History Main / HackerCave

* Lucca's house from ''ChronoTrigger'' is littered with cables and books.

* Freddie "Warlock" Kaludis's (KevinSmith) basement lair in 2007's ''Live Free or DieHard''.

* The control room of L's high-rise in ''DeathNote'', though the large monitors are generally used for observing the security cameras of the building. There are only three actual computers with one monitor each, which makes perfect sense when you consider there are usually several people working at once.

* The IT department in ''TheITCrowd'' is full of obsolete (but notorious) computer equipment, cabling, geeky posters and the various bits of debris that a computer room accumulates.

* On that note, Griffin's setup in [[{{Jumper}} the movie adaptation]] of ''Jumper''.

* There was once a [=TroperTales=] page filled to the brim with tales of various tropers' hacker cave. The Troper Tales function has been purged due to impracticality (and that each troper has their own profile page anyway). However, the fact stands that there are many tropers on TVTropes that owns a real life hacker cave of some kind.

* There was once a [=TroperTales=] page filled to the brim with tales of various tropers' hacker cave. The Troper Tales function has been purged due to impracticality (and that each troper has their own profile page anyway). However, the fact stands that there are many tropers on TVTropes that owns a real life hacker cave of some kind.

->'''Evil Invasion''': Sorry, but I just moved in. Give me a few days then this place will live up to all your prejudices

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** Using dynamite to blow up a firewall?

** Die Hard 4.0 had a couple of these, all the hackers that blow up at the start (at least the ones we see) imply they have a mass of pimped-out computers, then there is the truck the bad guys go around in. And again in the Woodlawn building, it has a massive super server to hold all the financial transactions of the USA (yet is able to be downloaded to a single laptop).

* Mr. Universe's home in the BigDamnMovie of ''{{Firefly}}''.

* The ending of ZeroEffect.

* Sleazy, unscrupulous, eleven-year-old blogger Nevel from {{iCarly}} has one in the closet off his living room. Upon discovering it, Sam referred to it as his "nerd cave."

* The Villain of MegaManBattleNetwork 2 had this but instead the cave was a condo of 30 floors. May also play with RoomOfServers as the most of the rooms were filled to the brim with them.

* The very last stage in ''{{Condemned}}'' 2: Bloodshot evokes this trope to prove that BigBrotherIsWatching.

* TimeSplitters 1 and 2 have cyberpunk levels with underground hacker hideouts.

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* This picture ([[http://www.bradster.net/36box2.jpg bigger one here]]) shows a rather extreme real-life example, in which ''[[UpToEleven eleven]]'' computers are used to play ''36'' WorldOfWarcraft accounts at the same time, by a single person ([[http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=14611 source]]).

* See the [[TroperTales.HackerCave Troper Tales section]] for real life hacker caves owned by tropers like you.

* This picture ([[http://www.bradster.net/36box2.jpg bigger one here]]) shows a rather extreme real-life example, in which ''eleven'' computers are used to play ''36'' WorldOfWarcraft accounts at the same time, by a single person ([[http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=14611 source]]).

* Freddie "Warlock" Kaludis's basement lair in 2007's ''Live Free or DieHard''.
** It's not a basement, it's a command centre!

* [=DiZ=] of ''KingdomHearts'' owns one in the [[spoiler: Basement of the Twilight Town Mansion]]

** Her dad bought it for her?
** I don't think she did buy it. In later episodes the computers look like they're growing out of the walls of her room. Possibly because [[spoiler:[[MindScrew she might not be real?]]]] Or because she [[spoiler:might be God?]]

* The control room of L's high-rise in ''DeathNote''.
** Though the large monitors are generally used for observing the security cameras of the building. There are only three actual computers with one monitor each, which makes perfect sense when you consider there are usually several people working at once.

"Real" hackers spend most of their hacking time peering at a text editor and thinking very hard, but this is TruthInTelevision for many. On the other hand, [[{{Demoscene}} demoparties]] and other hackish social occasions often resemble this trope- as do the bedrooms of hackers who deliberately [[GenreSavvy seek this trope as an ideal]]! May be set in [[BasementDweller Mom's Basement.]]

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* Oracle, from DCComics, builds one of these for herself pretty much wherever she goes. The most famous of which was the Clocktower in Gotham City, original headquarters of the Birds of Prey.
* The [[{{Blue Beetle}} Beetlecave]]! Jaime's hacker buddies, Hector and Nadia, basically turned their entire house into this. The actual 'Beetlecave', however, is the [[{{Cyberspace}} cyberspace]] face of it. All because Jaime's parents probably wouldn't like their son constructing a real cave in the crawlspace...

* Number theorist Max Cohen in the 1998 movie ''Pi'' has a homemade supercomputer (named Euclid) that takes up his whole apartment.

Note that said definition of "awesome" must include one of the following words in its description (amongst others): Geeky, Technology, [[BeepingComputers Things that go BEEP,]] Metallic, futuristic, pipes, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights blinkenlights]], BillionsOfButtons. Anime figurines and other otaku paraphernalia does apply. Must include more than one obvious computer tower (because the hacker knows computers ''don't'' [[ComputerEqualsMonitor equal monitors]]), and the primary computer comes with at least 3 monitors (never mind some of those monitors display only a looping picture that does nothing). May also include a retro coin-op arcade game (Pac Man and Space Invaders are obvious favorites) in a corner, [[RuleOfCool just because]].