History Main / DomedHometown

** Due to its surface mostly being covered by barren desert, the cities of Mandalore consist of large domes whose volumes are almost entirely filled by [[HiveCity clusters of buildings piled around and on top of each other]].

** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' campaign, there's the City of Glass on the Elemental Plane of Water. The name is kind of a misnomer: most of the great sphere inclosing the settlement is actually made of a rare substance called Eternal Ice (which is ice that does not melt) with glass over it. It is populated by a variety of races, both native to the Plane and immigrants from elsewhere, and half of the sphere is kept flooded to accomodate amphibious species. Despite the assertions of the natives, the City of Glass' dome ''has'' broken several times in the past due to errant spellcasting... but since the Elemental Plane of Water has subjective directional gravity, the air and water mostly stayed where they were. The vandals were still put to death, however.

* Aquas, an undersea version, is one of the quirkier outposts of the Alphatian Empire in the ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'' D&D setting. [[spoiler: After the Alphatian mainland sinks in the ''Wrath of the Immortals'' Adventure Path, Aquas becomes the new capital of what's left of the Empire. At least, what's left on the outer world.]]

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' campaign, there's the City of Glass on the Elemental Plane of Water. The name is kind of a misnomer. Most of it is actually made of a rare substance called Eternal Ice (which is ice that does not melt) with a glass dome over it. It is populated by a variety of races, both native to the Plane and immigrants from elsewhere.

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* In Creator/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.]]

* New Wave Sci Fi writer Creator/MichaelBishop has the ''[=UrNu Cycle=]'', which are a group of connected short stories set in a dystopian and possibly [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalypse]] future where many of America's prominent cities have been domed and isolated for the rest of the world. Most UrNu stories are as dedicated to describing the city they take place in as they do to describing the conflict the characters face.
* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
** The book 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.
** The Cetagandans in the novels also use "force domes", but they can be switched on and off, and are used for temporary containment (prison camp) or just as security perimeters (the Celestial Garden). It's also possible to control the weather within the dome, which ensures the Emperor in the Celestial Garden doesn't get rained on.

* Troy in the re-imagined ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' was this according to a deleted scene. The [[ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory mining accident on Troy]] was a massive explosion that caused the dome to collapse.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven''.

* ''Series/QuatermassII''. Professor Quatermass shows off a concept drawing of his planned Moonbase, which has domed buildings to provide an atmosphere on the airless Moon. He's surprised to find a chemical planet in Britain has the same domed buildings...because aliens are using it during their HostileTerraforming of the Earth.
* One ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch opens with a fake advertisement touting putting a dome over your house as the next big thing in home security... only for Creator/EddieMurphy to interrupt and run down [[DeconstructedTrope every disadvantage of such a practice]].

* ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'':

* ''Manga/DragonBall'': A variation. The cities aren't domed, but most of the buildings themselves are dome-shaped.

%%* ''Anime/WolfsRain''.
%%* ''Anime/RahXephon'': Tokyo Jupiter.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Doflamingo uses his [[RazorFloss String-String power]] to encase the entirety of Dressrosa in a cage of string called the Birdcage. Then he starts shrinking it, causing the strings to slice whatever they touch, making it a vital matter to knock him unconscious before the cage kills everyone.

* ''Anime/TheBigO'': Paradigm City isn't completely domed, but the domes are where the rich people live. Later on, when the dramatic revelations start piling up, it's strongly implied that [[spoiler:the rest of the city is under a dome too, just a dome so large that they don't know it's there]]. However, the finale implies [[spoiler:the "larger dome" is not a literal dome, but in fact ''[[TrumanShowPlot the edge of reality]]'']].
* ''Anime/Macross7'' and ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'': The ''New Macross''-class {{Generation Ship}}s are giant city-ships with a [[TransformingMecha transforming]] ''Battle''-class battleship bolted to the front.
* ''Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx'': The "Plantations" are essentially large, domed cities that are powered by magma energy and [[MobileCity can also move across the landscape]].

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' is given this in New Mobotropolis. A friendly AI controlled city with a retractable dome that is quite good at keeping people out. (Except when it isn't)
* ''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.

