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Fictional city in the DC Universe, best known as the home of Superman

Metropolis is a fictional city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the home of Superman and his closest allies and some of his foes. First appearing by name in Action Comics #16 (Sept. 1939), Metropolis is depicted as a prosperous and massive city in the Northeastern United States, in close proximity to Gotham City. In recent years, it has been stated to be located in New York. 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. Since then, however, the look and feel of Metropolis has been greatly influenced by New York City. 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. In addition to Superman, the city has also been home to other superheroes, such as Booster Gold and Black Lightning.

[[File:1 Manhattan, New York City. jpg|thumb|250px|New York City is often cited as a real life equivalent of Metropolis, and in the early versions of Superman, Clark Kent worked for a newspaper called the Daily Star, modeled after the real life Toronto Star. Action Comics #2, however, mistakenly portrays Clark Kent as a reporter for the Cleveland Evening News.

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. That same column stated that Green Arrow's home, Star City, was in Connecticut, Flash's Central City was in Ohio, and Hawkman's Midway City was in Michigan. The 1990 Atlas of the DC Universe role playing game supplement, published by Mayfair Games, states that Metropolis is in Delaware. In June 1976, Superman #300 featured an out of canon story about the infant Kal El arriving on Earth in that year, triggering an increase in Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. In that story's version of the year 2001, passing reference is made to the merging of the eastern seaboard cities from Boston to Washington, D. C., into a "newly incorporated urban center" called "Metropolis". 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". 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, although with no definitive location. John Byrne's 1986 revamp of Superman cited the city as being in Kansas. The 1992 "Death of Superman" storyline depicts Doomsday on a path from Ohio through the state of New York, ending in Metropolis, and the 2005 comic Countdown to Infinite Crisis also places Metropolis in the state of New York. The 2003 DC Comics/Marvel Comics crossover mini series JLA/Avengers depicts the city as along the multi state Interstate 95, which is the main highway on the East Coast of the United States, and portrays the corresponding location in the Marvel Universe as forests and fields, explaining that Marvel's Earth and DC's Earth have different surface areas to account for their different geography (no Metropolis on Marvel's Earth, no Latveria on DC's Earth, and so on). 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." 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.

thumb|right|300px|Superman flies over Metropolis. Art by Alex Ross. 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 and Gotham City being in New Jersey. In Bronze Age stories that depicted Metropolis and Gotham City as twin cities, the Metro Narrows Bridge was said to be the main route connecting Metropolis to Gotham City. Stated as being the longest suspension bridge in the world, the Metro Narrows Bridge is likely based on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which stretches between Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City. In The World's Greatest Superheroes newspaper comic strip, a 1978 Sunday strip shows a map of the east coast of the United States; the map places Metropolis in Delaware and Gotham City across Delaware Bay in New Jersey, with the Metro Narrows Bridge linking the two cities. A similar map appeared in The New Adventures of Superboy #22 (October 1981), with Smallville shown within driving distance of both cities (in post Crisis comics, Smallville was officially relocated to Kansas). 1990's The Atlas of the DC Universe also places Metropolis in Delaware and Gotham City in New Jersey. 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. 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 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, director Zack Snyder confirmed that Metropolis and Gotham City would be portrayed as geographically situated right next to each other, on the opposite sides of a bay, similar to Jersey City and Manhattan.

A Native American tribe sold Metropolis Island to the first European settlers in 1644, similar to the history of New York City, in which Native Americans sold Manhattan Island to Dutch settlers in 1626.

Over the years, Metropolis' features have greatly changed in the comics; however, Metropolis is always presented as being a global city. It is often referred to as "The Big Apricot" just as New York City is nicknamed "The Big Apple". It is commonly portrayed as having an Art Deco style of architecture, much like New York City. The skyline and many of the notable landmarks in Metropolis are based on real life landmarks in New York City. 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. Clark Kent's traditional address of 344 Clinton Street, Apartment 3D, was usually described as being located in midtown Metropolis.

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.

