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* The titular ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'' is in Chinatown.
* ''[[Kaleido Star]]'' is set in "Cape Mery", which is identified as being somewhere in Los Angeles when the cast is visiting [[Vancouver]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
* ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'' often featured Los Antelopes, Califurnia, Earth-C's Los Angeles. Los Antelopes' various neighborhoods and suburbs were often featured in stories, including Saint Bernardino (San Bernadino), Bel-Airedale (Bel-Air), Beaverly Hills (Beverly Hills) and Follywood (Hollywood), the latter where the Zoo Crew's headquarters were located.▼
* Marvel's [[Runaways]], where one of the major plot points is the fact that the kids are in LA and not NYC.▼
* [[The DCU|DC Comic's]] series ''[[Manhunter (comics)|Manhunter]]'' follows Federal Prosecutor Kate Spencer, who is based out of LA.▼
== Film ==
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* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''
* The film ''Los Angeles Plays Itself,'' done by Thom Anderson, takes a look at Los Angeles as it is shown in the movies—not Los Angeles pretending to be other cities There is, a marked divide between Los Angeles and Hollywood - Hollywood seems to find a perverse delight in destroying Los Angeles every chance it gets - ''[[Armageddon]]'', ''[[Independence Day]]'', you name it. They'd do it more, but the dearth of tall buildings makes it somewhat anticlimactic to watch. The film also points out that only a city with an inferiority complex would allow itself to be called L.A. so frequently.
▲== [[Comic Books]] ==
▲* ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'' often featured Los Antelopes, Califurnia, Earth-C's Los Angeles. Los Antelopes' various neighborhoods and suburbs were often featured in stories, including Saint Bernardino (San Bernadino), Bel-Airedale (Bel-Air), Beaverly Hills (Beverly Hills) and Follywood (Hollywood), the latter where the Zoo Crew's headquarters were located.
▲* Marvel's [[Runaways]], where one of the major plot points is the fact that the kids are in LA and not NYC.
▲* [[The DCU|DC Comic's]] series ''[[Manhunter (comics)|Manhunter]]'' follows Federal Prosecutor Kate Spencer, who is based out of LA.
== Literature ==
* The ''Philip Marlowe'' novels of [[Raymond Chandler]], including ''[[The Big Sleep (Literature)|The Big Sleep]]'' and ''The Long Goodbye''. Chandler was a poet before diving into hard-boiled detective fiction, and it shows in his narrative descriptions of the City of Angels.
* [[Michael Connelly]] has written a long series of mystery and detective fiction novels in the Raymond Chandler spirit, most of which are set in Los Angeles and which display a deep familiarity with the city's history and culture.
* The Alex Delaware novels of [[Johnathan Kellerman]] and the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novels of Faye Kellerman. Since the Kellermans are husband and wife, their characters have had at least one [[Crossover]].
* Many of LA-native [[Harry Turtledove|Harry Turtledove's]] short stories and novels. In particular, ''The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump'', and "Counting Up/Counting Down" are full of references to San Fernando Valley landmarks.
* The majority of ''Snow Crash'' is set in Los Angeles. (Geographically, at least. ''Politically'', it's mostly set in [[Balkanize Me|Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong, Cita di Cosa Nostra, The Farms of Cloverdell, The Clink, and, very occasionally, the United States of America.]])
* The main
* In ''[[Shanghai Girls]]'', sisters Pearl and May Chin move to Chinatown in 1938.
* In ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'', Percy and his friends travel to L.A--- which is the current location of the Underworld.
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* ''[[Southland]]''
* Some ''[[Zorro]]'' series took place here. At the time, Spanish was the de jure language.
