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** The Kashyyyk dwellings are canon from ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]''. The ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' dwellings were also based on the special's design.
* The fey, mask-wearing bandits in ''[[Quest of the Delta Knights]]'' have a hideout consisting of a bunch of rope bridges and wooden platforms. When the heroes escape from their flimsy jail cell, they get chased around and around the set ad nauseum.
* In the remake of ''[[King SolomonsSolomon's Mines (Literature)|King Solomons Mines]]'' with Richard Chamberlain they meet a tribe of people who live entirely in the trees, never touching the ground.
* The Hometree from ''[[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]]''.
 
 
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* Just one housing unit, but ''[[The Swiss Family Robinson]]'' eventually built a giant treehouse to be their home. Talk about cool...
* All of the buildings in Bear Country in ''[[The Berenstain Bears]]'' are made from hollowed-out trees.
* [[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory|The Oompa-Loompas]] lived in these back in Loompaland, to afford them some protection against [[Everything Trying to Kill You|predators]]
 
 
== Newspaper Comics ==
* The home of Prince Barran's forest people in ''[[Flash Gordon (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|Flash Gordon]]''.
* The home of the Rope People in ''[[The Phantom (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|The Phantom]]''.
 
 
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Canonical for the Wood elves in many [[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]] settings.
** Basic D&D supplement ''[http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=5124 The Elves of Alfheim]'' ([[Mystara (Tabletop Game)|Mystara]]). In Alfheim the elves have various tree houses connected by ladders and catwalks. The area "Sky City" in Alfheim Town is a network of rope bridges and catwalks connecting "treeforts" in the huge Sentinel Trees. And then "you'll walk right under it and never notice" type of Wood Elf settlements everywhere.
* The old Role Aids supplement "Giants" has a race of forest-loving giants, who live in a [[Tree-Top Town]] that ''moves''.
 
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* The elven village in the Tularean forest in ''[[Might and Magic]] VII''.
* Both elf cities in ''[[Arcanum]]''.
* Fortree City in ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)|Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald]]''. This is taken to new heights (literally) in the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' manga, where Sapphire and Winona have their Gym battle (Winona's the Gym Leader, naturally) in the city proper rather than an actual Gym.
* The Viera in ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'' live in a tree town, though it doesn't seem to be quite as high as the tops.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy X 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X 2]]'', Kilka Town appears like this.
* Level Six in ''[[Turok (Video Gameseries)|Turok: Dinosaur Hunter]]''.
* Several of the stages in the video game ''Klonoa'' are set in one of these.
* There's one of these in ''[[Threads of Fate]]'', with tons of respawning mooks that are easy to [[Level Grinding|grind]] with.
* Ellinia in ''[[Maple Story]]''.
* In ''[[Wizardry (Video Game)|Wizardry]] 8'', Trynton, home of the Trynnie, is an uber-example of the Treetop Town: seven "boughs" (varying areas), with one of the boughs being infested by the Rattkin. To some extent, [[Wizardry (Video Game)|Wizardry]] VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant did this as well with the "Rattkin Ruins," although the effect is far less dramatic.
* Played with in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'': [[Winged Humanoid|Arakkoa]] villages are textbook examples: Ground access is via a winding staircase within the tree, and most inhabitants live on interconnected platforms on top of the strongest branches. Darnassus, the Night Elven capital city is built on top of the giant tree Teldrassil, but is fairly level and has streets and stone structures. Troll villages, like Zabra'jin, are on the ground but are constructed out of wood and have rope bridges connecting the upper floors.
* The wood elf city of Kelethin in ''[[Ever Quest]]'' is this, complete with a lack of railings on the platforms and bridges, and numerous newbie corpses littering the ground below.
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== Web Original ==
* On the website [[Uni Creatures (Website)|Uni CreaturesUniCreatures]], there is a place like this in the Pet Adventures section.
* Windy999 [http://windy999.deviantart.com/art/Elven-Toilet-5263196 reminds] about some in[[Nobody Poops|evitable]] problems with this solution.
* In [[Quest of Camelittle]], Elfdust City is a magical Tree Top Town hidden within Elven Forest.
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Jet and his freedom fighters live in a treetop village.
* The Warrior Maidens' village from ''[[Thunder CatsThundercats]]''.
* [[The Simpsons]]: Bart Simpson thought he and his friends could build one when they got trapped on an island, but it turned out it was hard to do so they went all ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' instead.
** Also when the Simpsons went to Africa thear hotel was in the trees easily twenty feet in the air.
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