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{{quote|''The continent of Atlantis was an island, which lay before the [[Great Flood]] in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean... Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent ships to all corners of the world. On board were the Twelve - the poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician, and the other so-called gods of our legends, though gods they were.''
|'''Donovan''', ''Atlantis''}}
{{quote|''"...In a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea."''
▲{{quote|''The continent of Atlantis was an island, which lay before the [[Great Flood]] in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean... Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent ships to all corners of the world. On board were the Twelve - the poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician, and the other so-called gods of our legends, though gods they were.''|'''Donovan''', ''Atlantis''}}
|'''[[Plato]]''', ''Critias''}}
The fabled lost [[Utopia]], often described as sinking due to [[And Man Grew Proud|man's hubris]] and [[Soiled City
▲{{quote|''"...In a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea."''|'''[[Plato (Creator)|Plato]]''', ''Critias''}}
▲The fabled lost [[Utopia]], often described as sinking due to [[And Man Grew Proud|man's hubris]] and [[Soiled City On a Hill|descent into decadence]]. A common setting with many interpretations, and some times just generally used as a stock setting for fantasy and speculative fiction stories. Generally it's an [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]] chock full of [[Functional Magic]], and/or [[Lost Technology]]. Aliens or [[Google Earth]] may [http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/39274/breaking-atlantis-discovered-on-google-earth-well-maybe/ also come into play].
It doesn't necessarily have to be Atlantis ''per se'' to tap into the myth fabric of the setting, but it can be any sort of lost civilization that had great achievements and then were mysteriously lost. Other examples include Mu (Pacific Ocean), Lemuria (Indian Ocean) or Thule (Arctic Ocean)...heck, even "Antediluvia" (literally, "Land Before The Deluge"), in Christian settings. Often the capital city of the [[Precursors]].
Due to the connection with the city being an island that sunk, [[
Historically, "Atlantis" draws on ancient myths from various cultures, but the main details are drawn from Plato's dialogues ''Timaeus'' and ''Critias'', where it is a [[Fictional Counterpart]] for Athens, used as a template for his vision of the ideal society. In this original version it was an all-conquering empire only successfully resisted by his ideal Athens, which was destroyed in the same cataclysm.
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[[Atlantis Is Boring|Unfortunately, if it's under the sea, it will be less interesting than it sounds.]]
{{examples
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' had Atlanteans as the creators of the world on which the story takes place.
* One plot-arc in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' involves saving the world from the power which destroyed Atlantis. As a nod to Plato, the arc involves three Atlantean dragons, named "Critius", "Timaeus", and "Hermos", nods to the characters of Critius, Timaeus, and Hermocrates in ''Timaeus'' and ''Critias''.
* The main character of ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water|Secret of Blue Water]]'' is the last descendant of the Atlanteans, who are actually aliens.
* In ''[[Transformers Armada]]'', the poor lost civilization gets even more destroyed in a battle for a plot device.
* In ''[[Transformers Super God Masterforce]]'', Atlantis was the tomb of Gilmer.
* ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'': Atlantis is actually an ancient Cybertronian space ship, part of an initiative to colonize worlds beyond Cybertron and connect civilized planets with a network of space bridges. It suffered a computer crash and sank into Earth's ocean - with one of the plot coupons on board. The Autobots track it down in the present day and reactivate it (it's in good condition thanks to the self-repair systems). It's seemingly destroyed in the battle for the Omega Lock, but turns out to be still around, albeit damaged, twenty-odd episodes later, and plays a role in the show from then on. {{spoiler|Eventually, the ''Atlantis'' and its three sister ships are re-united and combined into the truly massive warship ''Ark'', used as a staging ground in the penultimate battle and as a [[Wave Motion Gun]] by Primus to destroy the Unicron Singularity. Afterwards, the Ark is separated back into its component ships. In the finale, they set off once more to begin the Space Bridge Project anew.}}
* ''[[Raideen]]'' originates with the Mu.
