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Elaborate Underground Base
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To maintain Plausible Deniability and hide from magical TV Spy Satellites, any sufficiently powerful or advanced covert organization of heroes, villains, conspirators, or military personnel needs an Elaborate Underground Base to use as their headquarters and hide their Applied Phlebotinum. After the End, or in preparation for The End of the World as We Know It, openly known organizations may elect to move Beneath the Earth as well. And it's a good location for a Supervillain Lair. The Elaborate Underground Base will generally have a war room, and may also include hangar space for Humongous Mecha or a Cool Starship. Particularly large examples may be the size of an entire city, and might include hydroponics bays for growing food or even actual fields of crops lit by sun lamps. The larger sizes of Elaborate Underground Base frequently serve as an Adventure Town; the smaller ones are frequently the setting for a Bottle Episode. If it was built during the Cold War, it may be Ye Olde Nuclear Silo. Particularly secretive organizations may hide their Elaborate Underground Base in the middle of a city, and include lots of elevators, trams, pneumatic tubes, and other means of transportation between the base and hidden chambers in buildings on the surface. How exactly such an extensive base can be built in secret (among other things, all the excavated rock and dirt have to go somewhere) is very rarely addressed. Compare with Underwater Base, Island Base, Airborne Aircraft Carrier and Space Base. Not to be confused with Underground City, which is built by civilians rather than a secretive organization. See Beneath the Earth for a related phenomenon, minus the Applied Phlebotinum. May induce Sigil Spam if the organization really loves their logo. |
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In WinBack, the GULF control center is hidden beneath a factory and office building. | |
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In Narbonic, Narbonics Labs moved to an underground lair early in the strip's run. Later subverted when Madblood brags to Helen about his underground lair; when she and Mell come to visit, they find him living in his mother's basement. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): After the Restoration's headquarters is destroyed during the Metal Virus Saga, the Test Run arc reveals that they've built a new facility beneath the ruins of the old one. Accessible through a hidden elevator, it contains a command center, computer labs, a machine shop, and a central area that's designed like a mall. | |
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In Doom: Hell on Earth, the Mormons have built a sprawling bunker complex under Salt Lake City. Lampshaded by Fly when it reminds him of a James Bond movie. | |
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In the Worm fanfic, Intrepid, the Undersiders get one of these for completing the armored car robbery, with five floors, an indoor park for Rachel's dogs, furnished apartments, a game room, the works. Can't say Coil doesn't splurge on his employees. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this MonsterVerse fanfiction, it's been abandoned for decades, but Monarch built a vast underground outpost in the Russian wilderness, which has since been claimed by Alan Jonah and his troops as their new hiding place while they conduct experiments on Ghidorah's severed head and later on the reborn San and Vivienne. | |
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GoldenEye has an elaborate underground military bunker at Severnaya, and the Big Bad's Lair is actually below an artificial lake in Cuba. | |
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Lampshaded in Astonishing X-Men #34: | |
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Sonic The Hedgehog: Sonic the Comic: The Freedom Fighters used Kintobor's laboratory containing living space, storage areas, monitoring equipment (which left plenty of screens on which to play video games!), a hangar for the Freedom Fighters' biplane, and the mainframe of the Kintobor Computer itself. The Freedom Fighters also expanded the facility in light of their new status as guerillas, excavating further chambers for additional capacity. The most prominent of these was a prison block (less charitably, dungeon), and later Tekno's Workshop the home and workplace of Tekno the Canary. Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): After the Restoration's headquarters is destroyed during the Metal Virus Saga, the Test Run arc reveals that they've built a new facility beneath the ruins of the old one. Accessible through a hidden elevator, it contains a command center, computer labs, a machine shop, and a central area that's designed like a mall. |
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Strikeforce: Morituri has the team start off with a base hidden inside a mountain. When the alien Horde discover its location, it is destroyed with a nuclear bombardment. | |
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The No One Lives Forever series had a couple. The first game had one in the US Pacific Northwest and an underground rocket launch facility somewhere in the South Pacific. The second had an underwater base you had to infiltrate. | |
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The Ancients in (old verse) Might and Magic seems to have been fond of placing large facilities underground. The inhabitants of Deyja went one step beyond and built themselves an Elaborate Underground City. | |
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X-Men: Xavier's Mansion is usually presented as being only living quarters and classrooms for students and staff; the actual base of operations is underground. Lampshaded in Astonishing X-Men #34: |
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Seems to be the basic design for all Orsintos laboratories in Sluggy Freelance. Surprisingly, there's been nothing so far to suggest that Hereti-Corp has one of these. As it turns out, Dr. Steve's Baselab was designed to burrow underground. | |
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The Descent lives for this trope. Granted, a lot of them are mines, but there are a bunch of military, scientific, and testing facilities as well. Of particular note is the final level of Descent 3, Dravis' Stronghold. | |
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In the Aristillus series, the entire Lunar Colony pretty much counts as this, especially from the perspective of the Earth government. The colony is composed of miles of tunnels carved out by tunnel-boring machines under the lunar surface of the Aristillus crater, and when the Earth military invades the colony they find it a maze of twists, turns, and angry natives trying to kill them with extremely large guns. | |
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The Silmarillion: Morgoth had Utumno, which amounted to an underground country, plus Angband (whose excavation produced enough refuse and slag to pile into an enormous mountain). Both were filled with vast mines, dungeons, torture chambers, and other... pleasant things. Elves vastly prefer to live above-ground, but oddly enough a few groups also built/excavated underground fortress-cities. |
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The secret base of NLNS in Nukitashi. It connects to the school and several caves and it's equipped with computers, 3D-printers, and the necessary facilities to stay the night. | |
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During the Silver Age, Lex Luthor's "Luthor's Lairs" numbered in the hundreds, and could be found anywhere. At least one of them lasted until the 30th Century, showing up in a Legion of Super-Heroes story where the outlawed Legionnaires make use of it to not only get new outfits again but find out what caused the populace to turn against them. | |
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Season 4 of Alias introduced APO, a black-ops branch of the CIA (that most of the CIA doesn't know about) located underneath Los Angeles and accessed by the subway. | |
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Several appear on Chuck. From Season 2 on, Team Bartowski primarily operates out of an underground base hidden beneath the Buy More and Orange Orange. Fulcrum and the Ring both utilized them to house their Intersect research, (conversely, the CIA housed their Intersect in a normal office building) while Volkoff made use of several to house components of the Norseman weapon. | |
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In Helix, isolated research base Arctic Biosystems has several subterranean levels, the depth and extensiveness of which initially jar the CDC team sent to investigate there. | |
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In Joe 90 the BIG RAT was located in a secret underground facility beneath Professor McClaine's house. | |
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Salamandastron for the Long Patrol, and the Kingdom of Malkariss for one set of baddies, in the Redwall books. | |
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The main characters' HQ in Symphogear. It's probably remnants of a Precursor race. | |
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UNATCO Headquarters makes a return appearance in Deus Ex: Invisible War. | |
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The Simpsons: In "You Only Move Twice", wealthy businessman and supervillain Hank Scorpio has an underground base with some sort of nuclear-powered ray gun in it, plus a laser for cutting spies in half. It also has a snack vending machine with a touchy dollar bill acceptor. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: S.H.I.E.L.D. has a number of underground bases and facilities, the main example being the Playground, which acts as their main headquarters from the end of the first season until its destruction midway through the fourth. As Coulson is reconciling with another branch, he uses this as a selling point toward peace. In Season 3, HYDRA's main base is a bunker revealed to be built underneath an abandoned oil refinery. Coulson says that they don't even appear to be trying to avoid villain cliches at this point. Season 5 features the Lighthouse, a top-secret bunker created by S.H.I.E.L.D. in the '70s in case of nuclear war. It's so big and so well designed that in a Bad Future where the Earth has shattered, it functions as a perfectly habitable and self-sustaining space station. Season 5 also has General Hale's bunker, which was originally used by HYDRA as a training academy in their heyday. |
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Sheriff Jack Carter in Eureka lives in an experimental intelligent house that is underground. It doesn't fulfill all of the requirements, but it's underground, it's where he lives, and it's full of exciting gadgets, so it counts. | |
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The base Hacker dug out for himself in an episode of Cyberchase. He abandoned it by the next episode, though. | |
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F.E.A.R.: Armacham Technology Corporation established the main facility for the Origin Project in an old military-industrial complex and built the entire facility deep underground. Emphasis placed on the past tense, what with the explosive ending of the first game. Project Origin takes it even further. The Auburn Memorial Hospital is a full-sized building constructed underground inside another Elaborate Underground Base. Wade Elementary has another Elaborate Underground Base beneath it. And that's before you get to the giant tram tunnels running through titanic chambers that include a Replica storage facility and massive maintenance area. Pretty much the entirety of Fairport is riddled with Armacham secret bases. One wonders how nobody found out about it or that all the excavations didn't fatally weaken the ground. |
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Blake and Mortimer is fond of these, appearing in The Secret of the Swordfish, The Yellow M, The Francis Blake Affair, The Valley of the Immortals and Professor Sat�'s Three Formulae, among others. | |
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The Steam Castle in Steamboy is mostly one of these. The surface part of it is large and impressive, but the underground portion is far bigger. The fact that there's a much larger portion underground isn't revealed until it launches and becomes airborne. | |
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In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the Human Hive faction's bases (equivalent to cities in Civilization) are stated in the fluff to be of the underground kind. | |
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In The Attack of the Annihilator, Supergirl builds a whole underground base for Batgirl beneath the streets of Gotham, containing a garage, an armory, a computer, and more. | |
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The majority of Still Life 2 is set in an unassuming house in the woods. The house is substantially larger than it appears due to the expanded atomic shelter underneath. | |
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Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc: The Hoodlum Headquarters area as well as the majority of the Desert of the Knaaren level, the latter potentially justified by the fact it's a natural cave system. Doesn't explain why it also has a mini Temple of Doom inside it too though. | |
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The Twisted Insurrection mod for Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun also features several missions taking place in underground facilities. | |
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Sky High (2005). The Secret Sanctum. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: The Consortium has its facility located beneath underground with space large enough to harbor the creation of advanced weaponry by manufacturing industries and research technology into studying supernatural phenomenon brought by the Limen crater by keeping all the discovered variants kept in containment to learn their capabilities to utilize their abilities in the conduction of experiments for their own usage. | |
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M.I. 9 has an Elaborate Underground Base concealed beneath St Hope's School in M.I. High. Given it houses only three operatives and their handler, it does seem somewhat like overkill. | |
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In Arpeggio of Blue Steel, the Japanese Navy is shown to have an underwater dock at Yokosuka Naval Base, built to protect what's left of the Japanese Navy's fighting ships from the Fleet of Fog. There's also the base I-401 maintained at Iwo Jima. | |
