Where is gotham in relation to metropolis

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Distance between Metropolis and Gotham City have changed a lot in comics. Why hasn't Batman met Superman before? Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Ankit Sharma Ankit Sharma k 85 85 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Version labels for answers. We all have a vague idea from countless other films, TV shows and so forth what the different parts of New York are like, of the differences between Manhattan and the Bronx and Harlem. But the city is also cited as an influence on the two most famous cities in comics, arguable the two most famous fictional cities in pop culture: Metropolis and Gotham.

Metropolis is Manhattan between 14th and Streets on the brightest, sunniest July day of the year. Metropolis is New York from the eyes of the gawping tourist staggered by its striking beauty and modernity, as Clark Kent is in most versions of the origin, rocking up at the Daily Planet in hope of getting a job with a red and blue costume stuffed in his rucksack, a small town boy arriving in the big city.

Well, as with everything in the world of superhero comics — where continuity shifts over time based on changing priorities and different creators not remembering or, frankly, caring much about what went before — there is a generally accepted idea that Gotham and Metropolis are not far from New York City itself, and close to each other.

Image: DC Comics. Both interpretations are valid, and as Superman can fly and Batman has access to a supersonic jet it rarely makes much difference to the stories how far the cities are apart from each other. The zip code suggests that Metropolis exists somewhere near Manhattan, which makes sense considering the Daily Planet is apparently located off-Broadway.

Having your big, flashy building with its expensive spinning globe located in a part of town where the cost of living is more than double the US average must be tough considering most print publications in America have been struggling to stay afloat.

Keeping The Daily Planet running has to be a Herculean task, to put it mildly. It is no secret that Metropolis was heavily influenced by New York. At Comic-Con last year, the director seemed to believe that he was the first to come up with the arrangement.

Wired reports that he said at the time, "The big rule that we broke is that we put Gotham and Metropolis right next to each other. It made sense to us and worked for our story that they were kind of sister cities across a big bay. So there you have it. Even if Batman v Superman thought it marked the first time Gotham City and Metropolis were twin cities, it did not. And that's two be expected, really.