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And guess what... it's [[Truth in Television]], as you can see in [http://www.squalorsurvivors.com/ this site!]

 

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* The entirety of Earth in ''[[WALL-E]]''. So much, that Wall-E was making skyscrapers from the blocks of trash he compacted.

* The airport in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' has a mountain ridge of trash running through it due to the janitorial staff being on strike.

 

 

{{quote| "No way these are my boxers. These ''bend''!"}}

* In ''[[The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul (Literature)|The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul]]'', Dirk Gently is having a standoff with his cleaning lady over who will open the fridge first; it hasn't been opened in several months. The rest of his flat is in a similar state. Eventually, Dirk just buys a new fridge and has the old one carted off, [[It Came From the Fridge|where it spawns a new demon/god]] which conveniently eats the escaping 'villains'.

* ''[[Roadside Picnic (Literature)|Roadside Picnic]]'' by the [[Strugatsky Brothers]] demonstrates what happens when [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] have this trait. (For those not in the know, this book was the basis for ''[[STALKER]]''.)

* The Wyler/Garin household in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Regulators (Literature)|The Regulators]]''. Autistic 8-year-old Seth {{spoiler|and evil possessing entity Tak}} doesn't care what the place is like, and his aunt/guardian Audrey, the only surviving adult in the household, has much bigger problems occupying her time and energy.

* A morbid example from ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''; [[Evil Counterpart|Chaos]] [[Super Soldier|Space Marines]] of the [[The Berserker|World]] [[Axe Crazy|Eaters]] Legion wear power armor known for its distinctive crimson paint scheme. At least, it was assumed to be a paint scheme. As learned by a slave forced to clean a suit, their armor actually bears its original blue and white paint; the red is actually layer upon layer of [[Rustproof Blood|blood]], caked on from countless victims over the millennia.

** Seems the author [[Did Not Do the Research]]. Old, caked blood isn't crimson, it's ''[[Color Coded for Your Convenience|black]]'', or, if it's somewhat fresh and in a thin enough layer, a kind of rusty red. In fact, dried bloodstains are often almost impossible to distinguish from the rust stains without proper chemicals. It's kinda understandable, given that the main oxygen-bearing agent in a human blood is, well, ''rust''.

 

 

** "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, depicted in the documentary film ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Gardens Grey Gardens]'', were another famous real-life example.

* In 2007, the entire city of Naples, Italy was subjected to this. Factors blamed were incompetent local government, restrictive environmental laws, and in-fighting among organized crime.

* [[Incendiary Exponent|The burning of]] [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1642 the Cuyahoga River] in [[Cleveland]]. When a ''body of water'' becomes flammable, you know you have a pollution problem.

** Which time? It caught on fire at least thirteen times between 1868 and 1969.

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