* As does is [[Spiritual Successor]] ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'': Atlantis was not the stereotype depicted in the trope. Everyone in the modern day, 12,000 years after the prologue, are fully aware of Atlantis's existence. It's called Atlantia, not Atlantis, too. It was the home of the highly evolved Shadow Angels, who treated humanity like cattle to be harvested and have their life energies fed off of. They were [[Sealed Evil in
* One episode of the ''[[Pokémon (
== Comic Books ==
* Undersea home of superstrong, water-breathing mutated humans in both the [[DC Comics]] ([[
** Lemuria also exists in the MU. Its people are green skinned as opposed to the Atlanteans, who are blue.
* In the ''[[Blake and Mortimer]]'' book ''Atlantis Mystery'', a passage to Atlantis exists in a network of caves in the Azores archipelago. The Azores are an often cited place for Atlantis' location, usually coupled with the theory that the archipelago itself is an Atlantean mountain range that remained above water after the continent sank.
* "Al Hanthis" from the ''[[Deva Series (Fanfic)|Deva Series]]'' is said to be a civilisation whose out-of-control artificial magecraft threatened Earth before the founders of [[Ancient Conspiracy|the Circles]] destroyed it, with marked similarities to the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''-canonical Al Hazred. Eventually, {{spoiler|Al Hanthis resurfaces, with its people still having designs on Earth.}}▼
== Fan Works ==
▲* "Al Hanthis" from the ''[[
== Film ==
* The
* In ''[[
** Others say he's [[Ancient Astronauts|from space.]]
* Called "Hy Brasil" in ''[[
** The name, however, comes from [
* As one might expect, Atlantis also features in ''[[MacGyver]]: Lost Treasure of Atlantis''.
* Also fairly predictable is its appearance in ''[[
* Added to the 1959 version of ''[[Journey to
* The film ''[[Atragon]]'' features Mulian enemies and their [[Kaiju]] Manda.
* Featured as part of the Backstory of ''[[
** A similar story, but the city was in Canada.
* In ''[[Cocoon]]'', Atlantis was the site of [[Time Abyss|the Antareans']] first base here on Earth.
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* ''[[Escape From Atlantis]]'', a 1997 film in which an American family winds up in Atlantis after being teleported to another dimension by the [[Bermuda Triangle]].
== Literature ==
* [[
** Tolkien's notes state that the Atalante bit was purely coincidental. Prof. Tolkien wondered what Numenor would be in a certain in-universe language and got "Atalante". He was actually annoyed with this, since he knew people would assume he was implying this was the origin of the name Atlantis, when as a linguist he knew language change doesn't work that way.
*** Though originally, Tolkien was planning on writing a book called ''The Notion Club Papers'', where one character dreams of Númenor and its downfall. While the name wasn't meant to be related to Atlantis, the idea was.
** Incidentally, the Numenoreans then founded Gondor, which Tolkien admitted took quite a few cues from [[Ancient Egypt]]. [[Ancient Astronauts|Coincidence?]]
* ''
* "The age when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities" is part of the [[Backstory]] of the ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' stories. [[Kull]], another [[Robert E. Howard]] character, was an Atlantean warlord. In the official timeline, the first civiliazations started in Europe around 40,000 B.C., when the continent was known as Thuria, The greatest nation in Thuria was Valusia. the Thurian age ended in about ten thousand years, and Conan many centureis after Thuria's doom, during the Hyborean age, which also saw the collapse of all civilization.
* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Neverwhere]]'', the Angel Islington used to be the guardian angel of Atlantis until it sank. Islington serves the main characters Atlantean wine saved from its destruction. {{spoiler|...of course, it's revealed later that Islington is the one who sank it. The only thing he says on the matter is ''"They deserved it!"''}}
* The fall of Atlantis figures prominently in Sherrilyn
* Greg Donegan (pen name of Bob Mayer) wrote a series of books featuring Atlantis' ancient enemy returning.
* [[Andre Norton]]'s SF novel ''Operation Time Search''. In the distant past, both Atlantis and the island of Mu were sunk beneath the surface due to the Atlanteans' misdeeds. At the end of the book, the intervention of a time-traveler from the future (our present) prevents the sinkings from occurring and both islands appear in the modern world.
* Stephen Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle combines the fall of Atlantis, the Roman withdrawal from Britain, and [[King Arthur|Arthurian legend]] (heavily drawn from Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''[[
* [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s ''[[The Mists of Avalon]]'' uses Atlantis as the source of the old pre-Christian British religion, or at least the lore of the priestesses and bards.
** And her ''Web of Darkness'' and ''Web of Light'' are set in Atlantis itself.
** ''Ancestors of Avalon'' by [[Diana L Paxson]] bridges the gap between the novels set on Atlantis and the Avalon series, making a connection previosuly only hinted at.
