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* ''VideoGame/ProjectWingman'' takes place 432 years after a tectonic cataclysm reshaped much of the Earth, and follows the nation of Cascadia as it stages a revolution against The Federation, a superpower that controls the Pacific Ocean. [[note]] "Cascadia" is generous though, as it encompasses entire West Coast of North America from Alaska to the Tropic of Cancer.[[/note]]
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* ''VideoGame/ProjectWingman'' takes place [[AlternateHistory 432 years after a tectonic cataclysm cataclysm]] that [[FictionalEarth reshaped much of the Earth, Earth]], and follows the nation an alternate version of Cascadia as it stages a revolution against The Federation, a superpower that controls the Pacific Ocean. [[note]] "Cascadia" is generous though, as it encompasses entire West Coast of North America from Alaska to the Tropic of Cancer.[[/note]]
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* ''VideoGame/ProjectWingman'' takes place 432 years after a tectonic cataclysm reshaped much of the Earth, and follows the nation of Cascadia as it stages a revolution against The Federation, a superpower that controls the Pacific Ocean. [[note]] "Cascadia" is generous though, as it encompasses entire West Coast of North America from Alaska to the Tropic of Cancer.[[/note]]
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* ''Literature/InCryptid'': The Price family compound is outside of Portland, Oregon, though the books take place all over America (and in some cases in other countries).
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* ''VideoGame/NinjaBaseballBatman'' has its first level set in Seattle, while the game itself was actually conceptualized by Creator/{{Irem}}'s American Division in Redmond.
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* ''Film/NightMoves'' is set in rural Oregon, like Kelly Reichardt's other films also listed on this page.

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* ''Film/NightMoves'' ''Film/NightMoves2013'' is set in rural Oregon, like Kelly Reichardt's other films also listed on this page.
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* ''Film/NightMoves'' is set in rural Oregon, like Kelly Reichardt's other films also listed on this page.
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* ''Film/WarGames'': The first portion was set and even at least partially filmed in Seattle.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RickandMorty'' is set right outside of Seattle, according to [[https://twitter.com/JustinRoiland/status/772269394084802560 Word of God]] .

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* ''WesternAnimation/RickandMorty'' ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is set right outside of Seattle, according to [[https://twitter.com/JustinRoiland/status/772269394084802560 Word of God]] .
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* ''Film/FirstCow'' takes place in Oregon Country during the 1820s when settlement by non-Natives was just beginning and the U.S. and Britain vied for control of the region.
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* The ''Literature/NemesisSeries'' is set in New Port City, a fictional city on Puget Sound which includes two peninsulas, part of the mainland, and three islands including Anderson and Mc Neil Islands. The text's description places it just west of Tacoma, Washington.
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* ''Series/{{MacGyver}}'' had the episode "Log Jam", featuring Mac investigating the Northwest logging industry to discover... the {{Yakuza}}.

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* ''Series/{{MacGyver}}'' ''Series/MacGyver1985'' had the episode "Log Jam", featuring Mac investigating the Northwest logging industry to discover... the {{Yakuza}}.
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* ''Film/MeeksCutoff'', a [[TheWestern Western]] set in the desert region of SE Oregon, has no forest. In fact, the single tree shown is near the end as the party of pioneers search for water.
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* ''Film/WithoutAPaddle'', set in Oregon but filmed in [[CaliforniaDoubling New Zealand]].

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* ''Film/WithoutAPaddle'', set in Oregon but filmed in [[CaliforniaDoubling New Zealand]].Zealand]], follows a group of friends searching for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper D.B. Cooper]]'s treasure. Along the way they encounter everything from grizzly bears to vengeful pot farmers.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' takes place in Wayouttatown, Oregon.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' takes place is set in the fictional Wayouttatown, Oregon.



* According to [[https://twitter.com/JustinRoiland/status/772269394084802560 Word of God]], ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is set right outside of Seattle.

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* According ''WesternAnimation/RickandMorty'' is set right outside of Seattle, according to [[https://twitter.com/JustinRoiland/status/772269394084802560 Word of God]], ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is set right outside of Seattle.God]] .
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* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' takes place in Washington. According to WordOfGod, they live north of Seattle and south of Vancouver, just off Interstate 5.

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* ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'': Certain shots show that it is set in Seattle, with the skyline (complete with [[{{Zeerust}} Space Needle]]) and several iconic locations. Tacoma seems to double for Seattle in a lot of the more generic places.
* ''Film/AnimalHouse'' was shot in Eugene, Oregon on the U of O campus, although it seems to take place somewhere in Pennsylvania.
* ''Film/{{Antitrust}}'' takes place largely in Portland. Fitting, since the inspiration for the film's villain is also located in the Pacific Northwest.



