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Abandoned Playground
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There's just something about the image of a playground that's been abandoned and neglected: chipped paint, rusted or partially decayed metal frames, overgrown sandbox, empty swings swaying ominously in the breeze, the conspicuous absence of the normal sounds of children playing and laughing. Everything seems empty and broken, in contrast to the usual cheerful feeling that a place where children gather is supposed to invoke. The scene may be creepy, or just forlorn. Sometimes this is used to illustrate the nostalgic longing for a disappeared childhood and the pain of growing up, or the loss of innocence. Other times the Abandoned Playground is home to a Creepy Child humming an Ironic Nursery Tune, or haunted by ghost children, either stringy-haired or cute. If the playground shows up in an After the End setting, or in an area that has faced great destruction, an abandoned playground is shorthand to show that adults weren't the only victims of the terrible tragedy that has befallen the place. The playground may, to add to the point, have a Trauma Swing in it. This could also include playgrounds that aren't actually abandoned, just empty. Visiting a place like this after hours when all the children have gone home can be equally strange and unsettling. Or it may be a good place for our protagonists to sit and contemplate their problems. The image provides a well of symbolism for writers to dip into, which is probably why these places appear so much in fiction. Compare Abandoned Camp Ruins, as both areas are formerly where kids like going to have fun, and Vengeful Abandoned Toy, when a toy becomes evil after losing its owner. |
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Used in Terminator 2: Judgment Day in a brief piece recapping how the future's going to turn out. Optional skulls added. The opening credits are of the same playground, as the whole thing burns in nuclear fire. Coupled with the music, the effect is powerful. |
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Professor Layton and the Curious Village: St Mysterie's abandoned amusement park. It was originally a gift to Flora from her father Baron Reinhold to cheer her up after her mother passed away. Sadly, it failed to make Flora happy. The park was eventually closed down after it failed to attract visitors. | |
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat features the same playground in Pripyat that appears in Modern Warfare. This playground exists in real life. In Call of Pripyat, Zulu will fight a group of snorkers at an abandoned playground in a school. Major Degtyarev can opt to rescue him or not. If Zulu is rescued, he will award Degtyarev with his unique customized RP-74* PKM machine gun. A more fictional example appears only in Clear Sky, in the Ghost City of Limansk-13. Being an inner courtyard's playground unlike Pripyat's, it's a much smaller one. |
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Anna and the Apocalypse: This is where Anna gets her first kill in the movie. She stays there with John for a little while afterwords in order to figure just what the heck they're going to do. | |
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The Simpsons — Season 7, Treehouse of Horror VI, Segment: Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace. Bart battles Willy at night in a foreboding, nightmare playground which is empty until the battle. Parodied in another episode where Bart calmly strolls through one (with an Ironic Nursery Tune playing in the background), with complete Genre Blindness. |
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The playground at the beginning of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) isn't abandoned, either, but something about it is just off and disturbing, maybe it's the sounds or something... | |
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This featured in Garth Ennis' Crossed, particularly the early ads for the series. | |
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In Aeon Entelechy Evangelion in the dome where Rei lives (and the Dome itself is a Ghost Town) there is a "recreational area", a small patch of grass with the tree (probably transplanted) on it, which has a swing. | |
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The Little Fears: Nightmare Edition has one of these in Closetland, made worse by being intended to kill or trap children on top of it. | |
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In Pinocchio, this is what Pleasure Island ends up looking like after the boys are turned into donkeys and rounded up by the Coachman. | |
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There's a few in Half-Life 2, which are both creepy to see and fun to explore - a lot of the equipment responds to the physics engine. They're abandoned since humanity's reproduction was repressed 20 years prior, so all the kids are grown up and there's no replacements being born. You can also hear the faint laughing of children in the first one you come across. | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: In "Making an Entrance", there's one, well, it's a sandbox, and it has a brief Empathy Doll Shot: | |
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Harry Potter In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, he sits in an abandoned playground after a fight with the Dursleys when the Grim appears. The playground is only empty because it's the middle of the night, but in the movie version, art director Dave McKean makes the scene surprisingly creepy. In Order of the Phoenix, Harry has a Trauma Swing moment in a locked, vandalised park before Dudley and his friends show up...followed closely by Dementors. |
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Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat features the same playground in Pripyat that appears in Modern Warfare. This playground exists in real life. | |
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The Father Brown story "The God of the Gongs": | |
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In one episode of Supernatural Sam notices that a playground is empty at four in the afternoon; it's the first sign that something is wrong with that town's children. | |
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An empty playground shows up in The End of Evangelion as a metaphor for... something, probably. | |
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There's one in Final Fantasy VII in the slums of Midgar. | |
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In Order of the Phoenix, Harry has a Trauma Swing moment in a locked, vandalised park before Dudley and his friends show up...followed closely by Dementors. | |
