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* In the ''[[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]]'' spin-off ''Lobster Johnson: The Iron Prometheus'', the Lobster is able to travel by boat through the New York sewer system. And it's mentioned that there is a subterranean cannibal tribe, though not a bad as the ones under London and Paris.
* The Eel would make his lair in one of these (seriously, the ceiling has got to be like fifteen feet high) in early [[Marvel Comics]], laying low after his defeat by the Human Torch in his first appearance.
* ''[[Nodwick]]'' once [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2002-11-27 found]{{Dead link}} enough of space in one to [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a lampshade]]:
{{quote|'''Yeagar:''' The sewer system is ''big enough'' for you guys to crawl through it?
'''Artax:''' ''Crawl through''? are you ''kidding''? The sewer caverns are ''huge''! You'd almost think the town had been ''trying'' to cause the bar's foundation to ''cave in'' and wash everything out to ''sea''.
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** Even moreso with Montreal, which has a 32 km of tunnels/underground complex doubling as one massive shopping mall spanning most of downtown (The so-called "Ville Souterraine", or "Underground City" to Anglophones, is the largest underground complex in the world). Built because the extremely harsh winters tend to drive pedestrian indoors.
** Rochester, MN also has an underground walkway network that serves a large part of the city. I believe this type of infrastructure is common in cold cities.
*** Further, there ''are'' sections of both Toronto and Montreal's sewers that you ''can'' walk comfortably in standing upright. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130111022549/http://spacingmontreal.ca/2010/04/07/blogger-arrested-in-toronto-sewer-forray/ People have done it (and gotten arrested)], but it is definitely large enough to fit a man standing upright.
** Osaka, Japan has a network of pathways which connect several of the subway stations. The subway stations in Tokyo could count in their own right: several are huge sprawling complexes where multiple subway lines cross.
* Seattle had a major fire in 1898, and to make sewage flow out into the sea (at high tide, it had a habit of... going the other way from outhouses) they simply rebuilt everything on top of the old foundations. That means today there is a sort of [[wikipedia:Underground Seattle|small town buried beneath downtown's streets]]. Highly unsafe in most of it though.
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