Vancouver

Vancouver, BC, is a city of over 630,000 people as of the 2016 census, rising to over 2.4 million when you count the metropolitan area. Very popular among Chinese, Indians and British. It has a fairly extensive elevated train network called the SkyTrain, which moonlights as a subway in the downtown area.

Vancouver has become the third-largest film production centre in North America, being called Hollywood North because of it. This has led to the increased presence of the Pacific Northwest, particularly Seattle (for which Vancouver often doubles), in American media, leading to the term "Seacouver" to describe the vaguely northwestern-ish setting of works filmed in Vancouver, but just as possibly set south of the border in the United States. Among the works shot in Vancouver are all three shows in the Stargate Verse, hence the redirect "Stargate City" that's still found in various places on this very wiki. Nintendo of Canada and EA Canada are also there, just a few miles across the border from Nintendo's U.S. headquarters in greater Seattle.

The city is also the location of The Ocean Group production company and a number of other recording studios, who specializes in dubbing of many well-known Anime (along with a some English language productions), possibly most known for their work on Ranma ½ and nearly every release in the Gundam franchise, including Mobile Suit Gundam and Zeta Gundam, Gundam Wing and Endless Waltz, Gundam Seed and Destiny, and Mobile Suit Gundam 00. For a list of their many works, see their page.

A large number of gaming studios are located in Vancouver, possibly to be near Nintendo. Besides EA, it is home to Rockstar Vancouver, Radical Entertainment, Relic Entertainment and Slant Six, to name only a few.

Many shows filmed around Vancouver eventually fall foul of Here There Be Lions.

Vancouver hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics, leading some parts of the Internet to refer to them as the "Stargate City Olympics".

Anime and Manga

 * Episodes 21 and 22 of Kaleido Star are set at an acrobatics festival being held in Vancouver.

Film

 * Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (Inexplicably)
 * Better Than Chocolate

Literature

 * Girlfriend in a Coma, by Douglas Coupland.

Live-Action TV

 * The Border has a few episodes that take place in Vancouver.
 * Cold Squad
 * Godiva's
 * Da Vinci's Inquest
 * Da Vincis City Hall
 * Intelligence
 * JPod
 * Stargate Atlantis has actually had a episode set in Vancouver.
 * The final episode of The X-Files to be filmed in Vancouver was also set there.

Video Games

 * Mass Effect 3 begins in Vancouver.
 * Tony Hawk's Underground, partially

Films

 * 50/50
 * 2012
 * Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
 * Alone in The Dark (by Uwe Boll)
 * Anti Trust
 * Blade Trinity
 * BloodRayne II: Deliverance
 * The Butterfly Effect 2
 * Cats and Dogs
 * Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
 * Catwoman
 * The Chronicles of Riddick
 * The Core
 * The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 remake)
 * Diary of a Wimpy Kid
 * Doctor Who: The 1996 TV movie (We apologize for your half-humanity, Doctor.)
 * Dudley Do-Right
 * Fantastic Four
 * Rise of the Silver Surfer
 * Far Cry (Uwe Boll version)
 * Final Destination 3
 * Freddy vs. Jason
 * Good Luck Chuck
 * Halloweentown II Kalabar's Revenge
 * I, Robot
 * Insomnia (2002 remake)
 * IT
 * Jennifer's Body
 * John Tucker Must Die
 * Josie and the Pussy Cats
 * Jumanji
 * Juno
 * The King of Fighters
 * The Lizzie McGuire Movie
 * The Neverending Story and its two sequels
 * Twilight
 * New Moon
 * Night at the Museum
 * Battle of the Smithsonian
 * Painkiller Jane
 * Paycheck
 * Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
 * Punisher: War Zone
 * Rumble in The Bronx
 * The Scary Movie tetralogy (we apologize for this)
 * Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
 * The Mystery Begins
 * Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * Time Cop
 * This Means War - they used the flagship store of HMV, a now-defunct entertainment retail chain in Canada, as a stand-in for a video rental shop.
 * Trick 'r Treat
 * Tron: Legacy
 * Amusing note: if you saw it at the Scotiabank Theatre in downtown Vancouver, as soon as you walked out of the cinema you'd be looking out a large window at exactly the spot where they digitally inserted Encom Tower.
 * Underworld Evolution
 * Watchmen
 * White Chicks
 * The Wicker Man (2006 remake)
 * The X-Files: I Want to Believe
 * X-Men:
 * X2: X-Men United
 * The Last Stand
 * Origins: Wolverine: One building at the University of British Columbia was surrounded by barbed wire fence and turrets for the gang headquarters at the beginning of the movie, confirming student belief that Buch Tower was actually designed as a prison.

Live-Action TV

 * The 4400
 * Andromeda
 * Battlestar Galactica, the Revival and reboot of the 1978 version.
 * In one episode, the Vancouver skyline directly subbed in for the Delphi city skyline on the planet of Caprica. Especially notable considering that one of the skyscrapers in that shot has an easily identifiable Scotiabank logo on it, an actual Canadian banking company which obviously has no business in the Twelve Colonies of Kobol.
 * Caprica, prequel to the reimagined Battlestar Galactica
 * Dark Angel
 * Dead Like Me
 * First Wave
 * Fringe: The pilot was shot in Toronto, while the rest of season 1 were filmed in New York City. From season 2 onward Vancouver locations have been used.
 * Highlander the Series
 * Human Target
 * MacGyver
 * The Outer Limits (the Revival)
 * Once Upon a Time
 * Psych: an inverted California Doubling!
 * Reaper
 * Sanctuary, which Television Without Pity has dubbed "Torchwood: Vancouver".
 * Sliders (First two seasons)
 * Smallville
 * Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe
 * Supernatural
 * Wiseguy
 * The X-Files