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And – Tokyo?
Yeah seriously. Tokyo beats them all.
I curse your face for stealing my thought before I even had it.
In NGE alone Tokyo gets attacked OVER 9000 times, and this is not even that much of an exaggeration.
That’s technically not Tokyo. Rather Tokyo-3 is built on what is now Hakone.
Return to sender. No curse could hurt this face anyway.
I curse your face for stealing my thoughts about cursing someone’s face before I had the thought before I even had them.
Yeah seriously, Tokyo didn’t make that graph? Someone hasn’t ever heard of Godzilla…
That was ONE damn movie.
1? There are 28 Godzilla movies, plus the horrible remake, plus one coming in 2014.
I meant U.S cities.
Yeah, And Movies Attacking NY:
-Cloverfield
-Watchmen
-King Kong
-Every Spider-man
-War of the Worlds was Boston, Right?
-I’ll fill the screen by the time i’m done.
San Francisco, too. Remember the new Star Trek?
Tokyo is represented by the white background.
Tokyo must be exempt because it’s already been thoroughly destroyed.
Tokyo must have been excluded as then all of the others would have made up such a small portion of the pie, that you would not have been able to see them.
And apple pie is good. Could do with some now…
Dude gimme some of that pie!
In certian anime’s Tokyo is nicknames matchstick city.
Oh, and Godzilla
At least you didn’t say first. If I had points to give I would give them.
Thank you.
I would like to point out that the hypothetical “Cities Attacked in Real Life” Graph would look about the same :-/
Only if limited to American cities. Doesn’t mention Pearl Harbor, though, which was attacked in real life, and then had movies made about it. Pretty much every capitol city in the world has been attacked by some foreign (or domestic, in the case of civil war) army at some point in history.
Wrong.
sounds right to me…
Thank you for backing up my pessimism, Orion.
But now I think about it, sometimes being “right” or “wrong” isn’t the point. Life is complicated. Charts are simple. Try to express life in charts, and you’re gonna have problems with over-simplification or leaving important stuff out. We all know this, that’s why we laugh at this website so much.
For this particular chart-maker, I prescribe a Netflix list of classic monster movies, with popcorn and good friends, because their education in that area is obviously lacking. And for anybody who thinks movies = real life, a long walk in a good park, museum or library.
I’m gonna pack up my wordiness and take my inner curmudgeon out for a walk in the sunshine now.
I too think this graph is referring to US cities only.
Clearly there are many other options if the rest of the world is included.
just have to the only australian city ever been attacked is darwin which only bombed a bit as an afterthought anyway
Hehe, here I was thinking, Who would attack Canberra? It’s too much of a hole already!
Wonder why more movie makers don’t have a lot of attacks on Juneau,Alaska or Santiago, Chile, or Lerwick, capital of the Shetland Islands? They could stage an interesting alien vs human war! Or human vs human war! Or lolcat vs ceiling cat war!
I think you mean basement cat vs ceiling cat. Since ceiling cat is an lolcat it would otherwise have to fight itself. Oh god too much lolcats in my brain! Halp! Nomnomnomnom
Didn’t you hear? Lerwick’s where they’re going to set the inevitable Aquaman movie, with all of it’s awes-
Ok, I can’t keep a straight face even while typing that
Tokyo perhaps… I mean theres Gojira (We’re talking about Japan.. I’m not calling it Godzilla), and tons of shows over there with giant mech fighting which usually takes down a few buildings.. And look how many times it’s attacked with two examples…
Don’t forget to combine those, (Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla was in Okinawa.
we can’t forget Monster Island, can we?
Japan in general gets destroyed by monsters all the time. Gojira, Rodan, Varan, Gamera, Frankenstein(Yes, Frankenstein) and a ton of others.
ROAR!!!
I will use my dividing driver to create a safe space to fight inside, so as not to destroy Tokyo again.
What about Paris? The Eiffel tower gets blown up in about every other movie…
“Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.”
Oh, wow. That’s such a great quote!
Yeah, Armageddon, Team America, the upcoming GI Joe movie. Paris is definitely a common target.
Damn, you beat me to that, even with the same movies cited…
Add to it the anime “Nadia” (By the same people as the aforementioned “Neon Genesis Evangelion”)
Cities in Anime get attacked based on their attraction to Japanese tourists (lots of reference photos, after all).
New York, Paris, London, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney (hell, the Gundam series dropped a miles long SPACE STATION on it as a deliberate attack), Hong Kong….
As for real-life attacks:
US Cities:
Washington, DC: Sacked by the British in 1814, menaced but never actually attacked in the ACW.
