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[[File:EmptyLondon.jpg|link=Twenty Eight28 Days Later|frame|[[Everybody's Dead, Dave|Everybody's Dead, Jim.]]]]
 
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Kino comes across one of these in ''[[Kino's Journey (Light Novel)|Kino's Journey]]'', with only one inhabitant. It turns out that the country was destroyed by rabid democracy following the death of a tyrannical king, as only direct vote by the entire people was seen as accepted way to make decisions, and the losing side was always deemed as "dangerous elements", and executed.
* Krakow in ''[[The Sky Crawlers]]'' seems like this, presumably because it's very late at night, and for stylistic reasons. The only thing moving in the dark streets is the tram that brings the protagonists in, the bowling alley is near-deserted and the only person in the restaurant apart from the main characters is the silent and almost invisible waiter.
* The deadly game of Hide and Seek from ''[[Kakurenbo]]'' take place in one. {{spoiler|It's for a good reason.}}
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== Fan Works ==
* Ehndris in ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]''.
 
 
== Film ==
* ''[[Twenty Eight Days Later|28 Days Later]]''
** This was filmed in the early hours of the morning in [[Real Life]] London. Much of the centre of town, especially the City, empties out at weekends and during the night.
** This scene was a homage to the opening of ''Day of the Triffids'' (see Literature below).
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* ''[[On the Beach]]''
* ''[[The Quiet Earth]]''
* ''[[Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Film)|Resident Evil Apocalypse]]'' {{spoiler|has one after raccoon city is subject to the [[Zombie Apocalypse]]}}
* The film version of ''[[Silent Hill (Filmfilm)|Silent Hill]]'' was inspired by the [[Real Life]] example of Centralia, Pennsylvania.
* ''[[Twelve12 Monkeys]]''
* ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'' (2001), but this is a case of [[Your Mind Makes It Real|it all being in his mind]].
* ''The World, The Flesh, And The Devil'' (1959)
* Near the end of ''[[The DevilsDevil's Advocate]]'', when the main character goes to meet with [[Satan]], the streets of New York are completely empty.
* The final scenes of ''Kairo''/''Pulse'', in which the heroine drives across a deserted Tokyo.
* In ''[[Contagion]]'', eventually the cities end up looking like this, with uncollected trash and only the occasional hazmat suited person as everyone is either staying in their homes or dead.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' Season 7 has Sunnydale become this so that they can have a [[No Endor Holocaust]] ending.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' several times.
** Played with in "Voyage of the Damned" (new series Christmas special), where London appears to be a ghost city populated by a few trigger-happy residents. It turns out that [[Genre Savvy|people have gotten so used to horrible things happening every Christmas]] that they decided to stay out of town for a few days and avoid all the fuss.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''
* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' "Tikka To Ride"
* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series|Star Trek]]'' "Miri".
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episodes "Bane", "Ascension", "2001" and "Menace".
* Season 1 and 2 of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' featured plenty of these as Sharon and Helo made their way to Delphi. While major cities like Caprica City were nuked properly and thoroughly, other cities such as Delphi and several unnamed ones were surprisingly intact. It is later revealed that the Cylons left these cities intact deliberately so that they could settle.
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* The ruined cities in ''[[GURPS]] [[GURPS Reign of Steel|Reign Of Steel]]'' that are too small for the AIs to bother with.
* Pretty much every major city in ''[[Deadlands]]: Hell On Earth'', due to ghost-rock bombs that kill everything around them while leaving the infrastructure more or less intact. Does not apply to smaller cities, which were usually hit by conventional nukes and obliterated.
* ''[[Orpheus]]'' takes this to an extreme by showing abandoned cities in the [[World -Wrecking Wave|post-maelstrom]] world of the dead. That's right...there are Ghost Cities in the world of the ghosts. Two highlights:
** The completely empty ruins of a nameless city, implied to be the once-bustling Stygia, the capital of the kingdom of the Western dead.
** Necropolis New York City, where the maelstrom was so powerful it actually fused all of the ghosts within with the ruins of the city itself.
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* The end of ''[[Doom]]'', and the middle part of ''[[Doom]] II''.
* Silverspring from ''[[Heretic]]'' and ''Heretic 2'', first time because of a evil wizard and his army, second time because of a magical disease.
* The Kingdom of Sorrow in ''[[Klonoa (Video Game)|Klonoa]] 2: Lunatea's Veil.''
* The city of Fairport is turned into one of these in the ''[[FEARF.E.A.R.]]'' series.
* The fate of most cities on {{spoiler|Gran Pulse}} in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''. The sequel game implies that there may be more to the planet than the heroes originally discovered, however.
* Along with the example of Prypiat mentioned in the Real Life section, ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' also has a second one briefly {{spoiler|when a nuke sets off in the capital city at the end of "Shock and Awe" - the last images that [[Player Character|Sgt. Paul Jackson]] sees before succumbing to his injuries is of a ruined, eerily silent city that maybe ten minutes prior was awash in fierce gunfire.}}
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Shifters]]'' there are several examples of this trope. Many sections of The Undercity (beneath the [[Mega City|MegaCity]] where the comic is set. Whole towns were covered over by the growth of the [[Mega City|MegaCities]] and were effectively abandoned. Further there are many cities and towns in the areas effected by the "Nuclear Incident" that gave rise to the [[Mega City|MegaCities]] themselves which are now empty of all life.
 
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance (Roleplay)|The Gamers Alliance]]'', Dar'Cenrath, the capital of what became known as the Ruined Kingdom, ends up as a ghost city when its population is wiped out by a destructive spell. The heroes of the Grand Alliance visit it hundreds of years later, and it ends up playing an important part as the birthplace of the Godslayer as well as the prison of the mad god Shakkan.
 
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