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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{South Park}}'', the episode "2 Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", people are impacted hard by a flood caused by Stan when he crashed his boat into a beaver dam. FEMA doesn't even show up as they're too afraid to risk going through all that global warming.

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** And Metropolis, a city that had similarly been extensively damaged by Lex Luthor shortly before, was fixed magically (by GOTHAM NATIVE Zatanna the Magician) but nothing was done to restore Gotham (until, ironically, Luthor paid for the repairs to get the publicity that got him elected President.)

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* ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'': While society has pretty much entirely collapsed in Great Britain, the outbreak had not spread outside of the British Isles due to the very short period between infection and full on Rage. Granted, it has only been less than a month, and other governments may have still been trying to figure out how to help, assuming that their first aid missions weren't overrun or driven out by the spreading outbreak.

* Used as a plot point in the original ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids,'' as well as the first TV adaptation. The major conflict in the first third of the book is between one faction of survivors who were trying desperately to hold things together in central London and keep the victims of the blindness plague alive until some official relief effort turned up, and another group who'd realised that there wasn't going to be one and that the able-bodied should get out while the going was good. [[spoiler:The second group turns out to be right, and the first faction's desperate attempt to keep as many blinded and helpless people alive as possible for as long as possible [[ShootTheShaggyDog was all for nothing.]] Just because it's a CosyCatastrophe doesn't mean it can't be pretty bleak at times.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Scrambled Ed", the Cul-de-sac gets flooded thanks to Ed and Eddy unknowingly blocking their town's river mid-way with heavy material they planned to use to build a marine animal theme park (it was intended to be a ''Ride/SeaWorld'' knock-off). Because AdultsAreUseless in this show, no one comes to rescue the kids who are stuck on wood rafts suffering from heat stroke and hunger. [[DownerEnding And then the episode ends at that point]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'', the episode "The Dam Show" involves the main cast and many other people stranded on an uncharted island thanks to Firecracker Jim blowing up a dam that gets them washed up there. It's actually inverted as near the end of the episode, a FEMA officer does show up with a boat ready to go and take them home. Woody and the rest of the people celebrate that they won't go hungry after all..... [[ImAHumanitarian camera pan to the FEMA guy hogtied]] [[WhatAnIdiot and being roasted]] in a barbecue by Woody.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'', the episode "The Dam Show" involves the main cast and many other people stranded on an uncharted island thanks to Firecracker Jim blowing up a dam that gets them washed up there. It's actually inverted as near the end of the episode, a FEMA officer does show up with a boat ready to go and take them home. Woody and the rest of the people celebrate that they won't go hungry after all..... [[FacePalm camera pan to the FEMA guy hogtied]] [[WhatAnIdiot and being roasted]] in a barbecue by Woody.

* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Scrambled Ed", the Cul-de-sac gets flooded thanks to Ed and Eddy unknowingly blocking their town's river mid-way with heavy material they planned to use to build a marine animal theme park (it was intended to be a ''Ride/SeaWorld'' knock-off). Because AdultsAreUseless in this show, no one comes to rescue the kids who are stuck on wood rafts suffering from heat stroke and hunger.

* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Scrambled Ed", the Cul-de-sac gets flooded thanks to Ed and Eddy blocking their town's river mid-way with heavy material they planned to use to build a marine animal theme park (it was intended to be a ''Seaworld'' knock-off). Because AdultsAreUseless in this show, no one comes to rescue the kids who are stuck on wood rafts suffering from heat stroke and hunger.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'', the episode "The Dam Show" involves the main cast and many other people stranded on an uncharted island thanks to Firecracker Jim blowing up a dam that gets them washed up there. It's actually inverted as near the end of the episode, a FEMA officer does show up with a boat ready to go and take them home. Woody and the rest of the people celebrate that they won't go hungry after all..... [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich camera pan to the FEMA guy hogtied and being roasted in a barbecue by Woody]].

* ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': In the aftermath of the Simian Flu outbreak, FEMA was too overwhelmed from working to contain the virus and they were presumably disbanded when the U.S. government shut down indefinitely.

* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Scrambled Ed", the Cul-de-sac gets flooded thanks to Ed and Eddy blocking their town's river mid-way with heavy material they planned to use to build a marine animal theme park. Because AdultsAreUseless in this show, no one comes to rescue the kids who are stuck on wood rafts suffering from heat stroke and hunger.

