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* In the Literature/DirkPittAdventures novel ''Deep Six'', an intruding private investigator discovers that Pitt keeps several guns stashed around his apartment, including one hidden inside an empty orange-juice carton in the refrigerator.

* In ''Film/MenInBlackII'' with Jay and Kay separated from MIB headquarters, they went to an apartment Kay apparently used to live in to stock up on alien weaponry in a hidden room.

Compare {{Hammerspace}}, PillowPistol, BookSafe and WallOfWeapons and UnlikelySpare. See also SurvivalistStash and EmergencyStash.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' the Resistance has set up 45 supply cashes hidden around City 17 and the Shore to aid other members. Some of these are well out of the way an may even [[GuideDangIt require a guide]] (like the one in [[spoiler: "ENTANGLEMENT" (hidden above a vending machine)]] or doing something reckless like drive an airboat towards an [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier Civil Protection APC]].

* Being CrazyPrepared, Franchise/{{Batman}} does this too, though within the house, he's more inclined to have ordinary objects that just "happen" to be usable as weapons lying about. In an issue of Trinity, Bruce Wayne is attacked in the small woods he has on his estate, and is no more than 30 yards from a fake tree with a full set of Bat-gear inside. (The attackers were non-human monsters, so he wasn't worried about exposing his Secret Identity.)

* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} ComicBook/LexLuthor used to be CrazyPrepared in this way for escaping prison (but only for that, not for defeating ComicBook/{{Superman}}). At the very least, he would have a stash of equipment hidden (say, in a fake tree) outside every prison he might get sent to (he was also portrayed as something of an escape artist, so getting outside the prison walls usually wasn't a problem). In some cases, he would however go to the length of actually placing henchmen (or possibly hench androids) in the prison general population, just to ensure that he would have access to the few components needed for his getaway gadget (teleporter, disintegration beam, etc.) that he couldn't pilfer from an ordinary alarm clock or radio, should he ever happen to be sent to ''that'' particular prison.
* In ''ComicBook/RickAndMorty'', the builder of the Clackspire labyrinth, [[spoiler:Rick]], filled the place with hidden panels containing supplies in case he ever ended up in there.
* Both ComicBook/ThePunisher and ComicBook/NickFury are known to have storage caches and safehouses all over the place.
** In ComicBook/AgeOfUltron it's revealed that Nick had one of ComicBook/DoctorDoom's time platforms stored away in the Savage Land, along with some old Iron Man armor and a bunch of other stuff.
** Whereas the end of ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' reveals Frank had eight million dollars total and enough guns to arm a country in New York alone.

* In ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack: Ryuusei no Gemini'', Hei is shown to have a spare coat, mask, and set of knives [[LooseFloorboardHidingSpot hidden under the floorboards]] of an abandoned house.

* In ''ComicBook/RickAndMorty'', the builder of the Clackspire labyrinth, [[spoiler:Rick]], filled the place with hidden panels containing supplies in case he ever ended up in there.

* In {{Literature/Fablehaven}}, we meet Civia, one of five [[BarrierMaiden Barrier Maidens]] that keeps a prison full of demons from opening. She's immortal and has lived for thousands of years, and has always lived like she was the only thing keeping the prison from opening. When the heroes arrive to take her away to a safe house, she immediately directs them a stash of weapons, survival clothing, and vehicles. According to her, it's one of many.
--> '''Civia''': I have identities all over the globe. I'm fluent in thirty languages, passable in thirty more. I set traps. I keep motorcycles, watercraft, even helicopters hidden away. I have access to billions of dollars. I'm at my physical peak, and I'm an expert at altering my look. My job is to stay alive, and I take it very seriously.

* The Star League was very fond of this trope in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', to the point that even three and a half centuries after its collapse, hidden Star League caches full of [[RagnarokProofing fully functional]] Battlemechs, tanks, Aerospace Fighters, guns, and other equipment are still being found in Inner Sphere and Periphery planets and moons.

* In the Dead Money DLC of ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', there are suitcases filled with healing items and weapons all around the Sierra Madre, marked with a glowing green handprint. All of these belong to Dean Domino, a ghoul who has been living in the villa for the last two centuries. If you talk to him about it, he'll be a bit annoyed that you found them, but he's willing to let things slide.
* Many post-apocalyptic games include or encourage this. Hidden weapon stashes are common in both the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' franchises as desirable targets to loot, with the latter encouraging players to cache food, spare weapons, and other supplies around the wasteland thanks to the various mechanics involved in the game and the more-than-likely chance you'll come back to one of your stashes during an emergency.
* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', Batman keeps an entire Batcave stocked with supplies on the island the asylum is on just in case. It even has a fully functional Batcomputer and a spare Batclaw.
** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' shows that Batman has at least ''three'' backup facilities in Gotham proper - Oracle's base in the Clock Tower, an unseen equipment manufactory run by Lucius Fox in Wayne Tower, and a secondary Batcave complex in a run down movie studio.

* Kind of played for laughs in ''Film/ThePunisher2004''. Frank was fighting the hitman known as "The Russian" and Frank would grab certain weapons he had hidden around his apartment, but would systematically be either shrugged off or totally neutralized by the hitman. The [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe look on Frank's face]] when the Russian smashes his revolver with a dumbbell is priceless.
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' movies usually feature a large supply of weapons because Sarah, the mother of the future leader of LaResistance, is expecting both a nuclear war and the subsequent human rebellion against Skynet. The [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay second movie]] has them buried in the desert and the [[Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines third movie]] has them hidden in a mausoleum. Her ''own'' mausoleum. Ironically, in the TV series, it's shown that even Skynet has Terminators putting aside hidden supplies for AfterTheEnd.
* In ''Film/MenInBlackII'' with Jay and Kay separated from MIB headquarters, they went to an apartment Kay apparently used to live in to stock up on alien weaponry in a hidden room.
* In ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005'', both protagonists have a hidden cache of weapons in the house - his is under the garage floor, hers is hidden below the oven in the kitchen. Neither of them know of the other's cache.

* ''Film/TheExpendables'' had Barney and Ying in Barney's classic truck when they are suddenly attacked by an old teammate and some rival mercenaries who were looking for revenge for a recent job. Not only was Barney's truck almost completely bulletproof, he had several guns (including a submachine gun) hidden in specific compartments so they stood a fighting chance.
* The final act of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' involves Bruce/Batman going to his various supply depots around Gotham to get the ordinance necessary to defeat Bane and his followers. This is after Bane managed to find his primary armory of the "defunct" Wayne R&D warehouse, which gave them some military vehicles very similar to the Tumbler Batman used in the previous movies.

* ''Film/TheTransporter''. Frank's FriendOnTheForce helps him escape from the police station so he can take on the bad guys. He offers Frank his snub-nosed revolver, then changes his mind when Frank wordlessly shows him an assault rifle and hand grenades he's got stashed on his boat.

* ''Film/FiveGravesToCairo'': The titular "graves" in this 1942 film are a group of caches of fuel and spare parts the Germans hid deep in the desert back in 1937 (during their Armistice years) and now the Nazis are seeking in order to facilitate their march on the African campaign.
* ''Film/TheKiller2023''. The title character has a safe buried under his lawn for his weapons and MultipleIdentityIDs. On reaching the United States he uses a storage unit which also has multiple license plates and other items he can use to carry out his contract killings. He narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine--when the automatic funding eventually dries up--an episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and their reactions when they discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': Shawn, Gus and Henry are returning home when they see someone in the living room from the front yard. Henry immediately reaches into the birdhouse and pulls out a stun gun.
** In another episode, the bad guy was trying to frame Lassiter for killing a criminal already handcuffed and the final confrontation took place at Lassiter's apartment. The bad guy told him that he took the liberty of removing all of the various side-arms Lassiter kept in the apartment, but forgot the one in the candy bowl. And possibly the shower.

** It comes up several times that Michael has several storage units with guns and explosives hidden all around Miami (Sadly no fridge for [[RunningGag yogurt or beer]]). Detective Paxson once almost discovered one of these units, but upon getting the search warrant she found the unit empty, with a hole cut out of the back and out of view of her survellaince team...
** And as the page quote tells, Michael and friends have a tendency to hide supplies around town as well.

* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''
** Sarah's house is built for full scale battle: guns in the walls, guns in the umbrella rack, guns in bags, Kevlar lining the furniture... the cops are pretty impressed when they search the place. They even keep guns in the oh-so-handy in-bed compartments on one of the group's [[ProductPlacement Dodge trucks]]. In the second season, it is revealed that truly sensitive items are kept in a sealed safe buried under the floor of the house. The family also keeps a small ''warehouse'' that houses their entire personal armory.
** Ironically even Skynet is shown doing this trope, with Terminators collecting useful materials and stashing them far from the city so they can be retrieved after the war breaks out.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': On various ships there are compartments with phasers, tricorders, and medkits all over the place, just in case people are isolated in a disaster situation.
** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': When Romulan assassins attack Picard, Laris and Zhaban in the chateau, the trio proceed to fight back with the several phasers they have stashed about the place. And that's just in the dining room! Rather unusual given that Earth is supposed to be a {{utopia}}; the fact that Laris and Zhaban are both [[BattleButler former members of the Romulan]] SecretPolice may have [[ProperlyParanoid something to do with it]].
* ''Series/TheProfessionals'':
** Bodie and Doyle encounter a veteran member of [=CI5=] who has weapons stashed all over his house in case he's attacked. This causes problems when he turns out to be corrupt and the two have to take him down.
** In "Fall Girl", Bodie is framed for an assassination and is on the run from his own organisation. He goes to a lockup and removes a dusty tarpaulin covering a car, which has an assault rifle and other supplies in the boot.

* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'': In one episode, Sam and Callen find themselves on the run with a young woman they have to protect. They have to ditch their cellphones to keep the bad guys from tracing them, and they're almost out of ammo after a firefight. Callen, who is ex-CIA, leads them to a CIA stash of ammo and other equipment disguised as an electrical box.

* The Frank Moses in ''Film/Red2010'' has a supply cache of money and fake identification hidden under the concrete in his basement, which he accesses by smashing the floor with a sledge hammer.

* ''Film/Red2010'': The retired spies all have hidden supplies, ranging from Moses' handgun and fake IDs hidden under the floor up to Marvin's hidden underground arsenal and archive of secret documents.

* ''Series/{{Alias}}'': Sydney Bristow's apartment includes several hidden guns and a secret drawer of knives. Her father Jack has multiple storage units for hiding weapons, armor, explosives, and other supplies. Lampshaded by Vaughn: "The fact that you're letting me see this place means: it's not your only one, is it?".

* ''Series/{{Alias}}'':
** When Jack and Vaughan engage in clandestine activities without CIA approval to help Sydney, Jack takes Vaughan to a secret warehouse he owns that's full of supplies. Vaughan assesses just how many different types of things are in this place (weapons, survival gear, medical equipment, money, you name it) and then realizes something even more important: the fact Jack's letting Vaughan see this place means Jack's ''got more than one of these secret supply bases''.
** When Director Chase orders a search of Sydney's house as a result of Elena framing Nadia for her illegal activities, the agents assigned to the search are astonished by the sheer amount of weapons Sydney has stashed around the place.
--> '''Agent''': "She also has: an assault rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun, four handguns, two tasers, and a secret drawer of knives. Let's start with the knives."
--> '''Sydney''': "Let's start with you not wasting my time."

* ''Series/Alias'': Sydney Bristow's apartment includes several hidden guns and a secret drawer of knives. Her father Jack has multiple storage units for hiding weapons, armor, explosives, and other supplies. Lampshaded by Vaughn: "The fact that you're letting me see this place means: it's not your only one, is it?".

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladephia'': Dennis has rope, duct tape and zip ties in the trunk of his car.

* ''Series/AlwaysSunnyInPhiladephia'': Dennis has rope, duct tape and zip ties in the trunk of his car.

And it may not always be a gun. [[DuctTapeForEverything Duct tape is handy no matter the situation.]] Keep some in your car, office and work bench. Some characters may have a vehicle loaded with weapons and supplies hidden in a warehouse in case they need to escape in a hurry.

* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', Sarah's house is built for full scale battle: guns in the walls, guns in the umbrella rack, guns in bags, Kevlar lining the furniture... the cops are pretty impressed when they search the place.
** They even keep guns in the oh-so-handy in-bed compartments on one of the group's [[ProductPlacement Dodge trucks]].
** In the second season, it is revealed that truly sensitive items are kept in a sealed safe buried under the floor of the house. The family also keeps a small ''warehouse'' that houses their entire personal armory.

* ''Film/TheKiller2023''. The title character has a safe buried under his lawn for his weapons and MultipleIdentityIDs. On reaching the United States he uses a storage unit which also has multiple license plates and other items he can use to carry out his contract killings. He narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day, when the automatic funding eventually dries up, an episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and their reactions when they discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment.