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Never Recycle a Building
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In most fictional works, it's normal for an abandoned place to be left undisturbed until the protagonists need to utilize it. Sure, there might be a layer of dust everywhere, but the building can sit around for decades without anyone claiming it, renovating it, or outright demolishing it. If The Voice instructs the heroes to find an Abandoned Warehouse from fifty years ago, they can rest easy knowing that it'll still be there — just break the lock, clear out the cobwebs, and continue advancing the plot. May be justified if the location is haunted. How much of this is Truth in Television varies widely. In highly-populated areas with thriving economies, this will almost never occur; if an Abandoned Hospital is sitting unused for any period of time, someone's going to exploit the local abandoned property laws to claim the land and build something (unless the costs of cleanup and demolition are exorbitant), even if that "something" is just a parking lot. On the other hand, structures in depressed economic areas, remote locations, or disaster zones can lie untouched for years, simply because no one is around (or wants to be around) to care. But even in places where buildings do stand vacant for long periods of time, they're rarely truly vacant. Squatters, trespassers, and the homeless will take up residence for a time, usually being driven off at semi-regular intervals by the local authorities. Urban explorers may find a way to get inside and snoop around, and there's always stray or free ranging dogs/cats, pigeons, raccoons, and other wild animals. A notable variation is having an abandoned room inside a frequently-used building. This one tends to be more fanciful than factual, as any reasonable maintenance or custodial staff would have access to blueprints and schematics showing where everything is. For a room to remain undisturbed for decades would normally require someone (or something...) actively protecting it, or perhaps hidden behind a secret door that doesn't appear on the blueprints. If it's not protected or hidden it could still remain undisturbed for long periods of time if the people who know about it have no reason to go there (e.g. an unused attic or crawlspace, or a storage room that's not relevant at the current time). Note that this trope refers to abandoned areas that are untouched for long periods of time. Areas that are allowed to decay but are still frequented by the homeless, criminals, or local kids don't count. Abandoned Warehouse, Abandoned Hospital, Haunted House, and Ghost City are popular subjects for this trope. See also Abandoned Area, Ragnarök Proofing, In Working Order, and The Constant. Contrast Railroad Plot, Childhood Memory Demolition Team. |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): After obtaining San's severed head with Vivienne inside it, Alan Jonah and his mercenaries have taken up residence in an Elaborate Underground Base isolated deep in the tundra of northern Russia, which was built nearly 100 years ago and was formerly an unofficial Monarch outpost but has been abandoned for decades. | |
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Gotham City in the Adam West version of Batman (1966) had some serious problems with abandoned factories and warehouses. It's almost like they wanted them to be taken over by criminals. | |
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Kesandru House from Sluggy Freelance; justified since it's infested with ghosts. Luckily, our heroes are used to dealing with worse. | |
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Angel: The Hyperion Hotel has been sitting abandoned for quite a long time until the title character rents it. Of course, the demon in residence there might have had something to do with it. In the fourth season Connor also moves into what appears to be an abandoned natural history museum, full of dust and stuffed wildlife, complete with working electricity. On parent show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it takes several years for the Sunnydale authorities to do anything with Sunnydale High after it's blown up in the season three finale. The ruins are just left standing there until the school is rebuilt in season seven. |
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Played with a couple of times on The Simpsons: Double Subverted in "O Brother, Where Art Thou"; Abe gives Homer the address of the orphanage his half-brother was sent to, only for Homer to discover it's now a gas station. He immediately gives up all hope of ever finding it, only to be told it moved across the street. In "Burns, Baby Burns", Homer tries to hide in an Abandoned Warehouse only to find it's now no longer abandoned. |
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In Fringe, the Mad Scientist returns to his lab in the basement of a Harvard building after 17 years and just has to dust the place down before getting back to work; not only has the space been left unused, but all the equipment is still there. Considering what Walter and Bell get up to down there, that might have been the smartest thing to do. | |
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Subverted in Hustle episode "The Delivery". The team tries to retrieve some stolen diamonds buried by a friend just before he went to prison — only to find that the burial spot is now underneath a shiny new police station... | |