* Averted in the ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' series. There ''was'' a governmental response from a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of FEMA, "CEDA". But the infection grew out of hand far too quickly for them to handle, and thus the military began to resort to more... extreme measures. Players will occasionally run into the remains of CEDA checkpoints, evacuation centers and other evidence of the initial response that was quickly overrun.

* Averted with CEDA, the fictional equivalent of FEMA, in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''. They did their best to try and contain the Green Flu and help the survivors, but in the end they had to pull out and leave the problem to the military. Going by some safe room graffiti lines and quite a few voice lines in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'', that rubbed many surviving humans the wrong way.

* ''Film/{{Super 8}}'': [[spoiler: An alien has gotten loose in a town. Rather than try for a covert operation or even "try" to save any of the several people who have already been kidnapped by it, the government evacuates the town and initiates " Walking Distance ", a.k.a., "burning the town to the ground". They don't check if everyone is out, or even try to stop people coming back in.]]
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' [[spoiler:justifies it. Bane has a nuclear bomb powerful enough to level the city, and threatens to detonate it if anyone enters or leaves Gotham (though delivering supplies is allowed). The government has no choice but to enforce this.]]

* Subverted in the ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' series. There is a FEMA organization that exists but there's a twist; it just doesn't do what people expect them to do. Mainly, they maintain the fictional equivalent of CIA black sites.
** Among other things, [[spoiler:it's directly and intentionally responsible for the disaster it's supposed to be managing, and actively trying to make it worse.]]
* The original premise of ''VideoGame/IAmAlive'' was that a massive earthquake in Chicago coincides with mass water shortages worldwide, so no early rescue teams arrived at the city.
** Subverted in the finished game with the Event, a cataclysmic series of disasters so widespread and destructive that it not only hindered relief efforts but also effectively ''destroyed'' almost all semblance of civilized order within a year after it began. This in turn left the survivors to fend for themselves...[[HumansAreBastards against other survivors]].

* Both averted and played straight in ''VideoGame/ThisWarOfMine''. Many people were evacuated at the start of the war, but many -- including your group of survivors -- missed the last evacuation and the fighting prevents the delivery of humanitarian aid or any further evacuations.

* Averted in the Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Fangame ''VideoGame/PokemonUranium''; whenever a meltdown threatens the well-being of citizens, the Rangers immediately leap into action to evacuate the area.

* Bizarrely used in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': there are three cities that you're not supposed to access before the plot sends you there, but they can easily be reached anyway. The in-game excuse is that there are earthquake warnings (which makes sense, as San Andreas is named for California's San Andreas Fault), but it's hard to believe this warrants an instant four-star wanted level (just short of SWAT teams and the FBI deploying to stop you).

* ''Film/TheCrazies'': TheRemake has the first city cordoned off and Fuel Air Bombed. Worse, they made everybody think they were evac'ing, when they really [[spoiler: were just herding them into trucks to burn them alive]]. Survivors made it to another city which was then targeted for the same treatment.

* Averted hard in the Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Fangame ''VideoGame/PokemonUranium''; whenever a meltdown threatens the well-being of citizens, the Rangers immediately leap into action to evacuate the area.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'', the episode "The Dam Show" involves the main cast and many other people stranded on an uncharted island thanks to Firecracker Jim blowing up a dam that gets them washed up there. It's actually inverted as near the end of the episode, a FEMA officer does show up with a boat ready to go and take them home. Woody and the rest of the people celebrate that they won't go hungry after all..... [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich camera pan to the FEMA guy being cooked in a barbecue by Woody]].

* In the animated series spin-off of ''Film/{{Friday}}'', in one of the episodes where a flood hit a predominantly African-American town, federal rescue teams pick up the only one white man they could find and call it a day.

* In the animated series spin-off of ''Film/Friday'', in one of the episodes where a flood hit a predominantly African-American town, federal rescue teams pick up the only one white man they could find and call it a day.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'', the episode "The Dam Show" involves the main cast and many other people stranded on an uncharted island thanks to Firecracker Jim blowing up a dam that gets them washed up there. It's actually inverted as near the end of the episode, a FEMA officer does show up with a boat ready to go and take them home. Woody and the rest of the people celebrate that they won't go hungry after all..... camera pan to the FEMA guy being cooked in a barbecue by Woody.