History Main / AbsurdlyCoolCity

* The eponymous ''Film/DarkCity'' [[AlwaysNight (set only at night)]] is a SceneryPorn-tastic, GermanExpressionism-inspired, AlwaysNight CityInABottle.

%% * The Human City from ''Film/TheMatrix''. It's a virtual merger of several real-world cities.

!! Examples:

* ''Creator/CartoonNetwork'' gave us [=CN City=] in their promotional materials for an entire era. It’s mostly the famous characters that make the city so cool but it still has plenty of coolness to offer on its own. Imagine stores and businesses run by famous cartoon characters, and entire landmark locations such as [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Sector V’s Treehouse]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Titans Tower]], and [[WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends Foster’s]] all in one massive city.

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* The [[http://cdn.awn.com/sites/default/files/styles/original/public/image/featured/1029571-watch-disney-unveils-deleted-scenes-zootopia.jpg?itok=Rodf1NYM city]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' with its multifaceted districts enabled by the installation of artificial climate zones.

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* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Coruscant is a city that covers the entire planet. It's so large they needed an entire [[AllThereInTheManual subsidiary guide just to explain how it worked.]]
%% ** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Aldera_City.JPG Aldera]]
%% ** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cloud_City Cloud City,]] which was allegedly inspired by Stratos City.
%% ** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mos_Eisley "Mos Eisley Spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."]]
%% ** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Theed Theed]], which could have been inspired by Waterfall City.
%% ** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Level_1313 Level 1313, the darker side of Coruscant, probably even worse than Mos Eisley.]]

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%% * The city in ''Film/BladeRunner'' is certainly dark and gritty, [[http://site.jacobcharlesdietz.com/the-work/gallery-3/2019-post-alley as depicted in fanart.]]

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* In the future depicted by ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', not-Disney has made a habit out of buying defunct cities and converting them into amusement parks. The result is still clearly a city- but the immaculate, ideal ''version'' of a city, complete with an army of janitors and construction workers who come out at night to keep its flawless image maintained. Citizens remark that it's like living in a fairytale.

* Gotham City from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', epically [[ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand post-earthquake]] when the city looks like a mash up of the 1930s, Gothic London and a Modern city.
* Wakanda from ''Franchise/BlackPanther'', has Wakanda. A sovereign nation in Africa whose capital city is perhaps one of the most gorgeous cities in comics. The seemingly infinite supply of vibranium, the most versatile, strongest, and most valuable metal in the entire world allowed the people to advance technology and science to the point where Wakanda is centuries ahead of the rest of the world, even Starkk Enterprises and Shield in terms of science and technology. In fact, Wakandan invention has advanced so far that the people hide the city from the rest of the world for fear of their technology being stolen and used for evil.

* Metropolis from ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' is generally portrayed as a city of gleaming high-tech, especially when being compared to Gotham. This was especially the case in comics from 2000 to 2004, when it became "infected" by 64th-century superscience that made it into a SkyscraperCity with triple-decker monorails, service robots, and even an extremely clean biotech sewer system.
%% * Themyscira of Franchise/WonderWoman. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Themyscira-floating.jpg Just take a look.]]

%% * [[TableTopGame/MagicTheGathering Ravnica]], a true megalopolis in that the entire world is a city.

* Vampire New York as seen in ''Film/DayBreakers''. While it's the exact opposite of "shiny", the sheer infrastructure of adapting the biggest city in the world to Vampires gets it put in this category. Besides, Dark ''is'' shiny [[HumansThroughAlienEyes for vampires.]]

* Wakanda from ''Franchise/{{BlackPanther}}'', has Wakanda. A sovereign nation in Africa whose capital city is perhaps one of the most gorgeous cities in comics. The seemingly infinite supply of vibranium, the most versatile, strongest, and most valuable metal in the entire world allowed the people to advance technology and science to the point where Wakanda is centuries ahead of the rest of the world, even Starkk Enterprises and Shield in terms of science and technology. In fact, Wakandan invention has advanced so far that the people hide the city from the rest of the world for fear of their technology being stolen and used for evil.

* ''Creator/CartoonNetwork'' gave us [=CN City=] in their promotional materials for an entire era. Imagine stores and businesses run by famous cartoon characters, and entire landmark locations such as [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Sector V’s Treehouse]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Titans Tower]], and [[WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends Foster’s]] all in one massive city.

