Triumvirate were tricked.

Astra told her origin in Hell in an attempt to join a sorority at Hudson University (Earth-Prime).^[16] Zari Tarazi tells John Constantine to go to Hell when he tries to dissuade her from resurrecting her brother; he reminds her that he has been there and back.^[17]

Known residents

Triumvirate of Hell (rulers) Satan (leader) Beelzebub Belial Lizzie Borden[12] Ross Bottoni Cedella Cleopatra (possibly)[15] Willie Cole (presumably)[6] Christopher Columbus[18] Encores Grigori Rasputin Furcifer John Wayne Gacy[12] Ed Gein[18] Hellhounds[19] Marchosias Manaxos the Mutilator Masher (status unknown) Nahash (status unknown) Nergal Norfulthing Pazuzu Vandal Savage[12] Sisters of Eve (status unknown) Durgia Lamashtu Lilith Naamah Tiberius Mary Tudor[12] Unnamed unicorn[9] Countless damned human souls Harris Ledes[20] Former residents Atropos (deceased) Calibraxis (deceased) John Constantine Aleister Crowley[21] Nora Darhk/Fairy Godmother Desmond Encores Marie Antoinette (deceased) Caligula (deceased) Clyde Barrow (deceased)[19] Black Caesar (deceased)[19] Bonnie (deceased)[19] Brutus (deceased)[19] George Armstrong Custer (deceased) Damien Darhk (deceased) Henry VIII (deceased)[19] Jack the Ripper (deceased)[19] Genghis Khan (deceased) Charles Manson (deceased) Kathy Meyers (original timeline) Benjamin Siegel (deceased)[19] Joseph Stalin (deceased) Unidentified caveman (deceased) Unidentified Encore (deceased) Vlad the Impaler (deceased) Gary Green[19] Imogen (deceased) Karabasan (deceased) Lachesis Astra Logue (undeserving) Mnemoth (deceased) Neron (deceased) Ray Palmer Mick Rory[19] Ava Sharpe[19] Tabitha (deceased)

Known locations

• Brimstone
• Soul Exchange
• Torture Pits
• The Gull
  • John Constantine's pocket dimension

Appearances

Constantine

"Non Est Asylum" (flashbacks) "The Darkness Beneath" (mentioned) "The Devil's Vinyl" (pathway) "A Feast of Friends" (mentioned) "Danse Vaudou" (mentioned) "Rage of Caliban" (flashbacks) "Blessed Are the Damned" (mentioned) "The Saint of Last Resorts" (mentioned) "The Saint of Last Resorts: Part 2" (mentioned) "Quid Pro Quo" (mentioned) "A Whole World Out There" (mentioned) "Angels and Ministers of Grace" (mentioned) "Waiting for the Man" (mentioned)

Arrow

Season 4 "Taken" (mentioned) Season 6 "We Fall" (mentioned) Season 7 "The Longbow Hunters" (mentioned) Season 8 "Reset" (mentioned)

The Flash

Season 3 "Flashpoint" (mentioned) "Finish Line" (mentioned) Season 4 "Elongated Journey Into Night" (mentioned) Season 5 "Elseworlds, Part 1" (mentioned) "The Girl With The Red Lightning" (mentioned) Season 6 "The Exorcism of Nash Wells" (mentioned) Season 7 "The Speed of Thought" (indirectly mentioned) "Enemy At the Gates" (indirectly mentioned) "P.O.W." (indirectly mentioned) "Heart of the Matter, Part 1" (indirectly mentioned) Season 8 "Armageddon, Part 2" (indirectly mentioned) "Armageddon, Part 4" (indirectly mentioned) "Armageddon, Part 5" (mentioned) "Lockdown" (mentioned) "The Fire Next Time" (indirectly mentioned) "Phantoms" (mentioned) "Resurrection" (mentioned) "Death Rises" (indirectly mentioned) "Death Falls" (mentioned) "Keep It Dark" (indirectly mentioned) "The Man in the Yellow Tie" (mentioned) Season 9 "Partners in Time" (mentioned) "A New World, Part One" (mentioned)

Vixen

Season 2

• "Episode Five" (indirectly mentioned)

