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** In the story ''Professor Sató's Three Formulae - volume 1'', TokyoTower is really prominently seen (as seen [[http://www.bedetheque.com/BD-Blake-et-Mortimer-Historique-Tome-10-Les-3-formules-du-professeur-Sato-32441.html here]]). Funny enough, while the story mostly does take part in Tokyo, apart from one panel where it is seen broadcasting a TV signal, and one panel where it's a vague outline in the background, it doesn't appear whatsoever in the story itself. It also doesn't appear in the second volume of the story.

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** In the story ''Professor Sató's Three Formulae - volume 1'', TokyoTower is really prominently seen (as seen [[http://www.bedetheque.com/BD-Blake-et-Mortimer-Historique-Tome-10-Les-3-formules-du-professeur-Sato-32441.html here]]).seen. Funny enough, while the story mostly does take part in Tokyo, apart from one panel where it is seen broadcasting a TV signal, and one panel where it's a vague outline in the background, it doesn't appear whatsoever in the story itself. It also doesn't appear in the second volume of the story.



* Tim Drake spends more time in Paris than any other members of the Bat-family and the Eiffel Tower is often used as shorthand to let the reader know when a story is taking place there, like on [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/4/4a/Robin_v.1_1.jpg the cover]] of ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}} (Volume 1)'' #1.

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* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Tim Drake spends more time in Paris than any other members of the Bat-family and the Eiffel Tower is often used as shorthand to let the reader know when a story is taking place there, like on [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/4/4a/Robin_v.1_1.jpg the cover]] of ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}} (Volume 1)'' #1.the first issue.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/TheHuntForReactron'', Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} and two friends are staying in Paris. Then Kara and her friend Thara get into a fight during which the former gets accidentally slammed into the Eiffel Tower.
** ''ComicBook/StrangersAtTheHeartsCore'': When Supergirl lures villain Klax-Ar back to Earth, she makes landfall on Manhattan, right next to the Statue of Liberty, whose sight makes Klax realize where they have arrived.
** ''ComicBook/TheStrangeRevengeOfLenaLuthor'': When Supergirl takes Lena back home, the silhouette of the Empire State Building in the background of one panel reminds readers that the story is set in New York City.
** ''ComicBook/GirlPower'': When Power Girl agrees to see Supergirl, the younger Kara chooses the Statue of Liberty as the meeting point for no particular reason.



** ''ComicBook/SupermanSavageDawn'' establishes a flashback to medieval Rome by showing [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]] admiring a newly painted Art/SistineChapel, instead of the dozens of others churches in the area.



** In ''ComicBook/TheHuntForReactron'', Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} and two friends are staying in Paris. Then Kara and her friend Thara get into a fight during which the former gets accidentally slammed into the Eiffel Tower.
** ''ComicBook/StrangersAtTheHeartsCore'': When Supergirl lures villain Klax-Ar back to Earth, she makes landfall on Manhattan, right next to the Statue of Liberty, whose sight makes Klax realize where they have arrived.

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** In ''ComicBook/TheHuntForReactron'', Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} and two friends ''ComicBook/TheSuperDuelInSpace'': So that readers can tell right away what cities are staying in Paris. Then Kara and her friend Thara get into a fight during which being collected by Brainiac, the former gets accidentally slammed into artist makes sure that their main landmarks (the Roman Coliseum, the Eiffel Tower.
** ''ComicBook/StrangersAtTheHeartsCore'': When Supergirl lures villain Klax-Ar back to Earth, she makes landfall on Manhattan, right next to
Tower, the Statue of Liberty, whose sight makes Klax realize where they have arrived.Big Ben Tower, the Empire State Building...) are always clearly visible.



** ''ComicBook/TheStrangeRevengeOfLenaLuthor'': When Supergirl takes Lena back home, the silhouette of the Empire State Building in the background of one panel reminds readers that the story is set in New York City.
** ''ComicBook/GirlPower'': When Power Girl agrees to see Supergirl, the younger Kara chooses the Statue of Liberty as the meeting point for no particular reason.

