History Main / DomedHometown

** And in "Powerplay" the entrance to an alien city is portrayed by a [[OffTheShelfFX real-life domed building]].

* ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''. The chapter "The City on the Edge of the Weather" opens with the following description of International City, a miracle of Science built in the [[ZeeRust far future of 2009!]]
-->''BLIZZARDS howled in the Stygian cloak of the long Antarctic winter. For millennia these raging winds had remained unchallenged -- even by the mountains which they had immured under an implacable shroud of desolation. But now, like the sword of an angel, a shaft of sunlight pierced the polar blackness, bathing the domed city in its gentle radiance. Snow and ice lashed in vain at the interloper, clutching and clawing at the impregnable duraplastic hemisphere -- an impassive monument to the ingenuity of Man. Outside the temperature was a hundred below zero, but beneath the city-dome flourished life in all its exuberance.''

* A dome covers the public eating area in the Creator/KimNewman short story "Literature/TomorrowTown". Like everything else in the {{Zeerust}} "community of the future", it is somewhat impractical. Trapping the population under a dome just means that airborne infections spread rapidly among the population, while relying on artificial light sources means that the light fall unevenly and the temperature is too humid, especially given the plastic SpaceClothes everyone has to wear. [[spoiler:Then the villain tries to [[SelfDestructMechanism melt the dome on top of everyone's heads until someone pulls the circuit breaker]].]]

* A dome covers the public eating area in the Creator/KimNewman short story "Literature/TomorrowTown". Like everything else in the {{Zeerust}} "community of the future", it is somewhat impractical.

* In ''Fanfic/TheInstituteSaga'', Israel gets moved to Venus by means of forcefield-bubbles that cover the cities like domes.

-->BLIZZARDS howled in the Stygian cloak of the long Antarctic winter. For millennia these raging winds had remained unchallenged — even by the mountains which they had immured under an implacable shroud of desolation. But now, like the sword of an angel, a shaft of sunlight pierced the polar blackness, bathing the domed city in its gentle radiance. Snow and ice lashed in vain at the interloper, clutching and clawing at the impregnable duraplastic hemisphere — an impassive monument to the ingenuity of Man. Outside the temperature was a hundred below zero, but beneath the city-dome flourished life in all its exuberance.

* [[ShockingSwerve Major plot twist]] in ''VideoGame/CustomRobo'' (for the Nintendo Gamecube, not the original Japanese game). The main cast is revealed to have been living in a blissful artificial town surrounded by and protected from the devastation and decay of the real world. Even nature as we know it no longer exists, and grass and trees are manmade.

* At the beginning of ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', when Kong is shown living on Skull Island, it at first looks as beautiful and peaceful as it always been. Then, in an effective RevealShot, Kong hears a tree-made spear into the sky, revealing that it's actually an ArtificialOutdoorDisplay, the PerpetualStorm having grown to the point that Monarch needs to enclose Kong to protect him, much to his frustration.

** Most of the pilot episode is set in a Domed City in an AfterTheEnd Earth. The outside world is shown to be quite habitable with birdlife and drinkable water, so the implication is that the dome is [[TheWallAroundTheWorld now used as a further means of controlling the populace]].

* ''Fanfic/EchoCreekATaleOfTwoButterflies'': Echo Creek is stuck under one such dome. In a twist, it only affects the town's monster residents, not the humans or Mewmans. [[spoiler:[[OhCrap And it's shrinking.]]]]

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* The Mega Manila Biodome in ''{{Film/Alimuom}}'', and presumably other major metropolises on Earth too, which by the film's future setting is too polluted to wander through unprotected. Major cities are enclosed in vast domes, and individuals who venture out have on several layers of protection, including oxygen masks.

* The city of Amity Park in the TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' Movie "The Ultimate Enemy", where it has been domed to protect it from ghost attacks. (Specifically from Dark Danny). [[spoiler:There's also the implication that the rest of the world has been razed by Dark Danny.]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1661 Slick promises -- or threatens -- domed cities while running for president.]]

* The 3D cult classic ''Film/TheBubble'', also known as ''Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth'', features a young couple landing their plane in a remote town only to find that they are now trapped there by the eponymous "bubble'' which surrounds the place and prevents anyone from leaving.

* The 3D cult classic ''The Bubble'', also known as ''Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth'', features a young couple landing their plane in a remote town only to find that they are now trapped there by the eponymous "bubble'' which surrounds the place and prevents anyone from leaving.

