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Ruins of the Modern Age

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Ruins of the Modern Age	comment	Want to make something set in the future? What better way than making it look like our current era has passed? Have all the trappings of our modern time fall into disuse and litter the landscape, possibly with nature beginning to reclaim it. This is used to great effect in many After the End pieces; the Standard Post-Apocalyptic Setting is prominently filled with landscapes of crumbling, rusting buildings, while the swamped-out ruins of cities are a common sight in a Flooded Future World, either half-flooded and covered in jungles of weeds and epiphytes or fully underwater and tenanted by sealife. Related to Scenery Gorn and RagnarÃ¶k Proofing. See also Monumental Damage Resistance. For further down the line see Techno Wreckage.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time has a lot of settings like this, such as hospital (complete with helicopter plate), a baseball arena for the wizard tournament and other various structures and remnants, such as the police cars and ambulances in the Underworld.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_12fd8e7f	comment	Destiny: Just about every environment takes place at least partially in some version of these (save for the Dreadnaught and the Black Garden, which are... something else entirely.) Most of the action on Earth takes place in the ruins of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia, which was the site of massive colonization ship launches up until humanity was attacked by the Darkness; the site is now being looted by the Fallen. On the Moon, the remains of lunar colonies and facilities are scattered across the surface, where the Guardians are fighting the Hive. On Venus, the remnants of a large university and research campus known as the Ishtar Collective is spread across the terraformed landscape, mixed in with the older structures of the Vex. Finally, on Mars, an old human city known as Meridian Bay hides scientific secrets and research being fought over by humanity and the Cabal.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_1670bd19	comment	S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: The games are set in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Northern Ukraine, including the ruins of the city of Pripyat. The rest of the world is just fine, though. For the moment, at least.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_17c7cdc3	comment	Daughter of the Lilies has passing references to "ancient relics" like a battery and a flashlight, and later shows the monster-infested ruins of modern-day Vienna. Given that the setting includes orcs, elves, magic, gods, and demons, quite a lot appears to have happened in the interim.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_198091c2	comment	Logan's Run: In the pilot, as in the film, Logan and Jessica discover the ruins of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. shortly after leaving the City of Domes.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_1b9ff200	comment	IO: Sam lives on a mountaintop enclave and travels down into the Zone which is shrouded in a permanent fog of toxins which have made the Earth uninhabitable. She however finds the ruins quite beautiful, unlike Micah who is old enough to remember what the city was like Before and says they're full of ghosts.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_1be9854a	comment	Sound of the Sky: No Man's Land and the battlefield of Binnenland seen in flashbacks are full of tumble-down skyscrapers and ravaged cities. Even though there are glimpses of super-advanced Lost Technology in the show, the urban landscape come across as current day.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_1c4cf6	comment	Survivors is set in the then-present day and depict the aftermath of a virulent disease. Our works are sliding into ruin.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_1f67dad6	comment	The Time Machine by H. G. Wells has a museum dedicated to the rotting ruins of the past. The museum itself had long been forgotten by the dull and complacent future children of humanity.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_22fe4557	comment	Patema Inverted: In the final scene, Age/Eiji asks Patema to take him with her so they can explore the ruins of the surface world. Which is strewn with collapsed skyscrapers that've been overgrown with vines, set beneath an Alien Sky.