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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.
Expect towering columns of crushed cars and neat piles of assorted garbage, perfect for hiding behind; a giant magnet or claw that can be easily operated by someone without training; a [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]] leading into a crushing machine or incinerator; plenty of [[Trash Talk]]; and [[Real Is Brown|brown]].
Taken to extremes, this idea can lead to an all-out [[Landfill Beyond the Stars]]. Our heroes might end up here after escaping via [[Trash Landing]]. See also [[Trash of the Titans]]. Not to be confused with [[Sadness Tropes]].
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For the [[Adventure Game]], see ''[[Down in The Dumps (Video Game)|Down In The Dumps]]''.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== Film -- Animation ==
* The climax of ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' is in a dump, with a giant magnet chasing the heroes around and tossing them into the [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]. Particularly depressing since all the cars being discarded are sentient and singing about their glory days before their owners abandoned them as "worthless", while on a conveyor belt leading them into a machine that is going to crush and kill them. In a kids movie.
* ''[[Toy Story]] 3'': {{spoiler|After trying to avoid it the whole movie, the heroes wind up in the dump, and nearly die in the [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]. Luckily, there's a claw machine...}}
* The first half of ''[[Wall E|WALL-E]]'' is set in a giant dump, aka the planet Earth.
* One of the characters in ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' lives in a scrap metal yard; he's a modern artist who uses the trash to make sculptures. It's also a useful place to hide (and feed) the eponymous giant.
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