History Main / SceneryGorn

* One comic in the ''[[ComicBook/{{Miracleman}} Marvelman]]'' series, featuring [[PsychoForHire Kid Marvelman]], has London becoming just about the closest definition of Scenery Gorn after he goes on a murderous rampage through the city and gruesomely murders nearly every inhabitant in a highly disturbing manner. Some of the things shown include people running from a rain of severed hands and feet, skins hung up on clothes lines, corpses impaled on the hands of Big Ben, the Tower Bridge in ruin, mounds of severed heads, heads on pikes, cars full of people plummeting to earth, mutilated children wandering screaming through the streets, and countless dead bodies. [[Creator/AlanMoore Guess who wrote both these comics.]]

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* To break Rainbow Dash in ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic The Return of Harmony Part 1]]'', Discord whips up an image of [[SceneryPorn Cloudsdale]] literally falling apart, and the townsponies unable to do anything but gape in horror. This is an illusion meant to gore Dashie on MortonsFork.

* Website/TaerelSetting: The Zu'aan Empire's cities and buildings during The Age of Awakening and the Age of Shattering. The buildings are ruins of their former glory, but oddly enough seem still quite strong as shown in a page mentioning a hydroponic farm and a Zu'aan group that lives in skyscrapers.. The descriptions are text-based though.

* The world of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' after [[spoiler:King Andrias takes over.]]
* In ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'' compilation, ''The Second Renaissance'' has a shot of a ruined city in the snow in the aftermath of the robot-human war and a scene featuring vast ranks of robot mega-buildings: the buildings are densely covered with matrix pods, each holding a helpless human.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', the KillSat race between Terry in the Batmobile and Joker with the Halcyon-class laser weapons platform. It's an awesome action scene until you pause to reflect on the fact that Terry just overflew a local ''shopping mall''. The casualties probably outdo those in the first ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' movie's gas attack by an order of magnitude, at least. Then consider the plan to burn a smiley-face into the city from orbit ForTheEvulz, then add in the typical cyberpunk themes of urban decay and corporate-owned megastructures...
* The town of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' after [[spoiler: Weirdmageddon starts]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Dying For Pie", Bikini Bottom and its surroundings are positively ''TOASTED'' after the bomb goes off.
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* H.G. Wells' works ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' and ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' do this. The first does this with Earth at the end of the planet, and the second does this with a barren, Red Weed-stricken London.

* Who-Ville in ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'', after Vlad drops the clover from what would be unspeakable heights (to the Whos at least).

* ''Literature/{{Damned}}'' combines this with {{Squick}}. [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hell]] boasts such attractions as the Dandruff Desert, [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion the Swamp of Partial Birth Abortions]], and [[ADateWithRosiePalms the Great Ocean of Wasted Sperm]].

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Keep in mind that telling whether a work is using Scenery Gorn and SceneryPorn can sometimes be confusing — especially in settings where the abandoned ruins have long since been [[ReclaimedBy Nature reclaimed by the forces of nature]]. Indeed, today's bleak ruins may look beautiful after a millennia of lush jungle overgrowth.

Keep in mind that telling whether a work is using Scenery Gorn and SceneryPorn can sometimes be confusing — especially in settings where the abandoned ruins have long since been reclaimed by the forces of nature.

* Wiki/{{Taerel Setting}}: The Zu'aan Empire's cities and buildings during The Age of Awakening and the Age of Shattering. The buildings are ruins of their former glory, but oddly enough seem still quite strong as shown in a page mentioning a hydroponic farm and a Zu'aan group that lives in skyscrapers.. The descriptions are text-based though.

* ''Film/TheDayAfter'': From the moment when the bomb hits Lawrence, Kansas, there's nothing but scenery gorn - collapsed, flattened buildings, piles of corpses and the countryside is no better with people starving or dying from lack of nutritional food.

* ''Film/{{Threads}}'': From the moment when the bomb hits Sheffield, there's nothing but scenery gorn - collapsed, burning buildings, piles of corpses, feral dogs. And when the action moves into the countryside, nuclear winter has taken care of all plant and animal life. CrapsackWorld doesn't even begin to cover it.