== Tabletop Games ==▼
* Los Angeles is an important spot in the ''[[Demon: The Fallen]]'' fluff, being the city where the ex-[[Archangel Lucifer]] himself has resided since its foundation (the city name is the clue).▼
* ''[[In Nomine]]''{{'}}s published canon has LA as a city heavily influenced by the demonic forces, with the closest angelic stronghold being found in Death Valley.▼
== Video Games ==▼
* ''[[Vampire Bloodlines]]'' is set in and around LA.▼
* ''[[Midnight Club]] LA''▼
* In ''[[Fallout]]'', the city was devastated by nukes during the Great War, and is known as the "Boneyard" among the survivors.▼
* ''[[Future Cop LAPD]]'' gives the LAPD a [[Transforming Mecha]] and a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|whacked-out]] crime wave in [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|the future]].▼
* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', one of the game's three cities is a [[Fictional Counterpart]] called Los Santos, mostly consisting of Downtown, the beaches, and the violent ghettos that protagonist Carl "CJ" Johnson calls home. It's pretty accurate as most of the major landmarks are there and accounted for, even if they are under a different name.▼
** ''Grand Theft Auto V'' will be set in an updated Los Santos and its surrounding countryside.▼
* ''True Crime: Streets of LA''▼
* ''[[Police Quest]] IV: Open Season'' along with ''SWAT 1-3''▼
* ''[[Tony Hawks Pro Skater|Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3]]'' has a level set in downtown Los Angeles (recreated for ''Underground 2''), while ''American Wasteland'' is ENTIRELY set in L.A.▼
* ''[[L.A. Noire]]'' is, logically, set here. The map's pretty realistic, too (One of the first things Team Bondi had to do was remove the freeway.) They used over [[Shown Their Work|180,000 photographs to map out the entire city.]]▼
* ''[[Duke Nukem]] 3D'' and ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'' (first half) take place in Los Angeles during an [[Alien Invasion]].▼
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* ''[[Agents of Cracked]]'' is set in and around Cracked's real-life offices in L.A., and features the Santa Monica Pier in its opening credits.▼
* The ''[[Fansadox]]'' series ''The Great Invasion'' is placed in an LA [[China Takes Over the World|invaded by China]].▼
* [[Were Alive]], an audio drama about a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] is set in downtown L.A.▼
== Western Animation ==▼
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'': the Warner sibs lived on the Warner Brothers lot, in Burbank; Slappy Squirrel also lived in Burbank.▼
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Patchy the Pirate lives in the LA suburb of Encino.▼
* [[Dan Vs.]] takes place in the Van Nuys neighborhood.▼
* ''[[The Flintstones]]'' often features "Hollyrock," the prehistoric version of Hollywood. The adult Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm live there in several 90s TV-movies.▼
== [[Music]] ==
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* [[Tool]]'s song "Ænema" is one giant [[Take That]] at the city which fantasizes about it being buried beneath an ocean. This song is an [[Homage]] and [[Shout-Out]] to [[Bill Hicks]], as mentioned below.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Bill Hicks]], born in Texas, spent several years in Los Angeles and never tired of reminding his audience how much he hated it. ''Arizona Bay'' is a borderline [[Concept Album]] which repeatedly comes back to the subject of how much better off the country and the world would be if Southern California sank into the Pacific.
▲== Tabletop Games ==
▲* Los Angeles is an important spot in the ''[[Demon: The Fallen]]'' fluff, being the city where the ex-[[Archangel Lucifer]] himself has resided since its foundation (the city name is the clue).
▲* ''[[In Nomine]]''{{'}}s published canon has LA as a city heavily influenced by the demonic forces, with the closest angelic stronghold being found in Death Valley.
▲== Video Games ==
▲* ''[[Vampire Bloodlines]]'' is set in and around LA.
▲* ''[[Midnight Club]] LA''
▲* In ''[[Fallout]]'', the city was devastated by nukes during the Great War, and is known as the "Boneyard" among the survivors.
▲* ''[[Future Cop LAPD]]'' gives the LAPD a [[Transforming Mecha]] and a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|whacked-out]] crime wave in [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|the future]].
▲* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', one of the game's three cities is a [[Fictional Counterpart]] called Los Santos, mostly consisting of Downtown, the beaches, and the violent ghettos that protagonist Carl "CJ" Johnson calls home. It's pretty accurate as most of the major landmarks are there and accounted for, even if they are under a different name.
▲** ''Grand Theft Auto V'' will be set in an updated Los Santos and its surrounding countryside.
▲* ''True Crime: Streets of LA''
▲* ''[[Police Quest]] IV: Open Season'' along with ''SWAT 1-3''
▲* ''[[Tony Hawks Pro Skater|Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3]]'' has a level set in downtown Los Angeles (recreated for ''Underground 2''), while ''American Wasteland'' is ENTIRELY set in L.A.
▲* ''[[L.A. Noire]]'' is, logically, set here. The map's pretty realistic, too (One of the first things Team Bondi had to do was remove the freeway.) They used over [[Shown Their Work|180,000 photographs to map out the entire city.]]
▲* ''[[Duke Nukem]] 3D'' and ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'' (first half) take place in Los Angeles during an [[Alien Invasion]].
▲== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* ''[[Agents of Cracked]]'' is set in and around Cracked's real-life offices in L.A., and features the Santa Monica Pier in its opening credits.
▲* The ''[[Fansadox]]'' series ''The Great Invasion'' is placed in an LA [[China Takes Over the World|invaded by China]].
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* ''[[Animaniacs]]'': the Warner sibs lived on the Warner Brothers lot, in Burbank; Slappy Squirrel also lived in Burbank.
▲* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Patchy the Pirate lives in the LA suburb of Encino.
▲* ''[[Dan Vs.]]'' takes place in the Van Nuys neighborhood.
▲* ''[[The Flintstones]]'' often features "Hollyrock," the prehistoric version of Hollywood. The adult Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm live there in several 90s TV-movies.
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