Mute City

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Mute City (ミュートシティ; Mute City) is a fictional heavily populated city on Earth in the F-Zero series of Nintendo video games. Its original name was Mutant City^[1] from which the current name is abbreviated.^[2] In the television anime, F-Zero: GP Legend, Mute City was formerly known as New York.^[3] In F-Zero GX, Mute City is known as a "Metropolis in the Heart of the Space Federation" and the information link for the entire universe. It is also regarded as the most advanced and sophisticated city in the universe.^[2] This city is the most famous stop on the F-Zero Grand Prix and has courses in almost every F-Zero game to date. The only exception being that of the Game Boy Advance game, F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, where it was replaced with Bianca City. In this game, a large deposit of extremely pure titanium was discovered at Bianca City forty years ago. As a result, the village became a boomtown overnight. As it grew, it gradually replaced Mute City as the center of economic, political, and cultural activity in the galaxy.^[4]

The over one billion people living in Mute City consist of all kinds of sentient life. Due to heavy pollution, the cities' skies are black, which triggers massive thunderstorms. However, the clever minds within the city have devised methods to harness the power of these consuming clouds and have built many power stations to capture their energy. So much energy, in fact, that it can be sent to other power hungry planets. A brand new Mute City circuit was just recently constructed in F-Zero GX because the old circuit became too worn and dangerous.^[5]

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