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The Sandman (2022). A plot point in "The Sound of Her Wings". Dream has an agreement to meet with an immortal human Hob Gadling once a century in the same pub. However in the 20th century, the land is bought up to build houses on, so it looks like Dream has missed his chance. The flashback where Hob learns that the land is being bought up is set in 1989, but three decades later the pub is still standing, the worse for neglect but visibly not demolished and replaced by new housing, for Morpheus to find when he comes looking for Hob. | |
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Inverted in The Shadow (1994 film version): Big Bad Shiwan Khan uses his Mind Control powers to hide an entire skyscraper mega-hotel in plain sight by convincing everyone that it's a semi-active construction site. | |
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In The Princess and the Frog, Tiana's father sets his sights on an abandoned mill as the place to set up the restaurant he dreams of starting. Not only was the mill empty for some time before he announces this, it remains empty for another ten years or so, while Tiana grows up and saves the money so she can buy the mill for the same purpose after her father dies. One of the things that kicks off the plot is that as soon as she tells the men selling the mill that she's able to afford it, she's informed that someone else just happened to outbid her on it. Given how the men are jerks who suggest that Tiana couldn't handle running a restaurant because she's a poor black woman, many viewer take to the notion that Tiana was simply lied to about the competition. | |
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The characters in Highlander always find an empty warehouse nearby when they need to fight. While this is usually plausible, there is at least one case when they manage to find one close to the Seine in the center of Paris, in an area where it would need TARDIS-like features to fit. Additionally, mere space in a world city center is so prime, that every unused cube inch immediately gets seized upon by someone to do or start something, and the council will keep an eye on it too to keep tourist appeal intact. | |
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Harry Potter: The Riddle House is abandoned for the most part due to Voldemort killing the original owners, who were his own family. A few families try to live there but find the place creepy, so the current owner only keeps it for "tax reasons". The entrance to St. Mungo's Hospital looks like this to Muggles — an old mall no-one has ever seen open. |
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Nash Bridges and his elite police unit have usually claimed a building that the city of San Francisco had lying around unused. In the fourth season, this was a former floating cannery that was later converted to a nightclub and later seized in a drug raid. It proves to be a decent place to set up shop, being spacious and having a place for everything they need. The only downside is a tendency to play "Disco Inferno" with no reason or explanation. | |
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After the Full Moon Garage in The Dresden Files is abandoned due to the lycanthrope biker gang that owned it being slaughtered, it is left relatively untouched... because other bad guys like its convenient location and run-down appearance for their own dirty work. Harry finds himself revisiting it. | |
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In the early games in the series, ruins/caves/tombs/etc. which contain NPC opponents will remain empty indefinitely after being cleared out by the player. Starting with Oblivion, these locations will "reset" after a certain amount of in-game time has passed, making it seem like a new set of bandits/necromancers/smugglers/etc. has set up their operation there. | |
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Skyrim: Each city has exactly one empty house available for the player to buy. No matter how long is spent in the game, they will remain empty until the player chooses to buy them. The abandoned house in Markarth has apparently always been abandoned, with nobody trying to do anything about it until you show up. The fact that it houses a shrine to Molag Bal may have something to do with it... as one Vigilant of Stendarr learned the hard way. |
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Persona 2 has the Abandoned Factory, that's been abandoned for 10 years, though the power still works, as the lights and at least some conveyor belts still work. It was abandoned because rumors come true, and someone spread rumors of the place being on top of a toxic waste dump, and then that it was haunted by demons, the latter of which finally led to the executives closing the doors permanently. In the... questionably canonical spin-off manga, the factory doesn't count for this trope because it's being actively used by a band of squatting Persona-users as their hideout, mostly because the presence of the demons (which they can ward off) keeps others from chasing them down or pushing them out. | |
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The Blackwell Hotel in See No Evil. Justified because it was just a hobby to its owners and after it almost burned to the ground, they lost interest in it. | |
