London, England

London
Nicknames	The Great Wen The Old Smoke
Geography
Country	England, United Kingdom
Government
Mayor	Sadiq Khan

London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom.

Popular Culture

Appearances

Variants

The following list is of explicit appearances of London.

Year	Name	Appearance	Notes
1819	London	The Vampyre, author John William Polidori	Aubrey meets and befriends Lord Ruthven, though this turns out to be a lethal mistake.
1847	London	Varney the Vampire	Sir Francis Varney spends time in London.
1863	London	The Midnight Queen, author May Agnes Fleming	A work of urban fantasy set in the London of 1665, during the Plague.
1872	London	The Cryptogram, author James De Mille	A mystery novel.
1885	London	After London	Civilisation falls and London is reclaimed by nature; years later, the surviving humans have reorganised into a quasi-medieval society.
1895	London	The Time Machine	A resident of Victorian London departs from London to see the future.
1895	London	The Thames Valley Catastrophe, author Grant Allen	General Post Office official George pens his narrative of the destruction of London in the volcanic eruption known as the Thames Valley catastrophe. The northern heights of the city were spared, and the dome of St Paul's Cathedral could still be seen.
1897	London	The Face and the Mask, author Robert Barr, segment "The Doom of London"	The population of London is exterminated by a lethal smog.
1897	London	Dracula, author Bram Stoker	Ancient and powerful vampire Count Dracula makes his way to London to establish a new vampiric empire. It is up to Jonathan and Mina Harker, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, Quincey Morris and Arthur Holmwood to stop him.
1903	London	The Doom of London, author Fred M. White	The title story of the anthology involves the destruction of London.
1913	London	The Lodger, author Marie Belloc Lowndes	Mrs. and Mr. Bunting come to suspect the well-paying lodger they have admitted into their home, Mr. Sleuth, to be the notorious serial killer the Avenger.
1941	London	Bell Features, Dime Comics #1, Johnny Canuck, Leo Bachle	Canadian adventurer Johnny Canuck discovers a secret tribe with vast mineral wealth in the jungles of Libya. He then informs the British government in London of his find.
1961	London	Konga	Dr. Charles Decker (Michael Gough) returns from Africa with a chimpanzee named Konga, and a newly devised growth serum. Decker opts to use Konga to murder his enemies, eventually resulting in a showdown with the British Army at Big Ben.
1979	London	Spider-Woman, episode "Pyramids of Terror"	Spider-Woman (Joan Van Ark) and Spider-Man (Paul Soles) are forced to fight off an alien invasion of outer-space mummies.
1986	London	The Great Mouse Detective	In June of 1897, the mouse detective Basil of Baker Street (Barrie Ingham) and Dr. David Q. Dawson (Val Bettin) investigate the kidnapping of Olivia Flaversham's father, and work to foil the villainous plot of Professor Ratigan (Vincent Price). Scenes transpire at Buckingham Palace and Big Ben.
2007	London	Flood	A storm surge that had earlier affected Wick in Scotland is pushed south, overspilling the Thames Barrier and flooding the city, including the Underground, the Palace of Westminster, and the O2 Arena, all while the Prime Minister was away in Australia.
2015	London	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation	Agents of the IMF Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) track a covert international terrorist cell to London.

Links

• London on Wikipedia
• London on Encyclopædia Britannica