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{{quote|''[[It Is Beyond Saving|"This city has no viable future."]]''|Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools}}
Detroit, Michigan is the center of America's automotive industry. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler have headquarters there. Its most recognizable structure is the GM Marriott Renaissance Hotel. In [[The Eighties]] there were parts of town where they would [[Place Worse Than Death|shoot at anyone]] [[No True Scotsman|passing by in a Japanese car]]. Today the shooting is much less discriminate (for several years, it alternated back and forth with [[
It is geographically notable for a few reasons. Despite being separated from Windsor, Ontario by the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair, it features the busiest US-Canada border
The metro Detroit area is home to a myriad of cultures and ethnicities, including one of the largest Arab populations in North America, centered in Dearborn (with a sizable [[
Depending on who you ask, the city may be on the cusp of a rebirth, or completing the slide from [[Dying Town]] into [[Ghost City]]. The trend (unfortunately) seemed to move toward the latter, thanks mostly to the [[Refuge in Audacity|almost surreal corruption]] of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and the federal bailout of General Motors and Chrysler which resulted in smaller companies, with the requisite job and wage cutbacks. The new{{when}} mayor, David Bing, is infinitely more competent (although that's hardly saying much), Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder has shown at least a vague interest in getting the city going again (although the methods he proposes are [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement|very, very controversial]]), and the Big Three have returned to profitability and (more importantly) actually make good cars again, so [[Throw the Dog
AKA "Hockeytown" for the [[National Hockey League|Detroit Red Wings]], a perennial [[Stanley Cup]] contender and the team that Gordie "Mister Hockey" Howe played for.
== Film ==
* ''[[The Crow]]''▼
* ''[[Detroit Rock City]]''▼
* ''[[Dreamgirls]]'', following the famous "Motown" music label and genre (the play is based in Chicago, but the movie places it in Detroit to make it closer its inspiration).
* ''[[Four Brothers]]''
* ''[[
▲* ''Detroit Rock City''
* ''[[Grosse Pointe Blank]]'' (Grosse Pointe)
* ''[[Out
* ''[[Roger & Me]]'' (Flint - yes, we know, but see the note in Michael Moore's entry below)
* ''The Upside of Anger'' (Bloomfield Hills)
▲* ''[[The Crow]]''
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' ([[California Doubling|faked-up Clinton Township]])▼
* ''[[8 Simple Rules]]''
* ''[[
▲* ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' ([[California Doubling|faked-up Clinton Township]])
* ''[[Robo Cop]]'' again▼
* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' (Royal Oak)
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]''▼
▲* ''[[Martin]]''
▲* ''[[Sister Sister]]''
* ''[[Hung]]'' (Shot in West Bloomfield; set wherever rich women live in Metro Detroit, meaning mostly Oakland County)
* ''[[
* ''[[Motorcity]]''
* ''[[Sister, Sister]]''
▲* ''[[Transformers Animated]]''
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution]]'' (Partly set in a futuristic Detroit not much different from the present one)
* Millennium City, the setting for ''[[Champions Online]]'', was built on the ruins of Detroit after Doctor Destroyer obliterated the city in 1992.
{{examples|Famous People from Detroit or nearby include:}}
* [[
* [[
* [[
* The "Belleville Three", Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, considered the founders of techno music
* The Black Dahlia Murder
* [[
* [[
* [[
* The Dirtbombs
* [[
* [[
** [[
* [[
* The [[
* [[
* Most of the [[Motown]] Records artists in the 1960s and '70s, including but not limited to the Four Tops, the Temptations, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.
* [[
* Iggy Pop and [[The Stooges]]
* [[Psychopathic Records]] artists [[
* Mitch Ryder
* Uncle Kracker
* [[
* Anita Baker (born in Toledo, Ohio but raised in Detroit, started her music career there, and currently lives in Grosse Pointe)
== Celebrities ==
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]] poster girl [[Judy Greer]] (Livonia)
* [[Bruce Campbell]] (Royal Oak)
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* [[Man of a Thousand Voices]] [[Rob Paulsen]] (Livonia)
* S. Epatha Merkerson, a.k.a. [[Law and Order|Lt. Anita Van Buren]]
* Although frequent death threat recipient [[Michael Moore]] isn't from Detroit, he's from Davison, a suburb of Flint, which is 66 miles from Detroit. It's only a part of the Motor City if you inflate Metro Detroit or use "Detroit" as a metonym for the auto industry.
** To be fair, Flint is pretty hard to tell apart from Detroit. Both are/were heavily dependent on the automotive industry, and both are [[Take That|nearly indistinguishable from]] [[After the End|post-apocalyptic wastelands]].
* [[
* [[Lily Tomlin]]
* David Alan Grier
* "Dr. Death", Jack Kevorkian, famously portrayed by [[Al Pacino]] in HBO's ''You Don't Know Jack''.
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** Actually born in New York state, but has since made Detroit his home. Which is cool, because most people get famous then move away.
* [[Robin Williams]] spent about half his youth in Bloomfield Hills (his dad was an exec at Ford) and half in [[New Age Retro Hippie]] country, Marin County, California. That may or may not explain how he turned out.
* [[Gilda Radner]]
* Butch Hartman ''([[The Fairly
* Jim Benton, creator of "[[It's Happy Bunny]]" (Bloomfield Township)
* He may not sound like it, but James Lipton, host of ''[[Inside The Actors Studio]]'' was born and raised in Detroit.
* Tom Hulce (Plymouth). Famous for playing [[Animal House|Pinto]], [[Amadeus|Mozart]], and [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|Quasimodo]].
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[[Category:Useful Notes/The United States]]
[[Category:Major World Cities]]
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