History Main / TrashcanBonfire

* ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' has Mark and Roger set one during the opening show-stopper. Later performances have omitted this: they now just throw the papers into the can without lighting them.

* ''Theatre/Rent'' has Mark and Roger set one during the opening show-stopper. Later performances have omitted this: they now just throw the papers into the can without lighting them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanHush'' there's a HitlerCam shot of several bums warming themselves around a trashcan fire, unaware of Batman and Catwoman [[Roofhopping leaping across the alley]] high above their heads.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the musical, during the "Walk Through the Fire" song, Buffy holds her hand up to a trashcan bonfire when singing "I touch the fire and it freezes me."

* ConversationalTroping during the Watchmen's Strike in ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', when Nobby insists you need "a big metal drum to burn old scrap wood in" on a picket line, or it's not a proper picket line.

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* Can be seen in ''{{Mafia}}'', in the mission where you have to pick up the racing car.

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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the musical, during the "Walk Through the Fire" song, Buffy holds her hand up to a trashcan bonfire when singing "I touch the fire and it freezes me."
* The second episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' has a Trashcan Bonfire. The MonsterOfTheWeek tries to stick Angel's head in it, but ends up getting set on fire himself.

* Not homeless, but characters on ''Series/{{Mash}}'' would be seen huddling around trashcan bonfires in mid-winter.
* ''Series/DarkAngel'' featured this in parts of the city.

* Inexplicably built in ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare Modern Warfare]], even though the game has only been going for a few hours at this point.
* ''Series/{{Hunter}}''. A drug dealer is murdered by a ProfessionalKiller, and at the end of the episode Hunter finds the man's fellow dealers commemorating his memory around a burning trashcan. They explain that this was the corner where the deceased made his first drug buy. TruthInTelevision as they're a [[FieryCoverup handy way of disposing of evidence]] if you're busted.

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* The UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}}-quoting homeless woman who Hannah Pitt meets while lost in the South Bronx in Theatre/AngelsInAmerica is by one of these.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Assie Come Home" there's a couple of aliens huddled around a burning trashcan, which itself is a robot warming itself to another Trashcan Bonfire.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheKillingJoke''. While Batman is questioning some prostitutes about the Joker's whereabouts, some bums nearby are warming themselves around a fire burning in an oilcan.

* ''Film/TheRunningMan'', during the outdoor scenes with crowds betting on the game.

* ''VideoGame/BloodRayne 2''. In one chapter, Rayne is in an area with multiple barrels that each have a fire burning in them.

* ''VideoGame/BloodRayne 2''. At the beginning of one chapter, Rayne is in an alley next to a barrel with a fire in it.

** ''Film/{{Batman}}'': In the 1989 film, one can be seen in two different scenes of people watching the Joker's TV broadcast while outdoors. The first scene appeared to be members of a motorcycle gang, while the other was a construction site.

Trashcan Bonfire: a [[CaptainObvious bonfire in a trashcan]] or oil drum. Often [[{{Hobos}} homeless people]] will be huddled around it for warmth.

** In [[Film/TheTerminator the first movie]], while Sarah is dreaming of the post-apocalyptic future several can be seen in the underground area where the humans are hiding.

* ''Film/RoboCop2''. There some on the streets of Detroit as Robocop approaches Cain's first drug factory.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheKillingJoke''. While Batman is questioning some prostitutes about the Joker's whereabouts, some bums nearby are warning themselves around a fire burning in an oilcan.