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* ''Anime/{{Shelter|2016}}'': There are a couple times during the short film where the camera focuses on a barren and/or ruined landscape: the first is when Rin is in the bath and there's a desolate landscape outside her room; the second, during the flashback section where the news displays Tokyo in ruins; and the third when there is a brief shot of Shigeru and a young Rin looking over the oncoming destruction.

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See also GhostCity, EarthAllAlong, RuinsOfTheModernAge, and SceneryGorn. May feature in {{Mordor}}, the PollutedWasteland, or the DoomedHometown after its demise.

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See also GhostCity, GhostTown, EarthAllAlong, RuinsOfTheModernAge, and SceneryGorn. May feature in {{Mordor}}, the PollutedWasteland, or the DoomedHometown after its demise.



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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' absolutely [[SceneryGorn revels in this]].

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%% Needs context * ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' absolutely [[SceneryGorn revels in this]].



* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': The first visit to [[AbandonedArea Freeway 42]] starts with a panning camera across the area showing it in ruins after it was decimated by the [[UnwillingRoboticisation Mechanika Virus]].



* ''GDarius'' does this twice. The first is the route Zeta opening; your craft passes a doomed space colony crushed by debris. The insides look very pretty until it's torn up bit by bit. The real one comes in route Omikron opening (final stage, G.T.'s route). Your craft fights in a darkened area with rain effects. However, every once in a while, lightning lights up the area. The spectacle is filled with sunken buildings, roads, infrastructures, etc., culminating finally in a shot of G.T. itself. To further drive the point home, the stage name is ''Grave of Cultures''.

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* ''GDarius'' ''G-VideoGame/{{Darius}}'' does this twice. The first is the route Zeta opening; your craft passes a doomed space colony crushed by debris. The insides look very pretty until it's torn up bit by bit. The real one comes in route Omikron opening (final stage, G.T.'s route). Your craft fights in a darkened area with rain effects. However, every once in a while, lightning lights up the area. The spectacle is filled with sunken buildings, roads, infrastructures, etc., culminating finally in a shot of G.T. itself. To further drive the point home, the stage name is ''Grave of Cultures''.



** Also in the 06 game, panning over Crisis City.

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** Also in the 06 game, panning over Crisis City.* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': "The Ruined Zoo" opens with this, following [[VideoGame/Mother3 Lucas]] as he wanders alone through a long-abandoned, dilapidated zoo.



* In VideoGame/TheWalkingDead Season 1 Episode 4 when Kenny looks at the beached boats the camera zooms out to show the hopelessness of the situation.

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* In VideoGame/TheWalkingDead ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale'' Season 1 Episode 4 when Kenny looks at the beached boats the camera zooms out to show the hopelessness of the situation.



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* The opening narration to ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''.

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* The ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': In the 1984 anime adaptation, the first version of the opening narration to ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''.sequence features multiple pans across ruined cities when the narrator describes the aftermath of the nuclear apocalypse that set the series' events in motion.



* [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ06/DisplayOQ06.html?page=33 The scene]] in ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' where Cutter and Skywise return to the burnt out remains of the forest that used to be their home. Incidentally, the scene is drawn in charcoal, appropriately enough - that is, burnt wood.

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* [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ06/DisplayOQ06.html?page=33 The scene]] in ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' where Cutter and Skywise return to the burnt out remains of the forest that used to be their home. Incidentally, the scene is drawn in charcoal, appropriately enough - -- that is, burnt wood.

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* ''Magnetic Rose'' and ''Stink Bomb'', the first two parts of Creator/KatsuhiroOtomo's ''Memories''. In ''Magnetic Rose'', it's when the mansion's holograms fail and its ruin is revealed. In ''Stink Bomb'', it's when the protagonist sees all the dead animals. What really gets him, though, is how sunflowers and cherry blossoms are in bloom at the same time.



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* In the 2008 version of ''[[WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008 Horton Hears a Who!]]'', a very chilling one occurs of Whoville after Vlad drops it. A very sad contrast to the lively, carefree world it was not half an hour earlier.

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* In the 2008 version of ''[[WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008 Horton Hears a Who!]]'', ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008'', a very chilling one occurs of Whoville after Vlad drops it. A very sad contrast to the lively, carefree world it was not half an hour earlier.



* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': This occurs when Simba returns to the Pridelands and sees the barren, lifeless wasteland it has become under Scar's reign.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': This occurs when Simba returns to the Pridelands and sees the barren, lifeless wasteland it has become under Scar's reign.



* ''Magnetic Rose'' and ''Stink Bomb'', the first two parts of ''Anime/{{Memories}}''. In ''Magnetic Rose'', it's when the mansion's holograms fail and its ruin is revealed. In ''Stink Bomb'', it's when the protagonist sees all the dead animals. What really gets him, though, is how sunflowers and cherry blossoms are in bloom at the same time.



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* The description of Dead London in ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.

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* The description of Dead London in ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898''.
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* In the 2008 version of ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'', a very chilling one occurs of Whoville after Vlad drops it. A very sad contrast to the lively, carefree world it was not half an hour earlier.

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* In the 2008 version of ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'', ''[[WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008 Horton Hears a Who!]]'', a very chilling one occurs of Whoville after Vlad drops it. A very sad contrast to the lively, carefree world it was not half an hour earlier.
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** Rad, in Chapter 16. The [[ItsQuietTooQuiet silence]], as well as the citizens there TakenForGranite, adds to the foreboding atmosphere.

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** Rad, in Chapter 16. The [[ItsQuietTooQuiet silence]], as well as silence]] and the [[TakenForGranite petrified]] citizens there TakenForGranite, adds add to the foreboding atmosphere.
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* Season 1 of ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' ends up with a shot of the newly formed {{Mordor}}, the once beautiful and picturesque Southlands.

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