List of fictional towns in animation
This is a list of animated fictional towns, villages, settlements and cities that are well-referenced and notable.
Town name | Origin | Network | Notes |
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Aberdale | Clarence | TOON | A fictional town located in Arizona. |
Amity Park | Danny Phantom | NICK | Amity Park is a fictional city and is the main setting for Danny Phantom. It has a school (Casper High School), and some other buildings. |
Arlen, Texas | King of the Hill | FOX | Arlen is a small fictional town in Texas approximately 96 miles outside of Dallas and has an area code of 409 that includes Beaumont and Galveston. |
Aron City | Johnny Bravo | TOON | Aron City is a fictional town and the main setting of Johnny Bravo. |
Ba Sing Se | Avatar: The Last Airbender | NICK | Ba Sing Se is the fictional capital of the Earth Kingdom and the largest city in the Avatar Universe. Its name means Impenetrable City, due to its massive walls surrounding the municipality. |
Balsa City | Scaredy Squirrel | YTV | Balsa City is a fictional town and the main setting of Scaredy Squirrel. |
Beach City | Steven Universe | TOON | Beach City is a town located in the fictional American state of Delmarva, which is based on the real-world Delmarva Peninsula. |
Bedrock | The Flintstones | ABC | Bedrock is the fictional prehistoric city, which is home to the characters of the animated television series The Flintstones (1960).[1] |
Bikini Bottom | SpongeBob SquarePants | NICK | Bikini Bottom is a fictional underwater city and the main setting of SpongeBob SquarePants. |
Bluffington | Doug | NICK | Bluffington is a small city based on Richmond, Virginia. Doug and his friends live in one of its suburbs. |
Camberwick Green | Camberwick Green | BBC 1 | English village setting for the eponymous 1966 series |
Chigley | Chigley | BBC 1 | English hamlet setting for the eponymous 1969 series |
Crushington Park | Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks | DK | Crushington Park is a fictional town and the main setting of Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks. Everyone living in Crushington Park is a monster truck. |
Dimmsdale | The Fairly OddParents | NICK | The fictional town of Dimmsdale is located in California and is home to the Turners, the main cast of the Fairly OddParents. |
Danville | Phineas and Ferb | DIS | Danville is a fictional town and also the main setting of Phineas and Ferb. |
Ding-a-Ling Springs | Numb Chucks | YTV | Ding-a-Ling Springs is a fictional town and also the main setting of Numb Chucks. |
Duckburg | DuckTales | DIS | Duckburg is the fictional city that serves as the home of Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Daisy Duck, and most of their supporting cast. Duckburg was first mentioned in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #49 in 1944, and was created by Carl Barks.[2] |
Duck Town | Breadwinners | NICK | Duck Town is a large town which resembles a city, and a town where SwaySway and Buhdeuce deliver a lot of their bread to. Everybody living in Duck Town is a photorealistic duck. Duck Town is said to contain a bad area called the "Lower Yeast Side" (a spoof of New York City's Lower East Side.) |
El Dorado | The Road to El Dorado | El Dorado is the legendary city of gold believed to be in the New World. It is portrayed as a utopian civilization that combines facets of the Aztecs, Maya, Incas, and Atlantis, and located in Ecuador or El Salvador. | |
Endsville | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | TOON | Endsville is a fictional town and the main setting of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. |
Frostbite Falls, Minnesota | The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show | ABC | |
Galaxy Hills | Fanboy and Chum Chum | NICK | The fictional hometown of Fanboy and Chum Chum, and the main setting of the show. It is home to a school, a comic book/collectible shop, and Fanboy and Chum Chum's favorite convenience store, the Frosty Mart. |
Furfuri Nagar | Motu Patlu | Nick India | A fictional Indian town, which was once a dense forest, a desert, a village, an empire, a junkyard, a market square, a city of Muslims, a British state, and a place where military training was given. Now it is a small town with 1336 residents, among them 600 are educated. In the future it will be a tech city full of cars. Before that cars will extinct human as shown in the episode Ajab Furfuri Nagar Ki Gazab Kahani. It is the town where the protagonists Motu and Patlu reside. |
Genius Grove | Dexter's Laboratory | TOON | Genius Grove is a fictional town which bears resemblance to the city. It's probably located in Illinois. |
Glickersville | Rated A for Awesome | YTV | Glickersville is a fictional town where Lester, Noam, Lars, Thera and Mr. Twitchy lives. |
Gotham City | Batman | ABC | A fictional American city that is the home of Batman, and the principal setting for all Batman comics, films, and other adaptations. Generally portrayed as a dark, crime-ridden locale, writer-artist Frank Miller has described Gotham City as New York City at night. It was originally strongly inspired by Trenton, Ontario's history, location, atmosphere, and various architectural styles, and has since incorporated elements from New York City, Detroit, Pittsburgh, London and Chicago. Anton Furst's designs of Gotham for Tim Burton's Batman (1989) have been influential on subsequent portrayals: he set out to "make Gotham City the ugliest and bleakest metropolis imaginable."[3] |
Gravity Falls | Gravity Falls | DIS DXD |
A fictional town in Oregon in which the series takes place. |
Highland | Beavis and Butt-head | MTV | Fictional small town said to take place in Texas. |
Inner City | Fat Albert | CBS | Fictional small town said to take place in Pennsylvania. |
Langley Falls | American Dad! | FOX TBS |
Langley Falls, Virginia is the fictional community of The Smiths. Its location is in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The town name is a composite of Langley and Great Falls, two unincorporated communities located in Fairfax County, Virginia. |
Lawndale | Daria | MTV | A suburb of a major city somewhere along the east coast of the United States. |
Limoeiro | Monica's Gang | GLOBO CN |
