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Looking for a place to set the disaster of the week/alien invasion/supervillain's base/origin of the bad guys etc? Well, you can use the classics: [[Big Applesauce|New York]], [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe|Tokyo]], [[Britain Is Only London|London]] or [[Gay Paree|Paris]] for the first three and places like [[Commie Land|Russia]], North Korea or the Middle East for the last. Of course, you may think that's too cliché. Another alternative is having the last three take place in [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here|a fictional town in the middle of nowhere]] and have the villains come from some equally-fictional [[Ruritania]] or [[Qurac]].
Or you may [[Take a Third Option]]. Have the center of the plot be in an actual place, but some relatively harmless semi-known non-exotic location which makes you ask "Why THERE, of all places?". That is the basis of [[Aliens in Cardiff]]. Are aliens landing in [[Flying Saucer|UFOs]]? They'll land in [[District 9|Johannesburg, South Africa]], or Rosewell, New Mexico. Is there a neighborhood full of world-class martial artists with superhuman powers? It's in Luxembourg. Is there a magical gateway between worlds? It's in [[Cornwall]]. Is a [[Hell Gate|Hellmouth]] opening? It's opening in [[Cleveland]]. [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|One of them]], anyway. Is there a mysterious gigantic cavern hidden just beneath the earth's surface, wherein aliens once upon a time created all life on earth? It's underneath [[
This is sometimes [[Played for Laughs]], though in most cases it rather realistically points out events do happen in the world outside its largest cities. The trope namer is ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and subsequent spin-off ''[[Torchwood]]''. This is [[Creator Provincialism|due to to the fact]] that the revived Doctor Who was produced by BBC Wales. Though Cardiff very often found itself [[Doubling for London]] or New York, Space, the Scottish Highlands for that matter.
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* ''Eduardo Risso's'' (with scripts by Barreiro) "Parque Chas" turns this into a joke, setting a detectivesque [[Most Writers Are Writers|comic writer]] in the very quiet, middle-class, small and residential neighbourhood of Parque Chas, in Buenos Aires, where a lot of crazy paranormal stuff is going on due to a dimensional gate. The craziest part is that there are indeed urban legends about Parque Chas, due to its weird [[Alien Geometries|circular]] streets.
* An escape pod carrying the infant survivor of an [[Last of His Kind|otherwise extinct alien species]] crash lands in.... Smallville, Kansas. [[Superman|Of course.]]
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* The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|Mirage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] run into ''all kinds'' of supernatural crap. It's easy to overlook when they're in New York, but it feels jarring when they're constantly running into aliens and eldritch abominations in Northampton, Massachusetts.
* Post-[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]] [[The Mighty Thor|Asgard]] floating over Broxton, Oklahoma, anyone?
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