...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Polluted Wasteland
- 462 statements
- 88 feature instances
- 119 referencing feature instances
| Polluted Wasteland | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Polluted Wasteland | label |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland | page |
PollutedWasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland | comment |
The Polluted Wasteland, often found in more realistic, dystopian or Science Fiction settings, is an Aesop against abusing resources. Its inhabitants stripped the land of everything good, and polluted the air. This may justify the activities of Planet Looters who raid other worlds for the resources that they've squandered on their own. Unlike its fantasy counterpart, Mordor, defeat of the Big Bad won't necessarily return the land to its pristine state — though Hope Sprouts Eternal is quite common. Quite often, this also involves big sprawling cities that somehow became something worse than the run-down ghettos of São Paulo, or big sprawling industrial zones that breathe smoke 24/7. A Polluted Wasteland will often stand in contrast to a pristine natural setting, such as the Ghibli Hills or an Enchanted Forest, which may exist as a separate area or be what the Wasteland used to be — or what it may become once again. See Mordor for the Polluted Wasteland's more traditionally fantasy counterpart, although it should be noted that the Polluted Wasteland can be caused by magic in fantasy settings too. For more information see Clarke's Third Law. Compare Forbidden Zone, I Don't Like the Sound of That Place, Nightmarish Factory, Crapsack World, Gaia's Lament. Frequently a byproduct of any Ecocidal Antagonist that is left to their own devices, including Toxic, Inc., a type of business that seems to just pollute for the sake of polluting. Examples |
|
| Polluted Wasteland | fetched |
2024-04-13T01:45:44Z | |
| Polluted Wasteland | parsed |
2024-04-13T01:45:44Z | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to AFoggyDayInLondonTown: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to AcePilot: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to FrankZappa: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to GreenAesop: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to IndustrialWorld: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to OrbitalBombardment: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to Plaguemaster: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to PlayedForLaughs: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to ReadingsAreOffTheScale: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheOtherWiki: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to WarIsHell: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to WretchedHive: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingComment |
Dropped link to tropenamers: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Polluted Wasteland | processingUnknown |
TheOtherWiki | |
| Polluted Wasteland | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1367ce42 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1367ce42 | comment |
Wool: The outside world beyond the silo everyone is living in is so ruined that to go outside is a death sentence. Or at least it seems to be... | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1367ce42 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1367ce42 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wool | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_1367ce42 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_13ed9c3f | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_13ed9c3f | comment |
Malevil: Pastoral rural France becomes this following World War III — the forests charred, the farms and villages smashed then incinerated, the sky darkened by ash, and the overpowering stench of death and smoke. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_13ed9c3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_13ed9c3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Malevil | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_13ed9c3f | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_14d341dc | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_14d341dc | comment |
Star Trek Online: During the Lukari storyline, the PC rediscovers the ruins of Kentar, the planet the Lukari left centuries ago due to disputes with the rest of their species, the Kentari, over environmental pollution. In the interim, Kentar became so polluted that all life died out. The PC later makes First Contact with the Kentari at their new homeworld New Kentar, which looks rather like Blade Runner's Los Angeles on account of the Kentari not having learned a thing: the away team has to wear spacesuits or rebreathers on the surface or else be periodically immobilized by coughing fits. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_14d341dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_14d341dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek Online (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_14d341dc | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_16c83de8 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_16c83de8 | comment |
Star Fox 64: The once beautiful ocean planet of Zoness has been turned into one of these by Andross, with sickly greenish water and mutants all around. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_16c83de8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_16c83de8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Fox 64 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_16c83de8 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_16cfb2e5 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_16cfb2e5 | comment |
The Witchlands: Southern Nubrevna. During the war, it came under heavy attack by Poisonwitches, who turned the water and earth there heavily toxic, to the point that vast swaths of it are completely devoid of life, save for slowly dying trees. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_16cfb2e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_16cfb2e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Witchlands | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_16cfb2e5 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_198091c2 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_198091c2 | comment |
Logan's Run: After the nuclear war in 2119, the world outside the City of Domes became like this. However, during the 200 years since the war, it had returned to normal (though the Council of Elders keep this knowledge from the city's inhabitants). | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_198091c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_198091c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Logan's Run | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_198091c2 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1d06757f | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1d06757f | comment |
The Running Man: Most of America in 2025. The corporate networks have gained unrestricted license to pump out exhaust gasses that cause a surge in bronchitis cases, to the point that the relatively well-off part of the population use special nose filters. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1d06757f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1d06757f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Running Man | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_1d06757f | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1dcc121d | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1dcc121d | comment |
The Lotus War: The Fushima Islands. The local Multipurpose Monocultured Crop is poisoning the environment. A horrendously poorly-burning fuel is processed from its seeds, its pollen is so thick that it colors the sky and contributes to the Greenhouse Effect, and it poisons the soil with its waste products unless it's fed blood, so all the animals that didn't get eaten got mashed into fertilizer; now that they're out of animals, they're using POWs. Everyone's addicted to smoking its leaves, to boot. Despite this, the local MegaCorp, which worships it, keeps growing vast amounts of it. People in cities have to wear gas masks at all times when outdoors, some making do with rags tied around their faces. Those too poor to afford a proper mask develop lung cancer. The rain is black and causes chemical burns. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1dcc121d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1dcc121d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lotus War | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_1dcc121d | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1e85c6d6 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1e85c6d6 | comment |
