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* During the "Seven Mysteries of Fudo High" case in ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'', the unknown seventh mystery (according to legend, whoever discovers it will be cursed) is revealed to be an actual corpse buried in the wall of an old schoolbuilding, obscured by an otherwise-hideous poster. This ties into the old schoolbuilding's DarkSecret (it used to be a lab for a shady pharmaceutical company before donating it to the school).
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* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': In "Boss'stache", the Boss keeps [[spoiler:the recipe for his mustache-growing formula]] in a safe hidden behind a painting in his office at the lab.
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* In ''Literature/ExperimentalFilm'', the mentally disabled child Hyatt Whitcomb used to sleep in a crib with his nanny in a bed next to him so he couldn't wander off, but he kicked loose a panel in the wall next to his crib, revealing a ladder-way built to make it easier to clean the flue. He tacked up some sketches over the opening so he could use it to sneak out at night. His mother never found out until after his disappearance.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/HuntikSecretsAndSeekers'' episode "An Ally From The Organization", [[ExBigBad the Professor]] is revealed to have been suspicious of his NumberTwo [[DragonWithAnAgenda Rassimov]] and secretly kept files about Rassimov’s weaknesses in a locked safe behind a painting in his office.
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* ''Series/DeadMansGun'': No safe, but in "The Highwayman", Robert Cosgrove has a hole in his bedroom wall where he conceals the eponymous gun and his ill-gotten gains that is hidden behind a painting.

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* The ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' supplement ''Chilling Tales'', adventure "Undying Justice". Sir Robert's study has a wall safe hidden behind a picture. It contains his journal, which mentions his murder of a man he (mistakenly) thought was having an affair with his wife.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
** ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine #8 adventure "For A Lady's Honor". Hastur Brunt's bedroom has a wall safe concealed behind a painting worth 1,000 gold pieces. The safe is trapped with a gas that will put everyone in the room to sleep.
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The ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' supplement ''Chilling Tales'', adventure "Undying Justice". Sir Robert's study has a wall safe hidden behind a picture. It contains his journal, which mentions his murder of a man he (mistakenly) thought was having an affair with his wife.



* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine #8 adventure "For A Lady's Honor". Hastur Brunt's bedroom has a wall safe concealed behind a painting worth 1,000 gold pieces. The safe is trapped with a gas that will put everyone in the room to sleep.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine #8 adventure "For A Lady's Honor". Hastur Brunt's bedroom ''TabletopGame/{{Aftermath}}}'', ''Scenario Pack 1: Into the Ruins''. In the ruins of the Gatlin Center, the Director's office has a wall safe concealed hidden behind a painting worth 1,000 gold pieces. picture. The safe is trapped with holds a gas that will put everyone in variety of papers regarding the room to sleep.Center's operations, $5,000 in $10 bills, a packet of love letters and a vial of deadly poison.
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** ''Magazine/{{Adventurer}}'' magazine #5, adventure "A Wee Dram of Danger". In the Kilbride house, a portrait of James Kilbride conceals the family wall safe. Inside the safe is a magical artifact that the PlayerCharacters need to defeat the {{villain}} of the adventure without killing an innocent victim.

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** ''Magazine/{{Adventurer}}'' magazine #5, adventure "A Wee Dram of Danger". In the Kilbride house, a portrait of James Kilbride conceals the family wall safe. Inside the safe is a magical artifact that the PlayerCharacters need PlayerParty needs to defeat the {{villain}} villain of the adventure without killing an innocent victim.



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* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorFrontline'': there is a villa, inside the villa is a map hidden behind a painting and documents in a cuckoo clock. There are controller breaking numbers of cuckoo clocks and paintings AND WHAT WERE YOU DEVELOPERS THINKING

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* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorFrontline'': In the manor level, there is a villa, inside the villa is a map hidden behind a painting and documents in a cuckoo clock. There clock that you need to find. The problem being, [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles there are controller breaking numbers dozens of cuckoo clocks and paintings AND WHAT WERE YOU DEVELOPERS THINKINGand clocks throughout the manor]], only one of which has what you're looking for.



* In the Big Bank heist of ''VideoGame/{{PAYDAY 2}}'', there's always a safe hidden behind a painting in the bank manager's office. It sometimes holds a keycard necessary to open a security door, though there's usually just a partially-eaten sandwich inside.
** The Golden Grin Casino heist features a safe behind a painting in the manager's office also; it must be opened to find one of three parts of a code lock. The painting itself can be taken as loot.

