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{{trope}}
[[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.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* The Season 2 preview of ''[[Tower of God]]'' shows the new protagonist confidently claming to conquer the tower while lying in a dumpster.
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* ''[[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.
* In ''[[Film/A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors|A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors]]'', Freddy Krueger's body was hidden in the trunk of an old car at the dump after the parents of Elm Street burned him alive, and to defeat Krueger his body has to be recovered from the dump and given a proper burial. The same dump appears as a setting in the fourth movie, when Freddy reawakens.
 
 
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' &and its [[Trans-Atlantic Equivalent]] ''[[Sanford and Son]]'' both took place in junkyards.
* ''[[Salvage 1]]'' mostly took place in a junkyard.
* ''[[Junkyard Wars]]''. Duh.
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== 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]]-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.
 
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* 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 Level "The Enemy Of My Enemy" from ''[[Call of Duty]] : [[Modern Warfare]] 2'' is set in U.S. Vehicle Disposal Yard 437 Aka "The Boneyard", a dump for old military vehicles. The Special Ops mission "Snatch and Grab" and the multiplayer levels "Scrapyard" and "Trailer Park" are set in the same location while the map "Salvage" is based on a different snow-covered junk yard.
* 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.
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== Webcomics ==
* The kids of ''[http://centralcitytower.blogspot.com/2010/02/continuing-where-we-left-off-we-present.html Project 0]''{{Dead link}} frequent a 'Machine Graveyard.' Owen's [[Abandoned Warehouse|home]] probably counts too.
 
 
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