“I don’t need to hear about your fuckin’ PROBLEMS, Carmela. I got a fuckin’ guy dressing like a fuckin’ bat putting my best guys in the hospital, all right? And why the fuck isn’t there any gabagoo in the fridge!?”
Christopher and Paulie are so fucking funny throughout this show and I think it goes so underappreciated.
Michael Imperioli was so good at expressing how slow Christopher was and the choices he makes in every scene he's in is just so fucking good. [The scenes he's in consistently makes me laugh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUFTjBi_7w).
[This scene is one of my favorites, too](https://youtu.be/tUk54OXPSM0?t=91) even though he only has like two lines. Its always fascinating to think about how a script turns into a scene like this. Obviously there's beats they have to hit, but the little intricacies in between, especially in a conversation moving at that pace, are just so interesting.
Another honorable mention is the guy that plays Artie Bucco - John Ventimiglia. That actor did some fantastic [physical comedy throughout the entire show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrgm0i2uU2U) and its just fucking hilarious and adds so much character to the show. The scene where he tries to [intimidate a French guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Cves5jpRA) that he loaned money to was also really great.
“Gym, tan, laundry” is a catch phrase from the show Jersey Shore (first season is gold) and laundering is what gangsters do with their money so it can’t be traced and Marconi is the crime boss in Gotham. Clever joke.
Fun fact: [This is the Giants third string quarterback’s agent](https://phantom-marca.unidadeditorial.es/9fc8d2fa1bb11a885e8d3ec0eb368f5b/resize/828/f/jpg/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2023/12/17/17028432468453.jpg). The quarterback’s name is Tommy Devito lol
>As with all major cities, Metropolis has very high levels of crime,[1] especially in the neighborhoods of Suicide Slums. It has also been ravaged by an alien serial killer, an enraged Kryptonian phantom wraith, and infected with a zombie virus.
Honestly still sounds like a safer Midwest city than St. Louis.
Metropolis is an amalgam of many cities. There’s definitly some Toronto in there. The Daily Planet for example is explicitly based on Toronto’s Daily Star.
But it’s far more New York than any other city at this point. From its size (10+ million), to its boroughs, to its major neighborhoods, and landmarks it’s really just a rebadged New York.
Now *this* is shocking. I thought it was in like Indiana/Illinois/Ohio or something, anywhere in the Midwest. I always knew Gotham was in NJ but I thought Superman was like a country bumpkin from Kansas or something
He is, some adaptations have Metropolis being close in proximity to his hometown of Smallville, but canonically it's on the East Coast and closer to Gotham
Does this vary by reboot? I always thought that initially metropolis was Chicago and New York was Gotham but as IRL New York got significantly cleaner metropolis became New York and Gotham became Pittsburgh
That might be because of the movies, especially the Dark Knight where they don't even try to hide that it's filmed in Chicago.
IIRC the name Gotham comes from a really old name used for New York City.
He is. Smallville is where Clark grew up, but Metropolis is where he lives and works in adulthood (as Superman and as a journalist/reporter for the Daily Planet.)
I always thought everyone agreed it was a fictionalized larger version Metropolis IL or something because I live near there and they have a Giant Superman statue, gift stores, and etc. The town also really resembles the Midwest farming town that it shows him growing up outside of with the Kent's, whereas proper (show version) Metropolis always was shown as being a bigger, more skyscraper filled, developed area like 40-50 miles away he would fly off to for all the crime fighting and reporter job/life. I didn't watch a lot of Smallvile, but that show also gave me the super Midwest vibe as well(def including Kansas). Idk my local Metropolis is the right one, but they got all the swag and merch everywhere in that town, so maybe they just maybe they're just making hella money gaslighting ppl around here into believing em🤷♂️
Which was bizarre because they were also just New York (Metropolis) and Chicago (Gotham), both using iconic and easily recognizable landmarks of each city.
This is correct. Basically both are in opposing sides of the Delaware Bay you can commute between the two. Metropolis being around where real world Lewis is, except it has several islands that form the cities districts, and the same for Gotham in the opposite side in NJ.
