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* 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' fall -- one of the powers the Stones enable is [[Time Travel]]).

* Queen La from the ''[[Tarzan]]'' novels is supposed to be from Atlantis. Also, the [[The Legend of Tarzan (Animation)|Disney version]] of her for some reason portrayed La with [[Dark Skinned Blond|dark skin]] and [[White Haired Pretty Girl|white hair.]]

* Queen La from the ''[[Tarzan]]'' novels is supposed to be from Atlantis. Also, the [[The Legend of Tarzan (Animation)|Disney version]] of her for some reason portrayed La with [[Dark-Skinned Blond|dark skin]] and [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|white hair.]]

** Probably an [[Early Bird Cameo]] - ''[[Atlantis the Lost Empire (Disney)|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'' was made soon after, filled with dark skinned white haired people.

* 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|Power Crystals]].

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== Myth and Legend ==

* [[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!"

* [[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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helike Helike (a.k.a., Elike)] by an earthquake and tsunami in 373 B.C. and from the volcanic eruption of Thera on the island of Santorini around 1600 B.C. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thera which all but wiped out the Minoan civilization on Crete].

* 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitezh Kitezh] which God saved from conquest by the Mongols by having it sink into Svetloyar Lake.

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineta Vineta], a mediaeval city somewhere along the coast of the Baltic Sea, and allegedly with a fate similar to Atlantis. Not much is known about Vineta, and therefore also not much concerning [[Very Loosely Based On a True Story|how big the grain of truth in the Vineta legend is]].

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineta Vineta], a mediaeval city somewhere along the coast of the Baltic Sea, and allegedly with a fate similar to Atlantis. Not much is known about Vineta, and therefore also not much concerning [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|how big the grain of truth in the Vineta legend is]].

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* ''[[Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis]]'', as if it wasn't obvious. The game also references ''Hermocrates'', which would have been the third dialogue in Plato's trilogy if it had been written.

* The plot of the first ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' game revolves around the search for a lost Atlantean superweapon.

* In ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]'', the Zeboim civilization exists as [[Underwater Ruins]] beneath the Aquvy region. It was annihilated 6000 years prior by [[Nuke Em|global nuclear war]] that [[Inferred Holocaust|wiped out most of the planet's population]].

* In ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]'', the Zeboim civilization exists as [[Underwater Ruins]] beneath the Aquvy region. It was annihilated 6000 years prior by [[Nuke'Em|global nuclear war]] that [[Inferred Holocaust|wiped out most of the planet's population]].

* 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.]]

* ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004 (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament 2004]]'' has a Double Domination map, that takes place in Atlantis. The map is called [[Captain Obvious|DOM-]][[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Atlantis]]. Still under the sea, but [[Hand Wave|all that water is kept out of the arena by Atlantean magic.]]

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* 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 (Video Game)|God of War]] 2'', but was [[Dummied Out]].

** 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]].

** 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 empty -- the Atlanteans left for another planet. Watch out for [[Killer Robot|the one remaining inhabitant]], though.