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Descriptiveville
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In Real Life, cities and locations are named after historic events or persons, landmarks, local folklore or other things, that explain their names somewhat. These names change and evolve over the time and are a direct result of the history revolving around them. In fiction, however, such immense back stories rarely exist, so the writers have to make up names on the spot, and quite often these names lack a certain creativity. Instead of genuine, unique names, we get locations with names consisting of just a noun and a variation of City behind them, that are named after the species that inhabits it, after nearby landmarks, or the main purpose they serve. In other words, Exactly What It Says On The Sign. Sometimes, the writer tries to conceal it a bit, with names that are puns on plot points or characters, or the translation thereof in a foreign language. This also can cover celestial bodies. Related to Premiseville and Theme Naming. Note: Not every city that has a name ending in City is an example of this trope. Even if the name appears to be unimaginative, if it is justified or explained by the backstory, it is not an example of this trope. Examples |
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inFAMOUS takes place in Empire City. | |
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Megamind takes place in Metro City. | |
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Bleak Expectations: Poverty St. Mary (in the constituency of Dreadfulness North). As might be surmised, most of the inhabitants are incredibly poor, due to over-taxation. The local reverend tries to keep them alive via holding Holy Eucharist eighty-seven times a day, but it's sort of failed completely, to the extent that he and his daughter are the only people there still alive. And Moory-on-the-Moor, by the Moory-Mory-More Moor. It's a moor. |
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Lampshaded in an episode of Grimm, but with a Real Life city this time, when Sean Renard's half-brother Eric visits Portland. He concludes that "Portland" must be an unimaginative Line-of-Sight Name. | |
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Similar to the French Disney comic example, in Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong's home island is named Donkey Kong Island. It has also gone by the names Kongoland (in Captain N: The Game Master), Kongo Bongo Island (in the DKC cartoon), and Kong Isle (in the Donkey Kong 64 manual). | |
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Honor Harrington has Landing City, as in "the place where the first colonist's shuttle landed", as the capital of Manticore. Helen Zilwiki lampshades it in Storm from the Shadows. | |
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In The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters, the main world is called Central Earth. The main city on Central Earth is called "Town." | |
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The Simpsons: The capital of the state Springfield is in is named Capital (or sometimes Capitol) City. | |
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Octopath Traveler II continues to follow this trope: we have Canalbrine (The quintessential City of Canals), Timberain (a city surrounded by a verdant forest that specialises in exporting lumber), Orerush (a stereotypical Wild West Boom Town founded due a silver rush) to name a few. | |
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Monsters, Inc. takes place in Monstropolis, a city full of monsters. Immediately after naming it while imitating a morning radio broadcast, Mike describes it, essentially translating "Monstropolis" into plain English. | |
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My Little Pony: My Little Pony (G3) and the G3.5 specials take place in Ponyville, a town populated by anthropomorphic ponies. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has its own version of Ponyville. Series creator Lauren Faust originally wanted it to take place in Fillydelphia, but she got the Executive Veto on that idea. Fillydelphia and similarly equine-pun-on-real-place names note Baltimare, Manehatten, Las Pegasus, Canterlot and Trottenham for example are the rule. For bonus points, Ponyville is located in the kingdom of Equestria. Ponyville dates back to G1's My Little Pony Tales. |
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Midvale in the Supergirl comics is a town located in the heart of a valley. | |
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The Stardew Valley mod expansion Ridgeside Village, the village on the side of the ridge. That's their slogan, and they would very much like a better one. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist. Most of the action happens in Central City and East City, and it also has a North, West and South City. Justified with Brotherhood and the manga since the country is run by an inhuman creature that doesn't really care too much about the country itself. | |
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To an extent Ravenholm and City 17 in Half-Life 2, though the latter is justified, since human city names have been reduced to numbers by the Combine rulers. | |
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St. Canard (literally "St. Duck") from Darkwing Duck. | |
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Similarly, the Christmas special Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer takes place in Cityville. | |
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Tamagotchi: Several towns and villages on Tamagotchi Planet are named for what family of Tamagotchis one can find there. For example, Mame City is populated by the Mame family and Patchi Forest is populated by the Patchi family. | |