* ''Film/HarryAndTheHendersons'' manages to include Bigfoot, Seattle, ''and'' the end of a HorribleCampingTrip.
* The ''Film/FreeWilly'' movies (at least the parts set on land)
* ''Film/TheGoonies'', set in Astoria, Oregon. ''Film/ShortCircuit'' was also set and shot on Astoria. "Stephanie's" house is only a few miles from the "Goonies house," with the Columbia River bridge shown prominently.
* ''Film/McCabeAndMrsMiller'', a [[{{Deconstruction}} revisionist]] [[TheWestern Western]] set in a small mining town in the Cascades.
* The exteriors for ''Film/PracticalMagic'' were filmed on Whidbey Island in northern Puget Sound- though this is in a much less rainforest-y area than areas further south and west. The same area was used for a justifiably forgotten TV movie called ''Cry For the Children''.



* The remake of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', set in a fictional part of the San Juan Islands.
* ''Film/{{Singles}}'' is a movie set Seattle right as the native grunge trend had ''just'' started to spread out to the rest of the country.
* ''Film/TheRing'' (the Americana remake and its sequel) is set in the Northwest and was shot around Seattle, the Puget Sound, and Astoria, Oregon. The creepy blue quality to the light, unsettling fog and broken down barns are all part of the local color.
* While no location is given in the film, ''Film/WhatTheBleepDoWeKnow'' was filmed in and around Portland, and makes fairly extensive use of the MAX (the local light rail) and the Baghdad movie theatre.

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* The remake ''Film/DeadMan'': set somewhere in Washington (the Makah village at the end of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', the film indicates the Olympic Peninsula)
* ''Film/FirstBlood'', in contrast to the jungle and desert settings of its sequels, is
set in a the fictional part Hope, Washington and was filmed in the real life Hope, British Columbia as well as Golden Ears Provincial Park.
* ''Film/FiveEasyPieces'': much
of the San Juan Islands.film takes place in Oregon and the Puget Sound area of Washington.
* ''Foxfire'' with Creator/AngelinaJolie was filmed in SW Portland, and SET in Portland because it was [[TheThemeParkVersion purportedly full of lesbians and wangsty teenagers]] in TheNineties.
* The ''Film/FreeWilly'' movies (at least the parts set on land)
* ''Film/TheGoonies'', set in Astoria, Oregon. ''Film/ShortCircuit'' was also set and shot on Astoria. "Stephanie's" house is only a few miles from the "Goonies house," with the Columbia River bridge shown prominently.

* ''Film/{{Singles}}'' is a movie set Seattle right as ''Film/HarryAndTheHendersons'' manages to include Bigfoot, Seattle, ''and'' the native grunge trend had ''just'' started to spread out to the rest end of the country.
a HorribleCampingTrip.
* ''Film/TheRing'' (the Americana remake The second and its sequel) is third acts of ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' are set in the Northwest and Lockwood Manor in northern California ([[CaliforniaDoubling it was shot around Seattle, the Puget Sound, and Astoria, Oregon. The creepy blue quality to the light, unsettling fog and broken down barns are all part of the local color.
* While no location is given
in the film, ''Film/WhatTheBleepDoWeKnow'' was filmed in and around Portland, and makes fairly extensive use of the MAX (the local light rail) and the Baghdad movie theatre.England, though]]), which eventually becomes a GothicHorror mansion.



* ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'': Certain shots show that it is set in Seattle, with the skyline (complete with [[{{Zeerust}} Space Needle]]) and several iconic locations. Tacoma seems to double for Seattle in a lot of the more generic places.
* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' was shot in the redwoods of northern California and thus Isla Sorna resembles a temperate rainforest, despite ostensibly being located in tropical Costa Rica.
* The second and third acts of ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' are set in the Lockwood Manor in northern California ([[CaliforniaDoubling it was shot in England, though]]), which eventually becomes a GothicHorror mansion.
* ''Film/AnimalHouse'' was shot in Eugene, Oregon on the U of O campus, although it seems to take place somewhere in Pennsylvania.



* ''Film/LeanOnPete'' takes place in this region. The main characters eventually go on a road trip to Portland, Oregon.
* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' was shot in the redwoods of northern California and thus Isla Sorna resembles a temperate rainforest, despite ostensibly being located in tropical Costa Rica.
* ''Film/McCabeAndMrsMiller'', a [[{{Deconstruction}} revisionist]] [[TheWestern Western]] set in a small mining town in the Cascades.