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: The city of Chicago is built upon the remains of the old Chicago, nearly destroyed in the Final War that wiped out much of the population still on the homeworld, about two millennia prior to the main story setting. The Eric Flint short story "From the Highlands" goes into this a bit, including the protagonists stumbling into the remains of the Art Institute. Also, a plot-important political rally takes place in the partially renovated remains of Soldier Field... deep underground.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_25b6c2f1	comment	The Colony (2013): Both the futuristic weather machines and the modern cities' skylines, river-spanning bridges and wrecked vehicles are still visible on the Earth's surface, preserved in the ice and cold.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_27b84429	comment	The Last of Us: The game is set twenty years after a fungal Zombie Apocalypse devastated civilization. The opening chapters are set in a decaying Boston invaded by vegetation, while a later level is set in the ruins of Pittsburgh. The sequel is mainly set in the damp and flooded literal urban jungle of what was once Seattle.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_30a69ad0	comment	Tokyo Jungle has you take control of a feral animal in the ruins of an overgrown, post-apocalyptic Tokyo.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent: The characters are exploring Denmark ninety years after it has become a Forbidden Zone Death World, so plenty of ruins show up as crumbling, monster-infested deathtraps only entered occasionally to scavenge for valuable old-world artifacts.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): "Rite of Passage": Shal and Brav come across the ruins of an underground carpark which is littered with skeletons. "Promised Land": The Tsal-Khan family's farm is located on the outskirts of Seattle. When Ma'al visits the ruined city, the dilapidated but still standing Space Needle is seen prominently. "The Origin of Species": This trope is combined with Earth All Along. Hope and the six students realize that they are on Earth in the future, some point after the 23rd Century, when they come across the half-collapsed Golden Gate Bridge.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_332cb317	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) has Crisis City, the ruins of Soleanna, when Sonic and Co. were forcibly warped to the future by Dr. Eggman and Mephiles.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_366a284d	comment	Fist of the North Star takes place in a post-apocalyptic future after a nuclear war. The main characters often traverse or fight in ruins of modern cities, with rows of skyscrapers collapsed, toppled over and partially covered by the sand being a frequent sight.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_3b0464ea	comment	The Chrysalids has the remains of US cities as being still radioactive enough to still glow at night and kill passing sailors over a millennium after the 'Tribulation', where nuclear and mutagenic weapons were used in an all-out world war.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_3fa59e05	comment	Return to the Planet of the Apes: In "The Unearthly Prophecy", Bill and Jeff discover the ruins of the New York Public Library in the Underdwellers' caverns.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_405243c7	comment	The 100 averts this on the Earth's surface, as (except for the Lincoln Memorial) the world has been almost completely reclaimed by wilderness. Stuff buried underneath the surface is a different story. Main Characters seem to have a knack for stumbling across underground tunnels and bunkers full of pre-apocalypse artifacts.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_408937d5	comment	Waterworld: The bottom of the global ocean are littered with the ruins of modern cities that were flooded as the seas rose.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_410e0114	comment	The Last of Us (2023): Like the video game it was adapted from, the story begins in a decaying enclave of Boston 20 years after the Zombie Apocalypse, although later on it replaces Pittsburgh with Kansas City.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_4354fc98	comment	Planet of the Apes: "The Trap": Galen, Virdon and Burke visit the ruins of San Francisco. After an earthquake, Burke and Urko become trapped in a BART subway station. "The Legacy": Galen, Virdon and Burke discover the ruins of Oakland. The ruined city sets are reused from "The Trap".
