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[[File:atlantis end 2.jpg|frame|Come visit scenic Atlantis! Now with 2% less chance of watery death!]]
{{quote|''The continent of Atlantis was an island, which lay before the [[Great Flood]] in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean... Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent ships to all corners of the world. On board were the Twelve - the poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician, and the other so-called gods of our legends, though gods they were.''
|'''Donovan''', ''Atlantis''}}
{{quote|''"...In a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea."''
▲{{quote|''The continent of Atlantis was an island, which lay before the [[Great Flood]] in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean... Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent ships to all corners of the world. On board were the Twelve - the poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician, and the other so-called gods of our legends, though gods they were.''|'''Donovan''', ''Atlantis''}}
|'''[[Plato]]''', ''Critias''}}
▲{{quote|''"...In a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea."''|'''[[Plato]]''', ''Critias''}}
The fabled lost [[Utopia]], often described as sinking due to [[And Man Grew Proud|man's hubris]] and [[Soiled City on a Hill|descent into decadence]]. A common setting with many interpretations, and some times just generally used as a stock setting for fantasy and speculative fiction stories. Generally it's an [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]] chock full of [[Functional Magic]], and/or [[Lost Technology]]. Aliens or [[Google Earth]] may [https://web.archive.org/web/20090813191547/http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/39274/breaking-atlantis-discovered-on-google-earth-well-maybe also come into play].
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[[Atlantis Is Boring|Unfortunately, if it's under the sea, it will be less interesting than it sounds.]]
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' had Atlanteans as the creators of the world on which the story takes place.
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* In ''[[Transformers Super God Masterforce]]'', Atlantis was the tomb of Gilmer.
* ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'': Atlantis is actually an ancient Cybertronian space ship, part of an initiative to colonize worlds beyond Cybertron and connect civilized planets with a network of space bridges. It suffered a computer crash and sank into Earth's ocean - with one of the plot coupons on board. The Autobots track it down in the present day and reactivate it (it's in good condition thanks to the self-repair systems). It's seemingly destroyed in the battle for the Omega Lock, but turns out to be still around, albeit damaged, twenty-odd episodes later, and plays a role in the show from then on. {{spoiler|Eventually, the ''Atlantis'' and its three sister ships are re-united and combined into the truly massive warship ''Ark'', used as a staging ground in the penultimate battle and as a [[Wave Motion Gun]] by Primus to destroy the Unicron Singularity. Afterwards, the Ark is separated back into its component ships. In the finale, they set off once more to begin the Space Bridge Project anew.}}
* ''[[Raideen]]'' originates with the Mu.
* As does is [[Spiritual Successor]] ''[[RahXephon]]''.
* ''[[The Mysterious Cities of Gold]]'' features both Atlantis and [[wikipedia:Mu (lost continent)|Mu]] in the backstory. {{spoiler|They were both destroyed in a nuclear war a few millennia ago.}}
* ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'': Atlantis was not the stereotype depicted in the trope. Everyone in the modern day, 12,000 years after the prologue, are fully aware of Atlantis's existence. It's called Atlantia, not Atlantis, too. It was the home of the highly evolved Shadow Angels, who treated humanity like cattle to be harvested and have their life energies fed off of. They were [[Sealed Evil in a Can|sealed away]] after humanity won the initial war.
* One episode of the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' was about Ash Ketchum and the gang coming upon an ancient underwater city called Pokelantis, which was said to have been sunk by the Legendary Pokemon Ho-oh to dispose of its evil king. Unfortunately, the evil King of Pokelantis's ghost decides to possess Ash...
== Comic Books ==
* Undersea home of superstrong, water-breathing mutated humans in both the [[DC Comics]] ([[Aquaman]]) and [[Marvel Comics]] ([[Sub-Mariner]]) universes.
** Lemuria also exists in the MU. Its people are green skinned as opposed to the Atlanteans, who are blue.
* In the ''[[Blake and Mortimer]]'' book ''Atlantis Mystery'', a passage to Atlantis exists in a network of caves in the Azores archipelago. The Azores are an often cited place for Atlantis' location, usually coupled with the theory that the archipelago itself is an Atlantean mountain range that remained above water after the continent sank.
== Fan Works ==
* "Al Hanthis" from the ''[[Deva Series]]'' is said to be a civilisation whose out-of-control artificial magecraft threatened Earth before the founders of [[Ancient Conspiracy|the Circles]] destroyed it, with marked similarities to the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''-canonical Al Hazred. Eventually, {{spoiler|Al Hanthis resurfaces, with its people still having designs on Earth.}}
== Film ==
* The
* In ''[[10,000 BC
** Others say he's [[Ancient Astronauts|from space.]]
* Called "Hy Brasil" in ''[[Erik the Viking]]'', but is clearly supposed to be Atlantis, even down to the Greek-stylings of the culture.