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G.I. Joe is rife with these. The original Joe base, "The Pit", is hidden underneath the chaplain's assistants' motor pool at Ft. Wadsworth in Staten Island. When this is destroyed by Cobra, a new Pit is built out in the desert. And Cobra has a fair number of secret bases themselves, including an entire town brimming with underground evil. | |
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Resident Evil (2002) takes place in a massive laboratory hidden underneath Raccoon City. To help with the claustrophobia the walls have a city skyline on them and are covered by blinds. | |
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Alpha Complex from Paranoia is usually an elaborate underground warren with all the super-science facilities you could ever need. note Then again, continuity has never been a big deal in Paranoia so it can be a domed city, underwater, whatever the GM desires. | |
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In the Zorro comics written by Don McGregor (for Topps and Dynamite), Zorro has an elaborate underground base that rivals the Batcave. This is appropriate, as the Batcave was actually inspired by Zorro's hideout, both in and out of universe. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Paula von Gunther has a multi-room labyrinth base beneath Holliday College, where she keeps the Space Transformer and works on scientific breakthroughs for the Allies and Wonder Woman. She also lives down there to keep hidden from the Nazis. | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami features this often and in diverse flavors. The Dungeons themselves, are a little more feudal, but Ami's underground bases just keep getting more elaborate and more Dungeon Punk. Mecha? Check. Underground magical hudrophonics bays? Check. War Room? Check. Sigil Spam? Check. Lacks a proper hangar for the airship fleet, but one was actually an Underwater Base, and another an Island Base. | |
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Harry Potter: Hogwarts has three large dungeons, all associated with Slytherin. The most prominent one is the Slytherin Common Room, which is partly located beneath the Great Lake, giving it a greenish hue. The second is the Potions Classroom, rather fitting since the two professors who teach the subject are Slytherins. The third is the Chamber of Secrets, the lair of Salazar Slytherin's basilisk. The Ministry of Magic is completely underground. It can be reached via elevator telephone booth, flushing down magic toilets (no joke), Apparation or Floo powder. Like the Great Hall's sky ceiling, the windows are enchanted to allow daylight to filter in (or hurricanes, when the maintenance staff is angling for a raise). Gringotts Bank has an elaborate underground network of vaults, reached by a railway similar to a roller coaster. |
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Half-Life: The Black Mesa Research Facility is one of the biggest and most elaborate underground bases ever shown in detail. It is a repurposed top-secret rocket research facility from the Cold War that has been upgraded to house a massive Teleportation and Inter-Dimensional Travel research project. It has its own hydroelectric power plant, nuclear waste disposal facilities, and a dormitory complex big enough to allow at least the top researchers to have their families living with them, which also requires multiple security checks for all personnel when moving between sectors. Which is usually done by using the local monorail tram network. Some of the largest and longest levels of the game and its add-ons take place in the Freight Yard, which consists of a large number of warehouses and its own container terminal to unload the 40-feet-containers that arrive by train. The fact that outdoor environments look just awful in the old Quake-derived engine may have had more than a bit to do with the base ending up mostly underground. The few outdoor levels that exist consist entirely of brown rocks and concrete walls. In the end it takes an underground nuclear bomb to eliminate any remaining witnesses and all alien forces still inside the facility. Though that event might be non-canon and is neither mentioned by the games from the main series developers nor does it fit with the details revealed in later games. It also is probably no coincidence that the Black Mesa Research Facility is located in New Mexico, putting it in the general region of the real world Los Alamos National Laboratory (atomic bomb), Edwards Air Force Base, Arizona or "Area 51" (experimental jet-aircraft), and Black Mesa Test Range, Utah (ballistic missiles). |
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Everyday Heroes: While the main office is above ground, the training room is in the sub-sub-basement. Also, M.W.A.H.A.H.A.H.A.H.A.H.A. headquarters is underground. While it's hardly elaborate, Hornswoggle and family live underground in a section of the sewers fitted out like a typical apartment. |
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The Alpha Protocol base in, well, Alpha Protocol is a large underground complex apparently located somewhere in the American northwest. Reaching it is pretty difficult; agents are sedated into unconsciousness and transported to the location, via aircraft and boat in order to keep the base's location secret. At least until the endgame, where Mike arranges for his allies to track him while he's being sedated and ruin everyone's whole week with a surprise assault. | |
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Dr. Evil from Austin Powers has an underground lair. | |
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The Otonashi house in High School Ninja Girl, Otonashi-san is a trap-filled underground lair that is otherwise decorated like a normal home. | |
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In The 100, Mount Weather is an enormous underground bunker, used to house a small (but technologically advanced) community of people who can't survive on the radiation-soaked surface. | |
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SCP Foundation has a number of underground sites that contain artifacts, creatures, and locations that could burn/rewrite/exterminate the whole world and to an extent the universe if they were to be left unregulated. There is no known exact number of how many underground sites the Foundation has, but these sites could be located in a place where there is a high population density, simply masquerading as an ordinary business, or just located in a simple, well-known army base. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, there are three elaborate underground bases: One is the Nuclear Storage Facility (which is the deepest mapped area of the game), another is the Silo Complex (which is pretty deep underground, although the mapped areas themselves are actually shallower than the Nuclear Storage Facility), and it was originally intended in-game to have more than one missile silo. The last one isn't actually visited by the Player: It is the underground bunker underneath Langley that the CIA director attempted to retreat under with the impending nuclear strike against America with his half of the Legacy, and where Ocelot essentially murdered him and made it look like he committed suicide. | |
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From Season 8 of Supernatural onwards, Sam and Dean have the Men of Letters' bunker. | |
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Halo: Reach: Sword Base has a massive research facility hidden in the ice shelf deep below the base. | |
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Stargirl (2020): The Injustice Society operates out of a bunker secreted in the heart of a Tunnel Network running underneath Blue Valley, Nebraska. At the very least, it contains a central meeting room, Dragon King's laboratory, and a staging ground for building Project New America. It's revealed later that it was built by the founders of the town long before the Injustice Society ever arrived; the Injustice Society specifically chose the town because they learned of the tunnels and figured it would make a good hiding place. | |
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In Oblivion, you can get one for yourself via the Thieves Den DLC. It is pirate-themed and, once taken over, allows you to recruit pirates to give services (like skill-training and selling stuff like lockpicks) and go out stealing for your benefit. | |
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Power Rangers uses this quite often. Some seasons, such as the original, simply imply it, while others are more blatant about it. The fifteenth season, Operation Overdrive, commonly does a cutaway to the base by showing the aboveground mansion and then dropping the camera via CGI through several layers of planetary crust. For added hijinks, the Rangers in this season are implied to be sliding down kilometer-length fireman poles to reach said base. And on top of that, they have three Humongous Mecha and a Cool Ship hidden inside. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion has NERV setting up shop inside the GeoFront, a massive cavern that is actually just the upper 11% of an even larger spherical cave, which is actually the buried remains of the Black Moon, the object that brought Lilith and life to earth, almost completely filled up with earth and rock debris. Terminal Dogma is an Elaborate Underground Base built below another Elaborate Underground Base. | |
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Whateley Universe: Superhero School Whateley Academy has extensive underground stuff. Powers testing, deviser workshops, arenas, you name it. And that doesn't even cover the highly dangerous sewer system there. Lampshaded by mentions that they now have to be quite careful where and how much they dig, in order to avoid having the above-ground structures fall into a sinkhole. Underground lairs are also popular with supervillains and villainous spy agencies, with a number of them coming up in stories set off-campus. Two different criminal enterprises are shown which specialize in constructing such lairs, and major villains with multiple lairs sometimes lease out bases to less successful villains when not in active use. |
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They Cloned Tyrone: The conspiracy has their entire operations hidden under the Glen, with select locations, like churches and abandoned houses, having elevator entrances. | |
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In Remember To Always Be Brave: there are four of these. Three out of those are scenes of gory battles throughout the course of the book. | |
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Super Dimension Fortress Macross/Robotech has an underground base in Alaska (possibly in the site of the real-life Elmendorf AFB), armed with the BFG of Wave Motion Guns. Incidentally, secondary Macross sources list four other identical bases being built when the Zentradi launch the final attack, one of them in the same area of Jaburo. | |
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A similar rationale to Wonka's stands for the enormous set of underground tunnels built by the deep-down dwarfs in Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld novels. By digging under the city, they can create their own dwarfs-only authentic dwarf mine under the city, unbeholden to city law or city rents. (In regions with larger dwarfish populations, there really is a separate "surface law" and "deep law".) After the events of Thud!, the deep-downers are thoroughly discredited and Lord Vetinari appropriates their delve for the city government, possibly as the basis of a future Ankh-Morpork subway system. Notably, Commander Vimes actually realizes the "dirt has to go somewhere" problem and realizes the extent of the digging when he has his Disorganizer look through the gate reports for an increase in garbage leaving the city. How much actual digging was required is debatable, in that what Ankh-Morpork is built on is largely Ankh-morpork. The current city is just the top level of several layers of older buildings and construction, which over the generations have sunk, buried, or just been built over so many times that it is a whole warren of passages and compartments, with old streets ending up as sewer tunnels, and old shops now serving as the (often unknown) basements or subbasements to current buildings. |
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Basically subverted in the Elementary episode "Ready or Not"; an investigation of 'the Keep', an apparent underground facility based in an old Cold War bunker, allegedly intended to protect the elite in the event of a nuclear holocaust, swiftly reveals to Holmes and Watson that it's all an elaborate scam to get money out of the intended residents. They deduce that the bunker provides the kind of superficial comforts that the target residents would look for, but it lacks more sophisticated details such as appropriate air filtration systems, the walls are damaged behind the immediate coverings, and the cupboards are full of empty boxes to give the impression of medical and food supplies being kept in storage. | |
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Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel had the Brotherhood bunkers and Vault 0 which was simply the Cheyenne Mountain Complex converted into an even larger facility. | |
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Superfriends: In the 1973-74 episode "The Fantastic Frerps", King Plasto has one as his headquarters, including a storage room for his Frerp eggs and a Frerps Arena for creating the eggs. | |
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World of Warcraft: The Dark Iron Dwarves have their own underground base in Blackrock Mountain. Technically so do the Dark Horde and Nefarian, since their towering base is built inside a volcano's cone. The Defias Brotherhood has extensive Deadmines, a combination mining facility, a smelter, a sawmill, and wet dock. The Scholomance is a large school dedicated to dark magic carved out of the crypts of a castle. The Undercity is much the same, only it was built under an entire city. The entire kingdom of the Nerubians was built underground, as is much of the temple to C'thun. After taking the step from "overzealous faction leader" to "raving madman", Garrosh Hellscream commissioned a massive underground fortress, complete with barracks, laboratory, factory, beast pens, treasure vault, and ginormous throne room, built underneath the orcish capital of Orgrimmar. Only one-quarter of the Siege of Orgrimmar raid actually takes place in the aboveground portion of the eponymous city (although some of it is in Pandaria); the bulk of it takes place in Garrosh's bunker. |