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop: Every time there's an episode that takes place on Earth. In "Speak Like a Child", Spike and Jet trudge through an abandoned museum in search of a rare Beta video tape player.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_460f1a4f	comment	Planet of the Apes (1968): At the end, Taylor discovers the ruins of the Statue of Liberty. He realizes that humanity destroyed itself, sent the planet back to the Stone Age, and allowed the apes to conquer.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII had a location that was an archaeological dig. One of the relics that's been partially unearthed is quite clearly an F-14 Tomcat, implying that the story takes place on Earth in the distant future. While this was possibly Jossed by Word of God's claim that VII is a distant sequel to Final Fantasy X, there is, however, still the "500 years later" coda that shows Midgar in ruins.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_4b238117	comment	Sarilho: The Mediterranean Empire's main endeavour is to recover and understand ancient technology, which looks somewhat modern.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_4b87fcc2	comment	Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, set After the End, uses this for the surface world.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_4d0a4499	comment	Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters: The landing party find the overgrown ruins of cities even though 20,000 years have passed since they left Earth. Then they realise the structures are actually fungi which fossilized in the shape of the buildings they once covered.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_5030d3bb	comment	A.I.: Artificial Intelligence: The ending takes place in a flooded Manhattan where all the skyscrapers are collapsed, in the process of collapsing, or in really bad shape overall.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck has a subplot involving characters in future times exploring a planet whose civilisation has been desolated, leaving the Earth covered by vast deserts littered with ruined buildings and cities.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_531b8f34	comment	Scrapped Princess: At one point, the three main characters pass through the decrepit remains of a skyscraper. All that's left is the cement skeleton, but one of them remarks on how unnatural the "rock formations" look.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_55f26bda	comment	Krush Kill n' Destroy uses this trope. It is set After the End, and two of the levels feature the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building half-submerged in the ground.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_58a10e11	comment	Flood features underwater ruins as a global flood continually rises and drowns everything. People survive by diving down and scavenging usable materials.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_5b213d07	comment	Morning Glories: We're treated to a double-page splash of the ruins of Morning Glory Academy itself, when Future Jade takes Hunter to them in #27. When he asks, shocked, what happened, she replies with "War. Destruction. Death. You know — human being stuff," heavily implying that the future as it currently stands is not exactly sunshine and roses.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_5cec267a	comment	Defiance: The Votan terraformers end up leveling most cities and recognizable landmarks. The only thing left of the old St. Louis on the surface is the remains of the Gateway Arch. However, much of the old city remains beneath the surface in the mines, although, of course, no one lives there.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_6a989b15	comment	The Tripods series has the main characters touring France, passing through a ruined Paris at one point.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_6c96b7	comment	Etrian Odyssey: The fifth stratum shows up alongside the reveal that the setting where it's hosted is Earth All Along, some indeterminate amount of time after the end.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_6dd8677c	comment	Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun: Most of the world's battlefields are cluttered with the Tiberium-choked ruins of major cities, and occasionally run-down bases from the previous game. The Yellow Zones of Tiberium Wars are no better, while the Red Zones are so far gone as to be hellish alien landscapes.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_6f9a0b27	comment	Clocks that Don't Tick: Seattle's streets are filthy, full of casual murder, and home to entrepreneurs selling false cures to the setting's myriad diseases. The buildings are crumbled, crumbling, or patched up with plywood and glue. According to one of the protagonists, the rest of the world didn't fare any better.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_737d93d8	comment	Zombie Shooter uses this trope to an extent; several of the game's levels have a Fallout-like look.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_760644e9	comment	Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt has this in its title — we're remembered as the "Roadmakers" because our highways are the most prominent objects we left behind.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_76376304	comment	Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light prominently feature the post-nuclear war ruins of Moscow, in the form of both the human-inhabited Metro tunnels and the devastated, overgrown, radioactive, mutant-infested city on the surface. Metro Exodus goes further by showing the ruins of Novosibirsk and later, through Downloadable Content, Vladivostok.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_77582c7b	comment	X-Men: Days of Future Past: A matter of decades after the present in the Bad Future, New York's skyline consists of bombed-out looking shells of buildings, the X-Mansion isn't much better, and the only place we see that seems largely untouched by the apocalypse is the monastery high in the Tibetan Alps.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_78640f76	comment	Highlander: The Search for Vengeance is placed After the End as we get to see flooded sports stadiums and multistory car parks that are being used as hideouts as they're the only thing above the water level. Also New York has seen better days.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout takes place centuries after a nuclear apocalypse, the Great War, in a world littered with the Zeerust ruins of pre-War America. While places of major importance like Washington D.C. were hit directly and nearly devastated completely, other places managed to stand against both the nukes and the test of time largely intact like Boston, Massachusetts. A stand-out case of this comes from Las Vegas in Nevada, which was specifically protected by the intuition of its benefactor Robert House, though it wasn't a perfect defense and Vegas still went through a time as an overgrown, savaged ruin before House reemerged and revived it to a degree of its former glory as New Vegas.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_84d455d4	comment	The Big O features a number of sequences, including one aquatic one through Grand Central Terminal, that reveal that Paradigm City: is built on the ruins of New York.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_8ec33a87	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 2: The Land of Morytha, located beneath the Cloud Sea that everybody lives above. While the lands above the clouds are standard magitech empires, with 19th century architecture at best, the ruins of Morytha are full of crumbling concrete skyscrapers and asphalt streets. Also, the techno-zombie "survivors".
