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* ''[[Dragonball Z]]''

** Satan City is named after [[Fake Ultimate Hero|Mr. Satan]] [[Blatant Lies|following his courageous defeat of Cell]]. He's not actually in charge, but he does have a large influence.

* A possible<ref>We don't know who actually named the city</ref> and somewhat [[Narm|Narmful]] 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!|"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.

* A familial example could be found in The Republic of Dave in ''[[Fallout]] 3'', a small ranch owned by a guy named Dave, who took it over from his father Tom, back when it was the Kingdom of Tom. Nonetheless it is actually run on a democracy, with an election that can be rigged so that his son or wife can win, which if they do he'll go off to make a new Republic of Dave.

{{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...]]}}

* Rezopolis, from ''[[Gex]]''.

* A prime example is the team the Slaycity Slayers from ''[[Mutant League Football]]'', where both team and city got their name changed as part of the contract with star player K.T. Slayer.

* You wouldn't know just from playing ''[[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.

* The King (Mickey Mouse) in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. Though he's on your side, you have to wonder about a king who stamps his silhouette on damn near everything in his realm....

* Depending on how you play, you can name your alliance in ''[[Star Control]] 2'' after yourself.

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

* The ''[[Warcraft]]'' 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|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.

== Western Animation ==

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

* Azulon City of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', presumably named for -- and most likely by -- Fire Lord Azulon.

** Omashu was renamed to the city of New Ozai, after the current Fire Lord, after being conquered by the Fire Nation. This of course implies there is another city named Ozai.

*** Omashu itself was, according to legend, named after a pair of lovers named Oma and Shu.

* In ''[[ReBoot]]'', when Megabyte {{spoiler|takes over [[City of Adventure|Mainframe]]}}, he {{spoiler|re}}names it Megaframe.

* In ''[[The Emperor's New School|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]]''

** Shego pulls this herself. In the [[Bad Future|future where she takes over the world]], she changes Middleton to Shegoton, Upperton to North Shegoton, and even the clothing chain store Club Banana to Club Shego, leading to one of quotes in the [[Egopolis/Quotes|quote page]].

* Brain of ''[[Pinky and The Brain|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.

** The Battles of Stalingrad and Leningrad in World War II were so vicious and bloody at least in part because of Stalin's Egopolis tendencies; as well as the tactical advantages they offered the Germans (near-completely unfettered access to the oilfields of the Caucasus, in the case of Stalingrad), it would be a great propaganda coup for the Germans (and subsequent blow to the Soviets) for the cities named after their glorious leader and the founder of their glorious worker's paradise both to fall. Stalin, of course, was not going to let that shit go unopposed. Result? Eighteen-odd months of vicious street-fighting so determined that every individual room in every house would be bitterly contested in the former, and a protracted siege that resulted in daily bombardments and the citizenry eating their own dead in the latter.

** There are actually a ''lot'' of cities renamed after Stalin; [[Wikipedia]] [[wikipedia:List of places named after Joseph Stalin|has a list]]

{{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>}}

*** Another variant:

** The Australian state of Victoria was named for her. Its capital Melbourne was named for her Prime Minister, and before that known as Port Phillip (after the Governor of New South Wales). Virtually any suburb of Melbourne dating from before about 1880 or so will have streets somewhere in it named Victoria and Albert -- almost always running parallel to each other.

* 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.

* Virginia; Jamestown, Virginia; and Williamsburg, Virginia were named, in that order, after the Virgin Queen (that is, Elizabeth I), James I and William III.

** Ironically, Sir Walter Raleigh, the man who named ''Virgin''ia, is believed by some historians to have been Elizabeth's lover.

*** Speaking of Raleigh, what's the capital of North Carolina again?

** Also, many towns in the Eastern United States have 'Frederick' in their names, which was a tribute to the Prussian king's aid during the Seven Years War. On a similar vein, a town in Pennsylvania is actually called "King of Prussia".

*** Also worth noting that Frederick Prince of Wales was the father of King George III (who also had a son called Frederick, better known as the Duke of York). In fact, the one from the song: "Oh, the grand old Duke of York, he had ten thousand men..."

** Baltimore is named after the Lord Baltimore, who's family coat of arms even became the state flag.

* It is usual in all of Romania (not only Transylvania) for the places of birth of famous people to bear the name of those people. Most of the time they are small settlements which barely fit the Egopolis category, but it is still an example.

** A good example of Egopolis in Romania was the town Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, named after the Romanian dictator (that's right, it bared both the first AND last name of the guy, which is really impractical). Nadia Comaneci was born and started her career there.

** Leverkusen in West germany was named after the founder of a big chemical company in the city. (This is not a straight example of this trope.)

* Melbourne, Australia, was founded by a man called John Batman. For a while it was called [[Awesome McCoolname|Batmania]], until it was officially renamed Melbourne in 1836.