Coast City (Earth-1)

Coast City
Information
Location	North America, United States
Use(s)	City

Coast City is a large urban cluster located in California.

Overview

According to McKenna Hall, Coast City has the best physical therapy facility in the country. It is also the home of Ferris Air, a renowned international airline company.

History

Coast City welcome sign featuring Ferris Airlines.

In 2010, Oliver Queen boarded a ship bound for Coast City from Hong Kong. For some time, Oliver remained in the city and began a brief stint as a vigilante, chasing around petty criminals before he was again tracked down by Amanda Waller. After drinks at a bar Amanda drugged him and forcibly returned him to Lian Yu as part of an A.R.G.U.S. mission.

McKenna Hall currently lives in Coast City with her sister, having relocated there from Star City in early 2013. Coast City is said to have the best physical therapy facility in the country, through which McKenna sought treatment after being shot by Helena Bertinelli, causing temporary paralysis.

Barry Allen once used his super speed to buy some carry-out pizza for his friends from Coast City Pizza, mentioning that it is known as "the best in the west".

In early 2015 Coast City was attacked by a threat requiring the combined forces of Green Arrow, The Flash, Black Canary and Vixen.

After an encounter with Zoom that nearly cost Linda Park her life, she relocated to Coast City in late 2015, believing that doing so would provide relative safety and distance from her attackers.

Lists

Residents

• Michael Ancona (incarcerated)
• McKenna Hall
• McKenna Hall's sister
• Carl Knighton (deceased)
• Jerry Knighton
• Sheila Knighton (deceased)
• Linda Park

Former residents

• Oliver Queen

Businesses

• Coast City Pizza
• Ferris Air
• Broome's

Appearances

Arrow

Season 1

• "Legacies"  (mentioned)
• "The Huntress Returns" (mentioned)

Season 3

• "Corto Maltese" (mentioned)
• "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak" (mentioned)
• "My Name Is Oliver Queen" (mentioned)

Season 4

• "Green Arrow" (flashbacks)
• "Schism" (mentioned)

The Flash

Season 1

• "Fallout" (mentioned)
• "Who is Harrison Wells?"
• "Grodd Lives" (mentioned)
• "Enter Zoom" (mentioned)

Vixen

Season 1

• "Episode 3" (mentioned)

Season 2

• "Episode 6"

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Season 1

• "Progeny" (flashbacks)

Comics

The Flash: Season Zero

• "The Impossible Mission"
• "A Minor Setback"
• "A New Home"

Behind the scenes

• In the DC comics, Coast City is the home of Hal Jordan, better known as the superhero Green Lantern, who in the DC comic books is also one of Oliver and Barry's closest superhero friends.
  • In the fourth season Arrow episode "Green Arrow", a pilot named "Jordan" is briefly seen when Oliver Queen and Amanda Waller are at a bar in the flashbacks. Additionally in the first season The Flash episode "Rogue Air", Barry Allen mentions Ferris Air was shutdown because one of the test pilots vanished, hinting towards a possible appearance of Hal Jordan in the show. 
  • Coast City's slogan "In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night; Come to Coast City, When the money is tight" is similar to Green Lantern's oath.