* Chronopolis from ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperHeroes2'' is a mish-mash of different locations throughout the Marvel multiverse: Not only are there [[CityNoir three]] [[{{Tomorrowland}} versions]] of [[BigApplesauce Manhattan]] in it, but also [[{{Tomorrowland Xandar]], [[{{Afrofuturism}} Wakanda]], [[TheDungAges Medieval England]], [[TheShangriLa K'un-Lun]], [[UnderTheSea Lemuria]], [[LethalLavaLand Asgard]], [[BuildLikeAnEgyptian Ancient Egypt]], [[WeirdWest the Old West]], [[BadFuture the Hydra Empire]], [[{{Tomorrowland}} Hala]], [[GladiatorGames Sakaar]], [[{{Tomorrowland}} Attilan]] and [[SpaceZone Knowhere]] as well, bringing together a wide variety of heroes and villains.

%% * Inkopolis from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}''.

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%% * Metru Nui from ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}''.

* In ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'', Tora is the magically shielded, self-sustaining city left behind from when AndManGrewProud. It is all carved of seamless marble, except the plinth that symbolized their vow of loyalty towards Del's kings, and filled with tapestries and fresh fruit that the protagonists (who come from the more medieval lands outside) find extremely welcome.

* The Crème Republic in ''VideoGame/CookieRunKingdom''. [[spoiler]]The trope is deconstructed, as the city-state's glamour is revealed to be a cover-up for corruption, scandals, and even a hidden part of the city dedicated to all of the poor citizens.[[/spoiler]]

* ''Literature/TheReckoners.''

%%* Themyscira of Franchise/WonderWoman. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Themyscira-floating.jpg Just take a look.]]

%% * The titular Film/{{Metropolis}} as it borrows from Creator/HGWells
* Starbase Yorktown in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' is like a DomedCity but with the dome being a perfect sphere, as it is ''in space.'' It is also beyond gigantic. ArtificialGravity will make the definition of "down" different for you than for the street twisting above you.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Coruscant is a city that covers the entire planet. It's so large they needed an entire [[AllThereInTheManual subsidiary guide just to explain how it worked.]]

%% * ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' and has a shiny Art Deco city on top and a gritty worker's city under the earth.
%% * New Krobuzon from Creator/ChinaMieville's ''[[Literature/BasLagCycle Bas Lag]]'' trilogy.

%%* Metru Nui from ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}''.

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%%* The titular Webcomic/MegaTokyo.

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* ''Literature/TheReckoners.''
** Newcago (the former city of Chicago) is dark and gritty, under a perpetually black sky, the entire city transmuted to steel with many living in tunnels beneath.
** Babilar (once New York) by contrast, is a bright and colorful party city where the waters rise up so high, the people live on the roofs and upper stories of skyscrapers.
** Ildithia (Atlanta) is a city of salt that grows out of the ground on one side, collapses on the other, cycling through once a week and so crawling across the landscape.

%%* [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Minas Tirith]].


