# 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

## 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 Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two 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
* Mad Max: The Wasteland, a prospective 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
* 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 (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
* "Wasteland", a song by Royal & the Serpent from the Arcane soundtrack

### 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