Editing Detroit

[[File:Animated cartoon Detroit.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|{{w|Danger Zone (song)|I'm gonna take the HIGHWAY to... the DANGER ZONE!!!}}]]
'''Detroit''', [[Michigan]] is a city in the [[United States of America]].  It is located near [[Lake Erie]].


{{quote|Our story begins one morning in Detroit.  Police sirens fill the cool morning air!  This has nothing to do with our story... but it's Detroit.|[[Narrator]]|"[[Bee in the City]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Live-action film continuity===
[[Murray Wright High School]] was located in Detroit. {{storylink|Look and Find Transformers}}

===''Animated'' continuity===
====''Animated'' cartoon====
Detroit was once the "Motor City", the automobile manufacturing capital of the world.  By the 22nd Century, Detroit had once again become a leading manufacturing hub—for robots.  As for what happened to the city between those two periods, well, {{w|Urban decay|who knows}}?

The city's robotics industry was led by (and may have consisted solely of) the [[Sumdac Systems]] corporation.  Most of [[Meltdown (Animated)|the competition]]  proved less than inspiring.  This reliance on a single, monolithic industry is {{w|Economy of metropolitan Detroit#Auto industry|certain to provide economic stability for all time}}.

The city had a newly unveiled mass transit system, sponsored by Sumdac Systems, the [[Fully Automated Rapid Transit System]], or FARTS.  Real mature, Isaac, real mature.

The city then became home to a team of five robotic superheroes, the [[Autobot]]s.  Having crashed aboard their ship some fifty years earlier in Lake Erie, they awoke and appointed themselves guardians and defenders of the city's Humanity.  When one of their [[Starscream (Animated)|old foes]] showed up in town, they ended up trashing a fair bit of the city.  Not to be deterred, they worked hard to help rebuild it.  Naturally, this involved [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|hitting things with an axe]].  The Autobots made their home in an abandoned, early 20th-century factory.  {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

[[File:Animated cartoon Detroit devastation.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Just an average day in Detroit. That's the price you pay for letting [[Transformer]]s live there.]]
Poor Detroit continued to suffer a great deal of robot-inflicted calamities after that.  Among their troubles were robots flinging flaming fuel tanks into the air  {{storylink|Home Is Where the Spark Is}}, robots smashing an entire parking lot full of cars  {{storylink|Blast from the Past}}, robots getting thrown through the roof of the local sports arena  {{storylink|Total Meltdown}}, robots inducing rolling electrical blackouts across the city  {{storylink|The Thrill of the Hunt}}, robots disguised as rocket-powered cars crashing into things  {{storylink|Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec}}, robots sucking the life force from the city's population  {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}}, robots sparking a massive automaton rebellion  {{storylink|Sound and Fury}}, robots obliterating construction sites while flat-out trying to kill one another  {{storylink|Lost and Found (episode)|Lost and Found}}, robots kidnapping young children from their homes  {{storylink|Survival of the Fittest}}, robots unable to stop the destruction of the city without destroying half of it {{storylink|Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster}}, robots blasting holes in major downtown skyscrapers  {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 1}}, robots destroying downtown buildings and bridges while trying to kill each other  {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}}, good robots driving over cars in the street  {{storylink|The Elite Guard}}  {{storylink|The Return of the Headmaster}}, evil robots threatening to bomb passenger trains  {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}}, robots dumping garbage all over the city before threatening to destroy it with super-powered nanobots,  {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out}}, robots destroying overpasses and stealing construction materials  {{storylink|Rise of the Constructicons}}, robots shutting down every other mechanical device in the city  {{storylink|SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy}}, robots rampaging through the city while trying to find [[Genetic modifier|devices]]  {{storylink|Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday}}, and robots raiding motor supply stores and destroying cars stuck in traffic jams  {{storylink|Sari, No One's Home}}.

To be fair, Detroit has also suffered at the hands of its own human population.  These include humans with fancy weapons attempting to rob armored cars  {{storylink|Home Is Where the Spark Is|Home Is Where the Spark Is}}  {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out}}, humans going on steroid-induced rampages  {{storylink|Total Meltdown}}, humans risking city-destroying explosions by stealing incredibly volatile substances  {{storylink|Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec}}, humans waging violent crusades against war toys  {{storylink|Sound and Fury|Sound and Fury}}, humans attempting to detonate nuclear reactors in blatant attempts to destroy the city  {{storylink|Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster}}, humans organizing illegal street races without regard for the safety of other drivers and pedestrians  {{storylink|Velocity (episode)|Velocity}}, and human crime syndicates stealing various pieces of equipment for nefarious purposes  {{storylink|SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy}}.

You wouldn't want to be [[Augustus Edsel|its mayor]].

Strangely, nearly every machine in Detroit has a [[AllSpark Key|keyhole]], even [[Transformer|alien robots]] and [[Survival of the Fittest|toilets]]!

