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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Crash Town from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds5D's]]'' may qualify as this.
* [[Black Lagoon|Roanapur]] is an excellent example.
 
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* [[Jonah Hex]] found his father acting as sheriff of an outlaw town, called Outlaw Springs, in "Christmas in an Outlaw Town".
* The [[Lucky Luke]] album ''Dalton City''.
* [[Batman]] encountered one in "Outlaw Town, U.S.A." in ''[[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]]'' #75.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* An outlaw town named Hell featured in two of [[JTJ. T. Edson]]'s western novels: ''Hell in the Palo Duro'' and ''Go Back to Hell''.
* A settlement dedicated to smuggling criminals and illicit goods in and out of the country features in the [[Doc Savage]] novel ''The Mountain Monster''.
* Lagrimas Negras in the [[Young Bond]] novel ''Hurricane Gold''.
* The Undertaker encounters an Outlaw Town in ''Canyon of Death'', the third book of [[The Western]] series ''The Undertaker'' by George G. Gilman.
* A subversion in the ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]'' books: [[Sdrawkcab Name|Erewhon]] is a planet founded by an alliance of [[The Mafia|Mafia families]] hoping to set up shop outside the reach of any existing law enforcement agency. Over the centuries, they evolved into a planet that was still run by those families, and still carried with it many of the old traditions, but which also had [[Irony|some of the strictest law enforcement in the galaxy.]]
* [[Dashiell Hammett]] liked this trope, using it in the short story "Nightmare Town" and later expanding it into ''Red Harvest''.
* Jackson's Whole in the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' was initially a hijacker's base and along the way became "governed" by a loose connection of crime families specializing in specific crimes (sex slavery, arms dealing, etc.). It is ultra-capitalist and has no real laws to speak of- a handshake is as good as a contract, and you are as good as dead if you aren't under the protection of one of its crime families.
* Bab-el-Shaitan ("the Gate of the Devil") in the [[Robert E. Howard]] story "The Blood of Belshazzar".
* Several of [[Andre Norton]]'s space adventures mentioned a [[Thieves' Guild]] base known as Waystar. Eventually, one book revealed it to be a [[Space Station]] dating from before humans had star travel -- and with a tightly-packed cluster of [[Derelict Graveyard|derelict ships]] put in place as an outer wall or camouflage, separate from the station itself.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Roy and Pat pose as outlaws to infiltrate an outlaw town in ''[[The Roy Rogers Show]]'' episode "Outlaw's Town''.
* [[The Lone Ranger]] faces one in "Outlaw Town".
* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' had a [[Planet of Hats]] that purposefully based their culture on the Prohibition Era Chicago Mob.
* The town of Twin Butte, in ''[[The Cisco Kid]]'' episode “Haven for Heavies”, was run by [[Dirty Cop|a sheriff]] that granted immunity to outlaws that settled there.
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
* The city of Mahagonny from [[Bertolt Brecht (Creator)|Bertolt Brecht]]'s ''[[The Rise and Fall of The City of Mahagonny (Theatre)|The Rise and Fall of Thethe City of Mahagonny]]''. If not the [[Trope Codifier]] then one of the oldest and most well-known examples of this trope.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''Lawenilothehl'' in the roguelike ''[[Ancient Domains of Mystery]]'' is a town run by outlaws. [[More Criminals Than Targets|Everyone in there is a bandit of some form.]]
* In ''[[Dragon Quest VIII (Video Game)|Dragon Quest VIII]]'' the town of Pickem is run and mostly inhabited by thieves and bandits.
* ''[[Fable I (Videovideo Gamegame)|Fable I]]'' has Twinblade's Camp. ''[[Fable II (Video Game)|Fable II]]'' has Bloodstone. ''[[Fable III (Video Game)|Fable III]]'' has the Mercenary Camp. (The camps may or may not count, depending -- they play and operate just like the towns in the rest of the game, but no one ever refers to them as towns. Bloodstone is a straight example, however.)
* The Den in ''[[Fallout 2]]''.
* The space station of Omega in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Gang Rule Town]] in ''[[A Path to Greater Good]]''.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' episode "City of Thieves".
* Blackwater asteroid in ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Animation)|Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]''. It was thought to be an [[Urban Legend]] by law enforcement until a delirious Cody Carson (a shady quasi-ally to the Rangers) proved it wasn't by all but kidnapping Doc and Niko and taking them there.
 
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