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A bit done after the release of King Kong (see Film above) on Weekend Update had the mayor of Skull Island descrying the way his island is described. | |
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Our Miss Brooks Madison High School of the eponymous City of Madison has, as its main rival Clay City High School of the eponymous Clay City. Clay City is first introduced in the early radio Road Trip episode "Game at Clay City". Notably, in the second television season opener, "Clay City Chaperone", Miss Brooks is chaperone in Clay City for the Madison cheerleaders attending the big football game between the two arch-rivals. In these episodes, its never explained who or what clay is. It may well be the soil. The trope, however, is averted in some later episodes where the rival high school is named Henry Clay High. | |
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Brüteville in Bullet in the Face. It doesn't help that almost everyone shown has tried to kill someone. | |
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Oblivion has the Imperial City, capital of the Empire. Even before the empires of men, it was the seat of the Ayleid Empire. | |
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Timmy Turner of The Fairly Oddparents lives in Dimmsdale, which is a town over from Brightburg. Justified in that the town was named after Dale Dimm. | |
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Final Fantasy Mystic Quest has Foresta, Aquaria, Fireburg, and Windia—guess which crystal corresponds to each town? | |
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Something similar happened to any town or village with "upon-Thames" in its name, the River Thames having got its name partly from the old Celtic word for "river". Legend has it that Roman travelling merchants heard locals refer to the river by the word "thame" and failed to realise that it wasn't the local name for that specific river until quite a while laternote and yes, this was almost certainly the inspiration for a joke in The Light Fantastic. After the island became a part of the Roman Empire, they formally renamed it the River Isis, at least partly out of sheer embarrassment, and a few centuries of linguistic drift later we got "Thames". | |
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River City in The Music Man. | |
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Bay City in Another World | |
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Liberty City and Vice City in the Grand Theft Auto series. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, nearly everything is named in this fashion deliberately, as part of its pastiche of the Standard Fantasy Setting. Prominent examples include Greysky City, Azure City, and Cliffport, while geographical features have such names as Wooden Forest, Sunken Valley, and the Pinnacle Mountains (the tallest of which is Zenith Peak). | |
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Raccoon City in the Resident Evil series. | |
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Happens all over the place in Skyrim. Winterhold (it's a hold where it is really cold), Riverwood (built on a river running through the woods), Whiterun (built on running river), Dragon's Bridge (built around an ancient bridge with dragon decor)...the list goes on... | |
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In the Warcraft series, both games and novels (those set prior to WoW), the capital city of Lordaeron is known far and wide as... Capital City. | |
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In Hector's World, the site has two places: Information Island; an island of information, and Silicon Deep; an area in the deep sea where creatures use computers powered by silicon chips. | |
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Ponyville dates back to G1's My Little Pony Tales. | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road has Gastown and the Bullet Farm. | |
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Freedom City in Mutants & Masterminds. | |
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Duckburg, Calisota in the Disney Ducks Comic Universe, originally named so by Carl Barks. | |
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Greyhawk City (a.k.a. the Free City of Greyhawk) in the Dungeons & Dragons Greyhawk setting. | |
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Rivet City in Fallout 3 | |
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Patriot City in Freedom Force games. | |
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Panau City, the capital of the micro-state of Panau, in Just Cause 2. | |
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CatDog: The characters live in Nearburg, a town next to Farburg. | |
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Steven Universe is set in Beach City, which is on the beach, though it's nowhere near large enough to be a city. A vaguely described disaster happened in a nearby placed called Ocean Town. Both are apparently named after Ocean City, Maryland (which isn't a city either), one of the places Beach City is based on. | |
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Bubblegumpur from Simple Samosa is so named because it is made entirely out of bubblegum. | |
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The Sims 2 has Pleasantview (a seemingly idyllic town in reference to Pleasantville), Strangetown (a town with mad scientists, mysterious murders and an abundance of space aliens) and Veronaville (a town based on Romeo and Juliet, as well as some of Shakespeare's other plays). | |
