Germantown, Maryland

==In popular culture==
Germantown is featured in the video game ''[[Fallout 3]]'' (2008). After the town has been destroyed by a nuclear war, 'Germantown Police HQ' subsequently becomes a mutant-run prison camp.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://planetfallout.gamespy.com/wiki/Fallout_3_Locations#Fallout_3_Germantown_Police_Station |access-date=30 May 2012 |website=Planet Fallout Wiki |title=''Fallout 3'' Locations |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605000050/http://planetfallout.gamespy.com/wiki/Fallout_3_Locations#Fallout_3_Germantown_Police_Station |archive-date=June 5, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref> While the in-game location name 'Germantown Police HQ' is actually a misnomer. The location is most likely based on the single real-life police station in the town, which is a County Police Station. Sam Fisher, the protagonist of the ''[[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell]]'' video game series, lives on a farm in rural Germantown, according to the novelizations of the series.<ref>{{cite book|last=Michaels|first=David|title=Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Fallout|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JqkkOf2FFdEC&pg=PT130|date=6 November 2007|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-101-00375-6|page=130}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Michaels|first=David|title=Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sjsRv_m6dKoC&pg=PT33|date=7 November 2006|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-101-00374-9|page=33}}</ref>

Germantown is featured in several episodes of the U.S. television series ''[[The X-Files]]'', notably as a hotbed for biomedical engineering and research, as in reality.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xfroadrunners.com/transcripts/index.php?query=germantown&search_type=exact&Submit=Search&mode=search|title=Germantown|website=X-Files Roadrunners}}</ref> There are indeed a handful of biomedical research facilities in the area. The show's creator, [[Chris Carter (screenwriter)|Chris Carter]], stated that he decided to set several episodes in Germantown as his brother used to live in the town.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/12/15/generation-x/eab766c7-44f7-41f4-b265-efa948e60dc1/|title=GENERATION X|first1=Rob|last1=Pegoraro|date=December 15, 1995|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=August 11, 2017}}</ref> In one or more episodes, Germantown is depicted as being near a wharf or harbor; this is not accurate to the actual area.