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8 Fictional Cities You Don't Want to Live in

omglists.com — Creators of fiction are always coming up with new and exciting places for their characters to dwell in, but not all of them can be utopias. In fact, some are cities and towns that would make you wish you were back in your boring old suburb again. Let's take a look, shall we?

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  • suxmonkey, on 04/25/2008, -24/+14You know, growing up ... I thought Duckberg was a pretty cool place ... but this article really puts that in perspective. I'm going to avoid that place like the plague. Thanks for the heads-up.
    • otatop, on 04/25/2008, -10/+6i think Duckberg's a pretty cool place. eh's a terrorist target and doesn't afraid of anything.
    • rentmitchum, on 04/25/2008, -2/+10Life is like a hurricane, iiiin Duckberg.

      Blathering blatherskites.
    • Elranzer, on 04/25/2008, -2/+2FTA: "And although Scrooge acts like a Republican, he sure doesn't employ Reaganomics and the idea of a "trickle down" economy to boost the local market. He keeps it all locked away for his own perverse enjoyment as he swims through it, never truly repaying his town for the chaos he brings upon them."

      Eh... sounds pretty Republican to me.
  • suxmonkey, on 04/25/2008, -33/+5You know, growing up ... I thought Duckberg was a pretty cool place ... but this article really puts that in perspective. Serious terror target, what was I thinking?! I'm going to avoid that place like the plague. Thanks for the heads-up.
    • spamly, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5There's also that pilot that can't seem to land his plane without taking out at least one structure...
  • str3ama, on 04/25/2008, -4/+26Unless I get to swim in the money vault, Duckberg would suck.
    • cvxdes1, on 04/25/2008, -0/+0Always use the bathroom before swimming.
    • jooeyd, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1YES!
    • TheObviousChild, on 04/25/2008, -0/+0Even then, you'll probably get Hep C or something. Dirty dirty coins.
  • relic180, on 04/25/2008, -9/+3I wouldn't mind taking a shot at robbing the money bin. And possibly bringing all my criminal and terrorist buddies to help out.
    • PeppermintPig, on 04/25/2008, -1/+5I'm loving the fact that the article thinks he should be forced to share his wealth. Whoever wrote this thinks like a socialist, lol.

      I want to know how the hell he earned that money. Don't you? Maybe he has some investment tips, unless he's a tool taking advantage of others with corporate status or gov contracts.
      • psykiv, on 04/25/2008, -0/+13According to the episodes, he initially made his millions in the african diamond trade. He eventually made his (insert ridiculously huge number here) in treasure hunting.

        His lucky dime was the first dime he made, shining some guy's shoe in scotland. He got pissed when he got paid in US currency (he was after all, in scotland). Later on when he came to the united stateshe worked for his uncle (or something like that) cleaning (or driving) a boat. He got pissed that he basically got nothing while his uncle (?) racked up most of the profits. He then decided to work smarter, not harder, and owning your own business is the only way to get rich.

        Oh dear, I have watched ducktales too much
        • ichbeineinrcg, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3"Work smarter, not harder, my McPappy always said."--Scrooge McDuck

          I've had that quote stuck in my head for years now.
        • Edrick, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2You can never watch too much Duck Tales.
        • relic180, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1He started his fortune in the African diamond trade?? That would most likely make him a slave trader, in violation of multiple human rights.
          Typical big business mogul.
      • iloveGod08, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5Its not about sharing the wealth! Its about investing the wealth in businesses in the town so the average person's quality of life can improve.
    • relic180, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1Why did I get voted down so much? Me and my terrorist pals were just crackin' a joke.
  • suzywang3000, on 04/25/2008, -3/+11Ewok village and Smurf village are two of my favorite places...
  • lucidguru, on 04/25/2008, -3/+106I'm surprised Gotham City didn't make the list.
    • lastoftheidiots, on 04/25/2008, -0/+39Ditto. 1984's London is another I expected to see.
      • borninda818, on 04/25/2008, -1/+8It's the first thing that popped into my mind.
      • Zique, on 04/25/2008, -0/+21I'm not sure it counts as a fictional city anymore.
    • fahrvergnuugen, on 04/25/2008, -0/+4Or Detroit (from the crow)
    • megamod, on 04/25/2008, -4/+17WTF....They have freaking Duckberg??? First thing that comes to mind...hmmm...How about Raccoon city why isn't that on the list. Dugg down for being a freaking retarded list...
      • OneLess, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1I have to agree with Raccoon City. A new zombie epidemic every 10 minutes definitely beats out having cranky living appliances.
    • EpicSelekta, on 04/25/2008, -1/+7The sheer thought of penguins attached to rockets is justification enough for Gotham to be on the top of the list!
    • kawaiirobo, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5Damn, you beat me to it, as soon as I read the link I thought, 'Gotham'
    • TheMidnight, on 04/25/2008, -3/+2But people are shooting at each other and the skies are green!

