A baseball team from the fictional town of Mudville ( implied to be the home team ) is losing by two runs with two outs in their last inning.

* Canton, a fictional town in " Jaynestown ", an episode of Firefly

Its main character, Lucy Snowe, travels abroad to teach in a boarding school in the fictional town of Villette, where she encounters a culture and religion different to her own, and where she falls in love with a man (' Paul Emanuel ') whom she cannot marry.

Coronation Street is a British television soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford.

Saloon owner Kent ( Brian Donlevy ), the unscrupulous boss of the fictional Western town of Bottleneck, has the town's Sheriff, Keogh, killed when the Sheriff asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game.

Often these books follow a formula where the first chapter involves Brown solving a case at the dinner table for his father, the local police chief in the fictional town of Idaville.

In Dancer in the Dark, jump shots and dramatically-different color palettes and camera techniques were used for the " real world " and musical portions of the film, and in Dogville everything was filmed on a sound stage with no set where the walls of the buildings in the fictional town were marked as lines on the floor.

The name, " Pretty Good Privacy ", is humorously ironic and was inspired by the name of a grocery store, " Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ", featured in radio host Garrison Keillor's fictional town, Lake Wobegon.

Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

* Riverside, a fictional town in the video game Left 4 Dead

The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition.

The show's name came from its setting, a small, fictional Washington town.

Stephen King got the name Castle Rock from the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, using the name to refer to a fictional town that has appeared in a number of King's novels.

King's fictional town of Castle Rock inspired the name of Rob Reiner's production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the 1990 film.

* The Japanese horror novel Another is set in the fictional town of Yomiyama, Japan during 1998.

Willow plays an integral role within the inner circle of friends — called the Scooby Gang — who support Buffy Summers, a teenager gifted with superhuman powers to defeat vampires, demons, and other evil in the fictional town of Sunnydale.

Both Beautiful Girls and October Road take place in the fictional Massachusetts town of Knights Ridge, and have similar characters, jobs, plot lines.

* Messina, a fictional small town in John Grisham's Bleachers ( novel )

On 15 December 2011 the Spelthorne Borough Council voted 25-4, with 6 abstentions ( including all of those from Staines ward itself ), to change the name of the town to Staines-upon-Thames with the aim of promoting its riverside location so boosting the local economy and, reportedly, to attempt to discourage association with the fictional character Ali G.

The town is the home of the fictional character Ali G, and indie rock band Hard-Fi.

Many of Friel's plays are set in the fictional Donegal town of Ballybeg.

* Castle Rock ( Stephen King ), the fictional Maine town in use in many Stephen King novels, stories, and novellas

* Castle Rock Entertainment, a film production company founded by Rob Reiner and named after Stephen King's fictional town

In the series, she lives in the fictional town of River Heights with her father, attorney Carson Drew, and their housekeeper, Hannah Gruen.

It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private detective was recruited.

As a free-lance investigator, the fictional detective is responsible to no one but himself and his client.

Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside but with robot-like internal mechanics.

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Hercule Poirot (; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ).

* Patrick O ' Brian's fictional British sea captain Jack Aubrey is described as owning a " fiddle far above his station, an Amati no less ," in The Surgeon's Mate.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a well-known modern example of fictional autobiography.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

" In the same article, the Reverend Al Sharpton ( whose fictional analogue in the novel is " Reverend Bacon ") asserts that " twenty years later, the cynicism of The Bonfire of the Vanities is as out of style as Tom Wolfe's wardrobe.

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.

Obviously as a fictional character he ’ s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.

In the fictional world of Ghosts of Albion, Queen Bodicea is one of three Ghosts who once were mystical protectors of Albion and assists the current protectors with advice and knowledge.