D.C., but call it Capitol City.
As unanimously decided by this thread, WW's main city should be:
Pittsberg:
I rather fictional cities have their own identities rather than being stand ins for real ones.
Metropolis is pretty consistently placed in Delaware while Gotham is in New Jesery and the two cities are separated by the Delaware Bay. See wiki for more: https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Metropolis#The_Six_Boroughs
Gateway City seems to be on the West Coast near California according to the wiki: https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Gateway_City
I'm torn.
I like the idea of Diana having her own city which can give way to a lot of creative freedom in depicting the history of the city.
On the other hand, I also like the idea of her being in NY or Washington. There is something about her flying next to the UN or being on Capitol Hill with so much history that just chimes with the character.
I guess, it depends on whether, if Diana is an Ambasaddor and which city it makes the most sense to open up an embassy in.
Did YJ ever address which city Diana operated in?
Stand-in cities allow for more character. I like the idea of having Superman deal with New Yorkers, Batman deal with Bostonians, and Wonder Woman deal with foreign dignitaries and folks on Capitol Hill. DC's columns and architecture, museums, and political function serve the Wonder Woman mythos well.
In that case, it might just be better to use actual New Yorkers and Bostonians for that. Why even go through the trouble of calling it Gotham or Metropolis if you don't do anything to give them a unique identity?
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Artists can barely stay consistent making RL cities look accurate in comics. Writers would have to work within the parameters of a real city. More creative freedom if they had a fictional city to work with so they can flesh out it's history and world better.
Character's won't have unique identities until writers give it to them. Even in that case, it's better to give writers creative freedom to flesh things out better.
Marvel disproves this, as does Geoff John's Shazam run. I'm sure there are other books that disprove it as well.
Writers and artists will always want to do their own thing or put their own spin on things, even if it's at the detriment to the overall world. Grounding at least provides some consistency by setting parameters.
I suppose Gotham does have some New England/Boston elements to it, the Waynes being Old Money WASP types usually. But I guess Gotham in general is an amalgam of city clichés from the past 80 years.
I mainly went for Chicago because of the Nolan films and I also never really liked Metropolis and Gotham being that close to one another. I usually envisioned there was some distance between them.