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== Comedy ==
* The setting of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130523034634/http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?18654-Nate-the-Snake "The Longest Joke In The World"].
== [[Film]] ==
* The former [[Trope Namer]] is the Mojave Desert as portrayed in ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]''.
* Tatooine in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' universe.
* Played with in ''[[Road
* The Arabian and Sinai deserts in ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]''.
* A thirsty Micky Dolenz beats up an empty Coke machine in the middle of the desert during a memorable scene from [[The Monkees (band)|The Monkees]]' movie ''[[Head]]''.
* ''[[Spaceballs]]'':
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'''[[Robot Buddy|Dot Matrix]]''': Oil! Oil!
'''[[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense|Princess Vespa]]''': Room service! Room service! }}
* In ''[[The Way Back]]'', the protagonists are crossing the Gobi desert. {{spoiler|Two of them die of heat stroke and dehydration.}}
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* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "The Slithering Sands", [[Conan the Barbarian]] knows that the desert will kill him within a day, and strongly considers a [[Mercy Kill]] for the girl with him.
* Claims the life of {{spoiler|Arvid}} in ''[[The Emigrants]]'' tetralogy.
* Arrakis of the ''[[Dune]]'' universe is one of the driest deserts in fiction and is home to [[Sand Worm
* The Aiel Wastes in Robert Jordan's ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' series is one of the most hostile environments on the main continent. The only ones that are worse have been heavily tainted by the [[Big Bad|Dark One]].
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Parts of the Atacama Desert in South America haven't received rainfall in hundreds, possibly thousands, of years. Some areas receive moisture from coastal fog, other areas are as dead and barren as Mars.
** In its most desolate regions the Atacama is allegedly ''sterile'', as not even bacteria can survive there. When the [[Top Gear]] boys crossed the Atacama on a road trip, Jeremy Clarkson mentioned this - primarily to illustrate that co-host Richard Hammond was currently the smallest organism within a hundred miles.
* The Rub' Al Khali<ref>''The Empty Quarter''</ref> desert on the southern Arabian peninsula is one of the largest sand deserts in the world, taking up about 250,000 square miles of area. While it's not completely inhospitable (there is some life), it's close: water sources are extremely few and far between. On the flip side, though, it's geologically ''rich'', with mineral and oil deposits estimated to be worth billions.<ref>So much so that some geologists call it the Rub' Al '''G'''hali, meaning the '''Valuable''' Quarter, according to [[The Other Wiki]]</ref>
* The Taklamakan Desert in Central Asia is often considered the world's worst desert to attempt to cross. Antarctica is actually far bleaker to cross, but it's not a Thirsty Desert.
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[[Category:Tropes of Nature]]
[[Category:You Would Not Want to Live In Dex]]
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