* ''ComicBook/{{Quasar}}'': Vaughn finds the ruins of a domed city on Uranus, revealed to be the same city where the original Marvel Boy grew up.

* ''Film/{{Impostor}}'': The cities are covered by defensive shields to protect them from Alpha Centauri attacks.
* ''Film/TheBubble1966'' features a young couple landing their plane in a remote town only to find that they are now trapped there by the eponymous "bubble'' which surrounds the place and prevents anyone from leaving.
* ''Film/{{Alimuom}}'': The Mega Manila Biodome, and presumably other major metropolises on Earth too, which by the film's future setting is too polluted to wander through unprotected. Major cities are enclosed in vast domes, and individuals who venture out have on several layers of protection, including oxygen masks.
* ''Film/BlackPanther2018'': Wakanda is protected by a dome force field and hidden from the outside world. While they thrive in rich technology, their neighboring country suffers in poverty.
* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': At the beginning, when Kong is shown living on Skull Island, it at first looks just the same as it always is. Then, in an effective RevealShot, Kong hurls a tree-made spear into the sky, revealing that it's actually an ArtificialOutdoorsDisplay, the PerpetualStorm surrounding the island having grown to the point that Monarch needs to enclose Kong in a massive high-tech containment cell to protect him, much to his frustration.

[[folder:Literature]]

* Creator/IsaacAsimov:
** "Literature/ABoysBestFriend": The story doesn't specify a shape to the protection that Lunar City has from the airless void of UsefulNotes/TheMoon, but does describe that anyone who re-enters must wash the dust/regolith off before entering fully. This establishes an airlock-like divide between the city's residents and the lunar environment.
** ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'': All of Earth's population live in Cities (areas such as New York, Baltimore, and Washington grew into a single city), areas enclosed under massive domes. This is tied to humanity developing a neurosis about the open air. The underground cities of Earth were built for greater efficiency under the conditions of serious overpopulation.
** ''Literature/DavidStarrSpaceRanger'': Martian cities and farms are covered in domes to hold the Earth-normal atmosphere in.
** ''Literature/FoundationSeries'':
*** "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": During its peak, the (first) [[GalacticSuperpower Galactic Empire]] made Trantor its capital planet. Its city grew [[CityPlanet to encompass the world]], and developed [[LayeredMetropolis multiple layers]] as well. However, [[TerraDeforming the topmost layer is domed over]], ironically creating habitable areas; plant life has even managed to gain a foothold on the surfaces of the artificial structures. Everybody just chooses to live in enclosed sectors. This is inherited behaviour from their ancient ancestors on Earth, as depicted in ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel''.
*** "Literature/TheMule": The largest city of [[NumberedHomeworld Haven II]] is built under rock, with an artificial light at the top of the dome to create the illusion of a young sun in the sky.
** "Literature/TheMartianWay": {{UsefulNotes/Mars}} is one of [[ColonizedSolarSystem several colonies]] that require sealed habitation. The planet hasn't been terraformed, so many things that we take for granted, such as air and water, are strictly monitored and recycled.
** ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'':
*** The 1983 Creator/DelRey[=/=]{{Creator/Ballantine}} cover shows the Procurator's Mt Everest palace enclosed under a dome to protect it from Earth's inhospitable environment.
*** The 1987 {{Creator/Grafton}} cover shows an asteroid with a dome to hold buildings and trees at the edge of an atmosphere.
** "Literature/TheWeaponTooDreadfulToUse": Humans have colonized {{UsefulNotes/Venus}} with domed cities like Aphrodopolis to keep out the heavy rains.
* ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy'': All the cities on [[{{Crapsackworld}} Earth]] are under giant domes, to protect them from the hurricane-on-steroids armada storms that rage across the planet. Before the domes were built, a farmer's pickup truck was found in the ''seventieth'' floor of the Sears Tower after one storm.
* ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'': On New Cov, cities are built under large domes of transparent metal to keep out the dense and hostile jungles that cover the planet. Inside they're {{Hive Cit|y}}ies, with their volumes filled by multiple stacked levels given to distinct functions. Access is through large chutes on their tops, which spaceships can fly in and out of to access the hangar levels at the top.
* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
** The book 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.
** The Cetagandans in the novels also use "force domes", but they can be switched on and off, and are used for temporary containment (prison camp) or just as security perimeters (the Celestial Garden). It's also possible to control the weather within the dome, which ensures the Emperor in the Celestial Garden doesn't get rained on.

