Trashcan Bonfire: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[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 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.

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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.

* ''[[Running Scared]]''. During the scene on the basketball court there's one in the background.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* In the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer~~|Buffy~~]] musical, during the "Walk Through the Fire" song, Buffy holds her hand up to a trashcan bonfire when singing "I touch the fire and it freezes me."

* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' musical episode, during the "Walk Through the Fire" song, Buffy holds her hand up to a trashcan bonfire when singing "I touch the fire and it freezes me."

** The second episode of ''[[Angel]]'' has a Trashcan Bonfire. The [[Monster of the Week]] tries to stick Angel's head in it, but ends up getting set on fire himself.

* The second episode of ''[[Angel]]'' has a Trashcan Bonfire. The [[Monster of the Week]] tries to stick Angel's head in it, but ends up getting set on fire himself.

* ''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.

* ''[[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 ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' would be seen huddling around trashcan bonfires in mid-winter.

* ''[[Dark Angel]]'' featured this in parts of the city.

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* Inexplicably built in ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1/E23 Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare]], even though the game has only been going for a few hours at this point.

* ''[[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.

== MMORPGs ==

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* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', villain mobs—particularly The Lost—can be found clustering around burning trashcans.

== [[Music]] ==

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* ''[[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 ~~RPG~~]] ==

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''Fearful Passages'', adventure "The Iron Ghost". There's one in the 1934 Southern Pacific car.

* 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.

* 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]] ==

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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]]''.

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* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', villain mobs—particularly The Lost—can be found clustering around burning trashcans.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[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.

* 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]] ==