Metropolis (comics)
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Characters | Clark Kent / Superman Lois Lane Lex Luthor Morgan Edge Bibbo Bibbowski Cat Grant Jimmy Olsen Lana Lang Perry White Ron Troupe Steve Lombard |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Metropolis is a
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.[2] Since then, however, the look and feel of Metropolis has been greatly influenced by New York City.[3][4][5]
Within the DC Universe, Metropolis is depicted as being one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world, having a population of 11 million citizens.[6][7][8]
In addition to Superman, the city has also been home to other superheroes, such as Booster Gold and Black Lightning.
Creation
Like many other fictional cities in DC Comics, the location of Metropolis has varied over the years but is usually portrayed as a major city in the Northeast, sharing various qualities with New York City.[5] Superman co-creator Joe Shuster moved to Cleveland at age ten, where he met co-creator and Ohio native Jerry Siegel.
Originally intending to sell the Superman strips to a Cleveland newspaper, they decided to set the stories there, but when the strips were re-used for the comic books, they changed the location to the fictional Metropolis. Shuster was quoted as having modeled his Metropolis cityscape on that of his hometown,
Action Comics #2, however, mistakenly portrays Clark Kent as a reporter for the Cleveland Evening News.Geography
In Superman #2 (Fall 1939), Metropolis was actually placed in the U.S. state of New York, making it the earliest specific reference to the location of Metropolis.[5] In that issue, Clark Kent (Superman) sends a telegram to George Taylor, the editor of the Daily Star (the antecedent to the Daily Planet), addressed to "Metropolis, N.Y."[5]
In the 1940s Superman cartoons, produced by Paramount Pictures, Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios, Superman is said to live on the island of Manhattan. In the seventh cartoon of the series, Electric Earthquake (1942), a Native American mad scientist claims that his people are the rightful owners of Manhattan, thus placing these cartoons on the island. In the fifth cartoon in the series, The Bulleteers (1942), the name of the city is identified as Metropolis, as the Bulleteers address in that cartoon the population of Superman's city as "citizens of Metropolis"; and in the thirteenth cartoon Destruction, Inc. (1942), Metropolis is even seen spelled out twice on the Metropolis Munition Works.
In a 1970s edition of "Ask the
In June 1976, Superman #300 featured an out-of-canon story about the infant
In his 1978 work, The Great Superman Book, an encyclopedia of the first forty years of the Superman comics, author Michael Fleisher cites many examples which demonstrate that Metropolis equates with New York City. The most blatant of these might be the statement he cites from Action Comics #143 (April 1950), which states that the Statue of Liberty stands in "Metropolis Harbor".[3] The Statue of Liberty, in fact, stands in New York Harbor.
In the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths comics, Smallville was often shown as being within driving distance of Metropolis,[14][15] although with no definitive location. John Byrne's 1986 revamp of Superman cited the city as being in Kansas.
The 1992 "
The 2003 DC Comics/
On the television series Superman: The Animated Series, the second part of the episode titled "Little Girl Lost" depicts Darkseid's minion using a machine hidden in or around Metropolis to attempt to pull a comet into the earth. The beam from that machine is depicted originating from the area of the mid-western United States where Kansas is located. In the second part of the episode "Last Son of Krypton" when Lois is introduced to Clark Kent, she is told he is from Smallville, she replies "Smallville? Never heard of it", prompting Clark Kent to ask her if she had ever been to Kansas. Lois replies "God No!" while turning her head in a sign of visible disgust.
Frank Miller has said that "Metropolis is New York in the daytime; Gotham City is New York at night."[4][18] Gotham City is home to Batman, whose activities are more often nocturnal, while Metropolis is home to Superman, who usually operates during the day. In terms of atmosphere, Batman writer and editor Dennis O'Neil has said that, figuratively, "Batman's Gotham City is Manhattan below 14th Street at eleven minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November, and Metropolis is Manhattan between 14th and 110th Streets on the brightest, sunniest July day of the year".[18][19] New York City has been more recently used as a locale in the DC Universe, like the Marvel Universe, in which it exists as a separate city from Metropolis and Gotham City. The Justice Society of America, for example, is based in New York, as were the Teen Titans.
