History Main / TheWarRoom

The InvisiblePresident, the SupportingLeader, TheBrigadier and the BigBad (all may or may not be part of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness) tend to spend a lot of time in rooms like these. MissionControl is invariably based here. If it's for the good guys, expect a lot of cheering coupled with a circular camera pan when The Hero reports his success.

* The Admiralty War Room, an underground bunker where the Operations Division works to ''Film/SinkTheBismarck''. Captain Shepard is shown entering the War Room at the start of the movie [[BookEnds and leaving it at the end]] with a pretty WREN he's invited to dinner, only to find it's broad daylight outside.

* The Admiralty War Room, an underground bunker where the Operations Division works to ''Film/SinkTheBismark''. Captain Shepard is shown entering the War Room at the start of the movie [[BookEnds and leaving it at the end]] with a pretty WREN he's invited to dinner, only to find it's broad daylight outside.

* ''Series/{{UFO}}''. SHADO's art deco war room is located [[FrontOrganisation underneath a film studio]].

* The Army of Light's War Room on ''Series/BabylonFive'', which was a different set from TheBridge.

%%** Though not impressive enough for ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' which designed a new one.

* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': Both the personal of [[HomeBase the Photon Atomic Power Research Institute]] and the [[MadScientist Dr.]] [[BigBad Hell's]] troops had war rooms. The Institute's one was relatively small and it had large maps on a central table. Dr. Hell's was located in his throne room.

** Truth In Television in more ways than one: The idea of dedicated [=CICs=] on TheBridge of US naval vessels was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_information_center#Development "specifically, consciously, and directly"]] inspired by ''Lensman'' and the works of Creator/RobertHeinlein.

* ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' has Mission Control serve this purpose, not to be confused with Central Officer Bradford, who serves as your MissionControl during missions. It's a big, otherwise dark chamber whose main feature is a glowing holographic representation of the Earth - sometimes called the Geoscape as a throwback to [[VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense the original game]] - that tracks alien activity, XCOM assets, the state of XCOM's member nations, and ongoing research and construction projects. A separate, adjacent Situation Room hosts TheBigBoard that offers additional information about XCOM's finances, requests from the [[BenevolentConspiracy Council of Nations]], a news ticker showing the state of the war, and the all-important "Doom Tracker" showing how close XCOM is to shutting down due to lack of support.

* The navies in the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' series have entire ships devoted to being TheWarRoom.

** Truth In Television in more ways than one: The idea of dedicated [=CICs=] on TheBridge of US naval vessels was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_room#Development "specifically, consciously, and directly"]] inspired by ''Lensman'' and the works of Creator/RobertHeinlein.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', Hell's control room is shown in [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3953 this]] Sunday page.

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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Lord Rust turns The Rats Chamber (the council room in the Patrician's Palace) into one. The meeting table has been covered in sand to form a kind of map, and since everyone knows Klatch is all desert, Lord Rust assumes it's a good one. Once they actually arrive in Klatch, he uses a big tent for the same purpose.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/Jingo'', Lord Rust turns The Rats Chamber (the council room in the Patrician's Palace) into one. The meeting table has been covered in sand to form a kind of map, and since everyone knows Klatch is all desert, Lord Rust assumes it's a good one. Once they actually arrive in Klatch, he uses a big tent for the same purpose.

Many naval vessels have a "ward room", the officer's mess, which is often misheard as the War Room. Here, the "war room" proper would be the Combat Information Center, or [[AC:cic]].

* Astrometrics serves this function in the later seasons of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.

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#A dark and not-quite-so-cavernous boardroom, with a long central table with chairs around it, lit by a spotlight. If located in a SupervillainLair, the seats around the table (except for the [[BigBad head one]]) may have {{trap door}}s under them for purposes of [[YouHaveFailedMe disposing of those who fail or otherwise displease the boss.]]

#A dark and not-quite-so-cavernous boardroom, with a long central table with chairs around it, lit by a spotlight. If located in a SupervillainLair, the seats around the table (except for the [[BigBad head one]]) may have {{trap door}}s under them.