The Dark Knight Where is Gotham City Located? (read before bashing)

[the_monk]

Here's the real answer to this thread:

It's up to you.

 

[Joker773]

yea its NJ, makes sense too

 

[Joker4Halloween]

Metropolis is in Delaware, Gotham is in New Jersey.

Lived in De for ten years and there is nothing Metropolis like in that place LOL

 

[Joker4Halloween]

I always thought it was Chicago and Metropolis was NYC

 

[Axtech]

...

it's a fictional place that doesn't correspond to any particular real-world geographic location.

 

[Triple Skeet]

Unless anyone has a stronger argument then that Id say we have a winner.

 

[BubbaGump]

I read this thread. Time to bash.

 

[TromaFreak64]

okay I waited before bashing but this really is....

Worst.Thread.Ever

 

[Paste Pot Pete]

It's Jersey. It's supposed to be similar to Newark. I live in Jersey and let me tell you - parts of Newark really could use Batman.

 

[The Guard]

Prepare to be bored. I went to The Source:

Gotham City's geography, like other fictional cities' geographies in the DC Universe, has varied over the decades, because of changing writers, editors and storylines. At various times the depiction has Gotham on the shores of "Lake Gotham". The majority of appearances, however, place Gotham on the eastern coast of the United States.

Maps shown in various comics have depicted the city in different places. Many of the maps directly use Manhattan, Vancouver, and other real coastlines as their basis, while others are completely original. One map showing Gotham City in relation to Metropolis, the home of Superman, published in New Adventures of Superboy #22 (October 1981), placed Gotham City and Metropolis on opposite sides of a large bay. In Swamp Thing vol. 2, #53 (October 1986) the geography of Rhode Island was the basis of another map of Gotham City. The current definitive maps of Gotham City are those based on the ones produced for the "No Man's Land" story arc.

The distance between Gotham City and Metropolis has varied over the years, ranging everywhere from being hundreds of miles apart to being twin cities on opposite sides of a large bay. Blüdhaven, a city that for several years was home to Nightwing, is located near Gotham City. Additionally, the Seven Soldiers of Victory series Klarion the Witch Boy, calls New York City the "Cinderella City", referring to nearby Metropolis and Gotham as its "ugly step-sisters".

One older theory was proposed by Mark Gruenwald, who later went on to be a major writer/editor at Marvel Comics, and published in the 1970s in the DC house fanzine, The Amazing World of DC Comics in an issue dedicated to the Justice League. Gruenwald suggested that Gotham City is located somewhere in the state of New Jersey while Metropolis is located in close vicinity to Washington, D.C.


A Gotham City driver's licenceMan-Bat #3 refers to Gotham City being in the Central Time zone.

According to the Planetary/Batman one-shot, a Gotham City also exists in the Wildstorm universe. It is similar to its DC Universe counterpart, but is not usually home to costumed vigilantes. In Captain Atom: Armageddon Gotham City does not exist in the Wildstorm universe.

The Atlas of the DC Universe, published in 1990 by Mayfair Games Inc. as a supplement to the DC Heroes role-playing game (under license from DC Comics), places Gotham City in southern New Jersey (and Metropolis in Delaware). This source, never officially recognized by DC Comics, has since been contradicted with regards to other locations.

In the Batgirl series, as well as in the Vertigo Comics' Sandman series, Gotham is implied to be an entire state, analgous to New York, with Gotham City as its capital. In both cases, the book refers to "Upstate Gotham".

A Gotham City driver's licence shown in Batman: Shadow of the Bat annual #1, contains the line "Gotham City, NJ", placing Gotham City in New Jersey.

Detective Comics #503 (June 1983) includes several references suggesting Gotham City is in or near New Jersey. A location on the Jersey Shore is described as "twenty miles north of Gotham." Robin and Batgirl drive from a "secret New Jersey airfield" to Gotham City and then drive on the "Hudson County Highway." Hudson County is the name of an actual New Jersey county.

So to sum things up...who gives a damn, it's a fictional city?

 

[Bowser]

I just imagine Gotham as existing on a fictional land mass similair to NYC somewhere on the east coast.

Ditto.

 

[Amazing Afroman]

I find it rather interesting that this map....

...corresponds so directly to this one.

A couple of years ago the wikipedia article had a more specific local, which had downtown gotham at Mystic Island in South Jersey. I don't know what the source was. Clearly though, at some point this got edited.For those of you not familiar with the South Jersey, it's in the Tuckerton area across the bay from Long Beach Island.

 

[CFE]

Gotham City. NOTHING else applies.

CFE

 

[bethehero7404]

Next to Parts Unknown, down the street from Know Your Role Blvd and across from Dudleyville. It is a suburb of Champion City and Bludhaven. Duh

 

[Indrid Cold]

New Jersey...right?

 

[TWOF4CE]

It is NYC, thats why Manhattan is referred to as Gotham. Ever hear of Gotham comedy club? (a place NYC and a stand-up comedy show on comedy central)

 

[Warhammer]

Next to Parts Unknown, down the street from Know Your Role Blvd and across from Dudleyville. It is a suburb of Champion City and Bludhaven. Duh

Only a wrestling fan would get this. I heard Batman has a little spot on Candyass Lane.

 

[hellfire]

its settled.

 

[dolfan55aj]

In a TAS episode, i think it was Shadow of the Bat, they showed the Statue of Liberty. It was slightly different, a bit smaller, looked like concrete, and it had a shield instead of like the book or tablet things. But I thought it was kind of daring to put something that iconic in there. I always figured Gotham was supposed to be wherever you wanted it to be.

 

[Warhammer]

Gotham had a statue of liberty in Batman Forever, too.

 

[bethehero7404]

I have heard this:

Metropolis was Cleveland, OH
Gotham City was Akron, OH

The creators of Superman were native Clevelanders and said that Cleveland was an inspiration for Metropolis. To counter act this Cleveland=Metropolis comparison Bob Kane said that Gotham was Akron.

In the comic world, that is how far away the two of them are from each other.

I dunno, I heard this like 10 years ago. Could be wrong. Can anyone support this?

 

[aaron smith]

It's generally implied and assumed, but in the movies and many comics it's never even assumed that the United States exists in this universe or that Gotham is part of it. Maybe it's a Canadian province in some freak alter dimension?

 

[Timstuff]

How can Lex Luthor be the president of the USA if the US doesn't exist in the comic world? :|

Gotham in NJ works fine for me. It only makes sense that if NJ was home to one of the world's biggest cities, it'd be a total dump (no offense to anyone from NJ).

 

[batgirl]

Between Ny,NewJersey and Philidelphia.

 

[Timstuff]

Between Ny,NewJersey and Philidelphia.

I think that this was pretty conclusive.