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To the Batpole!

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80 feature instances
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To the Batpole!	comment	The heroes can't just walk through a door and leap into action — they have to use a secret and special route to reach their Elaborate Underground Base or Cool Garage. Extra points if the route somehow engages a Transformation Sequence (Technology Porn optional), or at least changes their clothes for no apparent reason. Might involve something akin to a Rollercoaster Mine in some extreme cases. Naturally, this is an opportunity for Stock Footage, especially in animated or puppet productions. A close cousin to the Super Multi-Purpose Room. Fridge Logic might start to set in if the super-cool sequence takes so long, the threat they were leaping into action to prevent would have already long been either committed or neutralized by the time they're done actually sliding down the Batpole. May overlap with Red Alert, especially in the emergency response team/firefighter variant. The process may include a Dress-O-Matic. Compare and contrast Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress, when falling through clotheslines gets you dressed in mismatched clothes. Not to be confused with Hyperaffixation (although examples sometimes overlap). Examples
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To the Batpole! / int_12300cc3	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_12300cc3	comment	Averted in Watchmen. The Nite Owl's nest is through an ordinary locked door in his kitchen and down a short flight of stairs.
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To the Batpole! / int_16712475	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_16712475	comment	The Jetsons had numerous variations, mainly involving a just-barely-awake George going through a carwash-like assembly line of automated morning hygiene and dressing, often with the wrong buttons pushed for comedic results, such as winding up in his wife's makeup.
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To the Batpole! / int_1aa9d9f4	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	The Batpole, naturally, from Batman (1966). It was never adequately explained how Bruce and Dick changed into Batman and Robin as they slid down that pole, though at least once, we see that there is an "automatic costume change" switch on the wall behind the poles, which can be thrown as one descends to allow Bruce and Dick to enter the batcave uncostumed. The switch to the Batpole doors was hidden inside a bust of Shakespeare in Bruce's study. But why this bit of secrecy when the bust sat next to the clearly visible Batphone? As for Alfred, he uses a service elevator instead.
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To the Batpole! / int_260d57b3	comment	Quite late on in the Excel♡Saga manga, when Watanabe, Sumiyoshi, Matsuya, and Iwata first change into their costumes, they find out about by being dropped through the floor. Later, when Sumiyoshi comes in late for a meeting, he finds the others have already been dropped, and has to lower himself down his own chute, noting "Ah'm gonna break me neck doing this..."
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To the Batpole! / int_261c8d3f	comment	Of course The Simpsons have done their own spoof. In one episode, while house-sitting for Mr. Burns, Homer comes across a large device designed to dress you in formal wear. He gets in, there's a lot of painful sounds and he comes out with all the formal clothes ripped, battered, or misplaced. "Now I'm ready to hit the town." And in "Last Exit to Springfield," Burns and Smithers go through a ludicrously elaborate sequence to get to the master control room for the power plant... which is also accessible by a broken screen door through which a dog has wandered in. "Oh, for god's sake!" In the Couch Gag for "Today, I Am a Clown", the Simpson family arrives in the living room, where a series of fireman's poles, one for each family member has taken the place of the couch, with their name above. They go down their poles and land on the couch in a superhero lair, all dressed as Batman-style superheroes (Bart is dressed as Robin).
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To the Batpole! / int_28f8508d	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_28f8508d	comment	The Samurai Pizza Cats had a bank of ovens that slid up to reveal three chutes, down which Speedy, Polly, and Guido (Yattaro, Pururun, and Skashee in the original Japanese version) would slide down, changing into their battle armor along the way before being shipped up to the (hilariously badly-concealed) giant cannon in the building that would launch them into battle. It's far more hilarious in the aforementioned original version, Kyatto Ninden Teyandee, in which the "Nyankee" (as they're called in this version)note "Pizza Cats" was originally only the name of the restaurant where they work at. were ninja being fired out of a badly-concealed giant cannon. The Faceless Masses were none the wiser.
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To the Batpole! / int_2a328bfd	comment	Sakura Wars: The Movie shows the members of the Hanagumi flinging themselves into individual chutes that not only deposit them in front of their mechs but also change them into their duty uniforms. Just for added style points, the chutes are hidden behind formal portraits of the pilots.
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To the Batpole! / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Ralph Wolf had an Acme-engineered device that propelled him out of bed, through a shower, feeding him breakfast, and out the door, to clock into work just ahead of Sam Sheepdog.
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To the Batpole! / int_2c1809f5	comment	The Totally Spies! are warped to WOOHP (or as they call it, "WOOHP'd") by a trapdoor (or some other hidden entrance) magically appearing wherever they are.
