Jeremy’s Sametime Status Proudly Presents: Little-Known Batman Facts Week!
Not surprisingly, Gotham
City is most often depicted as being located
in New Jersey
Batman Theme Week continues today with a little geography lesson as it relates to the fictional home of Batman, Gotham City.
While it's always a little difficult to pin down exactly where any superhero lives (what with the whole secret lives thing), the internets are a valuable resource when locating your favorite fictional heroes. In fact, as a total aside, I Recently Discovered that websites exist which define the gravitational strength of fictional planets in the Star Wars universe. I would dearly love to know how people determine this sort of thing.
Anyway, while the exact location of Gotham City remains entirely fantasy, it's superimposition over the real world has varied a bit over the years. Most iterations locate it somewhere on the eastern coast of the United States, but canon states that Gotham is located in Southern New Jersey, across the Delaware Bay from Metropolis. Apparently, Superman isn't super enough to deal with the crime in both cities, so he's got one side of the Bay, while Batman's all over the other.
This seems like the kind of Fun Fact that may come into play a little bit later in Theme Week, wouldn't you say, Jeremy?
There does exist that possibility.
Anyway, everybody knows that nothing good has ever happened because of New Jersey, from the toxic waste to strange smells over Manhattan, Atlantic City to Snooki, the place is a hole. This truly is the best possible fit for a city of master criminals, massive asylums, political corruption, and vigilante justice. It really comes as no surprise to anyone that Gotham finds its home in the Garden State...it's just that not many people know that. Now you do!
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