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Season 3 "Daddy Darhkest" (mentioned) "Necromancing the Stone" (mentioned) "I, Ava" (indirectly mentioned) "Guest Starring John Noble" (mentioned) Season 4 "The Virgin Gary" (portal) "Witch Hunt" (portal) "Dancing Queen" (portal) "Hell No, Dolly!" (flashbacks; portal) "Legends of To-Meow-Meow" (vision; portal) "The Eggplant, The Witch & The Wardrobe" (mentioned) "Egg MacGuffin" (mentioned) "Nip/Stuck" "Terms of Service" "Hey, World!" Season 5 "Meet the Legends" (mentioned) "Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me" "Slay Anything" (mentioned) "A Head of Her Time" "Mortal Khanbat" "Mr. Parker's Cul-De-Sac" (mentioned) "Romeo V. Juliet: Dawn of Justness" "Zari, Not Zari" "The Great British Fake Off" "Ship Broken" (portal) "Freaks and Greeks" (mentioned) "I Am Legends" (mentioned) "Swan Thong" (mentioned) Season 6 "Ground Control to Sara Lance" (mentioned) "The Satanist's Apprentice" (mentioned) "Bishop's Gambit" (mentioned) "Back to the Finale: Part II" (mentioned) "Stressed Western" (mentioned) "The Final Frame" (mentioned) "Bored On Board Onboard" (mentioned) "Silence of the Sonograms" (mentioned) "The Fungus Amongus" (mentioned) Season 7 "The Bullet Blondes" "The Need for Speed" "wvrdr_error_100 not found" (memory) "Speakeasy Does It" "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Scientist" "A Woman's Place is in the War Effort!" "Lowest Common Demoninator" "The Fixed Point" "Rage Against the Machines" "Too Legit to Quit" (mentioned) "Knocked Down, Knocked Up"

Supergirl

Season 5

• "The Wrath of Rama Khan" (mentioned)
• "The Bottle Episode" (mentioned)

Season 6

• "Still I Rise" (mentioned)
• "Mxy in the Middle" (indirectly mentioned)
• "Kara" (mentioned)

Black Lightning

Season 2

• "The Book of Consequences: Chapter One: Rise of the Green Light Babies" (mentioned)

Batwoman

Season 1 "Take Your Choice" (mentioned) Season 3 "Mad As a Hatter" (indirectly mentioned) "Trust Destiny" (mentioned) "Toxic" (indirectly mentioned) "We're All Mad Here" (indirectly mentioned) "We Having Fun Yet?" (indirectly mentioned)

Comics

EARTH-PRIME

• "The (Ex) Legends of Tomorrow" (mentioned)

Trivia

• Lena believes her torment in hell would be living in a reality (on Earth-Prime) where she works together with her brother Lex, if continued from Earth-38.^[22]
• Going by Breacher's expletive, Earth-19 calls hell "Sheol".
• Hell does have time, but it flows differently than on Earth (Earth-1)/relative to the timeline of Earth-1.
  • When Constantine went to Hell, he saw the adult Astra Logue; but only five years had passed on Earth-1 since she was banished there as a child.
  • Despite Constantine entering hell through a portal in the Dark Ages' Great Britain (such as during his ancestor Konstentyn's time), he ended up in "the present day" relative to the timeline of Earth-1 in 2019 (on the same day Neron was attempting to take over hell).
  • Souls freed from Hell such as the Encores are somehow able to navigate through time to where their deceased bodies were at the point of death, and thus might spent centuries digging themselves out of their own graves.

Behind the scenes

• Scenes of torture presumably happening in Hell are used in the intro for Constantine.
• Since Lucifer was revealed to take place on Earth-666 in the Arrowverse, each Earth likely has its own Hell. However, it is also possible that each Earth has a different section of Hell.
• It is unclear whether Earth-666 and Earth-1 have separate Hells or if the Triumvirate came to power after Lucifer abdicated (there is a separate being also known as the first of the fallen, that being Satan), as in the comics.
  • However, the show Lucifer explicitly states that there's only one Devil of Earth-666, being Lucifer Morningstar himself. In addition, the Hell featured is a dark and ash-filled endless maze (labyrinth) of columns or doors with the damned locked behind them, by contrast to the city seen in the Arrowverse.

References

Known extra-dimensional planes

Afterlife • Cosmic Plane • Dreaming • Fifth Dimension • Heaven • Hell • Hell Dimension • Jacob Shaw's alternate reality • Jennifer Pierce's safe place • Juru • Mallus's realm • Microverse • Mindscape • Music Meister's movie musical reality • Nexus • Negative Sage Force • Negative Speed Force • Negative Still Force • Negative Strength Force • Netherverse • Phantom Zone • Purgatory • Sage Force • Speed Force • Still Force • Strength Force • Temporal zone • The Monitor's realm • Unnamed pocket dimension • Vanishing Point • World between worlds