* Martian settlements are offhandedly mentioned to be this in ''Literature/JunctionPoint''.

* Some cities in ''Literature/RedMars'' are in tents (some of which are dome-shaped), supported by the higher air pressure inside.
* The city of New London in the second book of the ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}'' series is entirely enclosed under a dome, as are other separate facilities such as the nearby spaceport.
* A dome covers the public eating area in the Creator/KimNewman short story ''Literature/TomorrowTown''. Like everything else in the {{Zeerust}} "community of the future", it is somewhat impractical. Trapping the population under a dome just means that airborne infections spread rapidly, while relying on artificial light sources means that the light falls unevenly on the grass and the temperature is too humid, especially given the plastic SpaceClothes everyone has to wear. [[spoiler:Then the villain tries to [[SelfDestructMechanism melt the dome on top of everyone until someone pulls the circuit breaker]].]]
* Much of the action in Creator/WilliamGibson's ''Literature/{{Sprawl|Trilogy}}'' novels and short-stories takes place in the wholly or partially domed Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis mega-city.
* In Creator/JohnBrunner's ''Literature/StandOnZanzibar'' the island of Manhattan has been enclosed in a "Fuller Dome" (See Real Life section below). It went into some detail about the negative effects of doming a city.
* Creator/StephenKing's novel ''Literature/UnderTheDome'' deals with a small town in [[LovecraftCountry Maine]] that is quite suddenly, and unexpectedly, placed... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guess]].
* In ''Literature/{{Gone}}'', a dome appears over Perdido Beach (actually, in a 10-mile radius around the nearby nuclear power plant) at the same time [[OnlyFatalToAdults everyone older than 14 disappears]].
* 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.

* Grayson, in the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series, developed these as a means of controlling the planet's high concentration of heavy metals. Given their limited tech base, these domes weren't all that large until allying with Manticore introduced them to crystoplast and other modern super-strong materials. Honor founds a company called Sky Domes, Ltd., and makes a fortune on this trope. [[spoiler:Several conservative steadholders try to sabotage one of her first domes, resulting in the death of several children (which horrifies even them, since children are sacred on Grayson). Fortunately, the sabotage is discovered, and all culprits are punished]].
* In Creator/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.]]
* In the ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' novels by Creator/PiersAnthony, the inhabitants of Proton live in domed communities because the mining of protonite has ravaged the planet's ecology, rendering its atmosphere toxic.
* The alien Masters in ''Literature/TheTripods'' use domes to recreate their home planet's atmosphere on Earth. However this is only meant as a temporary measure before they [[HostileTerraforming convert Earth's atmosphere to one like their own world]]. Once LaResistance discover this, they have to find a means of cracking open the domed cities to kill the Masters inside.
* A domed city ''within'' a city appears in ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'', as the cactacea of New Crobuzon built themselves a gigantic greenhouse to live in.
* Creator/JamesBlish created not only domed cities out of familiar earth cities like Pittsburgh and New York but they travelled through space looking for work in his ''Literature/CitiesInFlight'' series. The motive force for traversing the stars were created by enormously powerful machines he called "spindizzies", which also form a protective bubble around the cities (so they only form the dome shape when landing on a planetary surface).

* Deconstructed in Donald E. Westlake's "The Risk Profession", in which the asteroid-belt outpost of Atronics City is protected by a dome ... of solid iron, because a transparent one would be too fragile and would get so scratched up by dust particles that you couldn't see in or out anyway.
* ''Literature/AColderWar'', a Franchise/CthulhuMythos AlternateHistory short story by Creator/CharlesStross. The last survivors of the human race eke out their existence in XK-Masada, a city on an alien planet built beneath a mile-high dome designed by Buckminster Fuller.
* Most of the large cities in the ''Literature/RevelationSpace'' universe are enclosed under pressurized domes, as most planets are {{Death World}}s. Chasm City is the most notable, with a 60 kilometer wide dome covering the city and the volcano-like rupture in the center of the city that produces the breathable air.
* The Fours' Cities (of which there are only three for some reason) in Creator/TanithLee's ''Literature/BitingTheSun'' are under domes that keep a breathable atmosphere in, since the oxygen concentration outside the domes is so low that humanity can't survive without oxygen pills.
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'' most of the Lunar settlements are underground caves and warrens, though one section of Luna City is referred to as "Old Dome," and is implied to be a large dome at or near the Moon's surface which the city outgrew.
* ''Dragons Can Only Rust'' and ''Dragon Reforged'' by Creator/ChrisCymri start off in a religious community enclosed in a force field dome, one of the few pockets of civilization in a post-apocalyptic world.