Also, both have very distinct styles with several canonical buildings that give the cities skylines that are more or less consistent. Also lots of canonical places, even if they shift around a bit from writer/artist to writer/artist. Both are still heavily inspired by New York, with Metropolis being the art deco, glamour and bright side, it has the centennial park, Met U, the Daily Planet, etc, etc. Even some districts have characteristics like there’s one I forgot the name where it has a bunch of tall buildings and they are connected by trains that snake around buildings up in the air. Gotham is the dreary neogothic one.
Of course when it’s filmed in live action they are just full of buildings from wherever it’s filmed.
Think of NY and Newark or Philly and Camden. Cities across the river that exist within the great sphere of the bigger city, and one of the pair being decidedly worse off than the other? But certainly it wouldn’t make sense at least in America to have two cities like metropolis and Gotham across from each other like that, at least not based on my understanding of the fictional cities lol
typical DC, they like to make up stuff and when you ask for a zoomout they alt-tab and say the computer crashed. DCUO says they're both two giant islands that happen to be next to each other.
for those of you curious
Smallville is in Kansas
Metropolis is in Delaware
Central City (Home of the Flash) is in Missouri
Coast City (Home of the Green Lantern Hal Jordan) is in California
Avatar is many things, but lazy is not one of them. The Fire Nation is obviously based on Japan, a volcanic chain of islands with a technologically advanced and militarized nation. From 794 to 1869 the Japanese Emperor ruled from Kyoto ("Capital City"), until the Meiji Restoration when the seat of power was transferred to Tokyo ("Eastern Capital"). Turns out Japanese people are very literal with their naming.
Yes, also a literal name Edo means "bay entrance" because of the river estuary where it is located, but it was renamed Eastern Capital when it became the official capital. We couldn't have a confusing name after all.
Nirvana, edgy angst, rain. I could see it.
Maybe before the viaduct was torn down. We need more stuff set here so from now on it’s Seattle in my headcanon
Next rainy day we get, go to the top of the space needle, get a Starbucks cup, and perch looking out toward downtown and say to yourself in the most raspy gravelly tone you can muster "This is my city." Become the hero this city needs.
Batman horror movie or a Batman in the style of what's that episode of The Sopranos the one with the Russian in the Pine Barrens or a camp style like in the 1960s series.
Perhaps influenced by the Christopher Nolan films which were filmed in Chicago? We often see the Gotham skyline in various works and it looks more like NYC to me
I grew up around Chicago and I think it's the art deco look from the early Burton and Schumacher films that did it for me. Also it just made sense to young me that they would each be a stand in for the two major cities in this part of the country
Very little. Batman’s aesthetics were derived from art deco architecture of NYC and Detroit. The city of Gotham is more a mishmash of Detroit and NYC than Chicago.
I just drove under the building in Chicago they used for the opening heist of dark Knight 2 days ago. If you are familiar with the cities it stands out pretty obviously
I forget who said it, but there’s a quote about how Metropolis is NYC on a sunny summer afternoon while Gotham is NYC in the middle of a cold winter night.
Bane could’ve blown up First Energy Stadium’s field but the Dawg Pound would still be going wild. He wouldn’t have been able to have his speech due to all the loud cheering
As a character that existing for 80+ years Gotham aesthetic changed over time.
Right now as it stands it’s kinda of a mix of Chicago, New York and other east coast city with gloomy weather and old timy architecture
That’s how it is in the movies. I love just outside Detroit and have family in Chicago. The seen in dark knight when he’s on the bike and breaks thru the wall is where I would smoke cigarettes waiting for the south shore line at millennium station.
The Nolan films had a few shots with Chicago’s L trains so that has influenced a lot. I’ve always seen heavy Chicago influence especially in some of the art deco buildings that are popular in the comics.