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_8fda7950	comment	Known Space: The Beowulf Shaeffer stories mention crumbling roadways on Earth. They're crumbling not because of disaster, but quite the opposite — they went obsolete once flying vehicles became ubiquitous. There's a section of roadway around Los Angeles preserved so that people can drive on it for sport.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: This becomes very common at just about the point the reader starts thinking he's reading a standard fantasy tale. The Breaking of the World, followed by repeated wars and a slow depopulation, have left wrecked cities (along with the occasional Artifact of Doom) all over the world. Unexpectedly played for laughs when a mysterious museum artifact that "radiates pride and vanity" can be recognized by readers as a Mercedes hood ornament.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_91bfc484	comment	The Road: A man and a boy survive by scrounging materials from the ruined landscape After the End, and pass by several abandoned cities.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_926e3724	comment	Locksmith's Closet: Much is set in this. After a while, going back and forth between the inhabited, functioning world of the present and the ruins of the future starts to have a bad effect on Lock's mind.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_9696c53b	comment	Army of Darkness: The alternate ending has Ash accidentally traveling from medieval England into a post-apocalyptic era. A wide landscape shot reveals this via the ruined face of Big Ben.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_9994a14f	comment	WALLâ€¢E: Earth has been reduced to one big pop-culture garbage heap.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_99e61d8f	comment	The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes feature the descent into ruin of civilisation, although more on a permanent scale in the former book, describing London being reclaimed by vegetation and buildings collapsing.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_9c33b8ab	comment	Sliders: "Dust" has the group slide into a world where archaeologists are excavating After the End American cities. The archaeologist who's digging San Francisco out of a desert dates the site as 16th century. When the protagonists look at some of the "artifacts", they see common things for a late-20th century city. The archaeologist doesn't even know what a parking meter is, and the sliders have to awkwardly try to explain the concept of "buying time". He thinks the concept is ridiculous. Oh, and they also find Quinn's old timer in the ruins, obviously nonfunctional after 400 years. And Rembrandt is a deity to the locals, who show him the secret shrine they built from all his merchandise.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_9cc8c624	comment	ValÃ©rian: "City of Moving Waters" takes place in a flooded post-apocalyptic New York City. Most of the city's landmarks are still around.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_9f1284a8	comment	I Am Legend (the film adaptation) is set in New York City three years after the Zombie Apocalypse. The Ωmega Man, an earlier adaptation of the same book, features suburban post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Word of God is that the setting was deliberately moved to New York in order to show just how empty it is. After all, New York is never empty. L.A. looks empty at 3PM. It's also worth noting that the filmmakers consulted extensively with experts to determine just how the city would fare during the intervening years, what would fail and what wouldn't, and how badly different systems and structures would decay. At least one nonfiction book was published as a result of this research.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama occasionally includes sojourns to the underground ruins of Old New York. Played straight with Los Angeles, which was never rebuilt after an apocalypse. The city is still inhabited, and Bender refers to mentioning this as "social commentary".
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_a3f4bb95	comment	By the Waters of Babylon: The son of a priest goes on a spiritual journey to the ruins of an American city which was once New York — they call this "the Place of the Gods". This came out in 1937 and was written in response to the Bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, where the Luftwaffe destroyed around two-thirds of a Basque town. It's strongly implied that civilization was destroyed in a war with bombings and poison gas at the least.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_a7a0b48b	comment	The vast majority of NieR: Automata takes place in the ruins of an unnamed 21st century city, ten thousand years after it (along with the rest of the Earth) was decimated by an extradimensional curse/virus. It is subtly implied through the game that the reason why the buildings haven't crumbled to dust yet after such an astronomic time is that the Machine Lifeforms now controlling the Earth's surface keep the ruins in the state that they originally found them in.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_a8e2b663	comment	Stalker Zero: The Zone is littered with disused buildings, vehicles and structures. None of them date from any earlier than the 1970s.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_a9e19ff0	comment	Book of the New Sun: There are entire towns that make their living by digging up the refuse of the past. Then again, the novels are set so far into the future that these may not be the ruins of the modern age, but rather of some future age. (We are told that the mine tailings contain perfectly preserved corpses, which is probably beyond today's science.)
