Building of Adventure: Difference between revisions

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Why even bother with a [[City of Adventure]]? Sometimes, all it takes is one building to provide all the wackiness the plot requires. Besides, that way, you don't need to do any location shooting.

* The anime ''[[Android Announcer Maico 2010]]'' has everything take place inside a radio station. (This is not true in the manga ''[[Android Announcer Maico 2010]]'' on which it was based.)

* The vast majority of ''[[Bleach]]'''s Hueco Mundo arc takes place in one massive building called Las Noches. Despite atomic sized explosions {{spoiler|such as those caused by Ichigo's Hollow and Ulquiorra's Segunda Espada form}}, barely any of the structure is even scathed.

* In ''[[Medaka Box]]'', so far the story hasn't once left Hakoniwa Academy, which is attended by about 98% of the cast. Kinda justified in that it's apparently the size of a small town.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Crimson Tide]]'' takes place almost entirely inside a single nuclear submarine.

* ''[[The House of Yes]]'': Takes place within the confines of the titular house.

 

== Literature ==

* Evenmore in James Stoddard's ''[[The High House]]''.

 

* The titular ''[[Fawlty Towers]]''.

* ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' Bayside High from ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' seems to contain the entire universe. A few of the kids' bedrooms were occasionally shown (always using the same redecorated set). The exception is the Max, where they often hang out after school.

* ''[[The Royle Family]]'', right up until "The Queen of Sheba", was set entirely in the Royles' house, and mostly in the living room.

* The tragicomic ''[[Roger and Val Have Just Got In]]'' takes place entirely in Roger and Val's house and garage.

 

== Radio ==

* Whit's End, in ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]''.

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

* Anything from the French 17th century. Their theater theory emphasized unity of place; ie the whole play was supposed to take place in a single building, and usually in a single room.

* Variation in ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'', where the action takes place on the street outside of some houses in Rome, none of which are fleshed out beyond what is required for the joke or to fit the front facade.

 

== Video Games ==

* Dr. Edison's manor in ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' and ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]''.

* The Roivas family estate in ''[[Eternal Darkness]]: Sanity's Requiem''.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'': Almost none of the action in has taken place outside of the titular school/industrial complex, with the exception of some brief foray into Gillitie Forest (which lies just outside the Court) and flashbacks to the Good Hope hospital. The comic still manages this successfully in spite of the fact that the titular Court is a lot like a small city (with housing complexes, commodities like hairdressers, and a full mass-transit system) due to the fact that the vast majority of the Court is disturbingly empty (even considering the robots).

* ''[[The Mansion of E]]'': Ninety percent of the action takes place in, around or under the titular structure.

 

== Web Original ==

* [[Grave Academy]] 's... Grave Academy is this on steroids.

* There's a small shared story-verse called "[http://shifti.org/wiki/Xanadu_%28setting%29 Xanadu]", which is about a fair-sized costume convention called Xanadu, in which [[Becoming the Costume|costumes became real, and those wearing them changed]]. Largely these stories take place in and around the convention center and the hotel, and certain areas - the central judging room, the big atrium, hallways—recur in different stories. Though a fair number of stories involve characters escaping into the rest of the world, but almost all of them start at Xanadu. Those that don't, reference it instead.

 

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