In Battalion Wars, the nation of Xylvania (EX Ill-Vain-Ia) is so polluted that the trees are all dead, the soil has degenerated into a grey-blue sludge, the sky is allways black with forge smoke, and the water is yellow from all the mine tailings. Xylvanians themselves are mutated into vampires, complete with pale skin, red eyes and snaggleteeth. Half of them need to wear hazmat armor when fighting in sulight. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1e85c6d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1e85c6d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Battalion Wars (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_1e85c6d6 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1fca96ce | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1fca96ce | comment |
Magic Knight Rayearth: In the second season, one of the invading countries is a mechanical world that used up all of its natural resources. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1fca96ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_1fca96ce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Magic Knight Rayearth (Manga) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_1fca96ce | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_22e5872a | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_22e5872a | comment |
Donkey Kong Country: Donkey Kong Country: Poison Pond combines this with Under the Sea. The water in this level is green due to being polluted with toxic waste from Kremcroc Industries, Inc. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest: Crocodile Island is both Mordor and a Polluted Wasteland. It has Gangplank Galleon, an Amusement Park of Doom called Krazy Kremland, a forboding Evil Tower of Ominousness, is filled with dead trees, Zingers (wasps), Brambles and danger, and the whole place and ocean around it is dark murky green. It actually sinks into the ocean after the final boss is defeated. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!: Mekanos is the polluted side to this trope taken to extremes — a level with a giant ripsaw shredding a whole forest as it goes upwards and various factories. By comparison, KAOS Kore is quite a serene, pleasant area, with the exception of Kastle KAOS and the Death World-like area of Lightning Lookout. |
|
| Polluted Wasteland / int_22e5872a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_22e5872a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Donkey Kong Country (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_22e5872a | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_2b08d409 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_2b08d409 | comment |
Under the Dome: Chester's Mill briefly becomes this in the last few chapters when Big Jim Rennie sends members of his new police force to the radio station to collect some of the propane he has been stealing from the town to run his meth lab. Chef panics and blows up the meth lab, releasing a wave of fire that sweeps down from the old radio station and torches half the town, obscuring the surface of the dome and turning the town into a darkened wasteland with a toxic atmosphere. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_2b08d409 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_2b08d409 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Under the Dome | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_2b08d409 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_2ddf611 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_2ddf611 | comment |
Dark Sun: Athas is a rare magical example of this. It was once lush and green, but the main form of magic here permanently destroys water and plant life. Centuries of reckless and rampant use of this magic have turned the entire world into a desert where few can survive. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_2ddf611 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_2ddf611 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dark Sun (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_2ddf611 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_31a48eed | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_31a48eed | comment |
The Outer Limits (1995): In "Promised Land", the Tsal-Khan poisoned all of the plants on Earth during their war against humanity. Even twelve generations after their invasion, eating fruits or vegetables that grow naturally is usually fatal. In "The Grell", the area around Old Seattle is irradiated, as it was hit by a nuclear bomb many years earlier. Humans cannot eat any of the fruits or vegetables unless the radiation is neutralized by a Grell using Grell alchemy. In "Think Like a Dinosaur", Earth is extremely polluted to the point that many people die from Environmental Sensitivity Syndrome (ESS) after being exposed to the atmosphere. Michael Burr's wife Karen was among its victims, and he fears that his daughter Molly will suffer the same fate. In "The Human Factor", apples are no longer safe to eat in many parts of the United States in 2084 due to the high levels of radiation caused by the war between the Free Alliance and the Coalition of Middle Eastern and Pacific States. |
|
| Polluted Wasteland / int_31a48eed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_31a48eed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Outer Limits (1995) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_31a48eed | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_33909389 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_33909389 | comment |
Inferno (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle): In the Seventh Circle, the rise of pollution and environmental degradation among humanity has made it necessary to separate the violent against nature from the violent against art and God, who were previously all sent to the desert of fire. The new area takes the form of a great valley, cutting through the Wood of Suicides and deep into the desert; it is referred to in the sequel as the Valley of Desolation. It is a barren, polluted waste of churned mud filled with garbage, toxic waste, and oily puddles, cut through by a sluggish river of brown-and-purple slime and dotted with smoke-belching factories and great strip mines. The souls of the worst polluters are sentenced here, to run through toxic slurry while chased by living bulldozers. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_33909389 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_33909389 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Inferno (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_33909389 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_33dd1d90 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_33dd1d90 | comment |
Half-Life 2: Wherever the Combine come from, it seems to look like this from the glimpse we get through one of their portals. They seem intent on redecorating Earth to match. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_33dd1d90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_33dd1d90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Half-Life 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_33dd1d90 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_39cb5e47 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_39cb5e47 | comment |
Donkey Kong Country: Poison Pond combines this with Under the Sea. The water in this level is green due to being polluted with toxic waste from Kremcroc Industries, Inc. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_39cb5e47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_39cb5e47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Donkey Kong Country (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_39cb5e47 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_3aabfec3 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_3aabfec3 | comment |
Captain Planet and the Planeteers: The villains try to create such wastelands, and the heroes stop them. On a meta level, the show encourages its viewers to try to prevent this happening in real life. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_3aabfec3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_3aabfec3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Captain Planet and the Planeteers | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_3aabfec3 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_405243c7 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_405243c7 | comment |
The 100: Double subverted. The Sky People were expecting Earth to still be a toxic, radioactive Death World after the nuclear war a century ago. Instead, they find a lush, vibrant and abundantly habitable world, with little sign of nuclear contamination. Then they find out that Earth actually is still highly radioactive; they've just developed an unusually high tolerance for radiation, as have the various plants and animals on the planet's surface. The Mountain Men, who haven't developed such superhuman tolerance, find the Earth's surface just as toxic and deadly as the Sky People feared. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_405243c7 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_405243c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The 100 | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_405243c7 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_468bebb0 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_468bebb0 | comment |
Discworld: Played for Laughs; the River Ankh is so polluted from two cities dumping their refuse into it that the water occasionally catches fire, and people jumping off the bridges to commit suicide have to break through the crust first. Corpses don't get disposed of in it, they get thrown on it. Anyone invading from the sea needs gangs of men with shovels so their ships can move up, and so on. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_468bebb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Discworld | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_468bebb0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_49a87cb3 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_49a87cb3 | comment |
Final Fantasy VII gives us Midgar, an urban wasteland. Emphasis on "wasteland"; for several miles, there is no plant life to speak of. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_49a87cb3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_49a87cb3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Final Fantasy VII (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_49a87cb3 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_4d48667e | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_4d48667e | comment |
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest: Crocodile Island is both Mordor and a Polluted Wasteland. It has Gangplank Galleon, an Amusement Park of Doom called Krazy Kremland, a forboding Evil Tower of Ominousness, is filled with dead trees, Zingers (wasps), Brambles and danger, and the whole place and ocean around it is dark murky green. It actually sinks into the ocean after the final boss is defeated. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_4d48667e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_4d48667e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_4d48667e | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_53a0bd32 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_53a0bd32 | comment |
The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Old Man in the Cave", in the aftermath of the nuclear war, large parts of Earth are contaminated with radiation. The Old Man told Mr. Goldsmith that the Village should not plant tomatoes. When they ignored this advice, the tomatoes that grew looked like rotten watermelons because of the radiation. Jason also mentions freak carrots. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_53a0bd32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_53a0bd32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Zone (1959) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_53a0bd32 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_53a0bd8b | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_53a0bd8b | comment |
The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Voices in the Earth", Earth's biosphere was destroyed 1,000 years earlier due to the complete depletion of the ozone layer. Its atmosphere consists predominantly of carbon dioxide with traces of methane and ammonia and appears to be yellow due to the iron oxide created by the many rusted buildings. However, the ghosts of the dead Earth eventually use their collective powers to restore the biosphere and create life in the oceans. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_53a0bd8b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_53a0bd8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Zone (1985) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_53a0bd8b | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_58990424 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_58990424 | comment |
Ratchet & Clank (2002): Planet Orxon, to the point that it has become horrifically mutated in numerous ways, completely requires the O2 Mask when playing as Ratchet, and has flesh-melting toxic sludge where basically all of its water should be. Worse yet, Chairman Drek is planning to turn who-knows-how-many more of the universe's planets into what Orxon has become in this game. In Ratchet: Deadlocked, Orxon has been cleaned up considerably but is still a major example of the trope. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_58990424 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_58990424 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ratchet & Clank (2002) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_58990424 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_599e5956 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_599e5956 | comment |
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!: Mekanos is the polluted side to this trope taken to extremes — a level with a giant ripsaw shredding a whole forest as it goes upwards and various factories. By comparison, KAOS Kore is quite a serene, pleasant area, with the exception of Kastle KAOS and the Death World-like area of Lightning Lookout. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_599e5956 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_599e5956 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_599e5956 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5bfa9c98 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5bfa9c98 | comment |
In Warframe, dwarf planet Ceres has been turned by Grineer into their empire's industrial centre, giving the planet lakes of green ooze and sickly green/brown/gray clouds that rain constantly. It's also one of very few places where you can engage in planetside Survival missions, wherein the goal is not only to Hold the Line but also to look after your Oxygen Meter, which should be saying something about the quality of air on this planet — though somehow, there are plants growing there (pitcher plants, to be specific). Did we mention Ceres is named after a goddess of agriculture? | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5bfa9c98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5bfa9c98 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Warframe (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_5bfa9c98 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5c9afb42 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5c9afb42 | comment |
Yogi's Gang: Smog City is this thanks to Smokestack Smog's smog factory. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5c9afb42 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5c9afb42 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Yogi's Gang | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_5c9afb42 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5d321bc8 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5d321bc8 | comment |
In Factorio, you play as the wannabe Captain Planet villain polluting the planet. Automation equipment used in factories spews out pollution that kills off forests and agitates the local Big Creepy-Crawlies. A factory built in a pristine forest will soon turn the green trees into dead husks. Sadly, there is no way to directly dump oil into water sources — without mods, at least. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5d321bc8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5d321bc8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Factorio (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_5d321bc8 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5fd103f9 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5fd103f9 | comment |
