Hello, dear steemians. This time I will talk about paper cities, and no, it is not about the novel by John Green, but about those cities where the greatest superheroes are. For those who do not know about the subject, a hero must be placed in a city to save them from Machiavellian and sinister enemies. This city must possess some wealth, a high mineral content or other element that the most reckless Villain wishes to possess.

These cities come from the minds of magnificent writers who take real and imaginary elements and have been recreated based on a superhero, so the places described bear the mark of the superhero. The local hero must fight against these enemies. Although sometimes a group of heroes manages to cross the barrier local and is shown in a multicultural, multiethnic and multiracial group, such is the case of the Justice League, the Avengers, the defenders of the land and others. Beings that have an "exceptional gift" and fight for humanity.

To create cities the author must condense the city, to make it live, to be embedded in the collective imagination in order to have have the right and place in the world and in fiction

This is how paper, imaginary or fictional cities, as they are often called -but that some may find their conceptual differences- have the characteristic of expressing utopian or dystopian ideas. In these cities there is no limit.

This is how throughout the history of cinema and literature there have been a large number of cities that have materialized, and, why not, transported in a certain way to reality. Here I leave some of the most famous cities.

Two well-known cities: Gotham City and Metropolis, have very efficient children, one of them adopted; These are nothing more than: Batman and Superman.

In Gotham, a wealthy businessman tries to keep the most fierce enemies in his city. Bruce Wayne, is a character traumatized by the death of his parents at the hands of criminals, to calm his existential anguish he takes refuge in freedom for his city. The city tends to be dark, corrupt. The symbol of this superhero is a bat, an animal that represents the night, the dark and the sordid: its symbolism is the city itself.

In the great Metropolis Superman is responsible for ensuring order, defends extraterrestrial attacks and others to this beautiful city. This superhero is an alien from the planet Krypton. He arrives on Earth, sent by his biological parents in a capsule, his planet would be destroyed and he would be the unic survivor. Some gentlemen welcome you as their son and keep the secret before the community. Clark Kent, desires a normal life, but is destined to save his now home. Unlike Gothic City, in this the sun usually comes out more often. The crimes by crooks are stopped by Superman, but his enemy a fear is Lex Luthor, since he is always trying to kill him.

But, as I said at the beginning, these cities are not the only ones, since there are many others, here are some:

Bikini Bottom, who of this generation does not recognize the aquatic city where SpongeBob and Patricio come from. This city is located at the bottom of the sea, its possible year of foundation is 147 a.C. and it was ruled by King Crab facing the wicked wizard Planktonamor. Rivalry that still remains for Plankton when wanting to steal from Lord Cangrejo the secret formula of Cangre Burguer.

Pandora (Avatar). This film directed by James Cameron is inhabited by the Na'vi, an alien race that has a strong communion with nature. It is a satellite of the planet Polyphemus, there is a very valuable mineral for humans: unobtainium, whose main property is its great superconductivity. Pandora is besieged by humans who create Avatars of the Na'vi with the intention of entering their tribe and manipulating them. A mining-military and scientific base is in charge of extracting the precious mineral. A battle is unleashed between the struggle for the survival of the Na'vi and the greed of the human being.

Springfield. This imaginary real city has one of the most famous inhabitants of the last century: Homer Simpsons an antigen and antihero who is humiliated and manipulated by the everlasting villain Lord Montgomery Burns, who always gets away with his own and has a population at his mercy .

And I would like to end with a city, that perhaps some people know nowadays as Arkham City, but that its brilliant creator is not more than the writer H.P. Lovecraft, if dear stemians, Arkham City from the Batman video game takes its name from this cursed city created by this writer. This city became super famous and that lugubrious aura has allowed it to be a reference not only in comics or Batman games, but in other writings such as the novel A cry in the darkness; the life of Zárate Arkham of writings Daniel González Ch., several bands of rock have used their name for songs or albums, video games or others.