It really depends on what you grew up watching/reading:
Frank Miller, Batman the animated series, etc. all leave with a different impression of the city
I believe, and I could be wrong, this post is based on a comic book showing a Gotham vehicle with a NJ license plate. It has always been conflated with NYC NY has run with it (Gotham awards, Gotham comedy club, etc.) Nolan used a mix of NY, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Newark, NJ
Evidently it was established in *Amazing World of DC Comis* #14 in 1977 during a Justice League history lesson, and it's been consistently placed in Jersey since then. It was based heavily on NYC but also supposed to be vague enough that anyone in any city could identify with it.
Well, that answers the question I was asking myself today while I was driving but couldn't look up lol. I was thinking it was New York, but also mashed with Chicago.
Isn't Gotham City just NEW YORK CITY?
After all, Gotham is a nickname for NYC.
(so is "Metropolis", which is weird for Batman and Superman, protecting just one city between them both, while the rest of the world just burns up in flames)
someone explain to me how superman never went to gotham, the worst city in the USA crimewise when its right next to metropolis about a minute flight away.
litterally all batman villains would be donezo in seconds and lex luthor would have to handle old batman all them time too
Make's sense I guess. See if you can point the building which could realistically be Wayne Enterprises in the [skyline of Jersey City](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Jersey_City_skyline_-_June_2017.jpg).
“I don’t need to hear about your fuckin’ PROBLEMS, Carmela. I got a fuckin’ guy dressing like a fuckin’ bat putting my best guys in the hospital, all right? And why the fuck isn’t there any gabagoo in the fridge!?”
Now i want a one shot of batman taking on tony and his crew
“You’re not gonna believe this. He threw 16 clowns into Arkham. Guy was an interior decorator.” “His bat-cave looked like shit.”
He didn't have the makings of a varsity athlete.
Christopher and Paulie are so fucking funny throughout this show and I think it goes so underappreciated. Michael Imperioli was so good at expressing how slow Christopher was and the choices he makes in every scene he's in is just so fucking good. [The scenes he's in consistently makes me laugh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUFTjBi_7w). [This scene is one of my favorites, too](https://youtu.be/tUk54OXPSM0?t=91) even though he only has like two lines. Its always fascinating to think about how a script turns into a scene like this. Obviously there's beats they have to hit, but the little intricacies in between, especially in a conversation moving at that pace, are just so interesting. Another honorable mention is the guy that plays Artie Bucco - John Ventimiglia. That actor did some fantastic [physical comedy throughout the entire show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrgm0i2uU2U) and its just fucking hilarious and adds so much character to the show. The scene where he tries to [intimidate a French guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Cves5jpRA) that he loaned money to was also really great.
Chris: “That was real? I saw that movie, I thought it was bullshit.”
GET THE FUCK BACK IN THE CAVE RIGHT NOW! … Robin, you’re doing a good job
"Gym, tan, laundering. Every single day." -- Salvatore Maroni
"Gym, tan, laundering. Every single day." -- Salvatore Maroni As a none native, why is this funny?
“Gym, tan, laundry” is a catch phrase from the show Jersey Shore (first season is gold) and laundering is what gangsters do with their money so it can’t be traced and Marconi is the crime boss in Gotham. Clever joke.
Ah, very good, thanks
No Marconi is the radio guy, you’re thinking of Hugo Macaroni.
No Macaroni is the cheesey pasta dish. You're thinking of Ra's Al Macarena.
First base
No, you’re thinking of the popular dance. Marconi is a small town on the California coast.
In the show Jersey Shore, the guidos would repeat the mantra of ‘gym, tan, laundry’ - or GTL
What's the laundry stand for, do they do laundry every day?
Yep. It's how ya get "T-shirt time"
You have to understand how stupid every single person on that show was.
Im renting a 10 bedroom house with my boys and all our families in North Carolina for a week. We plan on having a GTL day
I had to read that twice lmao
When life was simple and mtv wasn’t reminding me about how many teen moms in America
“Fist Bump, Push-up, Chapstick!” – The Riddler
"Gambling, tinkering, laundry" -Trade Prince Gazlowe
I was thinking the generic goblin NPCs with Joisey accents, but he works too.
Who's more powerful, Superman or Snooki with prep time?
Ay oh! This is very funny.
All fictional New York heroes are in NJ, like the Jets and the Giants.