Trees: The alien "trees" cause this with their irregular toxic waste dumps. The comic opens with two of the Rio de Janeiro trees drowning much of the city in steaming acidic sludge. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5fd103f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_5fd103f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Trees (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_5fd103f9 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_61de95d6 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_61de95d6 | comment |
Freelancer: Planet Leeds. Instead of "great evil", there's just rampant irresponsibility, but the planet is capable of blowing out entire nebulae of smog. Accordingly, the government is depicted as unable to deal with the pollution and industrial accidents, and news stories of mine collapses devouring neighborhoods tromp across the Colonial News Service from time to time. Planet Houston also counts to some degree, being an entirely industrial planet that runs on prisoner labor. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_61de95d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_61de95d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Freelancer (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_61de95d6 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6435b1c2 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6435b1c2 | comment |
Clockwork Century: Seattle has become this in Boneshaker. A giant drilling machine released a poisonous gas which blocks out the sun, made the air toxic to breathe, and killed all the plant life and people... or turned them into zombies. Also, there are frequent earthquakes, and the small living population is made up of outlaws whose de facto ruler is an evil Mad Scientist. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6435b1c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6435b1c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Clockwork Century | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_6435b1c2 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_694ab80 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_694ab80 | comment |
Batman Beyond: One episode is set in Verdeza, a South American nation whose ecosystem has been polluted by the son of a corrupt billionaire. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_694ab80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_694ab80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman Beyond | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_694ab80 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_69fa7496 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_69fa7496 | comment |
Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In "Be Leery of Lake Eerie", Huey, Dewey, Louie and the Junior Woodchucks discover a dragon that lives off of Lake Eerie's pollutants, only for the dragon to meet its demise when the rain dilutes the lake to a 98% impure level. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_69fa7496 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_69fa7496 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_69fa7496 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6ae0452 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6ae0452 | comment |
Ultramarines: In Dead Sky Black Sun, Uriel and Pasanius find that a Chaos-warped Afterlife Express has carried them into planet Medrengard in the Eye of Terror. There lie hideous, impossible landscapes haunted by monsters and holding many dead bodies, containing tunnels that can drive people to murder and suicide, and a city of Alien Geometries with strange light creatures and impossible-to-trace routes, pollutants that come to life as Living Shadows and an Evil Tower of Ominousness. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6ae0452 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6ae0452 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ultramarines | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_6ae0452 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6dbe6646 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6dbe6646 | comment |
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Under Robotnik's rule, Mobius is plagued with pollution, environmental exploitation, and industrialized wastes. Dr. Robotnik actively pollutes Robotropolis and its immediate surroundings because he loves the smell. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6dbe6646 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_6dbe6646 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_6dbe6646 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_72262aee | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_72262aee | comment |
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Used sometimes to reinforce the occasional Green Aesop. Without even mentioning the Anvilicious "The Painted Lady", several episodes that take place in the Fire Nation come with shots of strip mines, factories with belching smokestacks, machinery, and lots and lots of metal stuff and Steampunk technology. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_72262aee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_72262aee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Avatar: The Last Airbender | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_72262aee | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_74c5b2f3 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_74c5b2f3 | comment |
Nintendo Wars: In Battalion Wars, the nation of Xylvania (EX Ill-Vain-Ia) is so polluted that the trees are all dead, the soil has degenerated into a grey-blue sludge, the sky is allways black with forge smoke, and the water is yellow from all the mine tailings. Xylvanians themselves are mutated into vampires, complete with pale skin, red eyes and snaggleteeth. Half of them need to wear hazmat armor when fighting in sulight. Advance Wars: Dual Strike gives us what happens when a Black Crystal is allowed to run. First the land is turned into a desert. Let it keep running, and it transforms the entire landscape around it into a burned-out, blackened wasteland — the waters even turn blood red. Best part: the ending leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not breaking the things will turn everything back. |
|
| Polluted Wasteland / int_74c5b2f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_74c5b2f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nintendo Wars (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_74c5b2f3 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7559ae0b | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7559ae0b | comment |
Dune: Giedi Prime, homeworld of House Harkonnen, has had its environment ravaged by over-industrialization. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7559ae0b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7559ae0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dune (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_7559ae0b | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_76376304 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_76376304 | comment |
Metro 2033: Moscow has become such a wasteland following a nuclear war 20 years prior. The surface is completely uninhabitable due to radiation, poisonous air, and man-eating mutants, forcing the citizens to live out their lives in the Metro tunnels beneath the city. Even there, they're not completely safe, as subterranean mutants and corrupt, warmongering factions remain a major threat. It's made even more glaring in Metro Exodus, in which the areas outside of Moscow have normal, breathable air and radiation is far less prevalent, though mutants are still a concern. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_76376304 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_76376304 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metro 2033 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_76376304 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_76b8cb10 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_76b8cb10 | comment |
Fallout: Most of the world has become a desert, barren and irradiated wasteland littered with urban ruins, though this is a result of global thermonuclear war. A more traditional example is the Sierra Madre area in Fallout: New Vegas: Dead Money, which is blanketed in the Cloud, a corrosive red smog created by the Mad Scientists of Big Mountain. The Pitt from Fallout 3 has the worst of both industrial and radioactive pollution. You can find piles of barrels of nuclear waste just laying around in all the games. In New Vegas in particular, it's possible to find several truckloads of the stuff because standard procedure for pre-war society was to just dump toxic waste wherever it was convenient. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_76b8cb10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_76b8cb10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fallout (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_76b8cb10 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7988cb68 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7988cb68 | comment |
Mass Effect: Tuchanka is a post-nuclear wasteland dotted with ruins and rubble, to the extent that when Grunt gets his first look at his homeworld, his immediate reaction boils down to "This is Tuchanka? Seriously? What a shithole." Of course, the krogan, who believe in The Spartan Way, prefer Tuchanka as a hellhole because it ensures that they have to be strong to survive. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7988cb68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7988cb68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mass Effect (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_7988cb68 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7d8c61a2 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7d8c61a2 | comment |
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Nal Hutta was transformed into a polluted hellhole by industrialization after the Hutts took it over from the native Evocii. Doubles as a Wretched Hive, given the presence of the Hutts. The planet Quesh is a toxic hellhole that requires an inoculation to even set foot on the surface. Its primary product is "Quesh venom", an underground substance used in manufacturing combat drugs, but a cataclysmic earthquake released the stuff into the atmosphere. Taris doesn't fare much better; centuries after being bombarded from orbit in Knights of the Old Republic, it's still barely habitable, with rakghouls running wild and toxic runoff leaking from the ruins of industrial buildings. |
|
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7d8c61a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7d8c61a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Wars: The Old Republic (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_7d8c61a2 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7de8951a | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7de8951a | comment |
Traveller: The "industrial" trade classification describes a planet with billions of inhabitants and an unbreathable or barely breathable atmosphere, implied to be a global factory and (because of the way the Traveller random world generation system works) also very likely to have a repressive government. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7de8951a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_7de8951a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Traveller (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_7de8951a | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_84823809 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_84823809 | comment |
Kaeloo: In one episode, when Mr. Cat manages to Take Over the World, he actually takes steps to ensure that this happens to Smileyland. The sky even turns red when this happens. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_84823809 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_84823809 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kaeloo | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_84823809 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_88b580f0 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_88b580f0 | comment |
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Pentex factories turn landscapes into this, in both the material world and the Umbra. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_88b580f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_88b580f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_88b580f0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8a7b5210 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8a7b5210 | comment |
Shocking Dark: Future Venice has been so badly contaminated with toxic waste that the city's population has been forced to abandon it and move elsewhere. This was deliberately engineered by the corrupt Tubular Corporation in order to increase their profit margin. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8a7b5210 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8a7b5210 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shocking Dark | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_8a7b5210 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8af58eb4 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8af58eb4 | comment |
FernGully: The Last Rainforest: This is the villain Hexxus's ideal environment, and what he wants to turn FernGully into. His entire mission is to spread destruction and pollution everywhere because he's literally made of the stuff. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8af58eb4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8af58eb4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| FernGully: The Last Rainforest | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_8af58eb4 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8af995e4 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8af995e4 | comment |
Bicycle Boy: The sandy desert wasteland is rumored to be poisoned with radiation, alluded to by signage with radioactive symbols, and one city with an entire hospital ward dedicated to treating radiation sickness. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8af995e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_8af995e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bicycle Boy (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_8af995e4 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_93776d1d | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_93776d1d | comment |
Windaria: One of the three areas is called 'The Shadowlands' and provides a Foil for The Valley in that it is dirtier, darker and based on industry instead of agriculture. Alan even states that farming is impossible in the Shadowland and drinking the water is lethal or insanity producing. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_93776d1d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_93776d1d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Windaria | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_93776d1d | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9994a14f | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9994a14f | comment |
WALL•E: Rampant and wasteful consumerism has drowned the Earth in literal mountains of garbage, with piles of rotting refuse, wrappers, cups and other commercial detritus covering both the landscape and the decaying ruins of its cities. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9994a14f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9994a14f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| WALL•E | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_9994a14f | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_99e49e94 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_99e49e94 | comment |
Bug Fables: The Forsaken Lands in the Termite Kingdom have become very hazy and barren thanks to both the human junk thrown all over the place and the smog being produced by the factories in the Termite Capitol. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_99e49e94 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_99e49e94 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bug Fables (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_99e49e94 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9e2f90f4 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9e2f90f4 | comment |
One Piece: Punk Hazard ends up this way after Caesar Clown unleashes his deadly Shinokuni gas. Over the course of merely 20 years, Kaido's weapons factory polluted the majority of Wano Country to the point the rivers are poisonous, as are the animals that drink from them. |
|
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9e2f90f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9e2f90f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| One Piece (Manga) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_9e2f90f4 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9f02efb1 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9f02efb1 | comment |
