Come anticipate "The Dark Knight Rises" with *BATSPOILERS*

kind of an iatee vibe on that map

that's from The Atlas of the DC Universe from 1990. Coast City has been rebuilt i think

Marvel has some made-up towns and plenty of fake countries, but they just use New York as their "big city" setting pretty much. The Great Lakes Avengers were based in Milwaukee I believe.

Marvel's New York is absolutely crawling with superheroes. Some of them should move out

For a while a few years back they were doing a like "fifty state initiative" thing, where every state would get a super-team assembled for it by the government. Around the same time, the X-Men decamped wholesale to San Francisco, whose open-minded leftie government invited the mutant freaks to town to be their new super-cops. It was a fun idea, sort of diluted in the execution.

Oh, and the West Coast Avengers and, much more recently, the Runaways, are based in LA. The Thunderbolts were in Colorado or Wyoming or someplace, out of a Cheyenne Mountain type of facility. Asgard was in Oklahoma for a good while, though this doesn't seem to have made any difference in terms of crime. And so on...

i remember lol'ing at that on another thread somewhere. woeful midwest crews iirc.

I think I'd assumed that Stamford, Connecticut (which gets blown up at the start of Civil War) and Broxton, Oklahoma (current site of Asgard) were made up, but no, I guess that's some kind of Marvel point of pride (having definitely picked the right horse 50 years ago in choosing New York rather than making a Gotham/Metropolis)

Also next to Gotham is (bracer yourselves) Blüdhaven, the more crime-ridden younger sister.

haha what, seriously? Does Batman ever go there?

Nah, it was invented so that when the first Robin quit, he could become Nightwing and have somewhere nearby to brood and menace at.

So I think at least at the start it had low Batman presence so that he was giving Junior space.

those inner-ring suburbs are getting worse these days

Blüdhaven residents dream of moving to Gotham

(Also lolling at the idea of Cumberbatch even slightly being able to beat up a Baneified Hardy.)

Tbh even Cumberbatch being able to beat up regular size Hardy seems pretty dubious.

Wasn't Blüdhaven nuked or destroyed in Final Crisis, or am I misremembering?

Sounds like it might give the place a shot in the arm.

"In Infinite Crisis #4, the Secret Society of Super Villains drops Chemo, a gigantic, semi-intelligent pile of chemicals, on the city, causing a devastating explosion and toxic chemical fallout."

shia laboeuf beat up tom hardy, im sure cumberbatch could give him hell too

irl?

I got knocked out by Shia LaBeouf, actually. In Wettest County, apparently. Behind the scenes. No, he did. He knocked me out sparko. Out cold. He's a bad, bad boy. He is. He's quite intimidating as well. He's a scary dude. He just attacked me. He was drinking moonshine. I was wearing a cardigan, and er, went down. I woke up in Pnut's arms. [Pnut is Hardy's personal trainer.] He was concerned for me. I was like, ‘What was that? It was lightning fast.' And he said, ‘That was Shia.' I said, ‘Fuckin' hell. Can we go home now?' ‘No, we've still got three weeks to finish.'

yeah

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/movies/tom-hardy-says-shia-labeouf-knocked-him-out-with-a-punch-in-a-fight-on-set-of-the-wettest-county-in-the-world/story-e6frexli-1226094824544

xp

I thought P-nut was the bass player for 311? There are two people who go by that? Ugh.

Yes, but Shia has the power of crazy. Have you seen his comic book?

lol that reads like an elaborate joke to me

He was drinking moonshine. I was wearing a cardigan

come on

oh it definitely is. Shia believes it though

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/04/16/shia-lebeouf-comic-book/

He was drinking moonshine. I was wearing a cardigan

When Pulp goes country.

He was drinking moonshine. I was wearing a cardigan. She was looking like an erotic vulture.

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/07/andy-warhol-and-nico-as-batman-and-robin-1967/

I saw this last night. Most of the night street action was shot in the two blocks surrounding my gym. You even see the Bat fly over the One Wilshire building at one point, and the scene at the end with the Catwoman kiss is the street under Grand by Moca, where a lot of movies love to shoot. So Gotham is actually at least 1/4 downtown Los Angeles.

Also, when Selina Kyle, is in the airport, you can see an out of focus but unmistakable orange Easyjet plane behind her, so Gotham is also part Luton or Stanford.

Pit prison opens out into Jodhpur, in Rajasthan...lower levels with the steppy edges looks like Chand Baori or a step-well of similar type. Hong Kong in TDK was...Hong Kong.

Just been reminded that at the time I was watching the big destructive air vs ground scene I was wondering how many times the same place got blown up this year. Was it the same location that the big Avengers fight took place in or am I just missing the idea that all US money districts look the same?

They kinda do. The Stock Exchange reminded me of the SF Financial District at times.

Avengers was in Cleveland - which used to be big, big money. CGI and clever cutting was used to make it also be the scenes set in Stuttgart, which looked so good that the municipal government is now looking into plans for public improvements on the basis of "well, if we can have nice public space in the movies, why can't we have it in real life?"

shia lebouf >>> tom hardy

avengers was in cleveland and they poured a ton of money into creating a virtual new york so they wouldnt have to shoot in the real nyc

vahid do you have an overactive challops gland

proven by fighting

nah not on an acting level, in fact the only lebouf movie i've seen is the first transformers and i've seen like 10+ movies w/ hardy in them, i just think it's funny when lebouf says

"They're talking about Ferraris and all, like it's a cool car. If Clarke pulled up in a Ferrari right now, my idea wouldn't be, 'What a cool guy!' It would be, 'Look at this clown.' I think the fact that I despise that stuff keeps me safe. I hang on to my dirt. I like my dirt," said LaBeouf.

also come on he boned megan fox

Gotham is probably where Easyjet fly you if you book a flight to New York.

I think I've posted this to ILX before, but basically I cannot read "Shia LaBeouf" without singing it in my head to the tune of "Sheela-Na-Gig" by PJ Harvey.

Haha well given that Sigur Ros video he really IS an exhibitionist.

LA BOOF

haha, Andrew

Shia Bidoof

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Pok%C3%A9mon_Bidoof_art.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidoof

pokemon fan taught me that one

huh

If Elijah Wood took a fuckload of PCP or something... Shia LaBoeuf.