History Main / ReclaimedByNature

* "The Last Bastion" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to8yh83jlXg animated short]] for ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' shows that Bastion himself started off like this. After the Omnic war, he was shut down in the middle of a forest, and was soon overtaken by lichen and moss until a bird landed in front of his sensor and woke him up. One of his game skins features the moss and dirt clumps still on his body.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' Battle Royal saw the area known as Dusty Depot destroyed by a meteor at the end of season 3, which then became Dusty Divot at the start of season 4. At the start of season 5, a fully grown forest has reclaimed the impact crater.

* Once TheVillain that threatened to clearcut ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'' has been defeated, both he and his hijacked machine, the Leveler, get shrouded in flora. With the help of magic fairies, plants galore sprout around, into and through the GiantMecha, breaking it with expanding stalks and tendrils. The whole conversion takes mere minutes.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Since the bulk of the story is about a handful of explorers checking out what has become of areas that were abandonned during a ninety year old ZombieApocalypse, plenty of old human structures taken over by plants and animals show up.

* This is commonly referred to as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession Ecological succession]]. Although it's more quickly evident in abandoned farms and other places that already have soil (secondary succession), it can happen on concrete and asphalt too (primary succession) through the same processes that allow life to colonize bare rock. Numerous abandoned structures can attest to this.

* In ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' it's shown to be happening to the newer park as well.

Compare to NewEden, where society can benefit and start anew after nature has erased what they created countless ages ago. Contrast RagnarokProofing, where society builds something that ''will'' withstand the test of time. Could overlap with, RuinsOfTheModernAge, GaiasVengeance and HumanitysWake. A GreenThumb with an EcoTerrorist bent may deliberately invoke this trope with their powers.

Compare to NewEden, where society can benefit and start anew after nature has erased what they created countless ages ago. Contrast RagnarokProofing, where society builds something that ''will'' withstand the test of time. Could overlap with GaiasVengeance and HumanitysWake. A GreenThumb may deliberately invoke this trope with their powers.

* ''Film/Godzilla2014'': The ruins of Janjira fifteen years after the DistantPeologue[='s=] events have suffered this. This is actually a relevant plot point, as not only is vegetation overwhelming the buildings and murky water flooding in, but the presence of wild dogs in the ruins makes Joe realize that [[spoiler:the ruins are not really irradiated at all]].
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': Due to the [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]]' {{terraform}}ing effect, it's revealed that this has happened at a rapid rate to the ruins of Las Vegas and San Francisco where Godzilla and the [=MUTOs=] rampaged during the 2014 film. It can be safely presumed it'll probably also happen in [[spoiler:Boston and perhaps other destroyed cities after this film's ending]].

* Las Vegas has been reclaimed by the desert (except for a few buildings such as the ''Circus Circus'' Casino) in the handful of years following WorldWarIII in ''Film/DamnationAlley''.

** In ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' it's shown to be happening to the newer park as well.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Arsenal Of Freedom" (S 1 E 21) has the ''Enterprise'' visit the very green planet Minos to investigate the disappearance of the starship ''Drake''. Scans indicate no life forms anywhere on Minos, but an away team finds signs of an advanced civilization there, all long overgrown by native flora. The planetary defense system, still running in demonstration mode, is the only active thing on that world that isn't vegetation.

* Commented on by Nigel in ''VideoGame/TheLostCrownAGhostHuntingAdventure'', when he examines a weed-encroached pile of broken stonework and statuary in a neglected churchyard.

* "Literature/TheWumpWorld": The peaceful, grass-eating wumps are driven underground when an alien race called the Pollutians arrives and begins building all over the planet. Eventually, they smog it up so much they have to leave... But it turns out they haven't completely destroyed the greenery, and in time it begins to grow back over the cities.

* Due to what appears to be a (possibly failed) terraforming experiment that the Space Pirates conducted between ''Super Metroid'' and ''VideoGame/Metroid1'', the entire western region of the formerly rocky-and-mechanical-looking (and also formerly Chozo-inhabited) Brinstar is covered with pink fungal growths and green grass/vines, with only extremely minimal hints of what it originally was remaining in it outside of its original "Morph Ball" hallway from ''VideoGame/Metroid1'', and even the area's eastern region ([[VideoGame/Metroid1 Kraid's Lair]]) has developed a major case of MeatMoss, [[ManEatingPlant man-eating flowers]], and...well, swampiness. In fact, even the room in which Samus fights [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever the game's new version of Kraid]] is almost-completely covered with green grass and vines.

