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11	[[quoteright:280:[[Theatre/KingLear https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anthony_hopkins_king_lear.jpg]]]]
12	[[caption-width-right:280:Creator/AnthonyHopkins, looking the part.]]
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14	When filthy clothes, unkempt hair, and a deject gait aren't enough to signal to the audience that a person is homeless, just picture them pushing a shopping cart full of junk.
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16	More often than not, the aforementioned cart will be run over in a CarChase, probably in addition to the FruitCart. (Although the shopping cart's likelihood of survival is somewhat higher, especially if what it's appearing in is not an [[ActionGenre action movie]].)
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18	SisterTrope to (and in practice a more modern version of) BindleStick. See also CardboardBoxOfUnemployment, WalletMoths, and BankruptcyBarrel.
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20	Very much (and sadly) TruthInTelevision. Homeless people living on the streets have no apartment to store their clothes, sleeping bag, and food, so they use a grocery cart to carry everything. Some homeless people with untreated mental illness may also be hoarders, so the shopping cart may be filled with [[DownInTheDumps junkyard cast-offs]].
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24	!!Examples
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28	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
29	* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Dogbert in a ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip:
30	--> '''Dilbert''': Do you think I should [[BeardOfSorrow grow a beard]] while unemployed?
31	--> '''Dogbert''': That's a great idea, a beard sends a message about who you are. I assume you already have a shopping cart and filthy rags.
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35	* In ''Film/HardTarget'', Natasha finds her father's belongings in an abandoned shopping cart. He was the victim of a criminal ring that hosts HuntingTheMostDangerousGame.
36	* ''Film/{{Speed}}'' has a variant with an apparent street person pushing a baby carriage of aluminum cans in front of the protagonist's runaway bus, much to the driver's horror until she's reassured of the carriage's contents.
37	* The documentary ''Film/CartsOfDarkness'' follows a group of homeless men who [[ShoppingCartAntics race shopping carts as an extreme sport]].
38	* In ''Film/YogiBear'', a homeless man trades his shopping cart with Yogi for chocolate.
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41	[[folder:Literature]]
42	* ''Literature/JohnnyAndTheBomb'': Mrs Tachyon the bag lady pushes her bags around in a shopping trolley (which can also travel in time).
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46	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' had a case involving ShoppingCartAntics - a no-holds-barred cart race through the snow, only rule is the first team across the finish line wins. One team stole a cart from a homeless man who was so upset when he saw they'd damaged it, he killed one of them with a mannequin leg from his hodge-podge of possessions.
47	* Zeke, Creator/TomSkerritt's character in the miniseries adaptation of ''Literature/TheFallen'', is both a rambling, confused-seeming street person with a shopping cart (and a dog, another homeless trope) as well as a flawed would-be mentor to human-angel hybrid Aaron. The shopping cart is later used against Aaron's pursuers.
48	* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': invoked in "Frasier's Curse," when Frasier goes to return Eddie's unwanted dog food in a shopping cart Martin had taken from the grocery store while wearing unkempt clothes from doing some housework. He sees someone throwing soda cans into a trash bin and takes them out to recycle instead... and an old classmate who happens by sees him, the cart, and the cans and immediately assumes Frasier is homeless, giving him some money and telling him "For God's sake, spend it on food."
49	* Creator/TheBBC's 2018 TV film version of ''Theatre/KingLear'', which is set in modern times, has Creator/AnthonyHopkins as the now-homeless King pushing a shopping cart. He was [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/anthony-hopkins-bbc-king-lear-mistaken-homeless-man-filming-stevenage-a8352201.html mistaken for an actual homeless person]].
50	* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': Marcy and her first husband Steve once had sex in a homeless person's shopping cart.
51	* On ''Series/TheWire'', Bubbles, the StreetSmart homeless junkie, spends several season pushing a shopping cart around, often using it as part of his various schemes. In the fourth season, the entrepreneurial Bubbles runs a mobile mini store out of the cart.
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55	* In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', you fight Speed Buster, a homeless old lady with a shopping cart [[spoiler:that turns into a giant WaveMotionGun]].
56	* Carla Reed from ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest3TheKindred'' is a bag lady who lives in an abandoned industrial park at 325 Second Street. When Sonny wants to take her for questioning, she refuses due to not wanting to leave STUFF in her shopping cart insecure, which is why Sonny must use handcuffs to attach it to a plumbing system.
57	* In ''Crazy Old Bag Lady'', your goal is to find the mythical Golden Trolley, which can hold much more useless junk than the average supermarket trolley.
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61	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Hooray for North Hollywood, Part 2", Mr. Plotz is fired after rejecting the Warners' script for a very successful movie. When we next see him, on New Year's Eve, he's homeless and ragged with a shopping cart by his side.
62	* In the ''Westernanimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "Snowball", a homeless Brain pushes a very small shopping cart containing a single soda can.
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