%%* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Asgard]].
%%* And the major cities of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Silver Moon, Undercity, the Exodar, Dalaran and Shattrah.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has quite a lot. Eldar cities and the Dark Eldar capital of Commorgah are both very impressive (the former are CrystalSpiresAndTogas style cites housed inside Craftworlds, spacecrafts the size of small moons, the latter is a [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Dark Towers and Spikes]] style city located inside the Webway). Humans have numerous heavily populated worlds with impressive looking cities, but the grand price goes to Holy Terra, seat of the Imperium. The Imperial Palace alone covers most of what used to be Eurasia.
%% * ''[[Literature/TheBooksOfEmber The City Of Ember]]''.
%%* New Mombasa from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', particularly in ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'', where it feels legitimately futuristic.
%%* The Human City from ''Film/TheMatrix''. It's a virtual merger of several real-world cities.
%%* The city in ''Film/BladeRunner'' is certainly '''Dark and Gritty''', [[http://site.jacobcharlesdietz.com/the-work/gallery-3/2019-post-alley as depicted in fanart.]]
%%* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia Dinotopia]]'''s [[http://dinotopia.wikia.com/wiki/Waterfall_City Waterfall City.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=5 Chel'el'sussoloth,]] [[MeaningfulName literally means]] "City of light in the darkness". For LonelyRichKid Ariel, it's a fantasy world beyond her wildest dreams, to {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lirel, it's a WretchedHive that also has CrystalSpiresAndTogas... perfect for having AHellOfATime.
* Sharn from ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}''. Literal mile-high towers, floating islands, and flying taxis, starting at a WretchedHive down in the undercity and progressing to lavish estates built on magically solidified clouds up at the top.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Futurama_-_The_Future.jpg New New York]] actually finds itself suffering from a garbage ''shortage'', while they dump their radioactive sewage directly into [[http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/File:OldNY.jpg Old New York]] and the sewers below, the later of which now look like [[http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/File:Mutantvillage.jpg this]] because of a civilisation of mutants (who [[FantasticRacism are required to live there by law]]).
%%* In ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', James tends to think of New York City this way.
%%* In ''Franchise/RoboCop'', OCP ''portrays'' Delta City as '''Shiny and Awesome''', but, like every other product OCP makes...
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s [[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Stratos Stratos City]]: CrystalSpiresAndTogas for everyone! ([[FantasticRacism Except Troglodytes.]])
** [[TheFederation Starfleet's]] own capital, [[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/San_Francisco San Francisco]] (the actual capital city of the Federation is Paris, but San Francisco was seen quite a bit more, and at times played host to non-Starfleet governmental functions).
%%* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
%%** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Aldera_City.JPG Aldera]]
%%** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cloud_City Cloud City,]] which was allegedly inspired by Stratos City.
%%** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mos_Eisley "Mos Eisley Spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."]]
%%** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Theed Theed]], which could have been inspired by Waterfall City.
%%** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Level_1313 Level 1313, the darker side of Coruscant, probably even worse than Mos Eisley.]]
* ''Stargate'': The Ancients, Great City Ships (notably Atlantis).
* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070319 Mechanicsburg]] (also see [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070321 the next page]]) from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''. It became a modern city filled with tourists after the disappearance of its former rulers. However, when Agatha, the rightful heir, returns and the [[ForDoomTheBellTolls Doom Bell]] is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111104 rung]], the city reverts back to its old self. Also, the city is controlled by a [[GeniusLoci sentient castle]] and all residents are automatically [[UndyingLoyalty loyal minions]] of the Heterodyne.
* RealLife, more or less:
%%** [[http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g295424-Dubai.html Dubai.]]
%%** [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Hong_Kong_Night_Skyline.jpg Hong Kong.]]
%%** [[https://livejapan.com/en/article-a0001580/ Tokyo]] Old, meet new.
%%** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul Seoul.]] Just whoa.
%%** San Antonio, Texas.
** Modern/Greater Lisbon, Portugal. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Expo16.jpg Parque]] das [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Lisboa_-_Expo98_-_Vista_Geral.jpg Nações,]] Amoreira, Praça Marquês de Pombal. (Not to be confused with old, Royal Lisbon.)
%%* "''Ubiquitos''" (mostly known as 'The City') from ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge''. See also AsceticAesthetic and SceneryPorn.
%%* [[TableTopGame/MagicTheGathering Ravnica]], a true megalopolis in that the entire world is a city.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' mostly takes place in MegaCity One, which originally spanned the entire Eastern seaboard of the United States until it was seriously trimmed down during "The Apocalypse War" thanks to saturation nuking. Architecturally, it's a mishmash of styles from different decades with early stories even depicting (at the time of publishing) iconic New York buildings and landmarks, such as the World Trade Centre, the Statue Of Liberty, and the Empire State Building, dwarfed by newer city blocks.

%% So, please folderize and categorize the examples accordingly.

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[[folder: Shiny and Wonderful]]

%%* Inkopolis from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}''.

%%* Any city level from ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank''. You'd think those guys were architects.

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[[folder: Dark and Gritty]]
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* Gotham City from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', epically [[ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand post-earthquake]] when the city looks like a mash up of the 1930s, Gothic London and a Modern city.

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* Ankh-Morpork from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', though most of its dark has turned into grime (and might occasionally become part of something served in a bun).

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* The eponymous ''Film/DarkCity'' [[AlwaysNight (set only at night)]] is a SceneryPorn-tastic, GermanExpressionism-inspired, AlwaysNight CityInABottle.
%%* [[CityWithNoName The City]] from the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series.
%%* New Krobuzon from Creator/ChinaMieville's ''[[Literature/BasLagCycle Bas Lag]]'' trilogy.
* The titular Film/{{Metropolis}} as it borrows from Creator/HGWells ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' and has a shiny Art Deco city on top and a gritty worker's city under the earth.