* Parodied somewhat in [[
** While he did make some references to Atlantis and the Cthulhu mythos, it was also based partly on a [
* In C. S. Lewis's ''[[
** Or so Uncle Andrew theorizes, but the dust is in fact not from Atlantis, it's from the Wood. He doesn't find this out until Digory and Polly test the rings and come back to report what they found.
* In the first [[Lensman]] book, ''Triplanetary'', Atlantis has jet aircraft and nuclear weapons which, along with the machinations of [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]], leads to its demise.
* ''The Takers'', a modern [[Two Fisted Tale]] by Jerry Ahern. The Gladstone Log is the [[MacGuffin]] which sends the protagonists off on their adventure. It's the log of a privately-funded 19th Century expedition to seek Atlantis, set up by British Prime Minister William Gladstone. The villain (who came across several translated pages in [[WW 2]]) has spent decades searching for it, in the belief that the 'Atlantis' described is an [[Ancient Astronauts|alien base]] whose technology will give him vast power.
* ''[[Dragonlance]]'' has Istar, a powerful empire whose Kingpriest grew to believe he, himself, was on par with the gods. When he communed with them to ask to join them, they destroyed his city by throwing a "[[Death From Above|fiery mountain]]" at it, which caused the [[The End of the World
* Subverted in ''The Diamond Age,'' where most of the characters call themselves Atlanteans... but in that case, it just means "people from the trans-Atlantic <s> nation culture civilization</s> tribe."
* The Atlantis in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[
* R'lyeh from the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] would be the insane, abusive cousin to Atlantis; built with [[Alien Geometries]] by terrible monsters from beyond the stars, who ruled the world long before the tiny scurrying creatures that would become men some day even existed. It sank long ago, entombing its master Cthulhu under the ocean. This keeps him in a state of sleeping undeath until [[The Stars Are Right]] for him to rise again, destroying our pitiful existence and ending the age of man. Not out of malice; he probably wouldn't notice us, much less realize that his rising had wiped mankind from the Earth.
* In ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'', Captain Nemo shows Professor Aronnax the ruins of Atlantis.
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* Atlantis shows up in [[Everworld]], surviving on the bottom of the ocean via protection by a dome. It should be noted that in the [[Crapsack World]] the series takes place in, Atlantis is one of the few bright spots, seeing as how it's run democratically by a man from the Real World.
* According to ''[[Daniel Pinkwater|Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars]]'', the lost continents of Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria and so on actually exist in different planes of existence, and that stories about them sinking into the ocean arose because the rare person from one would be able to ever perceive another plane of existence, and only "maybe a few times in his life" (according to Clarence Yojimbo).
* In the ''[[
* The Submerged World in ''[[Chronicles of the Emerged World]]'' is an underwater nation inhabitated by sea-humans and merfolks alike. Eventually after the second book they're persuaded to join the war against [[Big Bad|The Tyrant]].
* In [[David Gemmell]]'s Stones of Power novels, the Stones had their origin in Atlantis, and several Atlanteans appear as characters (even though the earliest of the novels is set centuries after Atlantis'
* Queen La from the ''[[Tarzan]]'' novels is supposed to be from Atlantis. Also, the [[The Legend of Tarzan
** Probably an [[Early
* In ''[[Dinotopia]]'', the lost city of Poseidos is implied to be Atlantis. Like the Disney film, it is an [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]] which made liberal use of [[Power Crystal
* The Isles of Syren in ''[[
* Atlantis was the original Earth base of the Airlia in the ''Area 51'' novels.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', notable here in that it was NOT destroyed in prehistory. It just ''left the galaxy''. The city is actually a cityship (as in starship). The city is capable of landing/floating in an ocean, as well as submerging unharmed, thus playing off the "sunken city" myth.
* In ''[[
** The [[Expanded Universe]] explains this as destroying bits of Atlantis, (the city, the under city and the island) one after the other.
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' has had at least one episode dealing with the Atlantis myth.
* The [[
** "Can't she believe how bloody Australian I am??"
* Another [[
* An example of the aquatic variant, the 70s short-lived series ''Man from Atlantis'' stars Patrick Duffy as an Atlantean who fights crime using his swimming and water-breathing abilities. No kidding.
