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== Advertising ==
* [[Affectionate Parody|Parodied]]/[[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in
▲* [[Affectionate Parody|Parodied]]/[[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in an ad for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRMgptgPHLg Degree Deodorant].
* Academy City in [[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* Academy City in [[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]. The city is famous for grooming powerful power users, but it also has a dark side. The "questionable" research that's done at the city leads to many story arcs in the anime, and is enough to for a complete spin off: ''[[To Aru Kagaku no Railgun]]''. They're under international law, which apparently explains why this is considered "legal" there. The city is also far ahead of the outside world in terms of technology, and they have to use this to their advantage in order to make sure more unruly Espers (and powerful) don't go on a [[Rampage]]. This may also fall under [[Academy of Adventure]] as Academy City is made up of dozens of different schools.
* The beach town in ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'', although it's ''because'' the protagonists live there that things keep happening.
* The importance of Karakura Town, a fictional district of Tokyo, to various spiritual entities in the anime ''[[Bleach]]'' is explained by an area of "high spiritual density" (a phenomenon which occurs more or less randomly across the world) coinciding with an area of high population. A notably high population of former Shinigami and other spiritually-attuned beings doesn't hurt, either.
** Seireitei in Soul Society might count as well.
* [[wikipedia:Kamakura, Kanagawa|Kamakura]], a small beachside town some
** Most of the weirdness in ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' takes place there;
** The main characters from ''[[Uta Kata]]'' spend a lot of time at its beaches, only leaving the town for one [[Class Trip]] to Hakone;
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* Fukuoka City in ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'', thanks to the machinations of two silly warring entities.
* Death City, NV, of ''[[Soul Eater]]'' is not only the place where the Shibusen (or DWMA, if you're watching the dub) is located, it also holds the significance of being the place where Asura was trapped and, as such, is a commonly targeted place by whoever wants to set him free ({{spoiler|which Medusa eventually manages to do, indirectly}}). And while the students and their weapon partners have to travel around the world for their field assignments, holding the fort is also of utmost importance.
== Comic Books ==
* It is extremely common in solo [[Superhero]] series for the hero to have a specific city that they are known to patrol as "their territory":
** Gotham City ([[Batman]])
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* [[New York City]] in the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' franchise.
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* [[Capital City|Champion City]] in the film ''[[Mystery Men]]''.
* ''[[Casablanca]]'' qualifies as a [[Trope Codifier]].
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* The town of Smallville in ''[[Smallville]]''. The [[Magnetic Plot Device|explanation]] for the large number of unusual occurrences is the presence of a significant amount of [[Green Rocks|Kryptonite]] in the area, which in this case causes humans in its presence to gain powers varying from individual to individual.
* Eerie, Indiana, ''Eerie, Indiana'', [[The Music Man|Eerie]], [[Department of Redundancy Department|Indiana]]...
* ''[[Eerie, Indiana]]'' <ref>Not the same one as above</ref>
* ''[[Monk|Monk's]]'' San Francisco
** And ''[[Charmed|Charmed's]]'' San Francisco, though sometimes for no reason whatsoever.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* St Mary Mead, where [[Agatha Christie]]'s [[Little Old Lady Investigates|little old lady/amateur detective]] [[Miss Marple]] lives. Given her advanced age, the events described in the books starring her must take place over the space of a few years, so it seems that mysterious murders occur in her village with alarming frequency.
* Trantor in several [[Isaac Asimov]] stories, which is in fact a city covering the entire surface of a planet. (Timothy Zahn would later adapt this idea to the planet Coruscant in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]]; it would later appear in the prequels.) A 47th century New York City is used to the same effect in his novel ''[[The Caves of Steel]]''. Such a world city is known as an Ecumenopolis.
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* In the web-novel ''[[Domina]]'' the titular city is like this. Gangs of [[Bio Augmentation|bio-augmented]] crazies rule the streets, hunting [[Rodents of Unusual Size|giant rats]] is a common way to make money, and {{spoiler|it's about to be hit by a [[Zombie Apocalypse]]}}.
* [[Nightside]] the secret city within London.
