Central City (Earth-1)

Central City was a major city in the United States located in the state of Missouri. It was located 600 miles from Star City. Despite being a landlocked city, the nearby Gardener River gave Central City the illusion of being a beach town. Its sister city was Keystone City. 
Central City's power grid was being illegally used to excess by Scott Morgan's plant until The Hood stopped his operations.
A particle accelerator was built by S.T.A.R. Labs, though not long after it being turned on it exploded, causing a shock-wave to blow throughout the city. This resulted in the creation of 2,600 meta-humans. Since then, Barry Allen/The Flash and Team Flash aided the Central City Police Department in fighting meta-human criminals.
Following a black hole that Team Flash failed to shut down before its creation, half of the city was destroyed.
Central City was destroyed again and again as time went on: by the Earth-2 Metapocalypse, attacked by the Earth-X invasion, hit by fragments of the S.T.A.R Labs satellite at the end of Enlightenment, and rewritten twice by the Book of Destiny.
==Overview==
===Crime===
====Gangs and drug dealing====
*Darbinyan crime family (disbanded; deceased)
*Royal Flush Gang (incarcerated; deceased)
*Electric Gang </span>(incarcerated; deceased)
*Santini crime family (deceased)
*East Street Skulls (deceased)
*Amunet Black's criminal organization (deceased)
*Goldface's black market (deceased)
===Neighborhoods===
*Chubbuck (destroyed by antimatter)
*City Center (destroyed by antimatter)
*Danville (destroyed by antimatter)
*Englewood (destroyed by antimatter)
*Lawrence Hills (destroyed by antimatter)
*Leawood (destroyed by antimatter)
*Mounds View (destroyed by antimatter)
*New Brighton (destroyed by antimatter)
*Petersburg (destroyed by antimatter)
*Richmond Heights (destroyed by antimatter)
*University Town (destroyed by antimatter)
*Westminister (destroyed by antimatter)
*Windsor Heights (destroyed by antimatter)
===Education===
*Carmichael Elementary: Carmichael was a public elementary school located in Central City.
*Central City High School Central City High School was a public high school in Central City. It had a large football field and was home to the Falcons. In 2015 the school was attacked by Henry Hewitt, but the attack was stopped by The Flash and Firestorm.
*Central City Technical College: Central City Technical College was an educational institute located in Mounds View, Central City.
*Central City University: Central City University (CCU) was a university in Central City, located in the neighbourhood of University Town. It offered courses in a number of fields including; criminology, engineering, history, journalism, physics, and psychology.
===Bridges===
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===Residences===
*Allen house (destroyed by antimatter)
*Barry and Iris's apartment (destroyed by antimatter)
*Cisco Ramon's apartment (destroyed by antimatter)
*Caitlin Snow's apartment (destroyed by antimatter)
*Eddie Thawne's apartment (destroyed by antimatter)
*Eobard Thawne's mansion (destroyed by antimatter)
*Mark Mardon's apartment (destroyed by antimatter)
*Merkel Mansion (destroyed by antimatter)
*Patty Spivot's apartment (destroyed by antimatter)
*Ramon house (destroyed by antimatter)
*Stein house (destroyed by antimatter)
*The Trickster's lair (destroyed by antimatter)
*West house (destroyed by antimatter)
===Points of Interest===
*City Hall
*Courthouse
*Gardener River
*Historical Centre
===Sports teams===
*Central City Diamonds (baseball; formerly)
==History==
Central City was incorporated in 1852, the same year a devastating flood hit the city.
In 1860, Pony Express services begun delivering to the city.
On December 11 2013, S.T.A.R. Labs had finished their controversial particle accelerator, which exploded, causing dark matter to radiate across the city, creating approximately 2,600 meta-humans.
In 2015, Central City was nearly destroyed when a massive singularity appeared above it. The Singularity was eventually stopped by the Flash and his team, but at the cost of Ronnie Raymond, who sacrificed his life to close it. Despite this, Central City credited the Flash for saving their city on Flash Day.
In 2016, Central City was at the mercy of Zoom, and was the target for Zoom's meta-human group's invasion, resulting in the Metapocalypse, a devastating event, that forced Central City Police Department to fight off a whole invading army of meta-humans from Earth-2.
In 2017, Central City was the site for an invasion from Earth-X. With the combined forces of Team Flash, Team Arrow, the Legends, and Supergirl (from Earth-38) the invasion was repelled.
On May 2018, Clifford DeVoe/The Thinker managed to put his plan into practice and began the Enlightenment, but with the help of Ralph and Barry, DeVoe was defeated, but parts of the S.T.A.R Labs satellite still fell in Central City, destroying parts of it and creating new metahumans as well as meta-tech.
On December 2018, the Book of Destiny rewrote reality and made some significant changes; one created a hero/tyrant named Superman. But during a confrontation, the book was destroyed and the effects restore the reality back to normal.
On the stroke of midnight on December 10, 2019, after Barry and his team put an end to Bloodwork's reign of terror over Central City, the skies turned red over the city as Barry and his team looked on. This meant the Crisis has begun. The city was ultimately destroyed in the Crisis (as seen beforehand in a vision of the neural hyper-collider), but thanks to Oliver Queen, a new Central City was created on Earth-Prime.
==Known residents==
===Former residents===
===Businesses===
===Known mayors===
*Unknown incumbent
*Anthony Bellows (formerly; incarcerated)
*Van Buren (formerly; resigned)
==Appearances==
===Arrow===
===The Flash===
===Vixen===
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===DC's Legends of Tomorrow===
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===Chronicles of Cisco===
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===Stretched Scene===
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===Freedom Fighters: The Ray===
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===Batwoman===
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===Comics===
====Arrow====
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====Arrow: The Dark Archer====
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====The Flash: Season Zero====
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===The Chronicles of Cisco===
==Trivia==
*Central City is located approximately 600 miles from Star City.
*According to Felicity Smoak, Central City has the highest concentration of iron oxide in the country.
*There has never been an earthquake in Central City.
*There are 14 million people living in Central City.
==Behind the scenes==
*In the show and DC comic books, Central City is in Missouri. In the DCEU, Central City is located in Ohio, overtop the real-life location of Athens.
**Despite being set in Missouri in the show, Central City is depicted as being on a coastline. This is because much of the production is in Vancouver, B.C., and Portland, Oregon, both situated near the Pacific Ocean.
***This is explained by the city being situated on a large river that gives the impression of a coastline in some parts of the city.
*Dinah tells Laurel that she'll be "home in a flash", to Central City as a reference to Barry Allen, also known as the superhero The Flash, whose home is Central City in the DC comics, as well as the eponymous show's secret identity.
*Portland, Oregon is used for the overview shots utilizing all of the bridges. S.T.A.R. Labs is digitally added in Southwest Portland.
*Central City, like Starling City (now Star City), has almost been destroyed a total of 5 times so far in the series. It was almost destroyed by a tidal wave during in an alternate timeline, was again almost destroyed in , was almost destroyed during , was almost destroyed again during and was finally destroyed completely in an alternate timeline, (though it was erased). Then, Central City was attacked by the Metapocalypse, fired on by the Wellenreiter, and bombarded with fragments from the S.T.A.R Labs satellite. Ironically beating Star City in the many number of times the city has been destroyed.
*The license plates in Central City read "Forever Free".
==References==
es:Ciudad Central
fr:Central City
pl:Central City (ujednoznacznienie)
pt-br:Central City
ru:Централ-Сити
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Category:Allusions to the comics