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There is some [[Truth in Television]] to this, such as Stalingrad and [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov:Saparmurat Niyazov|Saparmurat "Turkmenbashi" Niyazov]].

Is a common trait of a [[Villain World]], and frequently seen as a result of (or part of starting) a [[Cult of Personality]]. The renamer is likely to be [[The Caligula]] or [[The Generalissimo]]. Tends to lead to [[Please Select New City Name]] a generation or so later...

[[Sub -Trope]] of [[Meaningful Rename]].

* ''[[The Tower of Druaga (Animeanime)|The Tower of Druaga]]'''s second season gives us "Meltland".

* ''[[Kirby: ofRight theBack Starsat Ya!]]'': King Dedede has his name and face carved all over Pupu Village/Cappy Town; from TV channels to its money, almost everything has Dedede's face in it.

** Also deserving of mention is Planet Vegeta, which was renamed after the royal line of the Saiyans' king <ref>''Every'' male member in this family who ascends the throne seems to bear this name.</ref> after they defeated the Tuffles.

* A possible<ref>We don't know who actually named the city</ref> and somewhat [[Narm|Narmful]]ful example from the ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' novel ''Frozen Teardrop'', where the capital of Mars is {{spoiler|Relena City}}. It's also used to establish a [[Face Heel Turn]], as normally the character in question would be the '''last''' person to found an Egopolis.

* And when you've got a city that's named [[Kyo Kara Maoh (Light Novel)!|"May the great original king and the Mazoku people flourish!]] [[Overly Long Name|And may we never forget, everything that makes up our world came from the first Mazoku!]] [[Up to Eleven|We Mazoku have our wisdom, our bravery, and our ability to push aside feudal lords.]] [[Awesome McCoolname|As proof of our prosperity, we have our eternal kingdom!"]]... you have to wonder if the first Mazoku was really, really liked or really, really hated.

* In ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'', we have General Tapioca, who renamed the capital of his country to Tapiocapolis. {{spoiler|[[Black and Grey Morality|Later, he is overthrown by General Alcázar, who renames the city as Alcázarpolis.]]}}

* Mocked in ''[[PS 238PS238]]'' when Tyler mentions that he has problems with geography due to all the rogue island nations named after their supervillain rulers.

* In some fairly old ''[[Superman (Franchise)|Superman]]'' comics, [[Lex Luthor]] gets marooned on some far-off planet and the people there somehow elect him ruler. That's because he actually saved them, and they rename the planet to "Lexor" in gratitude. He hangs there quite a bit for a while, mostly because it orbits a red sun. As it turns out, he ''likes'' being the good guy (this is the Silver Age mad scientist version), and even gets married. Then it got destroyed in a fight with Superman. He didn't take it well.

{{quote| '''Hsu Statue:''' Louder!}}

* ''[[Flash Gordon (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|Flash Gordon]]''-- Mingo—Mingo City, anyone?

* ''[[The Emperor's New Groove (Disney)|The Emperors New Groove]]'': In a weird inversion/subtle meta example, Kuzco is named after the historical capital of the Inca Empire, but the city's name is never mentioned in the show (though it would be in character).

* In the first ''[[Superman (Filmfilm)|Superman]]'' movie, Lex Luthor has already planned to rename at least a dozen cities with some form of "Lex" or "Luthor" following completion of his plot. Luthorville, Marina del Lex, etc. Humorously, he gets angry when his henchman tries to name a town "Otisburg", so much so he makes him erase it from his makeshift map.

* In ''[[ItsIt's a Wonderful Life]]'', Bedford Falls is renamed Pottersville in the [[Alternate Universe]] ruled by George Bailey's rival, Mr. Potter.

* In the ''[[Street Fighter (Filmfilm)|Street Fighter]]'' movie, M. Bison announces his plan to build "Bisonopolis" once he takes over the world. In a possible sign that the producers realized Raul Julia was the best thing they had, he gets to spend nearly two and a half minutes strolling around the room and ranting about it. They are in the running for the best two and a half minutes of the whole movie.<br />Also, Bison Dollars. They'll be worth five British Pounds to a dollar once Bison kidnaps their Queen. Of course, trying to pass them off as currency before that happens wasn't particularly advisable....

* ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]'' has TRON City as the setting of the main action. It's a subversion, though, since it was Kevin Flynn's idea, and Tron never was a dictator, more like a protector of the system.

* [[Star Wars]]: [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Utoxx_Prentioch Utoxx Prentioch] names his [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Prentioch%27s_Dominion Imperial Remnant faction] and [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Prentioch flagship] after himself. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121022013551/http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Imperial_Remnant_factions\]

* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Ultramarines (Literaturenovel)|Ultramarines]]'' novel ''The Killing Ground'', Barbaran renamed the capital of the conquered planet after himself. {{spoiler|After he dies for the massacre he staged, Uriel thinks it quite certain that the capital will be renamed.}}

{{quote| '''Dr. Burrows:''' "The Garden of the Second Sun"... I shall call it "Roger Burrows Land"!}}

* In the ''[[War CraftWarcraft]]'' novel ''[[The War of the Ancients]]'', the night elf [[Capital City]] is renamed Zin-Azshari, or "Glory of Azshara", after their queen Azshara. This was apparently not enough for her, who wanted to rename it "Azshara". Ruins of the city can be found in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' in the region of Azshara (hmm...).

{{quote| ...Well now! In 1868, on this 21st day of March, I myself, Captain Nemo, have reached the South Pole at 90°, and I hereby claim this entire part of the globe, equal to one–sixth of the known continents."<br />

"In the name of which sovereign, Captain?"<br />

''"In my own name, sir!"''<br />

So saying, Captain Nemo unfurled a black flag bearing a gold "N" on its quartered bunting. Then, turning toward the orb of day, whose last rays were licking at the sea's horizon:<br />

* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' episode "The Pants Alternative", Sheldon has an imaginary ''[[Sim CitySimCity]]'', Sheldonopolis, with Sheldon Square, Sheldon Towers, Sheldon Stadium the home of The Fighting Sheldons and Shel-Mart.

* New Pork City from ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]''.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'', Vinzer Deling, the [[The Empire|Galbadian]] dictator, has the capital of Deling City named after him.

{{quote| Come visit the scenic Republic of Dave! Formerly the Kingdom of Tom, formerly the New Republic of Stevie-Ray, [[Running Gag|formerly Billsylvania,]] [[Overly Long Gag|formerly the Republic of Stevie-Ray, formerly the Kingdom of Larry...]]}}

* With the [[God Save Us From the Queen|old Queen Zeal]] and the [[The Three Wise Men|pesky gurus]] gone, [[The Starscream|Dalton]] was quickly to rename the Kingdom of Zeal to the Kingdom of Dalton. He also captured and modified the Epoch to transforms it into the Aero Dalton Imperial, a flying throne fitting for the new King.

* In ''[[Dragon Quest III (Video Game)|Dragon Quest III]]'', this happens to a modest little frontier town that the heroes help get established. Over time, the village's leader starts seriously abusing their power, until, at the height of their reign, they're practically living like a king. The twist? {{spoiler|Said egomaniac is the Merchant you convinced to settle down there in the first place and help it grow.}}

* You wouldn't know just from playing ''[[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Final Fantasy II]]'', but the empire's capital of Palamecia is actually the last name of its leader, Mateus Palamecia. Not unrealistic, as lots of ruling houses either lent their name to the land they owned or vice versa. Too bad [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Him The Emperor]], and you only learn his real name in [[All There in the Manual|the (Japan-only) novelization]], also that none of them seem to go into detail about which was "Palamecia" first, the country or the imperial line.

* One of the worlds that your journey brings you to in ''[[Little Big PlanetLittleBigPlanet]] 2'' is Avalonia, an [[Eternal Engine]] city created by Avalon Centrifuge. A rare example of a good guy doing this.

* ''[[Rune Factory: Frontier]]'' has a side character named Roland (which was [[Dub Name Change|changed to Nolan]] in the localization), the former king of the Kingdom of Roland. It's unspecified whether this is in effect or inverted (i.e. he was named Roland ''because'' he was to be the King of Roland).

* The ''[[War CraftWarcraft]]'' universe has the city of Thaurissan, named by (and after) Sorcerer-thane Thaurissan when he declared himself emperor of the Dark Iron dwarves. Destroyed when Emperor Thaurissan summoned Ragnaros the Firelord, its ruins are in what became the Burning Steppes.

* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'', when Groose accidentally falls down to the surface, he realizes how nice of a place it looks. Grand music starts building up, and then he decides to christen it...Grooseland. The music promptly dies in hilarious fashion. Naturally, the name doesn't stick.

