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Note that several works have used the title "Boom Town" to refer to communities about to [[Made of Explodium|blow up]]. Not the same thing.
Not to be confused with short-lived series ''[[
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== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[The Dandy (
* Like all Western tropes, it was parodied in [[Lucky Luke]], where the title character was more or less forcibly put into the law-enforcing position. A patch of desert one day becomes a little town the next, with various incidents: a man going to sleep on the ground and waking up to find the place has become an expensive hotel whose owner is urging him to pay; clients waiting impatiently at the bar in a saloon while the walls are being built around them; customers (including a ''robber'') waiting impatiently for the local bank to finish being built and open; and, of course, houses built any old how directly against each other.
{{quote| '''Luke''': No way, we need to knock down some houses and build streets...<br />
'''Official''': Is that really necessary, Luke? The street is where accidents happen... }}
* In ''[[Tintin
== Film ==
* The page quote comes from an [[Asterix]] film, where the titular hero and Obelix go to sleep in a haunted plain... and wake up in Rome (something never explained, but as that film's epilogue remembers, "Let's face it, [[MST3K Mantra|this is only a cartoon film]], [[Rule of Funny|and anything goes]]!").
* The town in the western spoof ''[[Support Your Local Sheriff]]'' springs into existence almost overnight after the accidental discovery of a rich gold strike.
* No Name City in ''[[
== Literature ==
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* Tell Sackett founds one of these almost inadvertently in the [[Louis L'Amour]] novel ''Sackett'', as a cover for his more profitable gold strike some distance away.
** Actually, most of Louis L'amour's novels have a boomtown... in ''Fallon'', the titular character starts a boomtown on top of a boomtown, in ''The Iron Marshall'' it's pointed out several times that the town didn't exist just a year before, in ''Bendigo Shafter'', building a town is the whole point... etc. etc.
* Holy Wood in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld
== Live-Action TV ==
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== Musical ==
* Rumson Creek in ''[[Paint Your Wagon (
* The eponymous Mahagonny on ''[[The Rise and Fall of
== Real Life ==
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== Video Games ==
* One of the most extreme examples is Jeuno in ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]''. It's certainly longer in the time to grow, but you can't really complain when a small fishing village, in four years, became [[Capital City|the economic center of an entire continent and]] ''[[Capital City|an independent nation]]''.
* ''The'' most extreme example has to be New Town in ''[[
** Featured again in ''[[
* The town of Township (yes, that's its name) from ''[[Breath of Fire 2]]'' starts out as a ruined building that your friend Bow is forced to restore while he hides from the law. When the house gets appropriated by shamans, you hire a proper carpenter to build more buildings, while you recruit helpful people for the population. And it can fly, too. All over the course of one game.
* Your castle in ''[[Suikoden]]'' is usually one of these, as it fills up with the 108 stars and various hangers on. Even if it starts out deserted, by the end of the game your castle is complete with a farm, multiple stores, a blacksmith, a restaurant, an orchestra, an inn, a bathhouse, and any number of other amenities and services.
* A game-spanning sidequest in ''[[Terranigma]]'' involves building up towns from their initial Dark Ages-state into modern societies. In fact, if you ''don't'' participate in this activity, it creates plot holes later on.
* Container City in [[Brink]] is this, a sprawling town built out of shipping containers, built when refugees arrived on The Ark by the boatload. Supposedly modelled on the favelas of Brazil.
* Newcastle in ''[[
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