DOA Recording Studios (meaning Dead On Arrival) is one of the main entrances to the Underworld. It is located in Los Angeles, California.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians[]
The Lightning Thief[]
Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood used this entrance to enter the Underworld to confront Hades.
Appearance[]
The doors in the lobby say: NO SOLICITORS. NO LOITERING. NO LIVING. Inside the lobby, muzak music plays and the carpet and walls are steel gray. There is black leather furniture and an elevator. Charon is on a raised podium inside the studio.
Charon's Boat[]
When someone dies, they will be taken into an elevator going down via Charon (if he allows them), then they sail across the River Styx.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The original entrance to the Underworld was the Cave of Avernus.
- DOA means "Dead On Arrival," which most people are when they arrive there.
- Adults must pay a fee for the trip on Charon's boat (usually charged to their last cable bill or with American Express).
- People who cannot pay stay in the lobby hoping for a free trip or until Charon's discretion to them changes. Many have stayed for a couple of hundreds of years, while some have only been there for a few days, and some might even still be waiting after thousands of years; most of these are children.
- When Percy, Annabeth and Grover come to DOA, they claim they died in a bathtub. This may be a reference to Agamemnon, who was killed by his wife in a bathtub.
| Underworld | |
| Underworld: | DOA Recording Studios | Doors of Death | Door of Orpheus | Elysium | Erebos | Fields of Asphodel | Fields of Punishment | Hades' Palace | Isles of the Blest | Judgment Pavilion | Persephone's Garden |
| Rivers: | Cocytus | Phlegethon | Styx | Lethe | Acheron |
| Tartarus: | Mansion of Night | Hermes' Shrine | Chaos | Regeneration Pod |