History PlayingWith / TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse

** The production company is based in Tokyo, and due to their familiarity with the city and/or not wanting to risk offending residents of other cities, always set their "when aliens/monsters attack" works in Tokyo.
** They know that Tokyo is the only Japanese location that most non-Japanese people will have any familiarity with, and so consistently set their stories there to appeal to the foreign market.

* '''Downplayed''': Interesting stuff happen in other places, but the most interesting stuff (or most of the interesting stuff) happens in Tokyo.

* '''Downplayed''':
** Interesting stuff happen in other places, but the most interesting things out of all them happen in Tokyo.
** Alternatively; most of the interesting stuff that goes on happens in Tokyo or more interesting stuff goes on in Tokyo, but certainly not all of it.

** The production company is based on Tokyo, and due to their familiarity with the city and/or not wanting to risk offending residents of other cities, always set their "when aliens/monsters attack" works in Tokyo.

* '''Enforced''': {{Anime}}

* '''Subverted''':
** The AlienInvasion fleet descends from orbit and is moving toward Tokyo, but they attack Kyoto instead.
** Played straight, but with another city instead.

* '''Subverted''': The AlienInvasion fleet descends from orbit and is moving toward Tokyo, but they attack Kyoto instead.

** Thr Japanese government plays a major role in the work's setting (Tokyo being the nation's capital).

* '''Justified''': Tokyo is the monsters' target of choice.

* '''Straight''': MonsterOfTheWeek only ever attack Tokyo.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[CityOfAdventure Tokyo is regularly gangbanged by aliens, demons, zombies,]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot alien-demon-zombies]]...

* '''Justified''':
** The Japanese government hides ImportedAlienPhlebotinum underneath Tokyo.
** The MonsterOfTheWeek is seeking out human settlements, and Tokyo's metropolitan area does contain about a third of the entire population of Japan.

* '''Averted''': {{Orochi}} rise from his slumber, and attacks Tokyo... and New York, and Rio de Janeiro, [[OverlyLongGag and Moscow, and New Delhi, and Shanghai, and London, and Jerusalem, and Paris, and Sydney, and Johannesburg, and Berlin, and Rome, and Madrid, and Seoul, and Toronto, and Cairo, and Istanbul,]] [[AndZoidberg and Jakarta]].

* '''Lampshaded''':

* '''Invoked''': After hearing all the news about AlienInvasion in Tokyo, [[HiredGuns Soldado de Fortuna]] Bob moved to Tokyo in the hope of making some money.
* '''Exploited''': After hearing all the fascinating news about AlienInvasion in Tokyo, a cult of alien-worshiping nuts sets up their HQ in Tokyo. They have a plan for mass ascension of humanity (or at least their members).
* '''Defied''': Japan's leaders decide not to hide the Phlebotinum under Tokyo knowing it will attract aliens.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Averted''': {{Orochi}} rise from his slumber, and attacks Tokyo... and New York, and Rio de Janeiro, and Moscow, and New Delhi, and Shanghai, [[AndZoidberg and Jakarta]].
* '''Enforced''': {{Anime}}.

* '''Justified''': The Japanese government hides ImportedAlienPhlebotinum underneath Tokyo.

* '''Inverted''':
** [[EarthIsABattlefield While the rest of the world is busy holding back]] AlienInvasion, people go on with their lives in Tokyo.
** AliensInCardiff

* '''Inverted''': [[EarthIsABattlefield While the rest of the world is busy holding back]] AlienInvasion, people go on with their lives in Tokyo.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Justified''': The Japanese government hides AlienPhlebotinum underneath Tokyo.

* '''Deconstructed''': TheTokyoFireball happened, the story is now about the people of Tokyo bitterly fighting for survival, depicted realistically.
* '''Reconstructed''': The survivors are powered by whatever AlienPhlebotinum destroyed Tokyo. Adventure time!
* '''Zig Zagged''': Aliens invade Tokyo. Alice and Bob knew in advance that earth was going to be invaded and where else than Tokyo. So they try to stop the invasion before they can even land. But it turns out that at the same time many other cities are being invaded as well, confusing Alice and Bob. In the end, the main invasion was planned for Tokyo. But thanks to Alice and Bob, Tokyo is the only city able to hold them off using AlienPhlebotinum that the Japanese Government was hiding underneath it's city. New aliens show up and they tell the heroes who saved Tokyo that the Phlebotinum is literally a weirdness magnet for this alien race but it's too late for them to destroy it now. In the mean time, world leaders flee to Tokyo and declare it the new capital of the Free World as Tokyo is the only city not in Alien hands and under weekly attack. After a few weeks Alice and Bob discover London has managed to free itself from Alien control by using an even bigger weapon made out of AlienPhlebotinum it was hiding and it is quickly decided that since London now has a better defence, it now is centre of the Free world. After saving Britain from the Aliens and non-Japanese cities being the only places where the main action takes place, the aliens finally manage to get hold of the London weapon which could destroy planet earth in one big swoop. Bob and Alice then discuss that they should go immediately go back to Tokyo even though they're told not and that the aliens would more likely attack recently freed Washington D.C.

* '''Exploited''': After hearing all the fascinating news about AlienInvasion in Tokyo, a cult of alien-worshipping nuts sets up their HQ in Tokyo. They have a plan for mass ascension of humanity (or at least their members).

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* '''Defied''': [[TheTokyoFireball Tokyo no longer exist in the world]], [[AlternateUniverse or it never existed to begin with]].

* '''Exaggerated''': Tokyo is regularly gangbanged by aliens, demons, zombies, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot alien-demon-zombies]]...

* '''Subverted''': The AlienInvasion fleet descends from orbit and is moving toward Tokyo, but they attack Taipei instead.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...and after they're done with Taipei, they continue moving toward Tokyo.