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The Umbrella Academy: In the episode "The Day that Wasn't", a flashback shows how Luther and Allison once sneaked out of their rooms at night to play in a secluded section of the Academy, where they had set up a tent and brought snacks. They got caught in the act by Sir Reginald who forbade them from ever coming to the room again. In the present day, Allison, in an attempt to cheer up Luther, takes him back to this room, and everything is still exactly how they left it all those years ago. Even the snacks are still there, though they've gone bad by now. | |
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In Highlander: Endgame, a store in a busy city has been bombed and left abandoned for ten years without being condemned, repaired or renovated. | |
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The Batman: Arkham City version of the Penguin's hideout is in an abandoned natural history museum with many of the artifacts and displays still inside. It apparently wasn't abandoned very long between shutting down and the Penguin acquiring it, so there must have been no time for anyone to loot it, despite being in one of the bad parts of Gotham. | |
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In Thief of Time, the Auditors make use of a site that, against all odds, has remained unoccupied for years even in packed-to-the-rafters Ankh-Morpork. The space in question is a former alley that got roofed over at some point, then forgotten about because whoever did it passed away, and the owners of the adjacent properties now all believe it belongs to one of the others. Actually, they each own one wall. This is a running problem in the city; the loam foundation and frequent floods mean the whole thing sinks slowly over time, so that the plan of the city gradually shifts and some areas have three or four levels of forgotten floors below the cellars. During the course of the series it's eventually averted; all of that underground real estate gets cleared out and sold to dwarf immigrants. | |
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In If I Only Had A Heart, Izuku, Katsuki, and Original Character Mashi turn an abandoned and crumbling building on the outskirts of town into their unofficial "clubhouse", reasoning that since it was so out of the way, it would take forever for the city to actually follow through on their condemnation of it since it wasn't cost-efficient or time-efficient. Sure enough, the trio are still running around in the building years later with no repercussions in sight while renovating it in their free time. The trope is lampshaded though, with both Katsuki and Izuku balking at the thought of legally trespassing on the property, but they soon relent and haven't had an issue since. | |
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Averted with Heidi’s Bar in Daughter for Dessert. After it closes, a new bar opens in its place. | |
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The Victorian mansion in MouseHunt. Justified as the mouse drove out everyone who tried to live in the house. Exactly how long is that mouse's life-span? Given how the portrait of their father changes to show various reactions throughout the film, it's safe to say there is some element of the supernatural in this universe, with the mouse being one such instance of this. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: In the early games in the series, ruins/caves/tombs/etc. which contain NPC opponents will remain empty indefinitely after being cleared out by the player. Starting with Oblivion, these locations will "reset" after a certain amount of in-game time has passed, making it seem like a new set of bandits/necromancers/smugglers/etc. has set up their operation there. Skyrim: Each city has exactly one empty house available for the player to buy. No matter how long is spent in the game, they will remain empty until the player chooses to buy them. The abandoned house in Markarth has apparently always been abandoned, with nobody trying to do anything about it until you show up. The fact that it houses a shrine to Molag Bal may have something to do with it... as one Vigilant of Stendarr learned the hard way. |
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The Avengers' mansion was left abandoned after the break-up of the team at Avengers Disassembled, and stayed that way up to after Siege, when it was given to Luke Cage and the New Avengers. Justified, as the owner Tony Stark could no longer give financial support to the Avengers, but the mansion still belonged to him, so he decided to keep it that way. | |
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Ultimate X-Men: Weapon X abandoned their complex when Wolverine escaped. When he returned, he found it empty. Of course, they simply moved to a new one, to stay under the radar. | |
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In Double Impact, after officially teaming up, Chad and Alex, as well as their "Uncle" Frank, set up in an abandoned villa... in Hong Kong, a city whose property shortage easily rivals New York City or London. | |
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The Conners has a variation where the Wellman Plastics factory reopens after being closed for almost 30 years with minimal rebuilding needed, presumably only cleanup. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Zigzagged Trope with one particular location: The original Fredbear’s Family Diner location, after it was shut down when Henry Emily’s daughter was murdered right outside, is heavily implied to have been revitalized as Circus Baby’s Pizza World… for a single day, before William Afton’s own daughter was killed. Presumably nobody wanted to buy it for the next thirty years, considering the tragedies and supposed dangerous gas leaks there. It’s then rennovated again by Henry into a fake Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place to act as a honey-trap for rogue animatronics, before he burns the place down to unusability… Only for an entire Pizzeplex to be built on top of the remains. |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_ab2a760 | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_ab4f6c9 | comment |
In Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, the Gotham World's Fair grounds have been sitting abandoned since when Bruce and Andrea were dating. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_ab4f6c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | hasFeature |
Never Recycle a Building / int_ab4f6c9 | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_accb04fd | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_accb04fd | comment |
The Matrix: Path of Neo has two abandoned hotels, one that despite the fact it's falling apart inside is still used all the time. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_accb04fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_accb04fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Matrix: Path of Neo (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Never Recycle a Building / int_accb04fd | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_af54d560 | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_af54d560 | comment |
In Goosebumps (2015), the town of Madison, Delaware constructed an entire amusement park before running out of money to continue funding the project. Now it just sits abandoned in the middle of the woods, but it's still Hannah Stine's favorite part of the town and the final battle between the protagonists and the Goosebumps monsters takes place in the area. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_af54d560 | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_af54d560 | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_b7db5642 | comment |
Stranger Things: The Creel house has been boarded up and abandoned for three decades by the time the kids break in to search for clues. Of course, its reputation as the site of several grisly (and supernatural) murders probably had something to do with that. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_b7db5642 | featureApplicability |
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| Stranger Things | hasFeature |
Never Recycle a Building / int_b7db5642 | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
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It hasn't been abandoned, but the video-rental store that holds a vital clue in Men in Black II is still there after twenty-five years, even though most people moved on to DVDs years ago. Of course, the protagonists are part of an organisation who conduct passive Mind Rape on people, so this might explain why they never switched to DVD along with everyone else. They might also be the reason that place is still in business... | |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_bf471bbe | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_c06a9c1c | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_c06a9c1c | comment |
Final Space: In episode 9, Gary and Quinn's mission takes them back to the bar in New York where they first met 5 years earlier. Back then, Gary mugged an Infinity Guard soldier for his uniform, and left him drugged in one of the bathroom stalls. Much to his surprise and horror, the man is still right where he left him, now thin like a skeleton and with a beard. Gary wonders why nobody checked the bathroom over the past 5 years. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_c06a9c1c | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_c06a9c1c | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Another example of Never Recycle a Room can be found in the fifth season of the new Doctor Who series. In this case, of course, there really is something protecting the room. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_c43df4d8 | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_c7f59f7d | comment |
Teen Titans: Figures in Marv Wolfman's 1980's story Who Is Donna Troy?. Apparently a burnt-out building sat in that condition for about 16 years, and Donna's childhood doll was still in a room of said burnt-out building and not carried off for nesting material. And this is a key clue used by team detective Robin to track down Donna's origins, though Donna's super-intelligent big sister apparently never did. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_c7f59f7d | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_c7f59f7d | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
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Carl and Ellie's house in Pixar's Up. It appears to have been abandoned for quite some time when Carl and Ellie first meet inside as children, and it remains that way up until they buy and refurbish it after their marriage. This is especially unlikely given World War II (and its accompanying dual housing shortages — one during the war, and one after) happened somewhere in between there. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_c95e9d87 | featureApplicability |
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| Up | hasFeature |
Never Recycle a Building / int_c95e9d87 | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_cf10c600 | comment |