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Descriptiveville | |
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Emerald City in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. | |
Descriptiveville / int_816181cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_816181cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_816181cb | |
Descriptiveville / int_8258e260 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_8258e260 | comment |
Super Mario Bros.: The Mushroom Kingdom. | |
Descriptiveville / int_8258e260 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_8258e260 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Super Mario Bros. (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_8258e260 | |
Descriptiveville / int_84d455d4 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_84d455d4 | comment |
Paradigm City in The Big O. | |
Descriptiveville / int_84d455d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_84d455d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Big O | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_84d455d4 | |
Descriptiveville / int_87173599 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_87173599 | comment |
Ashes of the Past has this exchange: | |
Descriptiveville / int_87173599 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_87173599 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ashes of the Past / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_87173599 | |
Descriptiveville / int_87cf8985 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_87cf8985 | comment |
Millenium City in Champions. | |
Descriptiveville / int_87cf8985 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_87cf8985 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Champions (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_87cf8985 | |
Descriptiveville / int_8a79fbc8 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_8a79fbc8 | comment |
Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell takes place on Bridwell Island. | |
Descriptiveville / int_8a79fbc8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_8a79fbc8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clifford the Big Red Dog | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_8a79fbc8 | |
Descriptiveville / int_8bf307b3 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_8bf307b3 | comment |
Disney Mouse and Duck Comics: Duckburg, Calisota in the Disney Ducks Comic Universe, originally named so by Carl Barks. Mickey Mouse Comic Universe: In the 1990s, Mickey Mouse's hometown was given the name Mouseton and has managed to keep that name since then (except when Mickey apparently lives in Duckburg). In the French comics, the cities are named after the main characters (Mickeyville, Donaldville), which is inexplicable in-story. Darkwing Duck lives in St. Canard (French for "duck"). |
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Descriptiveville / int_8bf307b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_8bf307b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Disney Mouse and Duck Comics (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_8bf307b3 | |
Descriptiveville / int_8df5521b | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_8df5521b | comment |
Superman: Smallville, where Superman grew up, is named after its founder, whose surname was Small. Metropolis has a name that just means "Mother-City". Midvale in the Supergirl comics is a town located in the heart of a valley. |
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Descriptiveville / int_8df5521b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_8df5521b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Superman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_8df5521b | |
Descriptiveville / int_8f06307a | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_8f06307a | comment |
In A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, the gang lives in a town named Coolsville. | |
Descriptiveville / int_8f06307a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_8f06307a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_8f06307a | |
Descriptiveville / int_8f4ee60f | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_8f4ee60f | comment |
The Town in Back to the Future is named Hill Valley. | |
Descriptiveville / int_8f4ee60f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_8f4ee60f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Back to the Future (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_8f4ee60f | |
Descriptiveville / int_90a3a7f4 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_90a3a7f4 | comment |
Kim Possible lives in Middleton, which is between Upperton and Lowerton. | |
Descriptiveville / int_90a3a7f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_90a3a7f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Kim Possible | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_90a3a7f4 | |
Descriptiveville / int_95b68098 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_95b68098 | comment |
Planet Rabbit from Wanda and the Alien, which is Wanda's home planet. | |
Descriptiveville / int_95b68098 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_95b68098 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wanda and the Alien | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_95b68098 | |
Descriptiveville / int_9d34190a | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_9d34190a | comment |