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To the Batpole! / int_3095b3a0	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_3095b3a0	comment	This is parodied in Cyanide and Happiness when a superhero hears a woman being mugged cry for help, he runs to a phone booth, which drops him into a cave, he then gets into his car, drives three feet, then jumps out in order to fly to the crime. In the time it took him to do this, the woman was raped and murdered.
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To the Batpole! / int_30d735ec	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_30d735ec	comment	Many superhero tropes are loving reproduced in Sky High (2005), including twin bat poles for the husband-and-wife superheroes Commander and Jetstream behind a secret panel in the den. When Commander takes his son into the secret lair for the first time, he has him use his mother's pole.
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To the Batpole! / int_341c02e9	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_341c02e9	comment	Batman Begins showed an old elevator hidden behind a bookcase that opened from playing a certain short tune on the nearby piano. The costume was in a wardrobe at the base of the elevator shaft.
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To the Batpole! / int_34a70b48	comment	In Batman Forever, there's an electromagnetic capsule that travels at hundreds of miles per hour down a tube leading to the Batcave from Bruce's office at Wayne Enterprises. The entrance to the staircase is also finally revealed — a rotating shelf inside the locked silver closet. Alfred still seems to arrive either before or at exactly the same time as Bruce, despite being in his 70s and Bruce having ridden a bullet tube down, and didn't even stop to get changed or anything.
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To the Batpole! / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck has a pair of secret door recliners in his living room for himself and Launchpad McQuack. The activation switch is a statue of Basil from The Great Mouse Detective.
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To the Batpole! / int_35c619e2	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_35c619e2	comment	Parodied in an issue of Green Arrow, where Connor tells a bored Ollie of a museum robbery:
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Green Arrow (Comic Book)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_35c619e2
To the Batpole! / int_362874e3	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_362874e3	comment	Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, whose fighter pilots' chairs rose through the deck of a flying aircraft carrier to enter their planes.
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To the Batpole! / int_36bf8f18	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_36bf8f18	comment	In A Close Shave, Wallace has a ludicrously complicated set of slides and machines to transport himself from his armchair to his motorbike and get dressed for work. After that, Gromit then simply walks into the garage through a door from the kitchen, rolling his eyes. It doesn't end there — Wallace even uses a mechanical foot to kick-start the motorbike. Also, the (fake) fish pond in the front yard flips over to let the bike drive over it, probably referencing the swimming pool that opens up to let Thunderbird 1 take off and land or the palm trees which lean sideways to provide clearance for Thunderbird 2's wings as it rolls to launch position.
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To the Batpole! / int_3e5afb68	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_3e5afb68	comment	Another sequence appears in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; this time Gromit is also involved.
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The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_3e5afb68
To the Batpole! / int_400469e	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_400469e	comment	In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin once tried to convince his mother to set out his clothes for the day and breakfast on the stairs so that he could be ready for school simply by falling down the stairs. He failed.
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To the Batpole! / int_41645a44	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_41645a44	comment	Space Cases uses this trope with Jump Tubes.
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To the Batpole! / int_42c17ca1	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_42c17ca1	comment	Power Rangers in Space has a row of Jump Tubes that the Rangers slide down, suiting them and either teleporting them to the battlefield or putting them on their hoverboards.
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To the Batpole! / int_43c21f1a	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_43c21f1a	comment	Thunderbirds Are Go launch sequences show the final stages of the automated suit-up (gloves, boots, etc.) but skip the part where the actual suit is put on.
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To the Batpole! / int_44127c7c	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers has been around long enough to have tried every superhero trope on for size, this one included: Power Rangers Zeo didn't do this with the rangers themselves (although there were a few times when they would descend in their chairs down a long track to be set down in their Zeo Zord cockpits); however, all of their humanoid Zords that season (the Super Zeo Zord, Red Battlezord, and Warrior Wheel,) all entered the battle by being shot out of a cannon. Power Rangers in Space has a row of Jump Tubes that the Rangers slide down, suiting them and either teleporting them to the battlefield or putting them on their hoverboards. These make a return in Power Rangers S.P.D., this time taking the team to their Humongous Mecha. No auto-suiting-up function, though. This one was carried over from the Japanese counterpart Dekaranger. In Power Rangers Mystic Force, trees act as batpoles as well as the Portal Network, suiting the Rangers up in their wizards' robes on the way if they're headed to the mystical dimension. We've also got the wall panels in the base that turn around a la the old revolving bookshelf trick. They grab their brooms from the wall, rotate, and are then seen leaving the base morphed and on their Mystic Racers (Flying Broomstick meets Star Wars hoverbike.) Power Rangers Operation Overdrive's got the standard poles leading from the mansion to the underground base. (And it seems to be a very, very long way down, going by establishment shots.) Suiting up on the way down is optional. Power Rangers Jungle Fury tried, possibly a little too hard, to keep to its jungle theme by having the rangers swing on vines through holes when exiting their base. Of course, this causes massive amounts of Fridge Logic, the most obvious being, how has anyone not noticed three huge holes in the side of a pizza parlour? (the second being why couldn't they just use the fire escape?) Because that wouldn't be nearly as cool. Oh, and just for fun, we never, ever see just where those holes come out.
