Talk:Metropolis (comics)/Archive 1

Background
There seems a great potential missed in this article to cover the real world background of the city, and its connection to the Fritz Lang film. Any takers?

Untitled
I wanted to add in a fact that I was searching for but didn't find here, that Metropolis is referred to as "The Big Apricot" in contrast or perhaps more likely in jest of New Yory City's "Big Apple." I couldn't find a nice niche for the quote, so I'm leaving it here for someone more experienced with wiki editing to add in. 67.9.76.108

further connection to NYC in the 1st superman movie the statue of liberty is seen and I am not sure but lois might have mentioned an airport in the movie aswell.

-- Can someone upload more pictures from the Superman Returns game? That has some good concept art for Metropolis.

Football team
I thought the team was called the Metropolis Sharks? Reelusa89 12:54, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Only in Smallville (the television series) universe. Bignole 13:47, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought that might have been the case. Can this difference be mentioned in the article?Reelusa89 14:12, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

This is a great article
It's short simple--has some nice images. I applaud the work that's gone into this!

Other cities
I'm catching up on Smallville (TV series). There have been numerous references to other fictional cities (Edge City, Star City, etc.). Should they be mentioned in this article? samwaltz 05:42, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

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Superman Returns Map
On Lex Luthors Yacht, in his office, There is a map of the east coast. if you pause it, and zoom in you will see that Metropolis is in New Jersey while Gotham is where New York should be. Just thought I'd let people know. 71.176.173.125 (talk) 16:34, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Metropolis Zip Code
At 37 minutes 13 seconds into "When Irish Eyes Are Killing" (Lois & Clark, season 3, episode 4), Clark examines a customer file card, which Lois stole from the Bank of Metropolis. The card gives an address in Metropolis: 2121 McKain St., Metropolis, New Troy 10022. United State Postal Service Zip Code 10022 is actually located in New York, NY. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mwhitlock (talk • contribs) 01:29, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

"One of the largest cities" or "The largest city"
The initial paragraph states that Metropolis is generally considered to be one of the largest cities in the DCU. I'm pretty sure that it is frequently stated that it is THE largest city bar none. E.g. an Adventures of Superman issue in 1995, the issue when Supes' Superhero-colleague Alpha Centurion arrives on earths, states that when his spaceship descended into the atmosphere of the planet he commaned the auto-pilot to stage a landing in the largest city of the planet, which Centurion (being a Roman from ancient time) assumed to be Rome, yet which turned out to be Metropolis. --80.142.240.25 (talk) 14:48, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

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Original research?
I added the tag since this article contains a great deal of unverified information. There are statement such as: "Metropolis is the literal merging of the Northeast Corridor of cities ranging from Washington, D.C. through New York City to Boston, to form a megalopolis." or "It has been said that, metaphorically, Metropolis is New York during the day, and Gotham City (home to Batman) is New York at night." 91.95.6.80 (talk) 18:48, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

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First appearance citation in infobox
In the infobox, the first appearance of Metropolis is stated to have been in Action Comics #16. Unless Clark Kent relocated in that issue, what obviously happened there is nothing more than that the name was used for the first time, but the feature had been taking place in the same city from the outset, right? Anybody with a copy of DC's Golden Age Superman Archives Vol. 1 can confirm that, so the infobox needs to be changed, doesn't it? --Ted Watson (talk) 19:31, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

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