* New Wave Sci Fi writer Creator/MichaelBishop has the ''[=UrNu Cycle=]'', which are a group of connected short stories set in a dystopian and possibly [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalypse]] future where many of America's prominent cities have been domed and isolated for the rest of the world. Most UrNu stories are as dedicated to describing the city they take place in as they do to describing the conflict the characters face.

* The little religious enclave where Gonard the mechanical dragon was built in ''Dragons Can Only Rust'' is protected from the "Changewinds" that plague the rest of post-apocalyptic Earth by a force field dome.

* Alpha Complex in ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''. Unless it's actually an ElaborateUndergroundBase; the GameMaster is invited to play fast and loose with even setting basics like this to keep players off guard. Heck, maybe it's actually a space station, or underwater, and "Outdoors" really is as instantly lethal as the propaganda claims.
* Aquas, an undersea version, is one of the quirkier outposts of the Alphatian Empire in the ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'' D&D setting. [[spoiler: After the Alphatian mainland sinks in the ''Wrath of the Immortals'' Adventure Path, Aquas becomes the new capital of what's left of the Empire. At least, what's left on the outer world.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Seedship}}'': If the player colonizes a planet that isn't conductive to human life, the settlers will live in domed cities, regardless of technological level.
* The world of ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIII'', set on a space station, is comprised of seven connected ones.
* The future of A.D. 2300 in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' features the ruins of domed cities from before the apocalypse in then future year of A.D. 1999.

* In ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga: Avatar Tuner 2'', humans who don't want to [[spoiler:get turned to stone by the corrupted data coming from the Sun]] have three choices: live in these, live underground, or become [[spoiler:[[ImAHumanitarian man-eating demons]]]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Heretic}}''[='=]s '''Domes''' of D'Sparil, set under the sea.
* [[AssPull Major plot twist]] in ''VideoGame/CustomRobo'' (for the Nintendo Gamecube, not the original Japanese game). The main cast is revealed to have been living in a blissful artificial town surrounded by and protected from the devastation and decay of the real world. Even nature as we know it no longer exists, and grass and trees are manmade.
* {{Atlantis}} in ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis'' is an UnderwaterBase that happens to be an AdvancedAncientAcropolis which sank into the ocean, protected by machines powered by [[BambooTechnology stone-age]] {{orichalcum}}. It's thoroughly [[RagnarokProofing Ragnarok-proofed]] despite sitting on a volcano.
* Ciel Shelter, the first town in ''VideoGame/WildArms4'', fits this to a tee. [[spoiler: The generator keeping the town floating in the sky is damaged, however, and the entire dome falls into the sea.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GPolice'' the various sections of Earth's colony on the Jovian moon Calliso are contained within domes to contain a breathable atmosphere. The domes appear to be made of a mesh of laser beams but they make a metalic clanging sound if they are rammed. In one mission some terrorists hijack a train-load of bombs and attempt to detonate them in one of the tunnels that connect these domes in an attempt to fracture them.
* All of the major cities in ''VideoGame/{{Opoona}}'' are like this, and are even generally referred to as "domes." They're there to keep out the horrible monsters roaming the wilderness. At one point, you even get to explore an old dome that [[TechnoWreckage didn't keep them out well enough.]]
* Sections of Rapture in ''VideoGame/BioShock'' feature somewhat of a variation on this, though not the whole city but only sections of open plazas being encased under glass barrel arches, it's a barrel arched town.

