Editing Metropolis (comics) (section)

===In relation to Gotham City===
[[File:Superman-Look Up in the Sky.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Superman flies over Metropolis. Artwork by [[Alex Ross]].]]
Metropolis is frequently depicted as being within driving distance of [[Gotham City]], home of [[Batman]]. This happens, for example, in the three-issue 1990 mini-series of ''[[World's Finest Comics]]'' by [[Dave Gibbons]], [[Steve Rude]], and [[Karl Kesel]]. The distance between the two cities has varied greatly over the years, ranging from being hundreds of miles apart to Gotham and Metropolis being [[twin cities]] on opposite sides of [[Delaware Bay]], with Metropolis in Delaware<ref name="Atlas" /><ref>''World's Finest Comics'' #259, October–November 1979</ref> and Gotham City being in [[New Jersey]].<ref name="ifanboy.com">Montgomery, Paul (May 18, 2011). [http://ifanboy.com/articles/the-secret-geography-of-the-dc-universe-a-really-big-map/ "The Secret Geography of the DC Universe: A Really Big Map"]</ref><ref>''Amazing World of DC Comics'' #14, March 1974. DC Comics.</ref><ref>''World's Finest Comics'' #259, October–November 1979. DC Comics.</ref><ref>''Detective Comics #503'' June 1983. DC Comics.</ref><ref>''Atlas of the DC Universe'', 1990. DC Comics.</ref><ref>''Batman: Shadow of the Bat'' Annual #1, June 1993. DC Comics.</ref>

In [[Bronze Age of Comic Books|Bronze Age]] stories that depicted Metropolis and Gotham City as twin cities, the Metro-Narrows Bridge was said to be the main route connecting Metropolis to Gotham City.<ref name="superboy22">''The New Adventures of Superboy'' #22, October 1981</ref><ref>''DC Comics Presents'' #18, February 1980</ref> Stated as being the longest suspension bridge in the world,<ref>''Action Comics'' #451, September 1975</ref> the Metro-Narrows Bridge is likely based on the [[Verrazano-Narrows Bridge]], which stretches between [[Staten Island]] and [[Brooklyn]] in New York City.

In ''[[The World's Greatest Superheroes]]'' [[newspaper]] [[comic strip]], a 1978 Sunday strip shows a map of the east coast of the United States; the map places Metropolis in Delaware and Gotham City across Delaware Bay in New Jersey, with the Metro-Narrows Bridge linking the two cities.<ref>http://comicbookcartography.posthaven.com/the-east-coast-according-to-dc-1978-sunday-co A panel from a 1978 strip of ''[[The World's Greatest Superheroes]]'' depicting the locations of Metropolis and Gotham City. Retrieved March 30, 2014.</ref> A similar map appeared in ''The New Adventures of Superboy'' #22 (October 1981), with [[Smallville (comics)|Smallville]] shown within driving distance of both cities (in [[post-Crisis]] comics, Smallville was officially relocated to [[Kansas]]). 1990's ''[[The Atlas of the DC Universe]]'' also places Metropolis in Delaware and Gotham City in New Jersey.<ref name="ifanboy.com"/>

However, the exact location of the two cities has varied. A map of the United States in the Secret Files & Origins Guide to the DC Universe 2000 depicts Metropolis and Gotham City (alongside [[Blüdhaven]]) as being somewhere in the [[tri-state area]].<ref>''Secret Files & Origins Guide to the DC Universe 2000'' #1 (March 2000)</ref>

In the TV series ''[[Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman]]'', when Lois finds out about Superman's secret identity and yells at Clark about how he's been hiding his secretly being Superman, he responds, "A little louder, Lois. I don't think they could hear you in Gotham City." In the TV series ''[[Smallville]]'', Linda Lake, a columnist for the ''Daily Planet'', once boasted that she could see Gotham City from her new office.<ref>"Hydro," season 6, ''Smallville''</ref>  In ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'', Bruce Wayne is shown taking his private [[jet aircraft]] to Metropolis, indicating that the two cities have at least some distance between them.

In the 2016 film ''[[Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice]]'', director [[Zack Snyder]] confirmed that Metropolis and Gotham City would be portrayed as geographically situated right next to each other, on the opposite sides of a [[bay]], similar to [[Jersey City]] and [[Manhattan]].<ref name="wired.com">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/07/dawn-of-justice-gotham-metropolis/|title=Zack Snyder Turned Gotham City and Metropolis Into the Bay Area|magazine=Wired |last1=Rogers |first1=Adam }}</ref>