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* 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 ''[[It'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 (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.
* Todd Spengo does this to an entire planet in the backstory of ''[[Mom and Dad Save The World]]''. Whatever it was is lost to the sands of history, but he is proud to be the Emperor of Planet Spengo.
* ''[[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.
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== Web Comics ==
* 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.
* The terrible country of Tyrinaria in ''[[The Order of the Stick|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).
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