History NightmareFuel / LifeAfterPeople

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[AlienKudzu The outbreak of kudzu]] sets the stage for an [[KillItWithFire epic disaster.]]]]

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** In addition to the simulations of rotting supermarkets, the episode features the real-life case of a Fort Worth, Texas grocery store that was abandoned after going bankrupt -- with all the food still on the shelves. When the health department entered the building three months later, they found (among other things) [[NauseaFuel jugs of spoiled milk that had literally]] ''[[NauseaFuel exploded]]'' [[NauseaFuel on the shelves, packages of lunch meat covered in gray slime, and clouds of flies so thick that the cleanup crew (who had to wear hazmat suits and oxygen tanks) couldn't see more than a few inches in front of their faces.]]

* Christ the Redeemer looks even more damaged by nature here, complete with several vines growing out of his eye. His collapse meanwhile it not any better than in ''Wrath of God''.

* The collapse of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Just imagine the tallest building on the planet ''falling over.''

* Palm Springs itself would be completely engulfed with sand and erased after over a century, with the sky tramway complex being the last to fall, folding in and plummeting in the abyss after [[HoistByHisOwnPetard a cable car crashes into one of the towers]].

* There is something ''very eerie'' about KTAO Radio station ''still broadcasting'' after the disappearance of humans for pretty much ''15 years'' before shutting off.

* The closing credits show Sun expanding so much it eventually consumes Earth and several other planets in the Solar System, [[DownerEnding ensuring that the last traces of human life will be gone forever]]. Even worse? Since every star has no indefinite lifespan, Sun entering supernova and engulfing everything is ''inevitable'', no matter how long it may seem to be living.

* The fucking abandoned amusement park. Who knew that the park would have degraded so quickly after only being abandoned in ''2002''!

* The collapse of the Gherkin in London. The skeleton of the building survives the collapse of the floors into the ground - but still crumbles after over a century passes.

* Lake Texcoco would reform, wiping away most of Mexico City.

* The power in the Christmas store going out in the beginning. Unlike previous episodes, where the power grid failures were not given special attention, in this episode, as the power goes out, the Christmas song which had been playing [[SoundtrackDissonance in an empty place without humans]], becomes more and more distorted until it completely fades into obscurity and the animatronics shutting down en masse.

* Soviet nuclear warheads would ''detonate'' on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean 25 years after people. Even worse, the shockwave would be created (with radius being 1 km.), which would kill any living sea animals nearby. Damn...
** Even worse, those warheads belong to the ''K-129'' Soviet submarine, which already had a tragic fate...

* Remember the aforementioned Chernobyl disaster? Imagine that happening to ''every nuclear power plant on earth''.

* The fate of the titular "Crypt of Civilization". 6000 years after people, the plants would penetrate the walls of the crypt. Then corrosion would devour ''everything'' located in the time capsule.
* A cargo ship carrying wheat would be infested with rats. While the rats would experience a population boom, they would eventually die off from either hunger or cannibalism. The surviving rats (if anyone managed to survive during the chaos) on the board would eventually be picked off by seagulls.

* The power in the Christmas store going out in the beginning. Unlike previous episodes, where the power grid failures were not given special attention, in this episode, as the power goes out, the Christmas song which had been playing ''even after people were gone'', becomes more and more distorted until it completely fades into obscurity.

** Almost same fate awaits domesticated turkeys served for the Thanksgiving Day. Partially, CruelMercy occurs here, as they are spared from being slaughtered...only to die in a ''complete isolation''.

** In the Sacramento airport, many airplanes would be carried off by the waves towards the terminal so fast that they would ''crash'' through the windows of the waiting lobby like projectiles and then devastate the whole building (with the empty city being next on the course). Just imagine being in that building at that moment... Oh wait, you don't have to, since the crash is seen [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou from the lobby's P.O.V]].

* The statues, which are located in Underwater Sculpture Gardens (outside of St. George's, Grenada) [[UncannyValley were already designed in a creepy way]], but in the end, they would eventually decay, get covered by the eel, and then turn into the coral reef.

Abandoned cities are pretty creepy on their own; an ''[[GhostPlanet entire world]]'' without people is much, '''''much''''' worse.

[[folder:Latinoamerica Sin Humanos]]

[[folder:General]]

* Eventually, given millions of years, there will be no trace of evidence that we, humans, were ever here, save for perhaps some fossils buried in the ground and metal scraps floating in space if we get so lucky. All of our achievements, all of our buildings, all of our records now lost and buried with time. Like we never existed in the first place.

[[folder:Original special]]

[[folder:The Bodies Left Behind]]
* Mixed with a heavy amount of {{squick}}, the eventual decomposition of all human remains in general, particularly those in cryofreeze and tombs. Thankfully, we don't see the aftermath. Except when mummies are seen decomposing and turning into skeletons, and so is [[UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin Lenin's]] body in Red Square mausoleum.

[[folder:Outbreak]]

[[folder:The Capital Threat]]

[[folder:Heavy Metal]]

[[folder:The Invaders]]

[[folder:Bound and Buried]]

[[folder:Sin City Meltdown]]

[[folder:Armed and Defenseless]]

** Even worse, those warheads belong to ''K-129'' Soviet submarine, which already had a tragic fate...

[[folder:Road to Nowhere]]

[[folder:Waters of Death]]

[[folder:Wrath of God]]

[[folder:Toxic Revenge]]

[[folder:Crypt of Civilization]]

[[folder:The Last Supper]]

[[folder:Home Wrecked Home]]

[[folder:Holiday Hell]]
* Salton City. A once bustling resort town turned into what could best be described as "desert with a lot of garbage in it".
* The power in Christmas store going out in the beginning. Unlike previous episodes, where the power grid failures were not given special attention, in this episode, as the power goes out, the Christmas song which had been playing ''even after people were gone'', becomes more and more distorted until it completely fades into obscurity.

** Almost same fate awaits domesticated turkeys served for the Thanksgiving Day. Partially, CruelMercy occurs here, as they are spared from being slaughered...only to die in a ''complete isolation''.

[[folder:Waves of Devastation]]

[[folder:Sky's The Limit]]

[[folder:Depths of Destruction]]
* The statues, which are located in Underwater Sculpture Gardens (outside of St. George's, Grenada) [[UncannyValley were already designed in a creepy way]], but in the end, they would eventually decay, get covered by the eel and then turn into the coral reef.

[[folder:Take Me To Your Leader]]

* The Petronas Towers collapsing into each other and crumbling together after six centuries pass.

* Salton City. A once bustling resort town turned into what could best be described as "desert with a lot of trash in it".

** And what happens to it in a span of decades is not much better. A bit over a century, and the roof has collapsed completely, with some snow covering the floor. Even the narrator describes the store as looking "much less like Christmas".

* Ten years after people, the wind turbines would be spun by the wind so fast they would eventually fall apart, one by one.

* Lake Texcoco would reform, drowning the remains of Mexico City.

Abandoned cities are pretty creepy on their own; the ''[[GhostPlanet entire world]]'' without people is much, '''''much''''' worse.