History Main / NoCommunitiesWereHarmed

* ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor'' is set in the Tokyo suburb of Tama, specifically in the Seiseki-Sakuragaoka neighborhood, though the area is portrayed with a more suburban flavor compared to the real thing. The author also swapped a kanji in the city's name for MeaningfulName effect, due to the setting. Many backdrops in the AnimatedAdaptation are easily recognizable from reality, and the locations in the story are inspired by real-world counterparts, just with the names and appearances changed. As an example, in the place where the cast's high school is said to be located, an elementary school is present in the real world.

* ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'': Protagonist Stella traveled extensively in life, and a pastiche of locations become impressionistic versions of their real selves in {{Limbo}}. Hummingberg is UsefulNotes/{{France}}, Stella's birthplace; Furokawa is UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}; and Oxbury is UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}.

* Near the climax of ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'', a soccer match and a magical missile almost lead to war between two unnamed European countries. Context would imply they are France and Britain.

->''"They fly around a look at the various sights of New York Ci--, uh, Metropolis, such as the Statue of Some Chick With a Torch."''

* The fictional setting of ''Series/StrangerThings'' is Hawkins, Indiana, which bears an uncanny resemblance to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a real-life small town with a government laboratory nearby. Many of the places name-dropped in the series have real counterparts either near Oak Ridge or in the Durham, North Carolina area where the Duffer brothers grew up.

* "San Fransokyo" in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' is named as a portmanteau of San Francisco and Tokyo, and combines cultural features of each. However, the city's streets were developed from a digital map of San Francisco with a few Tokyo-like elements and fictional transit lines overlaid. For example, Lucky Cat Cafe is modeled closely to a specific building at Masonic Street in the Haight-Asbury district whose tenants include a cafe; however, the street's trees were replaced with cherry blossoms in the digital model.

* The Franchise/{{Tintin}} book ''Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls'' very accurately depicts the French port of Saint-Nazaire. The English translation renames it Westermouth, implying it's onstead an English town with a similar history.

* The Franchise/{{Tintin}} book ''Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls'' very accurately depicts the French port of Saint-Nazaire. The English translation renames it Westermouth for no good reason.

* The fictional setting of ''Series/StrangerThings''' is Hawkins, Indiana, which bears an uncanny resemblance to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a real-life small town with a government laboratory nearby. Many of the places name-dropped in the series have real counterparts either near Oak Ridge or in the Durham, North Carolina area where the Duffer brothers grew up.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'' has Morioh Town, which is directly modeled architecture and culture-wise off of the city of Sendai in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture. Though, it had its name and businesses changed to avoid the controversy of including Sendai's name directly in it.

* The great fantasy city of [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Ankh-Morpork]] is London. This becomes visually clear on looking at the city Mappe - the River Ankh's familiar squiggles and contours are those of the Thames, rotated through ninety degrees. The city is massive, has docks that serve the world, not far inland from a major sea, it is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities, it is the centre of banking and finance, and a generally venal population resident in a sprawling over-crowded urban warren.

** There is dispute over which is the DCU's UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity -- [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Metropolis]] or [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]]. Both are named after NY nicknames. Creator/FrankMiller said that Metropolis is [=NYC=] in the daytime, and Gotham is [=NYC=] at night; Denny O'Neil said that Metropolis is New York above 14th Street and that Gotham City is New York below 14th Street. It could be significant that Gotham was created by New Yorkers familiar with the city's dark side, while Metropolis was created by UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}ers for whom living in New York was an aspiration. Franchise/TheDCU also has an ''actual'' New York City, although it is reportedly a much smaller, less (ahem) metropolitan burg than its real-world counterpart (and, for that matter, than Metropolis and Gotham, leading to its nickname "the Cinderella City" in ''[[Comicbook/SevenSoldiers Seven Soldiers of Victory]]''). Pre-Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}, the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica forms much of NYC's superhero community, and the city was the target area for the Anti-Monitor's bid to destroy the Multiverse (again) during the ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar arc. In the ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' era, it's home to the [[ComicBook/TitansRebirth Titans]], as it was in TheEighties.

* ''{{Moonflowers}}'' takes place in the fictional tourist town of Cloncarrig on the coast of West Ireland, located by real-life Doolin and the Cliffs of Moher. Among the real-life towns mentioned, their fictional neighbors are Mary's Cape and Red Road.

** ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' is set in Yara, a country somewhere in the Caribbean. It generally seems to borrow inspiration from Cuba and Jamaica. The villain is a [[TheGeneralissimo tinpot dictator]] who takes traits from Fidel Castro and Fulgencio Batista and a main mechanic of the game is [[{{MacGyvering "Resolver" Weapons]], which is a Cuban term for DIY solutions borne of resource scarcity.

** ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' is set in Yara, a country somewhere in the Caribbean. It generally seems to borrow inspiration from Cuba and Jamaica.

* In ''Film/TheGreatDictator'', Tomania and Bacteria are thinly-veiled pastiches of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and UsefulNotes/FascistItaly respectively.

** There is dispute over which is the DCU's UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity -- [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Metropolis]] or [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]]. Both are named after NY nicknames. Creator/FrankMiller said that Metropolis is [=NYC=] in the daytime, and Gotham is [=NYC=] at night; Denny O'Neil said that Metropolis is New York above 14th Street and that Gotham City is New York below 14th Street. It could be significant that Gotham was created by New Yorkers familiar with the city's dark side, while Metropolis was created by UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}ers for whom living in New York was an aspiration. Franchise/TheDCU also has an ''actual'' New York City, although it is reportedly a much smaller, less (ahem) metropolitan burg than its real-world counterpart (and, for that matter, than Metropolis and Gotham, leading to its nickname "the Cinderella City" in ''[[Comicbook/SevenSoldiers Seven Soldiers of Victory]]''). Pre-Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}, the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica forms much of NYC's superhero community, and the city was the target area for the Anti-Monitor's bid to destroy the Multiverse (again) during the ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar arc. In the Comicbook/{{Rebirth}} era, it's home to the [[Comicbook/TitansRebirth Titans]], as it was in TheEighties.
*** In the sourcebook for the Mayfair Games' DCHeroesRPG, Metropolis is set in Delaware and Gotham City in New Jersey. For a while, that sourcebook was treated as official canon, and today, a comic page will occasionally include a peek at a map showing Gotham City clearly located in what would be New Jersey — but with no actual state names visible.

** Furthermore, in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', Ambarino is the Rocky Mountains, New Hanover is South Dakota, and Lemoyne is Louisiana. Lemoyne even has its own New Orleans called "Saint Denis".