Down in the Dumps: Difference between revisions

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[[File:Dump 9547.jpg|link=The Brave Little Toaster|frame|It all ends here, one way or another...]]

 

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.

For the [[Adventure Game]], see ''[[Down in The Dumps (video game)|Down In The Dumps]]''.

 

 

* 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]].

* [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Duo]] works in a junkyard, eventually taking ownership of it with his then-girlfriend Hilde.

 

 

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

 

* 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.

 

* ''[[Salvage 1]]'' mostly took place in a junkyard.

* ''[[Junkyard Wars]]''. Duh.

* 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.

 

** Their old home base, Kong Studios, was surrounded by a dump as well. The song "We Are Happy Landfill" is about it.

 

 

* 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 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.

* The second stage of ''[[Vigilante (video game)|Vigilante]]'' takes place in a junkyard.

 

 

* 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.

* 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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