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To the Batpole! / int_463cfe3a	comment	In most of the Star Fox games, the squad is usually seen running across a long hallway towards the launcher bay to board their Arwings. The animated short Star Fox Zero - The Battle Begins adds some jump chutes they slide down into the cockpits.
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To the Batpole! / int_4b790c79	comment	In the 2008 movie adaptation of Iron Man, Tony Stark suited up in his Cool Garage with the assistance of mechanized arms reminiscent of a car factory to put on each piece. Subverted later on, when the same mechanical arms find it extremely difficult to remove the now-battle-scarred and heavily damaged armor. Tony has it perfected by The Avengers with a device on the roof of Stark Tower that easily takes his suit off while he calmly strolls across it.
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To the Batpole! / int_54c943b6	comment	In Stingray (1964), a submarine whose crew enter by their base control-room chairs descending down a pole into the open top of the submarine.
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To the Batpole! / int_55c5a085	comment	Mazinger Z emerges from a hangar beneath a nearby swimming pool, Great Mazinger rises from the ocean in a waterspout, and UFO Robo Grendizer has its hangar hidden behind a dam. And Duke changes clothes as he is riding to the hangar! UFO Robo Grendizer also features the pilot's chair transferring from flying saucer to the Humongous Mecha it transports, with its weirdly arbitrary double half-spin. One episode hangs a lampshade by having the villains attack during the transfer sequence, recognizing it as a moment of weakness when Grendizer can't fight back.
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To the Batpole! / int_5db577ba	comment	The Dark Knight: The (presumably temporary) Batcave was accessed by... unlocking a storage container on a condemned piece of Wayne Enterprises property. To put it mildly, this is the least dramatic thing in the movie. Bruce has a hidden door in his penthouse that presumably leads to a sort of mini-Batcave where he keeps a spare costume. A pair of guests see him opening it and assume it's a secret panic room (and that he is a massive prick for locking the door right behind himself, leaving them in danger).
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To the Batpole! / int_62f94c6	comment	The Dark Knight Trilogy Batman Begins showed an old elevator hidden behind a bookcase that opened from playing a certain short tune on the nearby piano. The costume was in a wardrobe at the base of the elevator shaft. The Dark Knight: The (presumably temporary) Batcave was accessed by... unlocking a storage container on a condemned piece of Wayne Enterprises property. To put it mildly, this is the least dramatic thing in the movie. Bruce has a hidden door in his penthouse that presumably leads to a sort of mini-Batcave where he keeps a spare costume. A pair of guests see him opening it and assume it's a secret panic room (and that he is a massive prick for locking the door right behind himself, leaving them in danger).
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To the Batpole! / int_6ef57be4	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_6ef57be4	comment	Elite Beat Agents. Cool Ship. Star-shaped whirlpool in the effing ocean.
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Elite Beat Agents (Video Game)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_6ef57be4
To the Batpole! / int_7460586f	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_7460586f	comment	Archer: In The Man From Jupiter, Archer and Burt Reynolds have to pause a chase while they wait for the painfully slow elevator in Archer's building to reach the ground floor, leading Reynolds to make a suggestion...
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To the Batpole! / int_76feae04	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_76feae04	comment	In Power Rangers Mystic Force, trees act as batpoles as well as the Portal Network, suiting the Rangers up in their wizards' robes on the way if they're headed to the mystical dimension. We've also got the wall panels in the base that turn around a la the old revolving bookshelf trick. They grab their brooms from the wall, rotate, and are then seen leaving the base morphed and on their Mystic Racers (Flying Broomstick meets Star Wars hoverbike.)
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To the Batpole! / int_7aaf9e41	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_7aaf9e41	comment	The Batman comics usually go with the staircase, although there have been variants. The clock is also fairly consistent, with the combination needed to unlock usually being the exact time that Bruce's parents were shot. The current comic variant is a return to the '70s, namely a Batcave located underneath Wayne Enterprises. No indication yet of how it's accessed. A shout-out to the Batman TV series (see below): in the graphic novel Run Riddler Run, a group of commandos — whose leader is a fan of jazz music — gains access to their ready-room by a switch hidden in a bust of Charlie Parker. When Tim moves out and builds his own Elaborate Underground Base as Red Robin it's accessed through what looks like just another section of wall paneling in his loft which leads to a compact lift.