* Lissard, a [[Lizard Folk|greenskinned, scaled, fish eating humanoid]] and a henchman of Lord Fear in [[Knightmare]] is from Atlantis.
* The back story of ''[[
* ''[[
* The [[Power Rangers]] visit the sunken island of Atlantis in the fifteenth season, [[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive|Operation Overdrive]], on their quest for the five jewels of the Corona Aurora, the crown of the gods. To protect the valuable historical site, the Rangers' mentor decides to keep the city's location secret. The actual location of the city, whether it's in the Mediterranean Sea or the Atlantic Ocean, isn't revealed to the viewer, either.
* The team in ''[[
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* ''Crowning of Atlantis'' by Therion.
* Atrocity's entire ''Atlantis'' [[Concept Album]].
* The band Visions of Atlantis.
* [[Stratovarius]] titled one of their instrumental tracks ''Atlantis''
* ''Dark Fate of Atlantis'' by [[Luca Turilli]] (of [[Rhapsody of Fire]] fame)
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* [[Captain Obvious|Obviously]], the legend of the lost city of Atlantis from Greek mythology. The story goes that the citizens of Atlantis [[Tempting Fate|weren't paying tribute to the gods]]. As punishment, the gods sunk the island to the bottom of the ocean, thus giving us the [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]] of "respect the gods, or you and your entire city will drown!"
** It should be noted that there were no stories, in Greece anyway, of anything like Atlantis until Plato's allegorical account. It seems he [[Mythopoeia|made it up whole-cloth]].
** Not entirely. Plato probably based his account on the destruction of the Greek city of [
** Readers should also note that Plato's Atlantis and its fate are very briefly described, with very few details outside of its unusual structure of concentric rings of land and water. Almost ''everything'' anything thinks they know about Atlantis other than that it sunk is [[Word of Dante|encrustations by later writers, including its promotion from city to island to entire freakin' continent.
* In [[Celtic Mythology]] there's Ys which is the famous drowned city off the coast of Brittany, the Welsh kingdom of Cantre'r Gwaelod which met a similar fate, the sunken Cornish kingdom of Lyonesse, and even Avalon which, in some versions of the legend, also sank into the sea. (Actually, this one's damn-near archetypal by now. You'll find submerged cities everywhere you can throw a stone, these days.)
* [[Russian Mythology and Tales|Russian myth and legend]] has [
* [
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[
** The [[Old World of Darkness]] was deliberately vague on Atlantis. The sourcebook ''Blood-Dimmed Tides'' gives ideas of what Atlantis could be/might have been, but leaves it up to the storyteller to decide whether to incorporate the city or if it existed at all.
* ''[[Rifts]]'' had a highly-advanced human kingdom on the continent, which disappeared with a powerful ritual that also took most of the magic away from the Earth. The Atlanteans themselves scattered, then the continent returned in a [[World Sundering]] event that [[The End of the World
* Ulthuan, home of the [[Our Elves Are Better|High Elves]] in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', is basically the [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] for Atlantis.
** It didn't sink but it came close.
* Early mentions of the nation of Alphatia, from the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' setting of Mystara, hinted that it was actually Atlantis. As Mystara's history was expanded upon in later game products, this connection was downplayed, {{spoiler|but the continent of Alphatia eventually sank into the sea, nonetheless}}.
* In ''[[
** Though this is probably just a rumour. Other books suggest {{spoiler|the rumour was started by the guy who founded the school around the time of World War One so he could dupe gullible acolytes with fake mythological prestige. Which isn't to say Atlantis actually existing is out of the question...}}
* Pre-sinking Atlantis gets a full ''Fantasy Hero'' sourcebook from Hero Games. Post-sinking Atlantis appears in the ''Hidden Lands'' sourcebook for [[Champions]].
* [[Magic:
* The 3.5 [[Dungeons
* ''[[Pathfinder]]'' has the sunken continent of Azlant, complete with Sub-Mariner-looking "gillmen."
* Dozens of lost lands from folklore, including Atlantis, featured in Bard Games' three-volume RPG series ''The Arcanum'', ''The Lexicon'', and ''The Bestiary''.
