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Closely related (possibly sub-tropes) are [[Saharan Shipwreck]] and [[Ribcage Ridge]], and often includes an [[Empathy Doll Shot]].
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== [[Art]] ==
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* One comic in the ''[[Marvelman]]'' series, featuring [[Psycho for Hire|Kid]] [[Complete Monster|Marvelman]], has London becoming just about the closest definition of [[Scenery Gorn]] after he goes on a murderous rampage through the city and gruesomely murders nearly every inhabitant in a highly disturbing manner. Some of the things shown include people running from a rain of severed hands and feet, skins hung up on clothes lines, corpses impaled on the hands of Big Ben, the Tower Bridge in ruin, mounds of severed heads, heads on pikes, cars full of people plummeting to earth, mutilated children wandering screaming through the streets, and countless dead bodies.
** [[Alan Moore|Guess who wrote both these comics.]]
** It's the page image now. Pleasant dreams, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch.]]
* [[The Invisibles]] has the blasted, holocaust-slum lands of the Outer Church, devastated cityscapes filled with impaled corpses and stalked by the nightmare figures of the Archons and their servants.
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* ''[[Black Hawk Down]]''.
* ''[[Blade Runner]]''. Almost the de-facto example of [[Scenery Gorn]], with dozens of slow camera pans depicting the Los Angeles megacity.
** [[Your Mileage May Vary]] - some would call it [[Scenery Porn]] [[What Do You Mean
* Terry Gilliam's ''[[Brazil (Film)|Brazil]]''.
* ''[[Cloverfield]]''.
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* ''[[Koyaanisqatsi]]'''s "Pruitt-Igoe" sequence.
* ''[[Wristcutters a Love Story]]'' is full of this. The movie takes place in an afterlife for people who commit suicide. It's pretty much barren wasteland with various heaps of trash strewn all over the place.
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* The city in ''[[Se7en]]'', where urban decay is exaggerated to emphasize that this is a [[Crapsack World]]. Also [[Real Is Brown]], and heavy doses of [[Film Noir]].
* Take your pick among every war movie ever made.
* The ''[[Dollars Trilogy]]'' was famous for this. While the environments were very beautiful, they were almost always parched, dusty and deadly-looking. Even the farm at the beginning of ''[[The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' is surrounded by miles of vast nothing.
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)]]!'' - The Martians are shown taking great glee in creating this. Among other things, our heroes are awarded medals in front of the wrecked Capitol building.
* ''[[The Element of Crime]]'': In the grim darkness of post-World War II Germany, there are only ruins and flooded buildings.
* ''[[Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'': Destruction of the Enterprise, and maybe the death throes of the Genesis Planet as well.
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* ''[[Warehouse 13]]'': At the end of Season 3, we get a rather graphic depiction of {{spoiler|the Warehouse being completely destroyed in an explosion}}. It's quite impressive.
* Shows up occasionally in ''[[Power Rangers]]''/''[[Super Sentai]]''. Usually in Zord fights only a few buildings, if any, are damaged. But on special occasions the city can get quite smashed up. One of the best known is of course the rampage of the Dragonzord towards the end of the Evil Green Ranger saga from ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''.
* Parodied by ''[[Community]]'' in all three of their episodes about [[What Do You Mean
== [[Music]] ==
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* Because of the post-apocalyptic setting for ''[[Fragile Dreams Farewell Ruinsofthe Moon]]'', expect areas like a deserted amusement park and subway station to be full of this trope.
* ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'': pick a world attacked by Reapers, any world. There's Earth, where you're gunning down Husks not a hundred feet from [[Humongous Mecha|Reaper Destroyers]] and their [[Hell Is That Noise|foghorns from hell]]; Palaven, where you can watch from orbit as cities are consumed by enormous firestorms; Tuchanka, where -- okay, Tuchanka was like that before, but it's still a desolate planet full of crumbling ruins and baked dirt {{spoiler|although there is still greenery there, and you can do a lot to help}}; Rannoch, which might or might not feature {{spoiler|the remnants of ''the entire quarian Migrant Fleet'' falling from orbit}}; Thessia, which is being invaded ''en masse'' by the enormous Banshee husks, made of horribly mutated and dessicated asari; and [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|the Citadel itself]], which is torn up by a Cerberus assault and sports scarred decks, charred walls, and splattered blood for the rest of the game. Suffice to say, the galaxy looks like Hell -- and it kind of is.
* ''[[Company of Heroes]]'' featured this, but in a twist, instead of immediately starting off this, you are the one doing the [[What the Hell, Hero?|destruction]]. Its a sight when you first start off, some french villas, beautiful market squares, and walls. But once the battle actually starts, artillery starts falling, blowing up houses, grenades and mortars start scarring the landscape, and tanks break apart the walls. By the end a battle, the landscape is completely changed, with only an inkling of the past beauty.
* This trope is almost the entire point of ''[[Space Funeral]]''.
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