* [[JungleJapes Brin]][[SwampsAreEvil star]] after being revamped by the Space Pirates in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid''...[[NostalgiaLevel for the most part]], at least.
** Due to what appears to be a (possibly failed) terraforming experiment that the Space Pirates conducted between ''Super Metroid'' and ''VideoGame/Metroid1'', the entire western region of the formerly rocky-and-mechanical-looking (and also formerly Chozo-inhabited) Brinstar is covered with pink fungal growths and green grass/vines, with only extremely minimal hints of what it originally was remaining in it outside of its original "Morph Ball" hallway from ''VideoGame/Metroid1'', and even the area's eastern region ([[VideoGame/Metroid1 Kraid's Lair]]) has developed a major case of MeatMoss, [[ManEatingPlant man-eating flowers]], and...well, swampiness. In fact, even the room in which Samus fights [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever the game's new version of Kraid]] is almost-completely covered with green grass and vines.

** Due to what appears to be a (possibly failed) terraforming experiment that the Space Pirates conducted between ''Super Metroid'' and ''VideoGame/Metroid1'', the entire western portion of the formerly rocky-and-mechanical-looking (and also formerly Chozo-inhabited) Brinstar is covered with pink fungal growths and green grass/vines, with only extremely minimal hints of what it originally was remaining in it outside of its original "Morph Ball" hallway from ''VideoGame/Metroid1'', and even the eastern portion ([[VideoGame/Metroid1 Kraid's Lair]]) has developed a major case of MeatMoss, [[ManEatingPlant man-eating flowers]], and...well, swampiness. In fact, even the room in which Samus fights [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever the game's new version of Kraid]] is almost-completely covered with green grass and vines.

%%* [[SwampsAreEvil Brinstar]] after being revamped by the Space Pirates in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid''...[[NostalgiaLevel for the most part]], at least.

* [[JungleJapes Brin]][[SwampsAreEvil star]] after being revamped by the Space Pirates in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid''...[[NostalgiaLevel for the most part]], at least.

* [[JungleJapes Brin]][[SwampsAreEvil star]] in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid''...[[NostalgiaLevel for the most part]], at least.

* Though once entirely mechanized, ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'' has become overgrown with bizarre flora that covers its entire surface. Only [=B.E.N.'s=] home lends any clue that advanced science ever existed there. A hatchway in the floor reveals "miles and miles of machinery that run through the entire course of the inside of this planet," all in working condition despite centuries of disuse.

Compare to NewEden, where society can benefit and start anew after nature has erased what they created countless ages ago. Contrast RagnarokProofing, where society builds something that ''will'' withstand the test of time. Could overlap with GaiasVengeance. A GreenThumb may deliberately invoke this trope with their powers.

* In ''Manga/DrStone'', all humans were TakenForGranite by a mysterious event. 3700 years later, the main characters are freed, but the big city they were in is now a huge forest.

* ''Manga/DrStone'''s first episode shows all of mankind being turned to stone by some weird green aura that encompasses the planet. [[AndIMustScream Everyone is still fully conscious, but unable to do anything]] as a montage shows the passage of time as nature reclaims civilization. 3700 years pass by, showing vegetation retaking buildings until buildings and bridges begin to rust away and crumble until there's no remaining traces of any civilization save for petrified humans dotting the landscapes.

* The epilogue scene of ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' has Stanley (the titular Troll) doing this to ''the whole of New York'' with his GreenThumb powers. [[InferredHolocaust This is meant]] to be seen as a ''[[EsotericHappyEnding good]]'' thing.

* ''Webcomic/CyberScrapyard'': Long ago, this world was densely populated and technologically advanced. But after the mysterious catastrophe, most of humanity died, and most of the buildings and construction were destroyed. To the beginning of the main events of the comics, devastated cities are absorbed by mutated flora and fauna.