The fictional neighborhood of Monica's Gang, and the main setting of the show. It was located in the city of São Paulo. A real city named Limoeiro exists in Pernambuco state, near capital city, Recife. |
Lundgren | Sanjay and Craig | NICK | The fictional hometown of Sanjay and Craig, and the main setting of the show. |
Jump City | Teen Titans | TOON K'WB |
Jump City is a fictional town and also the main setting of the Teen Titans. |
Meribella | Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar | ||
Metropolis | Superman | A fictional American city that is the home of Superman, and along with Smallville, one of the principal settings for all Superman comics, films, and other adaptations. | |
Miracle City | El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera | NICK | |
New New York | Futurama | FOX CMDY |
The city of New New York has been built over the ruins of present-day New York City, referred to as "Old New York". Various devices and architecture are similar to the Populuxe style. Global warming, inflexible bureaucracy, and substance abuse are a few of the subjects given a 31st-century exaggeration in a world where the problems have become both more extreme and more common. |
Nowhere | Courage the Cowardly Dog | TOON | The city of Nowhere consists of almost nothing, the only landmark shown is the Bagge household. It was located in the state of Kansas. |
Ocean City | Bob's Burgers | FOX | It's a fictional city in New Jersey, although it took place in Maryland. |
Peaceville | Grojband | TOON TT |
Peaceville is a fictional town and the main setting of Grojband. |
Petropolis | T.U.F.F. Puppy | NICK | The city was populated by anthropomorphic animals, where the T.U.F.F. agents lives. It was located in the state of California. some buildings in the city has a shapes resembled common animals. |
Ponyville | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | DF | Ponyville is a small town in Equestria, populated by all kinds of Ponies. It was the main setting of the show, and where the main characters live. The town's look and style was inspired by medieval towns. It has a town hall, bowling alley, cafe, hospital, and library, which also serves as two characters' residence until its destruction at the end of the fourth season. Other notable towns in the series include Canterlot (the capitol and original hometown of Twilight Sparkle and Spike), Cloudsdale (a floating city, original home of Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy), and Manehattan (an equivalent to New York; other equestrian-themed names have appeared as well). |
Porkbelly | Johnny Test | TOON | Porkbelly is a fictional town and also the main setting of Johnny Test. |
Quahog | Family Guy | FOX | The town is modeled after Cranston, Rhode Island.[4] |
Rintis Island | Boboiboy | TV3 | Boboiboy and friends hometown |
Retroville | The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius | NICK | Retroville is a fictional city and is the main setting for The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. It has a school, and some other buildings. |
Roarsville | Henry Hugglemonster | DISJR | Roarsville is a town which is the main setting of Henry Hugglemonster. Everyone living in Roarsville is a monster. |
Saint Canard | Darkwing Duck | DIS | Saint Canard is the fictional city that serves as the home of Darkwing Duck, titular hero of his show. It is in the same continuity as Duckburg above; Launchpad had moved there prior to the opening episodes of Darkwing Duck, and Duckburg hero Gizmoduck made guest star appearances. The city sits on Audubon Bay, with Darkwing's secret lair atop a catenary tower of the Audubon Bay Bridge, and features an exaggerated central skyline of large skyscrapers. The city's name 'Canard' is the French word for duck. |
South Park | South Park | CMDY | A fictional small town of South Park, located within the real life South Park basin in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado.[5] The town is also home to an assortment of frequent characters such as students, families, elementary school staff, and other various residents, who tend to regard South Park as a bland and quiet place to live.[6] |
Springfield | The Simpsons | FOX | Springfield is the fictional town in which the American animated sitcom The Simpsons is set. A mid-sized town in an undetermined state of the United States, Springfield acts as a complete universe in which characters can explore the issues faced by modern society.[7] The geography of the town and its surroundings are flexible, changing to address whatever an episode's plot calls for.[8] Springfield's location is impossible to determine; the show is deliberately evasive on the subject, providing contradictory clues and impossible information about an actual geographic location. |
Stoolbend | The Cleveland Show | FOX | This series is a spin-off from Family Guy. |
Townsville | The Powerpuff Girls | TOON | A fictional major city complete with its own Little Tokyo. Interestingly, there is a real Townsville located in Australia although the two have nothing in common aside from its namesake. |
Tremorton | My Life as a Teenage Robot | NICK | A fictional futuristic town, a parody of Trenton, New Jersey |
Trumpton | Trumpton | BBC 1 | English town setting for the eponymous 1967 series |
Wilson Way | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends | TOON | Wilson Way is a fictional town and the main setting of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. |
Woodcrest | The Boondocks | AS | A fictional town located in Maryland. |
See also
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References
- ↑ "The Flintstones' 50th anniversary: 15 things you don't know". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
- ↑ "A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe: W WDC 49-02 tight-wire walkers". Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ↑ Anton Furst, Derek Meddings, Visualizing Gotham: The Production Design of Batman, 2005, Warner Home Video.
- ↑ "Family Guy writer at Bryant". The Providence Journal.
- ↑ Griffiths, Eric (June 21, 2007). "Young offenders". New Statesman. Retrieved May 3, 2009.
- ↑ Heffernan, Virginia (April 28, 2004). "Critic's Notebook; What? Morals in 'South Park'?". The New York Times. Retrieved October 24, 2010.
- ↑ Turner, p. 55
- ↑ Turner, p. 30
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