History Main / DomedHometown

* The first town in ''{{Wild ARMs 4}}'' fits this to a tee.

* The first town in ''{{Wild ARMSs 4}}'' fits this to a tee.

* The first town in Wild Arms 4 fits this to a tee.

Features seem to include letting everyone on the outside go to hell, being a paranoid CityInABottle, and ending up as a [[DoomedHometown doomed]] [[IncrediblyLamePun domed hometown]].

* StephenKing's newest (as of Oct. 30, 2009) novel is called "UnderTheDome", and apparently deals with a city that is quite suddenly, and unexpectedly, placed...well, guess.

* In 1979-80 the town planners of Winooski, Vermont seriously proposed a dome over 850 acres of the downtown (the whole town is 1 sq. mile in area). [[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912572,00.html I am not]] [[http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0415/041538.html making this up]]. Years later the long-forgotten proposal showed up, ''described as having been built'', in a Chinese MiddleSchool [[http://www.virtualvermont.com/towns/Winooski.pdf textbook]].

* In PreCrisis {{Superman}} comics, Lori Lemaris's Atlantis survived its sinking with a giant dome. They later removed the dome after biologically changing themselves into merpeople to survive underwater.

* The [=BioDome=], in which researchers were attempting to live in a self-contained environment (to see what sort of problems they might run into if they built similar structures in, say, outer space). Results were rather poor.

* {{Atlantis}} in ''IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis'' is an UnderwaterBase that happens to be an AdvancedAncientAcropolis powered by stone-age {{orichalcum}}. It's thoroughly [[RagnarokProofing Ragnarok-proofed]] despite sitting on a volcano.

* {{Atlantis}} in ''IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis'' is an UnderwaterBase that happens to be an AdvancedAncientAcropolis powered by stone-age {{orichalcum}}.

* Troy in the re-imagined BattlestarGalactica was this according to a deleted scene. The MiningAccidentInTroy was a massive explosion that caused the dome to collapse.

* All bases (cities) in ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because Planet's atmosphere is toxic to humans. A particularly dome-happy faction are the pirates, but they build floating bases on oceans...

* [[LoisMcMasterBujold Bujold's]] ''Vorkosigan'' books features two fairly important planets whose entire population is contained by these due to in-progress {{terraform}}ing; Beta Colony (the homeworld of Miles Vorkosigan's mother), and Komarr (annexed by Barrayar a generation ago lest it gets bribed or strongarmed into permitting ''another'' invasion). The technological and social implications are rather well discussed.

* Parts of Midgar in ''FinalFantasyVII''; [[spoiler:Sector 7 is the "Domed and Doomed" variant, as the baddies try to [[ColonyDrop drop that part]] on the heroes. While they miss the PCs, in the process they kill everyone there, including three members of LaResistance.]]

* The geodome, in which researchers were attempting to live in a self-contained environment (to see what sort of problems they might run into if they built similar structures in, say, outer space). Results were rather poor.

* In StephenBaxter's ''The Time Ships'', London (and most surviving cities) are domed with concrete as protection against the bombs of an artificially-prolonged World War I. [spoiler: The dome gets broken while we watch.]

* The city Anvard in Carla Speed [=McNeil=]'s ''{{Finder}}''.

* Aldous Huxley's ''BraveNewWorld''.

* In the second game of ''DigitalDevilSaga'', the game take place in one. It's needed because humanity didn't took good care enough of trees which were protecting them from the sun.

->'''Russ Cargill:''' No, rats can't be trapped this easily, you're trapped like... carrots.