History Main / SceneryGorn

* [[{{Trigun}} Gunsmoke]], being a SingleBiomePlanet, already has long stretches of desert as far as the eye can see, but once flashbacks to the city of July start happening, this comes into play in an even worse way.

* The Manga version of ''{{Berserk}}'' is known for being lavishly detailed, battlefields are littered with corpses mangled in different ways, it's a CrapsackWorld full of misery and death, and the art does not flinch from depicting it.

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This is also popular with apocalyptic and disaster films. Compare DesolationShot. RuinsOfTheModernAge is a subtrope.

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-->'''Zaphod:''' I can just slouch about, taking a look at the local scenery..\\

* While the ''MadMax'' films are mostly set in regions that were pretty desolate to begin with, some ruins viewed from the air at the end of ''Beyond Thunderdome'' do invoke this trope.

* The end of ''[[MadMax Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome]]''.

* The ReMake of ''DawnOfTheDead'' starts with SceneryGorn in the making. Tired from her long shift, the protagonist fails to recognize the numerous clues about the in-progress ZombieApocalypse until the next morning.

* The battlefield scene at the beginning of {{Patton}} .

* Swan Song by Robert R. [=McCammon=], which is hardly surprising as it deals with the aftermath of a nuclear war.

* ''Swan Song'' by Robert R. [=McCammon=], which is hardly surprising as it deals with the aftermath of a nuclear war.

* How are artists Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel not on this page?

*In {{Batman Beyond Return of the Joker}}, the {{KillSat}} race between Terry in the Batmobile and Joker with the Halcyon-class laser weapons platform. It's an awesome action scene until you pause to reflect on the fact that Terry just overflew a local ''shopping mall''. The casualties probably outdo those in the first {{Batman}} movie's gas attack by an order of magnitude, at least. Then consider the plan to burn a smiley-face into the city from orbit {{for the lulz}}, then add in the typical cyberpunk themes of urban decay and corporate-owned megastructures...

*In {{Batman Beyond Return of the Joker}}, the {{KillSat}} race between Terry in the Batmobile and Joker with the Halcyon-class laser weapons platform. It's an awesome action scene until you pause to reflect on the fact that Terry just overflew a local ''shopping mall''. Add in the typical cyberpunk themes of urban decay and corporate-owned megastructures...

*In {{Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker}}, the {{KillSat}} race between Terry in the Batmobile and Joker with the Halcyon-class laser weapons platform. It's an awesome action scene until you pause to reflect on the fact that Terry just overflew a local ''shopping mall''. Add in the typical cyberpunk themes of urban decay and corporate-owned megastructures...

*In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, the {{KillSat}} race between Terry in the Batmobile and Joker with the Halcyon-class laser weapons platform. It's an awesome action scene until you pause to reflect on the fact that Terry just overflew a local ''shopping mall''. Add in the typical cyberpunk themes of urban decay and corporate-owned megastructures...

*In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, the {{KillSat}} race between Terry in the Batmobile and Joker with the Halcyon-class laser killsat. It's an awesome action scene until you pause to reflect on the fact that Terry just overflew a local "shopping mall". Add in the typical cyberpunk themes of urban decay and corporate-owned megastructures...

*In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, the [[KillSat]] race between Terry in the Batmobile and Joker with the Halcyon-class laser killsat. It's an awesome action scene until you pause to reflect on the fact that Terry just overflew a local "shopping mall". Add in the typical cyberpunk themes of urban decay and corporate-owned megastructures...

*In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, the [[killsat]] race between Terry in the Batmobile and Joker with the Halcyon-class laser killsat. It's an awesome action scene until you pause to reflect on the fact that Terry just overflew a local "shopping mall". Add in the typical cyberpunk themes of urban decay and corporate-owned megastructures...

*** Speaking of ''CallOfDuty 4''... [[spoiler:When Jackson, one of the player characters, [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped staggers out of the crashed helicopter into the hellscape created by the detonation of Al-Asad's nuclear bomb, allowing the player to soak in the devastation before dying]]]].

In ''ModernWarfare 2'', the beginning of "Of Their Own Accord". You come out of the bunker and the trenches, to be presented with [[spoiler: the ruins of the Washington Monument filling your screen, and the National Mall churned up by shellfire and more trenches. Just to ram the point home, the level up to that point has no music, only radio chatter and distant shell-fire. As you come out of the trench, the music starts, and it's a heartbreaking orchestral piece, perfect to set the tone.]]