In relation to Gotham City
Metropolis is frequently depicted as being within driving distance of Gotham City, home of Batman. This happens, for example, in the three-issue 1990 mini-series of World's Finest Comics by Dave Gibbons, Steve Rude, and Karl Kesel. The distance between the two cities has varied greatly over the years, ranging from being hundreds of miles apart to Gotham and Metropolis being twin cities on opposite sides of Delaware Bay, with Metropolis in Delaware[13][20] and Gotham City being in New Jersey.[21][22][23][24][25][26]
In
In
However, the exact location of the two cities has varied. A map of the United States in the Secret Files & Origins Guide to the DC Universe 2000 depicts Metropolis and Gotham City (alongside
In the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, when Lois finds out about Superman's secret identity and yells at Clark about how he's been hiding his secretly being Superman, he responds, "A little louder, Lois. I don't think they could hear you in Gotham City." In the TV series Smallville, Linda Lake, a columnist for the Daily Planet, once boasted that she could see Gotham City from her new office.[31] In Superman: The Animated Series, Bruce Wayne is shown taking his private jet aircraft to Metropolis, indicating that the two cities have at least some distance between them.
In the 2016 film
History
A Native American tribe sold Metropolis Island to the first European settlers in 1644,[33] similar to the history of New York City, in which Native Americans sold Manhattan Island to Dutch settlers in 1626.[34]
Features
Over the years, Metropolis' features have greatly changed in the comics; however, Metropolis is always presented as being a
Metropolis' features became more defined and more obviously based on New York following both 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths miniseries and John Byrne's subsequent revamping of Superman, including the late 1980s comic special The World of Metropolis.
According to Action Comics #143 (April 1950), the Statue of Liberty is said to stand in "Metropolis Harbor", while the real-life Statue of Liberty stands in New York Harbor.[3] However, most stories indicate the Statue of Liberty is actually in New York City, which also exists in the DC Universe as a separate city from Metropolis.
The map of Metropolis designed for Mayfair Games' first edition of the DC Heroes Role-Playing Game resembled that of Manhattan.
Districts and boroughs
Metropolis is made up of six boroughs, the largest being New Troy. Each of the boroughs has its own distinct character and feel, which resemble and mimic
New Troy
New Troy is the largest borough in Metropolis. Resembling Manhattan, New Troy is a skyscraper island bustling with commerce and business. The concrete and steel canyons of the city rise to dizzying heights. "1930s architecture stretched like a rubber band" as cited in the Art of Superman Returns book.
The
Besides the Financial District, notable areas of New Troy include:
- Chinatown - Metropolis' Asian District.
- Little Bohemia - The arts capital of Metropolis and a reference to Little Italy and Greenwich Village in Manhattan.
- Glenmorgan Square - An area that is based on Times Square.
Famous streets in New Troy include
.Centennial Park (sometimes labeled as Metropolis Park) is Metropolis' largest city park and is based on real life Central Park of New York City. Its most noteworthy feature is a statue of Superman with an American bald eagle erected after his apparent death fighting Doomsday. A statue of Superboy (Conner Kent) was built next to it after the events of Infinite Crisis.
In 1990s and 2000s stories, the married Clark Kent and Lois Lane live in an apartment in New Troy, at 1938 Sullivan Lane, which is a tribute to the year Superman first appeared. The apartment was a wedding gift to the couple by Bruce Wayne, who owned the building.[36] Clark Kent's traditional address of 344 Clinton Street, Apartment 3D, was usually described as being located in midtown Metropolis.[37]
Suicide Slum
In northwestern New Troy is the impoverished and crime-infested neighborhood of Suicide Slum, best known for the 1940s adventures of the Guardian and his street urchin companions the Newsboy Legion and in more contemporary times with Gangbuster. Although the northwestern location is similar to the relationship of Harlem to midtown Manhattan, the neighborhood bears more physical and cultural resemblance to Manhattan's Lower East Side. The Ace o' Clubs is a bar owned by Bibbo Bibbowski in Suicide Slum.