* ''[[Homestar Runner (Web Animation)|Homestar Runner]]''

** In the second episode of ''[[Strong BadsBad's Cool Game for Attractive People (Video Game)|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]'', almost all the other characters get in on it. Not all of them fit the model:

* The infamous ''[[Sonichu]]'' comics are set in "Cwcville", after '''C'''hristian '''W'''eston '''C'''handler. (It's apparently pronounced "Quick-ville" judging by the audiobooks and the bad puns.) The currency is named after him (C-Quarters, W-Quarters, and confusingly [[Department of Redundancy Department|C-QUARTERS]]), the only known radio station is KCWC, the drink of choice is CWC Cola <ref>You'd think the official beverage would be [[Nes CWC]].</ref>), and the mayor's birthday is ''celebrated as a holiday'', under the name of Christian Love Day.<br />Hell, the entire city cold be considered nothing more of an extension of [[Small Name, Big Ego|his egotism.]] Strangely, the city was founded by his father Bob. [[Unperson|One can only assume he's removed all evidence of the man.]]

* The terrible country of Tyrinaria in ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', home to Lord Tyrinar The Bloody, and source of a good deal of backstory motivation for Haley. The problem being that, by the time Haley gets to the continent where it is located, it's not there anymore; countries there tend to get conquered, renamed, and conquered again every year or so. At current time, there's a Cruelvania, Dictatoria, and two Despotonias (East and West).

* Played with in ''[[Bonus Stage (Webweb Animationanimation)|Bonus Stage]]'', when Joel builds a city and names it Philopolis, after the other main character.

* The ''[[Chaos Timeline (Literature)|Chaos Timeline]]'' has among others Haraldsborg (our [[New York City]]), Wildenhartburg (Chicago), Alexandersborg (Cape Town) and Fort Knox (Singapore).

* Pineapple Pokopo and Pokoponesia in ''[[The Tick (Animationanimation)|The Tick]]'' (who was ported directly from the Tick comics). Pokoponesia's primary export is pineapples, in what is ''surely'' a giant coincidence.

* Not a leader, but ''[[Mutant League (Animation)|Mutant League]] Football'' give us KT Slayer, the star player of... the Slaycity Slayers. Hmmm, must have had [[Metalocalypse (Animation)|Dethklok]] negotiate his contract.

* Azulon City of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', presumably named for -- andfor—and most likely by -- Fireby—Fire Lord Azulon.

** Kyoshi Island was named after Avatar Kyoshi, its most famous past resident. Pretty [[Justified]], since {{spoiler|she basically ''made'' it herself, breaking her home peninsula off from the mainland}}.

* In ''[[Re Boot (Animation)|Re BootReBoot]]'', when Megabyte {{spoiler|takes over [[City of Adventure|Mainframe]]}}, he {{spoiler|re}}names it Megaframe.

* In ''[[The Emperor's New School (Animation)|The Emperors New School]]'', everything seems to be named after Kuzco. And in the episode where Yzma [[Harmless Villain|finally]] manages to take over, she renames everything after ''herself''. She takes it even further than Kuzco, and sings an [[Crowning Music of Awesome|awesome]] [[Villain Song]] ''about'' [[Egopolis|this very trope]] (see the [[Egopolis/Quotes|Quotes Page]]).

* ''[[Kim Possible (Animation)|Kim Possible]]''

** Dr. Drakken plans way too far ahead, to what he'll name certain places after his "inevitable victory". When he launches an attack on the Great White North, he plans to rename it Drakanada.

* Brain of ''[[Pinky and The Brain (Animation)|Pinky and the...]]'' tried it a few times. He gets his own island country in a bid for US foreign aid, naming it Brainania. When he does end up in control of the Earth -- byEarth—by making a duplicate out of papier-mache and convincing everyone else to go there with free T-shirts -- heshirts—he renames the original Earth "Brainus", presumably following the pattern of either Venus or Uranus. The new planet, on the other hand, was Chia Earth.

* Even though it's a country, Petoria, named after Peter Griffin of ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'', is only the size of the Griffin's house and front/back yard, with the entire city of Quahog surrounding it, effectively making it the smallest country in the world (surrounded by the smallest state in America, no less). To drive the point home, the national flag has the words "PETORIA" and a crude drawing of Peter on a white background.

{{quote| '''Peter:''' I was gonna call it Peterland, but that gay bar down by the airport already took it.}}

* Crockerville in ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents (Animation)|The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' TV movie "Abra-Catastrophe."

* In the [[Wonderful Life]] episode of ''[[Donkey Kong Country (Animationanimation)|Donkey Kong Country]]'', the [[Alternate Universe]] version of Diddy, who's an evil dictator, says that he plans to rename the island Diddyland when he takes over.

* The latest episode of ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' concerns another reappearance of original series [[Big Bad]] Vilgax, taking place on his home planet/kingdom, Vilgaxia.

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]''

** There's also the [[Bad Future]] version of Danville ruled by Doofenshmirtz as well as the [[Alternate Universe|alternate dimension]] ruled by an eviler Doofenshmirtz from [[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across Thethe 2nd Dimension|the movie.]]

* In an episode of ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series (Animation)|Sabrina the Animated Series]]'', Sabrina travels back in time three times to prevent herself from being portrayed as a hero. Oon the fourth try, she travels back 100 years to turn the bridge from wood to stone; when she returns, she finds that Greendale is now called Sabrinaville, and everyone in town is now named "Sabrina".

* In an episode of ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'', Goliath and Elisa end up in a [[Bad Future]] where Xanatos has taken over New York City and renamed it "Xanatopia". {{spoiler|Except not really, as it's really Lexington pulling the strings. Except not ''really'' really, as the whole shenanigan is just an illusion crafted by Puck. The actual Xanatos is above this kind of thing, really.}}

* In one episode of ''[[Care Bears (Franchise)|Care Bears]]: Adventures in Care-a-Lot'', Grizzle actually manages to take over Care-a-Lot, and orders the Care Bears to tear it down in order to build Grizzleton.

* A veriation occurs in ''[[Jimmy Two -Shoes (Animation)|Jimmy Two Shoes]]''. Lucius leaves the name [[Crapsack World|of the town of Miseryville]] alone, but all the months of the year are re-named after him (Luciapril, Luciember, etc.)

* On ''[[Stoked (Animation)|Stoked]]!'', Reef attempts to name an island he and Fin are stranded on "Reeftopia".

* In ''[[Exo Squad (Animation)|Exo Squad]]'', the [[Big Bad]] Phaeton renames [[The Windy City|Chicago]] to Phaeton City after setting up his capital there.

* [[Alexander the Great]] was a serial offender. There were about a dozen cities named Alexandria, with the odd Alexandropolis thrown in. Some of them were given translations of his name to the local languages, such as Kandahar in what's now Afghanistan. When he was feeling really creative, he named one city Bucephala, after his horse, Bucephalus. The generals who took over his domains often named cities after themselves, like Antiocheia (now [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Antakya |Antakya]]) for Antiochos and Seleukeia for Seleukos.

*** ''[[Histeria (Animation)|Histeria!]]'' once had a sketch with [[The Stoner|Toast]] asking for "directions to Alexandria," with him answering each set with a "No, not that Alexandria."

* The [[Cult Ofof Personality]] in [[Useful Notes/North Korea|North Korea]] is so widespread that [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_North_Korea:Propaganda in North Korea|propaganda]] celebrating the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_North_Korea:List of leaders of North Korea|Kim]] family is legally required to be displayed nearly everywhere. [http://www.cracked.com/article_19646_5-creepy-forms-mind-control-youre-exposed-to-daily_p2.html\]

* The Russian cities St. Petersburg (named by Peter The Great for the saint that was his namesake), aka Petrograd (renamed during WWI because it sounded too German), aka Leningrad (after Lenin), aka St. Petersburg again; and Stalingrad (now Volgograd). There's a move to rename it back to Stalingrad, not in honour of Stalin but in honour of the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad:Battle of Stalingrad|famous victory over Germany]].

** There are actually a ''lot'' of cities renamed after Stalin; [[Wikipedia]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Joseph_Stalin:List of places named after Joseph Stalin|has a list]]

*** A Russian joke:

{{quote| A general is asked about a specially magnificent medal on his chest. "Ah yes, I got that for my part in the battle of Volgograd. It was presented to me by Volgin himself."<ref>Don't you love [[Russian Humor]]?</ref>}}

{{quote| After the Joseph Stalin's [[Cult of Personality|cult of personality]] was renounced, it was decided to rename Stalingrad to Volgograd. The next day the Party Central Committee receives a telegram: "No objections. Joseph Volgin."}}

** They also renamed the Polish city of Lodz ''Litzmannstadt'' after a [[World War OneI]] general and early supporter of Nazism.

* [[Useful Notes/Dominican Republic|Dominican]] dictator [[Rafael Trujillo]] did this a ''lot'', going as far as changing the capital city's name from Santo Domingo to Ciudad Trujillo.