* The city of Caldoria in ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject''. Justified, as it's in the sky and positioned on top of a huge floating vehicle.

* The ''Dune Wars'' mod for ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} IV'' has domed [[DeflectorShield Holtzman shields]] as a type of city fortification. However, there is a [[EnergyWeapon lasgun]]-armed unit that ignores the shield (GameplayAndStorySegregation, since, in the novels, firing a laser at a Holtzman shield invariably leads to a nuclear-scale explosion; if the mod implemented this mechanic, the unit would have been destroyed and the city would have been wiped out or heavily damaged).

* The fifth Special Stage in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'' is set in such a city. The dome is supported by massive red metal beams, and the Special Stage itself takes place in a huge lake at its center.

* In ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'', the UsefulNotes/LasVegas Strip was sealed under a series of climate-controlled geodesic domes in order to keep it habitable even as GlobalWarming ravaged the American Southwest. [[RagnarokProofing Those domes have still held up]] even hundreds of years and one RobotWar later, allowing Aloy to explore the well-preserved ruins of the Strip that are otherwise buried in sand.

* ''Webcomic/FamiliarTerritory'' takes place in Southland, a quarantined city surrounded by a dome.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': [[spoiler:London is a domed city, using many domes and a number of tubes connecting things. A cabal of Sparks caused the whole of Great Britain to start sinking into the ocean for reasons unknown. The state of other cities is so far unrevealed]].
* The Yellowstone refugee camp in ''Webcomic/HoovesOfDeath'', courtesy of the strongest BarrierWarrior around, Commander Sprinkles. Zombies crowd around the edges to get a glimpse at the delicious humans and unicorns inside, but they have no chance at actually breaking through. [[spoiler: However, zombified Gnomes [[DoomedHometown show that the barrier doesn't continue underground]]]].
* ''Webcomic/EchoCreekATaleOfTwoButterflies'': Echo Creek is stuck under one such dome. In a twist, it only affects the town's monster residents, not the humans or Mewmans. [[spoiler:[[OhCrap And it's shrinking.]]]]
* Mayview in ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' is fully-enclosed by a barrier that prevents any spirit (or spectral) for entering or leaving, except via the Ghost Train.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'': The town of Happily Ever After builds an enormous glass dome to keep [[BigBad the Hacker]] out. Hacker schemes to break through by having [[HotWitch Wicked]] break through the dome with her [[GlassShatteringSound glass shattering voice]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'': Kiev has been encased in a dome to stop the huge number of dangerous E.V.O.s populating it escaping.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' features a domed city in the Episode "Ultra Chicks."
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'': All that is left of "civilization" on the WretchedHive planet of Tortuna is a handful of domed cities. The rest is a desert wasteland after [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Queen]] [[BigBad of the Crowns]] bombed most of the planet.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "The Cage of Glass", Brainiac shrinks Metropolis itself to minuscule size and imprisons the city in glass for return to Doctor Heckla's homeworld.
* 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.

* In 1979-80 the town planners of Winooski, Vermont [[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912572,00.html seriously]] [[http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0415/041538.html proposed]] building a dome over 850 acres of the downtown (the whole town is 1 square mile in area), getting to the point where Buckminster Fuller visited the area and headlined a conference at nearby St. Michael's College. Years later, the long-forgotten proposal showed up, ''[[CriticalResearchFailure described as having been built]]'', in a Chinese MiddleSchool [[http://www.virtualvermont.com/towns/Winooski.pdf textbook]].

* ''Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx'': The "Plantations" are essentially large, domed cities that are powered by magma energy and can move across the landscape.

* The alien Masters in ''Literature/TheTripods'' use domes to recreate their home planet's atmosphere.

* In the Franchise/CthulhuMythos AlternateHistory short story ''Literature/AColderWar'' by Creator/CharlesStross the last survivors of the human race eke out their existence in XK-Masada, a city on an alien planet built beneath a mile-high dome designed by Buckminster Fuller.

* The Franchise/CthulhuMythos AlternateHistory short story, "A Colder War", by Creator/CharlesStross. The last survivors of the human race eke out their existence in XK-Masada, a city on an alien planet built beneath a mile-high dome designed by Buckminster Fuller.