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Torchwood Three in Torchwood is hidden under Roald Dahl Plass, Cardiff. This is in stark contrast to Torchwood One's tower in Doctor Who, which is Canary Wharf. The Torchwood Three base was a deviation from the classic luxurious underground base — aside from the central hub, it was a rat-nest of cramped rooms and converted tunnels that have been repurposed and rebuilt over decades, it was dim and dingy, and water was always leaking in from Tiger Bay. The trope is Lampshaded in Children of Earth. | |
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In Thief II: The Metal Age, the Cetus Project is run from Markham's Isle, a former pirate base taken over by the Mechanists. As you learn when you go there, the administration of the project is a bit complicated, but Markham's Isle certainly fits the Island Base and Elaborate Underground Base tropes. | |
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The Island (2005): An underground base is used to house clones who are led to believe that the outside is a wasteland. | |
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The Thunderbolts have their base located inside a mountain. | |
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The Peripheral (2022): The Research Institute. It goes down at least 95 storeys, and contains an aquarium large enough to hold whales, hydroponics farms, factories, and Lord knows what else. The use of Assembler Nanomachines probably serves to Hand Wave the financial and structural constraints that a facility of this magnitude would face in Real Life. | |
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Pelvanida from Darwin's Soldiers is an underground military research base. It is not really "hidden" per se, though, as quite a bit of above-ground infrastructure is present. | |
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The Wild Wild West: The labyrinthic subterranean base of Victor Freemantle in "The Night of the Bubbling Death", where he hides the stolen U.S. Constitution. It dates back to the Conquistador era in 1557 and he added armored doors, an elevator and an Acid Pool to protect the room where he put the Constitution. | |
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In the Time Scout series, half the action takes place on time terminal 86, in a winding cavernous complex in the heart of a Tibetan mountain in 1912. | |
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EarthBound (1994) has a huge base under Stonehenge in Winters filled with alien tech containing captive civilians. | |
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Grim Dawn has Warden Krieg's ridiculously large basement that stretches for hundreds of meters. It spawns two levels with a cellar, tunnels, labs, storerooms, jail cells, and living quarters just to name a few. It also has some giant spiders and various beasts that are hostile to the Aetherials and you. | |
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Numerous Galactor bases on Science Ninja Team Gatchaman fall under this heading. By extension, the enemy bases on the Americanized versions. | |
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Spy X Family: Safehouse E for WISE is a base of operations for Twilight and Handler for the events of Strix. It's accessed by a photobooth in an alley which is a secret elevator that's activated by customers who put a coin in and face the camera, where the interior lowers down if the customer is a recognised spy. | |
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The Lost Redeemer: Whitecliff has many underground tunnels and chambers including a harbor, a library, and a secret tomb. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The rebels on Ryloth have a nice underground hideout, with the entrance in a crashed Separatist landing craft. | |
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The majority of Day of the Dead (1985) takes place in a vast bunker as the scientists attempt to find a cure for zombies. Less elaborate than most other examples but it gets bonus points for being a real place; it was a mine that was converted for "long-term storage facility for important documents" which is the stuff Ben is looking through in the actual film. | |
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The second season of Space: 1999 saw the command team move from the above-ground "Main Mission" set to a "Command Center" located deep underground. | |
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In Stingray (1964), during alerts the entire city of Marineville can descend into a secure underground facility on hydraulic jacks. (Just in case anyone thought Neon Genesis Evangelion did that first...) | |
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In Overlord (2012), the Villain Protagonist and his forces are headquartered in the Great Tomb of Nazarick, a ten-level complex so big that one of those levels contains an entire forest and a colosseum, and another (the residential area) is basically a small town unto itself. | |
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Mazinger Z: The Island of Bardos. Dr. Hell set his first base in the subterranean mazes of that island, building all that he needed for his Super Villain Lair: a war room for planning strategies, private chambers for his Co-Dragons, barracks for his Mooks, several hangars, laboratories to build weapons, Humongous Mecha and cyborgs, training fields for his troops and Robeasts, his throne room... Dr. Kabuto's lab basement also counts. It was hilariously lampshaded by Kouji in the original manga (since Juzo had built Mazinger Z in his home in the middle of a city whereas his anime version did it in his mansion located in Mount Fuji), when he found the entrance and asked: "Since when is there a basement in the garden?" Great Mazinger: Mykene were a civilization that had lived underground for millennia, so their entire empire — an intricate network of caves and caverns — was an Elaborate Underground Base. |
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In Resident Evil, seemingly every building in Raccoon City, or in the forests surrounding it, has at least one well-hidden elevator leading into one of the multiple underground Umbrella Corporation labs (which makes sense when you consider that Umbrella essentially owns and runs the city). | |
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Skyrim continues the tradition of having countless smuggler/bandit/necromancer/etc. hideouts in the form of underground caves and ruins. Once again, many get extremely advanced. This is especially true of the old Nordic burials, which are complete underground ruins that can reach the size of full-blown cities. Additionally, the Dwemer ruins return in full force with plenty of great examples, many of which have been taken over by their former Slave Race, the Falmer. The Falmer are also shown to be capable of constructing elaborate networks of suspended bridges and platforms. | |
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Metal Gear: In Metal Gear and Metal Gear Solid, the titular Humongous Mecha is hidden in one of these. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake has a variation: Although Metal Gear D is fought in the third (sixth?) basement floor of the main building of Zanzibar Land's detention center, it is not specified if it was actually the main hangar for Metal Gear D. In Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, there are three elaborate underground bases: One is the Nuclear Storage Facility (which is the deepest mapped area of the game), another is the Silo Complex (which is pretty deep underground, although the mapped areas themselves are actually shallower than the Nuclear Storage Facility), and it was originally intended in-game to have more than one missile silo. The last one isn't actually visited by the Player: It is the underground bunker underneath Langley that the CIA director attempted to retreat under with the impending nuclear strike against America with his half of the Legacy, and where Ocelot essentially murdered him and made it look like he committed suicide. In Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, both the heroes and the villains have elaborate bases: The Peace Sentinels had an AI Weapon assembly plant situated within a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant within Irazu's crater, an AI programming lab constructed either within an unknown ruin or an AI lab disguised as a ruin (Paz's description of the plant makes the ruin's exact origin a bit ambiguous), and an AI Weapons forwarding/Peace Walker construction base built within a gold quarry. In addition, the FSLN / KGB's drug facilities were also disguised as Banana and Coffee processing factories, and the Militaires Sans Frontieres also utilized an elaborate base in the form of an off-shore OTEC research facility. |
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided continues the trend, with Task Force 29's Prague headquarters hidden in a cavern beneath a front company's office, accessible only by a long elevator ride. Downplayed by the GARM facility, which is mostly hidden inside a mountain in the Swiss Alps, but not completely underground. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has several: the Brotherhood, as usual, lives in an underground bunker, the Enclave remnants keep their Powered Armor and vertibird in one, and Mr. House has a Mecha-Mooks factory built under Fortification Hill. The Big MT Research and Development Center from Old World Blues used to be one (back when it was, you know, a mountain), but then the Mad Scientists there blew the top off of it. | |
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James Bond has relatively few of these, despite the series being ridden with cartoon villains and conspirators. Blofeld's hollowed-out volcano complex in You Only Live Twice is a classic example, as is Drax's Amazon launch facility in Moonraker. GoldenEye has an elaborate underground military bunker at Severnaya, and the Big Bad's Lair is actually below an artificial lake in Cuba. Dr. No has an elaborate nuclear facility dug into the bedrock underneath Crab Key. Dr. Kananga from Live and Let Die has an underground base near one of his poppy fields in San Monique for processing the poppies' morphine into heroin. |
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The SWAT Kats have a base hidden beneath the Cool Garage where they live and work. | |
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Neverwhere features an entire sub-culture beneath London. There are also undergrounds beneath every major city on Earth, each distinctively dangerous, at least according to Huntress. | |
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The Jadeborn in Exalted, being the game's rough equivalent of dwarves/elves/gnomes, built underground cities, nations, military bases, factories, incomprehensible giant artifacts, and everything else an entire civilization of genius-craftsmen-artificers-inventors-engineers could produce over millennia of flourishing. In the Second Age their world-spanning underground empire has long since crumbled, but their remaining cities are still vast and elaborate and thoroughly underground. | |
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The Red Tower had three factory floors, but no doors or loading bays; the novelties it produced were distributed through a vast network of subterranean tunnels and minecart rails that permeate the surrounding wasteland. The first destruction of its machinery merely forced its operations deeper below ground, with a second level becoming home to its birthing graves, and an unknown deeper third level whose existence is only rumoured. | |
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PS238, the school for children of superheroes, is in an Elaborate Underground Base beneath an actual elementary school. | |
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In S.S.D.D. Cook has one that was originally a partially completed nuclear storage dump under his corporate headquarters, which he uses for R&D clean rooms, officially. In reality he and the other time travelers trying to prevent the coming Anarchist revolution hide all their future stuff down there. Tessa suspects he might be turning into a supervillain and uses the underground as evidence. | |
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Stargate-verse: In Stargate SG-1, Stargate Command functions as an Elaborate Underground Base that includes a functioning interplanetary wormhole (see "Real Life" example, below). In later seasons, the "Alpha Site", "Beta Site" and "Gamma Site" are all built as copies of the SGC on other planets. When the Eurondans decided to exterminate their enemies via Atmosphere Abuse, they built a massive underground base that could house them for decades. The Genii of Stargate Atlantis act like Space Amish while actually living in these. Their true nature gradually becomes one of the worst-kept secrets in the galaxy. |
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The fangame MOTHER: Cognitive Dissonance has one on Mars that helps make Starmen. | |
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EVA Sessions: Someplace Vast and Dry: The NERV Evangelion Center originally started out as a conventional above-ground research center, before gradually transitioning most of its facilities to the canonical underground GeoFront to better protect them from attack by the Others. In this case, the NERV GeoFront is a genuine achievement of human civil engineering, rather than the canonical repurposing of the buried remains of the object that brought life to earth. | |
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While most of the HYDRA facilities in Captain America: The First Avenger are above ground and in the open, their main base is dug into the Alps, and is implied to be 500 feet underground. In addition, the SSR's main base is hidden within/below a block of old stores in Brooklyn. | |
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The eponymous AJCO has never been anything but one of these, even when it was manifested as Pi-TEC in an alternate reality. This is most likely because its CEO grew up in similar facilities during a nuclear war — though its ability to completely confuse and bewilder visitors might be another possible reason. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: While most of the HYDRA facilities in Captain America: The First Avenger are above ground and in the open, their main base is dug into the Alps, and is implied to be 500 feet underground. In addition, the SSR's main base is hidden within/below a block of old stores in Brooklyn. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the underground complex that houses the computer holding the digitized mind of Dr. Emil Zola is located deep below what looks like an ammunition bunker on an abandoned US Army base. |