* Byzantium was originally named after a king named Byzas. After the Roman Emperor Constantine made it the new capital, its name was officially changed to New Rome, but everyone referred to it as Constantinople (Constantine's City). Now it's [[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)|Istanbul, not Constantinople]], and it's [[They Might Be Giants|nobody's business but the Turks]].

** [[Older Than They Think|I think]] [[Covered Up|you mean]] "[http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_LadsThe Four Lads|nobody's business but the Turks"...]]

* Beijing was originally named Khanbaliq, "city of the Khan", by Kublai Khan, a descendant of Genghis Khan. Neither of whom was really named "Khan". Even "Genghis Khan" is a title in its entirety:<ref>It roughly translates to "Oceanic ruler", which should give you a pretty good indication as to [[Take Over the World|his ambitions]].</ref>: his real name was Temujin.

* Exception: George Washington. He was chagrined to find that they named the new capital after him. He actively tried to stop it in favor of a different name. It didn't get much better, there's an entire state named for him (with his face on the state flag!), not to mention the 30 Washington Counties, hundreds of Washington Townships, 50 or so cities named Washington (besides the capital), and hundreds of streets named for him. To be fair, a lot of these, including the state (and even the territory that preceded it, as Washington Territory was formed from the leftovers of Oregon Territory after the State of Oregon formed) came about long after George's death.

*** It was named after the King of Prussia Inn that was named after the King of Prussia, so it was name after a place that was named after the person.

** New York was named after the Duke of York, King Charles II's brother, who happened at the time to be the head of the Royal Navy -- theNavy—the military branch that won the war that gave England the Dutch colonies. The warrant renaming the colony specifically states that the settlement was renamed after the Duke. (Despite what some think, the city of York in England had nothing to do with it, except in the tangential sense that the duchy is named for the city.)

** The Carolinas were named after Charles I; Maryland after his queen, Henrietta Maria (unless you prefer to believe it was the Catholic settlers being sneaky - which is [[Epileptic Trees|wildly unrealistic]] and even [[The Man Is Sticking It to Thethe Man|childishly naive]], given that their leaders were to a man staunch and even bigoted Protestants/Puritans sent to prevent the settlers from doing this very thing!); its capital, Annapolis after Princess (later Queen) Anne; Charleston, SC, after Charles II; Georgia after George II; Charlotte, NC, after George III's queen; and Louisiana after Louis XIV of France. That's not even getting into smaller cities and county names and whatnot. As mentioned in the entry on Victoria above, these were not named for royals out of compulsion or even the hope of getting some money; these places received royal names because the persons who named them thought it was the right thing to do, nothing more. [[Captain Obvious|Colonialism and egotripping might go together,]] but not necessarily in the way some people assume they do.

** Seattle was named after [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealth |Chief Sealth]], who was admired by the white settlers in the area. Notably, he did not want the city named after him because it went against his religious beliefs.

* Aztec (Later Mexica) Leader "Tenoch" named the city after himself. Tenochtitlan became one of the largest cities of the late-medieval world. Interestingly, modern Tenochtitlan -- aTenochtitlan—a.k.a. Mexico City -- isCity—is the largest city in the Americas and the third-largest metropolitan area in the world.

* Roman Emperor Commodus renamed Rome, the months ('''every''' month[[hottip:*:<ref>That doesn't mean he named every month "Commodus", [[I Have Many Names|he had many names]]</ref>), the legions, the Senate and even the Roman people after himself.

*** Still got through somewhat with [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Louise_:Lake Louise (Alberta) |Lake Louise]].

* There have been quite a few places named for [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito:Josip Broz Tito|Josip Broz Tito]]; [[Wikipedia]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Josip_Broz_Tito:List of places named after Josip Broz Tito|has a list]]. Notably, however, every city named for him in the Yugoslav era got renamed to something else after the country broke up. Which happened rather rapidly after his death.

* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_Economic_City:King Abdullah Economic City|King Abdullah Economic City]], Saudi Arabia.

** and [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Khalid_Military_City:King Khalid Military City|King Khalid Military City]], also in Saudi Arabia.

** Screw mere cities, Saudi Arabia is this applied to a ''whole country'' -- it—it is named after its ruling dynasty. It would be like Britain being called Windsorland.

** There's also Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany, which after reunification immediately reverted to its original name of Chemnitz, though it was East Germany's Communist leaders that named the city rather than Karl Marx himself.

** Also certain dynasties treated the name of their country as family names, e. g. the Habsburgs being called "the House of Austria". This is why in ''[[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' the French queen is called Anne of Austria even though she was the daughter of the the king of Spain and had been born and raised there.

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