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** Also, a Children in Need Special had the Fifth Doctor announcing that an explosion was about to rip a hole in the universe the size of.... "...actually, the exact size of Belgium. That's a bit underdramatic, isn't it? Belgium?"
*** Which ties nicely into the saying about the standard metric unit for comparative surface area measurement being the Belgium, and the standard Imperial unit being the Wales.

--> On the Twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race encountered a deadly threat to its very existance. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...

*** Which ties nicely into the saying about the standard metric unit for comparitive surface area measurement being the Belgium, and the standard Imperial unit being the Wales.

** In fact, Cleveland is rather frequently a subject of this trope, hence its AlternateTitle, AliensInCleveland. It's part of a long-RunningGag in popular culture that Cleveland is a depressing hellhole of decay, corruption, and a river of fire. The city's demonic influence permeates into its residents, who actually ''like'' it there.

* CharlieJade takes place in three alternate universe versions - one dystopian, one ecotopian and one normal - of ''Cape Town, South Africa''.
* Other than the occassional Hollywood haunting, all of the action in ''{{Supernatural}}'' takes place in small- to mid-size towns, mostly in [[FlyoverCountry flyover country.]] [[BigBad Big Bads]] have been vanquished in [[http://www.tv.com/supernatural/devils-trap/episode/677588/recap.html?tag=episode_header;recap Jefferson City, MO;]] [[http://www.tv.com/supernatural/all-hell-breaks-loose-1/episode/1003161/recap.html?tag=episode_header;recap South Dakota]]/[[http://www.tv.com/supernatural/all-hell-breaks-loose-2/episode/1003162/recap.html?tag=episode_header;recap Wyoming;]] [[http://www.tv.com/supernatural/no-rest-for-the-wicked/episode/1199072/recap.html?tag=episode_header;recap New Harmony, IN;]] and [[http://www.tv.com/supernatural/lucifer-rising/episode/1267467/recap.html?tag=episode_header;recap Ilchester, MD.]] Funny how all of the above (including Hollywood) seem to have the same general [[StargateCity climate...]]

** And in ''Half-Life 2'' the office of the entire earths military administration is located in a small city at the Black Sea. Which coincidently is exactly the same place where the few survivors of Black Mesa have created their secret rebel headquarter. Though it might have been the cities exceptionally high rebel activity that caused the administration to relocate there.

* ''TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' takes place in a heavily fictionalised version of Cumberland. Nobody in the comic thinks anything of it.

** Apparently the original idea was for Stitch to crash-land into a very rural area of Kansas.

* Pittsburgh is destroyed in the first ''{{Lensman}}'' novel.

* Vladivostok, of all places, gets to feature not just in one, but in ''two'' completely unrelated shows with a supernatural touch. But while ''DarkerThanBlack'''s representation is [[RealPlaceBackground completely accurate]], [[BloodPlus Blood+]]'s was [[HollyGeography almost unrecognizable.]]

* Vladivostok, of all places, gets to feature not just in one, but in ''two'' completely unrelated shows with a supernatural touch. But while DarkerThanBlack is big on realism and presents it [[ShownTheirWork precisely researched]] and [[RealPlaceBackground picture perfect]], [[BloodPlus Blood+]] portrayal was in extremely BroadStrokes that left the city almost unrecognizable.

* RoadDahl used to live in Cardiff. MagnificentBastard in Cardiff...

An UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny? Uluru / Ayer's Rock has front row seats.

* Any level in the ''{{Halo}}'' series that takes place on earth is set in Africa, specifically New Mombassa and Voi. Justified somewhat, as [[spoiler: there was a large Forerunner artifact under there.]] Also, one of Earth's space elevators is located in New Mombassa, making it less Cardiff and more Rotterdam (one of the largest ports in the world).

* In an ''ItsWalky!'' storyline, Head Alien experiments with his new time freezing technology in a small town in Canada, leading to the exchange in the page quote. It's also an excuse for a CrossOver with another webcomic, ''{{Webcomics/Avalon}}'', set in small-town Canada, which was in the middle of a long hiatus.

* In an ''ItsWalky!'' storyline, Head Alien experiments with his new time freezing technology in a small town in Canada, leading to the exchange in the page quote. It's also an excuse for a CrossOver with another webcomic, ''Avalon'', set in small-town Canada, which was in the middle of a long hiatus.

'''Head Alien''': I thought "Who'd f*** ing notice?" God DAMN was I right!

* Vladivostok, of all places, gets to feature not just in one, but in ''two'' completely unrelated chows with a supernatural touch. But while DarkerThanBlack is big on realism and presents it [[ShownTheirWork precisely researched]] and [[RealPlaceBackground picture perfect]], [[BloodPlus Blood+]] portrayal was in extremely BroadStrokes that left the city almost unrecognizable.

** Called the U.F.O. "Capital of the World" despite the fact its a fairly obscure town (even to Scots).

Is a prominent figure from religion or myth manifest once more and living in the world of humans? He's Jakarta, Indonesia.

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* {{Lampshaded}} and {{Justified}} in ''TheFaculty''. When one charcter points out the absurbness of aliens secretly invading via a high school in a small alien town, another GenreSavvy character points out that it'll be easier to secretly invade in somewhere out of the way than try to attack a big city, where the world will notice.

* Lampshaded in the opening title of LittleShopOfHorrors:

* In ''The Puppet Masters'' by Robert A Heinlein, aliens invade Grinnell, Iowa (changed for very little good reason to Ambrose, Iowa, in TheMovie).

* The events of Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters trilogy takes place in Bixby, population: 13,000. [[spoiler: Though the location is important to the plot.]]

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* In MegasXLR every alien, monster, giant robot, or other assorted anime parodies all for varying reasons all attack Jersey City.

* An escape pod carrying the infant survivor of an [[LastOfHisKind otherwise extinct alien species]] crash lands in.... Smallville, Kansas. [[{Superman} Of course.]]