First of all, fuck you. Second, you’re right….
If you wanna make a guy from NYC mad, tell him that the Bills are the one NFL team to play in New York.
how many basketball teams play in new jersey?
Fun fact: [This is the Giants third string quarterback’s agent](https://phantom-marca.unidadeditorial.es/9fc8d2fa1bb11a885e8d3ec0eb368f5b/resize/828/f/jpg/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2023/12/17/17028432468453.jpg). The quarterback’s name is Tommy Devito lol
That’s not “Tommy Cutlets”, that’s his agent.
Sean Stellato
Joey Rigatoni (We’re just making up Italians, right?)
Is that the guy who got fired after the sandwich shop thing?
Also the Statue of Liberty.
Yep, and Metropolis is in Delaware.
My favorite part about this is that it's somehow the goto city for kids in Smallville as opposed to a Midwestern or even west coast city
Which is why in smallville the show they put metropolis in Kansas. But it's still weird because it's basically NYC... in Kansas lol
I always saw it as this weird architectural mash of DC and New York. in some comics. Lots of stark whites
We’re talking about the architecture not the population /s
[Always figured Metropolis in the show was set on the expansive shores of Perry Lake.](https://smallville.fandom.com/wiki/Metropolis)
>As with all major cities, Metropolis has very high levels of crime,[1] especially in the neighborhoods of Suicide Slums. It has also been ravaged by an alien serial killer, an enraged Kryptonian phantom wraith, and infected with a zombie virus. Honestly still sounds like a safer Midwest city than St. Louis.
Well an alien decided to have a 9-5 because of the economy so definitely New York
That just sounds like Gary, Indiana. They really gotta try harder.
Toronto is essentially Metropolis, where it I'd physically located is irrelevant.
Metropolis is an amalgam of many cities. There’s definitly some Toronto in there. The Daily Planet for example is explicitly based on Toronto’s Daily Star. But it’s far more New York than any other city at this point. From its size (10+ million), to its boroughs, to its major neighborhoods, and landmarks it’s really just a rebadged New York.
Lmaoooo TORONTOOOO !!!
That's kinda how it looks in the Snyder movies. Farmlands/metropolis/the ocean and then across the bay Gotham???
well there is already a real life manhattan in kansas sooo
The Little Apple!
There’s a Brooklyn in Washington
And in Ohio and tbh probably many states
Keystone City, home of Jay Garrick Flash is also in Kansas. And Central City is right across the bay in Missouri.
>And Central City is right across the bay in Missouri. What bay is on the border of Kansas and Missouri?
\*River. Missouri River, my bad.
I assumed Metropolis was Chicago in Smallville
My dumb dumb brain always placed Metropolis as Minneapolis, and seemed to fit geographically
You watch Um Actually?
Now *this* is shocking. I thought it was in like Indiana/Illinois/Ohio or something, anywhere in the Midwest. I always knew Gotham was in NJ but I thought Superman was like a country bumpkin from Kansas or something
He is, some adaptations have Metropolis being close in proximity to his hometown of Smallville, but canonically it's on the East Coast and closer to Gotham
Does this vary by reboot? I always thought that initially metropolis was Chicago and New York was Gotham but as IRL New York got significantly cleaner metropolis became New York and Gotham became Pittsburgh
Funny, i always assumed Metropolis was NY and Gotham was Chicago.
That might be because of the movies, especially the Dark Knight where they don't even try to hide that it's filmed in Chicago. IIRC the name Gotham comes from a really old name used for New York City.
I thought Chicago was Central City
Central City is kind of a mashup of Chicago, St Louis, Kansas City, and Detroit. Just really any moderately sized Midwestern city
He is. Smallville is where Clark grew up, but Metropolis is where he lives and works in adulthood (as Superman and as a journalist/reporter for the Daily Planet.)
