History Main / DescriptiveVille

** A bit done after the release of KingKong (see Film above) on WeekendUpdate had the mayor of Skull Island descrying the way his island is described.

* In ''LoveAndCapes'' the cities are based on real ones and named after common traits. Deco City is Chicago for the many ArtDeco 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 WonderWoman's home in America).
* WarrenEllis' ''IgnitionCity'', which is actually a spaceport.

* Neopolis from Creator/AlanMoore's ''TopTen'' simply means [[NewNeoCity New (Neo) City (polis)]]. Of course, [[TruthInTelevision the same can be said]] of real life Naples (hence the adjective Neapolitan).

* In America, there's Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, and one of the two municipalities named Kansas City (however, the larger of the two is [[NonindicativeName in Missouri]] and, while the smaller one ''is'' in Kansas, it isn't the capital - any more than Jersey City is the capital of New Jersey).

* ''BleakExpectations'': 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.

** Non-city examples include Australia's westernmost state, called Western Australia, and the southern state South Australia. Of Australia's two territories, the one to the north is called... well, the Northern Territory. Down Under, we're not known for our creativity with names.

** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has its own version of Ponyville. Series creator Lauren Faust originally wanted it to take place in [[JustForPun Fillydelphia]], but she got the ExecutiveVeto on that idea.

* Timmy Turner of ''TheFairlyOddparents'' lives in Dimmsdale, which is a town over from Brightburg. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the town was named after Dale Dimm.

* Greyhawk City (a.k.a. the Free City of Greyhawk) in the ''DungeonsAndDragons'' Greyhawk setting.

* Freedom City in ''MutantsAndMasterminds''.
* Millenium City in ''{{Champions}}''.

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': 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 Film/TheMatrix being, you know, not real and all.

* ''Film/TheMatrix'': 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 Film/TheMatrix being, you know, not real and all.
* ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: At World's End'' has Shipwreck Cove. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Gibbs comments on the lack of imagination in Pirate naming conventions.

* ''{{Metropolis}}''.
* Skull Island from KingKong.

* ''VideoGame/MysticQuest'' has Foresta, Aquaria, Fireburg, and Windia--guess which crystal corresponds to each town?

* Hondo City covers most of Japan in the JudgeDredd ''2000 AD'' comic series (and the ''JudgeDredd Magazine'' strip ''Shimura'' in particular). And of course, Mega City One, but that was properly intentional.

* Many of the islands in ''Manga/OnePiece'' get this treatment, both the manga and the anime, with Alabasta, a desert kingdom, lying on ''Sandy Island'', and ''[[ShapedLikeItself Hand Island]]''.

* 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.

* In Creator/LarryNiven's ''Known Space'' series, some cities have a bit of this. The main city on Jinx (in the Sirius system) appears to be Sirius City, and the name of the Kzinti homeworld in their language translates to "Kzinhome." There are also the worlds Plateau and Canyon, named after their most distinctive features (and only habitable locations; the one for Plateau is actually called Mount Lookitthat, but it ''is'' a plateau, or more properly a mesa).

* Empire Bay in ''MafiaII''.

* In Creator/LarryNiven's ''Known Space'' series, some cities have a bit of this. The main city on Jinx (in the Sirius system) appears to be Sirius City, and the capital of We Made It is Crashlanding City, named after guess what. It's also mentioned that the name of the Kzinti homeworld in their language translates to "Kzinhome".

* In Creator/LarryNiven's ''Known Space'' series, some cities have a bit of this. The main city on Jinx (in the Sirius system) appears to be Sirius City, and the capital of We Made It is Crashlanding City, named after guess what. It's also mentioned that the name of the Kzinti homeworld in their language translates to "Kzinhome".

* [[DCComics DC Universe]]: Big City, Central City, [[GreenLantern Coast City]], [[HaveAGayOldTime Gay City]], Gorilla City, Happy Habour, [[TheFlash Keystone City]], Midway City and Opal City,[[GreenArrow Star City]] and [[{{Superman}} Smallville]]. Metropolis has a name that just means "City".

* Bartertown in ''MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. Justified in that it's supposed to have been founded pretty recently.

* [[{{Pleasantville}} Pleasan]][[StealthPun tv]][[{{Pleasantville}} ille]], in the film of the same name.

* Neopolis from AlanMoore's ''TopTen'' simply means [[NewNeoCity New (Neo) City (polis)]]. Of course, [[TruthInTelevision the same can be said]] of real life Naples (hence the adjective Neapolitan).