EverQuest has a few areas that are slightly less conventional Mordors. The Grey is an area that got exposed to the vacuum of space through some powerful magic. Now it's a desert where the only things that can survive are those that don't need to breathe air. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9f02efb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9f02efb1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| EverQuest (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_9f02efb1 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9fbd7df | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9fbd7df | comment |
Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge: Spiller's Harbor was once a beautiful resort, before Gruntilda and her minions came and turned the place into an oil refinery. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9fbd7df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_9fbd7df | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_9fbd7df | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a4ae80d6 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a4ae80d6 | comment |
Oddworld: The bad guys pollute the land and drive species to extinction in their thirst for profits. This makes all bad guy areas disgusting industrial wastelands with gloomy smog as the clouds of doom, immense factories as the tall, dark towers, and cruel CEOs as the Big Bads. The player is bashed over the head with the "Save the environment, Big corporations are bad" philosophy, which is ironic considering that the last two games in this franchise were made for a Microsoft platform. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a4ae80d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a4ae80d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Oddworld (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_a4ae80d6 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a54fc70c | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a54fc70c | comment |
Zone 39: The titular territory has become desolate and polluted because Central has been draining resources, and as a result, Central has been considering misappropriating drinking water from working towns. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a54fc70c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a54fc70c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Zone 39 | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_a54fc70c | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a5e47ee2 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a5e47ee2 | comment |
The Lorax: The land that was once populated by Truffula trees and various animals becomes a Polluted Wasteland when all the trees are cut down, sludge is dumped into the water and pollutants are pumped into the air. The story ends on a bittersweet yet cautiously optimistic note when a young boy is given the last Truffula seed and told to replant the forest, in hopes of bringing the area to its former glory. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a5e47ee2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a5e47ee2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lorax | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_a5e47ee2 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a6f6433c | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a6f6433c | comment |
Jak and Daxter: In Jak II: Renegade and Jak 3, the Metal Heads' territory, as well as Haven City itself, is very desolate, polluted, and dangerous. It's both a Death World filled with dangerous monsters and polluted to the point that it makes any real-life environmental trainwrecks look quite pleasant in comparison. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a6f6433c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a6f6433c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jak and Daxter (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_a6f6433c | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a825da3e | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a825da3e | comment |
Magic: The Gathering: Phyrexia is a techno-industrial hell, a twisted parody of natural worlds built of screaming metal and oil and inhabited by murderous cyborgs who eat, assimilate, or torture visitors (sometimes all three!). Mirrodin was later conquered by their last bioweapon, a mutagenic oil that turned it into New Phyrexia and twisted all its inhabitants and wildlife into hideous, murderous cyborgs. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a825da3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_a825da3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_a825da3e | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_b0675efc | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_b0675efc | comment |
Gone with the Blastwave: The city is so heinously polluted that all the characters are covered head to toe in protective gear. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_b0675efc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_b0675efc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gone with the Blastwave (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_b0675efc | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bcadd7cb | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bcadd7cb | comment |
Warhammer 40,000: Many of the more established manufacturing worlds are described this way. Whether they be Forge Worlds covered in nothing but manufactoriums, or Hive Worlds scattered with immense urban sprawl cities, they usually tend to consume their immediate environment and push it past its point of capacity such that they depend on off world imports and terraforming machinery just to keep themselves habitable. The planet Armageddon is a well-known example of this, often requiring re-breathers to breath comfortably in the areas near its hive cities. Indeed, this tends to motivate the otherwise sprawling nature of hive cities into dense "spires" where the air can be more easily kept breathable with environmental seals and carbon dioxide scrubber machines. This is one of the most common aspects of Nurgle's realm, as many of his armies make biological warfare a new level of fear. While Nurgle's armies will use bolters and missiles aplenty, Nurgle always keeps experimenting of new plagues and new kinds of demons to send against his rival brother gods. It gets difficult to the point that the other Chaos Gods have to dedicated Special Units to clear a path, and they burn out quickly! |
|
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bcadd7cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bcadd7cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_bcadd7cb | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bcb32dc6 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bcb32dc6 | comment |
Shadowrun: Part of the Cyberpunk aesthetic of the setting is the amount of industrial pollution in the Sixth World due to most of the MegaCorps being Toxic, Inc. to one degree or another plus numerous wars and natural and man-made disasters. Most major cities have descriptions for how polluted they are: the worst have air quality that's so bad that the average person can't breathe outside without a respirator or cybernetic lungs that have pollution filters. The Badass Longcoat is popular with Shadowrunners not just for the protection from bullets and blades it provides, but because in polluted Sixth World Seattle, the precipitation can sometimes eat holes in an unprotected person's skin. There are a few places that are relatively clean, but only the ultra-rich have the money to live their lives in protected, pollution-free sanctuaries. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bcb32dc6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bcb32dc6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_bcb32dc6 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bff01809 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bff01809 | comment |
Warhammer: The land of the Chaos Dwarfs manages to be both Mordor and a Polluted Wasteland at once. It started as a dark volcanic wasteland... and then the Chaos Dwarfs brought in thousands of slaves to start strip mining and heavy industry. It's a wonder how they manage to feed their single giant city in such conditions. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bff01809 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_bff01809 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Warhammer (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_bff01809 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c095f21d | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c095f21d | comment |
Simoun: The island nation of Argentum. The water and air are toxic, and the skies are blackened with smog. The people need to wear masks constantly, and it's shown that many are dying from the poisoning. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c095f21d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c095f21d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Simoun | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_c095f21d | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c18bfdae | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c18bfdae | comment |
Blade Runner: Future Los Angeles is covered in thick smog from pollution, and although it's still a high-functioning urban area, it's a horrible place to live. By the time Blade Runner 2049 takes place, the entire biosphere has finally died off. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c18bfdae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c18bfdae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blade Runner | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_c18bfdae | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c2297a9c | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c2297a9c | comment |
Judge Dredd: In the Deadworld universe, the American government initiated an extensive mining operation at the very south of the country that eventually transformed the region into the heavily polluted Fracklands ("five hundred miles of hell"). The original residents were evicted, and those who refused were arrested and then given a life sentence of servitude in the military's "national resource protection unit[s]". The pollution caused the unfortunate residents to mutate into misshapen horrors. President Douglas Boone then built a great wall on the Fracklands border to keep out mutants and other undesirables. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c2297a9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c2297a9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Judge Dredd (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_c2297a9c | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who: The planet Skaro, as depicted in "Genesis of the Daleks" and several Expanded Universe media, thanks to a centuries-long war of attrition involving nuclear and chemical weapons — and that was before the Daleks came into the picture. Several Classic Era episodes with a Green Aesop present future Earth this way, albeit off-screen, e.g. "Colony in Space" and "The Curse of Fenric". |
|
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_c43df4d8 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c75605f9 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c75605f9 | comment |
The infamous Corona Ash Dumps. The area where Flushing Meadows–Corona Park now sits used to be a nightmarish dump site back in the 192's. Ash and street sweepings were originally brought in as landfill for what used to be marshland and it just escalated until the site was filled with literal mountains of soot, horse manure, and garbage. Nearby neighborhoods were plagued not only by the sights and smells, but rat infestations. The dump is what inspired the Valley of Ashes in The Great Gatsby. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c75605f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_c75605f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Great Gatsby | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_c75605f9 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d2cd3b5e | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d2cd3b5e | comment |
In Nomine: Tartarus, the realm in Hell of the Prince of Technology, is a barren industrial wasteland ruined by centuries of ruthless exploitation and industry. Massive factories and laboratory complexes sprawl across the landscape, spewing out vast clouds of smog that cover the entire Principality. Interspersed with these are forests of rusted scaffolding, ruined machines, and broken infastructure from failed or abandoned projects, alongside junk heaps of broken machinery and flawed creations and bodies of filthy water covered in floating waste. The smoky darkness is filled with the heavy noises of machinery, the gurgling of liquids along snaking pipelines, and the howls of passing transports. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d2cd3b5e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d2cd3b5e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| In Nomine (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_d2cd3b5e | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d3e3e38a | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d3e3e38a | comment |
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: The Horde's base in the Fright Zone is an industrial hellscape with an ugly-looking atmosphere to it. Nothing grows, everything is covered in metal and sewage pipes, and supplementary materials confirm that the air smells like burning garbage. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d3e3e38a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d3e3e38a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| She-Ra and the Princesses of Power | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_d3e3e38a | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d56cafaf | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d56cafaf | comment |
Power Rangers RPM: The machinations of the Venjix Empire has turned pretty much turned the whole world into this. Most of humanity is dead save for one (possibly more) city. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d56cafaf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d56cafaf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Power Rangers RPM | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_d56cafaf | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d59e2ca4 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d59e2ca4 | comment |
Quake: The hyper-industrial Strogg turn every place and thing they can find into a Polluted Wasteland, as long as it can be used in a production facility somehow. Blood and gristle are fine lubricants, and they'll be damned if they can't find a way to install a human torso in a machine one way or another. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d59e2ca4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d59e2ca4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quake (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_d59e2ca4 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d616724d | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d616724d | comment |
League of Legends: Many areas of Zaun are like this, due to their total lack of safety restrictions. Other parts of Runeterra are also pretty much uninhabitable as a result of magical fallout from the Rune Wars. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d616724d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_d616724d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| League of Legends (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_d616724d | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_da275e44 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_da275e44 | comment |
The 4400: In "Terrible Swift Sword", Jordan Collier reveals in a television interview that Earth will be a wasteland in the future with only one city remaining on the planet. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_da275e44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_da275e44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The 4400 | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_da275e44 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_e6267766 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_e6267766 | comment |
Star Wars Legends: The planet Sullust was never particularly hospitable, with large parts of the native life evolving underground. The planet is also extremely rich in natural resources, and the local Sullustans are known as great engineers, which made it one of the main manufacturers of starships in the galaxy, with pretty much no concerns for natural preservation — not even the natives wanted to go outside if it could be avoided, and rather lived on space stations when supporting the underground settlements became problematic. Raxus Prime (introduced by the Boba Fett childrens' series) is an entire planet designated as the galaxy's garbage dump. |
|
| Polluted Wasteland / int_e6267766 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_e6267766 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Wars Legends (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_e6267766 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_e7e37776 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_e7e37776 | comment |