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Batman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_7aaf9e41
To the Batpole! / int_7c038c18	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb's Perry the Platypus has a different entrance to his lair every time. Some of them are really silly.
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To the Batpole! / int_7c038c18	featureConfidence	1.0
Phineas and Ferb	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_7c038c18
To the Batpole! / int_7d4d7d22	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_7d4d7d22	comment	The live-action Casper film has a variation of the Batpole. Casper's father (when he was still alive) equipped an armchair to take him down to his secret lair, along the way shaving him and brushing his teeth — he wasn't much of a morning person. Cat suggested that coffee would have been a simpler alternative.
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Casper	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_7d4d7d22
To the Batpole! / int_7d5e43b0	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_7d5e43b0	comment	The Goodies had their Quick-Change Cabinet, which they would walk through before setting out on the episode's mission, emerging immediately in an appropriate costume (beefeaters, giant mice, etc.)
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The Goodies	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_7d5e43b0
To the Batpole! / int_7e2d78bf	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_7e2d78bf	comment	An earlier example is established in The Wrong Trousers: Wallace apparently begins every day with his bed tilting up and dropping him into a trapdoor from his upstairs bedroom to a chair at the dining room table, with mechanical arms providing a costume change.
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The Wrong Trousers	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_7e2d78bf
To the Batpole! / int_8125b468	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_8125b468	comment	Batman Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie has a staircase (the entrance to which is not seen). Batman Returns has a chute disguised inside an iron maiden (although Alfred still takes the stairs). In Batman Forever, there's an electromagnetic capsule that travels at hundreds of miles per hour down a tube leading to the Batcave from Bruce's office at Wayne Enterprises. The entrance to the staircase is also finally revealed — a rotating shelf inside the locked silver closet. Alfred still seems to arrive either before or at exactly the same time as Bruce, despite being in his 70s and Bruce having ridden a bullet tube down, and didn't even stop to get changed or anything.
To the Batpole! / int_8125b468	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_8125b468	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Franchise)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_8125b468
To the Batpole! / int_81be0396	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_81be0396	comment	Dinosaur War Izenborg had a drawn-out sequence where the heroes would be lowered through chutes around their meeting table, down a series of tunnels, then more chutes into their team vehicle, without ever once getting up. Which was of course ruthlessly mocked by the Rifftrax crew during their viewing.
To the Batpole! / int_81be0396	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_81be0396	featureConfidence	1.0
Tsuburaya Dinosaur Trilogy	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_81be0396
To the Batpole! / int_90b916ba	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series has a more understated version: a grandfather clock that slides to one side, revealing a long, dark, winding, probably treacherous staircase leading into the Batcave.
To the Batpole! / int_90b916ba	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_90b916ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman: The Animated Series	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_90b916ba
To the Batpole! / int_967347ea	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_967347ea	comment	Revolutionary Girl Utena ritualizes almost to the point of fetish the Stock Footage of Utena entering the Secret Forest and making her way up to the dueling platform, with her school uniform (usually) transforming along the way.
To the Batpole! / int_967347ea	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_967347ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Revolutionary Girl Utena	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_967347ea
To the Batpole! / int_9688ee61	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_9688ee61	comment	Played for laughs in Ouran High School Host Club. A powerful motor rumbles and Renge rises up out of the ground on a slowly rotating platform, affecting a Noblewoman's Laugh. It was weird enough when it happened in Music Room 3, but she apparently has similar rigs set up all over Japan. Considering how ridiculous that school building is in the first place, it's not actually all that weird.
To the Batpole! / int_9688ee61	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_9688ee61	featureConfidence	1.0
Ouran High School Host Club (Manga)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_9688ee61
To the Batpole! / int_9838249c	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_9838249c	comment	Transhuman Space: The rescue organization in Wings of the Rising Sun has a standard rapid launch sequence for their spaceplanes from their orbital stations; a unit of four craft can launch within one minute, with other crews following within 10 minutes.
To the Batpole! / int_9838249c	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_9838249c	featureConfidence	1.0
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_9838249c
To the Batpole! / int_9afa4e32	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_9afa4e32	comment	UFO Robo Grendizer also features the pilot's chair transferring from flying saucer to the Humongous Mecha it transports, with its weirdly arbitrary double half-spin. One episode hangs a lampshade by having the villains attack during the transfer sequence, recognizing it as a moment of weakness when Grendizer can't fight back.