* ''[[Exalted]]'' features Luthe, a city of shining oricalchum that floated on the Western seas until it was sunk during the Usurpation by its Solar queen, who would not let the enemy take it. Thing is, the city's still occupied; not all the Dragon-Blooded soldiers, nor the city's inhabitants, got off before it was sunk, and Leviathan (a Lunar caught in a love triangle between the Solar queen and her husband) has spent millennia angsting over his failure and keeping the inhabitants and their descendants there. He's now worshipped as a whale god amongst them.
* Part of the Backstory of the true Immortals from [[
* [[Scion]] has Atlantis as being under Antartica, though it was once further up in the Atlantic Ocean where Plato put it. It's people had their own gods, provided in the ''Demigod'' book and the ''Scion Companion'' for those who want to change canon, but as it stands the Atlanteans took to worshipping [[Eldritch Abomination|the Titans.]] The Atlantean gods got killed/imprisoned/something and all the other gods in the world descended on Atlantis, so very angry that they not only sank it and killed every single Atlantean but ended up shifting it to the South Pole, more or less by accident. An object lesson in avoiding making enemies of dozens of pantheons worth of petty, vengeful deities.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* One of the levels in ''Cruis'n Exotica'' takes place in Atlantis. Yes, the cars are racing underwater.
* Also, one of the levels in the "Tempest Pack" DLC for ''[[Hydro Thunder Hurricane]]'' is set in Atlantis as well. And yes, the boats are underwater, too.
* Reversed in ''[[
** Which is a possible reference to the Azores theory mentioned above.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' visits Atlantis during his journey. In this iteration, Atlantis was at war with aliens stealing lifeforms from Earth to snack on, and the island was sunk by a beam from said aliens. Luckily the Atlanteans were masters of time travel and escaped into the past.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', the Centra civilization fits this trope. Being the parent civilization of most of the current civilizations in the game's story, it was obliterated 100 years before in a single event by a cataclysmic natural disaster called the Lunar Cry. This would normally be [[Death From Above]], but the presence and activation of the Crystal Pillar in Centra at the time caused the Lunar Cry to specifically target Centra dead-on with [[Kill Sat]] effects.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Indiana Jones and
* The plot of the first ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' game revolves around the search for a lost Atlantean superweapon.
* In ''[[
* Lemuria in [[Ever 17]]. It's never revealed as to whether it ever really existed or not, but it's implied that it didn't. It's mostly used to tie into the plot of possible psychic powers, time travel and divine wrath, some of which are real and some are not. [[Mind Screw|Maybe.]]
* ''[[
* ''[[The Journeyman Project]] 3'' has Atlantis as one of the three time periods visited during the game. The city is unusually realistic and well-researched in this game (apart from the Alien Technology), with the developers going out of the way to [[Shown Their Work|show their work]] through comments made by Arthur your AI sidekick.
** In essence, thanks to advanced technology left behind by helpful [[Precursors]], Atlantis was a theocratic city-state built on a Mediterranean island, with dikes opening up usable land. They were isolationist and rather elitist, enslaving any who found the city. It's destruction was due to a battle between two alien races after the [[Lost Technology]].
* ''[[World of Warcraft]] has the undersea city of Nazjatar - capital of the ancient Night Elf civilization before its sinking, now home to the nagas that the Highborne Night Elves were mutated into.
* ''[[
** And was named ''Atlantia'' in the Japanese Version.
* Atlantis is the primary setting for the [[Expansion Pack]] [[City Building Series|Poseidon - Master of Atlantis]]. It doesn't take itself all too seriously.
* Atlantis was going to appear in ''[[God of War (
** Referenced in ''3'' in the battle with Poseidon, who claims that; "Atlantis will be avenged!" hinting that Kratos had a hand in the city's destruction, which is [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds|hardly surprising]].
** Kratos travels to Atlantis in ''Ghost Of Sparta''. {{spoiler|You guessed it: Kratos sinks it.}}
* In ''Timelapse'', Atlantis is the last world you can visit. It's quite beautiful, contains technology from [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]], and it's nearly
* In the world of ''[[Dystopia (
* You visit several Atlantis-like places in ''[[Aquaria (
** There is one, in fact; it's never given a name (only referred to as "The Sunken City"), but it's familiar to your partner, and may be {{spoiler|the same city that was once floating in the sky before it was brought down by the cataclysm that created the [[Big Bad]]}}. Unlike the other ruins you encounter, which have the appearance of being designed to take advantage of being constructed in underwater caves, the buildings in The Sunken City have the look of being terran in origin.