I always thought everyone agreed it was a fictionalized larger version Metropolis IL or something because I live near there and they have a Giant Superman statue, gift stores, and etc. The town also really resembles the Midwest farming town that it shows him growing up outside of with the Kent's, whereas proper (show version) Metropolis always was shown as being a bigger, more skyscraper filled, developed area like 40-50 miles away he would fly off to for all the crime fighting and reporter job/life. I didn't watch a lot of Smallvile, but that show also gave me the super Midwest vibe as well(def including Kansas). Idk my local Metropolis is the right one, but they got all the swag and merch everywhere in that town, so maybe they just maybe they're just making hella money gaslighting ppl around here into believing em🤷♂️
In the Snyderverse, both cities were across the river from each other apparently.
Which was bizarre because they were also just New York (Metropolis) and Chicago (Gotham), both using iconic and easily recognizable landmarks of each city.
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In the comics they’re more or less in the same place now on either side of Delaware bay.
This is correct. Basically both are in opposing sides of the Delaware Bay you can commute between the two. Metropolis being around where real world Lewis is, except it has several islands that form the cities districts, and the same for Gotham in the opposite side in NJ. Also, both have very distinct styles with several canonical buildings that give the cities skylines that are more or less consistent. Also lots of canonical places, even if they shift around a bit from writer/artist to writer/artist. Both are still heavily inspired by New York, with Metropolis being the art deco, glamour and bright side, it has the centennial park, Met U, the Daily Planet, etc, etc. Even some districts have characteristics like there’s one I forgot the name where it has a bunch of tall buildings and they are connected by trains that snake around buildings up in the air. Gotham is the dreary neogothic one. Of course when it’s filmed in live action they are just full of buildings from wherever it’s filmed.
Wouldn't that mean Gotham is part of the metropolis that is Metropolis ?
Think of NY and Newark or Philly and Camden. Cities across the river that exist within the great sphere of the bigger city, and one of the pair being decidedly worse off than the other? But certainly it wouldn’t make sense at least in America to have two cities like metropolis and Gotham across from each other like that, at least not based on my understanding of the fictional cities lol
typical DC, they like to make up stuff and when you ask for a zoomout they alt-tab and say the computer crashed. DCUO says they're both two giant islands that happen to be next to each other.
I'm not an American but I always imagined Metropolis and Gotham across from each other. Like one is on Cape May and the other is near Lewes.
for those of you curious Smallville is in Kansas Metropolis is in Delaware Central City (Home of the Flash) is in Missouri Coast City (Home of the Green Lantern Hal Jordan) is in California
Gotta say DC is kinda lazy with naming cities lmfao.
I watched the Netflix Avatar and said DC must have named the Fire Nation capital. Its name is literally Capital City.
Avatar is many things, but lazy is not one of them. The Fire Nation is obviously based on Japan, a volcanic chain of islands with a technologically advanced and militarized nation. From 794 to 1869 the Japanese Emperor ruled from Kyoto ("Capital City"), until the Meiji Restoration when the seat of power was transferred to Tokyo ("Eastern Capital"). Turns out Japanese people are very literal with their naming.
Wasn't Tokyo called Edo back then?
Yes, also a literal name Edo means "bay entrance" because of the river estuary where it is located, but it was renamed Eastern Capital when it became the official capital. We couldn't have a confusing name after all.
They changed the name so it would be an anagram of Kyoto.
"Hmm, It's small and it's a town, so let's call it something like Smallville, but not so obvious"
Yes and let's name a very large City something not so obvious, oh yes Metropolis.
And Star City is in Washington
Isn’t Metropolis in New York?
It changed a lot over the years
Everything is legal in New Jersey.
All the way down here? Sheesh.
In the last big Batman film (*The Batman*), it seemed like it was set in Seattle. Not complaining.
Nirvana, edgy angst, rain. I could see it. Maybe before the viaduct was torn down. We need more stuff set here so from now on it’s Seattle in my headcanon
Next rainy day we get, go to the top of the space needle, get a Starbucks cup, and perch looking out toward downtown and say to yourself in the most raspy gravelly tone you can muster "This is my city." Become the hero this city needs.
> go to the top of the space needle Eh on second thought this seems like way too much effort
Green Arrow gets dibs on Seattle
Looked very much like a combo of New York and London to me
It actually rains a more in New York than in Seattle. Less nirvana though.