      He just won't stop with the social commentary.

      What about Los Angeles from Futurama?
      • EpicSelekta, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Much better than Los Angeles in real life!
    • GregFD3S, on 04/25/2008, -4/+3What about SPRINGFIELD???!!??

      I guess the guy that wrote this article never watches The Simpsons.

      Fail.
    • Rodman930, on 04/25/2008, -3/+2Whata about sin city???
    • bosssmiley, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Needs more New Crobuzon
    • Balanced, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1I think Marvel's NYC got selected as the representative 'Comic Book City' although it's not the best one. I think Metropolis was destroyed and rebuilt a couple times in various Superman stories, and Gotham very conveniently has every horrible thing you can think of in driving distance, including an asylum full of top-tier super criminals. Not to mention the story arc where Gotham was cut off from the mainland and left to rot.

      Marvel's New York generally at least tries to match the real city, so it's not quite as drastic.
    • tillerman00, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Lame list with lame writing.
    • CandiLain, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Buried for being incomplete. How about a list of cities that aren't animated?? And How did Bedrock make the list and Bartertown from Mad Max not make the list?! Serious suckage: a city that's fueled by pig crap and must rely on a midget and a hulking kid to maintain it. And if you piss some one off bad enough you get sent to a wicker dome where you have to kill you opponent or be killed. And if the hair styles aren't bad enough, there aren't any other civilized cities for miles because most of the people in the country were wiped our by a nuke.
  • Navicerts, on 04/25/2008, -3/+8They cloned smurfette in that picture.
    • greenlight2001, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1noticed that too
      • smeenz, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1as did I.. quite a bad choice of picture for the author to use really, since his point is there's only one.
    • MacSuxWindozSux, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2And in the last sentence they say there's only one girl.

      Tranny Smurfs?
      • aaabatteries, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1mm, kinky.
      • coyote1284, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3There was a little girl Smurf and 2 little boy Smurfs made by Gargamel. Pedo Smurf was overjoyed when they showed up.
  • jlimon, on 04/25/2008, -3/+117They missed some of the most brutal fictional cities ever and yet included New York City? C'mon..

    Gotham? Metropolis? Raccoon City?! - This list fails, sorry.
    • Falldog, on 04/25/2008, -1/+5Metropolis is pretty tame in comparison to Gotham and Raccoon City.
      • jlimon, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Yeah, but it still sucks to have all those assholes attacking the city all the time.
        • brownsound00, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3These guys need to read more frank miller. more specifically dark knight. his portrayal of gotham city made it the dirtiest, grimiest, more vile place on earth. i had to take a shower after reading it.
      • radsprack, on 04/25/2008, -1/+6Why would anyone want to live in a city with a prick like superman?
    • Ganja420, on 04/25/2008, -0/+25Silent Hill ?????
      • Aensland, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Bet the property prices there would be rock bottom cheap.
    • PhoenixAvatar2, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2And the picture of NYC they chose is from a real event. That's a shot from Amazing Spider-Man #36, also known as the 9/11 issue.
    • Atomic05, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5London, circa 1984, should make that list.
    • Sagags, on 04/25/2008, -1/+8Don't forget Rapture
    • EpicSelekta, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2What about Springfield (from the Simpsons, not the actual town)? There is, like, 1 sane adult in the entire city!

