History Main / DomedHometown

* Creator/StephenKing's novel ''Literature/UnderTheDome'' deals with a small town in [[LovecraftCountry Maine]] that is quite suddenly, and unexpectedly, placed... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guess]].

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In the episode "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS1E26HeatWave Heat Wave]]", Dr. Blight creates a force field dome over Hope Island in order to test her latest scheme on the Planeteers and Gaia.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'', [[TeamMom Wammawink]] has cast a protective barrier spell around the valley where the main characters live, preventing anyone from entering or leaving. She dissolves it at the end of the first episode to allow Horse to go on her quest.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' features a domed city in the Episode "Ultra Chicks."

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpacedOut'', the Martins are made to live in a town contained in the Krach Industries space dome as part of the company's experiment.

* Similar to the [[TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}} RPG it's based on,]] ''ComicBook/{{Paranoia}}'' is set in the {{Dystopia}}n domed city of Alpha Complex, ruled by an [[AiIsACrapshoot all-seeing insane computer.]]

** Argo City, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s home-town. Supergirl's father Zor-El created a force-field bubble that enabled the city survive Krypton's destruction. Eventually it ended up as a DoomedHometown, though.
** In one of her adventures, Kara visits the Bottle City of Kandor... and almost destroys it by accident (in ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1972 Supergirl Vol 1 #2]]'').
** In ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'', Gotham is enclosed under a domed force-field. One decade before the beginning of the story, ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'' built the dome, banned all parahumans and declared that no one entered or left her city without ''her'' permission.
** The Bottle City of Kandor, a Kryptonian city miniaturized by ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}. In ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'', Supergirl [[spoiler:-apparently-]] smashes it, claiming it is no real (long story).
** Brainiac creates domed force-fields around whole cities, shrinks them and then abducts them. ''ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac'' shows he keeps dozens of them inside his ship. The first scene narrates how he reduced Kandor, and later he shrinks Metropolis.
** In ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'', Reign spreads a domed energy force-field around New York as fighting Supergirl to prevent other heroes from coming and helping Kara out.

** Smallville on the Pocket Universe Earth was protected by a force-field bubble that provides enough atmosphere for its residents, though it eventually fails as the Phantom Zone criminals destroy the field's generator in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlSaga''.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman''

Fairly traditional for {{Underwater Cit|y}}ies or space colonies in SF. An UndergroundCity may or may not have one holding up the roof and/or simulating a sky.

* ''Seed of Light'' by Edmund Cooper combines this with DoomedHometown. In the last days of Earth after a nuclear war, humans are confined to domed cities that keep out the pervasive radiation pollution. However, those in charge know that this won't last forever so each city builds a spacecraft to carry a small, carefully-selected number of colonists to the stars. Problem: launching the ships stands a chance of cracking the dome unless done carefully and with repair crews standing by to seal the launch aperture at once. [[spoiler: Rioting crowds destroy two of the ships before they're ready and the third - only JUST ready as the rioters arrive - is forced to make an emergency launch or not launch at all, irretrievably cracking the dome in the process.]]

* ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}'': The city of New London in the second book of the series is entirely enclosed under a dome, as are other separate facilities such as the nearby spaceport.

Features often include letting everyone on the outside go to hell, being a paranoid CityInABottle, and ending up as a {{Doomed|Hometown}} [[JustForPun domed hometown]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Hunted}}'', the 2019 story event from ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer'' has Kraven working with Arcade to place a large dome over Central Park to create an enclosure that allows him to stage TheGrandHunt without interference from other members of Marvel's superhero community.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman''

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4b68e75aa5162 an article on these]]. They're often used as a first step in colonising new worlds. Of note is the [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48472c6ab8511 canopy plant]], a genetically modified plant that can be dropped onto a world where it grows [[OrganicTechnology living domes]] filled with breathable air and continues to do so until the whole world is covered.

* ''Dragons Can Only Rust'' and ''Dragon Reforged'' by Creator/ChrisCymri start off in a religious community, where Gonard the mechanical dragon was built, enclosed in a force field dome, one of the few pockets of civilization in a post-apocalyptic world.

* The idea is OlderThanRadio, appearing in the 1881 socialist and white supremacist fantasy ''Three Hundred Years Hence'' by British author William Delisle Hay. Hay's book describes a future civilization where most of humanity lives in glass-domed cities beneath the sea, allowing the surface to be used primarily for agriculture.

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* ''LightNovel/ChromeShelledRegios'': The Regios are covered by domes to protect the inhabitants from the toxic external environment.