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind: The mining city of Caldera is built in/near a volcanic caldera. Vivec is the Egopolis of the Tribunal deity Vivec, who resides in the city's temple. Balmora and Sadrith Mora are this in-universe, if you are familiar with the Dunmeri language or its predecessor language, Aldmeris. "Bal" means "stone", while "Sadrith" means "mushroom". Mora means "forest". They mean, fittingly, "Stone Forest" and "Mushroom Forest", respectively. Oblivion has the Imperial City, capital of the Empire. Even before the empires of men, it was the seat of the Ayleid Empire. Happens all over the place in Skyrim. Winterhold (it's a hold where it is really cold), Riverwood (built on a river running through the woods), Whiterun (built on running river), Dragon's Bridge (built around an ancient bridge with dragon decor)...the list goes on... Arena had tons of randomly generated names, but some towns got more deliberate ones (and others by chance got descriptive names). The one closest to this trope, at least that haven't been mentioned above in updated form or not, is probably Firewatch — one of the closest mainland towns to the great volcano of Dagoth-Ur. |
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Descriptiveville / int_9d34190a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_9d34190a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Elder Scrolls (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_9d34190a | |
Descriptiveville / int_9d9c71a4 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_9d9c71a4 | comment |
My Little Pony (G3) and the G3.5 specials take place in Ponyville, a town populated by anthropomorphic ponies. | |
Descriptiveville / int_9d9c71a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_9d9c71a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
My Little Pony (G3) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_9d9c71a4 | |
Descriptiveville / int_9e2f90f4 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_9e2f90f4 | comment |
Many of the islands in One Piece get this treatment, both the manga and the anime, with Alabasta, a desert kingdom, lying on Sandy Island, and Hand Island. Also, Marine HQ originally laid on the island of Marineford, which is mostly a giant fortified Marine base. | |
Descriptiveville / int_9e2f90f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_9e2f90f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
One Piece (Manga) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_9e2f90f4 | |
Descriptiveville / int_a03824e8 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_a03824e8 | comment |
The DCU: Big City, Central City, Coast City, Gay City, Gorilla City (in Africa, and Exactly What It Says on the Tin), Happy Harbour, Keystone City, Midway City and Opal City, Star City, and more. | |
Descriptiveville / int_a03824e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_a03824e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The DCU (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_a03824e8 | |
Descriptiveville / int_a58a59d2 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_a58a59d2 | comment |
In Love and Capes the cities are based on real ones and named after common traits. Deco City is Chicago for the many Art Deco buildings that are there. Chronopolis is New York City, for its ubiquitous clock towers. Amazonia has her home in Liberty City, which is probably Washington, D.C. (since that's Wonder Woman's home in America). | |
Descriptiveville / int_a58a59d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_a58a59d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Love and Capes (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_a58a59d2 | |
Descriptiveville / int_a5b5f856 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_a5b5f856 | comment |
In Steamgear Inc, the city of Tierra Barata, literally Spanish for "cheap land", is a tiny city located in the middle of some mountains. | |
Descriptiveville / int_a5b5f856 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_a5b5f856 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Steamgear Inc (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_a5b5f856 | |
Descriptiveville / int_a609791a | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_a609791a | comment |
Scooby-Doo: In A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, the gang lives in a town named Coolsville. One episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo? featured the gang going to Munchville, Ohio. That town is known as the location of several snack factories, including the Scooby Snack factory, which the gang got to visit as a prize for winning a contest. |
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Descriptiveville / int_a609791a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_a609791a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Scooby-Doo (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_a609791a | |
Descriptiveville / int_a6543322 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_a6543322 | comment |
Touhou Project has, among other things, the Human Village, the only location on the map that is truly safe for human residents. | |
Descriptiveville / int_a6543322 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_a6543322 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Touhou Project (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_a6543322 | |
Descriptiveville / int_a7199cf6 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_a7199cf6 | comment |
Darkwing Duck lives in St. Canard (French for "duck"). | |
Descriptiveville / int_a7199cf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_a7199cf6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Darkwing Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_a7199cf6 | |
Descriptiveville / int_abc09ce0 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_abc09ce0 | comment |
One episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo? featured the gang going to Munchville, Ohio. That town is known as the location of several snack factories, including the Scooby Snack factory, which the gang got to visit as a prize for winning a contest. | |
