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** ''[[Blame]]'' and Tsutomu Nihei's works (''Biomega'', and ''Abara'') could be the manga counterpart for this. There's enough vast, ruined cityscapes to.. well, cover the [[Crapsack World|planet]]. Definitely an [[Author Appeal]].
* The Manga version of ''[[Berserk]]'' is known for being lavishly detailed, featuring battlefields littered with corpses mangled in different ways. It's a [[Crapsack World]] full of misery and death, and the art does not flinch from depicting it.
* In the ''[[Naruto]]'' manga, we are informed that the lab of Orochimaru that Snake is headed to was for researching the Cursed Seal and this is accompanied by a lovely [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511183309/http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-349/page010.html page-and-a-half layout] of one of the escaped subject killing a dozen researchers with their blood all over the walls (including one whose head he just crushed into a wall). In the anime, [[Bowdlerised|we only see half of the bodies]] and [[Bloodless Carnage|there isn't any blood]].
* ''[[Tokyo Magnitude 80]]'' has this in abundance, including the opening and ending themes.
* ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' does this in [https://web.archive.org/web/20090215113420/http://www.onemanga.com/Tsubasa_Reservoir_Chronicles/107/08-09/ Acid] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090215072328/http://www.onemanga.com/Tsubasa_Reservoir_Chronicles/107/15/ Tokyo].
* In ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'' there are frequent shots of scenery gorn related to humans abandoning their cities and moving into massive domes.
* The first minute of ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]] 1.0'' is nothing but this. Not to mention that in the entire series (both ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' and ''Rebuild of Evangelion'') almost every time an Angel has been defeated, we get a nice shot full of this, to show all the massive damage in its detail.
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* The cover of Midnight Oil's 1984 album ''[[wikipedia:Red Sails in the Sunset (album)|Red Sails in the Sunset]]'' features a spectacular image of Sydney Harbour, with famous Opera House and Bridge, as a water-free, crater-strewn, post-nuclear-holocaust wasteland.
* Like H.G. Wells' original, ''[[Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds]]'' evokes a barren, rarefied London stricken with Red Weed, its buildings devastated by Martian weaponry—the music, especially, evokes a kind of sickness.
* Radiohead's ''Kid A'' album came with a crapload of haunting, [http://sharpinsandiego.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/radioheadkida.jpg eerie]{{Dead link}} and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130701203341/http://www.inradiobows.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/radioheadsaturday.jpg apocalyptic] landscapes, featuring [http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/00f07c4aa0a4a19e91fcfcef4f6227f9c1fd98a7_m.jpg blood-filled swimming pools]{{Dead link}}, razor-teethed modified bears, [http://www.popmatters.com/images/features_art/k/kida51.jpg giant sperm monsters] and snowy mountains smeared with blood and grime. This carried on in their next album Amnesiac.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Though some places are less [[Grimdark]] than others, official art of Imperial cities in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' counts as this ''before'' the conflicts that blast them into ruins. [[Nothing but Skulls|Mountains of skulls]], the [[Kill It with Fire|charred remains]] of witches or mutants hanging from gibbets lining the streets, [[Church Militant|gothic cathedrals]] towering over throngs of hollow-eyed citizens, ominous [[Wretched Hive|hive cities]] dotting industrial wastelands covering entire planets...
** The ''Planetstrike'' expansion allows Scenery Gorn of the do-it-yourself variety. Scenarios consists of a defender setting up a fortress, and the attacker blowing it to hell with orbital bombardments and drop troops. One battle report displayed before-and-after pics of the battlefield - the "before" image was a standard-issue Imperial desert fortress encrusted with fortifications, and the "after" image was mainly craters, still-bubbling laser beam scars, and similar wreckage.
* ''[[Rifts]]'' wallows in this, between the post-apocalyptic ruins, the [[Cyberpunk]] aesthetic of the cities, and the [[Eldritch Abomination|Alien Intelligences]] and their magical creations and experiments. External and internal artwork is full of Scenery Gorn; check out the cover of [https://web.archive.org/web/20081015235556/http://www.palladiumbooks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1001&Product_Code=869 Madhaven], for example.
* ''[[Wraith: The Oblivion]]'' and the later books of ''[[Orpheus]]'' go into great detail describing the Shadowlands, the realm of the dead. Places and things with strong emotional attachments that are destroyed in the world of the living still exist in there, but greatly damaged and decayed and crammed in together with other things from different eras. Necropoli, or reflections of still living cities, are particularly prone to this, as are places strongly associated with death; several places associated with the Holocaust are so horrific they get their own very disturbing yet surprisingly respectful [http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Charnel_Houses_of_Europe%3A_The_Shoah volume]. As it takes place [[After the End|after a huge Underworld cataclysm]], ''Orpheus'' makes the Shadowlands an even nastier place to be.
* The blasted landscape of Dominaria in [[Magic: The Gathering]]'s ''Time Spiral'' block is as much a star as the characters going through the block's storyline.
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* The ''[[Nightmare Ned]]'' video game features some really scary scenes, as per the name.
* Planet Helghan from ''[[Killzone]] 2''.
* ''[[American McGee's Alice]]'' has this in spades. It's hard to single out just one screenshot for comparison, but [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_g9A4qUX6pZ0/S9CIIt7pD2I/AAAAAAAAAhc/p1kq_m3rGoI/s1600/American_McGee%27s_Alice.jpg this]{{Dead link}} pretty much sums up the mood of the new "Wonderland" created by Alice's unbalanced mind.
** Its sequel, ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'' wavers between gorgeous scenery porn (Oriental area) and horrific scenery gorn (the Hatter's Domain) until {{spoiler|Queensland}}. Then gorn rules the day.
* Certain areas of ''[[StarCraft II]]'', particularly when the Zerg come calling. Tarsonis, Tyrador, and Aiur are big on crumbling buildings, corpses, infestation, and creep, but none of them to the gleeful extent of <s> Mordor</s> Char, especially in "The Gates Of Hell".
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* ''[[Romantically Apocalyptic]]'' has some in almost ''every'' single panel.
* ''[[Lovecraft Is Missing]]'' has some [http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=486 great slums].
* The Plaguelands in ''[[Uncreation]]'' are full of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130906214451/http://uncreation.comicdish.com/?pageID=2 bizarre ruins]. What we've seen of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130906214958/http://uncreation.comicdish.com/?pageID=76 civilization] also seems pretty run-down.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Pictures of abandoned [[Motor City|Detroit]] buildings are even labeled [https://web.archive.org/web/20120114171611/http://www.guernicamag.com/features/2281/leary_1_15_11/ "ruin porn".]
* Abandoned resorts around the Salton Sea. Salton Sea was created by accident in 1905, and saw massive development starting in the 1920's, resorts and marinas popped up all over. But having no outlet (all water which comes in ultimately evaporates) and fed primarily with agricultural runoff and prone to flooding, the water turned toxic by the 60's and mass fish kills turned the place into a stinking cesspit and guests and owners alike packed up and abandoned everything rapidly. It's not only known for the gorn of decaying buildings but the alien landscape of cracked salt-encrusted, dead earth and isolated pools of unnatural green-colored water.
* Abandoned nuclear missile silos, often full of vintage equipment, and partially flooded.
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