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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-- 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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* [[Depending on the Artist]] [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|the EVA dumping ground]] [[The Simpsons Did It|of course]].
* Rena's hiding place in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' is an old van in a junkyard.
* [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Duo]] works in a junkyard, eventually taking ownership of it with his then-girlfriend Hilde.
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* ''[[Junkyard Wars]]''. Duh.
* The [[Batman Cold Open]] of an early ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode takes place in a junk yard, complete with big magnet.
* 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]] 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.
== Tabletop RPG ==
* ''[[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.
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** And Morph Moth's in ''[[Mega Man X]] 2''.
* Blighttown in ''[[Dark Souls]]'', a ramshackle, vertical collection of platforms and ladders that stretches from the Undead Burg Sewers to a poisonous swamp.
* The Junkyard from ''[[Legend of Mana]]'' combines this with [[Toy Time]]. All the derelict toys found here are actually weapons employed in a war long time ago that were eventually discarded.
* The fourth area, Delphinus, in ''[[Strange Journey]]'', is modeled after a massive junkyard. It represents mankind's wasteful nature, and is ruled over by the Tyrant Asura, a [[Social Darwinist]] who is convinced that the only way mankind can survive is to abandon all civilized impulses. To that end, the instant the investigative team sets foot in Delphinus, they get hit with a [[Hate Plague]]...
* The second stage of ''[[Vigilante (video game)|Vigilante]]'' takes place in a junkyard.
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* This is the base of ''[[The Robonic Stooges]]''.
* Also the base of the ''[[Swat Kats]]''.
* This is where the [[Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats|Catillac Cats]] live.
* ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters]]'' takes place in an [[Elaborate Underground Base]] under a junkyard.
* ''Mickey's Trailer'' opens with [[Mickey Mouse]] stepping out of his travel trailer, greeting a new morning in a pastoral glen - he pulls a lever and the picket fence spools in, the carpet of lush grass rolls up, and the ''entire backdrop'' accordions up like a folding fan, revealing the town dump he's camping at.
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