      Naboo's capital city should also be on there, due to an apparently lack of any standing army. The ***** EWOKS could have taken over Naboo.
    • burnblue, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1The difference is that everything in Marveldom seems to happen in New York City. DC comics at least has a more varied geography, with Gotham and Metropolis being two large separate cities to wreak havoc in. I think the list was right on the money
    • dadioflex, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1When you said Raccoon City I'm ashamed to say my first thought was about the 80s cartoon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raccoons doh.
    • CaptMonkey, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3Metropolis? What about Smallville? I mean they have like an average of one high school kid dying every week. I can understand being tied to your home, but you'd think after the 10th kid or so you'd just give up and move the hell away.
  • rentmitchum, on 04/25/2008, -3/+35Midgar would suck. The black people aren't just carrying guns, they're made of guns.
    • homerang, on 04/25/2008, -0/+32PERSON. Black PERSON. He was the only black man in the world.
    • Aensland, on 04/25/2008, -0/+10LOL.
      Not to mention the random terror attacks on the power plants, or falling city plates crushing the people below.
  • wastedfish, on 04/25/2008, -7/+0This list needs Bioshock
  • tulizx, on 04/25/2008, -10/+3Iraq, oh wait...
    • mwrl, on 04/25/2008, -3/+1I'd live in Iraq before I would live in New Orleans!
      • Joeyrev, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Really? Sure New Orleans is *****, but there's not a suicide bombing every other day.
    • shahadar, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Iraq is not a city....jus sayin
  • electricdragon, on 04/25/2008, -3/+141Where is City 17?
    • bfrank72, on 04/25/2008, -0/+32I searched the comments just to digg up a comment concerning city 17.
      • kenkyomausu, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6I saw the digg article and Dr. Breen popped into my head and siad "Welcome to city 17".
      • Madrox17, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2"I searched the comments just to digg up a comment concerning city 17."

        Haha...I was doing the exact same thing. Both dugg.
      • spect3r, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Welcome. Welcome, to City 17. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers
      • cpugeek2214, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Pick up that can, citizen.
    • Sagags, on 04/25/2008, -2/+2and Rapture
  • MattLat, on 04/25/2008, -2/+83Howabout Rapture?
    • rosw3ll, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3exactly what i was thinking
    • xkorbin, on 04/25/2008, -1/+9Favorite city in the fictional world. Love the time period. And the art style (retrofuturism/steampunk)
    • CollateralDmg, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3I was sure Rapture would be #1.
    • brad016, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Ya, I saw the title and I'm like, Oh Rapture. Whitch you would think would be the very thing the story is talking about. How could you even post this. Got me all excited for nothin'*Spit*
  • FukUrCouch, on 04/25/2008, -9/+0More blog spam about some ***** that will never happen....
  • mentallyinhell, on 04/25/2008, -11/+1I was really hoping it would feature dystopias, like out of 1986.
    • sixsidepentagon, on 04/25/2008, -0/+161986?
      Is that the third in the trilogy?
      • kawaiirobo, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3I dunno, Chernobyl happened in 86, so for one community he's dead on.
  • amanilaenvelope, on 04/25/2008, -4/+16they obviously never heard of Basin City.
  • richman241, on 04/25/2008, -2/+10I dont think that castle town was a good place to live in in legend of zelda ocarina of time. In 7 years, everyone turned into a vampire.
    • wille1623, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1castle town was in twilight princess
  • wild, on 04/25/2008, -6/+68Cracked would have made this list funnier.
  • DiggMeTo42, on 04/25/2008, -3/+15RAPTURE!
  • Catbert107, on 04/25/2008, -7/+2I saw the thumbnail and immediately saw it was from The Matrix. So I clicked the article
  • aebo06, on 04/25/2008, -2/+39. Tantegel during the reign of the Dragonlord
    • rand21althor, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Dugg for Dragon Warrior reference. :)
  • ZeroIce, on 04/25/2008, -4/+2Whatever! I would love to live in the Ewok or Smurf Village.
  • SierraAlpha, on 04/25/2008, -7/+2RAPTURE!
    • mooseofshadows, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1because someone else definitely didn't leave this exact same comment 4 posts up...
  • superguysteve, on 04/25/2008, -3/+6East Jebip
    Whoville
    Pleasantville
    The Village
    Shelbyville