* ''Film/{{Antitrust}}'' takes place largely in Portland. Fitting, since the inspiration for the film's villain is also located in the Pacific Northwest.
* ''Film/FiveEasyPieces'': much of the film takes place in Oregon and the Puget Sound area of Washington.
* ''Foxfire'' with Creator/AngelinaJolie was filmed in SW Portland, and SET in Portland because it was [[TheThemeParkVersion purportedly full of lesbians and wangsty teenagers]] in TheNineties.
* ''Film/DeadMan'': set somewhere in Washington (the Makah village at the end of the film indicates the Olympic Peninsula)
* The setting of ''Film/{{Twilight}}''. Forks, Washington is getting fantastic tourist revenue thanks to the movies—never mind that [[CaliforniaDoubling not a single scene in the saga was actually shot there]].
* ''Film/MyOwnPrivateIdaho'' and ''Film/DrugstoreCowboy'' feature Portland, Oregon prominently, most notably TheCityNarrows. Parts of downtown Portland were considered rather gruff before it became [[Series/{{Portlandia}} so closely associated]] with TheNineties {{Hipster}} culture.
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* The forests of [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Endor]] are in Humboldt County, California.

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* ''Film/{{Antitrust}}'' takes place largely in Portland. Fitting, since ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'' was shot at the inspiration for the film's villain is also located in the Pacific Northwest.
* ''Film/FiveEasyPieces'': much of the film takes place in
Oregon and the Puget Sound area of Washington.
* ''Foxfire'' with Creator/AngelinaJolie was filmed
State Hospital in SW Portland, and SET in Portland because it was [[TheThemeParkVersion purportedly full of lesbians and wangsty teenagers]] in TheNineties.
* ''Film/DeadMan'': set somewhere in Washington (the Makah village at the end of the film indicates the Olympic Peninsula)
* The setting of ''Film/{{Twilight}}''. Forks, Washington is getting fantastic tourist revenue thanks to the movies—never mind that [[CaliforniaDoubling not a single scene in the saga was actually shot there]].
* ''Film/MyOwnPrivateIdaho'' and ''Film/DrugstoreCowboy'' feature Portland, Oregon prominently, most notably TheCityNarrows. Parts of downtown Portland were considered rather gruff before it became [[Series/{{Portlandia}} so closely associated]] with TheNineties {{Hipster}} culture.
%%* ''Are We There Yet?'' and the sequel ''Are We Done Yet?''.
* The forests of [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Endor]] are in Humboldt County, California.
Salem.



* The exteriors for ''Film/PracticalMagic'' were filmed on Whidbey Island in northern Puget Sound- though this is in a much less rainforest-y area than areas further south and west. The same area was used for a justifiably forgotten TV movie called ''Cry For the Children''.
* ''Film/TheRing'' (the Americana remake and its sequel) is set in the Northwest and was shot around Seattle, the Puget Sound, and Astoria, Oregon. The creepy blue quality to the light, unsettling fog and broken down barns are all part of the local color.
* ''Film/{{Singles}}'' is a movie set Seattle right as the native grunge trend had ''just'' started to spread out to the rest of the country.
* The setting of ''Film/{{Twilight}}''. Forks, Washington is getting fantastic tourist revenue thanks to the movies—never mind that [[CaliforniaDoubling not a single scene in the saga was actually shot there]].
* While no location is given in the film, ''Film/WhatTheBleepDoWeKnow'' was filmed in and around Portland, and makes fairly extensive use of the MAX (the local light rail) and the Baghdad movie theatre.
* The remake of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', set in a fictional part of the San Juan Islands.
* ''Film/MyOwnPrivateIdaho'' and ''Film/DrugstoreCowboy'' feature Portland, Oregon prominently, most notably TheCityNarrows. Parts of downtown Portland were considered rather gruff before it became [[Series/{{Portlandia}} so closely associated]] with TheNineties {{Hipster}} culture.
%%* ''Are We There Yet?'' and the sequel ''Are We Done Yet?''.
* The forests of [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Endor]] are in Humboldt County, California.



* ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'' was shot at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem.



* ''Film/FirstBlood'', in contrast to the jungle and desert settings of its sequels, is set in the fictional Hope, Washington and was filmed in the real life Hope, British Columbia as well as Golden Ears Provincial Park.



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* ''Film/FireWithFire1986'' is set in the mountainous regions of Oregon.
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* ''Film/WithoutAPaddle'' is set in Oregon but was filmed in [[CaliforniaDoubling New Zealand.]]

