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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''Bonfires burning bright,''
''Pumpkin faces in the night.''
|The Misfits, "Halloween"}}
Will sometimes be added to a [[Smoke and Fire Factory]]. A character might [[Burn, Baby, Burn|burn]] something within it or someone might knock into it and become a [[Man On Fire]]. Or it might just stay in the [[Spectacle|background]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Nana from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' does one of these... with money. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], because she has [[No Social Skills]] because of her background.
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== [[Film]] ==
* The [[Hell Hotel]] in ''[[The Lost Boys]]'' is absolutely full of these.
* ''[[Batman Begins]]'' had this trope: it's how Bruce Wayne disposed of his ID before heading off to the wilds of Asia.
* ''[[Blade Runner]]''. There's one visible while Roy and Leon are walking in the street and the bicyclists are riding by. There are two visible in the street where Deckard gets an identification of the snake scale, and three of them can be seen during Deckard's pursuit of Zhora.
* ''[[The Terminator]]'' series, in the post-apocalyptic future.
* The [[Knife Nut]] villain from ''[[The Crow]]'' was killed while hanging out around one.
* Graverobber, occasional narrator of ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' is seen disgustedly throwing a tabloid newspaper into a trashcan bonfire at the very end of the film.
* Seen in ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]''.
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* ''[[RoboCop]] 2''. There some on the streets of Detroit as Robocop approaches Cain's first drug factory.
* ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]''. Several are burning at the encampment of the former Confederate soldiers before the arrival of Dr. Loveless' vehicle.
* ''[[Running Scared]]''. During the scene on the basketball court there's one in the background.
== [[Live
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* ''[[America's Got Talent]]'': The 2008 contestant Flambeaux used one of these as part of his Top 40 performance. He later stated that it was a callback to the days he spent wandering the streets of New York.
* Not homeless, but characters on ''[[
* ''[[Dark Angel]]'' featured this in parts of the city.
* The ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "Chrysalis" has a scene with, in the background, a group of homeless people huddled around a futuristic equivalent, what looks like a large orange light bulb in a frame the shape and size of an oil drum.
* Inexplicably built in ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1
* ''[[Hunter]]''. A drug dealer is killed by a [[Career Killer]], and at the end of the episode Hunter finds the man's fellow dealers commemorating his memory around a burning trashcan. They explain that this was the corner where the deceased made his first drug buy.
* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', villain mobs -- particularly The Lost -- can be found clustering around burning trashcans. ▼
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* One appears in the ''[[Bizarro]]'' [[media:
* ''[[The Wizard of Id]]'' has one in the [http://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2011/09/10#mutable_667356 comic for September 10th, 2011] when the King is looking at homeless people.
== [[Tabletop
* The ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)|Call of Cthulhu]]'' supplement ''Fearful Passages'', adventure "The Iron Ghost". There's one in the 1934 Southern Pacific car.
* ''[[Neverwhere]]'' RPG. Half-Lifers in The Arches burn cardboard in oil drums for heat.
== [[Theater]] ==
* The Nostradamus-quoting homeless woman who Hannah Pitt meets while lost in the South Bronx in ''[[Angels in America]]'' is by one of these.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Gaia Online]]'' has this as an item.
* In ''[[Deus Ex]]'', J.C. Denton approaches a group of homeless refugees clustered around an Trashcan Bonfire.
** Continued in ''[[Deus Ex: Invisible War|Invisible War]]'' where trashcan bonfires are common sights in the more slummy parts of levels.
* In the online game ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', the Hobopolis dungeon is strewn with Trashcan Bonfires.
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* These are good places to recruit fighters for your team in ''[[Freedom Fighters (video game)|Freedom Fighters]]'', especially as the game progress towards winter (New York can be pretty cold.)
* Seen in many levels in ''[[Kingpin Life of Crime]]''.
▲* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', villain
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* These turn up in ''[[Achewood]]'' during the Great Outdoor Fight arc to highlight a bleak moment.
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' brings us the concept of [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=275 Emotional Hobocore], which is all about
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' episode "Cold Slither". When Cobra Commander goes to a bad part of town to meet a loan shark, several homeless men can be seen warming their hands over one.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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[[Category:This Index Is On Fire]]
[[Category:Spectacle]]
▲[[Category:Trashcan Bonfire]]
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