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** {{Justified}} and/or stories in literal quarries:

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** {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} and/or stories in literal quarries:
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** Games Workshop sells a variety of thick, textured paints to allow modellers to get a specific effect for their bases without much effort. These include cracked badlands, deep mud, snow, the sands of Mars...and grey gravel. Some modellers combine this with other materials, such as cork or plasticard, to give the impression that it's urban debris, or add Valhallan Blizzard to make it look like it's snowing, or add patches of static grass or even just green paint to give it the impression of plant growth or moss...others don't have the patience or time and will just slap on a layer of Astrogranite for a quick, easy base that positions the model in some kind of grey, rocky wasteland, which to be fair the [=41st=] millennium has no shortage of.
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* Interestingly, this spills over into Toei's non-''tokusatsu'' shows as well. For example, the quarry also appears multiple times for chase sequences in ''Series/TokusouSaizensen''.
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* In-universe: When Travis fights Midori Midorikawa in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'', the two do the old toku trend of jumping to take them to another location...but instead of the rooftop of the haunted school the two were in, Midori accidentally took them to a rock quarry. Travis doesn't seem to mind, since it's similar to where Toei films ''Kamen Rider Zi-O'' (which has an example in Live-Action TV)

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* In-universe: When Travis fights Midori Midorikawa in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'', the two do the old toku trend of jumping to take them to another location...but instead of the rooftop of the haunted school the two were in, Midori accidentally took them to a rock quarry. Travis doesn't seem to mind, since it's similar to where Toei Creator/{{Toei|Company}} films ''Kamen Rider Zi-O'' ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'' (which has an example in Live-Action TV)
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*** Wookey Hole, a fascinating cave system in Somerset, is used for both the caves in the Fourth Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Revenge of the Cybermen]] and the Tenth Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]".

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*** Wookey Hole, a fascinating cave system in Somerset, is used for both the caves in the Fourth Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Revenge of the Cybermen]] Cybermen]]" and the Tenth Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]".
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' rulebooks normally have a section or subsection covering battlefield terrain and how to set it up on one's table; the fourth edition's rulebook advises that such terrain can be "as simple as a number of hills with rubble-strewn slopes, '''reminiscent of the quarries so beloved of low budget science fiction film-makers'''" (emphasis added). In-universe, certain planets are literally classified as Quarry Worlds as these worlds have substantial amounts of Blackstone and other supernaturally valuable resources and are thus the subject of extensive excavation.
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So common was the quarry usage by these series that according to Gareth Thomas, who played Blake in ''Blake's Seven'', there was one occasion when they heard noises at the other side of the quarry, and discovered ''Doctor Who'' was filming there at the same time (though evidence of filming dates shows this may be apocryphal).

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So common was the quarry usage by these series that according to Gareth Thomas, Creator/GarethThomas, who played Blake in ''Blake's Seven'', ''Series/BlakesSeven'', there was one occasion when they heard noises at the other side of the quarry, and discovered ''Doctor Who'' was filming there at the same time (though evidence of filming dates shows this may be apocryphal).
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* In-universe: When Travis fights Midori Midorikawa in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'', the two do the old toku trend of jumping to take them to another location...but instead of the rooftop of the haunted school the two were in, Midori accidentally took them to a rock quarry. Travis doesn't seem to mind, since it's similar to where Toei films ''Kamen Rider Zi-O'' (which has an example in Live-Action TV)
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** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' offers a justification: Thanks to the show's overarching theme of VideoGames, the {{Transformation Trinket}}s have the ability to perform a "stage select", which lets the Riders move the battle to another location. While the bog-standard quarry hasn't appeared in early episodes, similar locales like a scrapyard and a vacant beach have shown up. (The quarry did turn up eventually.)

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** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' offers a justification: Thanks to the show's overarching theme of VideoGames, the {{Transformation Trinket}}s have the ability to perform a "stage select", which lets the Riders move the battle to another location. While the bog-standard quarry hasn't appeared in early episodes, similar locales like a scrapyard scrapyard, an AbandonedWarehouse and a vacant beach have shown up. (The quarry did turn up eventually.)
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* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' appears to have an InUniverse equivalent. According to the Squid Sisters, the multiplayer stage set in a quarry called Piranha Pit is often used as a set for filming sci-fi and fantasy movies, much like the real-life BBC Quarry.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' appears to have an InUniverse equivalent. According to In-universe: In one of the Squid Sisters, the multiplayer stage set in a quarry called commentaries for Piranha Pit in ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon|1}}'', the Squid Sisters mention that the quarry is often used as a set for filming sci-fi and fantasy movies, much like the real-life BBC Quarry.

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The direct American equivalent is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronson_Canyon Bronson Canyon]]. See also KirksRock and CaliforniaDoubling.

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The direct American equivalent is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronson_Canyon Bronson Canyon]].BronsonCanyonAndCaves. See also KirksRock and CaliforniaDoubling.



* ''Film/EvilDead2'', It wasn't shot in England (though the story does take place there), but Ash's arrival in the Middle Ages at the end was filmed at a very similar-looking North Carolina rock quarry.

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