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* ''Film/WithoutAPaddle'' is ''Film/WithoutAPaddle'', set in Oregon but was filmed in [[CaliforniaDoubling New Zealand.]]
Zealand]].



* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' takes place in a suburb of Seattle according to [[https://twitter.com/JustinRoiland/status/772269394084802560 Word of God.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' takes place in a suburb of Seattle according According to [[https://twitter.com/JustinRoiland/status/772269394084802560 Word of God.]]God]], ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is set right outside of Seattle.
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** The ''Eco Lifestyle'' expansion for ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' adds Evergreen Harbor, which the flavor text indicates is located on the "Willupette Sound" (a reference to both the Willamette Valley in Oregon and Puget Sound in Washington). Uniquely, it's less a rustic Arcadia and more a run-down and polluted industrial city based on cities like Tacoma, Renton, Kent, and Everett, with the gameplay in the pack revolving around [[GreenAesop cleaning it up]], though once the smog is gone from the skies, the snow-capped mountains and pine forests surrounding the town become far more visible.

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** The ''Eco Lifestyle'' expansion for ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' adds Evergreen Harbor, which the flavor text indicates is located on the "Willupette Sound" (a reference to both the Willamette Valley in Oregon and Puget Sound in Washington). Uniquely, it's less a rustic Arcadia and more a run-down and polluted industrial city based on cities like Tacoma, Renton, Kent, and Everett, and pre-tech-boom Seattle, with the gameplay in the pack revolving around [[GreenAesop cleaning it up]], though once the smog is gone from the skies, the snow-capped mountains and pine forests surrounding the town become far more visible.

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* The starting village of Arroyo in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' is located roughly in the vicinity of Medford, Oregon and most of the game takes place in northern California, once a part of the Northwestern Commonwealth (Nor-cal, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska). That being said a lot of the area (especially south in Northern California) is still a dead and irradiated desert after the Great War with the one large rainforests being hard to find.

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* The starting village of Arroyo in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' is located roughly in the vicinity of Medford, Oregon and most of the game takes place in northern California, once a part of the Northwestern Commonwealth (Nor-cal, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska). That being said said, a lot of the area (especially south in Northern California) is still a dead and irradiated desert after the Great War War, with the one large rainforests being hard to find.


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** The ''Supernatural'' expansion for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' adds the town of Moonlight Falls, based on Forks, Washington from the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' books, all the better to go with its UrbanFantasy theme.
** The ''Eco Lifestyle'' expansion for ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' adds Evergreen Harbor, which the flavor text indicates is located on the "Willupette Sound" (a reference to both the Willamette Valley in Oregon and Puget Sound in Washington). Uniquely, it's less a rustic Arcadia and more a run-down and polluted industrial city based on cities like Tacoma, Renton, Kent, and Everett, with the gameplay in the pack revolving around [[GreenAesop cleaning it up]], though once the smog is gone from the skies, the snow-capped mountains and pine forests surrounding the town become far more visible.
* While ''VideoGame/StateOfDecay'' never specifies where its setting of Trumbull Valley its located, the Seattle-based developers stated that they based it on the rural prairies and forests of central and eastern Washington state, a rare example of the parts east of the Cascades showing up in fiction (and being accurately depicted).
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* ''WesternAnimation/RickandMorty'' takes place in a suburb of Seattle according to [[https://twitter.com/JustinRoiland/status/772269394084802560 Word of God.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/RickandMorty'' ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' takes place in a suburb of Seattle according to [[https://twitter.com/JustinRoiland/status/772269394084802560 Word of God.]]
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* ''Film/JustBeforeDawn'' has five youths camoing in the woods of Oregon and meeting death in the guise of [[spoiler:psycho redneck twins]].

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* ''Film/JustBeforeDawn'' has five youths camoing camping in the woods of Oregon and meeting death in the guise of [[spoiler:psycho redneck twins]].


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* ''Film/WithoutAPaddle'' is set in Oregon but was filmed in [[CaliforniaDoubling New Zealand.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' takes place in "Wayouttatown," Oregon.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' takes place in "Wayouttatown," Wayouttatown, Oregon.
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* {{ComicBook/iZombie}} is set in Eugene, Oregon, although the television series takes place in Seattle.



* The forests of [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Endor]] are in Del Norte and Humboldt counties, California.

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* ''ComicBook/iZombie'' is set in Eugene, Oregon, although the TV series takes place in Seattle.
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