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* The world of ''[[Toriko]]'' was ravaged by war in the past. Then the legendary chef Acacia invited the world leaders to a full-course meal consisting of ingredients from the Gourmet World. After eating the main course called "GOD", the world leaders experienced enlightenment and worked together to bring about peace.

* In [[The World God Only Knows]], the civil war between the [[Noble Demon|good demons]] and their former rulers rendered Hell a desolate wasteland, forcing the New Devils to live in floating cities. As a result, {{spoiler|[[The Remnant|Vintage]] plans to [[Hell on Earth|resurrect Old Hell in the bountiful human world]]}}.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'' is a comic series that takes place in a world where a biological event has wiped out half the mammals on Earth; specifically, the males. The main character and his monkey, plus a few exceptions, are the last living Y-chromosome carriers, and since our protagonist's fiance was in Australia at that time and he's still loyal to her, things are nowhere near as rosy as that scenario might suggest. The civilization of the world falls into chaos as infrastructure and industry collapse (not so much because [[Stay in the Kitchen|women can't run things]], but because there aren't ''enough'' of them, and even fewer with the necessary training) but, a few years into the series' real-time run, the all-female society has more-or-less started to function again.

** The DC comic miniseries ''Me and Joe Priest'' postulated a lower-key version of ''Y'', with all human males (save the eponymous cleric) and most human females losing the ability to sire children. Much like ''Children of Men'', the population largely gets older and older and waits to die.

** And then there's the time Silver comes from (200 years in the series' future), where an unexplained disaster has completely destroyed the world, except for a few isolated pockets of civilization.

* ''[[Kamandi]], The Last Boy On Earth''. This Jack Kirby series had [[Schizo-Tech]] run rampant and [[Funny Animal]]s ruling feudal nations. Done by [[DC Comics]], although it didn't originally tie into [[The DCU]].

* ''V for Vendetta'' is set in a world that was almost completely destroyed by a nuclear war, presumably only the British Islands are still intact; it's mentioned at one point that "there is no Africa any more".

* ''[[The Walking Dead]]'', and the TV series based off of it.

 

== Fan Works ==

* Part of the premise of the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic, ''[[End of Ponies]]''.

** A popular fan speculation takes the show's [[Schizo-Tech]] and some apparently human-oriented objects (benches, tools, a train with a locomotive engine but is pulled by manual power) and draws the conclusion that Equestria is a distant post-apocalyptic [[Scavenger World]] built on the ruins of human civilization.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Zardoz]]''

* ''[[Dead End Drive-In]]''

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[Community]]'' epsiode [[Community/Recap/S1/E23 Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare]] invokes this trope (and related tropes) [[For Laughs]]. After Dean Pelton announced the prize to the school's paintball competition (priority scheduling), almost all of the students destroy each other and their school almost immediately.

* Happens in ''[[Aftermath: Population Zero|Aftermath]]''. ''Population Zero'' deals with the aftermath of humanity's sudden disappearance. Every other episode, in one way or another, always involves an apocalyptic scenario, but ''World Without Oil'' and ''Population Overload'' have optimistic outcomes. Despite the hypothetical scenarios in those two involving [[The End of the World as We Know It]], [[World Half Full|the world is still half full]], as shown by humanity getting back on its feet by the end. However, [[Anvilicious|the narrator is quick to point out that the scenario resulted in destruction and death in each of said episodes]].

 

== Music ==

* ''Aftermath!'' is an old [[Scavenger World]] game, and it's slim pickings since it's a few generations after the end. There's lots of scenarios for the setting, lots of little rules systems for simulating special cases, lots of genetically engineered life forms and [[Schizo-Tech]] and you are as likely to die of [[Wizard Needs Food Badly|starvation and exposure]] as violence.

* ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' is by default [[Hit So Hard the Calendar Felt It|set ten years after]] [[The End of the World as We Know It|the Fall]], in which [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|the TITANs reached godlike power]] and [[Earth-That-Was|reduced Earth to a scarred wreck]] haunted by vicious swarms of carnivorous nanobots and other, nastier surprises.

 

== Toys ==

* The Bara Magna setting in ''[[Bionicle]]'', the [[Desert Punk]] remains of a larger planet after an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]].

 

== Video Games ==

* Implied to be the case in ''[[Portal 2]]'', although its unclear if the world has actually ended or if the computers running the place merely think it has, on account of the fact that the whole facility has fallen apart in the time since the events of the first game

 

* ''[[A Moment of Peace]]'' is a [[Lighter and Softer]] version of a post-apocalyptic [[Scavenger World]].

* [[UNA Frontiers]]. Notable for taking place three hundred years later, and for the conspicuous lack of biker gangs.

* ''[[Shifters]]'' takes place in 2034 after a "Nuclear Incident" gave rise to [[Mega City|MegaCities]] where [[Our Werebeasts Are Different|Werebeasts]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampires]], and other races live and fight [[Invisible to Normals|unknown to the greater human population]].

* ''[[What It Takes]]'' which takes place after most of civilization has died. Commonly referred to as "the flip."

 

== Web Original ==

* [http://vimeo.com/31894179 Rosa] is set after humans left cyborgs to fix the ecosystem they destroyed by causing all natural life to disappear.

* Several stories in ''[[Hitherby Dragons]]'', although the intro to "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120321151601/http://imago.hitherby.com/2004/09/the-arena-and-what-happened-there/ The Arena and what happened there]" sums it up rather well.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Strongly implied in ''[[Thundercats]]'' and ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]].'' The planet is called Third Earth, there are remnants of [[Lost Technology]], and in the original Mumm-Ra mentions how he remembers when it was once First Earth.

* [[Samson and Sally]] takes place in a world where the environment is all but destroyed, and cities are sunk. And, for some reason, people have started whaling again.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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