Descriptiveville / int_abc09ce0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_abc09ce0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
What's New, Scooby-Doo? | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_abc09ce0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_ae050a9f | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_ae050a9f | comment |
Goron City, from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, is, well, precisely that. | |
Descriptiveville / int_ae050a9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_ae050a9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Videogame | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_ae050a9f | |
Descriptiveville / int_b0ec45b8 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_b0ec45b8 | comment |
Metropolis. | |
Descriptiveville / int_b0ec45b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_b0ec45b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Metropolis | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_b0ec45b8 | |
Descriptiveville / int_b0fc9724 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_b0fc9724 | comment |
Bear City in the Saturday Night Live recurring filmed sketch of the same name. A bit done after the release of King Kong (see Film above) on Weekend Update had the mayor of Skull Island descrying the way his island is described. |
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Descriptiveville / int_b0fc9724 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_b0fc9724 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Saturday Night Live | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_b0fc9724 | |
Descriptiveville / int_b1d8c295 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_b1d8c295 | comment |
Neighborville in the Plants vs. Zombies series, first introduced in the Comic-Book Adaptation, then used Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville and 3. | |
Descriptiveville / int_b1d8c295 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_b1d8c295 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_b1d8c295 | |
Descriptiveville / int_b5a2b326 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_b5a2b326 | comment |
Morrowind: The mining city of Caldera is built in/near a volcanic caldera. Vivec is the Egopolis of the Tribunal deity Vivec, who resides in the city's temple. Balmora and Sadrith Mora are this in-universe, if you are familiar with the Dunmeri language or its predecessor language, Aldmeris. "Bal" means "stone", while "Sadrith" means "mushroom". Mora means "forest". They mean, fittingly, "Stone Forest" and "Mushroom Forest", respectively. |
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Descriptiveville / int_b5a2b326 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_b5a2b326 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_b5a2b326 | |
Descriptiveville / int_bdd4882 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_bdd4882 | comment |
Fish City in Fish Police. One wonders how they name all their other cities, if they exist. | |
Descriptiveville / int_bdd4882 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_bdd4882 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fish Police | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_bdd4882 | |
Descriptiveville / int_be62498 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_be62498 | comment |
Quite a few towns in America are named in this manner, due to names often literally being invented within the past 200 years using Line-Of-Sight Naming while filling out the paperwork to formally register a settlement. Hence places like Stone City, Iowa (founded as a company town for a quarry) and Farmington, Arkansas (at naming, an agricultural community). "State" Cities are also common in America: there's Indianapolis, capital of Indiana; Oklahoma City, capital of Oklahoma, and numerous others. This can lead to some strangeness, however: the larger of the two municipalities named Kansas City is mostly in Missourinote the city straddles the state's border with Kansas and both the city and the state are named after the Kansas River. and a third Kansas City is a small town in Oregon, apparently named by settlers proud to be from Kansas. |
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Descriptiveville / int_be62498 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_be62498 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Line-of-Sight Name | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_be62498 | |
Descriptiveville / int_bff01809 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_bff01809 | comment |
How about Warhammer's Skavenblight? Not that the Skaven actually exist, of course... | |
Descriptiveville / int_bff01809 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_bff01809 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Warhammer (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_bff01809 | |
Descriptiveville / int_c0369f1b | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_c0369f1b | comment |
The Powerpuff Girls lampshades this with the City of Townsville and the Town of Citysville. Also the Town of Farmsville. | |
Descriptiveville / int_c0369f1b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_c0369f1b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Powerpuff Girls (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_c0369f1b | |
Descriptiveville / int_c03c2b44 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_c03c2b44 | comment |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: The Brethren Court meets in the town of Shipwreck, in Shipwreck Cove, on Shipwreck Island. As one might imagine, it's easy for a ship to run aground there, and the town is made up of dozens of foundered ships. Lampshaded when Jack comments on the lack of imagination in Pirate naming conventions. | |
