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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]].
 
For the [[Adventure Game]], see ''[[Down in The Dumps (Videovideo Gamegame)|Down In The Dumps]]''.
 
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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.
* [[Depending Onon the Artist]] [[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|the EVA dumping ground]] [[The Simpsons Did It|of course]].
* Rena's hiding place in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]'' is an old van in a junkyard.
* [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Anime)|Duo]] works in a junkyard, eventually taking ownership of it with his then-girlfriend Hilde.
 
 
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* 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.
* Earth, in the 2009 ''[[Astro Boy (Filmfilm)|Astro Boy]]'' film, has become a sort of [[Landfill Beyond the Stars]] to the residents of Cloud City, who have since forgotten that they left quite a few people behind.
 
 
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* ''[[Star Wars]]'' - Leia, Luke, Hans Solo, and Chewbacca drop down a garbage chute into the disposal to avoid being trapped by stormtroopers. Now they're trapped in the garbage with a monster and walls that close in on themselves.
** There's an entire garbage ''[[Single Biome Planet|world]]'' in ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]''.
* In ''[[Max KeeblesKeeble's Big Move]]'', Max sets up a meeting between the Evil Ice Cream Man and a [[Young Entrepreneur]] in one. Pretty sure a giant magnet shows up to wreak havok.
* In ''[[Goldeneye (Film)|Goldeneye]]'', James meets his long-lost nemesis in a sort of junkyard for statues of Soviet heroes.
* The trash planet in ''[[Soldier]]''.
* ''[[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.
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== Literature ==
* The Barrens in ''[[IT]]'', the place where all the kids go to do just about anything.
* ''[[The Three Investigators (Literature)|The Three Investigators]]'' had their HQ in a junkyard.
* The climactic confrontation in ''[[Stephanie Plum|Lean Mean Thirteen]]'' takes place in a car wrecking yard and involves a compactor.
* In ''[[Percy Jackson and& Thethe Olympians (Literature)|Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]: The Titan's Curse'', Percy and crew fight the giant automaton Talos in the junkyard of the the gods.
 
 
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* ''[[Junkyard Wars]]''. Duh.
* The [[Batman Cold Open]] of an early ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode takes place in a junk yard, complete with big magnet.
* The very first episode of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', "An Unearthly Child" has the TARDIS located in a junkyard. Much later and much, much farther away, the episode "The Doctor's Wife" also took place in a junk yard.
 
 
== Music ==
* The [[Gorillaz (Music)|Gorillaz]] current <s> hideout</s> studio, Plastic Beach, is essentially a giant floating landfill.
** It gets sort of [[Nightmare Fuel|Nightmare Fuel-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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== Video Games ==
* Adventure game ''[[Down in The Dumps (Videovideo Gamegame)|Down in The Dumps]]'' mainly takes place, well, [[Exactly What It Says Onon 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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Earthworm Jim]]'' game, is a giant junk heap complete with guard dogs and a construction worker boss.
* ''[[Breath of Fire]] III'' has Junk Town, a coastal town that collects and repairs scrap machinery parts washed ashore.
* Effluvia the garbage planet in ''[[Adventures Of Rad Gravity]]''.
* Dust Man's stage in ''[[Mega Man 4 (Video Game)|Mega Man 4]]'', and Junk Man's stage in ''7''.
** The former example returns in [[ROM Hack]] ''[[Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity]]''.
** And Morph Moth's in ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]] 2''.
* Blighttown in ''[[Dark Souls]]'', a ramshackle, vertical collection of platforms and ladders that stretches from the Undead Burg Sewers to a poisonous swamp.
* The Junkyard from ''[[Legend of Mana]]'' combines this with [[Toy Time]]. All the derelict toys found here are actually weapons employed in a war long time ago that were eventually discarded.
* The fourth area, Delphinus, in ''[[Strange Journey]]'', is modeled after a massive junkyard. It represents mankind's wasteful nature, and is ruled over by the Tyrant Asura, a [[Social Darwinist]] who is convinced that the only way mankind can survive is to abandon all civilized impulses. To that end, the instant the investigative team sets foot in Delphinus, they get hit with a [[Hate Plague]]...
* The second stage of ''[[Vigilante (Videovideo Gamegame)|Vigilante]]'' takes place in a junkyard.
 
 
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== Western Animation ==
* The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] have fought in one on many occasions.
* In ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', the trio have their hang out in the dump.
* [[Fat Albert]] and his gang hang out at the dump, and even play music using junk-based instruments.
* Timmy arranges for Chester and A.J. to rescue him from a junkyard in ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''.
* The Junkions of ''[[Transformers]]'' are on a whole planet that is a junkyard.
* This is the base of ''[[The Robonic Stooges (Animation)|The Robonic Stooges]]''.
* Also the base of the ''[[Swat Kats (Animation)|Swat Kats]]''.
* This is where the [[Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats (Animation)|Catillac Cats]] live.
* ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters]]'' takes place in an [[Elaborate Underground Base]] under a junkyard.
* ''Mickey's Trailer'' opens with [[Mickey Mouse]] stepping out of his travel trailer, greeting a new morning in a pastoral glen - he pulls a lever and the picket fence spools in, the carpet of lush grass rolls up, and the ''entire backdrop'' accordions up like a folding fan, revealing the town dump he's camping at.
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