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* In the Big Bank heist of ''VideoGame/{{PAYDAY 2}}'', ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'', there's always a safe hidden behind a painting in the bank manager's office. It sometimes holds a keycard necessary to open a security door, though there's usually just a partially-eaten sandwich inside.
** The Golden Grin Casino heist features a safe behind a painting in the manager's office also; as well; it must be opened to find one of three parts of a code lock. The painting itself can be taken as loot.
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* ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'' has a safe hidden behind a painting. The master lockpicker snarkily remarks that it's a new and original idea.
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* In the ''Series/HoneyWest'' episode "The Owl and the Eye," a thief hides the [[MacGuffin Ming Owl]] behind a portrait of his mother.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Justified in "The Most Toys". The VillainOfTheWeek Kivas Fajo is a collector of rare objects (including Data, whom he kidnaps). One of these objects is a rare disrupter pistol; as he's not going to keep a weapon in the same room as Data he stores it in a safe, which naturally is hidden behind another object in his collection.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine #8 adventure "For A Lady's Honor". Hastur Brunt's bedroom has a wall safe concealed behind a painting worth 1,000 gold pieces. The safe is trapped with a gas that will put everyone in the room to sleep.
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* In ''Literature/TheFlyingCloud'', while exploring an abandoned base of the Fat Man's group, Wilcox and Mackiernan find a movie poster in the main office that they instantly identify as this trope. It was also booby-trapped with a massive concrete deadfall, but they had already encountered so many traps in that base that this one was no surprise.

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->''"That's the sort of decoration that screams 'There's a safe behind me.'"''
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10449282/9/Oh-Hell-No Oh Hell No]]'' Madame Bones has a safe which is invisible unless you "open" the painting in front of it as if it were a door.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10449282/9/Oh-Hell-No Oh Hell No]]'' Madame Bones Amelia has a safe which is invisible unless you "open" the painting in front of it as if it were a door.



* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12011689/40/The-Shock-of-it-All The Shock of it All]]'' Madame Bones has a safe behind a painting of a baby badger.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12011689/40/The-Shock-of-it-All The Shock of it All]]'' Madame Bones Amelia has a safe behind a painting of a baby badger.badger.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8076284/17/Harry-Potter-And-The-Bonds-Of-Time Harry Potter and the Bonds of Time]]'' Amelia has a safe behind a portrait of her late brother Edgar.
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* ''Film/TheClimax'': Hidden behind a painting in his office, Dr. Hohner has a safe that contains his souvenirs of all of Marcellina's performances.
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* ''Series/{{Batman}}''.

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* In ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', Cole hides a safe behind a portrait in his penthouse apartment when he's [[spoiler:the [[BigBad Source]].]] It doesn't have anything in it except a [[DeadManWriting posthumous]] note to his wife, though.

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* In ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', Cole hides a safe behind a portrait in his penthouse apartment when he's [[spoiler:the [[BigBad Source]].]] It doesn't have anything in it except a [[DeadManWriting posthumous]] note to his wife, though.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12011689/40/The-Shock-of-it-All The Shock of it All]]'' Madame Bones has a safe behind a painting of a baby badger.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10105260/2/An-Instant-Family An Instant Family]]'' Harry's parents' house in Godric's Hollow has one.
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** ''Magazine/{{Adventurer}}'' magazine #5, adventure "A Wee Dram of Danger". In the Killbride house, a portrait of Jame Killbride conceals the family wall safe. Inside the safe is a magical artifact that the PlayerCharacters need to defeat the {{villain}} of the adventure.

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** ''Magazine/{{Adventurer}}'' magazine #5, adventure "A Wee Dram of Danger". In the Killbride Kilbride house, a portrait of Jame Killbride James Kilbride conceals the family wall safe. Inside the safe is a magical artifact that the PlayerCharacters need to defeat the {{villain}} of the adventure.adventure without killing an innocent victim.
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** ''Magazine/{{Adventurer}}'' magazine #5, adventure "A Wee Dram of Danger". In the Killbride house, a portrait of Jame Killbride conceals the family wall safe. Inside the safe is a magical artifact that the PlayerCharacters need to defeat the {{villain}} of the adventure.
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* Franchise/WallaceAndGromit had this in ''Film/TheWrongTrousers''. Wallace hides his piggy bank in a safe behind a picture of a piggy bank.

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* Franchise/WallaceAndGromit WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit had this in ''Film/TheWrongTrousers''.''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers''. Wallace hides his piggy bank in a safe behind a picture of a piggy bank.
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* In ''VideoGame/AceAttorneyInvestigations'', each prosecutor's office contains a wall safe meant to store evidence needed for trials. Edgeworth hides his behind the suit jacket and [[WaistcoatOfStyle vest]] he keeps framed and hanging on his wall.

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* In ''VideoGame/AceAttorneyInvestigations'', ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'', each prosecutor's office contains a wall safe meant to store evidence needed for trials. Edgeworth hides his behind the suit jacket and [[WaistcoatOfStyle vest]] he keeps framed and hanging on his wall.
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%%* Biff's office in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''.

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%%* Biff's * Alternate-Biff Tannen's office in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''.''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' has a safe (containing the future sports almanac Biff used to get rich in that timeline) hidden behind his self-portrait.
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* ''Film/SherlockHolmes''. Sherlock quickly checks the safe behind his painting is still locked after waking up to find [[FemmeFatale Irene Adler]] in the room.

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* ''Film/SherlockHolmes''. In ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Sherlock quickly checks the safe behind his painting is still locked after waking up to find [[FemmeFatale Irene Adler]] in the room.
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* In typical Creator/FrederickForsyth [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal fashion]], ''Literature/TheFourthProtocol'' meticulously details the locating and destruction of a safe hidden behind a painting.

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* In typical Creator/FrederickForsyth [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal fashion]], fashion, ''Literature/TheFourthProtocol'' meticulously details the locating and destruction of a safe hidden behind a painting.

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