Hey, I've been here before. I know all the questions, and here are my answers: Springfield's not in any state, I dunno why we're yellow, there'll be another movie as soon as Stephen King needs another idea, and yes, Matt Groening would LOVE to read your screenplay!
— Homer at Comic Con
General 1: Springfield? Which one? There must be one Springfield in every state in the Union!
General 2: One? I bet there are some states with two or three!note
General 2: One? I bet there are some states with two or three!note
— G.I.Joe, Issue #5
"Yeah, the town of Duckburg was a real strange place. It was on an ocean, it was on a lake, and it was out in the plains and close to tremendous mountains and a black forest and all of that. It had snow in the winter, terrific snows, and all these palm trees and so on. It was really a strange place."
"But all is not well in Whatever-The-Hell-City-This-Is-Ville"
— Yahtzee's review of Condemned 2: Bloodshot.
"Gray Suit Guy introduces himself as Frank Tilghman, and lays down his business card. He owns a club outside of Kansas City called the Double Deuce, and lo, will you come to respect that name, 'Double Deuce'. Whether or not the Double Deuce is near Kansas City, Missouri or Kansas City, Kansas, we’ll never find out. But if we go strictly by the highway signs seen later, then it’s just outside of Kansas City, California."
"He's not a foreigner! He's from the same country as we're in right now!"
—Jerome Squalor, A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017)
In the first issue, they start by having the dog track the thieves' scent which leads them to a forest. And in this forest they conveniently come across the long-lost passageway into Canterlot. Okay, hold the goddamn phone! You're telling me that Maretime Bay was that close to Canterlot?! They were only walking for three hours before Izzy found the gate. And what the hell is the secret passage to Canterlot even doing in the middle of a forest? Canterlot is supposed to be located on the face of a giant mountain overlooking the surrounding valley. There's never a panel where The Mane Five are shown traveling upward or on some kind of incline, so how did they get up there? Even without that information, it makes' no sense how they'd be able to just walk here in as little as a few hours. Maretime Bay is established to be along the coastline, so even though we don't have an exact location we know for a fact that it's next to the ocean. Now, look at this map of Equestria: where Canterlot is clearly shown to be at the center of the map. In order for the Mane Five to just walk there, depending on which coastline Maretime Bay is located near, they would still have to travel across all these old towns and cities. You seriously want me to believe that they've covered that much ground in as little as three hours?!
— Zaid Magenta, My Little Pony (2022)
