History Main / WhereTheHellIsSpringfield

[[caption-width-right:349:[[DontExplainTheJoke Each of these states are hundreds, if not thousands of miles away from each other.]]]]

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': WordOfGod as well as dialogue in ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'' and ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'' places the localized version in an alternative universe Los Angeles [[ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange where there's an abundance of Japanese culture in American.]] This earned it the FanNickname, “Japanifornia”, [[ApprovalOfGod which the head localizer has expressed she likes]]. The original is just set in an unnamed Japanese city.

[[caption-width-right:349:[[DontExplainTheJoke Each of these states are hundreds, if not thousands of miles away from each other]].]]

* In the expanded ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, Rimwards Howondaland is an {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica, but a version taken UpToEleven, based on scattered hints dropped in canon, and pushing what everybody ''thinks'' they know about [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra South Africa]] and [[AmoralAfrikaner White South Africans]] all the way off the scale. [[note]]Well, Creator/TerryPratchett gave Australia this treatment...[[/note]]. The city of Piemberg was imported for this purpose from the black farces of Creator/TomSharpe and given a Discworld twist or two, largely as a rural backwater place for characters to come from. WordOfGod says that the author didn't properly do the research, so that in some tales Piemberg is in Natal, or a Natal-like place, and in some it's in the Transvaal, or a Transvaal-like place. The Drakensberg Mountains shift around a lot, too. Piemberg is best thought of as a shifting Brigadoon for all the South African clichés to find a home in. [[Film/{{Zulu}} Lawkes Drain]] is fairly nearby, for instance...

** Kermit's swamp, initially in an undisclosed location in ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'', is revealed to be in Florida during ''The Muppets at Walt Disney World'', and then ''Film/KermitsSwampYears'' puts it in Mississippi, not far from Creator/JimHenson's birthplace. That seems to have stuck, with Denise commenting that his state tree is magnolia in ''Series/TheMuppets'' episode "The Ex Factor".

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Compare CityWithNoName, EverytownAmerica, and FictionalProvince. Contrast NoCommunitiesWereHarmed and CanadaDoesNotExist, where the setting is based on a real-life location but never outright identified, and InformedLocation, in which the location is clearly specified. The temporal version of this trope is AmbiguousTimePeriod.

->''"It's kind of a mystery, yes. But if you look at the clues, you should be able to figure it out."''

Compare CityWithNoName, EverytownAmerica, and FictionalProvince. Contrast NoCommunitiesWereHarmed and CanadaDoesNotExist, where the setting is based on a real-life location but never outright identified. The temporal version of this trope is AmbiguousTimePeriod.

** UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat was one of the most prolific such people; not only were eight cities in his former empire named Alexandria (including the modern Egyptian city of Alexandria), several other cities of that name have popped up around the world, including two in Canada, three in Australia, and nineteen in the United States.

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** The locations of the Muppet Theatre in ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and KMUP Studios in ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' are never revealed in the original series either, since what exists beyond the show isn't relevant. (The CGI background of the [=MuppetVision=] studio in ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'' arguably isn't intended to ''have'' a realspace location.) There's a slight hint early on that the Muppet Theatre might be in London (the spelling of "theatre", a reference to UsefulNotes/TheTube in ''The Muppets Go to the Movies'', and, of course, that's where they were actually filming), but it mostly seems to be in the US. ''Film/ItsAVeryMerryMuppetChristmasMovie'' establishes it's in a city with a park, a bank, and, for some reason, [[Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Whos]], but doesn't name it (even the Official Historical Landmark certificate just says "the City"). ''Film/TheMuppets'' makes it part of Muppet Studios in Hollywood.

** Some historians believe that the legend of {{Atlantis}} was inspired by the[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization Minoan civilization of the island of Crete]], and its decline as a result of various natural catastrophes.

** According to Word of God, for the production of Magic Squad, Boomfield was supposed to be in the Southwest, but has made it more generic, which means it can be in any US state (with the exception of Alaska and Hawaii).

** According to Word of God, for the production, Boomfield was supposed to be in the Southwest, but has made it more generic, which means it can be in any US state (with the exception of Alaska and Hawaii).

* Joe the Great takes its sweet time getting around to telling you that Joe, Fred, and Sam are originally from the city of Boomfield. But neither it nor its sequels Magic Squad, Ultimate Magic, or Superverse (which actually stays close to home instead of [[WalkingtheEarth going all over the US]]) ever bothers to mention which state Boomfield is in. It never snows there and there is a desert within fifty miles; WildMassGuessing usually puts it somewhere in California or Nevada.

* Joe the Great takes its sweet time getting around to telling you that Joe, Fred, and Sam are originally from the city of Boomfield. But neither it nor its sequels Magic Squad, Ultimate Magic, or Superverse (which actually stays close to home instead of [[WalkingtheEarth going all over the US]]) ever bothers to mention which state Boomfield is in. It never snows there and there is a desert within fifty miles; [[Wild Mass Guessing]] usually puts it somewhere in California or Nevada.

* Joe the Great takes its sweet time getting around to telling you that Joe, Fred, and Sam are originally from the city of Boomfield. But neither it nor its sequels Magic Squad, Ultimate Magic, or Superverse (which actually stays close to home instead of going all over the US) ever bothers to mention which state Boomfield is in. It never snows there and there is a desert within fifty miles; Wild Mass Guessing usually puts it somewhere in California or Nevada.

* Joe the Great takes its sweet time getting around to telling you that Joe, Fred, and Sam are originally from the city of Boomfield. But neither it nor its sequels Magic Squad, Ultimate Magic, Superverse (which actually stays close to home instead of going all over the US) ever bothers to mention which state Boomfield is in. It never snows there and there is a desert within fifty miles; Wild Mass Guessing usually puts it somewhere in California or Nevada.

Joe the Great takes its sweet time getting around to telling you that Joe, Fred, and Sam are originally from the city of Boomfield. But neither it nor its sequels Magic Squad, Ultimate Magic, Superverse (which actually stays close to home instead of going all over the US) ever bothers to mention which state Boomfield is in. It never snows there and there is a desert within fifty miles; Wild Mass Guessing usually puts it somewhere in California or Nevada.

* Boomfield a fictional city from the Joe the Great Franchise takes the place in the United States, but it is not known what state it is in, however there appears to be a desert nearby it and it hardly snows in the winter, this puts it somewhere in the Southwest, Southern California, or Western Texas.
** In Where It All Began Joe, Fred, and Sam are able to get from there to Yosemite National Park by night time. This would indicate it is in California.
** In Joe the Great Magic Flock and No Honor Among Pros, a map shows the city to be somewhere in the Midwest.
** In Ethan and Joy, the fashion show Joe, Fred, and Sam went to where they meet Ethan and Joy, is near the Times Square in New York City. Later is revealed in Friends of Enemies: Part 2 Ethan and Joy reveal they are from New York City, indicating it is in New York, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania.