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[[File:hogwarts01_4002.png|link=Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|frame|This should be interesting..]]
 
 
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* ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' had the Heavens Arena: a 210-story tower full of battle arenas, as well as malls and luxury hotels.
* Hinata Inn, of ''[[Love Hina]]'', was a sort of these. Tunnels, ancient underground civilizations of turtles, workshops, old rooms with creepy automata, whatever the plot called for.
* Like Hogwarts, Duel Academy in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' is a school cut off from the rest of the world. In chronological order, 3 demons were sealed away, a maniac with a [[Kill Sat]] tried to brainwash everyone, and the island was sent to an alternate dimension.
* Despite being animated, most of ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' takes place within the confines of Jun's house, unless you count its [[Phantom Zone]].
* 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.
* ''[[Seitokai no Ichizon]]'' takes place almost entirely in the Student Council room. It's rare to even see the hallways or the school itself.
* In ''[[Medaka Box (Manga)|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.
 
 
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* ''[[Logan's Run]]'' is implied to take place [[After the End]]. All of mankind lives in giant domes full to bursting with all that one could want, all set to synthesizer music. But there's darkness in paradise...
* The house of ''[[Panic Room]]''.
* ''[[Twelve12 Angry Men]]'': Except for the opening and closing scenes in the courtroom itself, never leaves the jury room.
* ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' mostly takes place inside the warehouse.
* ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'': Most of the first film is set either in the office building or the carpark directly outside it.
* There are only two rooms in ''[[The Room]]'' and the roof.
* ''Russian Ark'', a two hour film completely inside the Russian State Hermitage Museum. In real time with a vengance, as the film was made in one, uncut, shot. "2000 Actors. 300 years of Russian History. 33 Rooms at the Hermitage Museum. 3 Live Orchestras. 1 Single Continuous Shot."
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'': Hogwarts and its grounds in the book series, though the books had a few scenes in other places -- Knockturn Alley, Gringotts, or the nearby [[Muggles|Muggle]]-free town, Hogsmeade.
* ''[[Gormenghast]]'': Gormenghast Castle, Mervyn Peake's ''[[Gormenghast]]'' novels blurs the line between a city and a single building.
* John DeChancie's ''Castle Perilous'' series -- subverted in that inside the castle are 144,000 ''universes''.
* The House in Garth Nix's ''[[Keys to Thethe Kingdom]]'' series
* ''[[Otherland]]'': One of the virtual realities visited by the characters in the cycle takes the form of a single huge building, in which people live and die without ever going outside.
* Evenmore in James Stoddard's ''[[The High House]]''.
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== Live Action TV ==
* The titular ''[[Fawlty Towers]]''.
* ''[[Saved Byby the Bell]]'' Bayside High from ''[[Saved Byby 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 store in ''[[TodaysToday's Special]]''.
* Initially, the bar in ''[[Cheers]]'' (probably for economic reasons). After a couple of seasons, scenes outside the bar became a regular occurrence.
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' tried to do this in its early seasons, but branched out to the rest of the galaxy when the titular station couldn't seem to provide quite enough intrigue.
* ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' did this, somewhat more successfully than ''Deep Space Nine''. It could be argued, though, that since both B5 and DS9 are the size of a small city, this doesn't really apply.
* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' for much of its run. Indeed, in the first series, they did not leave the ship once. Of course, like the above two examples, the titular ship is the size of a small city anyway (6 miles long, 5 miles high, 4 miles wide -- that adds up to a lot of interior space), although the lack of population makes that largely moot.
* ''Woops!'': The farmhouse in Fox's 1992 [[After the End]] sitcom was more or less the center of the world. It had to be: it was the only thing left for miles around.
* The earliest shows went a step even ''farther'': drawing from stage traditions (and often in front of a live audience), they could have all the wackiness necessary to facilitate the series take place in a single ''room'', such as Ralph and Alice's apartment in ''[[The Honeymooners]]''.
* In ''[[ER]],'' most of the action happens within the Chicago County General Hospital.
* ''[[Barney Miller]]'''s police station.
* The 4077 base in ''[[M*A*S*H (TV)|Mash]]''. The show mostly takes place at the base, though it was, after all, [[Shaped Like Itself|mobile]].
* The courthouse in ''[[Night Court]]''.
* The radio station in ''[[News Radio]]''.
* The bus station in ''The John Larroquette Show''.
* ''[[General Hospital]]'': The titular hospital was originally an example of this trope, in fact in its first few years almost all of the action was set entirely on the seventh floor. Eventually as money became available, character's apartments and homes were shown and the hospital was eventually shown less and less until the title of the show become somewhat of a misnomer, although the hospital set has been used a lot more lately. In essence, the show evolved from this trope to [[City of Adventure]], since even now most of the action remains in Port Charles.
* ''[[Are You Being Served? (TV)|Are You Being Served]]'' ''very'' rarely left Grace Brothers Department Store.
* The Vecindad in ''[[El Chavo Del Ocho]]''.
* ''[[The Monkees|The New Monkees]]'' rarely left the mansion they lived in.
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== Radio ==
* Whit's End, in ''[[Adventures in Odyssey (Radio)|Adventures in Odyssey]]''.
 
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Many plays of the Ancient Greek theatre, most notably [[Sophocles]]' [[Oedipus the King (Theatre)|Oedipus cycle]].
* ''[[The Foreigner]]'' takes place entirely in Betty Meek's lodge.
* ''[[Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' has all of its action in George and Martha's residence.
* ''[[Wait Until Dark]]'' is set in the Hendrix apartment.
* Technically, ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' is always set only in the dungeon, due to the [[Show Within a Show]] element.
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* ''[[You Can't Take It With You]]'': The Vanderhof household definitely fits here.
* Several [[David Mamet]] plays, most notably ''American Buffalo'', ''[[November]]'', and ''Boston Marriage''.
* William Inge's ''Bus Stop'' is set entirely at... [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|a bus stop.]]
* ''[[Hamlet]]'' would be the ''only'' Shakespeare play set in one location (the grounds of Elsinore), if not for the brief Act IV, Scene iv. An argument could be made about the graveyard in Act V, Scene i as well. (The Kronborg castle at Elsinore doesn't have a graveyard on its grounds.)
* 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.
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* ''[[The Seventh Guest]]''
* Most of ''[[Persona 3]]'' takes place in Gekkoukan High School/Tartarus. Pretty much all of [[Updated Rerelease|The Answer]] in ''Persona 3 FES'' takes place {{spoiler|in the SEES dorm}}
* ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]]'': While Rapture is seen to be an entire [[Underwater City]], the whole of the game seems to take place in one of its towers.
* ''[[Canvas 2]]'' takes place almost entirely either in Nadesico or Hiroki's home.
* ''[[Resident Evil]]''
** ''[[Resident Evil 0]]'': The Spencer Mansion in Resident Evil and Marcus' Training facility.
** ''[[Resident Evil 2 (Video Game)]]'': The majority of the game takes place in the Raccoon City Police Department. You ''do'' eventually leave it, but not until fairly late in the game. And even then, the other location, an underground laboratory, is (if I remember correctly) accessed from a secret tunnel in said police station.
* [[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]] mansion in the SNES platforming video games.
* Dr. Edison's manor in ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' and ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]''.
* The Roivas family estate in ''[[Eternal Darkness]]: Sanity's Requiem''.
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* ''[[Sealab 2021]]''.
* The Galeria Mall in ''[[Sixteen]]''.
* ''[[FostersFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''
 
 
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|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 (Webcomic)|The Mansion of E]]'': Ninety percent of the action takes place in, around or under the titular structure.
 
 
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