Gehenna in popular culture

A number of places and characters in works of popular culture are named Gehenna or Jehanna, particularly in fantasy and horror fiction and role-playing games. The representations are usually related to some form of Hell.

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In the DC comics universe, Gehenna is the name of the girlfriend of the current Firestorm, Jason Rusch
Issue #48 of Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man was titled "Gehenna".

Gehenna is the name of a planet in C.J. Cherryh's fictional Alliance-Union universe, described principally in her 1983 novel Forty Thousand in Gehenna. Natives of the planet are called "Gehennans."
Gehenna was also the name of one of three ravers (evil spirits inhabiting the bodies of three of the otherwise kind race of giants) in Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

The second episode of the horror TV show Millennium was entitled Gehenna, and involved an apocalyptic cult that operated under the guise of a telemarketing and chemical production company called Gehenna International.

In the 1990s, a hardcore punk band named Gehenna from San Diego, California released several albums on independent record labels. Front man Mike Cheese set a tone of dementia as lead vocalist.
Gehenna is also the name of a black/death metal act from Norway, formed in 1993, featuring over the years such luminaries as Dirge Rep (Gorgoroth, Enslaved), Frost (1349, Satyricon), and Kine (Satyricon, The Kovenant).
Gates of Gehenna is the name of a song on NWOBHM band Cloven Hoof's self-titled debut album.

Gehenna is also mentioned in the metal song "Hourglass" by Lamb of God
'Back in Gehenna' is the name of a song on the British band Fields of the Nephilim's first EP, 'Burning the Fields' and has re-occurred throughout the band's subsequent incarnations in other releases such as 'From Here to Genenna' and 'Returning to Gehenna'.'
Gehenna is mentioned in the song The Winners, lyrics by Rudyard Kipling, music Bob Weir, played by Bob Weir with Rob Wasserman, Ratdog and other bands..

In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, Gehennas is a boss in an area called the Molten Core, which is a fiery, hellish area, filled with fire golems and hellhound-like enemies.
In the eighth game in the Fire Emblem series, the Sacred Stones, Jehanna is a desert kingdom ruled by Ismaire, the Queen of the White Dunes.
Gehenna was the name of a dark-aligned magatama, the game's weapon system, in Shin Megami Tensei III.
In the .hack PlayStation 2 games, Cubia uses a powerful offensive spell called Chaos Gehenna.
In Homeworld 2, The Hiigaran Fleet travels to the Gehenna Asteroid Field (note, the voice actors pronounce it as Ghenna) in search of a Progenitor Oracle.
In the Xbox game Phantom Dust, there is a spell called Fire of Gehenna which consumes health to produce a deadly fireball.
In the computer game Realm of Impossibility, one of the thirteen levels is named Pits of Gehenna.
In the horror role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, Gehenna is the vampires' prophecied Armageddon, and is also the title of the final Vampire: The Masquerade sourcebook.
In the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, Gehenna (more fully, the Bleak Eternity of Gehenna) is an Outer Plane of evil alignment.
In the Playstation 2 game Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, which takes place in the hellish Netherworld, the characters have a picnic at the "Sea of Gehenna".
Gehenna is a planet in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

A commonly accepted (though incorrect) belief is that the city of Gahanna, Ohio is named after Gehenna due to the similarity in spelling. However, the historically accepted belief is the city is actually named after a local Native American word, and the spelling is simply coincidence.