Descriptiveville / int_c03c2b44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_c03c2b44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_c03c2b44 | |
Descriptiveville / int_c2297a9c | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_c2297a9c | comment |
Hondo City covers most of Japan in the Judge Dredd 2000 AD comic series (and the Judge Dredd Magazine strip Shimura in particular). And of course, Mega City One, but that was properly intentional. | |
Descriptiveville / int_c2297a9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_c2297a9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Judge Dredd (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_c2297a9c | |
Descriptiveville / int_c41a1960 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_c41a1960 | comment |
The Incredibles live in Metroville (a Shout-Out to Superman — the name's a portmanteau of Metropolis and Smallville). Judging by the name of the bank, the opening scene takes place in Municiberg. | |
Descriptiveville / int_c41a1960 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_c41a1960 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Incredibles (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_c41a1960 | |
Descriptiveville / int_c4282b71 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_c4282b71 | comment |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has its own version of Ponyville. Series creator Lauren Faust originally wanted it to take place in Fillydelphia, but she got the Executive Veto on that idea. Fillydelphia and similarly equine-pun-on-real-place names note Baltimare, Manehatten, Las Pegasus, Canterlot and Trottenham for example are the rule. For bonus points, Ponyville is located in the kingdom of Equestria. | |
Descriptiveville / int_c4282b71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_c4282b71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_c4282b71 | |
Descriptiveville / int_c5b9137b | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_c5b9137b | comment |
Dark City in the film of the same name. It's dark. But not necessarily the actual name of the city (if indeed it has one... or indeed only one). | |
Descriptiveville / int_c5b9137b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_c5b9137b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dark City | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_c5b9137b | |
Descriptiveville / int_cad487df | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_cad487df | comment |
Wharf City in Sushi Pack. | |
Descriptiveville / int_cad487df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_cad487df | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sushi Pack | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_cad487df | |
Descriptiveville / int_d461f757 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_d461f757 | comment |
Battlestar Galactica: Caprica City. | |
Descriptiveville / int_d461f757 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_d461f757 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Battlestar Galactica (2003) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_d461f757 | |
Descriptiveville / int_d5ddd6c1 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_d5ddd6c1 | comment |
Pretty much every town or city in Pokémon: The Series has names like this. This is most prominent with filler towns and cities, which have names like HopHopHop Town or Gringey City. | |
Descriptiveville / int_d5ddd6c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_d5ddd6c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pokémon: The Series | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_d5ddd6c1 | |
Descriptiveville / int_dab7c96c | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_dab7c96c | comment |
Pleasantville, in the film of the same name. | |
Descriptiveville / int_dab7c96c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_dab7c96c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pleasantville | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_dab7c96c | |
Descriptiveville / int_ddad77ae | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_ddad77ae | comment |
Astro City is both the comic book series and its main setting. Justified in that the city was originally Romeyn Falls, but was later renamed to honor the superhero Astro-Naut when he died saving it. | |
Descriptiveville / int_ddad77ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_ddad77ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Astro City (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_ddad77ae | |
Descriptiveville / int_e03940f | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_e03940f | comment |
Mickey Mouse Comic Universe: In the 1990s, Mickey Mouse's hometown was given the name Mouseton and has managed to keep that name since then (except when Mickey apparently lives in Duckburg). | |
Descriptiveville / int_e03940f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_e03940f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mickey Mouse Comic Universe (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_e03940f | |
Descriptiveville / int_e863cc41 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_e863cc41 | comment |
Mega Man Battle Network's cities and locations almost always have this naming scheme. Battle Network 6's are named Central Town, Seaside Town, Green Town and Sky Town, all part of Cyber City. The older games have ACDC Town and Elec Town. They're part of Den City (Den meaning electric in japanese), itself part of the nation of Electopia. There's also other countries such as Netopia and Yumland (a country known for its good food). | |
