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Bookmark or Share- dc - Are Gotham and Metropolis neighbours? - Science Fiction & Fantasy ...As far as I know, Gotham has always intended to be a stand-in for New York City. Any time a location for Gotham has been mentioned, it's been close to New York City. This usually means either somewhere else in New York State (e.g. one of the islands), or else somewhere nearby in New Jersey. Metropolis, on the other hand, is a bit of a moving ...
- dc - Where is Gotham City located? - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack ...From the Batman Wiki. Before Detective Comics #48, Batman's adventures were said to happen in New York City. Gotham is known to be architecturally modeled after New York City, but with exaggerated elements of the styles and derives its name from a sobriquet for that real world city, first popularized by the author Washington Irving in his satirical work Salmagundi (1
- Do the cities in the DC Universe correspond to real world cities?Before Detective Comics #48, Batman's adventures were said to happen in New York City. Gotham is known to be architecturally modeled after New York City, but with exaggerated elements of the styles and derives its name from a sobriquet for that real world city, first popularized by the author Washington Irving in his satirical work Salmagundi ...
- Why was Gotham City changed from a mostly fictional city to New York ...In Batman Begins, Gotham City has a futuristic/fictional and run down look: think of Oldtown, the trains built by the Wayne Corporation etc. In The Dark Knight Rises, Gotham City looks like plain old real world New York City — we don't see the trains anymore. Oldtown is just a standard poor neighborhood.
- dc - What is Gotham City a metaphor for? - Science Fiction & Fantasy ...It seems pretty clear to me that DC's Gotham City is not supposed to represent a real place. It's far too grim to be somewhere that anyone would live, or businesses would open up in. I know Grant Morrison actually tried to make Gotham more realistic , but the current Tom King run solidifies for me that there's no way Gotham is supposed to be ...
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