== Video Games ==▼
* Paragon City, Rhode Island in ''[[City of Heroes]]''.▼
** And the Rogue Isles in ''[[City of Heroes|City Of Villains]]''.▼
* Sigil of ''Planescape'' fame, being the foremost crossroads of the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' multiverse.▼
* [[Mega Ten]]'s ''Persona'' series has Mikage-cho in ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'', Sumaru City in ''[[Persona 2]]'', Port Island in ''[[Persona 3]]'' and Inaba in ''[[Persona 4]]''.▼
** [[Mega Ten]] in general seems to love this trope, mainly due to it's [[Urban Fantasy]] stylings. In fact, many of the games take place in [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe|Tokyo]] (or [[The End of the World as We Know It|what's left of it anyway]]). Games that don't take place in a city are the exception rather than the norm.▼
* Roma in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''.▼
* [[Dungeons and Dragons]] Online in Stormreach.▼
* The ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series consistently gives us three of this kind of city since the first game: Liberty City (an [[Expy]] of New York City), San Andreas (an expy of California and Nevada), and Vice City (an expy of Miami). ''GTA 2'' also gives us "Anywhere, USA", though it's [[Sequel Displacement|almost forgotten]]''.▼
* Befitting that its borrows a lot from [[Grand Theft Auto]] (as listed directly above), [[Crackdown]] takes place in 'Pacific City', and seems to be either inspired by, or borrows the idea of a multi-island approach, for geography.▼
* ''[[Urban Chaos]]'' takes place in Union City.▼
* [[South Town]] is a focal point for events in the [[Fatal Fury]] and [[Art of Fighting]] series, and also gets a mention in the [[King of Fighters]] series. Appears to be quite a multicultural place, possibily justifying how so many people there master several martial arts from around the world.▼
* The first two ''[[Etrian Odyssey]]'' games are set in a City of Adventure built around a labyrinth or dungeon; the third features a port town as your base of operations.▼
* [[Reality On The Norm]] from the eponymous series.▼
* The city of Kirkwall in ''[[Dragon Age II]]''.▼
* The town of Fuyuki in both ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' and ''[[Fate/hollow ataraxia]]''▼
* In ''[[Academagia]]'', [http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd512/Tom_Kraan/Academagia/UCMFinal.png Mineta] is one of the largest and most important cities in [[World in the Sky|Elumia]]; as well as the home to "The Academy of Magic of Mineta", more commonly called "[[Title Drop|Academagia]]". The game includes many potential events and adventures set in and around Mineta.▼
* Stilwater in ''[[Saints Row]]'' happens to be a city full of opportunities and if Stilwater didn't had enough opportunities alone, the new bigger city of Steelport is gonna have a lot more than that of Stilwater.▼
* Clint City in [[Urban Rivals]] most certainly qualifies. It has gangs, vampires, aliens, robots, pirates...▼
== Tabletop Games ==
* Sigil of ''[[Planescape]]'' fame, being the foremost crossroads of the ''[[Dungeons
▲* Sigil of ''[[Planescape]]'' fame, being the foremost crossroads of the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' multiverse.
** Also in D&D, certain cities in the various settings can wind up like this. Examples include:
*** Baldur's Gate and Waterdeep from [[Forgotten Realms]]. Waterdeep was significant enough to get its own sourcebook.
*** [[Forgotten Realms|Neverwinter]] too, in 2011. Gloomwrought, Hestavar, and the City of Brass all have extensive write-ups as well.
*** Sharn from [[Eberron]] got ''Sharn, City of Towers''.
*** TSR did an entire box set on the city of Huzuz for the [[Dungeons
*** The Free City of Greyhawk in [[
* The ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'' prodeuced several guides to real world cities, with details of the nasties there.
* The ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' tends towards one signature city per game line—New Orleans for ''[[Vampire: The Requiem|Vampire]]'', Denver for ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken|Werewolf]]'', Boston for ''[[Mage: The Awakening|Mage]]'', Detroit for ''[[Promethean: The Created|Promethean]]'', Miami for ''[[Changeling: The Lost|Changeling]]'', Philadelphia for ''[[Hunter: The Vigil|Hunter]]'', and New York for ''[[Geist: The Sin Eaters|Geist]]''. There's also an independent book for Chicago that covers plot hooks for mortals, as well as lays out the politics of the local "big three" (vampires, werewolves, and mages).
* The titular city of ''[[Mortasheen]]'' is a continent-sized version of this combined with the Industrial type of [[Mordor]], filled with crazy mutants and monsters in a constant state of chaos.
* The city of The Edge in the island nation of Al-Amarja is the setting for all the weirdness in ''[[Over the Edge]]''.
* Ravnica, of the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' multi-verse, is not quite a straight example, as it's a city that covers its entire world.
* In Monte Cook's ''[[Ptolus]]'', a setting revolving entirely around the titular city (and, incidentally, one of the fattest roleplaying books ever published, at 672 pages).
** The city is built around [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] and on top of multiple layers of [[Sealed Evil in a Can]], and (mostly unrelatedly) is home to several men who are, or can at least get away with claiming to be, emperor. The evil is leaking, the cans have become something of a tourist industry, and the political tensions are on the rise. Yes, there are some explanations.
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' has [[Mordheim]], a warband setting that takes place in the titular City of Adventure and puts [[Black and Grey Morality|its]] [[Crapsack World|own]] [[Gallows Humor|unique]] [[Low Fantasy|perspective]] on it. The city was levelled by a meteorite of Warpstone, a substance that has tremendous value for magical experiments and is a vital ingredient in the Philosopher's Stone- that is, an alchemical concoction that can change "base" metals into pure gold. So, naturally, the city is swarming with violent, opportunistic mercenaries and treasure hunters. Of course, Warpstone is also [[Toxic Phlebotinum]], or perhaps [[Psycho Serum]] would be a better descriptor, as it causes physical, mental and spiritual corruption. So, naturally, the city is also teeming with all manner of horrific monsters...
* In the ''[[Champions]]'' Universe, Millennium City gets far more superhuman action than you would expect for Detroit Redux. Partly justified due to its The City Of The Future meme.
* Similar to the ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' example above,
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'''s Seattle Metroplex.
