metropolis, gotham, can you think of a new place?

Question

im making a super hero book but i need to know were it takes place, its going to be a city, i just cant think of a name, i dont want a city that is already famous like new york just a city that very few have heared, or a new city that doesnt even exist!, the more ideas you give me the better the chances of you getting the ten points.

Answer 1

Fictional:
New Jack City (been done, but watch the movie, good place to clean up crime)
San Angeles (check Demolition Man, place was a wreck)
Urbia (Latin variation for city)
Megalopolis (sociology term for urabn area that extends from Richmond to Boston)
New Amsterdam (what New York really was)
Townsville (PowerPuff Girls)
Megaburg, Exxoville, Hypertown, Super City (made -up)
Lazy Town (my kids love the show)

Real, that could use the attention, or be good settings:
Baltimore
Mexico City
Seattle
Portland Maine
Portland Oregon
New London Connecticut
Jacksonville
Houston
New Orleans (be pretty cool, post-Katrina, to help clean up the crime and city)

Answer 2

I suggest that you carefully analyze the elements of your story: themes, moods, motifs and the like.
Are you exploring the nature of power and responsibility? Are you trying to investigate the consequences of action and inaction? Pick up a good philosophy book (I suggest this one:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812695739/sr=8-1/qid=1155925075/ref=sr_1_1/102-3464572-9032950?ie=UTF8
... since it's specifically geared toward the questions you're asking) and see what 'under the hood' ideas start sparking.

With that clarification, you could try to match these elements in your book with names or concepts that resonate with the ideas you're trying to communicate, or at least can be easily tweaked.

Consider Phil Foglio's "Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire". It's primarily set on a planet called New Hong Kong which, through a combination of guile and mad haxor skillz, has no laws for the Law Machines (a galactic police force composed of cybernetic entities of unknown origin but power superior to that of the entire human species) to enforce; hence, anything goes and any problems are usually self-correcting. This is in keeping with the reputation that the terrestrial city, Hong Kong, used to enjoy before the Chinese took it back.
Take a real city with a particular reputation. For example, let's use "Vienna" with its reputation as a hub for international espionage (I once heard it said that one out of every six poeple in Vienna is a spy of some sort). Now, a fictional city of the future with the same reputation might be called "Satellite Vienna", be situated at many interstellar crossroads for many different governments, and be designed from the start to make covert activities as easy as possible.
Good luck!

Answer 3

Hypothepolis, someplace city, Inventaville, Unbelievaburg, Unpopulous (the international's worst vacationer vacation spot), Naughtiness city (a a lot less-extreme version of Sin city), Las imprecise, Sonova coastline...

Answer 4

Marvel, Star, Virtual, Belarmy, Nenderthal, Morder, Mular, Solidum or Daricel. These are just suggestions.

Answer 5

How about New Gusto, Darden, Fort Lopis, Henleigh, Locustville, Henchville or Henchton....Im pulling this outta my wa-hoo but seriously I think New Gusto or either Hench-one are pretty good.

Answer 6

Atlantis

Answer 7

New Caison. It sounds neat. And people react well to cities with "New" in them. Don't make it sound like a city we already have.

Answer 8

You could call it Megalith city. Or call it after one of the smaller rural towns in your state.

Answer 9

Kosmopolis!

Answer 10

How about Hidden Valley? I love their ranch dressing!