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- First appearing by name in Action Comics #16 (Sept. 1939), Metropolis is depicted as a prosperous and massive city in the Northeastern United States, in close proximity to Gotham City. In recent years, it has been stated to be located in New York.
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- Metropolis/Gotham City. It’s no secret that both Superman and Batman’s cities are based upon the same real-world location: New York City. (Which isn’t to say that there isn’t also a New York City in the DC Universe; that’s where the New Teen Titans were based for quite some time.)
- Gateway City. It’s not clear just yet where the cinematic Wonder Woman resides — although she will, presumably, still hail from Themyscira, better known as Paradise Island, the fictional (and magical) island populated by Amazons somewhere out in the Aegean Sea — the comic book heroine has a history with Gateway City, a harbor town on the west coast that has also been the home to supernatural hero and part-time wrath of God, the Spectre (The city actually debuted in a Spectre story in 1966’s Showcase No. 60).
- Star City. DC’s other home to fake tales of San Francisco is Green Arrow’s hometown — temporarily renamed Starling City in the early seasons of the CW’s Arrow, although it’s been called Star City in comic book mythology since its 1941 introduction in More Fun Comics No. 73.
- Central City. While there are many Central Cities in the real United States, the one that Barry Allen runs around in both comics and CW TV show is a fictional city located on the edge of the state of Missouri (as per not only current comic book continuity, but also references in The Flash TV show and Young Justice animated series), although it once belonged in Ohio (1974’s The Flash No. 228 and 1987’s The Flash Vol. 2 No. 2 both made that claim) and, in 2004’s DC: The New Frontier, in Illinois.
Snyder once suggested that Metropolis was in the Chesapeake Bay area. That would put Gotham there too. Judging from the map, it's hard to say. Looks like they're both on the coast. Metropolis is supposed to be in the District of Metropolis, which contains more than just one city.
Metropolis is supposedly in Delaware just a few miles from Gotham which is in New Jersey. New York exists on it’s own in the DC universe separate from Gotham City. 10. Reply. Share. MarcReyes. • 4 yr. ago. Denny O'Neil once described them as Metropolis being New York during the day and Gotham was New York at night. 7. Reply. Share. [deleted]
Jun 6, 2017 · I believe that Metropolis was probably based on Cleveland initially since that's where the creators of Superman are from and it was one of the largest cities in North America at it's inception. Since that time, it has taken on characteristics of other major mid western cities.
- If you refer the map in this answer https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/5710/1148 you'll see that all of these cities have a place on the map indep...
- About the location of those cities: In DC Comics Presents #87 (from 1985) - marked as a 'special crisis cross-over' - Superman suddenly finds himse...
- Gotham is Manhattan Island, as well as Queens and Kings County New York City. In current continuity New York City has been used by writers negligi...
Metropolis appears in series set in the Arrowverse. This version is located in Pennsylvania, in close proximity to the Delaware and Maryland border and to Philadelphia. In January 2018, Gotham executive producers John Stephens and Danny Cannon and Warner Bros. TV announced that they are developing a prequel TV series titled Metropolis.
- Action Comics #16, (September 1939)
It's not though, Metropolis and Gotham are across a harbor from each other. Metropolis is canonically in either Delaware or New York
Jun 16, 2023 · In the modern DC Comics, Metropolis is placed in the state of Delaware, facing out on Delaware Bay. Gotham City is located across the bay, in the state of New Jersey. Delaware Bay is a real world location, but there are no large cities comparable to Gotham City or Metropolis in the real world.
