History Main / Premiseville

*** Unfortunately we cannot say if this trope applies to Idiotville, Oregon, because it is a ghost town nowadays.

* The titular town of ''{{Pleasantville}}'' is an interesting one between playing it straight and playing it for irony. Pleasantville is indeed pleasant, but it is also dull and lacking in individuality.

See also: MeaningfulName, ThemeNaming, CityOfAdventure, DescriptiveVille.

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* Sunnydale plays the trope for irony, it sounds like a lovely pretty safe place... and is where the Hellmouth is. The area's earlier Spanish name played the trope straight: it was Boca del Infierno.
** Not to mention that the sun is supposed to be a ''weakness'' to vampires.
* The titular town of ''{{Eureka}}'', populated by scientists.
* ''EerieIndiana'', where the happenings are of an unusual nature.
* The Australian kids' show ''{{Wormwood}}'' is a set a town called Wormwood where the main industry is the worm farm producing worm castings. Wormwood can also mean something bitter or unpleasant, and the town is at the centre of a lot of supernatural strangeness.
** It's more likely it's a reference to the biblical "Star Wormwood".
* ''{{Smallville}}''... is not an example of this trope!
* [[SaturdayNightLive "Give it all up to Homelessville!"]]

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* Kibougahana ("flower of hope" in Japanese) from the [[FlowerMotifs flower-themed]] series ''HeartcatchPrettyCure''.
* Otogibanashi ("Fairy Tale City") in ''{{Ookami-san}}''. The series has fairy tale motifs out the wazoo, so the name is quite fitting.
* Datenshi (Daten City/"Fallen Angel") in ''PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', in reference to the two main characters.

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* Dimmsdale from ''TheFairlyOddParents'' because the residents are pretty dim. Subverted in the fact that there is a {{Real Life}} Dimmsdale, in Staffordshire, England which means "dark nook of land".
* Soap City from ''TheCrampTwins'', probably called that in-universe because of the local soap factory. It fits because of the cleanliness obsession the residents (especially Mrs. Cramp) almost all have.
* Endsville from ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' relates to "the end" (death, that is).
* Retroville from ''TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' as the town is a RetroUniverse.
* St. Canard from ''DarkwingDuck'' because the residents are (mostly) [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic ducks]], (Canard is French for duck).
** And before that, there was Duckburg in ''DuckTales''... and before even that, in the comics it was based on.
* ''MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' had an amusingly subtle one: Tremorton, California. I assume it's named either for the earth-shaking events that seem to happen there on a suspiciously regular basis, or for its proximity to the San Andreas Faultline.
** TheMovie shows they built the town there when a split in the Earth open there until it stopped, and that had since had no seismic activity.
* Aron City in ''JohnnyBravo'', though this is a hard one to get - Elvis Presley's middle name was Aaron.
* Frostbite Falls from ''TheRockyAndBullwinkleShow'' which is cold.
* Nowhere in ''CourageTheCowardlyDog'', with Courage and his family housed right in the middle of it. Named because, well, other than Courage's house, there's nothing there...except for the ghosts...
* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has Ba Sing Se which is written in Chinese as "Perpetually Strong City". They also have "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown Chin Village]]", whose mayor is named "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong_%28organization%29 Tong]]".
** Ba Sing Se was actually remarked upon in-show as meaning ''Impenetrable city'' "After all, it's not called ''Na'' Sing Se. That means ''penetrable'' city."
* [[StrawberryShortcake Strawberryland]]
* [[RainbowBrite Rainbowland]]
* [[MyLittlePony Ponyland]]

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* Raccoon City of ''ResidentEvil'' is named after an animal popularly known for being the most likely victim of rabies, a disease causing insane hostility spread by bites and scratches. And it's a ZombieApocalypse GroundZero.
* Twilight Town from ''KingdomHearts'' is where it is always early evening.
** Likewise Traverse Town, which is a common hub for travel between worlds.
* Many ''SuperMario'' places are examples. Examples include "Lethal Lava Land", "Forest of Illusion", "Bianco Hills", "Honeyhive Galaxy", "Rogueport", "Dry Dry Desert", etc. Isle Delphino is an interesting one - it's got nothing to do with dolphins, but it's shaped like one.
* The EagleLand cities in ''EarthBound'' are named after numbers that match the order that you encounter the cities in.
* ''TheSims 2'' ships with pre-packaged towns Pleasantview (much like {{Pleasantville}} above), Strangetown (AlienAbduction and {{Mad Scientist}}s) and Veronaville (based on {{Shakespeare}} plays). Later expansions introduce other {{Premiseville}} neighborhoods with themes appropriate to the expansion's new functionality.
** ''TheSims 3'' has the downloadable alternate city Riverview, which is distinguished from the default city of Sunset Valley by the big river running through it, and the [[GangplankGalleon pirate-themed]] town of Barnacle Bay. The ''Ambitions'' expansion ships with Twinbrook, which has a ''forked'' river running through it.
* A few of the games in the ''LegendOfZelda'' series feature Hyrule's capital city of Castle Town...so named because it's the town around the royal residence.
* Rapture from ''{{Bioshock}}'' was suppose to be this as it represents a city not controlled by the government or religion, only the people that make it run. But those ideals were easily twisted and manipulated that it caused the city to fall into ruin and it namesake is now nothing but an ironic mockery.