New York: Captured and held by British for the full duration of the Revolutionary War. The two WTC attacks of 1993 & 2001 are the only outside violence worth mentioning.
New Orleans: Saved from British attack while the ALREADY-Signed treaty ending the war was en route back to the US, in the war of 1812. Taken by force by the Union back from the Confederacy in 1862 IIRC.
Many other cities, once each, in the ACW – some ended up with an occupying force and legal prostitution for the duration (Nashville), some got in the way of Sherman and got totally screwed.
looks to me like that would be a pretty equally-split pie for real attacks.
Paris, France on the other hand….
Try the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on a Google search for “French Military Victories”, if that still works…..
One guy: Napoleon. But he was Corsican.
There’s a special addendum to the Rule of French Warfare, actually listed on the Albino black sheep page that the search above hops to -
The French CAN win, but must be led by someone not a French male.
France’s only successes of note in the last 2000 years, were under a woman (Jeanne d’Arc) and a Corsican.
Exactly why I don’t live there.
I’d like to think that the percentages reflect how much we really wish some cities would simply go away….
Yeah, well, an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
A few video games have Seattle get attacked too…World In Conflict FTW!
I think we’re all forgetting about Angel Grove.
You forgot San Francisco. The Golden Gate isn’t in New York, jackass.
Ultraman. He did more damage to Japanese cities fighting the monsters than the monsters would have done themselves.
wrong chart type, yeah.
Large cities are the most explosive substances known to human science. Tokyo in particular seems to be the most unstable of these cities, sometimes referred to as “The Matchstick City”.
Wrong!
Please help my movie ignorance? What movies have DC getting attacked? (I live there now, so I’m curious) I think Independence Day (is that the one with the Capitol building in the posters?), but what others?
Mars Attacks had DC go down in a big way
Also EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS (1956). It features Ray Harryhausen animated flying saucers smashing into the Washington Monument and the Capitol.
Yeah, Tokyo has to be number 1, then New York.
Paris, London and sometimes Moscow get the sympathy attacks in the worldwide devastation montage.
And why are we all forgetting GOTHAM???
Gotham is based off of New York, dumbass.
I like to predict these graphs before I look at them. I was expecting LA, NY, DC, maybe Paris, but mostly…
Tokyo.
wheres tokyo?
Not just Tokyo, but London isn’t on here either.
The Lost World (1925) FTW. Brontosaurus vs London.
I love disaster movies – Australia is usually largely ignored so we’re safe! We occasionally get some trouble over Sydney (Independence Day and Meteor are two that spring to mind. Canberra never gets a mention despite being the nation’s capital) but I live 1300kms from there so not too fussed. Also, we’d be sitting pretty in Day After Tomorrow – maybe a slight cool change and that’s it!
You also got attacked by Zilla in Godzilla Final Wars.
Well, of course NYC gets attacked all the time! Everybody wants their… um, that stuff in NYC that’s… uhh, everybody wants stuff in NYC.
ummmmm… Tokyo, much
New York is the setting in 95% of all movies – that’s totally true. I’ve been saying that for the longest time and people call me crazy. I knew I wasn’t alone.
my guess is because everyone seems to hate new york city. i don´t really know why. everyone tells me the people are so mean there. seems fine to me.
No we’re mean. Period.
Actually, it seems LA gets attacked A LOT more… Or actually, decimated a whole lot more. Especially in those ‘end of the world’ movies.
earthquakes and natural disasters don’t count, silly, unless they’re caused by, for example: Gozlilla (or Gojira for you purists), Leviathan, aliens, Japanese balloon bombs, the US Navy, Michael Bay and/or Arnold Schwarzenegger. And then you have to pull a Kurt Rusell and, you know, escape.
LOL i live in NY!!!!!
Tokyo. Godzilla motherf*cker!
Def Tokyo, maybe Moscow and Paris. Are we talking monster movies, alien movies, or war movies?
they often also destroy the golden gate bridge in apocalyptic or otherwise epic movies. X-men? The core?
It’s cuz you’re all jealous of the best city in the world. duh
What about Tokyo?
I agree with those below me Tokyo wins hands down. perhaps you should rename the graph to “US Cities attacked in movies”
Miami is there but Tokyo is not. Crazyyyy person.
yea new york is a state not a city
That is so true. In almost every disaster movie, I see NY getting attacked/destroyed.
And I LIVe in NY. >:(
Aside from the obvious “Uh oh, where’s Tokyo?!”, yeah. Whenever a nationwide/global attack comes from some outside force, humanity’s first instinct should be ‘escape from New York.’ Next is ‘escape from Los Angeles.’
Tokyo is actually represented by the background
In Independence Day w/ Will Smith it was all of those cities. I love aliens!
Very true