Abandoned Warehouse: Difference between revisions

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Some settings speak louder than others. An '''Abandoned Warehouse''' screams "let's rumble" at about the same volume that a [[Haunted Castle|grand but derelict house on a hill]] shouts "supernatural and creepy". If any given cordial enemy says "let's meet in an abandoned warehouse", you can pretty much drop the "cordial" part right then and there, and if nobody fires a gun during the warehouse scene, it's only because it's a children's show. And even then, it'll still involve whatever [[nerf]]ed [[Functional Magic|magical battle powers]] the show entails.

For extra trope points, the warehouse should feature a large and complex series of catwalks running among the rafters. This allows the villain to position additional [[Mooks]] there for the hero to [[Railing Kill|shoot down]], and means that he may retreat onto them for the traditional [[Climbing Climax]]. There will also be lots and ''lots'' of chains hanging from the ceiling for [[No OSHA Compliance|unexplained purposes]], as well as lots of water dripping from the roof to give off some nice and eerie clanking and dripping noises for the cat and mouse chase.

 

 

Common iterations: pre-appointed confrontations, busting up a bunch of [[Mooks]] in a video game, and ambushes for the [[Too Dumb to Live]] sorts in the cast. In [[Superhero]] settings, there will generally be large amounts of property damage, since "abandoned warehouse" is shorthand for "building we can completely destroy without feeling guilty."

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* The final confrontation of ''[[Death Note]]'' is deliberately arranged to take place in an abandoned warehouse with no windows and a single entrance.

* The end of the "Animation USA" episode of ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' was in an abandoned pier, where Excel espoused the virtues of Western and Eastern animation while beating up gangsters.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Visoreds]] in ''[[Bleach]]'' occupy one in Karakura town. They protect it with forcefields that would turn any random passerbys away and have a giant well-lit cavern underneath to train in.

 

* A key part of [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'s origin takes place in an abandoned warehouse.

* In the [[Don Rosa]] story "The Black Knight Glorps Again", Gyro Gearloose hid the Black Knight armor- coated in a universal solvent that dissolves everything but diamonds- in a giant cube of concrete in one such location. While checking to see if it had been stolen, Gyro comments on the ease of finding an abandoned warehouse.

 

* The climax of ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' takes place in an abandoned warehouse that's being used to house the Vasyn.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* The final battle between [[Highlander|Connor MacLeod]] and the Kurgan takes place in an abandoned warehouse - which is soon seriously short of window glass.

 

* ''[[John Connolly]]'': Every Dead Thing has a particularly horrible one of these {{spoiler|where Parker discovers ''the bodies of dozens of murdered children''.}}

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': The White Council uses an abandoned warehouse in Chicago for trying and executing violators of the Laws of Magic.

* The Port in ''[[Septimus Heap]]'' is ''filled'' with these, mostly for goods impounded by the super-strict Port Customs Office. One of them becomes critical in ''Physik'' as the place where the [[Time Machine|Glass]] is.

 

* Just about every episode of [[The Sixties|the 1960s]] ''[[Batman]]'' TV series had the villain's hideout located in an abandoned warehouse.

* Parodied in the ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' episode "The Thrilla in Phila." When discussing where their grudge match should take place, Joey the Rat and Cory have the following exchange:

* The ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Ashes and Dust" has an arsonist who likes to watch his victims burn to death and a man dying of leukemia who's disgusted and angered that the arsonist is using the group he founded to target victims. The arsonist gets lured by the man to an abandoned building filled with highly flammable material. When the arsonist asks how the man plans to escape, he says, "I don't," and lights the building up, killing them both. Doubles as a [[Thanatos Gambit]] and a [[Dying Moment of Awesome]].

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* A large chunk of the levels in the ''[[Unreal]]'' series (especially [[Unreal Tournament|the]] [[Unreal Tournament 2004|Tournament]] [[Unreal Tournament 3|games]]) are described as being abandoned warehouses, factories, smelting plants, stress-testing labs, etc. that have been re-purposed as battle arenas.

* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' has an abandoned warehouse that seems just to be there to loot.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* The first ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' [[Season Finale]] had the characters chased into one of these, although they hid and avoided an actual fight.

* Abandoned warehouses appear in versions one, three, and four of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]''. In V1 A number of fights break out inside of it over the time the act is running, and towards the end, the warehouse is blown up altogether at the culmination in one of the most action packed scenes of the entire first game. The v3 one, on the other hand, is an abandoned military storehouse and (by implication) a rec center where the soldiers played cards. Version 4 has one that apparently used to contain logging supplies, but unfortunately the boxes remain padlocked.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

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