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** [[Justified Trope]]: [[Reality Is Unrealistic|it ''is'' set in Korea,]] which gets at least half a dozen typhoons a year. (Not to mention it is raining a lot in the film.)
** Ditto Chicago's sewers, big enough to comfortably house a twenty-foot long ''[[Alligator (Film)|Alligator]]''.
** Yes, pretty justified in Korea, [
* The excellent [[Film Noir]] ''[http://www.tvguide.com/movies/walked-night/review/125652He Walked by Night]'' was the first movie to film in Los Angeles enormous storm drains.
* The pipe systems in ''[[The Matrix]]'' series are described as sewers which are big enough for ''whole hovercrafts'' to comfortably navigate through them, and an ''entire city'' inhabited by thousands of people in its lower depths. The sewers were the only remains of the human cities destroyed in the war with the machines.
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* The pilot episode of ''[[Monk (TV)|Monk]]''.
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' has the most cheerful and attractive looking sewers I've ever seen. At least one character lives in them.
* There are Cybermen lurking in London's sewers in two ''[[
** Daleks and their pig slaves lurked in Manhattan's sewers in the two-parter "Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks".
** ''New Who'' also had Cybermen in the "cooling tunnels" beneath Lumic's factory in "Age of Steel", in a [[Continuity Nod]] to the previous Cyber-stories.
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* Though perhaps cramped by video game standards, ''[[Diablo]] 2'' has several underground areas that are far roomier than might be reasonably expected. Act 2 under the town and Act 3 beneath the jungle cities are two prominent sewer examples. And although not technically a sewer, the chapel basement of the original ''[[Diablo]]'' is absurdly larger than the building itself. . . even discounting the encroaching levels of Hell.
* ''[[Distorted Travesty (Video Game)|Distorted Travesty]]'' dares to place its giant sewer... Inside a train!
* ''[[Earthbound (Video Game)|Earthbound]]'' and ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]''. The ''[[Earthbound (Video Game)|Earthbound]]'' one notably averts the "not walking through sewage thing" (and [[Insurmountable Waist
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind (Video Game)|The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind]]'', the sewers of Vivec are ridiculously spacious, often far higher than needed, with walkways on the sides and a deep waterway in the middle. Given that the water is clean, and also that the city is built in the middle of a lake, they're likely storm drains more than anything. They also house cultists, conspirators, and (with the right mods) secret dungeons!
** In the expansion for Morrowind "Tribunal" the sewer is even more spacious.
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* ''[[Latale]]'' is notable for having a sewer that is ''several stories high.''
** And infested with [[Goddamned Bats]].
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' features one of these twice in the game: the same location appears as the training level for Link's wolf form, as well as later, after the third dungeon. While not a huge area, it's still absurdly spacious, and seems to double as a prison of some kind. It's also worth noting that said area is apparently inside Hyrule Castle, and clearly above ground level.
** And in ''[[A Link to The Past]]'', Zelda escapes from Hyrule castle trough the sewers.
** The Bottom of the Well in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|Ocarina of Time]]'' also has elements of this, although it's mostly [[Big Boo's Haunt]].
* In ''[[Lego Batman]]'' the Gotham sewers aren't just big enough to walk through; they're so big that you need a flight suit or a high jump just to reach certain parts of it. However, this network is not very well secured. Penguin and Killer Croc {{spoiler|use the sewer system to break out Catwoman by coming up through the toilets in the police station.}} And yes, there are alligators.
* Both ''[[Parasite Eve]]'' games with New York City sewers and a sewage passageway between the shelter and the motel.
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* London's sewers are in places as spacious as computer games would suggest, having been built on a massive scale in the 19th century to accommodate future population growth (though the network has grown a hundredfold since then). The Victorian-era section of the London sewer system is ''huge'', with several million tons of brickwork and tunnels up to nine feet in diameter. There are also many kilometers of unused underground tunnels built for other purposes, ranging from railways to military bunkers.
** [[The War of the Worlds|The Artilleryman was right!]]
** A [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12427748 proposed upgrade] to London's sewers involves adding a section the size of the [
* [http://englishrussia.com/?p=389 ... and Moscow sewers]
* The sewers of Vienna: Most of the sewer system has sidewalks, there are even big storage rooms down there. The film ''[[The Third Man]]'' was partly shot underground.
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* The Sewers of Paris -- literally famed in song and story -- are a [http://europeforvisitors.com/paris/articles/paris-sewers-museum.htm major tourist attraction].
* Beneath Saint Paul, Minnesota there is a extensive network of several tunnel systems, including both [http://www.actionsquad.org/labsewer.htm active and abandoned sewers]. These sewers also interconnect with several natural and [http://www.actionsquad.org/stahl.htm abandoned man-made caves].
* Some old cities have large underground cisterns, design to collect and hold rainwater, which reach the sizes of some of these fictional sewers. For example, the [
* [[Truth in Television]]: There are whole communities living underground in New York City and Paris, to name a few, and obviously, there's more than enough elbow room. In Paris, there are even illegal theaters and passageways to the catacombs via sewers.
* Many of the much older major cities, especially the ones in Europe, have vast underground networks of tunnels and rooms that are leftovers from the city's previous development age. For example, Rome is built over many ancient buildings, Berlin has numerous [[World War II]] era bunkers, and Chicago has a labyrinth of secret rooms and passages built during Prohibition.
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*** Further, there ''are'' sections of both Toronto and Montreal's sewers that you ''can'' walk comfortably in standing upright. [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 [
* In Cologne there is a huge hall with two candelabra in it. It was build for a visit from Kaiser Wilhelm II [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronleuchtersaal\]
* In the [
** Fun fact: [
* The street level of Atlanta is today one story above where it was a century ago, due to a system of viaducts built to raise it out of the way of the railroad lines. When the lower level was "rediscovered" in the 1960s, it was turned into [
* Not technically a sewer, but Las Vegas has a 515-mile underground flood channel system that [http://www.beneaththeneon.com/ homeless people] [http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/24/vegas.homeless.tunnels/index.html actually live in].
* Texas A&M University has the "Steam Tunnels", a system of underground utility tunnels under the main campus originally built to pump steam from a central plant to the various buildings' basements to heat them during the winter months. Now it is used to run water and sewage pipes, electrical and phone lines, and even network lines. Campus lore says that there used to be a few student "lounges" set up in intersections of the tunnels where there was a bit more space, but nowadays the access grates to the tunnels are padlocked, and exploration of the area is discouraged by the university officials.
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