Tokyo and Beijing are megacities you'd expect an extraterrestrial enemy to invade. In Aldnoah.Zero, the Vers Empire's invasion of Earth begins with Martian Landing Castle slamming into four key cities.The Maguar and the aliens fighting them in Figure 17 Tsubasa & Hikaru are confined to rural Hokkaido.The spinoff, Please Twins! is set in the same area. Mizuho-sensei of Please Teacher! lands her spacecraft in Lake Kizaki, Nagano Prefecture, presumably for the Scenery Porn. But while Darker than Black's representation is completely accurate, Blood+'s was almost unrecognizable. Vladivostok, gets to feature not just in one, but in two completely unrelated shows with a supernatural touch.This leads to anomalies like the world's most powerful Ninja setting up base in Nevada. It's a play of words on the grimly named desert, Death Valley, which spans parts of California and Nevada. In Soul Eater, Death City, the home of The Grim Reaper and his school, is located in Nevada.Invasion, when the aliens don't feel like faffing around and cut right to the chase. Contrast with Canada Does Not Exist, where it's forbidden to name the semi-known location, as well as Washington D.C. Not to be confused with Aliens of London (though this doesn't mean they are mutually exclusive), Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here (where the location is just generically boring). It doesn't apply as frequently to plausible real life scenarios, even large scale action ones - a group of vampires in Lansing, Michigan might fit, but a high-stakes shootout between criminals and police, not as much. This trope is generally reserved for science fiction, fantasy and other settings to contrast the mundane, out of the way locations with impossible situations, often as a grounding element. Writing about New York City when you don't actually live there risks making the setting generic and cliched, but if you're from Charlotte and know its culture, locales, and history, it can make your story distinctive, as well as informative for outsiders and exciting for locals who will get the references. Such an author may also prefer to write what he knows. This trope may also happen as a type of Author Appeal, when the author is a native of that location and wants to see it in the spotlight. This is because the revived Doctor Who was produced by BBC Wales. The trope namer is Doctor Who and subsequent spin-off Torchwood. This is sometimes Played for Laughs, though in most cases it is just an example of events that do happen in the world outside its largest cities. Has a Zombie Apocalypse or The Plague broken out? The epicenter is in Sweet Home Alabama. Are you looking for The Leader of a secret den of werewolves? He's enjoying a day of fun at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. Is there a forest home to talking animals following legends? That forest's in Ontario or somewhere in England. Is there a huge, creepy castle home to a ruthless villain who wants to conquer the universe? It's smack dab in the middle of the Berkshires. Is there a mysterious gigantic cavern hidden just beneath the earth's surface, wherein aliens once upon a time created all life on earth? It's underneath Sugarloaf Mountain. Is there a magical gateway between worlds? It's in the Midwest ( one of them in Cleveland). Is there a Hellmouth opening? It's opening in Singapore. Is there a neighborhood full of world-class martial artists with superhuman powers? It's in Luxembourg. Have the center of the plot be in an actual place, but some relatively harmless semi-known non-exotic location which makes you ask "Why THERE, of all places?" That is the basis of the trope.Īre aliens landing in UFOs? They'll land in Johannesburg, South Africa. Another alternative is having the plot take place in a generic Everytown, America or a fictional town in the middle of nowhere, and have the villains come from some equally-fictional Ruritania or Banana Republic. Of course, you may think that's too cliché. Looking for a place to set the disaster of the week/alien invasion/supervillain's base/origin of the bad guys/home of the heroes etc? Well, you can use the classics: New York, Tokyo, London or Paris for the first three, places like Russia, North Korea or the Middle East for the other two, or Los Angeles or (again) New York for the last one.
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