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** Stromberg's Atlantis base in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' was a giant floating platform.
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** In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', Lyutsifer Safin has a former Soviet base on (seemingly) one of the Kuril islands (which are disputed between Russia and Japan).
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The primary advantage to using such bases is that its isolation and distance from inhabited areas or other landmasses allows the story to explain how its supervillain or evil genius is running an elaborate, high-tech base swarming with minions and superweapons without attracting excess notice.
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* ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'': An IslandBase showed up in the first episode of the anime. It was used by two {{Mad Scientist}}s like their MadScientistLaboratory.
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* Mewtwo from ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''. To add to the sinister atmosphere, it was built on the wreckage of the lab - where he was created - that he blew up a few months earlier.
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* Governor's Island serves as the headquarters of Soviet forces occupying New York in ''VideoGame/FreedomFighters''. Two missions revolve around it, one to infiltrate it and assassinate General Tatarin and the final mission where it is stormed en masse by boat.
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* Governor's Island serves as the headquarters of Soviet forces occupying New York in ''VideoGame/FreedomFighters''.''VideoGame/FreedomFighters2003''. Two missions revolve around it, one to infiltrate it and assassinate General Tatarin and the final mission where it is stormed en masse by boat.
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*Case 36 of ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseWorldEdition'' takes place in a [[Film/KingKong1933 Skull Island]] {{Expy}} full of equipment belonging to [[NebulousEvilOrganization SOMBRA]].
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* Franchise/WonderWoman and her race of Amazons live in a secret island.
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* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'', Shockwave had the Decepticons construct an artificial island base off the coast of Florida, the surface of which concealed the fact that it was also a fully-functional space cruiser. Ratbat later turned the island into a vacation resort called Club Con, even going so far as to having [[TheStarscream Starscream]] appear in a television commercial for the resort. The base/ship was destroyed when the [[AGodAmI Underbase-empowered Starscream]] crashed Scorponok's ship into it.
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* The second PlayerHeadquarters in ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' was The Bunker, a facility built on an abandoned industrial island by the technology company Blume, as a test bed for the ctOS. It is taken over by Aiden and Clara midway through Act 2 and used for the rest of the game. By the time of the ''Bad Blood'' DLC it was reclaimed by Blume as part of their hunt for Aiden.
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* The martial arts flick, ''Film/TrailOfTheBrokenBlade'', has the main villain's lair being installed in an island hideout, where the protagonist (played by Creator/JimmyWangYu) infiltrates by hiding on a fishing boat approaching said island, then diving underwater when a boatload of enemy mooks comes over to investigate, at which point he swims and leaps on the enemy vessel to kill everyone aboard, and then hijack the boat and docking on the island for the final battle.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Diplomacy}}'' has England which starts on the island of Great Britain while everyone else is on the Continent, as well as starting with two fleets and an army instead of the usual two armies and a fleet that most other players have. England players generally have to make sure that Britainnia rules the Atlantic waves or else they won't be ruling much of anything sooner or later.
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* The Nazis have two of these. Since SpaceIsAnOcean they've built one on Mercury and one in the asteroid belt. Festung Sieg on Mercury. The other is built into one of two asteroids attached to an Erisian spaceship wreck.
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* Much like its' forebear (see "Puppet Shows" below), the infamous live-action ''Film/{{Thunderbirds}}'' movie has Tracy Island- which looks even cooler in live-action, and now it has two pools (since the film crew realized having a rocket launch next to the main house wouldn't be so good).
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* Much like its' forebear (see "Puppet Shows" below), the infamous live-action ''Film/{{Thunderbirds}}'' movie has Tracy Island- Island (in reality several islands in the Seychelles), which looks even cooler in live-action, and now it has two pools (since the film crew realized having a rocket launch next to the main house wouldn't be so good).wasn't the best idea). Most of the movie takes place there as The Hood and his goons [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs stage a takeover of the island]] (trapping most of the Tracys aboard the damaged ''Thunderbird 5'' in orbit) to steal the Thunderbird craft and use them to rob the world's biggest banks, leaving International Rescue responsible.
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** Guadalcanal (the six month battle between the Americans and the Japanese over its crucial airfield would effectively drain the Japanese of any offensive capability for the rest of the war)
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* ''Film/SpyKids 2'' had an island with a hidden base inside the volcano, and gengineered monsters running around.
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* Kwajalein, Betio, Otori Shima, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima in ''VideoGame/RisingStorm'' are all islands located in the vast Pacific Theater that have completely operational airbases for both the Japanese and Americans. And usually, one of the objectives that is to be taken is the headquarters of the defending faction.
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* Dr. Nonookie's Nontoonyt Island lair in ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry II''.
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* The bunny-shaped island known as Bunny Island is the primary setting for ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne''.
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* In ''Videogame/{{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 IslandBase and ElaborateUndergroundBase tropes.
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* In ''Videogame/{{Thief}} II: The Metal Age'', ''Videogame/ThiefIITheMetalAge'', 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 IslandBase and ElaborateUndergroundBase tropes.
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* [[StealthPun Nomanisan]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', with a VolcanoLair/rocket launch facility, an armed security force, and giant experimental robots designed to kill any superheroes who were lured there (on the premise of getting an opportunity to continue their work after a government ban on superheroes).
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* Deconstructed in one of the Literature/{{Burke}} novels, when the con artist turned private eye uncovers a scam to sell an island as a sovereign territory to the highest bidder. It's a scam because for one thing, [[MightMakesRight none of the world powers would tolerate it]] and so the sovereignty wouldn't be worth the paper it was written on.
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** Malachite, a genetic experiment GoneHorriblyRight, took over a string of uninhabited islands that formerly belonged to Portugal. After the troops Portugal sent to reclaim them were wiped out, the government decided they weren't worth fighting for. Malachite has managed to get them declared a sovereign nation, with him as its ruler, in order to gain diplomatic immunity.
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* ''Young Samson & Goliath'' episode "The Secret of Evil Island". The BigBad Voltor has his base on Evil Island, which is just off the coast of New Guinea. From there he imitates ''Film/DoctorNo'' by hijacking satellites and using their fuel to power his city/continent destroying missiles.
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** Midway Atoll, barely big enough to host an airfield and a dock (mainly used for resupplying the airfield), best known for being the focus of a pitched four-day naval battle which saw the loss of four Japanese carriers and one American carrier, as well as the depletion of most of Midway's land-based fighter and bomber forces. The small island was a key communications and refueling stop in the American logistics chain linking North America to Australia, New Zealand, and Asia.
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* Fort Sumter was an island fort protecting the port of Charleston, South Carolina. The island the fort sits on was made from granite shipped from New England, piled high until it was above the waterline, and of course the fort is best known for the Confederate siege and attack which officially began the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar.
* On the topic of the US Civil War, part of the Union's Anaconda Plan was to capture coastal islands to use as refueling ports to support a NavalBlockade of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
* On the topic of the US Civil War, part of the Union's Anaconda Plan was to capture coastal islands to use as refueling ports to support a NavalBlockade of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