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_aea94767	comment	Earth Abides: After a plague wipes out most of humanity, the protagonist watches the city of San Francisco deteriorate from nearly intact to fire- and earthquake-ravaged ruins over the course of several decades.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_be7b1b5e	comment	Beyond Thirty: In 2137, Pan-American Navy Lieutenant Jefferson Turck and his companions travel through the Lost World of Europe, and visit the ruins of many of Europe's great cities; destroyed 200 years earlier in a version of The Great War that lasted much longer and was much more destructive.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_bee7440	comment	Drakengard and its sequels have towering empty skyscrapers forging the first bulwark of defenses in the capital cities, despite taking place in the eleventh century. This is later revealed to be the shenanigans of The Old Gods, who were banished outside the universe long ago and could only interact with Earth in sporadic bursts of spacetime. They made a copy of a future city and plopped it near Spain back in 856 AD; the empires did the best they could to replicate the rotting apartment buildings, but carving stone slabs into structurally stable brutalist architecture used as dragon roosts and anti-dragon walls meant they didn't bother to furnish most of it.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_c08f5913	comment	Kirby and the Forgotten Land: The main setting is in another mysterious world where cities lie in ruin, overtaken by nature and populated by animals. Kirby can interact with various worn-out artifacts in this world, including cars, vending machines, traffic cones and many more.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger: While most of the ruins found in 2300 A.D. are futuristic, the Lab/Site 16/32 areas look like ruins of a modern day city from the overworld and within, with burnt out cars, and the remains of stoplights.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_c14f68c	comment	Breath of Death VII: Two major dungeons are ruins of modern-looking cities that are roamed by hostile undead creatures (including possessed cars). The second city even has traversable Sinister Subway and an Absurdly-Spacious Sewer.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_cebbba4f	comment	The Dark Tower: Much of the series has this aesthetic. Especially the city of Lud, which is an alternate-universe New York hundreds of years After the End, populated by violent, fanatic gangs who scavenge the ancient technology and mostly use it to kill each other.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_d5e9cf36	comment	XCOM 2 Many of Earth's cities have been rebuilt into shining, futuristic metropoles that the ADVENT Administration uses to corral and control humanity. But on "wilderness" map types you can find old gas stations, rural homes and entire suburbs now half-rotten and overgrown by foliage. The "ruins" maps introduced in the War of the Chosen Expansion Pack are even worse: these are completely decayed urban areas consisting of apartment buildings, factories and businesses, all covered in dust and rust to the point of always being dark in them. To make it worse, they're all teeming with the Lost, the result of the aliens' use of bio-weapons during the invasion twenty years ago.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_d9572b3b	comment	Guardians Of Gahoole: According to Word of God, the story's setting is an After the End where humans are extinct, and St. Aggie's and other works of architecture left behind by the extinct Others are indeed this trope.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_de8ae019	comment	Star Carrier: In the back story, global warming caused water levels to rise, with many coastal cities across the world drowning, while others were only protected by sea walls. Then the Chinese performed their Colony Drop in the Atlantic, causing most of those cities to be completely flooded. Now, these largely abandoned cities are called the Periphery. Only squatties live these, refusing the join the modern society. In particular, the ruins of Manhattan are frequently referenced, as Trevor Gray, one of the point-of-view characters, lived most of his life in the ruins of the TriBeCa Towernote an arcology built in the Tribeca area of NYC in the mid-21st century. Another key character is from the Washington Swamps, the remains of the former D.C. area (the administrative District of Columbia has been moved to Columbus, Ohio, the new capital). Yet another character is from the ruins of Baltimore. Notably, the Statue of Liberty is mentioned to have largely survived being drowned several times, and Periphery restoration efforts are shown at the end of the third novel.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis: In a variation, "Sateda" shows Ronon's titular home planet, where the architecture resembles that of present day Earth, which was devastated by a Wraith attack in 1998. The area in which the action takes place is full of partially destroyed buildings and littered with rubble.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_e7795776	comment	Celeste: Chapter 1 has this aesthetic, though slightly subverted in that the Forsaken City was never actually inhabited to begin with; it's just that nobody wanted to move in once construction was finished, so it ended up being abandoned throughout its entire existence.