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* The City of [[EldritchLocation Yharnam]] from ''Videogame/{{Bloodborne}}'' won't win any prizes for urban planning, but its dark gothic structures, intricate streets and tall imposing spires make it a true sight to behold.

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!! Shiny and Gritty
* Examples of both the above appear in ''Literature/TheReckoners.'' Newcago (the former city of Chicago) is dark and gritty, under a perpetually black sky, the entire city transmuted to steel with many living in tunnels beneath. Babilar (once New York) by contrast, is a bright and colorful party city where the waters rise up so high, the people live on the roofs and upper stories of skyscrapers. Ildithia (Atlanta) is a city of salt that grows out of the ground on one side, collapses on the other, cycling through once a week and so crawling across the landscape.

In fictional settings authors often decide to make great cities for their work. In "classic" sci-fi the city served as a common trope to be used to represent whatever society that existed. They, when animated, drawn or otherwise shown a DesignStudentsOrgasm usually occurs. This comes in two flavors and is often the capital of TheFederation, TheAlliance, TheEmpire, or TheRepublic. Is usually a CityOfAdventure. If part of its coolness comes from bright lights, it may be a NeonCity.

SuperTrope to CityPlanet (the city is awesome because it takes over an entire planet/plane).

!Examples:

!!Shiny and Awesome
* Dresediel Lex from ''Literature/TwoSerpentsRise''. Floating skyscrapers, giant black-glass pyramids for office buildings, zombie street cleaners, and goddesses hovering over every poker game.
* Vampire New York as seen in ''Film/DayBreakers''. While it's the exact opposite of "shiny", the sheer infrastructure of adapting the biggest city in the world to Vampires gets it put in this category. Besides, Dark ''is'' shiny [[HumansThroughAlienEyes for vampires.]]

%%* The titular Webcomic/MegaTokyo.
%%* New Domino City from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''.
%%* Metru Nui from ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}''.
%%* Any city level from ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank''. You'd think those guys were architects.
* Metropolis from ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' is generally portrayed as a city of gleaming high-tech, especially when being compared to Gotham. This was especially the case in comics from 2000 to 2004, when it became "infected" by 64th century superscience that made it into a SkyscraperCity with triple-decker monorails, service robots, and even an extremely clean biotech sewer system.
* Dentech City from ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork''. The fact that EverythingIsOnline compounds this. And its virtual counterpart Navi City which '''is''' online.
%%* Inkopolis from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}''.

* The [[http://cdn.awn.com/sites/default/files/styles/original/public/image/featured/1029571-watch-disney-unveils-deleted-scenes-zootopia.jpg?itok=Rodf1NYM city]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' with its multifaceted districts enabled by the installation of artificial climate zones.
* The Citadel from ''Franchise/MassEffect''. It's [[RuleOfCool a giant space station.]] Just [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Citadel check out its page]]. It is awesome. [[spoiler: Of course it was made by crazy Robo-Cthulhu death farmers. But that's beside the point.]]
** Although it's getting beat up on at the time by Reapers, future Vancouver looks pretty impressive, as does the asari city on Thessia. Illium, which you get an aerial car chase through in ''Lair of the Shadowbroker'' is similarly scenery-porn-tastic.
%%* Mitakihara City from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.
* Sternbild City, a three-leveled city decorated with several Statue-of-Liberty-sized monuments from ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' is also a nice example.

** Our city is a submersible and can fly between galaxies. What does ''yours'' do?
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Canterlot, the capital city impossibly perched on a steep mountain.
** Cloudsdale, a hovering (and possibly mobile) city made almost entirely from clouds and rainbows and featuring a weather factory.
** The Crystal Empire, whose crystal street layout is actually an enormous accumulator array to collect love and camaraderie from the city's inhabitants and feed it into the city's central spire to be weaponized against evildoers.
* Minbari cities such as Yedor and Tuzanor from ''Series/BabylonFive''. In fact, the planet is rich in ginormous crystals, so much so that they carve entire cities out of these crystals. [[http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/File:Minbar_01.JPG Just take a look.]]
* Zaofu in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', a city made entirely of metal. The city is made to look like a congregation of lotus flowers that stay open in the day and are closed at night.

