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Disaster Scavengers
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A staple of Scavenger Worlds set After the End, the Disaster Scavengers are just that, people who have resorted to scavenging for food, clothes, medicine, and supplies from the rubble of their once prosperous world. While most heroes in these settings are Disaster Scavengers to an extent, they differ from rank-and file-scavengers because they haven't given up on the dream of a better world. "Scavenging" tends to include stealing as well, and Disaster Scavengers are ready and willing to steal anything that isn't nailed down or on fire, even if it's vital to beating the Big Bad or restoring the world. The result is that they end up making things worse by creating mistrust and animosity, hampering any efforts to rebuild their community and set the world right, dooming themselves and others to dying in droves. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The Elephant in the Living Room for such a society is that eventually, as with any non-renewable resource, you're going to run out of workable stuff that the previous society left behind. They usually get into conflict with heroes like The Drifter by trying to steal his guns. He invariably catches the thief and gets his things back, and more often than not befriends the thief, usually a grimy child survivor, and getting a Morality Pet and Side Kick out of it, who can also vouch for him with the rest of the Untrusting Community. Sweet! Contrast Noble Shoplifter. In a Cosy Catastrophe, this character is likely to be The Scrounger, and if they live near the coast they're Salvage Pirates. If multiple groups come into conflict, you'll have an Archaeological Arms Race on your hands. Expect Disaster Scavengers to frequently be Reduced to Ratburgers when their scavenging attempts fail to turn up other food. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })That doesn't mean all Scavengers Are Scum, however. That would be an entirely different trope. Examples: |
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To a degree this applies to Noland (Laurence Fishburne's character) in Predators. Like the others, Noland was dumped on a different planet by the Predators because he was considered worth hunting. Unlike the others, who just arrived on the scene, Noland has spent at least 7 hunting seasons surviving on that planet through a combination of keeping a low profile and scavenging whatever technology, weapons, and food he could. | |
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The "S" in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stands for Scavenger. | |
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The Walking Dead: This is how everyone is forced to survive during the Zombie Apocalypse, at least those who haven't resorted to cannibalism already. Food, weapons, vehicles, anything to get through the day. After the two-year Time Skip, it's downplayed somewhat, as the survivors who have made it this far have reinvented some older forms of production, such as smithing and basic agriculture, mixing it with salvaged technology like solar panels and artillery. As shown in the Distant Finale, society is eventually rebuilt, making scavenging unecessary. | |
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The zombie apocalypse genre game The Last of Us feature a few large groups of these as act's antagonists, one particular major group even killing civilians or tourists who are not part of their group to shore up diminishing food supplies. | |
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Desert Punk (Not to be confused with the trope Desert Punk) has entire corporations dedicated to finding Lost Technology. | |
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Bat from Fist of the North Star fit this trope for the beginning of the series. Despite being a Running Gag for the first couple of episodes, the kid grows out of this character trait and becomes Kenshiro's Sidekick. Parodied in the Excel♡Saga during their Fist of the North Star Homage with the character Pad. |
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Parodied in the Excel♡Saga during their Fist of the North Star Homage with the character Pad. | |
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Sheltered: Family members can be sent out into the wasteland to find things like food, medicine, and whatever else they'll need to survive. | |
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In the Supernatural episode "The End", Dean Winchester meets his future self, who leads a group survivors of the Apocalypse. He is told by Prophet of the Lord Chuck to "hoard toilet paper like it's made of gold." | |
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The pterosaur gang from The Good Dinosaur make their living by tagging along after severe storms and picking off small creatures killed by the weather, or left exposed and helpless in its wake. | |
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Warzone 2100's plot initially revolves around searching for and salvaging pre-Class 2 Collapse military technology, but unlike a typical Scavenger World you're collecting it in order to reverse-engineer it and manufacture it yourself. | |
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The Bones of Faerie series takes place in a world that has been devastated by magic because of a war between the faerie and humans. The surviving humans must battle against hostile plants that attack them in order to harvest food and many of their supplies come from before the war. | |
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Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Benson makes his way by getting into abandoned storefronts and vehicles for supplies and clothing. | |
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This is also what's going on in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. On planet Terra-Eleven, where an Earth colony has failed catastrophically after a plague, space salvage worker Wolff finds a gang of scavengers fighting bandits who kidnap the stranded travelers Wolff has come to rescue. He teams up with scavenger Niki to find them. | |
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The Non-End variant in Aeon Entelechy Evangelion where in the wake of Harbinger battle there are a lot of intact munitions just waiting to snatched and sold off to the highest bidder. | |
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Mostly everyone in Jericho (2006), but especially teenager Dale, who gets supplies for the local grocer; and Jonah Prowse, who runs a road gang. | |
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The Exiles from Homestuck. | |