Disney's TRON: Legacy begins when Sam Flynn, the son of Kevin Flynn, is spurred to investigate his father's disappearance decades ago. Sam's search takes him to Flynn's abandoned arcade, which has been sitting intact for the last 25 years on the outskirts of town. It makes sense that the building is still owned by the Flynn family, or at least Encomm, who have kept the taxes and utilities up to date (the power is still connected, for example). And the arcade was obviously shut down and dust-proofed in an orderly way. Why no-one has broken into it and stolen all the valuable arcade cabinets is another question. It's implied by Expanded Universe material that Alan has been paying for the upkeep for the same reason he kept the pager. Of course, this brings up the Fridge Logic of why he didn't investigate the place and find the improvised laser lab. Perhaps he felt this was something that Sam needed to do by himself? | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_cf10c600 | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_cf10c600 | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_cf5c0f55 | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_cf5c0f55 | comment |
Par for the course in the Suikoden series. In almost every game (3 and 4 being the exceptions), the hero's army takes over such a structure to serve as their headquarters. The second game even has the hero's army claim an entire Ghost Town. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_cf5c0f55 | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_cf5c0f55 | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
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The Avengers: The Avengers' mansion was left abandoned after the break-up of the team at Avengers Disassembled, and stayed that way up to after Siege, when it was given to Luke Cage and the New Avengers. Justified, as the owner Tony Stark could no longer give financial support to the Avengers, but the mansion still belonged to him, so he decided to keep it that way. Averted in the "All-New All-Different" era (2016-2017). Tony lost the mansion and the Avengers weren't using it, so it became a cheesy Avengers-themed resort hotel. Writer Gerry Duggan did a good job of pointing out the raging blizzard of bad ideas connected to this in his volume of Uncanny Avengers. Villains with out-of-date info repeatedly busts up the place, putting civilians at risk, the basement is still full of S.H.I.E.L.D.-grade super-tech, and it turns out the Red Skull was using the mansion as his secret base for months prior to Secret Empire. |
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| Never Recycle a Building / int_d0744832 | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_d0744832 | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
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Inverted in Ant-Man when Hank, Hope and Scott make plans to break into an old Stark warehouse in upstate New York to retrieve an old piece of tech that Hank left behind. Unfortunately, the Avengers just recently renovated the facility to be their new headquarters. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_d8c2cfe4 | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_d8c2cfe4 | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_da52a723 | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_da52a723 | comment |
Justified in the Rivers of London novels: while Nightingale's alma mater Casterbrook has been closed and vacant since World War II, the estate's tenant farmers pay enough in rent to cover periodic upkeep and it's still being cleaned every month or so. | |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_da52a723 | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_e214a513 | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
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Anastasia ahistorically portrays the Winter Palace as being abandoned and boarded up ten years after the events of Red October. In real life, the Winter Palace was by that time added to the Hermitage Museum, which it is still part of today. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_e214a513 | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_e214a513 | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_e293455a | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_e293455a | comment |
On parent show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it takes several years for the Sunnydale authorities to do anything with Sunnydale High after it's blown up in the season three finale. The ruins are just left standing there until the school is rebuilt in season seven. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_e293455a | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_e293455a | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_e7745039 | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
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What Remains of Edith Finch displays the indoor variant. As members of the Finch family die (which is often, due to the family curse which may or may not be real, though they certainly believe it is), family matriarch Edie refuses to let their bedrooms be cleaned up or repurposed, adding a memorial plaque but otherwise leaving everything completely untouched as a Shrine to the Fallen. This necessitated the construction of additional rooms for future generations of Finches, which is why the house now looks like something Tim Burton might make after smoking a lot of weed and binge-watching The Red Green Show. After the mysterious disappearance of Milton Finch, his mother Dawn (Edie's granddaughter) took it a step further by sealing the doors to all of the dead people's rooms so that nobody could go in them anymore in an effort to combat the curse. Edie didn't care for that, and installed peepholes on all the doors so that people could at least look in and see the rooms. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_e7745039 | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_e7745039 | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_e7b92e07 | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_e7b92e07 | comment |
