History Main / SimulatedUrbanCombatArea

* Almost all law enforcement agencies have simulated urban towns/cities to train their special police units as part of their training.

* Franchise/StarTrek'''s holodecks, which can recreate any environment, are often used for combat training. Such as with ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' trying to get the hunt-happy Hirogen to use a SUCA.

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* U.A. High School has several in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. They use them to both teach students how to be heroes in urban areas as well as carry out rescue scenarios.

* Early issues of ComicBook/JudgeDredd depicted cadets training in giant, indoor facilities that replicate the streets outside, complete with criss-crossing highways overhead!

* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' #1 opens with a terrorist attack by the Jihad at an American airport intended to assassinate the US president. The mission is a total success. It is then revealed that the attack was a training run conducted at a mockup of the airport constructed in {{Qurac}}, with actors hired to play the roles of the victims. Mind, nobody told ''them'' the ammunition and blades used by the assassins would be very, very real...

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* ''Film/RedNightmare'' warns the American public that behind the Iron Curtain, an exact replica of small town America is being used to train DirtyCommunists to infiltrate and take over your country!

* The "rent-a-terrorists" of Erewhon in ''Literature/RoleOfHonour'' have an area of houses called The Charnel, which is used as a training ground against anti-terrorist attacks.

* The Literature/NewJediOrder novel ''Star By Star'' featured two facilities of this sort. One was built for the YVH-class droids, and was accurate down to the "pedestrians" (actually weapons techs, who knew the droid wouldn't target them) - and absolutely no challenge whatsoever for the YVH. The other was designed to train voxyn and included not just buildings and walkways but (nonfunctional) vehicles, aircraft, and even a wrecked AT-AT, along with a sizable slave population to play the "residents".
* Literature/AlexRider is trained in a Scorpia SUCA in the Alex Rider book ''Scorpia''.
* The Jack Higgins novel ''Confessional'' starts with an IRA terrorist being captured during an attempt to plant a bomb. He then [[TheSpartanWay kills his captors]], only for it to be revealed he's a KGB assassin in a simulation of an Irish village.

* The ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "Force Recon", filmed on location at Camp Pendelton.

* [[Franchise/StarTrek Star Trek's]] holodecks, which can recreate any environment, are often used for combat training. Such as with ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' trying to get the hunt-happy Hirogen to use a SUCA.

* One encounter in the ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure "Paranoid Clones in Savory Vulture Stew" takes place in a military training course like this, designed to simulate an ambush. The [[PlayerCharacter PCs]] are not informed there will be an ambush.

* ''VideoGame/AmericasArmy'' basically uses this for half of its maps. Now, since the players effectively make each map a warzone, there are very few civilians around. Those that are still in the area are usually hostages.

* ''Film/TheExpendables2'' has the heroes bivouac in one of these in Eastern Europe while tracking down the Sang, then get ambushed by them the following morning.

These make good places for [[DangerRoomColdOpen tricking the audience into thinking the heroes are about to die horribly]]. It can also be used for espionage training. Participants in these exercises usually use non-lethal weapons/equipment/techniques to make sure that they don't get hurt or killed.

* The tutorial for ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' starts out in a simulated combat area in a Middle Eastern US Army base. [[spoiler: Which teaches the player the rules of the game that they will see utterly broken in "No Russian".]]

* ''Star Trek'' and its holodeck, which can recreate any environment, features this trope. Such as with ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' trying to get the hunt-happy Hirogen to use a SUCA.

* The tutorial for ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' starts out in a simulated combat area in a Middle Eastern US Army base.
** In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'', Mitchell's first mission with Atlas is in one of these made to simulate a VIP rescue scenario.

* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' #1 opens with a terrorist attack by the Jihad at an American airpot intended to assassinate the US president. The mission is a total success. It is then revealed that the attack was a training run conducted at a mockup of the airport constructed in {{Qurac}}, with actors hired to play the roles of the victims. Mind, nobody told ''them'' the ammunition and blades used by the assassins would be very, very real...

Good place for [[DangerRoomColdOpen tricking the audience into thinking the heroes are going to die horribly]]. It can also be used for espionage training. Participants in these exercises usually use non-lethal weapons/equipment/techniques to make sure that they don't get hurt or killed.

Good place for [[DangerRoomColdOpen tricking the audience]]. It can also be used for espionage training. Participants in these exercises usually use non-lethal weapons/equipment/techniques to make sure that they don't get hurt or killed.

* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' #1 opens with a terrorist attack by the Jihad at an American airpot intended to assassinate the US president. The mission is a total success. It is then revealed that the attack was a training run conducted at a mockup of the airport constructed in {{Qurac}}, with actors hired to play the roles of the victims.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In preparation for his attack on earth Uvo had [[FakeTown several scale city blocks]] of New York, Paris and London constructed and then filled with unarmed manacled prisoners in order to test out their planned attacks on the real cities in question.

* Where the ComicBook/{{New 52}} version of ''Comicbook/{{Superboy|New52}}'' spends the majority of his time after being released from the tank.

* Where the ComicBook/{{New 52}} version of ''Comicbook/{{Superboy}}'' spends the majority of his time after being released from the tank.

SisterTrope to ShootingGallery, which tend to be smaller and indoors.

SisterTrope to ShootingGallery, which tend to be smaller and indoors. It can be considered a subtrope of PotemkinVillage.

SisterTrope to ShootingGallery, which tend to be smaller and indoors.

* The Riot Force 6 in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' erects an entire city block MadeOfMagic over the nearby ocean bay to provide cheap training grounds for the Forwards.

* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' #1 opens with a terrorist attack by the Jihad at an American airpot intended to assassinate the US president. The mission is a total success. It is then revealed that the attack was a training run conducted at a mockup of the airport constructed in {{Quarac}}, with actors hired to play the roles of the victims.