Other locations in New Troy
Other notable places and their NYC inspirations in New Troy include:
- Wireless City Movie Theater - A spoof of Radio City Music Hall.
- Metropolis International Airport - A spoof of LaGuardia Airport
- Halldorf Hotel - A spoof of Waldorf Astoria.
- Lacey's Department Store - A spoof of Macy's.
- Stacey's Department Store - Another homage of Macy's
- Spiffany's Jewelry Store - A spoof of Tiffany's.
Boroughs and suburbs
New Troy is separated from the suburban boroughs by the West River and Hobb's River, based on New York's East River and Hudson River, respectively.
Midvale
Midvale is a suburb of Metropolis, more well known as the home of Supergirl and the site of the Midvale Orphanage prior to the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths.[38] It is located 60 miles northwest of Metropolis.[39]
Bakerline
Bakerline is another borough of Metropolis. Located north of New Troy, Bakerline is the home of newspaper reporter Jimmy Olsen and appears to be based on The Bronx in New York City.
Other boroughs and suburbs
Other boroughs and
Cultural, educational, and research institutions
In the
The central branch of
The Metropolis Museum of Natural History was featured in the film Superman Returns.
Education
Metropolis University, Clark Kent's alma mater, is located in the city of Metropolis; Clark graduated with a degree in journalism.[47][48] The college has a floating aquarium anchored just offshore called the "Ark".[8]
Other landmarks, institutions and businesses
- Centennial Hotel - Offers world-class cuisine and an observation deck with views across Centennial Park.
- Centennial Parkhorseback riding, boating, and golfing.
- 1938 Sullivan - Owned by Clark Kent's apartmentbuilding is one of the city's oldest buildings.
- University of Metropolis[51][52] - Clark Kent's alma mater, this Ivy League institution boasts well-respected schools of journalism, law, and business.
- - The Metropolis arm of the privately owned scientific think-tank founded by Dr. Garrison Slate.
- SteelworksJohn Henry Irons' foundry in the Old Hook Basin district of Suicide Slum includes a variety of advanced technology to aid Superman.
- Brainiac 13,[57]Suicide Slum, where Bibbo has his Ace O' Clubs bar, is still a sink of crime and poverty.
- Special Crimes Unit Precinct[58] - Metropolis' S.C.U's upgraded headquarters houses offices, armories, and holding cells.
- Stryker's Island Penitentiary[59][60] - The ultimate maximum security prison possesses high-tech detention facilities designed to accommodate the most powerful metahumanvillains. Located near New Troy's West River.
- Union Station - Location in the heart of the city, Union Station links the national railroad network to Metropolis' unique "Rail Whale" commuter grid.
- Metropolis City Hospital - The state-of-the-art medical center maintains a privileges-sharing program with S.T.A.R. Labs.
- Jules Verne Extra-Terrestrial Museum[61] - The museum exhibits artifacts from alien worlds and presents guest lectures by interplanetary heroes.
- Lena Luthor Science Explorarium - Technological advances abound this interactive museum.
- City Hall- The administrative center of Metropolis has mayoral, governmental, and emergency services offices.
- S.A.I. Dam - Hydroelectric waterworks control the flow of the twin rivers and the recycling of the city reservoir.
- Hypersector - The business and financial center of Metropolis.
- Hotel Metropolis - Five-star luxury accommodation located amid the heart of Downtown.
- Shuster Hall - Metropolis' premier theater has been in service since 1938.
- GBS Building - The corporate hub of Galaxy Communications'[62]media conglomerate.
- hologramglobe, is one of the city's most important landmarks.
- Metropolis Museum of Art - Galleries include important historical and contemporary artistic works.
- 's 307-story citadels (with robot sentries and mutable glass windows) are Metropolis tallest skyscraper.
Industry
Steelworks is the laboratory of
Law and government
Mayors
At least four mayors are considered part of Metropolis' history:
- Mayor Frank Berkowitz - Mayor Frank Berkowitz began his term prior to Superman's first known public meeting with Lex Luthor as depicted in the Man of Steel #4 mini-series by John Byrne. Superman was given a choice: join Luthor and receive a generous check from him as first payment for his services, or arrest Luthor for the events in #4 as Berkowitz asked him to. Superman's decision made Lex Luthor his deadliest enemy to this day. Some years later, Frank Berkowitz was killed by a sniper hired by Lex Luthor.
