Wasteland

Wasteland or waste land may refer to:

• Desert or barren, area
• an uncultivated area of land, whether wooded or not, whether common land or not.

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Wasteland (comics), a comic book written by Antony Johnston and Christopher Mitten
• Wasteland (DC Comics), a 1987 horror/humor comic book anthology by John Ostrander and Del Close
• "The Wastelands", setting of Old Man Logan and its several spin-offs.

Fictional entities

• Wasteland (Warhammer) (aka Marienburg), a fictional region in the world of Warhammer Fantasy
• Wasteland, a world in the Fallout series of video games
• Wasteland, a world in which Epic Mickey and Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two take place.

Films

• Waste Land (film), a 2010 documentary about Brazilian trash-pickers
• Waste Land (2014 film), a Belgian thriller directed by Pieter Van Hees
• Wasteland (1960 film), a 1960 French film directed by Marcel Carné, based on Hal Ellson's novel Tomboy
• Wasteland (2012 film), a pornographic drama film directed by Graham Travis
• Wasteland (2013 film), a zombie horror film
• Mad Max: The Wasteland, the (proposed) fifth film in the Mad Max franchise
• Wasteland, North American title of the British film The Rise (2012)

Games

• Wasteland (video game), a 1988 computer role-playing game
  • Wasteland 2, a 2014 sequel to the above game
  • Wasteland 3, third game in the series

Literature

• Wasteland (mythology), the Celtic motif of the land of the Fisher King
• Wasteland (novel), a 2003 novel by Francesca Lia Block
• "Wastelands" (short story), a 2002 short story by Stephen Dedman
• The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, a 1991 novel by Stephen King
• The Waste Land, a 1922 poem by T. S. Eliot
• Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, a 2008 anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction

Music

Albums

• Wasteland (Atargatis album), 2006
• Wasteland (The Jam album), 1992
• Wasteland (Riverside album), 2018
• Wastelands (album), a 2013 album by Eskimo Joe
• Grace/Wastelands, a 2009 album by Pete Doherty
• The Waste Lands (album), a 1992 album by Venom

Songs

• "The Wasteland" (Elton John song), 2001
• "Wasteland" (10 Years song), 2005
• "Wasteland", a song by John Cale from his 2005 album blackAcetate
• "Wasteland" (Billy Idol song), 1993
• "Wasteland", a song by The Mission from their 1986 album God's Own Medicine
• "Wasteland", a song by Trapt from their 2008 album, Only Through the Pain
• "Wasteland" (Maxïmo Park song), 2005
• "Wasteland" (Needtobreathe song), 2014
• "Wasteland" (Poison song), 2002
• "Wasteland" (The View song), 2007
• "Wasteland", a song by Against the Current from their 2016 album In Our Bones
• "Wastelands" (song), a 2014 song by Linkin Park
• "Wastelands", by Amoral
• "Wastelands", a song by Avantasia from the album The Wicked Symphony
• "Wastelands", a song by Extol from the album Extol
• "Wastelands", a song by Hawkwind from the album Alien 4
• "Wastelands", a song by Midge Ure from the album The Gift
• "Wastelands" (Suede song), 2018

Television

• Wasteland (American TV series), an American television drama, debuted in 1999
• Wasteland (Czech TV series), a Czech television series
• Wasteland Speech, a 1961 speech by FCC chairman Newton N. Minow

Other uses

• Wasteland (event), a bi-annual fetish event held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Wasteland Weekend, an immersive post apocalyptic event held annually in the Mojave Desert since 2010

See also

• Waste (disambiguation)