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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Moe:''' What are you telling us, we're trapped like rats?
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A town enclosed under a dome.
Features seem to include letting everyone on the outside go to hell, being a paranoid [[City in a Bottle]], and ending up as a [[Doomed Hometown|doomed]] [[
Fairly traditional for [[Underwater City|underwater cities]] or space colonies in SF.
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...[[Captain Obvious|Not to be confused with]] [[Doomed Hometown]]
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Paradigm City (of ''[[The Big O]]'') isn't completely domed, but the domes are where the rich people live.
* Domed and apparently doomed: most (if not all) of the cities of ''[[Ergo Proxy]]''.
** Likewise those of ''[[Wolf's Rain]]''.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Supergirl]]'': Two versions of Argo City, one on either side of the [[Crisis Crossover|Crisis on Infinite Earths]]. The second one turned out to be overrun by [[Alien
** Both end up as [[Doomed Hometown
* ''[[Superman]]'': Kandor.
** In [[Pre Crisis]] [[Superman]] comics, Lori Lemaris's Atlantis survived its sinking with a giant dome. They later removed the dome after biologically changing themselves into merpeople to survive underwater.
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== Literature ==
* In [[The
* [[Isaac Asimov]] had two planets with the populations living in sealed cities: Trantor in ''The Psychohistorians'' and Earth in ''[[The Caves of Steel]]''. In both cases, the inhabitants developed a neurosis about the open air.
** The underground cities of Earth were built to be armored against nuclear bombs. Trantor's evolvement into a planet-wide city took a thousand years as the center of a galactic empire.
* David Wingrove's ''[[Chung Kuo]]'' series provides an example of this, with seven enormous domed cities housing 36 billion people.
* [[Lois McMaster Bujold|Bujold's]] ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Vorkosigan]]'' books features two fairly important planets whose entire population is contained by these due to in-progress [[
** The Cetagandans in the novels also use "force domes", but they can be switched on and off, and are used for temporary containment (prison camp) or just as security perimeters (the Celestial Garden). It's also possible to control the weather within the dome, which ensures the Emperor in the Celestial Garden doesn't get rained on.
* [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s ''The City and the Stars''.
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* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''. In the first pilot ("The Cage"), when the Talosians give Captain Pike the illusion of being back on Earth, a matte-painted domed city (Mojave, California) is seen in the background.
* ''[[Blake's 7|Blakes Seven]]'' sets most of its first episode in one.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': a love affair with
* Troy in the re-imagined [[Battlestar Galactica]] was this according to a deleted scene. The [[Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story|mining accident on Troy]] was a massive explosion that caused the dome to collapse.
* The [[Precursors|Silver Millennium]] is reimagined as one of these in ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'', while the rest of the Moon at that time had the barren surface we know.
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* Aquas, an undersea version, is one of the quirkier outposts of the Alphatian Empire in the Mystara D&D setting. {{spoiler|After the Alphatian mainland sinks in the ''Wrath of the Immortals'' Adventure Path, Aquas becomes the new capital of what's left of the Empire. At least, what's left on the outer world.}}
* In [[BattleTech]] background material there's mention of worlds where at least some of the population lives in underwater dome cities.
* In the ''[[Planescape]]'' setting, there's the City of Glass on the Elemental Plane of Water. The name is kind of a misnomer. Most of it is actually made of a rare substance called Eternal Ice (which is ice that does not melt) with a glass dome over it. It is populated by a variety of races, both native to the Plane and immigrants from elsewhere.
* ''[[Stars Without Number]]'' has "Bubble Cities" as one of World Tags.
{{quote|Whether due to a lack of atmosphere or an uninhabitable climate, the world’s cities exist within domes or pressurized buildings. In such sealed environments, techniques of surveillance and control can grow baroque and extreme.}}
== Video Games ==
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* [[Shocking Swerve|Major plot twist]] in ''[[Custom Robo]]'' (for the Nintendo Gamecube, not the original Japanese game). The main cast is revealed to have been living in a blissful artificial town surrounded by and protected from the devastation and decay of the real world. Even nature as we know it no longer exists, and grass and trees are manmade.
* [[Atlantis]] in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]'' is an [[Underwater Base]] that happens to be an [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]] which sank into the ocean, protected by machines powered by [[Bamboo Technology|stone-age]] [[Orichalcum]]. It's thoroughly [[Ragnarok Proofing|Ragnarok-proofed]] despite sitting on a volcano.
* Ciel Shelter, the first town in ''[[Wild
* In ''G-Police'' the various sections of Earth's colony on the Jovian moon Calliso are contained within domes to contain a breathable atmosphere. The domes appear to be made of a mesh of laser beams but they make a metalic clanging sound if they are rammed. In one mission some terrorists hijack a train-load of bombs and attempt to detonate them in one of the tunnels that connect these domes in an attempt to fracture them.
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* ''[http://brokenspacecomic.com Broken Space]'' begins in the domed city of Hentune.
* In ''[[Heartcore]]'', humans live in cities encased in domes to protect them from an
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has the ''entire England'' sunk, so that only tall hills and towers stick above water, thus inhabited places are [https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/doublespreads/ggcoll18_015_016.html all] made of [https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20171208 domes and tubes].
== Western Animation ==
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== Real Life ==
* In 1979-80 the town planners of Winooski, Vermont [https://web.archive.org/web/20090906073503/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912572,00.html seriously] [http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0415/041538.html proposed] building a dome over 850 acres of the downtown (the whole town is 1 square mile in area). Years later, the long-forgotten proposal showed up, ''[[Critical Research Failure|described as having been built]]'', in a Chinese [[Middle School]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730054909/http://www.virtualvermont.com/towns/Winooski.pdf textbook].
* [[wikipedia:Buckminster Fuller|Buckminster Fuller]] famously advocated that large areas, including cities, should be enclosed in the geodesic "Fuller" domes with which his name is always associated, although he did not in fact invent them. He pointed out that the hot air rising from a typical city would be sufficient to support the dome like an inflated balloon.
* Frédéric Bastiat, a 19th century [[Deadpan Snarker]] economist, in his satirical "Candlemakers Petition", suggested that the government should build domes around cities, to protect candlemakers (and industries that are involved in candlemaking) from "harmful" competition from the Sun. This was a [[Take That]] against protectionists who argued that importation of foreign goods ought to be restricted.
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