* '''Inverted''': [[BattlefieldEarth While the rest of the world is busy holding back]] AlienInvasion, people go on with their lives in Tokyo.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Aliens invade Tokyo. Alice and Bob knew in advance that earth was going to be invaded and where else than Tokyo. So they try to stop the invasion before they can even land. But it turns out that at the same time many other cities are being invaded as well, confusing Alice and Bob. In the end, the main invasion was planned for Tokyo. But thanks to Alice and Bob, Tokyo is the only city able to hold them off using AlienPhlebotinum that the Japanese Government was hiding underneath it's city. New aliens show up and they tell the heroes who saved Tokyo that the Phlebotinum is literally a weirdness magnet for this alien race but it's too late for them to destroy it now. In the mean time, world leaders flee to Tokyo and declare it the new capital of the Free World as Tokyo is the only city not in Alien hands and under weekly attack. After a few weeks Alice and Bob discover London has managed to free itself from Alien control by using an even bigger weapon made out of AlienPhlebotinum it was hiding and it is quickly decided that since London now has a better defence, it now is centre of the Free world. After saving Britain from the Aliens and non-Japanese cities being the only places where the main action takes place, the aliens finally manage to get hold of the London weapon which could destroy planet earth in one big swoop. Bob and Alice then discuss that they should go immediately go back to Tokyo even though they're told not and that the Aliens would more likely attack recently freed Washington D.C.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Aliens invade Tokyo. Alice and Bob knew in advance that earth was going to be invaded and where else than Tokyo. So they try to stop the invasion before they can even land. But it turns out that at the same time many other cities are being invaded as well, confusing Alice and Bob. In the end, the main invasion was planned for Tokyo. But thanks to Alice and Bob, Tokyo is the only city able to hold them off using AlienPhlebotinum that the Japanese Government was hiding underneath it's city. New aliens show up and they tell the heroes who saved Tokyo that the Phlebotinum is literally a weirdness magnet for this alien race but it's too late for them to destroy it now. In the mean time, world leaders flee to Tokyo and declare it the new capital of the Free World as Tokyo is the only city not in Alien hands and under weekly attack. After a few weeks Alice and Bob discover London has managed to free itself from Alien control by using an even bigger weapon made out of AlienPhlebotinum it was hiding and it is quickly decided that since London now has a better defence, it now is centre of the Free world. After saving Britain from the Aliens and non-Japanese cities being the only places where the main action takes place, the aliens finally manage to get hold of the London weapon which could destroy planet earth in one big swoop. Bob and Alice then discuss that they should go immediately go back to Tokyo even though they're told not to by everyone and their grandma.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Aliens invade Tokyo. Alice and Bob knew in advance that earth was going to be invaded and where else than Tokyo. So they try to stop the invasion before they can even land. But it turns out that at the same time many other cities are being invaded as well, confusing Alice and Bob. In the end, the main invasion was planned for Tokyo. But thanks to Alice and Bob, Tokyo is the only city able to hold them off using AlienPhlebotinum that the Japanese Government was hiding underneath it's city. New aliens show up and they tell the heroes who saved Tokyo that the Phlebotinum is literally a weirdness magnet for this alien race but it's too late for them to destroy it now. In the mean time, world leaders flee to Tokyo and declare it the new capital of the Free World as Tokyo is the only city not in Alien hands and under weekly attack. After a few weeks Alice and Bob discover London has managed to free itself from Alien control by using an even bigger weapon made out of AlienPhlebotinum it was hiding and it is quickly decided that since London now has a better defence, it now is centre of the Free world. After saving Britain from the Aliens and non-Japanese cities being the only places where the main action takes place, the aliens finally manage to get hold of the London weapon which could destroy planet earth in one big swoop. Bob and Alice then discuss that they should go immediately go back to Tokyo even though they're told that that's the last place the aliens show up by everyone else.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Aliens invade Tokyo. Alice and Bob knew in advance that earth was going to be invaded and where else than Tokyo. So they try to stop the invasion before they can even land. But it turns out that at the same time many other cities are being invaded as well, confusing Alice and Bob. In the end, the main invasion was planned for Tokyo. But thanks to Alice and Bob, Tokyo is the only city able to hold them off using AlienPhlebotinum that the Japanese Government was hiding underneath it's city. New aliens show up and they tell the heroes who saved Tokyo that the Phlebotinum is literally a weirdness magnet for this alien race but it's too late for them to destroy it now. In the mean time, world leaders flee to Tokyo and declare it the new capital of the Free World as Tokyo is the only city not in Alien hands and under weekly attack. After a few weeks Alice and Bob discover London has managedto free itself from Alien control by using an even bigger weapon made out of AlienPhlebotinum it was hiding and it is quickly decided that since London now has a better defence, it now is centre of the Free world. After saving Britain from the Aliens and non-Japanese cities being the only places where the main action takes place, the aliens finally manage to get hold of the London weapon which could destroy planet earth in one big swoop. Bob and Alice then discuss that they should go immediately go back to Tokyo even though they're told that that's the last place the aliens show up by everyone else.