** By the end of ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' Themyscira is domed and ''floating in space'' with nearly all of the inhabitants [[spoiler: dead]] due to the infighting and war that rose between the Greek gods as they realized their power was going to fade entirely if they didn't get new worshipers.

* David Wingrove's ''Literature/ChungKuo'' series provides an example of this, with seven enormous domed cities housing 36 billion people.

* Featured in the teen dystopian novel ''Devil on My Back'' by Monica Hughes.

* Much of the action in William Gibson's ''Literature/{{Sprawl|Trilogy}}'' novels and short-stories takes place in the wholly or partially domed Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis mega-city.

* ''Dragons Can Only Rust'' and ''Dragon Reforged'' by Chris Cymri start off in a religious community enclosed in a force field dome, one of the few pockets of civilization in a post-apocalyptic world.

* New Wave Sci Fi writer Michael Bishop has the UrNu Cycle, which are a group of connected short stories set in a dystopian and possibly [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalypse]] future where many of America's prominent cities have been domed and isolated for the rest of the world. Most UrNu stories are as dedicated to describing the city they take place in as they do to describing the conflict the characters face.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' is given this in New Mobotropolis. A friendly AI controlled city with a retractable dome that is quite good at keeping people out. (Except when it isn't)

* In ''VideoGame/SurvivingMars'', this is the only residence for Mars colonists. All Martianborn have one.
** If you get the Green Planet DLC, you can terraform Mars to fix the temperature and the atmosphere. Your triumphant final act will be to take the lids off the domes.

* The city Anvard in Carla Speed [=McNeil=]'s ''ComicBook/{{Finder}}''.

* Recently ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' is given this in New Mobotropolis. A friendly AI controlled city with a retractable dome that is quite good at keeping people out. (Except when it isn't)

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** Argo City, Supergirl's home-town. Supergirl's father Zor-El created a force-field bubble that enabled the city survive Krypton's destruction. Eventually it ended up as a DoomedHometown, though.
** In one of her adventures, Kara visits the Bottle City of Kandor... and almost destroys it by accident (in ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1972}} Supergirl Vol 1 #2]]'').
** In ''Comicbook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'', Gotham is enclosed under a domed force-field. One decade before the beginning of the story, ''Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}'' built the dome, banned all parahumans and declared that no one entered or left her city without her'' permission.

** The Bottle City of Kandor, a Kryptonian city minituarized by ''Comicbook/{{Brainiac}}''. In ''Comicbook/KryptonNoMore'' Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} [[spoiler:-apparently-]] smashes it, claiming it is no real (long story).
** Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} creates domed force-fields around whole cities, shrinks them and then abducts them. ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'' shows he keeps dozens of them inside his ship. The first scene narrates how he reduced Kandor, and later he shrinks Metropolis.
** In pre-''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' ''Superman'' comics, Lori Lemaris's Atlantis survived its sinking with a giant dome. They later removed the dome after biologically changing themselves into merpeople to survive underwater.
** Smallville on the Pocket Universe Earth is protected by a force-field bubble that provides enough atmosphere for its residents, though it eventually fails as the Phantom Zone criminals destroy the field's generator.

* The ''Dune Wars'' mod for ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} IV'' has domed [[DeflectorShield Holtzman shields]] as a type of city fortification. However, there is a [[FrickinLaserBeams lasgun]]-armed unit that ignores the shield (GameplayAndStorySegregation, since, in the novels, firing a laser at a Holtzman shield invariably leads to a nuclear-scale explosion; if the mod implemented this mechanic, the unit would have been destroyed and the city would have been wiped out or heavily damaged).

** ''Literature/FoundationSeries'':
*** "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": During its peak, the (first) [[GalacticSuperpower Galactic Empire]] made Trantor its capital planet. Its city grew [[CityPlanet to encompass the world]], and developed [[LayeredMetropolis multiple layers]] as well. However, [[TerraDeforming the topmost layer is domed over]], ironically creating habitable areas; plant life has even managed to gain a foothold on the surfaces of the artificial structures. Everybody just chooses to live in enclosed sectors. This is inherited behaviour from their ancient ancestors on Earth, as depicted in ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel''.
*** "Literature/TheMule": The largest city of [[NumberedHomeworld Haven II]] is built under rock, with an artificial light at the top of the dome to create the illusion of a young sun in the sky.