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_e85737d6	comment	Killraven: The Martians make terrible landlords. They may occupy New York City, but they don't really bother to maintain the place. A recurring theme of the series is Killraven and his gang stumbling on the latest ruined city as they travel across America and having no idea what they're looking at.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_ea3a10ed	comment	12 Monkeys: At the start, James Cole Got Volunteered to leave the Underground City in a Hazmat Suit to collect samples from the ruins of Philadelphia. This serves to establish the post-pandemic world he lives in before he time-travels to the past.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_eb6802b4	comment	Final Fantasy XIII: In a section of Gran Pulse, especially in places like Oerba, are ruins that have been abandoned for over half a millenium, owing to the fact that most of the inhabitants were either Cie'th-ed or killed, and the last survivors were frozen for centuries elsewhere. The technology level looks like early 21st century, with subways, electric lights, and windmill generators.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_ec63f5fa	comment	The Last Witch Hunter: The vision of the future that the Witch Queen shows to Kaulder is ruined New York, rusting and overgrown with vegetation.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_ed4a44cf	comment	Logan's Run: The world outside the domed City is all ruins, including an overgrown Washington, D.C..
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_ef445f2b	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie: The island where Sonic and Tails live is covered in a pile of wrecked, rusted and vegetation-covered machines such as a passenger airplane, a train, and communications towers. The "ancient relics" on the outskirts of Robotropolis in the Land of Darkness are recognizably those of modern architecture, covered in vines and with derelict cars lining the streets. When Sonic and Tails climb a skyscraper, the skyline is recognizably that of Manhattan, complete with the Empire State Building and one of the Twin Towers. Impressively, the streetlights still work.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_f01358c3	comment	The Time Machine (2002) has the protagonist visit a library 20 Minutes into the Future, and then visit the same library After the End. The library has deteriorated quite a bit by the second visit, although the A.I. is still active. Also, Word of God is that the cliffs used by the Eloi to build their villages are remains of New York skyscrapers, apparently able to withstand 800,000 years of erosion and an Ice Age but covered in dirt.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_f0841a69	comment	Primeval: Played Straight in the Bad Future in Series 3, where the only known trace of humanity besides the creatures they created is decaying city ruins standing amid clifftops surrounded by wilderness.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn: The world is absolutely littered with the ruins of the "Old Ones", that is, people from 20 Minutes into the Future. Different tribes have different attitudes towards them; the Nora regard them with superstitious fear and consider them taboo whereas the Oseram mine them for raw materials and pieces of operable machinery.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_f19e63ee	comment	Overgrowth has some hints towards this trope, but the developers insist on leaving it to the players' interpretations.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_f269dd2f	comment	RimWorld takes place on a frontier planet that obviously once supported an advanced civilization that has since collapsed. There are stretches of intact highways on the world map that make traveling easier, and just about every map tile has some manner of ruins on it: crumbling walls and overgrown landing pads, ancient monuments and sarcophagi, abandoned cars and wrecked tanks, engine blocks or metal lockers rusting in the grass, barely-functional lamps, or the shells of destroyed mechtoid war-forms that hint at what wiped out the previous civilization. Some of these can be spruced up and utilized by your colonists, others are best broken down for building materials, or need to be destroyed to make room for your own constructions. More rarely you can find intact structures containing still-operational cryptosleep caskets, but they usually have an "ancient danger" guarding them. Odder still are deposits of "compacted steel" or "compacted machinery" your colonists can mine like ore veins for steel and technical components, respectively, suggesting that there's a lot more ruins buried just beneath the planet's surface.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_f35bc73c	comment	Lilith's Brood: Defied by the alien Oankali who rescue a remnant of humanity After the End. Before returning them to Earth, they deliberately raze and bury any old human settlement that survived the final nuclear war, in order to discourage them from repeating their predecessors' mistakes and force them to form a new social order.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_f43685a2	comment	Battlefield Earth shows them in ruins, to the point that the humans think that mascot statues on a golf course were gods.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_fd289bb0	comment	Revolution: The family passed by many familiar locations now overgrown with plant life, as shown in "Pilot". Also an Averted Trope instance of RagnarÃ¶k Proofing.