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Aliens invade Tokyo. Alice and Bob knew in advance that earth was going to be invaded and where else than Tokyo. So they try to stop the invasion before they can even land. But it turns out that at the same time many other cities are being invaded as well, confusing Alice and Bob. In the end, the main invasion was planned for Tokyo. But thanks to Alice and Bob, Tokyo is the only city able to hold them off using AlienPhlebotinum that the Japanese Government was hiding underneath it's city. New aliens show up and tells the heroes who saved Tokyo that the Phlebotinum is literally a weirdness magnet for this alien race but it's too late for them to destroy it now. In the mean time, world leaders flee to Tokyo and declare it the new capital of the Free World as Tokyo is the only city not in Alien hands and under weekly attack. After a few weeks Alice and Bob discover London has managedto free itself from Alien control by using an even bigger weapon made out of AlienPhlebotinum it was hiding and it is quickly decided that since London now has a better defence, it now is centre of the Free world. After saving Britain from the Aliens and non-Japanese cities being the only places where the main action takes place, the aliens finally manage to get hold of the London weapon which could destroy planet earth in one big swoop. Bob and Alice then discuss that they should go immediately go back to Tokyo even though they're told that that's the last place the aliens show up by everyone else.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Aliens invade Tokyo. Alice and Bob knew in advance that earth was going to be invaded and where else than Tokyo. So they they try to stop the invasion before they can land in Tokyo. But it turns out that at the same time many other cities are being invaded as well, confusing Alice and Bob. But thanks to Alice and Bob, Tokyo is the only city able to hold them off using AlienPhlebotinum that the Japanese Government was hiding underneath it's city. New aliens show up and tells the heroes who saved Tokyo that the Phlebotinum is literally a weirdness magnet for this alien race but it's too late for them to destroy it now. In the mean time, world leaders flee to Tokyo and declare it the new capital of the Free World as Tokyo is the only city not in Alien hands and under weekly attack. After a few weeks Alice and Bob discover London has managedto free itself from Alien control by using an even bigger weapon made out of AlienPhlebotinum it was hiding and it is quickly decided that since London now has a better defence, it now is centre of the Free world. After saving Britain from the Aliens and non-Japanese cities being the only places where the main action takes place, the aliens finally manage to get hold of the London weapon which could destroy planet earth in one big swoop. Bob and Alice then discuss that they should go immediately go back to Tokyo even though they're told that that's the last place the aliens show up by everyone else.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Aliens invade Tokyo. Alice and Bob knew in advance that earth was going to be invaded and where else than Tokyo. So they they try to stop the invasion before they can land in Tokyo. But it turns out that at the same time many other cities are being invaded as well, confusing Alice and Bob. But thanks to Alice and Bob, Tokyo is the only city able to hold them off using AlienPhlebotinum that the Japanese Government was hiding underneath it's city. New aliens show up and tells the heroes who saved Tokyo that the Phlebotinum is literally a weirdness magnet for this alien race but it's too late for them to destroy it now. In the mean time, world leaders flee to Tokyo and declare it the new capital of the Free World as Tokyo is the only city not in Alien hands and under weekly attack. After a few weeks Alice and Bob discover London has an even bigger weapon made out of AlienPhlebotinum. After London and a few other non-Japanese cities being the only places where the main action takes place, the aliens finally manage to get hold of the London weapon which could destroy planet earth. Bob and Alice then discuss that they should go immediately go back to Tokyo as they know this could be the final battle for saving planet earth.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Aliens invade Tokyo. Alice and Bob knew in advance that earth was going to be invaded and where else than Tokyo. So they they try to stop the invasion before they can land in Tokyo. But it turns out that at the same time many other cities are being invaded as well, confusing Alice and Bob. But thanks to Alice and Bob, Tokyo is the only city able to hold them off using AlienPhlebotinum that the Japanese Government was hiding underneath it's city. New aliens show up and tells the heroes who saved Tokyo that the Phlebotinum is literally a weirdness magnet for this alien race but it's too late for them to destroy it now. In the mean time, World leaders flee to Tokyo and declare it the new capital of the Free World as Tokyo is the only city not in Alien hands and under weekly attack. After a few weeks Alice and Bob discover London has an even bigger weapon made out of AlienPhlebotinum. After London and a few other non-Japanese cities being the only places where the main action takes place, the aliens finally manage to get hold of the London weapon which could destroy planet earth. Bob and Alice then discuss that they should go immediately go back to Tokyo as they know this could be the final battle for saving planet earth.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Invoked''': After hearing all the news about AlienInvasion in Tokyo, [[Soldado de Fortuna]] Bob moved to Tokyo in the hope of making some money.