Descriptiveville / int_e863cc41 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_e863cc41 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_e863cc41 | |
Descriptiveville / int_eb2a8ea9 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_eb2a8ea9 | comment |
Pacific City in Crackdown | |
Descriptiveville / int_eb2a8ea9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_eb2a8ea9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Crackdown (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_eb2a8ea9 | |
Descriptiveville / int_eb46e06a | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_eb46e06a | comment |
Bartertown in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Justified in that it's supposed to have been founded pretty recently. Mad Max: Fury Road has Gastown and the Bullet Farm. |
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Descriptiveville / int_eb46e06a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_eb46e06a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_eb46e06a | |
Descriptiveville / int_eb59224d | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_eb59224d | comment |
The eponymous town of LazyTown. | |
Descriptiveville / int_eb59224d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_eb59224d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
LazyTown | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_eb59224d | |
Descriptiveville / int_ec28245c | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_ec28245c | comment |
Dragon Ball Z has North City, South City, and so on. Eventually one of them gets wiped out by Cell and is rebuilt as Satan City (named after professional wrestler-turned-world's "strongest" man, Mr. Satan/Hercule). | |
Descriptiveville / int_ec28245c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_ec28245c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dragon Ball Z | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_ec28245c | |
Descriptiveville / int_ef8b8658 | type |
Descriptiveville | |
Descriptiveville / int_ef8b8658 | comment |
In Wishing Well, Queen Sunsparkle is questioned on the weird name of Ponyville. Sunsparkle thinks it's silly too, but it's what her mother named the area. | |
Descriptiveville / int_ef8b8658 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Descriptiveville / int_ef8b8658 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wishing Well (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Descriptiveville / int_ef8b8658 | |
Descriptiveville / int_f120845f | type |
Descriptiveville | |
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The main city of Kingdom of Loathing is called Seaside Town. Three guesses what major geographic feature is nearby. There's also Bordertown (located near The Border, south of which is South Of The Border) and Forest Village (in the forest), plus the clan dungeon, Hobopolis (which is, of course, full of hobos) and Crimbo Town (which only appears during the Crimbo season). | |
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Empire Bay in Mafia II. | |
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Descriptiveville | |
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The Tick's The City. Supposedly a mistranslation of its original French name, "Les Citrons". | |
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Descriptiveville | |
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In The Emperor of Nihon-Ja protagonists encounter a village in the woods named "village in the woods" in nihonese, and one that translates "lakeside village" - guess what's nearby. Emperor implies that it's a naming convention for most of smaller settlements in Nihon-Ja. | |
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Ranger's Apprentice | hasFeature |
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Descriptiveville | |
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The Matrix: Supplemental material reveal that the entire action of the Trilogy is taking place in a certain "Mega City". Also, when Neo is being interrogated by Agent Smith, his birthplace is listed as "Capitol City". Possibly justified by the Matrix being, you know, not real and all. | |
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Octopath Traveler: Pretty much every other town name follows this trope: we have Sunshade (a desert town with a shady secret), Flamesgrace (the birthplace of the Church of the Sacred Flame), Noblecourt (a city inhabited mostly by wealthy aristocrats and other blueblood types) just to name a few. | |
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Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories: Castle Oblivion. When playing the game, you might assume the castle's name is derived from the way it takes away your memories, but that's actually Namine's doing and the Castle existed long before she did. | |
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The MMORPG City of Heroes is set in "Paragon City". | |
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Descriptiveville | |
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Autobot City in Transformers. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Descriptiveville | |
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The Super Hero Squad Show has Super Hero City and Villainville, which are right next door to each other. | |
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Descriptiveville | |
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Laketown and Hobbiton in The Hobbit. | |
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Descriptiveville | |
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In episode 13 of Happy Heroes, the heroes visit a town named Green Town and lampshade how it isn't very green at all. | |
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