In Constructor and its Spiritual Sequel Mob Rule, if a building is left without a tenant for a long time, it will be settled... by a six-foot cockroach. Needless to say, the neighbors are a little concerned about bad influence on their children (you know those roaches). | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_e7b92e07 | featureApplicability |
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| Constructor (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Never Recycle a Building / int_e7b92e07 | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_eb9e3429 | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_eb9e3429 | comment |
In the pre-history of The Mummy Returns, the city of Thebes, jewel of the Pharoah's kingdom, is ransacked by the Scorpion King's undead army, two thousand years before the events of the first movie. 5,000 years later (current movie time), ruins of the city still lie in the exact same places, even though nothing was seen of the destruction prior to this. | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_eb9e3429 | featureApplicability |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_eb9e3429 | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
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In one of the early Dirk Pitt Adventures novels, the heroes figure out how a massive drug-smuggling operation is being run and speculate as to where the drug hand-off will be made. One character invokes this trope. Another immediately shoots it down, pointing out that abandoned warehouses are hard to come by in major port cities. | |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_eec04867 | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_f2041376 | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_f2041376 | comment |
Irey House in Los Angeles. Fans of Charmed (1998) might have noticed from the establishing shots for the Halliwell Manor that the house on the right looked quite dilapidated. In real life, several photos show it empty with boarded-up doors. Turns out it's been for sale since before the show started airing (1998), and stayed like that for years after it ended (2006). Only pictures as recent as mid-2020 show it scaffolded for renovation at last, meaning it might finally have finally found an owner. | |
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Never Recycle a Building / int_f2041376 | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_f57525ab | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
| Never Recycle a Building / int_f57525ab | comment |
In It's a Wonderful Life George & Mary Bailey move into an old abandoned mansion which until then had been used for the local teens to throw rocks at. | |
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Code Lyoko: The kids go to an abandoned factory every episode. There's never any presence of demolition crews, and the plot only revolves around saving the factory from destruction when it's some attack from XANA. At least in the animated series: the non-canon spin-off comics have one story with a demolition crew about to raze the Factory, before being thwarted by the kids. The Factory is actually a fairly close reproduction of an abandoned Renault factory on Seguin Island in the Seine River, in Boulogne-Billancourt outside Paris. It was shut down in 1992 and demolished by 2005; the island awaits the construction of some sort of cultural project, probably a large art museum. (The show's factory mainly differs in color scheme; the original factory was mostly white on the outside, while the show's is more beige.) There is also the Hermitage, a posh house in the woods that is left abandoned for 10 years. However, there are some hints of squatting (vandalism, tags on the wall...) and since the first time Team Lyoko visits it XANA is playing poltergeist, maybe this chased any squatter earlier and gave it an Haunted House reputation. |
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In Ultima VII Part II: Serpent Isle, both Shamino's old castle and the Castle of the White Dragon have outlived two civilisations, neither of which tried to make use of the buildings. The castles are also fully intact, with furniture and decorations fully functional and with only a little cobwebs. Shamino's castle is haunted by his old fiancee, which may have driven off potential squatters, but she seems to be only hostile towards Shamino himself. | |
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Gravity Falls: In "Carpet Diem", Dipper and Mabel find a disused, boarded-up room in the Mystery Shack. Grunkle Stan claims to not know anything about it, but his reaction to finding an old pair of glasses seems to indicate he knows more than he lets on. In the season 2 episode "A Tale of Two Stans", we find out Grunkle Stan lived in that room for a while after his twin brother Stanford, who originally owned the house, was trapped in Another Dimension. He apparently boarded the room up because it held a lot of painful memories. | |
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