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The Russian missile base in the last act of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which is also Ye Olde Nuclear Silo. | |
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Despite the name, virtually none of the "dungeons" in any Dungeons & Dragons campaign are prisons. They're either natural caverns full of unintelligent monsters (rare), tombs full of undead (uncommon), or this trope for the Villain of the Week (extremely common). Taking this to its logical extreme is Malsheem,◊ fortress of Asmodeus, god of sin and tyranny and lord of devils. As the fourth edition has transformed the Nine Hells into a planet, Asmodeus' fortress is comprised of the entire core of that planet. In the 5th ed. adventure book Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, the titular mad mage Halaster Blackcloak has his home Undermountain built into the fallen underground dwarf kingdom of Melairbode. This underground base is so extensive that it has several different realms which are only accessible by special dimensional gates as well as a Nigh-Invulnerable guest castle made of stone, glass, crystal, and adamantine. |
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Faery Airbase in Sentou Yousei Yukikaze is a mixed bag, in that much of the base is aboveground, but a significant portion of the facilities and hangars are located underground, such as the Special Air Force's hangar and support facilities. There's even an Underground City where Faery Air Force personnel live. | |
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To a lesser extent, the cloning facility on Dantooine in Galaxy of Fear. | |
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Dwarf Fortress: Although you don't technically have to do this — one of the DF Wiki's "optional goals" is to create a fortress that is based entirely around surface structures. | |
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Fallout had the Glow, the Mariposa Military Base, and the Brotherhood's Lost Hills HQ. | |
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Fallout 2 had the Sierra Army Depot and the Hubologist base. The Brotherhood bunkers in the Den, NCR, and San Francisco might also count. | |
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Raven Rock, most famous to gamers from Fallout 3, is a real base built for much the same purpose as Cheyenne Mountain. | |
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Fallout 4 has The Institute, which is so elaborate that the only way to access it is through teleportation — at least until the end where you access it through other means, such as a hidden tunnel or by blasting through the surface with a Humongous Mecha. | |
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Gummi Glen in Adventures of the Gummi Bears. This version distinguishes itself by its surprisingly realistic take on an underground structure of such extraordinary complexity in medieval times. Namely, the Glen requires a sophisticated infrastructure like a mechanical ventilation system to maintain air quality while the Gummis have a variety of maintenance concerns like water levels, plant growth, and erosion of the surrounding ground. | |
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The Time Tunnel features a colossal underground base that houses the titular Time Travel device. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures had the underground base of Section 13 in San Francisco. Said organization was where the main characters would live along with being the location of whatever MacGuffins were being collected that season. Could be reached via a phone booth elevator or "the stairs". | |
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The titular team in Mutant X has a fairly spacious and comfy facility inside a mountain with a hologram covering the entrance. It looks more like a loft than a secret base. | |
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In Wasteland, as well as Wasteland 2, numerous pre-apocalyptic military bases and research complexes can be explored. Some of them were adapted to fit their current users' needs, others are abandoned or still serving their intended purpose, crawling with formidable enemies. | |
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The supercriminal Diabolik in the movie Danger: Diabolik has a huge underground lair, to a truly absurd degree for someone who seems to have absolutely nothing in the way of actual henchmen or employees to actually build or maintain things other than Eva. | |
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Also, Cheyenne Mountain is in Stargate SG-1 and Jeremiah (This one has the benefit of being a real complex). In the original movie Stargate, the Gate was hidden in the fictional Creek Mountain complex — also in Colorado, and to boot having recycled the Cheyenne Mountain entrance set from WarGames. The series retconned the Stargate's location without much fuss. To make Stargate Command, they added 2 fictional sub-floors to the real-life Cheyenne Mountain Complex. The complex itself is real, the extra floors housing Stargate Command aren't. Though, in the real complex, there is a door marked Stargate Command in homage to the series (since it was Backed by the Pentagon). It leads to a broom closet. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender. The Dai Li had an underground base under a lake. | |
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The Megaforce headquarters, a bunker deep in the Nevada desert built to withstand a direct hit from a 25-megaton nuke, with all the necessary elements for training and maintaining and leading the Megaforce, and with a Cool Garage full of extensive military hardware (and Dallas then mentions that said garage is just the one for the ground vehicles, as well as joking about needing $40,000 worth of mops and brooms to keep the place clean). | |
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In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Carl must infiltrate one of these under a base called Area 69. Yes, it's inspired by Area 51 (see below). | |
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G.I. Zombie: Duke's backers have one of these located under the Rinaldi Spa And Retreat. It's packed with enough weapons to start a war, and also houses an underground garden. | |
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Doraemon: One of Doraemon's future gadgets allows instant creation of one of these. It can be big enough to become a city of its own, which Nobita then exploits to create his own dictatorship (Played for Laughs). However, Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs deals with the sinister encounter with Lizard Folk when Nobita and co Dug Too Deep... | |
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In X2: X-Men United, the underground base becomes a plot element when the Spy Satellites actually detect the Cool Ship in its hangar underneath the Superhero School. William Stryker uses this evidence to convince the President to okay a commando strike on the school, secretly to further his plan to wipe out all mutant-kind. Stryker's also got an Elaborate Underground Base of his own. | |
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Halo: The second level of Halo 3 takes place in Crow's Nest, an "old 20th century" military base inside Mount Kilimanjaro, which has been re-activated after the Covenant took over Earth. This base comes fully equipped with a hangar bay, hidden landing pads, big imposing steel doors, and a war room, complete with big screens and Bridge Bunnies. Halo: Reach: Sword Base has a massive research facility hidden in the ice shelf deep below the base. The world of Reach also has CASTLE Base, an ONI facility hidden two kilometers directly underneath Menachite Mountain. |
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Metro 2033 features the entire subway system of Moscow, which is home to the remnants of civilization. It also features huge military installations even below that. | |
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From the Fallout games, the various Vaults. Fallout had the Glow, the Mariposa Military Base, and the Brotherhood's Lost Hills HQ. Fallout 2 had the Sierra Army Depot and the Hubologist base. The Brotherhood bunkers in the Den, NCR, and San Francisco might also count. Fallout 3 had Raven Rock and the Rockland comm. facility. Fallout 4 has The Institute, which is so elaborate that the only way to access it is through teleportation — at least until the end where you access it through other means, such as a hidden tunnel or by blasting through the surface with a Humongous Mecha. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel had the Brotherhood bunkers and Vault 0 which was simply the Cheyenne Mountain Complex converted into an even larger facility. Fallout: New Vegas has several: the Brotherhood, as usual, lives in an underground bunker, the Enclave remnants keep their Powered Armor and vertibird in one, and Mr. House has a Mecha-Mooks factory built under Fortification Hill. The Big MT Research and Development Center from Old World Blues used to be one (back when it was, you know, a mountain), but then the Mad Scientists there blew the top off of it. |
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The moonbase setting of BioForge, complete with hangar bay, cryogenics lab, prison, defense tower, and medical experimentation lab. | |
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Resident Evil Film Series: Resident Evil (2002) takes place in a massive laboratory hidden underneath Raccoon City. To help with the claustrophobia the walls have a city skyline on them and are covered by blinds. In Resident Evil: Extinction Umbrella has moved all their staff to secured underground facilities due to the Zombie Apocalypse. |
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BioShock takes place in a underwater city/base named Rapture, where Applied Phlebotinum is developed, refined, and horribly goes wrong — the player's stated goal is to get out alive. | |
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A few shots in the movie WarGames showed the actual Cheyenne Mountain complex. The NORAD room in that was a mock-up (the most expensive movie set ever at that time) and far more snazzy than the real one. This was due to the filmmakers having insufficient security clearance for the real one. The Second-In-Command of NORAD is a Canadian (it's NORTH AMERICAN Air Defense, not American Air Defense) — and yet in all the movies set in Cheyenne Mountain, there is nary a Canuck in sight. |
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The Pangea Alliance in the Mass Effect story Mesozoic Effect use these to the point where they don't actually build permanent structures on the surface of their planets. They were originally needed to house the millions of dinosaurs that were waking from their 65 million-year cryosleep, but eventually started building them on other worlds because of their defensive potential. | |
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Batman: The Batcave, an enormous cave containing a supercomputer, garage, various trophies, and basically everything else the Batfamily needs. Red Robin: Tim Drake is able to build an underground garage, gym, small lab, and workshop for experimenting and making new tech and first aid/medical room beneath the old theater he renovated to live in. Fabian Nicieza and Marcus To stated the only reason it was so elaborate is that the fast-approaching reboot meant they'd never have to try and justify why he could get away with so much construction without blowing his secret ID in-story. In The Attack of the Annihilator, Supergirl builds a whole underground base for Batgirl beneath the streets of Gotham, containing a garage, an armory, a computer, and more. |
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Saints Row 2 features a base called The Pyramid hidden under a mountain. Amazingly, the company that built it was a clothing company in the first game set five years earlier. The Saints themselves have their headquarters in an abandoned hotel that collapsed below street level after an earthquake many years previously. Eventually, it is renovated into a sumptuous, neon-lit, subterranean nightclub called "Purgatory." | |
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Perry the Platypus has one underneath Phineas and Ferb's house, and the rest of the OWCA base seems to run beneath all of the Tri-State areas. All of it. | |
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The Andromeda Strain: Team Wildfire assembles in a high-tech, underground facility to identify and defeat the titular plague before it is too late, and it is located underground in order for them to experiment on it safely without fear of it leaking out. | |
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Classic Traveller Adventure 3 Twilight's Peak. A large Ancient base on the planet Fulacin was hidden underground. It was captured by the Zhodani, who secretly controlled Fulacin, and used by them during the Fifth Frontier War. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: Khazad-dûm (Moria), the ancient dwarven country under the Misty Mountains. Dwarves in general prefer to live in these sorts of places. The Dead Men of Dunharrow lived in an elaborate system of caves in the mountains (when they were still alive, presumably) and were still there 3,000 years after they'd died. Hobbits, despite their general preference for underground living, don't have these. The closest they get is Great Smials, the underground mansion and library of much of the extended Took family. |
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In the Despicable Me films, Gru has a huge underground base below his house in the suburbs. It has multiple levels, with a central chamber that's tall enough to construct Gru's rocket for his mission to steal the Moon. | |
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Colossal Cave, including the maze of twisty little passages, all alike. | |
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The spinOff games Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness had the Cipher Lab, which was rather complex. The only thing is, there was one floor on the upper level that was actually important for getting through the base (the button needed to unlock the door was there), so it can't be considered a true base. | |
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THX 1138: Doesn't gets more elaborate than an entire underground city. | |