- Mayor Frank Berkowitz appeared in the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episode "The Man of Steel Bars" portrayed by Sonny Bono. In different points of this episode, Mayor Berkowitz made references to the titles of the songs that his actor performed with Cher. He talked about the Metropolis heat wave in November when scientists suspected that Superman was responsible when it was secretly a factory owned by Lex Luthor that was emitting large amounts of heat. Once Superman fixed up the factory upon Lois begging on TV for Superman to return, Mayor Berkowitz noticed the temperature change as Lex Luthor uses a loophole to keep himself from getting incriminated.
- Mayor "Buck" Sackett - "Buck" Sackett was elected as Berkowitz's successor. He was covertly Lex Luthor's "puppet".
- Mayor Fleming - Mayor Fleming is an African-American female who has been introduced in Nick Spencer's Jimmy Olsen back-ups. She chose Jimmy Olsen and Sebastien Mallory to show the Dalwythians around the city.
- Mayor Rob Morrisroe - Mayor Rob Morrisroe is the mayor of Metropolis in the first issue of Superman (vol. 3), as of DC's 2011 New 52 reboot.
Metropolis Police Department
The Metropolis
Metropolis Fire Department
Post-Crisis, Fireman Farrell is shown to be a member of the Metropolis fire department.[66] As of Batman & Superman: World's Finest #4 (July 1999), Farrell is now a captain in the Metropolis FD.
Media
Metropolis' premier
Other major media located in Metropolis include WGBS-TV, flagship station of the
Between the early 1970s and mid-1980s, both Clark Kent and Lois Lane worked for WGBS after Galaxy Communications purchased the Daily Planet in a 1971 storyline, with Clark as the
People and culture
The people of Metropolis are depicted as a diverse group of large city-dwellers within the comics. They live in one of the world's largest, wealthiest, and most important cities.
Sports
As befitting any world city, Metropolis is represented by teams in all major-league sports.[70] Like New York City, it is home to two teams in baseball and football. Of the two baseball teams, the Metropolis Monarchs are Clark Kent's favorite,[71] while the other team, the Metropolis Meteors, is mentioned in 52 as having a rivalry with the St. Louis Cardinals.
In American football, Metropolis is home to the Metropolis Metros and the Metropolis Meteors. The latter football team (sharing the same name as the above baseball team) once featured Steve Lombard as its star quarterback.[72] On the TV show Smallville, there is a football team called the Metropolis Sharks.
The city is also home to the Metropolis Generals basketball team, who play in Shuster Sports Arena,[73] presumably named for Superman co-creator Joe Shuster.
Professional ice hockey is also present in Metropolis; its NHL team is the Metropolis Mammoths.[13]
Several sports stadiums have been mentioned over the years. One such stadium is Metropolis Stadium, which was built in 1940. (Pre-Crisis, Metropolis Stadium had an Earth-Two counterpart, which was named "Sportsman's Stadium".)[74] This was perhaps influenced by the real-life Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, for many years the shared home of baseball's St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns.
Legion-Era Metropolis
Metropolis is traditionally depicted as continuing to survive, thrive and expand well into the 30th- and 31st-century timeframes used as the backdrop of the Legion of Super-Heroes in all that series' varied incarnations to date.
During the original incarnation of the series, Metropolis would be depicted as covering anything ranging from the entire Atlantic American coast to a more narrowed jurisdiction – according to one map officially published during
Whatever version was used, it was generally viewed as given that the original city, as well as Gotham City, were considered within Legion-era Metropolis' boundaries, from the mid-1960s until the events of
The first post-
In Adventure Comics (vol. 2) #12, Metropolis during the Legion's first year is described by Brainiac 5 as having a population of "78 million sentient inhabitants in the urban zone before you reach the greenbelt".
In other media
Television
- Metropolis appears in Adventures of Superman.