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Subverted in Suburban Knights, in which they battle on a playground that appears to be abandoned until a mother and daughter come to play. Angry Joe protests that the girl's too old to play there, and gets a Dope Slap from an outraged bad guy. They try to continue the battle on another one, but the TGWTG team escape before the Cloaks set up. Plus, it's not as cool as the previous one. | |
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In season 2 of The Walking Dead the climax of Episode 5 takes place just outside of a rest stop's abandoned playground. | |
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Silent Hill Silent Hill: Homecoming has an abandoned playground. You can find a photograph by the slide! Silent Hill: Shattered Memories also has one, and in a possible callback you can find an Echo Photo and Echo Message there. |
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On American Dad!, there was an abandoned playground in the vasectomy clinic video showing the wonders of a childless future. | |
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Fallout 3 has several irradiated children's playgrounds. The most prominent example (because it factors into an early, and very long, quest) would be the town of Minefield. As the name implies, it's full of mines and a sniper. The quest involves making it to a certain part of the playground and (optionally) taking back a mine with you. The DLC Point Lookout has an abandoned fairground. |
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories also has one, and in a possible callback you can find an Echo Photo and Echo Message there. | |
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The PC game The Path features one of these in the woods. The site is where Ruby meets the wolf. | |
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In an outdoor level of Metro 2033 there is a derelict playground on the surface, and when you enter it, you see a flashback of kids playing. When the flashback ends, some of the equipment is still moving and you see a Dark One observing you. You get a similar vision in Metro: Last Light, and the little Dark One comments on it. | |
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? has this in the theme song. | |
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In Preservation, an old playground, covered in graffiti and obviously having seen better days, is located within the preserve. A couple of tense scenes take place here. | |
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The Dark Tower (2017). Roland and Jake find a derelict theme park entangled in a forest that has grown up around it. Jake has to tell Roland what it is, as to the latter it's just another strange construction from before the world moved on. | |
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The film of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban features one of these as Harry runs away from the Dursleys' place at night. For some reason that is never explained, the swingset and merry-go-round start to move on their own. | |
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The Barracks on Lost have a swingset, which was used happily by the Dharma kids (Ben, Charlotte) in the 70s. However, in present day it just serves as a reminder that the Others can't have children. | |
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Red Dawn (1984): Matt and Jed are sitting in one of these as they die. | |
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Dollhouse. Echo is programmed to believe she's a baby's mother in "Instinct". At the end of the episode when she's forced to give the child up, she sits in a playground in the park at night with her handler. | |
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The Subspace Emissary adventure mode in Super Smash Bros. Brawl features a level called the "Ruined Zoo", that certainly gives off this vibe. Here, you play as Lucas trying to outrun a Giant Porky Statue. | |
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"Black Gold" by Soul Asylum. | |
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The Good Grimace Shake Horror Game takes place in an empty McDonald's play area. | |
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In Edge of Tomorrow, there is deserted trailer park including an Abandoned Playground behind the enemy lines. | |
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Silent Hill: Homecoming has an abandoned playground. You can find a photograph by the slide! | |
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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. Outside of Jason's old, abandoned home is a small playground where the protagonists battle Jason at night. | |
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In Futurama, turns out that Robot Hell is located in an abandoned amusement park. In New Jersey! | |
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Stranger Than Fanfiction has High Tydes, the amusement park/water park that Cash Carter used to love going to when he was a kid. When he decides to go back with the Downer's Grove gang, he discovers, to his horror, that the park has been closed down since September 26th, 2007 because the costumed entertainers were groping the guests, and the staff was serving alcohol to minors. | |
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The Secret World has several, but notable examples include the Atlantic Island Park in the Savage Coast region. | |
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Batwoman (2019). In "The Rabbit Hole'', suspecting that supervillain Alice is her long-lost sister Beth, Kate Kane sends a message for Alice to meet her at the waffle stand where they used to hang out as children. Although the park is not quite abandoned, like everything else in Gotham it's seen better days, with the waffle stand vandalised and boarded up. | |
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One rather creepy scene in Paprika is set in one of these. | |
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Left 4 Dead 2: In the "Hard Rain" campaign, there's an abandoned playground in the town. This serves as one of the landmarks for the survivors when they're getting back to the boat and everything is dark and rainy, and especially when the storm periodically gets worse and it's really hard to see. | |
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There's some creepy old playground equipment, complete with squeaking swing, next to the restaurant at the gas station in Barrow Hill. | |