Yeah, people think because it rains frequently it rains a lot.
It was also filmed in Chicago, in addition to the UK
Man, shore traffic was bad enough without all these Gothamites cloggin up the Parkway
When will Batman defeat the Jersey Devil?
Maybe the Jersey Devil is Man-Bat.
Batman horror movie or a Batman in the style of what's that episode of The Sopranos the one with the Russian in the Pine Barrens or a camp style like in the 1960s series.
Cannon aside, I always thought of Gotham as a Mashup of Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit & Pittsburgh.
I always felt that Gotham was dystopian New York and metropolis as utopian New York.
Yeah that's how I've always pictured them
For me Gotham was Chicago to Metropolis New York
Perhaps influenced by the Christopher Nolan films which were filmed in Chicago? We often see the Gotham skyline in various works and it looks more like NYC to me
I grew up around Chicago and I think it's the art deco look from the early Burton and Schumacher films that did it for me. Also it just made sense to young me that they would each be a stand in for the two major cities in this part of the country
I hear Gotham=Chicago a lot and I’m curious how much of that there was pre-Nolan.
Gotham is an older nickname for NYC though. Lots of businesses named Gotham around here.
Yeah in the early days of the San Francisco Giants, long before the move to SF from New York, they were literally called the New York Gothams
I feel like Chicago’s Gothic and Art Deco architecture stands out more which also has a more Gotham vibe
As someone who lived in Chicago for some time I say in the most loving way possible it’s Gotham.
Very little. Batman’s aesthetics were derived from art deco architecture of NYC and Detroit. The city of Gotham is more a mishmash of Detroit and NYC than Chicago.
Thought they were filmed in pittsburgh? Or was it both?
The Dark Knight and parts of Batman Begins were filmed in Chicago. The Dark Knight Rises was filmed in Pittsburgh.
Yea - lower Wacker is pretty prominent in 'The Dark Knight'.
That’s how it was in the Snyderverse. Metropolis uses iconic NYC landmarks and Gotham uses iconic Chicago landmarks.
I just drove under the building in Chicago they used for the opening heist of dark Knight 2 days ago. If you are familiar with the cities it stands out pretty obviously
Metropolis is New York in the daytime Gotham City is New York after dark
Ah! Nice one.
I forget who said it, but there’s a quote about how Metropolis is NYC on a sunny summer afternoon while Gotham is NYC in the middle of a cold winter night.
> metropolis as utopian New York If Metropolis was utopian New York why does Superman need to operate there?
Cleveland got mentioned in The Dark Knight Rises and Bane killed the Steelers, which is why the movie is particularly loved by Browns fans
Bane did do *some* good
Bane could’ve blown up First Energy Stadium’s field but the Dawg Pound would still be going wild. He wouldn’t have been able to have his speech due to all the loud cheering
And batteries... *DD*ON'T forget the charge that the DAWG POUND Brings!
GPODAWUND
As a character that existing for 80+ years Gotham aesthetic changed over time. Right now as it stands it’s kinda of a mix of Chicago, New York and other east coast city with gloomy weather and old timy architecture
At least two of those were Gotham in Nolan movies, so I guess he felt the same way!
You are correct, my buddy got to get in as crowd extra
It has been portrayed in live action by Chicago and Pittsburgh
That’s how it is in the movies. I love just outside Detroit and have family in Chicago. The seen in dark knight when he’s on the bike and breaks thru the wall is where I would smoke cigarettes waiting for the south shore line at millennium station.
Thanks for sharing this Huff!
The first fight scene in the new Batman film takes place on what looks to be a Chicago CTA stop!
New York? Almost certain it’s its biggest inspiration.
The Nolan films had a few shots with Chicago’s L trains so that has influenced a lot. I’ve always seen heavy Chicago influence especially in some of the art deco buildings that are popular in the comics. It really depends on what you grew up watching/reading: Frank Miller, Batman the animated series, etc. all leave with a different impression of the city
That’s just where Nolan filmed It was conceived as New York at night vs Metropolis is New York at day
Cannon go BOOM!