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

* A variation in ''Manga/DragonBall''; the cities aren't domed, but most of the buildings themselves are dome-shaped.
* The Regios of ''LightNovel/ChromeShelledRegios''. Serves as this in order to protect the inhabitants from the toxic external environment.
* The "Innocent" of ''Anime/CombatMechaXabungle'' live in domes because [[spoiler:they're baseline humans who can't survive in the radioactive wasteland outside like their genetically engineered creations the "Civilians".]]
* Domed and apparently doomed: most (if not all) of the cities of ''Anime/ErgoProxy''.
%%* Likewise those of ''Anime/WolfsRain''.
%%* Tokyo Jupiter in ''Anime/RahXephon''.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Doflamingo uses his [[RazorFloss String-String power]] to in case the entirety of Dressrosa in a cage of string called the Birdcage. Then he starts shrinking it, causing the strings to slice whatever they touch, making it a vital matter to knock him unconscious before the cage kills everyone.
* Eden in ''Manga/MotherKeeper'' is surrounded by a dome in order to make Eden perfect and doom everyone outside of it.

* Paradigm City, setting of ''Anime/TheBigO'', isn't completely domed, but the domes are where the rich people live. Later on, when the dramatic revelations start piling up, it is strongly implied that [[spoiler: the rest of the city is under a dome too, just a dome so large that they don't know it's there.]] However, the finale implies [[spoiler: the "larger dome" is not a literal dome, but in fact ''[[TrumanShowPlot the edge of reality]]''.]]
* The ''New Macross''-class {{Generation Ship}}s in ''Anime/Macross7'' and ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' are giant city-ships with a [[TransformingMecha transforming]] ''Battle''-class battleship bolted to the front.

* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Mighty Little Defenders'', the pistol made by Uncle Gogoa and discovered and weaponized by Weslie creates a big dome barrier around Goat Village to protect it from the oncoming attacks from the wolves.

* In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'', ComicBook/LexLuthor built a dome around Gotham City to keep scavengers and bandits out... and his mind-controlled subjects in.

* ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy'': All the cities on [[{{Crapsackworld}} Earth]] are under giant domes, to protect them from the hurricane-on-steroids armada storms that rage across the planet. Before the domes were built, a farmer's pickup truck was found in the ''seventieth'' floor of the Sears Tower after one storm.

* Creator/DavidWingrove's ''Literature/ChungKuo'' series provides an example of this, with seven enormous domed cities housing 36 billion people.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming#Paraterraforming Paraterraforming]] is a proposed method of making a planet habitable which is essentially this trope taken UpToEleven. It involves covering an entire planet with a transparent roof to hold in a breathable atmosphere. This would probably be quicker and easier than full {{Terraform}}ing, and allow for atmosphere to be retained even on planets (or moons or asteroids) too small to hold onto an atmosphere over geological timescales.

* ''Series/QuatermassII''. Professor Quatermass shows off a concept picture of his planned Moonbase, which has domed buildings to provide an atmosphere on the Moon's hostile surface. He's surprise to find a chemical planet in Britain has the same domed buildings...because aliens are using it during their HostileTerraforming of the Earth.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hunted}}'', the 2019 story event from ''ComicBook/NickSpencersSpiderMan'' 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.

* ''Film/TheBubble2006'' features a young couple landing their plane in a remote town only to find that they are now trapped there by the eponymous "bubble'' which surrounds the place and prevents anyone from leaving.

* ''Film/TheBubble'' features a young couple landing their plane in a remote town only to find that they are now trapped there by the eponymous "bubble'' which surrounds the place and prevents anyone from leaving.

* The future of A.D. 2300 in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' features the ruins of domed cities from before the apocalypse.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Heartcore}}'', humans live in cities encased in domes to protect them from an enviornment too hostile for them to survive in.

* Alpha Complex in ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''. Unless it's actually an ElaborateUndergroundBase; the GameMaster is invited to play fast and loose with even setting basics like this to keep players off guard.

* Colony 6 in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' isn't an example when you are playing the game, but in the backstory of the Colony, it is said to have been, and some of the architecture left after it's been taken back from the Mechon attacked indicates as much also. Additionally, if you talk to a NPC after rebuilding the Colony, they will talk about one of the major weaknesses of this trope: the fact that if an attack were to happen, it would be very difficult to get many people out due to the entire place being enclosed.

