surviving in a wasteland theme
A character struggles to survive in a barren world tattered and bereft of organized society.
Notes
This theme is not used when a relatively large number of people are surviving together and forming what seems like a new society, but rather when one or a few character have to scavenge for what they need to survive.
Examples
In tz1959e3x01 "Two", we saw two lonely soldiers from opposing factions scavenge a broken city for the necessities of another day of life.
21 total · 19 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: A Boy and His Dog (1975) | major | Vic and his telepathic dog struggled had to work together to survive in a post-nuclear holocaust wasteland. |
| movie: After the Apocalypse (2004) | major | Five survivors of an apocalyptic war tried to make a go of things in the ruins of a destroyed semi-urban area. |
| movie: Creepozoids (1987) | major | The film follows five army deserters who, six years after an apocalyptic nuclear war, take refuge in from acid rain in a seemingly abandoned laboratory complex. |
| movie: Dead Mans Letters (1986) | major | We saw a post nuclear holocaust scenario whereby the "lucky" survivors had to survive as best they could in underground bunkers and basements. |
| movie: Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983) | major | A small group of people had to battle a motorcycle gang to gain access to water in a future in which the Earth was dessicated an barren. |
| movie: Finch (2021) | major | Finch struggled to survive in the largely uninhabitable wasteland that'd resulted from a massive solar flare striking Earth. |
| movie: Le Dernier Combat (1983) | major | Three characters (The Man, The Brute, and The Doctor) struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where people have been rendered mute by some unknown incident. |
| movie: New Eden (1994) | major | Adams used his engineering knowledge to help a ragtag band of scavengers set up a functioning community on a barren desert planet. In particular, he made a contraption that purified dirty water, allowing the scavengers to grow crops. |
| movie: No Blade of Grass (1970) | major | The Custance family was faced with having to survive when society broke down in the aftermath of a global famine. |
| movie: Panic in Year Zero (1962) | major | The Baldwin family was faced with having to survive when society broke down in the aftermath of a nuclear war. |