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 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. It is located 60 miles northwest of Metropolis.

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 suburban areas, almost all of which are based on real places in New York City, include Queensland Park (a reference to Queens), Hell's Gate (a reference to Hell Gate Bridge), St. Martin's Island (a reference to Staten Island), Park Ridge (a reference to Park Slope), Metrodale, and Highville.

thumb|The exterior of the Superman Museum. From Superman #286, April 1975. Art by Curt Swan. In the Silver Age and Bronze Age comics, a major Metropolis landmark is the Superman Museum. The Superman Museum features various exhibits dedicated to Metropolis' favorite superhero, similar to the Flash Museum in Central City. The Museum's exhibits were responsible for the origin of the Composite Superman. Members of the criminal organization the 100 at one point secretly used the Superman Museum as their base of operations, which was discovered by the superhero Black Lightning and his nemesis the Whale. Superman, under the effects of hypnosis, once went on a rampage and wrecked several pieces at the museum. The Superman Museum, like the Flash Museum, is also usually shown as existing well into the Legion of Super Heroes' era, as shown in various stories and the 2000s television series Legion of Super Heroes. The central branch of S. T. A. R. Labs, a major scientific research institution, is also located in Metropolis. The Metropolis Museum of Natural History was featured in the film Superman Returns.

Metropolis University, Clark Kent's alma mater, is located in the city of Metropolis; Clark graduated with a degree in journalism. The college has a floating aquarium anchored just offshore called the "Ark". Activities in the wooded acres include horseback riding, boating, and golfing. 1938 Sullivan Owned by Wayne Enterprises, Lois Lane and Clark Kent's apartment building is one of the city's oldest buildings. University of Metropolis Clark Kent's alma mater, this Ivy League institution boasts well respected schools of journalism, law, and business. S. T. A. R. Labs The Metropolis arm of the privately owned scientific think tank founded by Dr. Garrison Slate. Steelworks John Henry Irons' foundry in the Old Hook Basin district of Suicide Slum includes a variety of advanced technology to aid Superman. Suicide Slum Despite being razed and renovated by Brainiac 13, Suicide Slum, where Bibbo has his Ace O' Clubs bar, is still a sink of crime and poverty. Special Crimes Unit Precinct Metropolis' S. C. U's upgraded headquarters houses offices, armories, and holding cells. Stryker's Island Penitentiary The ultimate maximum security prison possesses high tech detention facilities designed to accommodate the most powerful metahuman villains. 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 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' media conglomerate. Daily Planet Building The home of the respected, globally circulated newspaper. The Daily Planet Building, with its distinctive hologram globe, is one of the city's most important landmarks. Metropolis Museum of Art Galleries include important historical and contemporary artistic works. LexCorp Towers Designed to form a double L, Lex Luthor's 307 story citadels (with robot sentries and mutable glass windows) are Metropolis tallest skyscraper.

LexCorp, founded by Lex Luthor, endeavors into all aspects of technology, communication, medical science, technical science, architectural engineering, future technology, and more. As of Batman & Superman: World's Finest #4 (July 1999), Farrell is now a captain in the Metropolis FD.

Metropolis' premier newspaper is the Daily Planet, one of the most renowned news organizations in the DC Universe. The city is also home to the national Newstime magazine, where Clark Kent held the position of editor during the Eradicator story arc until he was fired by his superior, Collin Thornton, in The Adventures of Superman #465, for his increasingly strange behavior due to the Eradicator (including firing of some employees). Other major media located in Metropolis include WGBS TV, flagship station of the Galaxy Broadcasting System (GBS) television network, both subsidiaries of media conglomerate Galaxy Communications. Popular shows included The Midnight Show Starring Johnny Nevada (a fictional version of NBC's The Tonight Show, with Johnny Nevada being an analogue of Johnny Carson). 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 anchorman for the WGBS evening news. He was eventually joined by Lana Lang as a co anchor. 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, 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. 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, presumably named for Superman co creator Joe Shuster. Professional ice hockey is also present in Metropolis; its NHL team is the Metropolis Mammoths. 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.

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 Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen's initial partnership on the series, in Legion of Super Heroes (vol. 2) #313 (July 1984) – covering most of Massachusetts, all of Rhode Island and Connecticut, New York State from Long Island's eastern tip up into the Catskills, and a large portion of northern New Jersey. In one imaginary Superman tale published in 1976 and partly set in then futuristic 2001, "Metropolis" is the name of the new megalopolis of the Eastern seaboard corridor, comprising the cities of Washington, D. C., Philadelphia, New York and Boston and all the territory in between (Superman #300, June 1976). 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 Zero Hour. The first post Infinite Crisis version of the series as published in the "three boot" edition has described Metropolis as having expanded over the intervening millennium up the "entire Atlantic seaboard" of North America in one issue (reminiscent of New York's future expansion in Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel and in Poul Anderson's The Corridors of Time, and to an extent Mega City One of the Judge Dredd comics). In Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds, it is revealed that this version of Metropolis belongs to the newly restored Earth Prime's 31st Century. 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".

thumb|upright|In the TV series Adventures of Superman, Los Angeles stood in place for Metropolis. The Los Angeles City Hall was depicted as the Daily Planet building in later seasons. Metropolis appears in Adventures of Superman. Metropolis appears in The New Adventures of Superman, as well as the 1980s Superman TV series. thumb|left|upright|In the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Chicago stood in place for Metropolis. 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. right|thumb|200px|Metropolis Skyline, as seen in Smallville. The Daily Planet Building and LuthorCorp Tower are seen as the two tallest skyscrapers. On Smallville, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, stands in as Metropolis. Metropolis appears in Smallville. This version is located in western Kansas, near Dodge City. In filming the series, Vancouver and Surrey, British Columbia stand in for Metropolis. For example, the Marine Building in Vancouver stands in as the Daily Planet Building and the Central City Building in Surrey stands in as the 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. 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. 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. 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 My Adventures with Superman. A map of the city in the first episode, "Adventures of a Normal Man", suggests Metropolis is located near San Francisco, California.

Metropolis appears in several video games, including Superman, Superman: Shadow of Apokolips, Superman: The Man of Steel, Superman Returns, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, where it is shown partially in ruins following the Justice League's fight with Darkseid, and it appears in DC Universe Online. Metropolis appears in the game Injustice: Gods Among Us, in two different forms a Prime Earth version, in which the Joker attempts and fails to destroy the city with an atomic bomb, and an alternate universe Earth version, which occurs as a result of the Joker succeeding in his plot, which also involved the death of Lois Lane and Superman's unborn son. The alternate universe, or "Regime" Metropolis is used as a playable fighting stage. Here, it has been rebuilt into a more dystopian city, which is where the "prime" Batman and Joker end up when they are accidentally transported there. The Prime Earth version, however, is not a playable stage in the game, and is only shown as a cameo in the game's story mode. One notable feature in each version of Metropolis is a statue depicting Superman with a globe. In the Prime universe, the statue depicts Superman standing below the globe, carrying it above his head, symbolizing that he follows the world's rules. On the other hand, in the Regime universe, the statue depicts Superman standing above the globe with his arms folded, symbolizing that the world follows his rules, as he has become a tyrant following the destruction of the original Metropolis and the deaths of Lois Lane and their unborn son. Metropolis is the only stage in the game to have three sections: the city streets, the top of the Daily Planet, and a museum featuring past superhero costumes and weapons. Metropolis appears in Lego Dimensions, where it is taken over by Sauron from The Lord of the Rings franchise, With Superman being sucked into an alternate dimension, Batman, Gandalf, and Wyldstyle oppose Sauron. 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 Lego DC Super Villains, part of the open world is Metropolis. LexCorp Tower, The Daily Planet, and S. T. A. R. Labs are featured. An open world Metropolis will be the main setting of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, set for release in 2024.

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.

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.