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Easy Pete, a character you meet early on in Fallout: New Vegas, prefers the more charitable appellation of "Prospector", both to tie in to the "Post-Apocalyptic Western" vibe New Vegas is going for, as well as to differentiate between folks looking for usable tools, medicine, and weapons, and other folks looking for junk that can be repurposed. Being a former Prospector, Pete was of the opinion that none of the stuff he ever found was junk, and sure enough you can find Prospectors and their claims all over the Mojave. | |
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Neverwhere: To some extent, a lot of the characters living in London Underground are Disaster Scavengers, only the disaster is more of a lifestyle. When Richard first meets the Ratspeakers, for instance, they take his stuff and almost kill him. Then a grimy teenage girl befriends him after eating his banana. She would have become a Morality Pet but dies not long after. | |
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Exalted: More than a few places, perhaps most notably the city of Chiaruscuro (a ruined First Age coastal metropolis composed of skyscrapers of magically durable glass). Even though it is an inhabited and functional hub city, many people still travel into the ruins in search of valuable First Age goods (or even just usable shards of the glass), even though this sometimes necessitates crossing into the shadowlands. | |
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Fallout 4 takes this even further, thanks to the introduction of the Workshop system: the random junk that litters the ruins can now be gathered up and broken down into component parts, which is then used to construct homes and defences for settlements, or to modify and improve weapons and armor. An old desk fan can be broken down into screws, gears and metal, a pocket watch into gears, gold or silver, plates and cups can be ground into ceramic, etc. The only junk that can't be used are items that have been damaged too much in the intervening centuries, such as burnt books or magazines. | |
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Rebuild: Scavenging is a major part of the early game, when your fort can't produce enough food to feed its population, letting you raid stores and buildings for food and supplies. The higher a survivor's Scavenging skill (which increases when sent on those missions, even if only to protect the scavengers), the higher the chance that they'll find a stat-boosting item while on a scavenging mission. | |
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While everyone is this to an extent in Metro 2033, special note goes to the foolhardy souls who make it their life's work to go into Moscow Above to loot things from the blasted ruins. The game outright calls them 'Stalkers' in reference to the film and game series, and their corpses will be your lifeline for ammo and filters on most of the outside levels. | |
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Many people left behind in the ravaged Gotham City in the Batman: No Man's Land storyline. In a twist, many scavenged for 'useless' stuff like jewels and cash and gold, because The Penguin had a line on food to the outside and knew Gotham would come back sooner or later. But most just looked for food. A can of unspoiled peaches was worth far more than a gold bar. | |
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The Zombie Hunters. In a twist, these are not simple looters but paramilitary groups who work for an island enclave of humanity, salvaging goods from abandoned settlements. | |
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The Lanius from FTL: Faster Than Light are a race of scavengers who feast on scrap left behind by other civilisations, thus they're drawn to warstruck zones like flies, and it just so happens that there was recently a devastating war between The Federation and a human supremacist group that ended with lots of scrap up for grabs. You can find them in "abandoned sectors", willing to fight for their finds or open for trading. | |
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Quite common in the Fallout games, and a good way for the Player Character to make some caps or find good loot. That said, one of the franchise's themes is about rebuilding rather than holding on to the past, so the setting as a whole is moving away from this - new cities have been built out of the ruins of the old, groups like the Followers of the Apocalypse are figuring out how to make medicine out of post-apocalyptic herbs rather than rely on pre-War Stimpaks, while the Gun Runners started as a gang but figured out how to refurbish a gun factory, recycle shell casings, and make fresh gunpowder and propellants. Plus it's been over two hundred years since World War III, so folks are running out of stuff to scavenge. Easy Pete, a character you meet early on in Fallout: New Vegas, prefers the more charitable appellation of "Prospector", both to tie in to the "Post-Apocalyptic Western" vibe New Vegas is going for, as well as to differentiate between folks looking for usable tools, medicine, and weapons, and other folks looking for junk that can be repurposed. Being a former Prospector, Pete was of the opinion that none of the stuff he ever found was junk, and sure enough you can find Prospectors and their claims all over the Mojave. Fallout 4 takes this even further, thanks to the introduction of the Workshop system: the random junk that litters the ruins can now be gathered up and broken down into component parts, which is then used to construct homes and defences for settlements, or to modify and improve weapons and armor. An old desk fan can be broken down into screws, gears and metal, a pocket watch into gears, gold or silver, plates and cups can be ground into ceramic, etc. The only junk that can't be used are items that have been damaged too much in the intervening centuries, such as burnt books or magazines. |
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The Jawas' way of life as shown in A New Hope. They pick up lost droids and wrecked ships' components, when they don't steal stuff at least. | |
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In The Reckoning, small parties of low level units named "Scavengers" travel endlessly back and forth between points of interests and castles / towns (they're basically the mod's version of villagers from the unmodded game). It's also used as a gameplay point: exploring said points of interest allows to gather supplies, which can then be sold or exchanged for troops. | |