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Ruins of the Modern Age / int_fe65c06d	comment	Crysis 3: New York City has been abandoned and quarantined within a huge dome, and the old buildings are now covered in moss and greenery as CELL soldiers and the Ceph roam the streets.
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Ruins of the Modern Age	processingCategory2	Apocalyptic Index
Ruins of the Modern Age	processingCategory2	Older Than Radio
Ruins of the Modern Age	processingCategory2	Settings
Cowboy Bebop / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
DARLING in the FRANXX / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Highlander: The Search for Vengeance / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
La Maison en Petits Cubes / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Origin: Spirits of the Past / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Patema Inverted / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Sound of the Sky / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The Big O / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
First Knife (Comic Book) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Morning Glories (Comic Book) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The Sauroktones (Comic Book) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
ValÃ©rian (Comic Book) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Alien: Resurrection / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Attack on Titan (2015) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Blade Runner 2049 / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Only Lovers Left Alive / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Radioactive Dreams / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Roller Blade / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Stalker (1979) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The Last Witch Hunter / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The Time Machine (2002) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
12 Monkeys / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Waterworld / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
X-Men: Days of Future Past / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Guilty Gear (Franchise) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
A Canticle for Leibowitz / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
By the Waters of Babylon / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Corpus Delicti / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Dark Life / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Eternity Road / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Flood / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Guardians of Ga'Hoole / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Humanity Has Declined / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Julian Comstock / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Lilith's Brood / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Pact / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Red Queen / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Roadside Picnic / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Scrapped Princess / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Shannara / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Star Carrier / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Sunday Without God / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The Day of the Triffids / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The Saxon Stories / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
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Girls' Last Tour (Manga) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
7 Seeds (Manga) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Suicide Island (Manga) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
DR Arcadia (Roleplay)	seeAlso	Ruins of the Modern Age
Life After People / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Logan's Run / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Primeval / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Revolution / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The Day of the Triffids (1981) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
A Girl Adrift (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Armored Core: Verdict Day (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Auto Assault (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Celeste (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Chrono Trigger (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Etrian Odyssey (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Gaiapolis (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Guilty Gear (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Hellgate: London (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Horizon Forbidden West (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Into the Radius (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Kamiko (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Mercs of Boom (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Parasite Days (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Phantasy Star Zero (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Pikmin (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Portal 2 (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Raft (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Serious Sam 3: BFE (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Submerged (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The Division (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The End Is Nigh (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The Last of Us Part II (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
They Are Billions (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Wheels Of Destruction (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Lovebrush Chronicles (Visual Novel) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Shadowstone Park (Web Animation) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Grim Tales from Down Below (Webcomic) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Copper (Webcomic) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Daughter of the Lilies (Webcomic) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Our World (Webcomic) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Sarilho (Webcomic) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Sister Claire (Webcomic) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic) / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
My Little Pony: A New Generation / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Samson and Sally / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Thundarr the Barbarian / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Scrapped Princess / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Sunday Without God / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age

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