=====Notable locations=====
[[File:TARO-LakeErieCrash.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|"Tonight's skies are fairly cloudy, with a 50% chance of falling spacecraft..."]]
Actual Detroit landmarks featured in ''Transformers Animated'' include:

* {{w|Hazen S. Pingree}}  — where [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] gets birdpooped on.  {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}
* {{w|Wayne County Building}} — Optimus and Sentinel hold a press conference in front of this prominent downtown landmark.  {{storylink|The Return of the Headmaster}}
* {{w|GM Renaissance Center}} — briefly visible as the Autobots start their press conference.   {{storylink|The Return of the Headmaster}}
* {{w|Michigan Central Station}} (where [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] reveals his new train)  {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}
* Though the details don't match any exact building, the abandoned factory used by the Autobots resembles such early automobile manufacturing plants as the {{w|Highland Park Ford Plant}} (where the assembly line was first implemented) and the abandoned Packard Plant.  {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} 
* {{w|Interstate 94}} — the main US Interstate highway westbound from Detroit to [[Chicago]].  One of its marker signs adorns the interior of the Autobots' headquarters.  {{storylink|Total Meltdown}}
* {{w|Lake Erie}} — one of the Great Lakes; its northwest shore lies just south of the city. 
* {{w|One Detroit Center}} — briefly seen in sweeps of the city, can be seen in the picture at the top of the article.  {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}  {{storylink|SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy}} 

Fictional Detroit landmarks featured in ''Transformers Animated'' include:

* [[Burger Bot]], home of the Big Bot Burger  {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}
* [[Detroit Military Base]], containing bomber planes, fighter jets, and twin barrel assault tanks. {{storylink|Lost and Found (episode)|Lost and Found}}
* The [[Sidney Biggles-Jones Memorial Solar Fusion Plant|Detroit Solar Fusion Power Plant]], whose reactor contains enough power to wipe out the entire state of Michigan.  Comforting! {{storylink|Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster}}
* The [[Dino Drive]] theme park  {{storylink|Blast from the Past}}
* [[Izzo National Bank]], one of the city's many financial institutions. {{storylink|Home Is Where the Spark Is}}
* [[Motor City Motors and Mechanoids]], a used automobiles and automatons business. {{storylink|The Arrival issue 2|Attention Surplus Disorder}}
* [[Sumdac Systems]] robot manufacturing plant, located in the real-life southern suburb of {{w|Monroe, Michigan|Monroe}}.  {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}  {{storylink|Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec}}
* [[Sumdac Tower]], a skyscraper somewhere in the central city.  {{storylink|Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec}}
* [[Tigatron Stadium]], the baseball diamond where the Detroit Tigertrons (inspired by the {{w|Detroit Tigers}}) play. Based on the real-life {{w|Tiger Stadium (Detroit)|Tiger Stadium}}, possibly a rebuilt version of the stadium since it was completely demolished in 2009. {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}}
* [[Wyatt Toys]], a toy store. {{storylink|Sound and Fury}}
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====''Time-Quake''====
A time machine, located in either the [[Lions Tower]] in the financial district or in a disused warehouse, began causing temporal disturbances across Detroit. The Autobots searched the city, eventually tracking down the time machine and stopping the disruptions. {{storylink|Time-Quake}}

===''Unit:E'' comic===
The [[M.A.S.K.]] team was based here, consisting of various public-service workers fighting to stop the city's decay after the federal government left the city to rot. They use technology belonging to "The League of Ancient Wheelmen" to make a difference. {{storylink|Unit:E (issue)|Unit:E}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
Detroit was home to an operations base for the [[Machination]]. [[Abraham Dante]] returned there after he and Scorponok failed to convince Grimlock to join up with them. {{storylink|Spotlight: Grimlock}}

[[Jazz (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Jazz]] prevented local boy [[Tyler Nelson]] from being violently apprehended by police officers. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 2: Edge of the Earth|Edge of the Earth}}

==Commercial appearances==
{{w|Peyton Manning}} thought [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] used to [[Megatron (human)|play]] for Detroit. {{storylink|Commercial#Transformers:_The_Ride-3D|Peyton Manning: Vacation Quarterback commercial}}

==Notes==
* The Japanese dub of ''Transformers Animated'' omits any references to the city being Detroit. Japanese viewers familiar with American landmarks could discern the location via context, but otherwise, the city goes unnamed throughout the course of the Japanese dub.
* Part of the final battle in the live-action ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' film,  set in the fictional location of [[Mission City]], was filmed in the real-life Detroit: the empty building that Sam runs into with the [[AllSpark]] is actually Detroit's long-abandoned {{w|Michigan Central Station}}.
*The vehicles for [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] were put on display at the {{w|GM Renaissance Center}} during the Riverside Festival just prior to the premiere of the 2007 Transformers film.
* Filming returned to Detroit for ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' in 2010; the train station was again used as a filming location, this time as an interior in war-torn [[Chicago]]. The abandoned {{w|Packard Plant}} was likewise filmed and used as a Chicago location.
* ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Transformers: Age of Extinction]]'' was filmed in Detroit for [[Hong Kong]] scenes in 2013.
* Filming returned once again to Detroit in 2016 where areas in and around the suburb of Poletown were used to portray a ruined town in ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight]]''.

==External links==
* {{w|Detroit, Michigan|Detroit at Wikipedia}}
{{GBwiki|Detroit}}

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