To the Batpole! / int_9afa4e32	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_9afa4e32	featureConfidence	1.0
UFO Robo Grendizer	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_9afa4e32
To the Batpole! / int_9b7e31d	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_9b7e31d	comment	The Andersons' top example was the famous "rotating walls and furniture" that took the Tracys from the house to the hangars in Thunderbirds. It was this show from which the Stock Footage in Japanese Super Robot anime was derived. This was retained for the live-action Thunderbirds film, which also featured them changing into uniform as they flew down the chutes.
To the Batpole! / int_9b7e31d	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_9b7e31d	featureConfidence	1.0
Thunderbirds	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_9b7e31d
To the Batpole! / int_9d41fc3b	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_9d41fc3b	comment	Despicable Me. To go into his underground base, Gru gets shifted across the room in a chair, eaten by a cannon which flips around on struts (and apparently dresses him in a suit as well). Then half the floor lifts and the cannon is put on a platform that descends into the ground.
To the Batpole! / int_9d41fc3b	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_9d41fc3b	featureConfidence	1.0
Despicable Me	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_9d41fc3b
To the Batpole! / int_9e84c324	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_9e84c324	comment	Batman Returns has a chute disguised inside an iron maiden (although Alfred still takes the stairs).
To the Batpole! / int_9e84c324	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_9e84c324	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman Returns	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_9e84c324
To the Batpole! / int_9feb7ff3	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_9feb7ff3	comment	Power Rangers Jungle Fury tried, possibly a little too hard, to keep to its jungle theme by having the rangers swing on vines through holes when exiting their base. Of course, this causes massive amounts of Fridge Logic, the most obvious being, how has anyone not noticed three huge holes in the side of a pizza parlour? (the second being why couldn't they just use the fire escape?) Because that wouldn't be nearly as cool. Oh, and just for fun, we never, ever see just where those holes come out.
To the Batpole! / int_9feb7ff3	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_9feb7ff3	featureConfidence	1.0
Power Rangers Jungle Fury	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_9feb7ff3
To the Batpole! / int_a058fdcf	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_a058fdcf	comment	Power Rangers Operation Overdrive's got the standard poles leading from the mansion to the underground base. (And it seems to be a very, very long way down, going by establishment shots.) Suiting up on the way down is optional.
To the Batpole! / int_a058fdcf	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_a058fdcf	featureConfidence	1.0
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_a058fdcf
To the Batpole! / int_a68aab11	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_a68aab11	comment	Daimos has one so drawn-out and completely over the top one wonders if it's meant to be a parody.
To the Batpole! / int_a68aab11	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_a68aab11	featureConfidence	1.0
Daimos	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_a68aab11
To the Batpole! / int_a945d20b	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_a945d20b	comment	Sort-of averted and used in the '60s TV adaptation of The Green Hornet. Apparently, the Green Hornet and Kato change into their "costumes" in Britt Reid's townhouse, but after putting on their costumes, they go into Reid's garage. There, Kato actuates a mechanism, and extensions come out of the bumpers of Reid's day-to-day car while clamps rise from the floor and attach to the extensions. Once Reid's day-to-day car is securely clamped to the floor, the entire floor under the car flips over longitudinally, and we see the Hornet's sleek and powerful Black Beauty firmly clamped to the other side of the floor. Kato activates another mechanism, the clamps release from the Black Beauty, and the car doors open. The Hornet and Kato then get in the car, perform their "pre-flight checks", and drive off. See the entire sequence here.
To the Batpole! / int_a945d20b	featureApplicability	-1.0
To the Batpole! / int_a945d20b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Green Hornet	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_a945d20b
To the Batpole! / int_ab42c63a	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_ab42c63a	comment	The opening sequence of Get Smart had Max enter CONTROL's underground headquarters through a series of heavy doors that open and close in sequence, then get to a phone booth, dial a number, and drop down to the next level. The film does this as well, showing the entrance to be through Smithsonian Castle.
To the Batpole! / int_ab42c63a	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_ab42c63a	featureConfidence	1.0
Get Smart	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_ab42c63a
To the Batpole! / int_b0cf0ed6	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Danger Mouse's couch doubled as an express elevator down to his car. Despite taking the ride nearly every episode, Penfold never got used to it.
To the Batpole! / int_b0cf0ed6	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_b0cf0ed6	featureConfidence	1.0
Danger Mouse	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_b0cf0ed6
To the Batpole! / int_b394491e	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_b394491e	comment	Every mission for The Jungle Bunch begins with the team responding to the emergency signal by descending into their base with an elaborate personal tunnel system. Every member has their own individual entrance to the base.
To the Batpole! / int_b394491e	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_b394491e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Jungle Bunch	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_b394491e
To the Batpole! / int_b5a087d7	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken parodies this trope when a maid accidentally activates the secret trap door in Bruce Wayne's office. Hilarity Ensues.
To the Batpole! / int_b5a087d7	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_b5a087d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Robot Chicken	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_b5a087d7
To the Batpole! / int_b683f90f	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_b683f90f	comment	Back in the day in Perry Rhodan, "Emperor" Anson Argyris of the planet Olymp (really the apparently only Vario-500 robot ever built in his favorite biological disguise) had one of the more elaborate examples of the Elaborate Underground Base trope in the form of a planet-spanning underground network of bases and supply depots, all connected by various forms of high-speed transportation and guarded by secrecy and potentially quite deadly traps. What counts as this trope in particular are the stock scenes depicting him using that network's matter transmitters, high-speed transport capsules, and whatnot to get where he needed to be quickly and undetected — most commonly to the special room holding his various other masks whenever he needed one for a mission.
To the Batpole! / int_b683f90f	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_b683f90f	featureConfidence	1.0
Perry Rhodan	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_b683f90f
To the Batpole! / int_b7296d31	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_b7296d31	comment	My-HiME seemingly spoofed this, giving the cast one episode where they have a rather sentai-esque team launch sequence. Later episodes systematically destroyed such themes (although the finale returned to it).
To the Batpole! / int_b7296d31	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_b7296d31	featureConfidence	1.0
My-HiME	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_b7296d31
To the Batpole! / int_b8d8ef94	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_b8d8ef94	comment	This was then used as a running gag in the series. "Pull the lever, Kronk!"
To the Batpole! / int_b8d8ef94	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_b8d8ef94	featureConfidence	1.0
The Emperor's New School	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_b8d8ef94
To the Batpole! / int_b8eb4fe5	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	In most of the Sakura Wars games, the pilots reach their secret base under the theatre by sliding down individual chutes. In earlier games these chutes also somehow, magically, change them into their battle uniforms, although Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love eschews this in favor of showing shots of the girls changing (albeit tasteful ones). The 2019 game retains the previous elements of the first two games. Sakura Wars: The Movie shows the members of the Hanagumi flinging themselves into individual chutes that not only deposit them in front of their mechs but also change them into their duty uniforms. Just for added style points, the chutes are hidden behind formal portraits of the pilots.
To the Batpole! / int_b8eb4fe5	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_b8eb4fe5	featureConfidence	1.0
Sakura Wars (Video Game)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_b8eb4fe5
To the Batpole! / int_b94ae31e	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_b94ae31e	comment	Wallace & Gromit has some direct references to Gerry Anderson and Thunderbirds. In A Close Shave, Wallace has a ludicrously complicated set of slides and machines to transport himself from his armchair to his motorbike and get dressed for work. After that, Gromit then simply walks into the garage through a door from the kitchen, rolling his eyes. It doesn't end there — Wallace even uses a mechanical foot to kick-start the motorbike. Also, the (fake) fish pond in the front yard flips over to let the bike drive over it, probably referencing the swimming pool that opens up to let Thunderbird 1 take off and land or the palm trees which lean sideways to provide clearance for Thunderbird 2's wings as it rolls to launch position. Another sequence appears in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; this time Gromit is also involved. An earlier example is established in The Wrong Trousers: Wallace apparently begins every day with his bed tilting up and dropping him into a trapdoor from his upstairs bedroom to a chair at the dining room table, with mechanical arms providing a costume change.
To the Batpole! / int_b94ae31e	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_b94ae31e	featureConfidence	1.0
Wallace & Gromit	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_b94ae31e
To the Batpole! / int_ba3d2748	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles: Mr. Incredible's car has a gizmo that "scans" him into his costume. He presses the button; the driver's seat lays him flat on his back; and a machine drops down and wsshht! puts on his costume over whatever he's wearing. Another two machines covers his hands and pops his gloves on immediately thereafter. (Never mind that Mr. Incredible fighting crime in a tux would have looked ten times more awesome...) After the intro, once superheroes are put into forced retirement, he has to make do with a "man cave" accessed by a simple door. His costume is kept in a display and there doesn't seem to be any "scanner" (he isn't supposed to be wearing it anyway).
To the Batpole! / int_ba3d2748	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_ba3d2748	featureConfidence	1.0
The Incredibles	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_ba3d2748
To the Batpole! / int_bc758ea9	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_bc758ea9	comment	Tiny Toon Adventures parodied the old Batman series once with Plucky and Hampton playing the roles of Batman and Robin. Unfortunately, when they went to the Batpoles, they found out too late from the maid (Elmyra) that they were out of order and ending up falling all the way down to the cave.
