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A stock [[Settings]] for any work set in [[Suburbia]], [['''The Mall]]''' can be seen as the modernized version of the Main Streets that populate [[Everytown, America]]. Stores lined up along clean hallways populated by teenagers, parents with kids, and elderly people who have little better to do than walk around the mall all day. Will usually have a movie theater, a central meeting place (often with a fountain), and a food court. A job at a mall store is usually treated as second only to [[Burger Fool|working in fast food]] in the hierarchy of Most Humiliating Jobs for Teenagers (bonus points if they work at a fast-food restaurant located ''inside'' a mall). The security guards will often be depicted as guys who washed out of (or were rejected from) basic training or the police academy, have an inflated sense of entitlement, and have nothing better to do than harass our heroes over trivial matters.

* The [[Dueling Movies]] ''[[ObserveandObserve and Report]]'' and ''[[Paul Blart: Mall Cop]]'' were about mall security guards.

* The original ''[[Dawn of the Dead (Filmfilm)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' used its mall setting to compare American consumers to zombies.

* ''[[Valley Girl (Filmfilm)|Valley Girl]]''.

* ''[[Fast Times Atat Ridgemont High]]''.

* ''[[Bad Santa (Filmfilm)|Bad Santa]]'' is about a crooked [[Mall Santa]] and his [[Christmas Elves|elf assistant]] who rob malls every Christmas.

* The [[Roger Corman]]-produced sci-fi/[[Slasher Movie]] flick ''Chopping Mall'', in which the robotic security system at a mall [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|malfunctions]] and starts killing the people who snuck in after-hours.

* The derisive term "mallcore" is often used to describe any genre of [[Heavy Metal (Music)|metal]] music (such as [[Nu-metal]], [[Metalcore]] and [[Deathcore]]) that is perceived as being "[[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|too mainstream]]." Whether this is a legitimate concern borne out of bad memories of [[Hair Metal]], or a case of elitism and snobbery, is [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|an argument best left for another article]].

* Both ''[[Dead Rising]]'' games are set primarily or partially in malls, as an [[Homage]] to [[Dawn of the Dead (Filmfilm)|George Romero]].

* The second stage of ''[[Monster Madness]]: Battle for Suburbia'' takes place in a mall, complete with a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Dawn of the Dead (Filmfilm)|Dawn of the Dead]]'':

{{quote| "I think there's a metaphor for something in all this."}}

* ''[[Dead Space 2 (Video Game)|Dead Space 2]]'' has the Concourse, a mall-like section of the Sprawl.

* ''[[Mall Fight (Roleplay)|Mall Fight]]'' takes place in a magic mall that is big enough to be an alternate universe all its own. It has whatever store the Fighter's wish it to have, as well.

* ''[[Sixteen6teen]]'' has the mall as its chief setting.