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In Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Sword and Blade, after resorting to stealing to survive in their war-torn home, try to rob Metaknight while the latter is running from a demon beast. He then saves them from it and they become his loyal Side kicks. | |
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Rampant in the Mad Max movies. Complete with scavenger sidekicks, with conditions growing progressively worse with each succeeding film. | |
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In Cormac McCarthy's The Road, the few survivors of an unnamed disaster have to resort to this to survive, including the protagonist. | |
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How the protagonist of The Postman got his US Postal Service coat and mail bag, which led to people thinking he was a real postman. | |
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Neo Scavenger has this as one of its core mechanics. | |
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How the children have survived for over 300 years in Star Trek episode "Miri". Kirk and his team note that the surviving canned goods are starting to run short and that the children will soon starve to death unless they intervene. | |
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In Land of the Dead survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse from the Night of the Living Dead (1968) series have inhabited a city, cleared out the zombies, and attempt to keep themselves supplied through this method. | |
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Subverted in The Adversary Cycle by F. Paul Wilson. In Nightworld Hank Thompson finally gets his Laser-Guided Karma when he falls for Schmuck Bait set up by members of the Kicker cult he founded. A service station guarded by a policeman is selling fuel to those fleeing the disaster in the cities. Thompson has plenty of supplies in his van so he thinks he'll trade. Instead he's shot, robbed of everything he has and abandoned for the Eldritch Abominations that come out at night. | |
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Summerland: As a result of the relative recentness of the collapse of civilization, which happened only a few years before the game's present, and the impossibility of large-scale production in its aftermath, survivors tend to rely on scavenging through the ruins of civilization for most of the goods they need, such as canned food, tools, survival gear and weapons. | |
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Most of the residents of Gundam X's After War setting. | |
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Undying: Anling will need to search garbage cans and wrecked cars for items needed to survive. | |
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Rey starts out as this in The Force Awakens, trading scrap taken from wrecked Star Destroyers and X-Wings for food. Her home is a wrecked AT-AT. | |
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Most of the survivors in Zombieland. | |
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In Young Justice, Impulse uses the term "scavenger rights" as an excuse for raiding peoples' snacks. He's a one-way time traveller who originated from a Bad Future conquered by an alien invasion. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Many people fall into this, mostly through raiding Space Hulks (waking up the genestealers they tend to contain) or exploring tomb worlds (waking up the Necrons they contain). | |
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Post-Chaos Day, one Judge Dredd story centred around a group of these scavenging through some ruins. They're seen cutting through a chain link fence, ostensibly looking for salvage. Turns out the fence itself is the salvage they're after. The scrap metal from the fence is only worth 40 credits. | |
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Doctor Who: "Utopia" has the Futurekind, who haunt the wastelands outside the bunker trying to capture humans to eat. | |
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The Hunger Games: This was Messalla's most useful ability, to scavenge food in abandoned houses. | |
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Lampooned in an episode of The Golden Girls, when the cast is taking shelter at a local TV station during a hurricane. Blanche empties all of the soda and snack machines, explaining that whenever there's a disaster, someone always does that to create a scarcity so they can re-sell the food items at a grossly inflated price "and I decided that this time, that someone would be me." | |
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Evi and Clorian, the main characters from A Moment of Peace, are unusually peaceful disaster scavengers. | |
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The main character in Derelict | |
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The Walking Dead (Telltale): Like in the comics, the survivors get by through scavenging for food, medicine, ammunition, fuel, and everything else, which starts to become increasingly difficult, since not only are most places swarming with zombies, pickings become increasingly slim as the weeks turn into months. A New Frontier even points this out early on, with one character stating that eventually, there's going to be one last bit of food, or one last tank of gas, since no one is producing more. | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: A mission on Voeld has Ryder encountering two turians engaging in some of this. If Jaal is present, he quietly but angrily calls them out on what they're doing. One of them happens to be suffering an attack of conscience, and hands over what they'd found to Ryder. | |
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In The Culture series novel The Hydrogen Sonata, it is revealed that this vocation that entire civilizations engage in. Species such as the Liesieden and the Ronte get a technological leg up by scavenging the technology left behind by Subliming civilizations, and conflicts between scavengers are a considerable source of galactic conflict. | |
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Rimworld: The early game is all about this, with your only source of several crucial resources being the wreckage left behind by whatever caused civilisation on this world to collapse. Eventually, if you can hold out long enough, you'll be able to acquire some of those resources by other means and even manufacture some of them locally. | |
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The viewpoint character in Planetarian. | |
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The Wormhandlers of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. | |
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