This is a note, to go through every article throughout the Wiki and change any reference of Mega City to MegaCity. It's actually spelled as one word with two capitol letters. -o.r- 19:44, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Never seen the "MegaCity" spelling--always Megacity. MegaCity looks a little sloppy and leet-speek. That said, I'll keep my eyes open for something official one way or the other, just so we can clear it up. --Grimcleaver 22:43, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Heathrow Airport[]
I believe the airport you assault in Enter the Matrix is the Megacity's Heathrow Airport, and that the name of the airport is another real world parallelism similar to the Chicago street names mentioned. I'll double check before I change anything though.
On a pragmatic note, I believe the decision to have the Matrix take place in the Megacity is total retcon. I think originally, the Matrix was envisioned to be a recreation of our entire world within the simulation. The Megacity version poses a lot of tricky problems--like what's the Megacity actually called by the people who live there--I mean they don't just say "I live in the Megacity" do they? Or how about what state are they in? Or even what country for that matter--I mean there's nothing that says that the Megacity is necessarily an American city, and not one in Canada for instance? Why are there no other countries? Or how's this for a pickle? Why have a city with an airport, if there's nowhere else to go? What happens to the people who take off--do they just loop around and land again? One patch we came up with was that maybe other places exist as temporary constructs--just the parts that need to exist, populated with similicrums (like the lady in the red dress) and they they disappear when no longer needed. Which I mean, is fine and all--but then when you want to go back home, what do you tell the lady at the ticket booth? You want to go back to "Megacity...in Megacitytopolis?"
It would have been a lot better if they'd just had the Matrix copy the real world. --Grimcleaver 22:59, 23 June 2009 (UTC)