* Shows up in the game [[Banjo
* Mu and other lost islands are mentioned in ''[[Terranigma]]''. They are only present in the game if the player "revives" them by visiting secret towers in the beginning of the game. They don't contain much, just a free inn and a nice weapon.
* The titular land of ''[[
* In ''Dominions 3'', there's an Atlantis. It's a civilization composed of frog-people and fish-people from coral reefs and deep sea trenches, and it's not ''especially'' advanced in either magic or technology (though its basalt enchantments are nothing to scoff at). It doesn't sink, but it's destroyed twice, and the survivors of the Second Fall become [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Inuit-esque]] death mages.
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* In [[Dustpit Follies]], it turns out that Atlantis sunk because aliens attacked. The city was of the "technology more advanced than modern day" varient. One of the characters has a harddrive that apparently survived the destuction and thousands of years. He bought it from a flea market for 10 bucks.
* Shelley, Amy and Desmond visit Atlantis in one of the last chapters of ''[[Scary Go Round]]''.
* ''[[
* Rapture from ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* Cosmo of ''[[The Fairly
* Disney's ''[[Atlantis:
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[
* In ''[[
** The underwater city of Atlantis also showed up in an episode of the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987
** Another version of Atlantis exists in ancient Greece in the original series. This one has the followers of Atlantis make April wear the amulet that makes her queen and resurrect Atlantis from the sea.
* The ''[[
** There's also a [[Carl Barks]] story set there.
** In ''[[
* In ''[[
* Atlantis is where most of the movie ''In Search of the Titanic'' takes place. This animation is a sequel to ''[[Western Animation/The Legend Of The Titanic|The Legend Of The Titanic]]'' which is loosely based on Titanic disaster.
* Parodied in ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Atlantis shows up in several ''[[
* [[
* In ''[[
** The group actually visits Atlantis in a later episode, a deserted ruin with a big "Welcome to Atlantis" sign outside. Dojo wistfully remarks that "you should've seen this place a few thousand years ago."
* In ''[[
* Visited by the title character of ''[[
== Other ==
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* There is a luxury hotel just outside Nassau in the Bahamas calling itself Atlantis. This is not worthy of note until one considers that Atlantis' fall was due to certain moral extravagances often associated with having too much money, and the delicious irony therein.
** Even more so considering it is in a hurricane zone and near to an earthquake zone, so "sinking" is possible, if remote.
* The [
* In the late 19th and early 20th century, before modern theories of plate tectonics became predominant, "lost continents" featured prominently in scientific speculation. For the most part the ideas that land masses rise or sink into the ocean was used as a means of explaining relatively mundane phenomena, like the presence of Lemurs in both Madagascar and India despite the thousands of miles of ocean and desert that stands between them. Naturally anthropologists and linguists also jumped on board to explain human migration and so forth. Eventually people started to take the idea to its logical conclusion and suggested that whole, and potentially advanced civilizations might have once existed on these continents, and like so many other myths before the legend of Atlantis contained a kernel of truth to it. This idea was hugely popular in the early part of the 20th century, not just with crackpot mystics but with the population at large. It all just seemed so perfectly logical, at least compared to the alternative theory: that landmasses are all floating on a giant subterranean ocean of molten rock. It was really more a case of people taking advantage of the ambiguity to indulge in the most fanciful explanation.
** This has led to some ideas of Atlantis using Lemuria as an alternative name, or sometimes as another sunken continent that sank around the same time. An updated version is that the landmass below the ice in Antartica was the original Atlantis (an idea the first Aliens Vs. Predator movie ran with).
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* There is a strong belief among the people of Cornwall and Scilly that there is a sunken land under the sea that serves as their border known as Lyonesse. Apparantly, if you stand on the cliffs of southernmost Cornwall, you can still hear the churchbells ring under the waves...
** The same story is also told about the city of Ys off the coast of Brittany.
*** Both of which are, in part, true. Sea levels at one point where a lot lower meaning the English Channel and all it's surrounding islands where a lot bigger. The isles of Scilly (for example) was one big island and there are traces of farm hedges underneath the waves.
* Changing sea levels and plate tectonics have caused low-lying areas of today's continents to spend long periods submerged. Presumably this ''will'' happen to such regions again, but only on a geological time scale.
* For a long time, Russians believed in a place called Zemlya Sannikova [
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