Britain Is Only London: Difference between revisions

In Hollywood, any characters visiting Britain will stop in one place: Central London. They'll catch a ride on those cool red buses, try to make [[British Royal Guards|the Guards at the palace]] laugh, get into a debate about whether it's fries or chips, and at some point meet the Royal Family. The [[Establishing Shot]] will show Westminster Palace, Tower Bridge, The London Eye, or all of the above to a brief [[Standard Snippet]] of "Rule Britannia", just in case you weren't clear on the location. If the makers think they're being subtle, it will feature a red phone box, a red Routemaster Bus driving by (very rare in real life), and a red-and-blue London Transport sign for one of London's major interchange stations like Liverpool Street or Kings Cross.

* For the most part, it's averted in [[Hellsing]]. Until the [[Big Bad]] [[Those Wacky Nazis|Millennium]] fully enters the series, we have action taking place in an undisclosed British suburb, an abandoned factory and warehouse in Badrick, Ireland, outside the town of Cheddar ([[Shown Their Work|actual places]]), the Hellsing Organization, Britain's National Gallery, a hotel in Rio de Janiero, and an undisclosed suburb of Brazil. Even when they reveal themselves fully, the fight afterward takes place in presumably the English Channel on a British ship taken over by Millennium. London is their main target and the last five manga volumes/OVAs pretty much take place there; clearly, this is not a case of generalization.

* An issue of ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (Comic Book)|Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'' features a half-page shot of various giant egg-yolks that were attacking various cities around the world being dispersed of by the Bunny From Beyond. One of the cities under attack was "Loondon" (Earth-C's London), depicted by a shot of a guard standing in front of (Earth-C's) Buckingham Palace watching an attacking egg-yolk get disintegrated.

* This attitude is satirised in the comic strip ''The Critics'' in ''[[Viz]]''. The Critics are completely ignorant of the UK outside of London, to the extent they sometimes don't seem aware it exists at all. Even when they are aware, they believe large cities such as Liverpool or Newcastle are small villages, and are very snobby and condescending about them despite admitting to knowing nothing about them.

* After being attacked by a lycanthrope on the Yorkshire Moors, David Kessler is inexplicably transported to a hospital 300  km to the south, thereby becoming ''[[An American Werewolf in London]]''. (''An American Werewolf [[Oop North]]'' might not have been as easy to sell, even in Britain). They try and handwave it by implying he's suspected of having some weird and exotic disease that the nearest A&E wasn't capable of dealing with, but [[Offscreen Teleportation|the process of getting him there is completely glossed over.]]

* Averted in the [[Night Watch (novel)|Last Watch]] -- the—the action takes place in Edinburgh. Of course, that's mostly [[Theme Park Version|tourist Edinburgh]], but it's justified by the fact that Anton was following the case of a ''tourist''.

** Series 2 had over half its episodes set in London (four present-day ,<ref>three, if you don't count ''Christmas Invasion''; works out at over half regardless</ref>, two in a parallel present-day, one in 2012 and one in 1953).

{{quote| You know what that view says? It says: WELCOME TO ENGLAND (You'll Find Most of It Outside London).}}

* ''[[Command and& Conquer]] Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge'' has one mission in England. Take a wild guess where. Justified up to a point, what with London being the seat of the British government.

{{quote| '''Jon Gaunt:''' Let's remember at this very moment tonight, Britain's bravest coppers are being celebrated at a hotel here in London. Let's remember the kind of work these men and women do on the streets... what's so funny?<br />