Megacities in fiction

1927 German science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang

2020 role-playing video game developed by CD Projekt RED

1993 film directed by Marco Brambilla

1988 film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo

Coruscant () is an ecumenopolis planet in the fictional universe of Star Wars. It was first described in Timothy Zahn's 1991 novel Heir to the Empire. The planet made its first on-screen appearance in a scene added to Return of the Jedi for its 1997 re-release. It has since become an important location in the Star Wars universe and appears frequently in Star Wars media.

Dredd is a 2012 science fiction action film directed by Pete Travis and written and produced by Alex Garland. It is based on the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd and its eponymous character created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. Karl Urban stars as Judge Dredd, a law enforcer given the power of judge, jury, and executioner in a vast, dystopic metropolis called Mega-City One that lies in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Dredd and his rookie partner, Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), are forced to bring order to a 200-storey high-rise block of apartments and deal with its resident drug lord, Ma-

2008 first-person action-adventure platform video game

manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo

2022 anime web series

2019 action role-playing first-person shooter video game

fictional city in the DC Universe, best known as the home of Superman

2024 film by Nag Ashwin

2016 action-adventure platformer developed by EA DICE and published by Electronic Arts

2023 video game expansion developed by CD Projekt RED

Borderlands 4 is a 2025 action role-playing first-person looter shooter game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K. It is a sequel to Borderlands 3 (2019) and the fifth mainline entry in the Borderlands series. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on September 12, 2025 to generally favorable reviews from critics. The game is scheduled to release for Nintendo Switch 2 at a later date. Set six years after the events of the last game, the story follows a new group of Vault Hunters in the ancient planet Kairos, who join its local resistance to find the planet's Vault and overthrow the despotic Timekeeper.

2012 first-person shooter video game developed by Starbreeze Studios

comic book series