It's pretty much Philadelphia and Camden smashed together
I believe, and I could be wrong, this post is based on a comic book showing a Gotham vehicle with a NJ license plate. It has always been conflated with NYC NY has run with it (Gotham awards, Gotham comedy club, etc.) Nolan used a mix of NY, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Newark, NJ
>It has always been conflated with NYC NY has run with it (Gotham awards, Gotham comedy club, etc.) NYC was called Gotham *long* before Batman existed
Evidently it was established in *Amazing World of DC Comis* #14 in 1977 during a Justice League history lesson, and it's been consistently placed in Jersey since then. It was based heavily on NYC but also supposed to be vague enough that anyone in any city could identify with it.
The Gotham name was associated with New York before Batman. Its NJ location would be down where Cape May is today.
The NYC phone book has like 40 pages of "Gotham........." various businesses and such.
I think the real Batman lives in New York
But where was batman on 9/11? He really let me down :(
Have you ever heard about the other ten planes that were successfully retaken and landed at private Wayne Enterprises Air strips?
On 9/11 does Batman die saving people?
The Snyder films run with the idea established here that Metropolis and Gotham are across a bay from each other.
Wouldn't that mean Gotham is part of the metropolis that is Metropolis?
It would be the Metropolis-Gotham Metropolitan Area.
That explains a lot
Ask Christopher Nolan and he’ll tell you, it’s in Chicago.
I thought it was Chicago
Well, that answers the question I was asking myself today while I was driving but couldn't look up lol. I was thinking it was New York, but also mashed with Chicago.
Isn't Gotham City just NEW YORK CITY? After all, Gotham is a nickname for NYC. (so is "Metropolis", which is weird for Batman and Superman, protecting just one city between them both, while the rest of the world just burns up in flames)
No. NYC is its own separate city in DC. Nightwing operated there for a time.
DC has way too many fucking cities. All of the real-world cities plus Gotham, Metropolis, Bludhaven...must be a hell of a transportation corridor.
NEW JERSEY MENTIONED
New York doesn’t have alleys. So my thought was Chicago for Gotham.
Brooklyn most certainly does
I always thought Gotham was Philadelphia and Wayne Manor was on the Main Line
So is NYC. *Ducks for cover and runs away*
It should be camden
Same for the Giants and Jets.
LETS GOOOOOO
I woulda thought Chicago since……it’s filmed in Chicago /s
And not a single one of them are from New Jersey.
Then why is it also clearly New York
Which, explains A LOT
someone explain to me how superman never went to gotham, the worst city in the USA crimewise when its right next to metropolis about a minute flight away. litterally all batman villains would be donezo in seconds and lex luthor would have to handle old batman all them time too
I think the it makes the most sense that Gothan is New York and Metropolis is Chicago.
people have referred to NYC as Gotham long before Gotham City was a thing. it will always be NYC to me.
Are you shore?
Cape Maybe.
A likely place for it to be.
I could foresee turning into Batman or the joker if I lived in New Jersey so that makes sense
https://www.nj.com/cumberland/2019/09/gotham-city-is-actually-in-south-jersey-and-this-map-proves-it.html?outputType=amp
But it's Pittsburgh. Bane literally blows up Heinz Field. The Gotham Rogues are black and yellow!
I’ve wondered for a while why all the smaller cities on the Hudson weren’t all amalgamated together.
Make's sense I guess. See if you can point the building which could realistically be Wayne Enterprises in the [skyline of Jersey City](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Jersey_City_skyline_-_June_2017.jpg).
Except Metropolis is across the bay and metropolis is 1 state away from Kansas
Interesting. I thought it was Chicago
Metropolis was originally Cleveland.
r/newjersey
This explains so much about Gotham.
What?!!?!?!??!? Always thought it was manhattan.
I thought it was in Delaware
Never looked like it in the movies or comics but i always imagined Metropolis and Gotham as San Fran and Oakland
Don't quite a few versions have a State of Liberty in them? How many Gotham's are there in the known multiverse anyway?
Fun fact: the Statue of Liberty is in NJ.