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Jewel of Darkness: Slade, as per canon, has a fondness for these, which Midnight seems to have picked up from him. | |
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The Pit and Cobra's Underwater Base from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. | |
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The Children of Húrin: Nargothrond, the underground fortress on the river Narog, destroyed by Glaurung the dragon. Even the Petty-dwarves have a hall under a large hill. |
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In Gotham City Garage, Supergirl, Nightwing and Catwoman break into a secret facility built by Lex Luthor underneath a mountain where he fabricates his army of robotic enforcers. | |
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The Thrawn Trilogy has the Mount Tantiss facility on Wayland, a massive complex where The Emperor keeps all the potentially useful bits of tech he's collected. | |
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The Bots Master: Being a Hero with Bad Publicity wanted as a terrorist, ZZ has to conceal his high-tech house in the underground bomb shelter his grandfather built, along with other efforts to prevent being located by the authorities. | |
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Malevolent features a few, including an entire underground city beneath a hotel. | |
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Team America, in Team America: World Police, had an elaborate base inside Mount Rushmore. | |
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In Teen Titans (2003), multiple villains have one of these over the course of the series, from Slade (at least twice), the HIVE Academy run by Brother Blood, and the final base of the Brotherhood of Evil. | |
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In Hogan's Heroes, the Allied POWs/spies have a network of tunnels under Stalag 13, to which Colonel Klink is consistently oblivious — not the sort of cramped tunnels POWs might dig with spoons, but what you would find in a long-worked industrial mine. How the tunnels had been dug undetected is never explained. Lampshaded in one episode in which the grounds have even more snow than usual, and the POWs have built a snowman. At one point, Col. Hogan indicates a particular patch of dirt and claims that it is "the only spot in camp that doesn't have a tunnel under it." | |
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One Dog Story is set in a huge underground base. The dog needs to explore it to regain his memories. | |
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Willy Wonka's crazy factory in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is mostly underground. The book contains an explicit explanation of this by Wonka, where he tells everyone that he decided to expand his factory by tunnelling downward and outward so that he could basically expand indefinitely. (Fridge thinking suggests that he wouldn't have to buy any more land or pay any rent to the property owners most of his factory is under, either; this would of course be all kinds of illegal in real life, but Wonka likely doesn't care.) | |
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Supervillain Doctor Impossible of Soon I Will Be Invincible has a base descending deep into the Earth: when he returns to it after his last defeat, the deeper levels are still intact. Also, his first base was dug down from the basement of an ordinary suburban house. | |
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In Death Note Equestria, there's an old earth pony bunker underneath Ponyville town park that L uses as a base for herself and, later, the Kira investigation team. | |
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Times Like This: It may technically be an Elaborate Underground Base since it's run by a multination secret-service consortium, but Paratopia is actually an underground Club Med-type getaway roughly the size of Delaware. | |
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: The Peter of Miles' universe has one underneath Aunt May's shed, accessed by an elevator, where he keeps alternate costumes, a computer, a lab, and diagrams of criminal connections. Peter B. is noticeably jealous of this, as his base back home just consists of the garden shed itself. | |
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Most of the Dharma stations in Lost are partially or completely underground, and are of varying complexity. The Pearl and the Orchid are entirely underground. The Orchid is quite elaborate and gives way to an even deeper cave containing the wheel which moves the island. | |
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Pokémon Red and Blue and Gold and Silver and their remakes have the Team Rocket bases, which is actually pretty elaborate considering they tend to build them under game corners and converted ninja bases. | |
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The manga and live-action versions of Sailor Moon have an underground base under the Local Hangout. | |
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Superman: During the Silver Age, Lex Luthor's "Luthor's Lairs" numbered in the hundreds, and could be found anywhere. At least one of them lasted until the 30th Century, showing up in a Legion of Super-Heroes story where the outlawed Legionnaires make use of it to not only get new outfits again but find out what caused the populace to turn against them. In Action Comics #271 Supergirl builds an underground base beneath the Arabian Desert, complete with guest and trophy rooms. In Strangers at the Heart's Core, the alien criminal trio known as "The Visitors" have their secret base hidden inside a mountain in the Catskill Mountains. |
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Global Justice headquarters, and several of Drakken's lairs, in Kim Possible, which also has a twist on the trope: Frugal Lucre's lair is in his mom's basement. Also, a few of the locations that Drakken raids are themselves underground bases. Case in point, the Cold Opening of one episode has him raiding a base built underneath a desert to steal some Hypno Trinkets, with a conspicuous cactus acting as a keycard-scanning device to grant entry. | |
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The Yeerk Pool in Animorphs spans an entire city. Yeerks need to return there every three days to exit their hosts and absorb the radiation they need to survive, and said hosts are caged in the meantime. There's also enough room for several spaceships and storage areas. | |
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Carmen Sandiego: Math Detective: The game opens with you infiltrating one used by VILE. | |
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In Pokémon Black and White, Team Plasma built N's Castle underneath the Pokémon League. (It still exists in the sequels, but it isn't a proper base anymore and has long since been abandoned.) | |
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Evil Genius is entirely about building one of these, the larger and more full of traps the better! Now you just have to watch out for those pesky law enforcement agents sneaking in to make trouble... | |
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Shadow Complex is a Metroidvania game that takes place in one gigantic base. | |
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The Dollhouse underneath Los Angeles is pretty much a self-sustaining spa eight stories down. | |
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In Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, the voodoo cartel has a temple doubling as their headquarters under Jackson Square. It's hinted to have been built in the 19th century when the cathedral had to be rebuilt from scratch. Still, hiding a secret side project that big would take a lot from Marie Laveau's followers and clients. | |
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Expanding on that, in Command & Conquer: Red Alert, there were the beautiful and famed internal missions. With computer consoles that actually did things. | |
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Deep 13 from Mystery Science Theater 3000, supposedly. It's all in the name. | |
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The sapient rats from Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH built themselves a Mouse World version of this trope under the farm. No actual Applied Phlebotinum is present by human standards, but by the standards of other animals, it's a regular Mad Scientist Laboratory. | |
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Invisible Invaders: The fallout shelter-slash-laboratory where Dr. Penner and the rest of the cast were placed to find a weakness to use against the titular aliens is as elaborate as Fifties B-Movie budget allows it to get, full of research equipment and with a large garage. | |
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Odd Squad: Most Odd Squad precincts' Headquarters, including Precinct 13579's, are situated deep underground. "Fistful of Fruit Juice" reveals that the idea to have underground Headquarters was the work of Big Red, a citizen of Oprah's hometown who wanted to thank her for retrieving his stolen mailboxes and decided to dig the tube system as a result. The Headquarters vary by precinct, but most of them have laboratories for the Scientists, North and South Control Rooms for the Security agents, and numerous rooms that range from practical (the Bedroom) to downright absurd (the Potato Room). The only aversion is the Arctic Odd Squad precinct's Headquarters, which is aboveground and is more low-budget than the Headquarters commonly seen, with a smaller lab area (which is useless considering the precinct doesn't use gadgets), a couple of tables for a makeshift Breakroom, and a small pool filled with plastic balls. | |
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Sonic the Comic: The Freedom Fighters used Kintobor's laboratory containing living space, storage areas, monitoring equipment (which left plenty of screens on which to play video games!), a hangar for the Freedom Fighters' biplane, and the mainframe of the Kintobor Computer itself. The Freedom Fighters also expanded the facility in light of their new status as guerillas, excavating further chambers for additional capacity. The most prominent of these was a prison block (less charitably, dungeon), and later Tekno's Workshop the home and workplace of Tekno the Canary. | |
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Command & Conquer: Nearly all of the Brotherhood of Nod's military facilities have some kind of extensive underground component. For example, the Hand of Nod has a massive training and fitness area, as well as a mock-up forest environment for combat practice, and an interrogation cellar. Expanding on that, in Command & Conquer: Red Alert, there were the beautiful and famed internal missions. With computer consoles that actually did things. The Twisted Insurrection mod for Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun also features several missions taking place in underground facilities. |
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Thunderbirds of course had the Thunderbird hangars beneath Tracy Island. | |
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Screamers: The Hunting. The eponymous Killer Robots are made in automated factories beneath the surface. The characters have an Oh, Crap! reaction when they enter a shut-down factory and see just how big it is. Of course, someone inevitably does something stupid to cause it to power up again… | |
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The Elder Scrolls: In the backstory, the Dwemer combined this with Advanced Ancient Acropolis, building their complex and technologically advanced cities into the ground. Some, such as their strongholds around Red Mountain in Vvardenfell and Blackreach beneath Skyrim, are absolutely massive and extremely elaborate. Justified as they were known to use geothermal energy to power their cities, which also justifies their preserved states and Eternal Engines that are still running when visited in the games even though the Dwemer have been gone for thousands of years. (Along with their habit of bending the laws of physics and nature.) Morrowind has dozens of caves and grottos, some of which get quite elaborate, and are usually home to smugglers, bandits, or worse. Dunmer Ancestral Tombs and the aforementioned Dwemer ruins are also typically built into the ground. In Oblivion, you can get one for yourself via the Thieves Den DLC. It is pirate-themed and, once taken over, allows you to recruit pirates to give services (like skill-training and selling stuff like lockpicks) and go out stealing for your benefit. Skyrim continues the tradition of having countless smuggler/bandit/necromancer/etc. hideouts in the form of underground caves and ruins. Once again, many get extremely advanced. This is especially true of the old Nordic burials, which are complete underground ruins that can reach the size of full-blown cities. Additionally, the Dwemer ruins return in full force with plenty of great examples, many of which have been taken over by their former Slave Race, the Falmer. The Falmer are also shown to be capable of constructing elaborate networks of suspended bridges and platforms. |
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The Alchemists' Guild in A Song of Ice and Fire has an elaborate underground Guildhall composed of a labyrinth of tunnels, cells, halls, and warehouses filled with highly explosive wildfire. The place is designed to limit the damage should a cache of wildfire combust. | |
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The Observatory in Septimus Heap is heavily hinted at to be this. | |
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Pokémon: Pokémon Red and Blue and Gold and Silver and their remakes have the Team Rocket bases, which is actually pretty elaborate considering they tend to build them under game corners and converted ninja bases. The spinOff games Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness had the Cipher Lab, which was rather complex. The only thing is, there was one floor on the upper level that was actually important for getting through the base (the button needed to unlock the door was there), so it can't be considered a true base. As well as the first Pokémon Ranger, where the Go-Rock Squad's base is underground in a mountain. It continues in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire and Emerald, with the Team Aqua and Magma bases; in the former two, the antagonistic team's base is hidden in a seaside cave near Lilycove City, while in Emerald, Team Aqua takes the cave and Team Magma has a base inside the Hoenn region's active volcano, Mt. Chimney. In Pokémon Black and White, Team Plasma built N's Castle underneath the Pokémon League. (It still exists in the sequels, but it isn't a proper base anymore and has long since been abandoned.) Pokémon X and Y has one Team Flare base under Lysandre Cafe and one underground at Geosenge Town. |