** "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E8BombadJedi Bombad Jedi]]" reveals that the cities on Rodia are located under domes.

* The City in ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin''. This also applies to all the surviving cities.
* The dome over Springfield from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' is a slight reversal. After Springfield has a major environmental disaster [[ItMakesSenseInContext involving pig crap]], it's there [[QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice to let the town go to hell and spare the outside world.]]
-->'''Homer Simpson''': [[{{Catchphrase}} D'OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH]]ME!!!
* In ''WesternAnimation/BattleForTerra'', [[spoiler:the remaining piece of the terraformer is eventually used to pump air, breathable to humans, into a dome, created to house the human colony on Terra]].

* The film version of ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' has a ''flattened and angular'' "dome" over the Psychlos' Denver base, which is used to maintain a breathable atmosphere for the Psychlos.
* The city in the movie version of ''Film/LogansRun''. The book version had people (and cities, etc) all over the Earth, with no domes.
* The Mars colony in the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990''.
* The town where most of the action takes place in ''Film/TheTrumanShow'', though the main character doesn't realize it.
* The enclave in ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''.
* In ''Film/{{Impostor}}'', the cities are covered by defensive shields to protect them from Alpha Centauri attacks.
* The 3D cult classic ''The Bubble'', also known as ''Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth'', features a young couple landing their plane in a remote town only to find that they are now trapped there by the eponymous "bubble'' which surrounds the place and prevents anyone from leaving.
* The Mega Manila Biodome in ''Film/{{Alimuom}}'', and presumably other major metropolises on Earth too, which by the film's future setting is too polluted to wander through unprotected. Major cities are enclosed in vast domes, and individuals who venture out have on several layers of protection, including oxygen masks.
* ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'''s homeland, Wakanda is protected by a dome force field and hidden from the outside world. While they thrive in rich technology, their neighboring country suffers in poverty.
* At the beginning of ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', when Kong is shown living on Skull Island, it at first looks just the same as it always is. Then, in an effective RevealShot, Kong hurls a tree-made spear into the sky, revealing that it's actually an ArtificialOutdoorsDisplay, the PerpetualStorm surrounding the island having grown to the point that Monarch needs to enclose Kong in a massive high-tech containment cell to protect him, much to his frustration.

* In ''[[Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy Night's Dawn]]'', all the cities on [[{{Crapsackworld}} Earth]] are under giant domes, to protect them from the hurricane-on-steroids armada storms that rage across the planet. Before the domes were built, a farmer's pickup truck was found in the ''seventieth'' floor of the Sears Tower after one storm.

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* The city of Amity Park in the TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' Movie "WesternAnimation/TheUltimateEnemy", where it has been domed to protect it from ghost attacks. (Specifically from Dark Danny). [[spoiler:There's also the implication that the rest of the world has been razed by Dark Danny.]]

* WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle once visited Submerbia, an underwater domed city that was menaced by Maybe Dick, the Wailing Whale.

* Brainy in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' cast the entire village inside a soundproof dome, and the only way the Smurflings (who are trapped outside) can break the dome is with the sound of a pin drop.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The episode [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E8BombadJedi "Bombad Jedi"]] reveals that the cities on Rodia are located under domes.
* Kiev in ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' has been encased in a dome to stop the huge number of dangerous E.V.O.s populating it escaping.

* Brainy in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' cast the entire village inside a soundproof dome, and the only way the Smurflings (who are trapped outside) can break the dome is with the sound of a pin drop.

* A dome covers the public eating area in the Creator/KimNewman short story "Literature/TomorrowTown". Like everything else in the {{Zeerust}} "community of the future", it is somewhat impractical. Trapping the population under a dome just means that airborne infections spread rapidly among the population, while relying on artificial light sources means that the light falls unevenly and the temperature is too humid, especially given the plastic SpaceClothes everyone has to wear. [[spoiler:Then the villain tries to [[SelfDestructMechanism melt the dome on top of everyone until someone pulls the circuit breaker]].]]