    • yacks, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1i thought that second one said... Whoreville
    • Tikisam, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Shelbyville, lol bravo my good man!
  • matym, on 04/25/2008, -2/+8Chiba City? The Sprawl?
    • kawaiirobo, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3wow, good call, though I doubt many will know what your talking about.
    • Hoxie, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2yeah. It sucks because it's so big. You're just another faceless peon. you could get swallowed by the city and no one would notice.
    • coyote1284, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2m/ Gibson FTW! m/
      • coyote1284, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Digg stole by backslashies! Those were supposed to be metal hands!
  • bullcutter, on 04/25/2008, -4/+3lame
  • dunnylovehun, on 04/25/2008, -5/+4http://www.cracked.com/article_15084_7-worst-ficti ...
    Hmmm. I guess it's not exactly the same. Somewhat suspicious that they used the same image for Smurf Village
  • Ganja420, on 04/25/2008, -2/+7Silent Hill ????
    • RobotLeAwesome, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1seriously, if you lived in Silent Hill you might as well just kill yourself to avoid all the hassle.
    • juicedigital, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1That was the first place I thought of.
  • mcool119, on 04/25/2008, -1/+4Jurassic park 11 is not inevitable.
  • JesseDillonUCF, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1Angel Grove
    • coyote1284, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Yeah, it'd suck to live in a city where all the buildings are made of cardboard. I guess on the bright side, it's easy to rebuild after the weekly Monster/Zord battle.
  • Algaroth, on 04/25/2008, -2/+13Smurf village would be the worst. Only one woman to smurfing smurf unless you count the old bag and the underage one. Zion on the other hand looks boring as smurf so there's probably nothing to do but to smurf the smurfing smurf out of each other. (Smurf = sexual reference). I hate that show.
    • TnTBass, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Well, except the picture used of the Smurf village has 10 female Smurfs in it, all looking the same.
      Good job on the cut and paste feature in photoshop.
  • NonLeftistDiggr, on 04/25/2008, -1/+36#1) Detroit

    ooooohhh fictional. Right.
    • IncredibleScott, on 04/25/2008, -0/+0Well...Robocop was set in fictional crime-ridden Detroit of the "future". I think it counts!
  • MasterThief117, on 04/25/2008, -2/+3Raccoon City?

    EDIT: I failed to see jlimon's post.
  • gr3yn3t, on 04/25/2008, -1/+29. Metropolis
  • bluetytanium, on 04/25/2008, -1/+5I raged hard when I saw that they spelled "sponsor" wrong at the bottom.

    Also, this list kinda sucks.
  • cnot3, on 04/25/2008, -1/+6Bartertown. ***** Tina Turner.
  • FaithclubDotNet, on 04/25/2008, -5/+14Oceania (from the book 1984)
    • tghd, on 04/25/2008, -1/+13If you would of read the book you'd know that Oceania covered present day England and the Americas. London from 1984 would be more appropriate.
  • Rendonsmug, on 04/25/2008, -2/+3The witch goes after Scrooge's lucky *DIME*. Buried as inaccurate.
  • D14BL0, on 04/25/2008, -1/+4Actually, I would LOVE to live in all of these places.
  • partysan, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1I count 9 smurfettes based on the picture alone.
  • cigawoot, on 04/25/2008, -1/+9No City 17?

    Not digging that :)
    • heucuva, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2> No City 17?

      That's the first place I thought of when I saw the story. Can't believe they didn't list it, either. Shame on them.
  • Jimmeeee, on 04/25/2008, -1/+4Oceania, Gotham, Silent Hill, Rapture, and City 17 would be infinitely worse to live in than anything on that list.
  • mattwalton56, on 04/25/2008, -1/+7A MAN CHOOSES, A SLAVE OBEYS!
    • WannaBeSquare, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Atlas is a friend of The Parasite. Don't be a friend of Atlas.
  • Lyght, on 04/25/2008, -1/+4Regarding the Marvel Comics version of New York City... why is there a picture of the World Trade Center smoldering?
    • mrzack, on 04/25/2008, -7/+4Inside job. It was from the 9/11 super hero special edition where all the superheros help with the rescue. If only they'd use their special powers to catch the real criminals, namely the Bush Neocon administration. 9/11 = INSIDE JOB.
      • coyote1284, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Waaait, I'm confused. Is Bush an idiot or a mastermind? OMG! I get it now. Bush is Kaiser Soze!
  • viserov, on 04/25/2008, -2/+3They should have also listed Caprica City, or New Caprica City for that matter.
  • potterboy, on 04/25/2008, -4/+1Rapture?
  • mrzack, on 04/25/2008, -1/+7What bout Smallville. More ***** happens in Smallville tv series than Metropolis. That ***** show ruined the entire Original Superman comic book story line.
    • Failchan, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1It didn't ruin Superman at all - but it still sucked dick.
  • ReeferChiefer42, on 04/25/2008, -5/+3I'd live in most of these listed cities before I'd even visit Rapture.
  • Ghostsfp, on 04/25/2008, -2/+14R'lyeh?
    • Failchan, on 04/25/2008, -0/+4Cthulhu would be the best neighbour.
      • bosssmiley, on 04/25/2008, -0/+4Yep. Quiet, minds his own business, doesn't keep asking to borrow your stuff - great guy.
  • lilsassy005, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Paradise City from Burnout would be bad to...one minute you'd be driving along and then BAM! Taken down.
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