Wasteland Explained

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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Wasteland (DC Comics), 1987–1989 anthology-style horror/humor comic by John Ostrander and Del Close
• Wasteland (comics), 2006–2015 comic book series by Antony Johnston and Christopher Mitten
• Wastelands, setting of Old Man Logan and its several spin-offs, since 2008
• Marvel's Wastelanders, 2021 ongoing series of radio drama podcasts produced by SiriusXM

Fictional entities

• Wasteland (Warhammer), a fictional region in the world of Warhammer Fantasy
• Wasteland, the post-Great War United States in the Fallout series of video games
• Wasteland, a world in which Epic Mickey and take place

Films

• Wasteland (1960 film), a 1960 French film directed by Marcel Carné, based on Hal Ellson's novel Tomboy
• Waste Land (film), a 2010 documentary about Brazilian trash-pickers
• Wasteland, North American title of the 2012 British film The Rise
• Wasteland (2013 film), a zombie horror film
• Waste Land (2014 film), a Belgian thriller directed by Pieter Van Hees
• , The fifth film in the Mad Max franchise
• The Wasteland (2020 film), an Iranian drama film
• The Wasteland (2021 film), a Spanish horror drama film

Games

• Wasteland (video game), a 1988 computer role-playing game
  • Wasteland 2, a 2014 sequel to the above game
  • Wasteland 3, 2020 sequel

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
• , a 1991 novel by Stephen King
• The Waste Land, a 1922 poem by T. S. Eliot
• , a 2008 anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction

Music

Albums

• Wasteland (The Jam album), 1992
• The Waste Lands (album), a 1992 album by Venom
• Wasteland (Atargatis album), 2006
• Grace/Wastelands, a 2009 album by Pete Doherty
• Wastelands (album), a 2013 album by Eskimo Joe
• Wasteland (Riverside album), 2018
• Wasteland (Brent Faiyaz album), 2022

Songs

• "Wasteland" (Billy Idol song), 1993
• "The Wasteland" (Elton John song), 2001
• "Wasteland" (Poison song), 2002
• "Wasteland" (Maxïmo Park song), 2005
• "Wasteland" (10 Years song), 2005
• "Wasteland" (The View song), 2007
• "Wasteland" (Needtobreathe song), 2014
• "Wastelands" (Linkin Park song), 2014
• "Wastelands" (Suede song), 2018
• "Wasteland", a song by Against the Current from the album In Our Bones
• "Wasteland", a song by All That Remains from the album Victim of the New Disease
• "Wastelands", a song by Amoral from the album Beneath
• "Wastelands", a song by Avantasia from the album The Wicked Symphony
• "Wasteland", a song by Chelsea Grin from the album Desolation of Eden
• "Wastelands", a song by Extol from the album Extol
• "Wastelands", a song by Hawkwind from the album Alien 4
• "Wasteland", a song by The Jam from the album Setting Sons
• "Wasteland", a song by John Cale from the album blackAcetate
• "Wastelands", a song by Midge Ure from the album The Gift
• "Wasteland", a song by The Mission from the album God's Own Medicine
• "Wasteland", a song by Shadows Fall from the album Fire from the Sky
• "Wasteland (Vechnost)", a song by Silent Planet from the album The Night God Slept
• "Wasteland", a song by Trapt from the album Only Through the Pain
• "Wasteland", a song by X Ambassadors from Orion

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

• Wastelanding, a 2015 book by Traci Brynne Voyles
• Waste (disambiguation)