To the Batpole! / int_bc758ea9	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_bc758ea9	featureConfidence	1.0
Tiny Toon Adventures	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_bc758ea9
To the Batpole! / int_bc848d30	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants parodies this a couple times: In "Jellyfishing", SpongeBob and Patrick leap into action by sliding down a pair of ropes leading to a room where they store their jellyfishing gear. This being a rope rather than a metal pole, the pair burn their hands on the way down and pause to writhe in pain. In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III", SpongeBob and Patrick (who have been zapped to piles of dust by Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's nemesis Man Ray) slide down the pole to the Invisible Boatmobile. On the way (after being obscured by a bar for a brief moment) they get their bodies back and are also wearing superhero outfits.
To the Batpole! / int_bc848d30	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_bc848d30	featureConfidence	1.0
SpongeBob SquarePants	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_bc848d30
To the Batpole! / int_c3a1c8f8	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_c3a1c8f8	comment	Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's live-action British series UFO (1970) used chutes for pilots launching from both the moon base and the SkyDiver submarine. SHADO's headquarters (hidden under a film studio) is accessed by Straker's entire office which serves as an elevator. As Anderson himself pointed out on the DVD Commentary, hopefully no one peeks into the boss' window and wonders why it's sinking into the ground.
To the Batpole! / int_c3a1c8f8	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_c3a1c8f8	featureConfidence	1.0
UFO (1970)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_c3a1c8f8
To the Batpole! / int_c489a759	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_c489a759	comment	Digimon Adventure 02 has a colorful transformation-ish sequence as our heroes go from the human world to the Digital World. The characters introduced that season change clothes on the way, but members of the elder team left over from the previous year stay as they are. TK and Kari's shoes do change, however — from their "uwabaki" (indoor "school shoes") to their "outside" shoes.
To the Batpole! / int_c489a759	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_c489a759	featureConfidence	1.0
Digimon Adventure 02	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_c489a759
To the Batpole! / int_c6f7e804	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7. The Scorpio launch sequence in Season D. The spacecraft is lifted out of the Elaborate Underground Base on a giant elevator, launches from a letterbox-shaped entrance set in a cliff, flies through a narrow canyon, and up into outer space. Reverse for landing.
To the Batpole! / int_c6f7e804	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_c6f7e804	featureConfidence	1.0
Blake's 7	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_c6f7e804
To the Batpole! / int_cf3e7a82	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman has his traditionally used telephone booths to change from Clark Kent into Superman using his super speed. Alas, Technology Marches On...
To the Batpole! / int_cf3e7a82	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_cf3e7a82	featureConfidence	1.0
Superman (Franchise)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_cf3e7a82
To the Batpole! / int_d14c3aa1	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_d14c3aa1	comment	Ghostbusters (1984): The Ghostbusters' headquarters is an old firehouse, complete with a fire pole that takes them straight to the lockers where they keep their outfits and equipment. It's not a secret, but it's dramatic and one of the main reasons Ray (who mortgaged his family property for their startup fund) wanted to buy the place.
To the Batpole! / int_d14c3aa1	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_d14c3aa1	featureConfidence	1.0
Ghostbusters (1984)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_d14c3aa1
To the Batpole! / int_d56cb367	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_d56cb367	comment	These make a return in Power Rangers S.P.D., this time taking the team to their Humongous Mecha. No auto-suiting-up function, though. This one was carried over from the Japanese counterpart Dekaranger.
To the Batpole! / int_d56cb367	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_d56cb367	featureConfidence	1.0
Power Rangers S.P.D.	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_d56cb367
To the Batpole! / int_d56cd064	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_d56cd064	comment	Power Rangers Zeo didn't do this with the rangers themselves (although there were a few times when they would descend in their chairs down a long track to be set down in their Zeo Zord cockpits); however, all of their humanoid Zords that season (the Super Zeo Zord, Red Battlezord, and Warrior Wheel,) all entered the battle by being shot out of a cannon.
To the Batpole! / int_d56cd064	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_d56cd064	featureConfidence	1.0
Power Rangers Zeo	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_d56cd064
To the Batpole! / int_d8d2a07e	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_d8d2a07e	comment	The Batpoles are parodied in The Burkiss Way:
To the Batpole! / int_d8d2a07e	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_d8d2a07e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Burkiss Way (Radio)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_d8d2a07e
To the Batpole! / int_defa0ec6	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_defa0ec6	comment	Inch High, Private Eye features this in the opening sequence, and in some episodes of the show. Lori and Gator would rise from a secret passage to the street in their electric Hushmobile, then they would drive to a certain place where Inch goes down an outdoor gutter pipe and flies out the other end where Gator would catch him with a catcher's mittnote Due to the way it's drawn, it looks more like a normal baseball glove, but is implied to be a catcher's mitt., then they would drive off to their next case.
