Quote Originally Posted by Frontier View Post
I would say the drastic changes within adaptions is speaking more of why they're fictional than to just say they're a real life city and leave it at that, while retaining just a general aesthetic or tone.
Yeah, but it's not like you can have a general aesthetic or different tone than using a real life city. Plenty of movies that use New York as a setting that have completely different tones and aesthetics to one another.

And for every Gotham that sometimes tries to approach feeling like a real city, you get "totally worse than Gotham" Bloodhaven.

Quote Originally Posted by Agent Z View Post
This is pretty much how I feel. I don't see fictional cities as necessary and I think it depends on the character and how it is handled.
Yeah, I guess I'd say Gotham and Metropolis are grandfather clauses but I don't see how much Superman media would really change if it Metropolis was just changed to New York City in the dialogue.