Metropolis

Metropolis is one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the United States that is best known as being the hometown of Superman.

Government

 * City Hall
 * Metropolis Court House

Aircraft/Airports

 * Metropolis Airstrip

Newspaper

 * Daily Planet, the city's number one newspaper publisher
 * Metropolis Daily News
 * The Metropolis Post
 * Daily Bugle

Banks

 * Metropolis Bank
 * Metropolis First National Bank
 * Metropolis City Bank
 * Metropolitan Savings Bank

Media

 * Galaxy Communications

Recreation

 * Metropolis Park
 * Metropolis City Zoo
 * Metropolis Stadium
 * Metropolis Theater
 * Metropolis Fun Park
 * Metropolis County Fair

Colleges and Schools

 * Metropolis University
 * Metropolis High School

Scientific / Medical Facilities

 * Metropolis Geological Institute
 * Metropolis Science Institute
 * Metropolis Medical Center
 * Star Labs
 * Metropolis Observatory

Prison / Law Enforcement Facilities

 * Metropolis State Prison
 * Metropolis Police Headquarters
 * Metropolis Police Precinct 25

Museums

 * Metropolis Museum
 * Metropolis Museum of Natural History
 * Metropolis Museum of Art

Businesses

 * Billie Wave Marina
 * Mood Oil Company
 * Metropolis Convention Center
 * Metropolis Diamond Exchange
 * Metropolis Battery Company
 * Maurer Animation Studio
 * LexCorp
 * Dockside Warehouse
 * Major Studio
 * Harry's Meats
 * Office building

Miscellaneous

 * Hall of Justice, the headquarters of the the SuperFriends.
 * Old Town
 * Sunset Plaza
 * Lloyds
 * Lake Metropolis

Residences

 * Lois Lane's penthouse apartment
 * Morpheus residence

Natives

 * Mayor Jackson
 * Clark Kent, mild mannered newspaper reporter.
 * Lois Lane, star reporter for the Daily Planet.
 * Jimmy Olsen, cub-reporter and photographer for the Planet.
 * Perry White, editor and chief of the Daily Planet.
 * Lex Luthor

Origin / First Appearance

 * It first appeared as an unnamed Canadian City in Action Comics, Vol. 1 #1 (June, 1938).
 * Metropolis first appeared by name in Action Comics, Vol. 1 #16 (September, 1939).

Location
In the Super Friends, the exact location of Metropolis has never been canonically established:
 * Superman co-creator Joe Shuster modeled the look of Metropolis after his home town of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
 * In the Golden Age era, Superman was first based out of Cleveland, Ohio and worked for a Cleveland newspaper. In subsequent appearances, this locale was retroactively established as Metropolis.
 * During the Silver Age era, Metropolis was firmly established as a coastal city on the Eastern seaboard, but it was never established which U.S. State it was located in.
 * During the Bronze Age, on January 21, 1972 DC Comics declared Metropolis, Illinois as the "Hometown of Superman". The Illinois State Legislature passed Resolution 572 declaring Metropolis as the Hometown of Superman on June 9th, but this was cited as an honorarium and was not intended to reflect Metropolis' location within DC continuity.
 * In the Donner Universe (Richard Donner), starting with 1978's Superman (and its sequels), Metropolis is shown as being in (or taking the place of) New York City, including depicting such New York landmarks as the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center, the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Station, and the New York Daily News offices. In Superman III,  some Calgary, Alberta landmarks can be seen, including the Calgary Tower and the St. Louis Hotel, as parts of the film were filmed there.
 * In Superman Returns director Bryan Singer intended his version of Metropolis to be a stylistic cross between 1930s New York and current New York; with a nod to Richard Donner's 1978 Superman film and its sequels. The many shots of Superman flying high above the city establish that although Metropolis has a rectangular park reminiscent of Central Park, the city overall has a slightly different shape from New York City.
 * In the Smallville Universe (as seen on the WB/CW television series Smallville), Metropolis is located in or near the state of Kansas, within driving distance of Smallville. This was likely established so that characters from the show could travel back and forth between the two cities in a timely manner and with little difficulty.

Appearances in Other Media
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