To the Batpole! / int_defa0ec6	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_defa0ec6	featureConfidence	1.0
Inch High, Private Eye	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_defa0ec6
To the Batpole! / int_eaeeea9b	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_eaeeea9b	comment	StarCraft II shows Tychus Findlay's marine armor being built onto him, complete with welding the seams, in the opening cinematic. How the other characters, who are not sealed in, get into their suits is not shown. One might imagine it's similar. Findlay's situation was par for the course for (at least) earlier generations of Marines. The Terran forces tended to use convicts as cannon fodder so removing the armor wouldn't be a concern.
To the Batpole! / int_eaeeea9b	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_eaeeea9b	featureConfidence	1.0
StarCraft II (Video Game)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_eaeeea9b
To the Batpole! / int_eb76340f	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_eb76340f	comment	The firefighters of Battalion 24 on Third Watch regularly used a pole to go from their ready room to their trucks and equipment. Unusually, the show actually depicted some of the minutiae of using the pole, with it being kept behind a small gate with the hole being covered by a hatch that opens automatically when the gate is opened. Also, the dangers of the pole are shown when Paramedic Carlos Nieto decides to give it a try without ever having learned how to use it and plummets down to the ground (paramedics normally take the stairs).
To the Batpole! / int_eb76340f	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_eb76340f	featureConfidence	1.0
Third Watch	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_eb76340f
To the Batpole! / int_ece42231	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_ece42231	comment	Filmation's Ghostbusters would run into the "Skelevator", which would take them into another dimension full of conveyor belts and other gadgetry (skeleton- and bone-themed, naturally) that would change them into their uniforms and deposit them into the Ghostbuggy. And it did all this with a really trippy background.
To the Batpole! / int_ece42231	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_ece42231	featureConfidence	1.0
Filmation's Ghostbusters	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_ece42231
To the Batpole! / int_eeac804a	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_eeac804a	comment	Played straight in the Emergency! cartoon spinoff ''Emergency+4", despite the live-action show normally not having a firepole.
To the Batpole! / int_eeac804a	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_eeac804a	featureConfidence	1.0
Emergency!	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_eeac804a
To the Batpole! / int_f2da188a	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_f2da188a	comment	The Batman uses some kind of magnetic Batpole that Bruce can slide down using one hand and foot without going splat. Oh, and it also goes up.
To the Batpole! / int_f2da188a	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_f2da188a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Batman	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_f2da188a
To the Batpole! / int_f30b0715	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_f30b0715	comment	Hong Kong Phooey made the change to hero from his janitor alter-ego by jumping into a filing cabinet. A Running Gag in the series was the ability of his sidekick, Spot the cat, to produce the filing cabinet from out of nowhere whenever trouble arose. Another Running Gag was the former's tendency to become stuck inside until Spot gave the cabinet a good whack. A straighter version of the trope within the same cartoon is that Penry has to go through a vending machine which doubles as a secret door with his janitor's cart.
To the Batpole! / int_f30b0715	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_f30b0715	featureConfidence	1.0
Hong Kong Phooey	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_f30b0715
To the Batpole! / int_f724b70d	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_f724b70d	comment	In Code Lyoko, reaching the Hacker Cave where the virtual action starts involves skateboarding (riding a scooter in Jeremy's case and going on foot in William's case) through a sewer, rappelling down ropes in an abandoned factory, taking an elevator locked by impressive blast doors... and finally being dematerialized in high-tech scanners with the obligatory Invocation. It certainly fits.
To the Batpole! / int_f724b70d	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_f724b70d	featureConfidence	1.0
Code Lyoko	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_f724b70d
To the Batpole! / int_fc0e7530	type	To the Batpole!
To the Batpole! / int_fc0e7530	comment	Dexter's Laboratory made active use of this. Dexter sometimes even dried and dressed after coming out of the shower butt naked using batpoles, with one particular occasion where he stated that he "hates this part." Another episode has Dexter trying to get DeeDee out of his lab once and for all by completely sealing up every possible entrance to his lab there is. They get quite ridiculous.
To the Batpole! / int_fc0e7530	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Batpole! / int_fc0e7530	featureConfidence	1.0
Dexter's Laboratory	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_fc0e7530

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