* Starbase Yorktown in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' is like a DomedCity but with the dome being a perfect sphere, as it is ''in space.'' It is also beyond gigantic. ArtificialGravity will make the definition of "down" different for you than for the street twisting above you.
* In the future depicted by ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', not-Disney has made a habit out of buying defunct cities and converting them into amusement parks. The result is still clearly a city- but the immaculate, ideal ''version'' of a city, complete with an army of janitors and construction workers who come out at night to keep its flawless image maintained. Citizens remark that it's like living in a fairytale.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}: Lands of Creation'', which details the actual setting's TimeOfMyths, many Exalted channel their wealth and power into building their own personal utopias. Examples include Samiaren, the treetop city built out of amber, and Illio Stara, the size-shifting city built into one little bonsai. Some Exalted's ideas of 'utopia' are significantly creepier ([[BigBrotherIsWatching Dari]], for one), but even they must carefully conceal such horror with cleanliness and public amenities.
* In ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'', Tora is the magically shielded, self-sustaining city left behind from when AndManGrewProud. It is all carved of seamless marble, except the plinth that symbolized their vow of loyalty towards Del's kings, and filled with tapestries and fresh fruit that the protagonists (who come from the more medieval lands outside) find extremely welcome.

!! Dark and Gritty

!! Uncategorized

* The titular Film/{{Metropolis}}. It borrows from Creator/HGWells ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' and has a shiny Art Deco city on top and a gritty worker's city under the earth.

* Metropolis from Franchise/{{Superman}} is generally portrayed as a city of gleaming high-tech, especially when being compared to Gotham. This was especially the case in comics from 2000 to 2004, when it became "infected" by 64th century superscience that made it into a SkyscraperCity with triple-decker monorails, service robots, and even an extremely clean biotech sewer system.

%%* Metropolis from Franchise/{{Superman}}.

* Themyscira of Franchise/WonderWoman. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Themyscira-floating.jpg Just take a look.]]

* The titular Webcomic/MegaTokyo.
* New Domino City from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''.
* Metru Nui from ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}''.
* Any city level from ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank''. You'd think those guys were architects.
* Metropolis from Franchise/{{Superman}}.

* Inkopolis from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}''.

* Mitakihara City from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.

* [[CityWithNoName The City]] from the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series.
* New Krobuzon from Creator/ChinaMieville's ''[[Literature/BasLagCycle Bas Lag]]'' trilogy.

* [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Minas Tirith]].
* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Asgard]].
* And the major cities of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Silver Moon, Undercity, the Exodar, Dalaran and Shattrah.

* New Mombasa from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', particularly in ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'', where it feels legitimately futuristic.
* The Human City from ''Film/TheMatrix''. It's a virtual merger of several real-world cities.
* The city in ''Film/BladeRunner'' is certainly '''Dark and Gritty''', [[http://site.jacobcharlesdietz.com/the-work/gallery-3/2019-post-alley as depicted in fanart.]]
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia Dinotopia]]'''s [[http://dinotopia.wikia.com/wiki/Waterfall_City Waterfall City.]]

* In ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', James tends to think of New York City this way.
* In ''Franchise/RoboCop'', OCP ''portrays'' Delta City as '''Shiny and Awesome''', but, like every other product OCP makes...

* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Aldera_City.JPG Aldera]]
** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cloud_City Cloud City,]] which was allegedly inspired by Stratos City.
** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mos_Eisley "Mos Eisley Spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."]]
** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Theed Theed]], which could have been inspired by Waterfall City.
** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Level_1313 Level 1313, the darker side of Coruscant, probably even worse than Mos Eisley.]]

** [[http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g295424-Dubai.html Dubai.]]
** [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Hong_Kong_Night_Skyline.jpg Hong Kong.]]
** [[https://livejapan.com/en/article-a0001580/ Tokyo]] Old, meet new.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul Seoul.]] Just whoa.
** San Antonio, Texas.

* "''Ubiquitos''" (mostly known as 'The City') from ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge''. See also AsceticAesthetic and SceneryPorn.
* [[TableTopGame/MagicTheGathering Ravnica]], a true megalopolis in that the entire world is a city.

** San Antonio, Texas (the page image).