* Arkham in ''[[Arkham Horror]]''. Home to a number of cults, the infamous [[Cthulhu Mythos|Miskatonic University]], and far too many eldritch secrets. Most of the expansions add to the madness and make Arkham home to things like a cursed museum exhibit or the only attempted performance of a [[Brown Note]] play. A few involve mysteries outside of Arkham and add [[Adventure Towns]] to the game.
▲== Video Games ==
▲* Paragon City, Rhode Island in ''[[City of Heroes]]''.
▲** And the Rogue Isles in ''[[City of Heroes|City Of Villains]]''.
* Millennium City (again) in ''[[Champions Online]]''.
▲* Sigil of ''Planescape'' fame, being the foremost crossroads of the ''[[Dungeons
▲* [[Mega Ten]]'s ''Persona'' series has Mikage-cho in ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'', Sumaru City in ''[[Persona 2]]'', Port Island in ''[[Persona 3]]'' and Inaba in ''[[Persona 4]]''.
▲** [[Mega Ten]] in general seems to love this trope, mainly due to
▲* Roma in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''.
▲* The ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series consistently gives us three of this kind of city since the first game: Liberty City (an [[Expy]] of New York City), San Andreas (an expy of California and Nevada), and Vice City (an expy of Miami). ''GTA 2'' also gives us "Anywhere, USA", though it's [[Sequel Displacement|almost forgotten]]''.
▲* Befitting that its borrows a lot from ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' (as listed directly above), [[Crackdown]] takes place in
▲* ''[[Urban Chaos]]'' takes place in Union City.
▲* [[South Town]] is a focal point for events in the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' and ''[[Art of Fighting]]'' series, and also gets a mention in the [[King of Fighters]] series. Appears to be quite a multicultural place, possibily justifying how so many people there master several martial arts from around the world.
▲* The first two ''[[Etrian Odyssey]]'' games are set in a City of Adventure built around a labyrinth or dungeon; the third features a port town as your base of operations.
▲* The city of Kirkwall in ''[[Dragon Age II]]''.
▲* The town of Fuyuki in both ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' and ''[[Fate/hollow ataraxia]]''
▲* In ''[[Academagia]]'', [http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd512/Tom_Kraan/Academagia/UCMFinal.png Mineta] is one of the largest and most important cities in [[World in the Sky|Elumia]]; as well as the home to "The Academy of Magic of Mineta", more commonly called "[[Title Drop|Academagia]]". The game includes many potential events and adventures set in and around Mineta.
▲* Stilwater in ''[[Saints Row]]'' happens to be a city full of opportunities and if Stilwater didn't had enough opportunities alone, the new bigger city of Steelport is gonna have a lot more than that of Stilwater.
▲* Clint City in ''[[Urban Rivals]]'' most certainly qualifies. It has gangs, vampires, aliens, robots, pirates...
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'''s eponymous boarding school.
* ''[[Templar, Arizona]]'' the comic is about this kind of city.
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== Web Animation ==
* Picture on top: [[CCC]] City, the 'City of Opportunities' in [https://web.archive.org/web/20131207083617/http://vinnieveritas.com/flash/ccc/ the popular flash video series], in which literally every day in and around the city (so large it renders maps pointless) involves countless adventures of many different levels.▼
▲* Picture on top: [[CCC]] City, the 'City of Opportunities' in [http://vinnieveritas.com/flash/ccc/ the popular flash video series], in which literally every day in and around the city (so large it renders maps pointless) involves countless adventures of many different levels.
== Web Original ==
* Metro City, the titular city of the [[Metro City Chronicles]]
* [[The Town]]
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** Inside the city itself, a healthy amount of the action takes place in or around Westinghall Plaza.
* Welcome to Denfair City, New Jersey. Home of ''[[The Impossible Man]]''.
* The [[Transformers]] fan club fiction has [[Transformers:
* Grand Lake City, in "[[Legion of Nothing]]", seems to count.
* [[The Questport Chronicles|Questport]] is a village, rather than a city, but has enough adventure and oddness for a city a dozen times its size.
== Western Animation ==
* The TV series ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' has the Titans Tower in "Jump City", at least according to the comic adaptation ''[[Teen Titans Go!|Teen Titans Go]]''; the team's hometown was never named in the cartoon. Meanwhile, "Steel City" is the location of Titans East.
* The City... of Townsville in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''.
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** Perhaps surprisingly, the name isn't fictional; there is a city named [[wikipedia:Townsville|Townsville]] in Queensland, Australia.
* St. Canard in ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]''.
* In ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' and the comics it's based on, many of Uncle Scrooge's adventures take place "[[Ear Worm|here in...Duckburg!]]"
* Heatherfield in ''[[WITCH (animation)|W.I.T.C.H.]]'' (it's where all the portals are, and it's where all the Guardians live.)
* The Middle of Nowhere in ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' seems to be some sort of nexus for "creepy stuff", to the point where it takes obvious danger to get anyone but Courage to take notice. Talking animals, aliens, deities, and supernatural entities (not to mention Courage's own sapience and abilities) are all treated as normal until the big pointy teeth come out.
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