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A map of the city in the first episode, "Adventures of a Normal Man", suggests Metropolis is located near San Francisco, California. Film [ edit ] In 1978's Superman and its sequels, Metropolis is shown as taking the place of New York City .
- Action Comics #16, (September 1939)
Jun 6, 2017 · The Metropolis skyline was originally modeled after Toronto, and later New York City. In the first story where a state was identified as being the location of metropolis, it was New York. – Keith Morrison
- 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...
- 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 larg...
- 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.
Aug 20, 2023 · Metropolis is most often depicted as being located in the state of Delaware, near Gotham City. However, its location has shifted across various storylines, and it does share some similarities with New York City. The Origins and Inspiration for Metropolis.
Jun 16, 2023 · Where Are Gotham, Metropolis & Central City Located Compared To The Real-Life U.S. 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.
In the television series Smallville, Metropolis is in the same state as Smallville, Clark Kent’s hometown. That’s right, it’s Kansas – which, next to Chicago, seems to make sense. Clark Kent is from the Midwest and it makes sense that he would move to a Midwestern City.
Apr 10, 2016 · Possible Metropolis locations have ranged from Delaware, to being New York adjacent, to being located in New York. Smallville 's version of Metropolis was in East Kansas, near Dodge City, about 100 miles from Smallville itself.
