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KD Since: May, 2009
2025-05-02 15:41:53

A location that's meant to be an exact stand-in for a specific real life location is No Communities Were Harmed.

I'm unclear on why the existence of the real-life location would be meaningful. Here's how I see it:

  • Star Wars takes place A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away....
  • In this galaxy far far away, there is a stand-in for, oh, Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Although Star Wars is both historical and extremely distant from Earth, I think it can be fair to say that Earth does exist in the Star Wars universe even if it's too far away to visit.
  • On this unvisited Earth within the Star Wars universe, Las Vegas, Nevada exists there.

I am not seeing the narrative meaning.

jormis29 Since: Mar, 2012
2025-05-02 16:43:52

there's Orphaned Etymology that includes references to real places that don't exist in the fiction setting

BlueBlazes Since: Dec, 2019
2025-05-02 17:40:16

@KD that’s not what I meant. I mean it’s implied the locations coexist within the same setting, ie on the same planet.

Edited by BlueBlazes BlueBlazes
FerrousFaucet Since: Feb, 2014
2025-05-02 21:02:26

You mean like how Superman's Metropolis is like a fictional version of New York City, but in some of the comics they go to the U.N. building in the actual New York City? I think that's No Communities Were Harmed.

KaiYves Since: Jul, 2010
2025-05-04 07:04:48

I would call it a location-specific version of Expy Coexistence— for example, on that page we have the case of Dante's Peak being based on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens but set at a fictional volcano in the same region, while characters refer to the actual Mount St. Helens eruption as something that happened in the past.

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