Editing Metropolis (comics) (section)

==People and culture==
The people of Metropolis are depicted as a diverse group of large city-dwellers within the comics. They live in one of the world's largest, wealthiest, and most important cities.

===Sports===
As befitting any world city, Metropolis is represented by teams in all major-league sports.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/who/who-intro.php?topic=metropolis-monarchs#M |title="Who's Who in the Superman Comics," Superman Home Page |publisher=Supermanhomepage.com |date=December 20, 2010 |access-date=December 25, 2010}}</ref> Like New York City, it is home to two teams in baseball and football. Of the two [[baseball]] teams, the Metropolis Monarchs are Clark Kent's favorite,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comicbloc.com/forums/showpost.php?p=595310&postcount=279 |title=The Official Home of Geoff Johns. [Link appears to be dead.&#93; |publisher=Comic Bloc |access-date=December 25, 2010 |archive-date=July 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718120140/http://www.comicbloc.com/forums/showpost.php?p=595310&postcount=279 |url-status=dead }}</ref> while the other team, the Metropolis Meteors, is mentioned in ''[[52 (comics)|52]]'' as having a rivalry with the [[St. Louis Cardinals]].

In [[American football]], Metropolis is home to the Metropolis Metros and the Metropolis Meteors. The latter football team (sharing the same name as the above baseball team) once featured [[Steve Lombard]] as its star quarterback.<ref>''Superman'' #264, June 1973</ref> On the TV show ''Smallville'', there is a football team called the Metropolis Sharks.

The city is also home to the Metropolis Generals [[basketball]] team, who play in Shuster Sports Arena,<ref>''Action Comics'' #838, June 2006</ref> presumably named for Superman co-creator Joe Shuster.

Professional [[ice hockey]] is also present in Metropolis; its [[National Hockey League|NHL]] team is the Metropolis Mammoths.<ref name="Atlas" />

Several sports stadiums have been mentioned over the years. One such stadium is Metropolis Stadium, which was built in 1940. (Pre-Crisis, Metropolis Stadium had an [[Earth-Two]] counterpart, which was named "Sportsman's Stadium".)<ref>''World's Finest Comics'' #271, September 1981</ref> This was perhaps influenced by the real-life [[Sportsman's Park]] in St. Louis, for many years the shared home of baseball's St. Louis Cardinals and [[St. Louis Browns]].