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== Anime and Manga ==

* The Shinigami World from ''[[Death Note]]'' has hints that things other than shinigami once dwelled in it, or, at least, that shinigami were not always like they now are. There are a few remaining signs that the world once had buildings and maybe even cities, something the dozen or so shinigami we see have neither the energy nor the manpower to do. When you add in the fact that the skulls shinigami gamble with had to come from ''someone'', and Rem's comment that shinigami have "evolved" beyond the need for food, you get the impression that the Shinigami World was once a far less desolate place.

* Two in ''[[Kiddy Grade]]'', first the space prison that Alv, Dvergr, Éclair, and Lumière are sent to investigate, and later, a space colony that Éclair and Lumière escape to.

* One of the planets visited by the Nirvana in [[Vandread]] is like this. The only remaining activity is from an automated defense system left by the people who destroyed the colony there.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* in [[Calvin and Hobbes]], at one point Calvin daydreams about Spaceman Spiff being stranded on one of these. aided by the fact that he missed the lunch bell and is sitting alone in the classroom.

* In Issue 14 of ''[[Planetary]]'', Elias Snow visits one of these. Yet another one of the [[Complete Monster|the Four's]] atrocities.

* [[Green Lantern]]: sector 666, only 5 people survived the slaughter of every living being, all were held in a different sector. Even after the Red Lantern's use one planet in it as home base, it's still ruins as far as the eye can see.

 

== Film ==

* The Hell Planet in ''[[Pitch Black]]''. Also, any world the Necromongers visit is left this way.

* Altair IV in ''[[Forbidden Planet]]''.

 

== Literature ==

* The "pit-stop" planet and alien spaceport in [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Galactic Derelict''. The home planet of the alien spacecraft is still inhabited by two primitive alien tribes who are at war, but it is made clear that they are not the civilization that built the ruined city they dwell in.

 

* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield", the planet Cheron ended up this way.

** So was the Time Vortex Planet from "The City On The Edge Of Forever" and "Yesteryear", but for different reasons.

* One ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' two-parter features a trip to the aptly-named "Deserted Planet."

 

* Several ''[[Traveller Classic]]'' adventures had planets like this, including ''Adventure 4 Leviathan'' and ''Double Adventure 5 The Chamax Plague''.

* Happens a lot in the ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' universe. There's a particularly good example in the ''[[Ravenor]]'' novels.

* Echo V was home to the Iktomi in [[Eclipse Phase]]. Not there's nothing but cobwebs. [[Giant Spider|Literally]].

 

== Video Games ==

* This is the planet Quartia in ''[[Tales of Hearts]]''. Everything inhabiting the planet quite literally had the life sucked out of it.

 

* The Dimension of Pain from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is eventually revealed to be one of these. It originally just seemed to be a barren, rocky world populated by a smattering of demons. It's not until the end of the "That Which Redeems" arc that we discover the dimension originally belonged to a race of human-like beings, whom the demons overthrew. Over the centuries the demons wiped out all other life in the dimension. They even devoured the original inhabitants' souls and destroyed everything they had built, save for a single, ruined city, preserved as a testament to the demons' victory.

** It is also implied that these 'demons' were actually mutants created by Nofun labs, and the same could happen to the main dimension as well.

* [[Subnormality]] gives us [http://www.viruscomix.com/page505.html Wonte IV]. "There was something besides oil that came out [[Dug Too Deep|when the drills got down there]] and it didn't [[Eldritch Abomination|mix with the human mind and its fuckin' little creations]]."

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Jane's planet, the [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006720 Land of Crypts and Helium], is almost completely lifeless save for a few plants that have managed to cling to life.

 

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