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* Moperville from ''ElGoonishShive'' is is downright confusing as to whether it is fitting or not. It depends on the story arc.
* [[CityNoir Greysky City]], [[SinglePaletteTown Azure City]] and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Cliffport]] in TheOrderOfTheStick.

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*** {{UsefulNotes/Slovakia}} has the small industrial town of Svit under the Tatras. It's one of the newest cities in the country, founded during [[ChristieTime inter-war]] Czechoslovakia by then wealthy Czech industrialist Tomáš Baťa. The town's name is both a PunnyName and an example of FunWithAcronyms : "Svit" can mean "Shine, Glare" or (to an extent) even "Dawn" in both Czech and Slovak. The name itself comes from the hilarious acronym (SVIT) of the town's main industrial plant ("Slovenská visózová továreň = Slovak Viscose Plant/Factory").

*** {{UsefulNotes/Slovakia}} has the small industrial town of Svit under the Tatras. It's one of the newest cities in the country, founded during [[ChristieTime inter-war]] Czechoslovakia by then wealthy Czech industrialist Tomáš Baťa. The town's name is both a PunnyName and an example of FunWithAcronyms : "Svit" can mean "Shine, Glare" or (to an extent) even "Dawn" in both Czech and Slovak. The name itself comes from the hilarious acronym SVIT ("Slovenská visózová továreň = Slovak Viscose Plant/Factory").

*** {{UsefulNotes/Slovakia}} has the small industrial town of Svit under the Tatras. It's one of the newest cities in the country, founded during [[ChristieTime inter-war]] Czechoslovakia by then wealthy Czech industrialist Tomáš Baťa. The town's name is both a PunnyName and an example of FunWithAcronyms : "Svit = Shine, Glare, or (to an extent) even Dawn", which came from SVIT ("Slovenská visózová továreň = Slovak Viscose Plant/Factory").

*** UsefulNotes/Slovakia has the small industrial town of Svit under the Tatras. It's one of the newest cities in the country, founded during [[ChristieTime inter-war]] Czechoslovakia by then wealthy Czech industrialist Tomáš Baťa. The town's name is both a PunnyName and an example of FunWithAcronyms : "Svit = Shine, Glare, or (to an extent) even Dawn", which came from SVIT ("Slovenská visózová továreň = Slovak Viscose Plant/Factory").

*** UsefulNotes/Slovakia has the small industrial town o Svit under the Tatras. It's one of the newest cities in the country, founded during inter-war Czechoslovakia by then wealthy industrialist Tomáš Baťa. The town's name is both a PunnyName and an example of FunWithAcronyms : "Svit = Shine, Glare, or (to an extent) even Dawn", which came from SVIT ("Slovenská visózová továreň = Slovak Viscose Plant/Factory").

** ''TheSims 3'' has the downloadable alternate city Riverview, which is distinguished from the default city by the big river running through it, and the [[GangplankGalleon pirate-themed]] town of Barnacle Bay. The ''Ambitions'' expansion ships with Twinbrook, which has a ''forked'' river running through it.

** ''TheSims 3'' has the downloadable alternate city Riverview, which is distinguished from the default city by the big river running through it.

* Datenshi (Daten City/"Fallen Angel") in ''PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''.

* Rapture from ''{{Bioshock}'' was suppose to be this as it represents a city not controlled by the government or religion, only the people that make it run. But those ideals were easily twisted and manipulated that it caused the city to fall into ruin and it namesake is now nothing but an ironic mockery.

* [[CrapsackWorld Greysky City]], [[SinglePaletteTown Azure City]] and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Cliffport]] in TheOrderOfTheStick.

* [[CrapsackWorld Greysky City]] and [[SinglePaletteTown Azure City]] in TheOrderOfTheStick.

* Dimmsdale from ''TheFairlyOddParents'' because the residents are pretty dim. Subverted, in the fact that there is a [[{{Real Life}}]] Dimmsdale, in Staffordshire, England which means "dark nook of land".

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has Ba Sing Se which is written in Chinese as "Perpetually Strong City". They also have "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown Chin Village]]", who's mayor in named "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong_%28organization%29 Tong]]".