** The name, however, comes from [[wikipedia:Brasil (mythical island)|another mythical island]].
* As one might expect, Atlantis also features in ''[[MacGyver]]: Lost Treasure of Atlantis''.
* Also fairly predictable is its appearance in ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]''.
* Added to the 1959 version of ''[[Journey to the Center of the Earth]]''. It's nothing more than ruins at the bottom of a volcano shaft.
* The film ''[[Atragon]]'' features Mulian enemies and their [[Kaiju]] Manda.
* Featured as part of the Backstory of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' Classic ''[[The Final Sacrifice]]''.
** A similar story, but the city was in Canada.
* In ''[[Cocoon]]'', Atlantis was the site of [[Time Abyss|the Antareans']] first base here on Earth.
{{quote|'''Walter''': Everyone else said, "use the North Pole", and I said, "no, too cold". ''Sinking'' never occurred to me.}}
* ''[[Escape From Atlantis]]'', a 1997 film in which an American family winds up in Atlantis after being teleported to another dimension by the [[Bermuda Triangle]].
== Literature ==
* [[J. R. R.
** Tolkien's notes state that the Atalante bit was purely coincidental. Prof. Tolkien wondered what Numenor would be in a certain in-universe language and got "Atalante". He was actually annoyed with this, since he knew people would assume he was implying this was the origin of the name Atlantis, when as a linguist he knew language change doesn't work that way.
*** Though originally, Tolkien was planning on writing a book called ''The Notion Club Papers'', where one character dreams of Númenor and its downfall. While the name wasn't meant to be related to Atlantis, the idea was.
** Incidentally, the Numenoreans then founded Gondor, which Tolkien admitted took quite a few cues from [[Ancient Egypt]]. [[Ancient Astronauts|Coincidence?]]
* ''
* "The age when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities" is part of the [[Backstory]] of the ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' stories. [[Kull]], another [[Robert E. Howard]] character, was an Atlantean warlord. In the official timeline, the first civiliazations started in Europe around 40,000 B.C., when the continent was known as Thuria, The greatest nation in Thuria was Valusia. the Thurian age ended in about ten thousand years, and Conan many centureis after Thuria's doom, during the Hyborean age, which also saw the collapse of all civilization.
* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Neverwhere]]'', the Angel Islington used to be the guardian angel of Atlantis until it sank. Islington serves the main characters Atlantean wine saved from its destruction. {{spoiler|...of course, it's revealed later that Islington is the one who sank it. The only thing he says on the matter is ''"They deserved it!"''}}
* The fall of Atlantis figures prominently in Sherrilyn
* Greg Donegan (pen name of Bob Mayer) wrote a series of books featuring Atlantis' ancient enemy returning.
* [[Andre Norton]]'s SF novel ''Operation Time Search''. In the distant past, both Atlantis and the island of Mu were sunk beneath the surface due to the Atlanteans' misdeeds. At the end of the book, the intervention of a time-traveler from the future (our present) prevents the sinkings from occurring and both islands appear in the modern world.
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* In the first [[Lensman]] book ''Triplanetary'', Atlantis has jet aircraft and nuclear weapons which, along with the machinations of [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]], leads to its demise.
* ''The Takers'', a modern [[Two Fisted Tale]] by Jerry Ahern. The Gladstone Log is the [[MacGuffin]] which sends the protagonists off on their adventure. It's the log of a privately-funded 19th Century expedition to seek Atlantis, set up by British Prime Minister William Gladstone. The villain (who came across several translated pages in [[WW 2]]) has spent decades searching for it, in the belief that the 'Atlantis' described is an [[Ancient Astronauts|alien base]] whose technology will give him vast power.
* ''[[Dragonlance]]'' has Istar, a powerful empire whose Kingpriest grew to believe he, himself, was on par with the gods. When he communed with them to ask to join them, they destroyed his city by throwing a "[[Death From Above|fiery mountain]]" at it, which caused the [[The End of the World as We Know It|Cataclysm]] that altered the surface of the entire world.
* Subverted in ''The Diamond Age,'' where most of the characters call themselves Atlanteans... but in that case, it just means "people from the trans-Atlantic <s> nation culture civilization</s> tribe."
* The Atlantis in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Hearts in Atlantis]]'' is the world before the [[Vietnam War]].
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