#centropolis

We first see Anti-Matter Metropolis in JLA: Earth 2 while Ultraman rains fake money down to entertain himself. In the skyline we can also see the Anti-Matter Daily Planet globe in neon red. I think it could be a reference to a red sun, since Superman is weak to them Ultraman may be empowered by them.

Then we get to see the daily planet up close with it's dark headlines and twisted supporting cast with Plastic Cat Grant and Peeping Tom Jimmy Olsen.

Then the Anti-Matter Metropolis is finally named in the end of the book as Centropolis.

Centropolis makes its second appearance in Year Of The Villain Hell Arisen, with Ultraman panicking the masses.

Multiverse's End directly continues on showing the cosmic tuning fork in Centropolis.

It came to mind that Teen Titans GO! episode “Tower Renovation” ended with an ID4 reference (Robin showed an in-home release of the film; title text only), and today’s Independence Day, so it made sense for me to do this Independence Day TTG sketch.

This is the episode in question... and the movie noted.

THE CENTROPOLIS UNIVERSE

The reoccurring theme: unconventional protagonists going up against the highest stakes, be they supernatural or not.

The actual theme: DUEL OF THE FATES

In HORROR IN THE NIGHTFALL, a standalone continuity reboot/spin-off of the animated cult series HUNTIK: SECRETS & SEEKERS with Sophie Casterwill and Zhalia Moon as the leads while Rebecca Soler and Karen Strassman will reprise their roles, there will be over several subtle and mundane easter eggs spread throughout the mini-series that will retroactively establish an entire shared universe of movies/TV shows. It's with the simple framework of the reoccurring theme that we do completely different things in completely different ways.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

THE GREEN MILE

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

THE INDIANA JONES QUADRILOGY

THE MUMMY (1999)

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

THE GREAT ESCAPE

SINNERS (2025)

THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN TRILOGY

SHOWDOWN (TALES FROM THE CRYPT)

GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE

RUNAWAY TRAIN (1985)

THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

TITANIC (1997)

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DJANGO UNCHAINED

THE CENTROPOLIS UNIVERSE is where as long as everything is somewhat grounded or at the very least grounded to a certain degree than pretty much anything can happen.

THE CENTROPOLIS UNIVERSE

• The Quentin Tarantino Universe (Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight & Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood)

• Stephen King Adaptations (Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Stand By Me, Misery, The Dead Zone, Gerald's Game, The Dark Half & Storm Of The Century)

• Tales From The Crypt (And All Through The House, Lower Berth, Television Terror, Yellow, Showdown, King Of The Road, Maniac At Large, You, Murderer, Escape, Horror In The Night & Confession)

• Dead Presidents

• We Were Soldiers

Here's the rundown of The Centropolis Universe.

The framework is unconventional leads having to face the otherwise impossible odds whether they're supernatural or not but it's with this framework, we do different things in completely different ways.

The leads are never the generic, indestructible and muscle action heroes you'd see in Commando or The Matrix Trilogy. Hell, they're not even the unconventional types of action heroes you'd see in Die Hard or Desperado because they're still action heroes at the end of the day.

Instead if you had to put them motherfuckers in categories than they're way more along the lines of let's say Smoke and Stack from Sinners, Jessica Jones from Netflix's Defenders Saga, the Doctor from Doctor Who back when it was good, Claudius from I, Claudius (where else?) or even fucking Roz from The Wild Robot. Roz, fucking Roz, your girl.

ANDREA JONES, voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus

GRAND HIGH WITCH LIESEL, voiced by Michelle Pfeiffer

(BOTH ABOVE)

ARCEE (formerly AIRACHNID-1), voiced by Sumalee Montano

AIRACHNID (formerly ELITA-1), voiced by Gina Torres

(BOTH BELOW)

All four characters are key players in The Centropolis Universe and on top of that, they're not just unconventional leads but unconventional romantic married couples as well which is really saying something consisting this is how the latter two first met.

But what they don't reveal is that Arcee was originally a spidercon named Airachnid who turned over a new leaf during the war and that Airachnid was originally a fellow Autobot named Elita who was transformed into something else entirely during the war.

Now what are some of The Centropolis Universe you're thinking right about now?

- The Mummy (1999)

- Stand By Me

- Heat (1995)

- The Expanse & The Expanse: A Telltale Series

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- Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

THE CENTROPOLIS UNIVERSE

A retroactively established shared universe of different kinds of media with the connecting theme being unconventional leads dealing with the impossible odds but it's within that framework we do completely different things in completely different ways.

ANDREA JONES, voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus