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Dumps and junkyards are a common setting for fights, club houses, secret meetings, and the various other fantastic situations fictional characters get themselves into. There's something about
▲Dumps and junkyards are a common setting for fights, club houses, secret meetings, and the various other fantastic situations fictional characters get themselves into. There's something about dumps-- everything there is dirty, old, worn out, broken. Symbolically, it's a place of decay; pragmatically, there's lots of junk to play with, and it can be broken [[Stuff Blowing Up|or blown up]] without having to worry about property damage.
Expect towering columns of crushed cars and neat piles of assorted garbage, perfect for hiding behind; a giant magnet or claw that can be easily operated by someone without training; a [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]] leading into a crushing machine or incinerator; plenty of [[Trash Talk]]; and [[Real Is Brown|brown]].
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For the [[Adventure Game]], see ''[[Down in The Dumps (video game)|Down In The Dumps]]''.
"Junkyard" redirects here. Not to be confused with the 2012 [[Short Film]] "Junkyard".
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* The Season 2 preview of ''[[Tower of God]]'' shows the new protagonist confidently claming to conquer the tower while lying in a dumpster.
* [[Depending on the Artist]] [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|the EVA dumping ground]] [[The Simpsons Did It|of course]].
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* [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Duo]] works in a junkyard, eventually taking ownership of it with his then-girlfriend Hilde.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Xander sets up his out-of-school workshop in his Uncle Rory's junkyard in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]/[[The Addams Family (1991 film)|The Addams Family]]/[[Harry Potter]]'' crossover ''[[Alexander Harris and the Shadow Council]]''. It's there he does most of his innovative work in the magiphysics of wands.
== [[Film
* The climax of ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' is in a dump, with a giant magnet chasing the heroes around and tossing them into the [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]. Particularly depressing since all the cars being discarded are sentient and singing about their glory days before their owners abandoned them as "worthless", while on a conveyor belt leading them into a machine that is going to crush and kill them. In a kids movie.
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'': {{spoiler|After trying to avoid it the whole movie, the heroes wind up in the dump, and nearly die in the [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]. Luckily, there's a claw machine...}}
* The first half of ''[[WALL-E]]'' is set in a giant dump, aka the planet Earth.
* One of the characters in ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' lives in a scrap metal yard; he's a modern artist who uses the trash to make sculptures. It's also a useful place to hide (and feed) the eponymous giant.
* Earth, in the 2009 ''[[Astro Boy (film)|Astro Boy]]'' film, has become a sort of [[Landfill Beyond the Stars]] to the residents of Cloud City, who have since forgotten that they left quite a few people behind.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' - Leia, Luke, Hans Solo, and Chewbacca drop down a garbage chute into the disposal to avoid being trapped by stormtroopers. Now they're trapped in the garbage with a monster and walls that close in on themselves.
** There's an entire garbage ''[[Single Biome Planet|world]]'' in ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]''.
* In ''[[Max Keeble's Big Move]]'', Max sets up a meeting between the Evil Ice Cream Man and a [[Young Entrepreneur]] in one. Pretty sure a giant magnet shows up to wreak havok.
* In ''[[
* The trash planet in ''[[Soldier]]''.
* ''[[Corvette Summer]]'' (1978) starts in an auto junkyard, as a group of high school kids look for a car to fix up as their auto shop project for the year.
* Pretty much all of Richard Lester's post-apocalyptic black comedy ''The Bed-Sitting Room'' is filmed in real-life junk pile locations.
* In ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* The Barrens in ''[[IT]]'', the place where all the kids go to do just about anything.
* ''[[The Three Investigators]]'' had their HQ in a junkyard.
* The climactic confrontation in ''[[Stephanie Plum|Lean Mean Thirteen]]'' takes place in a car wrecking yard and involves a compactor.
* In ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians|Percy Jackson
== [[Live
* ''[[Steptoe and Son]]''
* ''[[Salvage 1]]'' mostly took place in a junkyard.
* ''[[Junkyard Wars]]''. Duh.
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* The very first episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "An Unearthly Child" has the TARDIS located in a junkyard. Much later and much, much farther away, the episode "The Doctor's Wife" also took place in a junk yard.
== [[Music]] ==▼
* The [[Gorillaz]]
▲== Music ==
** It gets sort of [[Nightmare Fuel
▲* The [[Gorillaz]] current <s> hideout</s> studio, Plastic Beach, is essentially a giant floating landfill.
▲** It gets sort of [[Nightmare Fuel|Nightmare Fuel-y]] when you realize that it's based on [[wikipedia:Great Pacific Garbage Patch|a real location]].
** Their old home base, Kong Studios, was surrounded by a dump as well. The song "We Are Happy Landfill" is about it.
* In the ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)|Call of Cthulhu]]'' supplement ''Cthulhu Now''
==
▲* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''Cthulhu Now'', adventure "The Killer Out of Space". A auto junkyard is of prime importance: it has giant electromagnets that can be used to trap the main opponent, a Colour Out of Space.
▲== Video Games ==
* Adventure game ''[[Down in The Dumps (video game)|Down in The Dumps]]'' mainly takes place, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|in the dumps]].
* Gordon Freeman gets caught in a [[Star Wars]]-esque trash compactor in ''[[Half Life]]'', as does Adrian Shepard in ''Opposing Force''
* The Level "The Enemy Of My Enemy" from ''[[Call of Duty
* The game ''[[Disney Epic Mickey]]'' has [[Mickey Mouse]] traversing Mickeyjunk Mountain, which is a huge heap of old Mickey Mouse merchandise. Oh, the irony...
* New Junk City, the first level of the first ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]'' game, is a giant junk heap complete with guard dogs and a construction worker boss.
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* The second stage of ''[[Vigilante (video game)|Vigilante]]'' takes place in a junkyard.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The kids of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20180316144511/http://centralcitytower.blogspot.com/2010/02/continuing-where-we-left-off-we-present.html Project 0]'' frequent a 'Machine Graveyard.' Owen's [[Abandoned Warehouse|home]] probably counts too.▼
==
▲* The kids of [http://centralcitytower.blogspot.com/2010/02/continuing-where-we-left-off-we-present.html Project 0] frequent a 'Machine Graveyard.' Owen's [[Abandoned Warehouse|home]] probably counts too.
* The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] have fought in one on many occasions.
* In ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', the trio have their hang out in the dump.
* [[Fat Albert]] and his gang hang out at the dump, and even play music using junk-based instruments.
* Timmy arranges for Chester and A.J. to rescue him from a junkyard in ''[[The Fairly
* The Junkions of ''[[Transformers]]'' are on a whole planet that is a junkyard.
* This is the base of ''[[The Robonic Stooges]]''.
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