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The Ultra Garrison base in Ultraseven is located 18 stories down. This is Played for Drama in "Challenge at -140 Degrees" when a power outage and a Cold Snap caused by aliens threatened to kill a crew of 300 people inside while The Hero is stranded outside, unable to transform. | |
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The titular "Big Four" in the Hercule Poirot novel The Big Four. It's under a mountain in Italy, where the final confrontation between Hercule and (three of) the Big Four takes place. | |
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live in a hideout within the sewers of New York City. | |
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As well as the first Pokémon Ranger, where the Go-Rock Squad's base is underground in a mountain. | |
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Independence Day: Area 51 appears to be a small, unassuming Air Force base in the Nevada desert. 25 stories underground it is a sprawling research base containing a recovered UFO and the corpses of its crew. | |
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Skies of Arcadia has elaborate underground bases for both the heroes and the villains. | |
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In Unity, the facility used by the Anti-Villain League as a headquarters for their new superhero team is a giant underground bunker. | |
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The Witness: The high-tech complex inside the mountain. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: The Hobbit: The dwarf Kingdom Under-The-Mountain in the Lonely Mountain. The underground-dwelling Wood Elves of Mirkwood. The Lord of the Rings: Khazad-dûm (Moria), the ancient dwarven country under the Misty Mountains. Dwarves in general prefer to live in these sorts of places. The Dead Men of Dunharrow lived in an elaborate system of caves in the mountains (when they were still alive, presumably) and were still there 3,000 years after they'd died. Hobbits, despite their general preference for underground living, don't have these. The closest they get is Great Smials, the underground mansion and library of much of the extended Took family. The Silmarillion: Morgoth had Utumno, which amounted to an underground country, plus Angband (whose excavation produced enough refuse and slag to pile into an enormous mountain). Both were filled with vast mines, dungeons, torture chambers, and other... pleasant things. Elves vastly prefer to live above-ground, but oddly enough a few groups also built/excavated underground fortress-cities. The Children of Húrin: Nargothrond, the underground fortress on the river Narog, destroyed by Glaurung the dragon. Even the Petty-dwarves have a hall under a large hill. Beren and Lúthien features Menegroth, the Thousand Caves, an elaborate elven subterranean city built with Dwarven assistance. The Fall of Gondolin: The titular city hidden is a subversion: a shining city on a hill, but hidden away behind almost impenetrable mountains (possibly a big crater or caldera), so effectively underground as far as concealment and defense are concerned. |
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The Witch of Knightcharm: A Scholomance student named Lauren tells Emily that their evil Wizarding School is a facility in a big underground cave, as per the traditional myth. | |
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The Santa Clause franchise has the entire North Pole operation for Santa Claus under an ice pack in the North Pole, large enough to contain the entire Elf village to look like a surface settlement (in Canada, according to the third movie). It remains hidden because Santa and the elves have various strategies to hide it from the outside world. The rest of the world just sees the ice cap and preserves the Secret of Santa. | |
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Examples from The Calvinverse: Dr. Brainstorm of Calvin & Hobbes: The Series used to have one of these, and it gets reactivated by Holographic Retro in "Electric Invasion". The Lightning Man also has one in Las Vegas, and it's lampshaded heavily: Calvin's duplicate has one in the Recursive Fanfiction The Pez Dispenser and the Reign of Terror. |
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The Operations Center level in 3-D Ultra Pinball. | |
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The Secret World: The Illuminati operate from one of these in Brooklyn: known as the Labyrinth, it can only be entered via hidden entrances concealed in the sewers and cellars of the area and is heavily guarded against intrusions by non-Illuminati personnel. Among other things, it features testing chambers, a Mad Scientist Laboratory, a vast server farm, a colossal pyramid-shaped concourse, and a lot of areas that are officially off-limits to the player — unless you've made a huge mistake. The Morninglight have a "clubhouse" hidden under the Tokyo docks, intended to lure in the best and the brightest of potential recruits. Initially, it appears to only consist of an underground social club, with a bar, video arcade, swimming pool, shooting range, and gym... but for those who've been earmarked for greater things by the Morninglight higher-ups, a chip-activated door reveals the complex also features a massive stadium-sized temple, complete with marble floors, sculpted columns, a colossal domed ceiling, and artworks. Plus, it's also got a cafeteria and offices for the Morninglight missionaries. Of course, by the time you get there, the place has been overtaken by the Filth, and the members have either been infected, killed, or forced to flee. As if it wasn't enough to own an Evil Tower of Ominousness big enough to give the Burj Khalifa an inferiority complex, the Orochi Group have a gargantuan factory hidden beneath their Tower headquarters. Known only as the Manufactory, this area — visited only as a dungeon mission — appears to be the size of a small city, and can easily churn out enough drones, tanks, and Humongous Mecha to clog the streets of Tokyo if need be. |
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The Mysterious Island: The castaways build one by draining a set of caverns formed by an underground stream, which is later very useful when the island is invaded by pirates. Don't ask how the caverns have level floors or were eroded through otherwise unbroken granite. | |
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Danger Mouse lives in an underground base in a postbox on Baker Street in London, the same road as Sherlock Holmes. | |
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The whole of Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter takes place in a geofront-like super cave. | |
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In Secret Headquarters, such a location is literally the title. Specifically, it's the Guard's secret hideout, where he keeps all his gadgets and the Source. | |
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Dr. No has an elaborate nuclear facility dug into the bedrock underneath Crab Key. | |
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Spider-Man: During the HYDRA arc of JMS's run on Spider-Man, in issue #522, after finding the secret Hydra base, Peter wonders how Hydra can build one of these in New York while it's taken the city three extra months to finish a subway extension. | |
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Invader Zim operates out of a massive network of chamber pods and tunnels buried beneath his house. Among other things, he has a hangar bay for his spaceship, several labs, and an observatory. | |
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The Calvarians of The Reynard Cycle build entire cities underground due to the harsh weather of their homeland. | |
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Morrowind has dozens of caves and grottos, some of which get quite elaborate, and are usually home to smugglers, bandits, or worse. Dunmer Ancestral Tombs and the aforementioned Dwemer ruins are also typically built into the ground. | |
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Blofeld's hollowed-out volcano complex in You Only Live Twice is a classic example, as is Drax's Amazon launch facility in Moonraker. | |
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Beren and Lúthien features Menegroth, the Thousand Caves, an elaborate elven subterranean city built with Dwarven assistance. | |
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The government's Daemon task force base is largely underground. The trope is subverted (in a moment that is simultaneously hilarious and horrifying) in that the Daemon's operatives know exactly where the base is — in their Augmented Reality goggles there is a huge neon sign floating above it saying "Super Secret Daemon Task Force Headquarters" — and simply allow it to continue operating because it poses no threat to them. | |
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Hollow Man has a secret underground lab accessible by a single secure elevator, which Sebastian uses to trap his coworkers. | |
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Stranger Things: In Season 3, the Soviets infiltrate Hawkins by means of the Starcourt Mall, beneath which is revealed to be a massive laboratory complex wherein they're trying to open a Gate to the Upside Down. | |
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Young Justice (2010): The Team uses Mount Justice, which was the former underground base of the Justice League until it was exposed to the rest of the world. | |
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Dr. Kananga from Live and Let Die has an underground base near one of his poppy fields in San Monique for processing the poppies' morphine into heroin. | |
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Super Sentai used this in multiple series. Zyuranger, Ohranger and Go-Busters are prominent examples. The Go-Busters base has tunnels that extend to various areas of the city, similar to an anthill, and the Zyurangers' base (located beneath an apartment building) has portals to other dimensions. | |
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution features several underground bases — a FEMA facility, the Harvesters' hideout, and Panchaea, to name a few. | |
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Undercover Brother: The BROTHERHOOD has an extensive base located beneath a barbershop. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, both the heroes and the villains have elaborate bases: The Peace Sentinels had an AI Weapon assembly plant situated within a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant within Irazu's crater, an AI programming lab constructed either within an unknown ruin or an AI lab disguised as a ruin (Paz's description of the plant makes the ruin's exact origin a bit ambiguous), and an AI Weapons forwarding/Peace Walker construction base built within a gold quarry. In addition, the FSLN / KGB's drug facilities were also disguised as Banana and Coffee processing factories, and the Militaires Sans Frontieres also utilized an elaborate base in the form of an off-shore OTEC research facility. | |
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Syndrome has an absolutely awesome underground base in The Incredibles, complete with the '50s-'60s Tiki/Googie/Art Deco look. Eggshell people-movers, yeah! Don't forget, it was built inside an active volcano. | |
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Vlad built himself one in Danny Phantom by the beginning of Season 3. Through an alternate universe, the underground base was a Foreshadowing element in a previous episode. Too bad he didn't find the time to put it to good use. | |
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Underground Laborotories and Subterranian Complexes in Clicking Bad. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 gives us the planet of Calth in the Ultramar sector, where there are bases, cities, and agricultural communities built up in the planet's massive cavern system because the sun is deadly. Necron tomb complexes also qualify. | |
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British puppet character Roland Rat was originally supposed to live in the sewers beneath King's Cross railway station. In Roland Rat: The Series this suddenly became "the Ratcave"; an Elaborate Underground Base containing living quarters, a talk show studio, and a reception area, and accessed from a hidden lift in a workman's shelter outside the station. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, The Nest is the underground remains of the lab where Grace and her "brothers" were created which served as a base for Damien. | |
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Madan Senki Ryukendo has such a base hidden beneath a police station, accessed by praying to the elevator (really). It also serves as a Haunted Headquarters. | |
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In Hitman (2016), Silvio Caruso has an entire laboratory filled with scientists and guards in a cave underneath his estate. It's justified as being built by the company he's working for since he's an agoraphobe who hates traveling. | |
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Scooby Apocalypse has the Complex, the massive underground lab facility in Nevada where Shaggy and Velma work at the start of the series. | |
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The dwarves of Warhammer live in huge underground cities, following the example set by J. R. R. Tolkien. And the Skaven live below those in big cities and tunnels that span every continent. | |
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Team Fortress 2 has many maps with partial subterranean base setups (most notably, the basements of 2Fort) and the occasional map which takes place entirely underground, such as Junction and Nucleus (despite the latter's open-air midpoint, implied to be the mouth of a dormant volcano). | |
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Random Assault: The Random Assault headquarters, which is an underground skyscraper mansion consisting of many rooms made from all sorts of things, even garbage. The facade above ground is an old, abandoned Circuit City building with the RA logo on the side, as Circuit City buildings are red cubes, very much like the show's logo. Often, guests will be brought to the mansion with a bag over their head so they can't find their way back. The hosts don't live there, either. They use a series of rifts to travel to the mansion from their respective living places around the world. | |