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Featured in a deleted scene of the Dawn of the Dead (2004) remake, set right after Kenneth finds Anna. There are lots of toys lying around and a baby carriage too. | |
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Dexter is Delicious features Buccaneer Land, an abandoned amusement park Dexter and Deborah used to love when they were children. It has fallen into disrepair and is now home to a bunch of fake vampires and real cannibals. | |
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The playground in Fate/stay night gets this treatment whenever Ilya isn't around to play with you, particularly in the Heaven's Feel Route. Said route also has Shirou sit down on a bench to contemplate whether to save the girl or save the world. | |
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Several of the later scenes, including the climax, of Hanna take place in the decrepit remains of a Brothers Grimm theme park near Berlin (filmed in the city's own Real Life abandoned amusement park, Spreepark). It is creepy as outlined in the trope description, but symbolically appropriate to the passing of Hanna's unconventional childhood. | |
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Koyaanisqatsi includes some shots of an abandoned playground in the abandoned Pruitt-Igoe housing project, just before its demolition. | |
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Flatliners. While David Labraccio is trying to track down Winnie Hicks so he can apologize to her, he goes to the school playground where he tormented her as a child. We see it as it was (with all of the children), then the children fade away leaving just the Abandoned Playground, revealing that the scene we just saw was Labraccio's memory. | |
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In the movie Children of Men, Ki sits on the swing at an abandoned schoolyard during a quiet moment. It's wouldn't be notable except in another movie, but here the playground is abandoned because nobody on earth has been pregnant for decades and all children have grown up. This is especially significant for Ki because she is pregnant. | |
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In the 'not abandoned, but empty' variant, Ginger Snaps has the sisters sneaking through a playground late at night in order to pull a prank— it's here that Ginger gets her first period and is subsequently bitten by a werewolf. | |
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In Season 2 of The Wire, after Ziggy confesses to murder, his cousin Nick gets drunk in the old playground where they used to play and reminisces about it. In Season 3, drug kingpin Marlo holds court in an abandoned park/playground because it's difficult to bug. Season 4, Lex is told to go to one to meet his ex-girlfriend nly to find himelf in an ambush by Chris and Snoop. | |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops also has an empty playground. It's in the level "Rebirth", right in the middle of the area covered with Nova-6. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, he sits in an abandoned playground after a fight with the Dursleys when the Grim appears. The playground is only empty because it's the middle of the night, but in the movie version, art director Dave McKean makes the scene surprisingly creepy. | |
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A significant part of The Killing Joke takes place in a most derelict amusement park that The Joker 'bought' for his own purposes. | |
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Homestar Runner has Papa Cardgage's Puddin' Patch, from the Strong Bad Email "Licensed". It's a sketchy day-care with cinder-block walls decorated with Off-Model pictures of Strong Bad and the Cheat, a crossed-out "Restroom" sign, a barbed-wire fence, a Chalk Outline in the front yard, and no one there but Senor Cardgage singing a vaguely-creepy nursery song: | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer In the Cold Open of "Lie To Me", which has a theme of how the illusions of childhood give way to the Black-and-Gray Morality of the adult world, there's a boy who's been left at the playground. It's dark, and he's the last one there, and then the vampire Drusilla shows up. Fortunately for him Angel shows up and stops her. "Helpless", the episode where Buffy reaches her eighteenth birthday has an Action Prologue of Buffy fighting a vampire in a playground at night, with all the 'leave childhood behind' metaphors that implies. In "Blood Ties", Dawn finds all her memories of the past are false. Walking through a playground at night she has a memory of her sister pushing her on the swing, which she now knows never happened. |
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Guys Being Dudes: Spark and Arlo hang out at one of these near the park Go Fest is taking place at during Day 2 so they'll technically be at the park, but difficult for Spark's colleagues to find. | |
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The Firefly movie Serenity has one of these in the newly destroyed by Alliance forces colony on Haven. River wanders through one and get a nice framed shot between a swing set that is on fire. | |
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One entry in Marble Hornets has Alex fleeing (or seeking out) the Operator in a deserted playground. And then again in Entry #70 when he apparently returns to the same playground. | |
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In one of the early seasons of Charmed, Prue and Phoebe get stuck in one of these. Home of all the creepy demon kids the Ice Cream Truck Man drops there, and The Nothing will slowly pick off anything that lives there. | |
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In Zack Snyder's Justice League, there's a shot on the playground of an abandoned Soviet-era Russian city with a nuclear power plant called Pozharnov (no doubt inspired by Pripyat) that Steppenwolf chooses to establish his home base. | |
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The Fugitive had its series finale set in an abandoned amusement park. | |
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Pokémon X and Y has one on Route 14 devoid of children, although nothing weird happens there, just a friendly Pokemon battle. However, you can find a Rare Candy hidden behind the bushes. | |
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In Gravity Falls, part of Stan's mind is represented by a broken-down swing set. We see it again in The Stinger for "Not What He Seems", only in a flashback where it's not broken down and it's being used by Stan and his brother as children. | |
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