If Gotham is New York. Where is Metropolis?

[TimroD]

chi town...

 

[earth two superman]

look at it this way. Metropolis is NY during the day. Gotham is NY at night, or like the post Guliani NY.

Bludhaven (dick grayson's turf) is Newark, NJ.

 

[A$AP_A$TON]

chi town...

Dats what I think

 

[Maximus Rex]

Back in the 80's I was once told that Metropolis was New York above 42nd St and Gotham is New York below 42nd St. In the DCU, New York, Metropolis, and Gotham City are three seperate cities. I from what I gather, all three cities are within driving distance of each other. All three cities are in the in The Northeast or Mid Atlantic states. All three are on the Atlantic Ocean. Personally, when I think of a real life equivalent to Gotham City, I think Detroit with N.O.'s level of corruption. Gotham City is completely and totally fucked up.

 

[gns]

gotham seemed more like chi-town, not as big as metropolis(nyc) but still a big city.

 

[arbitration]

I think NY was Gotham back in the 70's - 00's, crack era, pre-Guiliani days. Not, New York is probably closer to Metropolis than anything actually. I'd say Chicago or L.A. is the closest thing to Gotham we got - small cluster of affluence surrounded by massive degree of crime.

 

[robdaze151]

either one could be NY or the Chi if you think about it.

Those are the cities I always thought of.

but Smallville is in Ohio

 

[Maximus Rex]

either one could be NY or the Chi if you think about it.

Those are the cities I always thought of.

but Smallville is in Ohio

Since the Byrne retcon, they've kept Smallville in Kansas.

 

[Mr. 66Hundred]

Gotham City is in New Jersey....
Metropolis is in Delaware....
Metropolis, Gotham, and New York close to each other

the Smallville tv series has Metropolis set in Kansas becuz it helps with the plot of the series

 

[lion_heart]

I was watching an episode of Young Justice last night (epsiode 5) and it seems like Gotham and Metropolis are pretty much next to each other.

 

[ocelot]

i thought it was Seattle

 

[Copper]

it varies due to writers, shows, and diff story lines...but here is the atlas of the dc universe

 

[NAWLEDGE_REIGNS]

look at it this way. Metropolis is NY during the day. Gotham is NY at night, or like the post Guliani NY.

Bludhaven (dick grayson's turf) is Newark, NJ.

Pretty Much....DC Has A Fucked Up Sense Of Topography

 

[Copper]

I always thougt of metropolis as being more like LA and gotham more like chicago or new york

 

[bmoreeast]

it varies due to writers, shows, and diff story lines...but here is the atlas of the dc universe

Damn i always thought Gotham city was Chi and Metropolis was NY.

Boy was i wrong! Who would have thought Metropolis was in Delaware, lls.

But i also didnt know that NY was actually represented in the DCU. And that all 3 were supposedly close.

 

[Mr. Terrific]

A while ago, I was curious about where Gotham actually represented and just through superhero comic sites and fan boards, the consensus is that Gotham is in New Jersey.

 

[Bussy_Getta]

its Iraq B

 

[ocelot]

Writer Bill Finger on the naming of the city and reasoning for changing Batman's locale from Manhattan to a fictional city: "Originally I was going to call Gotham City 'Civic City'. Then I tried 'Capital City', then 'Coast City'. Then I flipped through the phone book and spotted the name 'Gotham Jewelers' and said, 'That's it', Gotham City. We didn't call it New York because we didn't want anybody in any city to identify with it."[1] "Gotham" had long been a well-known nickname for New York City even prior to Batman's 1939 introduction,[2] which explains why "Gotham Jewelers" and many other businesses in New York City have the word "Gotham" in them. The name Gotham was first popularized as a nickname for New York City in the nineteenth century periodical Salmagundi.

Within the DC Universe, Metropolis is portrayed as one of the largest and wealthiest cities on earth. The co-creator and original artist of Superman, Joe Shuster, modeled the Metropolis skyline after Toronto, where he was born and lived until he was ten.[1] Since then, Metropolis has become a city inspired by Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto, Vancouver, New York City and Los Angeles.Like many of DC's other fictional cities, the location of Metropolis has varied greatly over the years. Metropolis is usually portrayed as a major city in the Midwest, or conversely, on the East Coast, and even the West Coast. Superman co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and moved to Cleveland by age ten, where he met co-creator and Ohio native Jerry Siegel. Originally intending to sell the Superman strips to a Cleveland newspaper, they set the stories there as well, and when the strips were re-used for the comic books, they changed the location to Metropolis. (Action Comics #2, however, mistakenly portrays Clark Kent as a reporter for the Cleveland Evening News, although Metropolis's look is based on Toronto, Ontario.)[2] The earliest specific reference to Metropolis located it in New York State: in Superman #2 (Fall 1939), Clark (Superman) Kent sent a telegram to George Taylor, the editor of the Daily Star (the antecedent to the Daily Planet), addressed to "Metropolis, N.Y."[3]

 

[robdaze151]

^^^^^^
told y'all smallville was in ohio

 

[ocelot]

i always thought it was Chicago....

if they were both in NY wouldnt there be plot holes ?

youre right it is Chicago... but its other cities as well...