Firefly: The series is the Trope Namer for "Earth That Was", though the details are somewhat vague and comics reveal that it's not totally dead. In addition, much the same thing happened to Mal's homeworld, Shadow, at the hands of the Alliance during the Unification War. Wash's homeworld is described as being so thick with air pollution that he became a pilot just to see what all those stars were that all the songs kept referring to. That said, he was also shown traveling with his dad at times, so it's a bit fuzzy. There are hints that other worlds in the 'verse are this way too. |
|
| Polluted Wasteland / int_e7e37776 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_e7e37776 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Firefly | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_e7e37776 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ea7c1156 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ea7c1156 | comment |
In Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, you can reach the Ultra Beast Guzzlord's homeworld, which turns out to be an alternate version of Earth that's been destroyed by pollution. The air is toxic, all the water requires purifiers to be drinkable, and Hau'oli City is completely in ruins. Humanity has long since abandoned the place for other worlds, and you only meet one other human, who wears a hazmat suit and is unfamiliar with the color blue. It's gotten so bad that the only person you meet there says that the Guzzlord population seems to be decreasing, despite them being a species of Extreme Omnivore that can eat literally anything, including toxic waste. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ea7c1156 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ea7c1156 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_ea7c1156 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_eb5d7301 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_eb5d7301 | comment |
Amphibia: "Olivia & Yunan" shows that the lands around Newtopia have been stripped for resources to fuel the Big Bad's multiverse-spanning war machine, leaving nothing but bare earth, strip-mining machines, and smoke-belching factories to produce more Mecha-Mooks. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_eb5d7301 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_eb5d7301 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Amphibia | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_eb5d7301 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ef7a115 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ef7a115 | comment |
Terra Nova: The entire Earth is covered in thick yellow smog in the 22nd century, requiring filtering masks for any time spent outside. The rich live under domes, Population Control is in effect, and an orange is a rare and exciting find. The eponymous colony is located behind a one-way Portal to the Past — the late Cretaceous, where humanity might be able to start anew. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ef7a115 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ef7a115 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Terra Nova | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_ef7a115 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f1aaf6d5 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f1aaf6d5 | comment |
In Indivisible, the Iron Kingdom (a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Industrial Revolution London) is choked with foul-smelling green smog and slathered in industrial runoff that resembles nothing so much as vast ammounts of ABC (Already Been Chewed) bubblegum. Naturally, Razmi the Witch loves it. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f1aaf6d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f1aaf6d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Indivisible (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_f1aaf6d5 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f6a1016f | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f6a1016f | comment |
The Matrix: The real world, as a result of the war between the humans and the machines, is a barren, lifeless waste. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f6a1016f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f6a1016f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Matrix (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_f6a1016f | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f8911af4 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f8911af4 | comment |
The entire goal of Terra Nil is to depollute one of the bleakest wastelands ever seen into a beautiful healthy landscape. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f8911af4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_f8911af4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Terra Nil (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_f8911af4 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_fb9c177d | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_fb9c177d | comment |
Transformers: In most incarnations of the franchise, Cybertron has been reduced to the sci-fi version of this due to brutal warfare sparked by a resource shortage. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_fb9c177d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_fb9c177d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_fb9c177d | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_febb8460 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_febb8460 | comment |
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The Sea of Decay plays with this. Ultimately subverted in that the poison-laden plant life, which was caused by human industrial and military waste, is the product of the forest trying to cleanse the land, and underneath the jungle is pristine earth. The Tolumekian Empire, meanwhile, plays it straight. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_febb8460 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_febb8460 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Manga) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_febb8460 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ff83e76e | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ff83e76e | comment |
The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis game Zoombinis: Island Odyssey features this as the resource aspect; the titular Zoombinis arrive at their abandoned homeland and realise that the invaders have removed all the butterflies and destroyed the environment. By returning caterpillars, the place gradually returns to its former glory. So, basically, you play through rebuilding an area. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ff83e76e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ff83e76e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Logical Journey of the Zoombinis (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_ff83e76e | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ff9ca30 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ff9ca30 | comment |
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: The Space Pirate Homeworld is very much this. The planet's acid rain is the most dangerous environmental hazard in the game, killing you almost before you can realize it. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ff9ca30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ff9ca30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_ff9ca30 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ffc9bcc1 | type |
Polluted Wasteland | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ffc9bcc1 | comment |
Soylent Green: The world exists on the absolute cusp of becoming one, being so polluted, filthy, and overheated from climate change that things like milk and meat are considered delicacies that only the richest citizens can afford while everyone else is forced to subsist on the titular Soylent products made of soy or krill from the oceans. Just seeing video footage of the way the world is today is enough to bring the protagonist to tears, and the big reveal is that ocean life is now extinct and Soylent Green is made out of people. | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ffc9bcc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Polluted Wasteland / int_ffc9bcc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Soylent Green | hasFeature |
Polluted Wasteland / int_ffc9bcc1 |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.