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You can build these in Minecraft. The biggest typically have some or all of the following: entrance, underground railway tunnel, security system, security doors, central hub room, end portal, nether portal, brewery, massive automatic crop farms, automatic animal farms, enchanting room, super-smelter, armory, cinema, bedroom, garage, slime-block tank, missile silo. | |
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Undead Unluck: The Union's headquarters are located deep underground beneath Stonehenge. | |
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In Hellboy: The headquarters for the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense is located underneath a nondescript government building. Rasputin has an underground lair located under his mausoleum in Moscow |
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In the ninth episode of Strike Back: Project Dawn, Scott and Stonebridge find their way into a system of Cold War-era underground bunkers, which the Big Bad Latif was using as his base. Among the amenities are various storage, manufacturing and testing facilities for Weapons of Mass Destruction, which Latif had used in the development of his VX distribution system. A number of corridors are shown that could fit a tractor-trailer, and satellite scans indicate that the system is about 50 kilometers across and forms a five-point star. | |
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Red Robin: Tim Drake is able to build an underground garage, gym, small lab, and workshop for experimenting and making new tech and first aid/medical room beneath the old theater he renovated to live in. Fabian Nicieza and Marcus To stated the only reason it was so elaborate is that the fast-approaching reboot meant they'd never have to try and justify why he could get away with so much construction without blowing his secret ID in-story. | |
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Final Fantasy V had the Catapult, an underground/underwater base of Lost Technology. Among other things, it features an airship docking bay, a teleporter, and a ship-sized elevator to the sea surface. And the icing on the cake? It's yours now. | |
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The Temple of the Cardinal Witches from Emerald City. The visible part looks like a fairly modest chapel, but beneath it, there is a truly massive chamber, hundreds of times larger, where the spells of all the deceased witches are kept in jars. In "No Place Like Home", Dorothy either destroys or damages it heavily with the stone giant's sword in order to stop Glinda and her witches. | |
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SHADO Headquarters in UFO (1970) is located beneath a film studio. Think about it... | |
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Doctor Who: The Silurians are fond of these. As Ultraterrestrials, they spend long periods hibernating in them. "The Sun Makers" was filmed in the real-life deep air raid shelters of London. "Dalek" features the secret bunker of billionaire Henry van Statten, located in Utah. It houses his secret museum of alien artifacts, including one live specimen. Take another look at the title of this episode and make a wild guess what the "Metaltron" is. "The Christmas Invasion" reveals that UNIT has a massive subterranean base underneath the Tower of London, of all places, its excavations and comings and goings seemingly unnoticed by the attraction's thousands of visitors. In "The Runaway Bride", the Doctor finds an elaborate ex-Torchwood One research facility beneath the Thames River in London. |
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The secret headquarters of the Men in Black are located several stories beneath Manhattan... accessible by the entrance to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. | |
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Child of the Storm: HYDRA probably had many, but after Operation Overlord and their being forced to retreat to one last base aside from the section of HYDRA within SHIELD, they might have one of these — it's in London, but London's a very big place and no one's actually sure if it's underground. Gravemoss used to have a comfortable lair under the Paris catacombs, but he was forced to vacate it after SHIELD tracked him down and Harry Dresden blew a very large hole in the catacombs and the street above. Now he's living in the basement of HYDRA's last base, which may count if you squint at it a bit. It's implied that the rebuilt MI13's new headquarters is operating out of the abandoned portions of the London Underground network. |
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Kuri Kinton: The game is set inside a huge underground base full of enemies and bosses. The Player Character goes there to rescue a senior policeman and his daughter. | |
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Xenon Base in Blake's 7 was an Elaborate Underground Base owned by a Villain of the Week. Upon his death, the heroes moved in and made it their base of operations for the remainder of the season. When you are a marginal band of outlaws facing a star-spanning empire, there is significant psychological comfort of being hidden under megatons of rock. | |
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Deus Ex concludes in Bob Page's base beneath Area 51. On the good side, Tracer Tong has a sophisticated laboratory several floors beneath his Triad's compound. | |
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Person of Interest: From the fourth season onwards, Team Machine uses an abandoned subway station as headquarters. | |
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In the sequel to Outpost, another military team returns to the secret Nazi bunker to find the Device missing. They can't figure out where it's been moved, until they find a hidden door to an elevator, leading down to a massive underground complex. | |
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In Metal Gear and Metal Gear Solid, the titular Humongous Mecha is hidden in one of these. | |
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JAG: In "Sightings", the abandoned military airfield was built with underground aircraft shelters, being used by drug runners to conceal their operation. | |
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The Avengers (1998). Sir August's underground base is on an island in the Thames in London. | |
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Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake has a variation: Although Metal Gear D is fought in the third (sixth?) basement floor of the main building of Zanzibar Land's detention center, it is not specified if it was actually the main hangar for Metal Gear D. | |
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The Wildfire facility in The Andromeda Strain. The only entrance is the elevator shed, and the facility topside is what it's disguised as — a wheat modifying facility. | |
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In Resident Evil: Extinction Umbrella has moved all their staff to secured underground facilities due to the Zombie Apocalypse. | |
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The main characters of The Pocalypse have a base placed under a supermarket in a city. | |
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The Batcaves in Young Justice: Darkness Falls. Apparently, there were several created, and the team gets one of them after Darkseid's first major attack. | |
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Jonny Quest: "The Dreadful Doll" has arms and a submarine base being built under the surface of the island. "Pirates From Below" has a base in an underwater cave system equipped with submarines and hovercraft. "The Fraudulent Volcano" has a large base built under/in the title volcano. |
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Secret Magic Control Agency: The SMCA's headquarters are located in a massive cavern beneath a hair salon. Bridges connect different areas and there are hot air balloons seen inside. | |
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The Hunger Games gives us District 13, which is extraordinarily large. | |
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In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the underground complex that houses the computer holding the digitized mind of Dr. Emil Zola is located deep below what looks like an ammunition bunker on an abandoned US Army base. | |
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The second level of Halo 3 takes place in Crow's Nest, an "old 20th century" military base inside Mount Kilimanjaro, which has been re-activated after the Covenant took over Earth. This base comes fully equipped with a hangar bay, hidden landing pads, big imposing steel doors, and a war room, complete with big screens and Bridge Bunnies. | |
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004). Mad Scientist Dr Totenkopf has a base populated by hordes of flying killer robots that is large enough to contain a brobdingnagian Raygun Gothic rocketship. | |
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The Black Mesa Research Facility is one of the biggest and most elaborate underground bases ever shown in detail. It is a repurposed top-secret rocket research facility from the Cold War that has been upgraded to house a massive Teleportation and Inter-Dimensional Travel research project. It has its own hydroelectric power plant, nuclear waste disposal facilities, and a dormitory complex big enough to allow at least the top researchers to have their families living with them, which also requires multiple security checks for all personnel when moving between sectors. Which is usually done by using the local monorail tram network. Some of the largest and longest levels of the game and its add-ons take place in the Freight Yard, which consists of a large number of warehouses and its own container terminal to unload the 40-feet-containers that arrive by train. The fact that outdoor environments look just awful in the old Quake-derived engine may have had more than a bit to do with the base ending up mostly underground. The few outdoor levels that exist consist entirely of brown rocks and concrete walls. | |
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Tunic: The Rooted Ziggurat is actually an elevator to a huge power node factory, with walkways over seemingly bottomless pits and a truly enormous chamber in containing hundreds upon hundreds of power nodes as far as the eye can see (and far, far below). | |
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Kingsman: The Secret Service The climax takes place in a bunker Valentine has for guarding himself and his guests from the mass genocide he planned. The Kingsmen themselves also have a large base and training facility hidden beneath a mansion, complete with a secret monorail and jet hangar. |
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In Mega Man Zero, La Résistance's base is located underneath an abandoned city. While the "base" itself is run-down, there is still some machinery functioning there, like an elevator and a teleporter. The base, after numerous attacks, was completely abandoned by the group in favor of a more elaborate, newer base (although it's not underground anymore). | |
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Chrysalis Base from Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars is a giant underground research facility with labs, a nuclear reactor, an underground garden, and even several classrooms. Great lengths have been taken to make it aesthetically pleasing and a nice place to live for the scientists there. | |
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The Turing Test: Most of the game takes place in an underground complex located below the icy surface of Europa. | |
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In the Rivers of London novel The Hanging Tree, Peter notes that, since rich people don't understand why living in a city with millions of other people means you can't have a huge country house, the posh terraces in Kensington tend to have vast basements and cellars containing swimming pools and bowling alleys, which means that a) most rich people are a volcano away from being supervillains and b) watching the uniforms trying to secure the building gives the impression of a Clown-Car Base. (This is Truth in Television, to the extent that some streets in Kensington actually have a serious subsidence problem.) | |
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The Road Rovers had an Elaborate Underground Base. It was strongly implied in at least one episode that it was the remains of a lab in Socorro, NM, that the Rovers' mentor ran. | |
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Road Rovers | hasFeature |
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District 13 in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, or rather what's left of it as this is how its citizens managed to survive in the first place while topside was blown up. It's implied to have undergone some upgrades as well given that even the Capitol's bombing run does only superficial damage and no casualties. | |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 | hasFeature |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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The Aperture Science Enrichment Center in Portal is located, per the supplementary material, in an abandoned salt mine in Cleveland, Ohio. Portal 2 bizarrely retcons this to be in Upper Michigan, but also takes the player on an exploration of the true vastness of the place. Elaborate barely even begins to describe it: some parts of the game take place as much as four kilometers underground, and the player is treated to vistas of immense facilities stretching as far as the eye can see, constructed over a period of at least fifty years. | |
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The British army in Resistance: Fall of Man has two underground bases from which they were staging their attacks on the Chimera. Extra content reveals that they had a third underground base, but it was flooded by the Chimera before the start of the game. | |
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David Wingrove's Chung Kuo has a series of underground bases in the Alps, the only part of Europe that is not occupied by the City or its plantations | |
