2006-12-30 07:50:37 · 18 answers · asked by KEEM 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
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2006-12-30 07:52:15 · answer #1 · answered by Webballs 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In DCU, Metropolis and Gotham are not boroughs, they are both cities. Metropolis is closer to Philadelphia and Gotham City to New York City.
Though in DCU, Philadelphia and New York City also exist, so you can't actually say Metropolis is Philadelphia or Gotham is New York City, they are just the closest matches based on the geographic descriptions.
2006-12-30 09:36:56 · answer #2 · answered by marimoocow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gotham - New York (Manhattan)
Metropolis - either Toronto or Kansas City
(Metropolis as Toronto:
Newspaper: The Daily Planet vs. The Globe & Mail (was The Daily Globe originally)
Smallville could be Orangeville)
(Metropolis as Kansas City:
Smallville would be Atchison - a town about an hour away, you can see Kansas City from the top of the grain elevator in Atchison, the same way you can see Metropolis from the top of the windmill platform in Smallville. The Maur Hill high school mascot (in Atchison) is the Raven, just as the Smallville High mascot is the Crow.
You can get to Topeka in about an hour from Smallville - it's the same from Atchison.
Atchison is primarily agricultural, but there are some very rich folks there as well, just like in Smallville).
2006-12-30 07:52:21 · answer #3 · answered by Elise K 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bob Kane, the creator of Batman said he had based Gotham City on New York. Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, the creators of Superman, said that Metropolis was based on a city in Canada, maybe Vancouver...I can't remember now. One of them had lived there for a short time as a kid. Many have said that although Metropolis has a bay, it is more like Chicago than New York,
2016-05-22 21:40:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The geography of Gotham City has long been a source of contention and confusion among readers.[citation needed] Its location, like other fictional cities in the DC Universe, has varied over the decades, due to the capricious nature of the various writers, editors and storylines. At various times the depiction has Gotham on the shores of "Lake Gotham". The majority of appearances, however, place Gotham on the eastern coast of the United States.
2006-12-30 07:55:51 · answer #5 · answered by Gabe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the original Superman movies from 1978-1987, Metropolis is in New York. In Man of Steel and the Upcoming Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Metropolis is in the District of Metropolis located in Chesapeake Bay between Maryland and Virginia.
2015-04-27 13:13:36 · answer #6 · answered by Ryan Kadlec 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I think Gotham City is supposed to be NYC, but Metropolis is actually in the middle of the USA (Kansas or Missouri maybe) becasue Smallville is I believe in Kansas (on the show "Smallville" and "Adventures of Lois & Clark"), right outside of Metropolis. I've actually wondered the same thing. It seems they are just made up copies of NYC.
2006-12-30 07:55:16 · answer #7 · answered by ny2la_usamex 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gotham is the nickname for New York City. Gotham is New York.
2006-12-30 17:35:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gotham is supposed to be Brooklyn, and Metropolis is supposed to be Manhattan.
31 DEC 06, 0512 hrs, GMT.
2006-12-30 16:08:16 · answer #9 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose Gotham would be NYC, but there is a Metropolis Illinois in real life...
2006-12-30 08:01:12 · answer #10 · answered by Agitozecter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Metropolis is located in Kansas, about an hour or so away from Smallville.
2006-12-30 08:17:16 · answer #11 · answered by tempest 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