- Metropolis appears in The New Adventures of Superman, as well as the 1980s Superman TV series.
- Metropolis appears in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. This version does not have a definitive location, although it has been implied to be in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
- Metropolis appears in series set in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU). This version is a coastal city with a retrofuturistic motif.
- Metropolis appears in LuthorCorp.
- Metropolis appears in The Batman episode "The Batman/Superman Story" Pt. 1.
- Metropolis appears in the animated series Legion of Super Heroes.
- Metropolis appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Battle of the Superheroes!".
- In the animated TV series Young Justice, Metropolis is shown on a map at roughly the real-life location of New Haven, Connecticut.[75]
- Metropolis appears in series set in the Arrowverse. This version is located in Pennsylvania, in close proximity to the Delaware and Maryland border and to Philadelphia.[76]
- In January 2018, Gotham executive producers John Stephens and Danny Cannon and Warner Bros. TV announced that they are developing a prequel TV series titled Metropolis. The series will follow Lois Lane and Lex Luthor as they investigate the city of Metropolis and will premiere on DC's digital service, DC Universe.[77]
- Metropolis is the main setting of the DC Super Hero Girls television series; the major characters are students at Metropolis High School.
- Metropolis appears in the television series Superman & Lois.
- Metropolis is the primary setting of the animated television series San Francisco, California.
Film
- In 1978's United Nations Headquarters, the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Terminal, and the New York Daily News offices. (However, in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, in the scene involving a runaway train in the Metropolis "Metro City Transit" subway system, an advertising poster on the subway station wall soliciting public donations for the then-ongoing Statue of Liberty restoration effort urges the donations be sent to "The Lady, P.O. Box 1986, New York 10018" - implying that Metropolis and New York are, in fact, two separate places.) In Superman III, some Calgary, Alberta landmarks can be seen, including the Calgary Tower and the St. Louis Hotel, as parts of the film were filmed there.[citation needed]
- Sydney, Australia, and some minor landmarks in Sydney can be identified such as Martin Place, when Superman catches the car. License plates on cars that state the first state may also refer to NSWlicense plates.
- Metropolis appears extensively the Bruce Wayne and sharing an identical theme, also aired during the game.[83]
- Metropolis also appears in most of the DC Comics animated films in which Superman makes an appearance, namely Superman vs The Elite, Superman: Unbound, and DC League of Super-Pets. It additionally appears in the live action/animated hybrid film Space Jam: A New Legacy.
Video games
Metropolis appears in several video games, including
Metropolis appears in the game
Metropolis appears in
Metropolis appears as a playable stage in Injustice 2. The two sections consist of Memorial Station (which contains statues of Superman and his downfall and Lex Luthor's opposition) and the Ace O' Clubs bar. In the story mode, Metropolis is one of the cities Superman fails to restore on Brainiac's ship.
In
An open-world Metropolis will be the main setting of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, set for release in 2024.[84]
Theme parks
Metropolis appears in the Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D dark ride designed and created by Sally Corporation for Warner Bros. Movie World in Gold Coast, Australia. The city also appears in the Justice League: Battle for Metropolis dark ride created by Sally Corporation and is located at several Six Flags theme parks. A section of Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi is themed after Metropolis, with major landmarks serving as entrances to attractions such as the Daily Planet for a Superman attraction, the Hall of Justice for a Justice League ride, and the Metropolis Observatory for a Green Lantern attraction. Patrons can also eat at a restaurant themed after Big Belly Burger.
Metropolis, Illinois
The real town of Metropolis, Illinois, has been proclaimed the "hometown of Superman" by the Illinois State Legislature, and the town celebrates its "local hero". Among the ways it celebrates the character include a large Superman statue in the city, a Superman museum, an annual Superman festival, and its local newspaper The Metropolis Planet, a name inspired by the major newspaper in fictional Metropolis, the Daily Planet. A version of the town has appeared in the comics itself, as a city whose citizens idolize the hero who lives in their 'sister' city.[85]
See also
- List of areas, landmarks, institutions and businesses of Metropolis
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External links
- Supermanica: Metropolis Supermanica entry on the Pre-Crisis Metropolis.
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