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Hedgequarters from The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog is a benign junior version of this trope. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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The Fall of Gondolin: The titular city hidden is a subversion: a shining city on a hill, but hidden away behind almost impenetrable mountains (possibly a big crater or caldera), so effectively underground as far as concealment and defense are concerned. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, those who slither in the dark/the Agarthans have one of these, which explains how they've avoided detection for so long. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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The Avengers (1960s): The episode "The Living Dead" has a huge underground city built by the villains for the purpose of raising an army. | |
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Dr. Brainstorm of Calvin & Hobbes: The Series used to have one of these, and it gets reactivated by Holographic Retro in "Electric Invasion". | |
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Season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured a military organization called The Initiative with a massive high-tech base underneath Sunnydale, where they held demons captive and used them for medical experiments. The Master's lair in Season 1 also fits the trope. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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The fan mod The XCOM Files has the same underground and underwater bases as UFO Defense and Terror From the Deep, but adds more. Many of new enemies have similar bases, which serve as the final dungeons for their respective arcs. This includes Black Lotus, Red Dawn, post-cult Dagon, Syndicate. Undead and Shogg cave dwellings also qualify. Ditto less elaborate Cyberweb sewer hideouts. | |
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The titular protagonist of the comic book Diabolik has a lot of these, each containing gadgets, laboratories, holding cells, spare Jaguar E-Types and loot while he and his lover Eva live in the luxury homes built right on top of them. | |
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The Genii of Stargate Atlantis act like Space Amish while actually living in these. Their true nature gradually becomes one of the worst-kept secrets in the galaxy. | |
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X-COM: All of the X-Com bases (situated and built, room by room, by the player) were only accessible through the main elevator and the vehicle hangars, which affected gameplay if the aliens located said bases and attacked them with a relatively manageable number of alien foot-soldiers. Same goes for Alien Bases, including the main base at Cydonia. Crosses over with Underwater Base in the case of the Colonies and Artifact Sites from Terror From the Deep, which are underground installations built on the ocean floor. The Firaxis remake enhances base-building by allowing you to determine where to dig, and which facilities to place on which level (the original only had one level). It's all the more important here because you're limited to one base, as opposed to the original, where you could have a base on each continent if you wished. The fan mod The XCOM Files has the same underground and underwater bases as UFO Defense and Terror From the Deep, but adds more. Many of new enemies have similar bases, which serve as the final dungeons for their respective arcs. This includes Black Lotus, Red Dawn, post-cult Dagon, Syndicate. Undead and Shogg cave dwellings also qualify. Ditto less elaborate Cyberweb sewer hideouts. |
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The Zork games take this to an extreme, what with most of the games taking place mostly in the Great Underground Empire. | |
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The Guild is a massive developed cave system controlled by Class SSS in Angel Beats!. | |
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Jaburo of Mobile Suit Gundam. As the Earth Federation's military headquarters, it is enormous, having easily enough space for a small city, multiple war factories, and docking space and retractable launch pads for at least a dozen spaceships at once. It’s located beneath the South American jungle, buried so deep as to be impregnable to nuclear weapons, which is why the Principality of Zeon attempted to drop a space colony on it instead. Granted that it's only seen in a few episodes of the original series before being blown away in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, but it does get additional screentime in Stardust Memory and MS IGLOO. Its long-forgotten ruins also make a cameo in the finale of Reconquista in G. | |
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Gears of War features the hollow, which is home to the entire Locust civilization. It runs all throughout the planet and there are areas inside of it big enough to have skyscrapers and air patrols. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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The original headquarters of the Justice League was an elaborate base built into the base of a mountain. Several other teams have taken this base out of mothballs, such as Young Justice. | |
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Logan's Run: The city's underground, anything from ruins to a gigantic freezer full of the corpses of the Runners that made it out of the city. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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In Strangers at the Heart's Core, the alien criminal trio known as "The Visitors" have their secret base hidden inside a mountain in the Catskill Mountains. | |
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Deus Ex Universe: Deus Ex concludes in Bob Page's base beneath Area 51. On the good side, Tracer Tong has a sophisticated laboratory several floors beneath his Triad's compound. UNATCO Headquarters is itself underground, with an MJ-12 base beneath it. Yes, the game has an example of an underground base beneath another underground base. UNATCO Headquarters makes a return appearance in Deus Ex: Invisible War. Deus Ex: Human Revolution features several underground bases — a FEMA facility, the Harvesters' hideout, and Panchaea, to name a few. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided continues the trend, with Task Force 29's Prague headquarters hidden in a cavern beneath a front company's office, accessible only by a long elevator ride. Downplayed by the GARM facility, which is mostly hidden inside a mountain in the Swiss Alps, but not completely underground. |
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Most Space Pirate bases in Metroid games tend to be these. Probably because both their homeworld and their main base at Zebes are plagued by near-constant acid rain. | |
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It continues in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire and Emerald, with the Team Aqua and Magma bases; in the former two, the antagonistic team's base is hidden in a seaside cave near Lilycove City, while in Emerald, Team Aqua takes the cave and Team Magma has a base inside the Hoenn region's active volcano, Mt. Chimney. | |
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In Star Trek: The Genesis Wave, the Lomarians (Plant Aliens responsible for unleashing the titular weapon) have one of these. It's justified in that the ecological devastation on Lomar has forced their people underground. | |
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Star Trek: The Genesis Wave | hasFeature |
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In Shatter Me Castle creates Omega Point, an underground city where people with gifts gather to plan a rebellion against the oppressive Reestablishment. | |
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Aldnoah.Zero: United Earth Headquarters is a bunker located in southern Siberia that is 600 meters below ground and built to survive a nuclear explosion. Considering the hammer and sickle displayed on one of the hangar doors, it's possible this bunker may be a Soviet holdover from the Cold War. Or, considering the Alternate History, the Soviet Union might not have collapsed and is still the ruling government of Russia. It's large enough to take in thousands of refugees, and transport planes and helicopters have no trouble maneuvering inside. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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In Rimworld, for the longest time the most dominant base-building strategy was to dig one into the side of a mountain. Not the most flexible or elegant approach by any means, but by far the least resource intensive and the easiest to defend. Insect hive infestations and Cabin Fever were introduced in a later version to try to remedy things and make mountain bases less of a sure bet. | |
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Tales of the Otherverse: After leaving the Otherverse and settling in another reality, Kara and Rogue set up their new Fortress in Colorado. Above the ground, it looks like a quaint, lonely one-story ranch sitting in the middle of the wood... and above a vast network of caverns housing a grand complex built in the rock. | |
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Transformers: Cybertron has the Autobots' base. Mineral deposits prevent sensor scans of any kind from detecting that the terrain has been hollowed, but the equipment had to be painted with a stealth coating to prevent the Decepticons from detecting it. | |
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Transformers: Cybertron | hasFeature |
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The Matrix: Zion is the last bastion of the humans that weren't born in the Matrix, and is located several hundreds of meters underground. It is not only a highly-armored base but also a full-blown city. | |
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Sgt. Frog has the home base of the Keroro Platoon which is built under the Hinata household, much to the chagrin of Natsumi and Fuyuki. | |
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Mrs. Smith's Spy School For Girls: Double Cross: The Ghost has a base located under an old abandoned plantation in Hawaii. It's built into a network of underground lava tubes. | |
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Pokémon X and Y has one Team Flare base under Lysandre Cafe and one underground at Geosenge Town. | |
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In the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers pilot, Aldrin Klordane had turned a cave conveniently placed underneath the Federal Gold Reserve into his own Elaborate Underground Base which not only has a diagonal monorail but even a real railroad connection. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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City of Heroes: The game features this to an almost ridiculous extent. The Cobra-wannabe Council (formerly the Fifth Column) generally base themselves in converted caves, as do the Rikti, and even the evil cultist Circle of Thorns have their ancient underground city. The Faultline zone (former Scrappy Level Rescued from the Scrappy Heap) is said to be filled with former superhero bases that were abandoned in the earthquake that gave the zone its name, and people are trying to dig them up... Not to mention the Shadow Shard — an alternate dimension seemingly comprised entirely of floating islands in the sky, with caves and bases dug into them anyway. If the game world had a consistent geometry, it'd likely resemble a very big ant hill with more empty space than rock. |
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In Action Comics #271 Supergirl builds an underground base beneath the Arabian Desert, complete with guest and trophy rooms. | |
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Great Mazinger: Mykene were a civilization that had lived underground for millennia, so their entire empire — an intricate network of caves and caverns — was an Elaborate Underground Base. | |
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Great Mazinger | hasFeature |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fbc44b8a | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fc0e7530 | type |
Elaborate Underground Base | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fc0e7530 | comment |
Dexter's Laboratory, though how underground the lab is isn't really gone into, mostly due to physical impossibility. | |
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1.0 | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fc0e7530 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dexter's Laboratory | hasFeature |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fc0e7530 | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fd0b756 | type |
Elaborate Underground Base | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fd0b756 | comment |
The Hobbit: The dwarf Kingdom Under-The-Mountain in the Lonely Mountain. The underground-dwelling Wood Elves of Mirkwood. |
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Elaborate Underground Base / int_fd0b756 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fd0b756 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Hobbit | hasFeature |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fd0b756 | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fd7416bd | type |
Elaborate Underground Base | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fd7416bd | comment |
In The Institute Saga, Superman relocates the Fortress of Solitude to underneath the Xavier Institute. | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fd7416bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fd7416bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Institute Saga (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fd7416bd | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fdf7a632 | type |
Elaborate Underground Base | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fdf7a632 | comment |
The entire raison d'etre of House Telamones, Nosferatu bloodline from Vampire: The Requiem. They build elaborate underground bases to suit the tastes of their undead betters, but woe to the Would-Be Vampire Overlord who accepts the bid from a competing firm... it's mentioned in the text that House Telamones has blown up an entire city block of Seattle rather than lose a bid. | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fdf7a632 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fdf7a632 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Vampire: The Requiem (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fdf7a632 |
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