Jump City

Jump City
Titans Tower with Jump City in the background
Type	Sea-side City
First appearance	"Divide and Conquer"
Inhabitants	Teen Titans H.I.V.E. Five Slade (Formerly)
Status	Active

Our city is the greatest city ever!

―Beast Boy in the Finale

Jump City is the location of the Teen Titans' base of operations Titans Tower, and the location where most of the episodes at least partially take place in. Jump City is protected by the Teen Titans against threats of all scales internal or external, yet in How Long is Forever? it is protected solely by Nightwing, a future incarnation of Robin.

Based in America's West Coast, its population appears to rank in the millions, according to the Teen Titans Go! series, and it is portrayed as a modern urbanized center with pizza shops, parks, businesses, houses, islands and busy streets. The creators of the show have stated the city is similar to a 60's style of a city. It also appears to be a combination of Boston and San Francisco, with the city showing styles of both cities.

Places of note

The Bank of Pérez.

• Titans Tower, headquarters of the Teen Titans
• the (now defunct) H.I.V.E. Academy and the respective H.I.V.E. Five headquarters
• the local Central Park
• Cook's Electronics Store
• Video Dome, a video rental store (Abandoned)

Pizza Corner

• Bank of Pérez, the largest bank in Jump City. Often used as a storage for private valuables, and just as often the target of super-powered robberies. Named after 1980s "New Teen Titans" illustrator, George Pérez.
• the Pizza Corner restaurant, with its most notable feature being a pizza slice-shaped balcony
• the Burgers Drive-In
• the local Jump City television station

  

  The Oil Rig

• the Bay Bridge
• the Old Stadium (abandoned)
• the Beach Amusement Park (now abandoned)
• an abandoned Oil Rig just off the coast, in visual sight of Titans Tower. It houses the Mad Mansion.
• Tito's Junkyard, the residence of Fixit
• the city's sewer system

City Hall (in its dilapidated state)

• SOTO warehouse
• The Old Library, a secret temple for summoning Trigon to Earth (destroyed)
• Crash Alley, a notorious car racing track which lives up to its name due to the wild races taking place there
• Murakami High School, seen in the episode "Things Change". Named after series creator Glen Murakami.
• The Wayne Enterprises building (presumably a regional office as Wayne Enterprises' main headquarters would be located in Gotham City)
• Observatory (partially destroyed in "X")
• City Hall, where the Titans took refuge during Mad Mod's takeover of the city in "Revolution".

Notable citizens

Goth Boy and Raven

Goth Boy

• "Sisters"
• "Revolution"
• "Can I Keep Him?"
• "The Lost Episode"
• "Employee of the Month"

Boy with artificial hand (Cyborg's fan)

• "The Sum of His Parts"
• "Overdrive"

Ciro Nieli (cameo)

Ciro Nieli

• "Car Trouble"
• "Every Dog Has His Day" (crying sports car owner)
• "Crash" (flea market visitor)
• "For Real" (computer geek)

Black goatee and glasses-guy

The red chef

• "Every Dog Has His Day"
• "Date with Destiny"
• "Revolution"
• "Employee of the Month"
• "The End - Part 2"
• "Hide and Seek"
• "Things Change"

The red chef

• "Nevermore"
• "Fractured"
• "The Beast Within"
• "Episode 257-494"

Little girl and her mother

• "Crash"
• "Revolution"
• "Can I Keep Him?"

Clerk girl

The clerk girl

• "Fear Itself" (Video dome)
• "Bunny Raven... or ...How to Make A Titananimal Disappear" (Bank of Perez)
• "Mother Mae-Eye" (mall clothes shop)
• "Aftershock - Part 1" (In building Robin falls through)

• Duck-suit nerd

The duck-suit nerd

• "Episode 257-494"
• "For Real"
• "Revved Up"

Future

In the episode How Long is Forever?, Jump City was seen as a cold, dull and dark place. There are many things that have changed in Jump City.

Jump City in the far future, in a dull, cold and dark atomsphere.

• Titans Tower (Neglected, heavily damaged)
• The Cave (Nightwing's hideout)
• Mental Hospital (Raven's home)
• The Zoo (Beast Boy's home)

Titans tower neglected over 20 years after the Titans split up due to the "disappearance of Starfire"

Trivia

• In the original 1980s DC comic series by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, upon which much of the TV series is based on, the Titans and Titans Tower were located in New York City.
• Jump City is based on both San Fransisco and Boston.
• The name of the city was never revealed in the series itself, however it was revealed in the Teen Titans Go! comic book spin-off.
• The Red Chef is a parody of Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai, one of the two chief cooks in the Japanese cook show Iron Chef, which specialized in French cuisine.
• The Clerk Girl makes something of a running joke in the series as she constantly switches jobs after her previous working place is victimized by a supervillain, only to fall prey to another incident in her new one.
• The name of Cook's Electronics Store is a possible pun reference to Fry's Electronics.
• The "Bank of Perez" refers to comic artist George Perez, who co-created the 1980s era The New Teen Titans comic series with writer Marv Wolfman.
• Jump City was seen on a map in Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Aquaman's Outrageous Adventure" , though for some reason it's situated by a river instead of the ocean.