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** ''ComicBook/TheStrangeRevengeOfLenaLuthor'': When Supergirl takes Lena back home, the silhouette ''ComicBook/SupermanSavageDawn'' establishes a flashback to medieval Rome by showing [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]] admiring a newly painted Art/SistineChapel, instead of the Empire State Building dozens of others churches in the background of one panel reminds readers that the story is set in New York City.
** ''ComicBook/GirlPower'': When Power Girl agrees to see Supergirl, the younger Kara chooses the Statue of Liberty as the meeting point for no particular reason.
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* ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'':
** In the story ''Professor Sató's Three Formulae - volume 1'', TokyoTower is really prominently seen (as seen [[http://www.bedetheque.com/BD-Blake-et-Mortimer-Historique-Tome-10-Les-3-formules-du-professeur-Sato-32441.html here]]). Funny enough, while the story mostly does take part in Tokyo, apart from one panel where it is seen broadcasting a TV signal, and one panel where it's a vague outline in the background, it doesn't appear whatsoever in the story itself. It also doesn't appear in the second volume of the story.
** In the story ''SOS Meteore'', the Eiffel Tower is prominently seen on the cover, but not once in the story itself, despite the story otherwise faithfully showing many places in Paris.
** Jacobs seemed aware of this trope, since the other story taking place in Paris, ''The Necklace Affair'', also never shows the Eiffel Tower.
** In the story ''The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent - volume 1'' however, the Atomium in Brussels is not only seen on the cover, but also rather prominent in the story itself, which is no wonder, since the story takes place at the world fair for which it was built.
** The Palace of Westminster and its famous clock tower are shown in stories taking place in London, like ''The Yellow M'' and ''The Francais Blake Affair''.
** Since the first two-volume story was called ''The Mystery of the Great Pyramid'', it was inevitable that the Pyramids of Gizeh are the center piece of this story taking place in Cairo.
** Played dead-straight in the first story '''The Secret of the Swordfish''. When the Yellow Epire announces its victory, they talk about the destruction of Rome, Paris and London. And indeed, we do see St. Peter's Basilica, the Eiffel Tower (collapsing) and the Palace of Westminster in Flames.
* Tim Drake spends more time in Paris than any other members of the Bat-family and the Eiffel Tower is often used as shorthand to let the reader know when a story is taking place there, like on [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/4/4a/Robin_v.1_1.jpg the cover]] of ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}} (Volume 1)'' #1.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/SupermanSavageDawn'' establishes a flashback to medieval Rome by showing [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]] admiring a newly painted Art/SistineChapel, instead of the dozens of others churches in the area.
** In ''ComicBook/WhoTookTheSuperOutOfSuperman'', Xviar teleports several Superman's enemies to Egypt... concretely to the Valley of the Kings for no particular reason.
** During the final battle in ''ComicBook/TwoForTheDeathOfOne'', Superman gets blasted across half world and randomly crashes into, of all places, the face of the [[Art/TheSphinx Great Sphinx of Giza]].
** In ''ComicBook/TheHuntForReactron'', Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} and two friends are staying in Paris. Then Kara and her friend Thara get into a fight during which the former gets accidentally slammed into the Eiffel Tower.
** ''ComicBook/StrangersAtTheHeartsCore'': When Supergirl lures villain Klax-Ar back to Earth, she makes landfall on Manhattan, right next to the Statue of Liberty, whose sight makes Klax realize where they have arrived.
** ''ComicBook/SupermanVsShazam'':
*** [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and [[Characters/ShazamMarvelFamily Mary Marvel]]'s first scene has them save New York City's Brooklyn Bridge.
*** Later, the [[ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore Sandman Superman]] places Karmang's device in the World Trade Center for no particular reason.
*** When Karmang imagines the damage which his devices might cause, visions show a tidal wave engulfing the Big Ben, and a lightning storm hitting Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
*** Superman and Captain Marvel's brawl takes all the way to the Canadian border... concretely, the Niagara Falls.
** ''ComicBook/TheStrangeRevengeOfLenaLuthor'': When Supergirl takes Lena back home, the silhouette of the Empire State Building in the background of one panel reminds readers that the story is set in New York City.
** ''ComicBook/GirlPower'': When Power Girl agrees to see Supergirl, the younger Kara chooses the Statue of Liberty as the meeting point for no particular reason.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': During ''ComicBook/JudgmentInInfinity'' the Adjudicator appears next to the Washington Monument for no particular reason. Later, Supergirl and Madame Xanadu are teleported into Earth-X's Paris, right in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': One of the panels showing civilians watching Diana's duel with Medusa shows the Eiffel Tower and ''two'' French flags in the background, just to make sure the reader knows these people are in France.
** ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'': [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Priscilla Rich]]'s abode is in UsefulNotes/{{Cairo}}, which is established by having a view off her balcony in which the Pyramids of Giza are clearly visible.
** ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Wonder Woman 600]]'': The setting for the fight in "Valedictorian" is made clear by having the White House very visible in the background.
* ''ComicBook/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'': "Mayhem of the Madbomb!" takes place in the Empire State Building. Black Panther demands himself and Hulk to reach the bomb at the top with stealth, fearing a battle with the HYDRA agents inside could damage the building, while Hulk doesn't care if they have to destroy the structure to save the city.
* ''ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko'': A part of ''The Secret Ray'' is set in New York. The Statue of Liberty is visible in a panel.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' spin-off comic ''ComicBook/BadGuys'':
** Every sequence set in Paris (there are several, as that's where the team is based) opens with a shot of the Eiffel Tower.
** The scene in Sydney in the first issue opens with a shot of the Opera House.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': When Tony Stark tries the new Iron Man suit, there is a sight of the Empire State building in the background.
** ''ComicBook/SpiderMenII'': The adult Miles Morales has made it to another dimension. The first time we see it, we recognize it's the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe because, besides the Daily Bugle, there's the Baxter Building with the top part destroyed (something that happened in ''Ultimate Doomsday''), and the Triskelion with SHIELD hellicarriers nearby.

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