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{{quote|''"They say Tapioca's a real tyrant... he's cruel and he's vain... In fact he's so vain he changed the name of the capital from Los Dopicos. He called it Tapiocapolis after himself."''|'''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]''', ''Tintin and the Picaros''}}

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

* 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 238]]'' 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.

* ''[[Flash Gordon (Comic Strip)|Flash Gordon]]''-- 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 (Film)|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 ''[[Its a Wonderful Life]]'', Bedford Falls is renamed Pottersville in the [[Alternate Universe]] ruled by George Bailey's rival, Mr. Potter.

* In the ''[[Street Fighter (Film)|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.

* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]] [[Ultramarines (Literature)|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.}}

* In the ''[[War Craft]]'' 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...).

* 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.

* 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.}}

* The ''[[War Craft]]'' 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 Bads 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 terrible country of Tyrinaria in ''[[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 (Web Animation)|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 (Animation)|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 -- and most likely by -- Fire Lord Azulon.

* In ''[[Re Boot (Animation)|Re Boot]]'', 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]]''

* 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 -- by making a duplicate out of papier-mache and convincing everyone else to go there with free T-shirts -- 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.

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

* In the [[Wonderful Life]] episode of ''[[Donkey Kong Country (Animation)|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 The 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.

** 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 The 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.

** 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 (Literature)|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.