History Main / EvilTowerOfOminousness

* ''StarWars'': The second Death Star had a tower at its north pole, containing the Emperor's penthouse suite, complete with handy-dandy bottomless pit that led into the reactor core for some reason. The first Death Star had a similar tower in it, according to ''TheForceUnleashed''.
** Not forgetting the aptly, and affectionately nicknamed "[[Film/LordoftheRings Wizards Tower]]", the prominent observation platform aboard the Confederate flagship ''Invisible Hand'' in RevengeOfTheSith. It's clearly meant to be very evocative of the Death Star spire too.

* Prince Xizor in ''StarWars: ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' has one, of the skyscraper variety. Partially subverted in that ''every'' building on Coruscant is a skyscraper. [[spoiler:It collapses after Lando Calrissian drops a ''[[StuffBlowingUp thermal detonator]]'' in the garbage chute.]]

* Mozenrath's Citadel in the Disney ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' [[RecycledTheSeries series]] is one of these, complete with [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent snake decorations]] on the doors and death traps and zombie guards inside.

* ''StarWars'': The Death Stars, if not in shape then in spirit. The second Death Star had a tower at its north pole, containing the Emperor's penthouse suite, complete with handy-dandy bottomless pit that led into the reactor core for some reason. The first Death Star had a similar tower in it, according to ''TheForceUnleashed''.

* Literature/{{Discworld}}: Although not necessarily evil per se, Creator/TerryPratchett plays with the trope of the wizard's tower (with influence from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' as well as fairytale tradition) by saying that, when magic is running at unusually high levels in ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'', each wizard is ''biologically compelled'' to build his own tower and start fighting the others, like a snail growing a shell.

* The [[ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne Tower of Kagutsuchi]], Tartarus in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIMAGINE Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building]] and [[DigitalDevilSaga Karma Temple]]. [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei SMT]] has a thing with [[TarotMotifs towers]]...

* In ''TotalDrama All Stars'' episode "You Regatta be Kidding Me" Mike discovers one in his own mind setting up a StoryArc, considering with him meeting and freeing his other personalities along the way.

* You can tell the bad guys are serious in ''Dreamfall: TheLongestJourney'' when they take over Marcuria and build a massive doom tower in the middle of it.

* The Citadel tower in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} 1'', Darm is so massive that takes up about half of the game, with about 25 floors in the entire tower.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} 1'', Darm is so massive that takes up about half of the game, with about 100 floors in the entire tower.

** The title "Literature/TheTowerOfElephant", too.

* The Citadel in ''{{Half-Life}} 2''. Supposedly one of many around the world, it serves as a dimensional teleport beacon, dark-energy reactor, storage for synths, and a cushy office for [[LesCollaborateurs Combine collaborator]] Dr. Breen (and oh, it's also TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon in ''{{Half-Life}} 2'').

-->-- ''[[TheLordOfTheRings The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''

* ''TheLordOfTheRings''

* Literature/{{Discworld}}: Although not necessarily evil per se, Creator/TerryPratchett plays with the trope of the wizard's tower (with influence from ''TheLordOfTheRings'' as well as fairytale tradition) by saying that, when magic is running at unusually high levels in ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'', each wizard is ''biologically compelled'' to build his own tower and start fighting the others, like a snail growing a shell.

** Taejin's Tower in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has a very [[TheLordOfTheRings Barad-dûr]]-like look to it, however in the [[AfterTheEnd 500-some years after the extinction of humanity on Gran Pulse]], the top half of it has toppled over. Despite that minor detail, it's creepiness factor is not in any way diminished.

** But the original and still the best is Black Rock Spire, a [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience black dragon]] doom fortress made out of a [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Black Tooth Grin]] orc doom fortress made out of a [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Dark Iron Dwarf]] doom fortress originally intended to carry out the commands of a chaotic demigod made of ''lava''. ''And it still houses all of them!.''
** And then there's also the tower of Auchindoun, though it may not count because it only became evil after it ''blew up''.
** The [[http://bp2.blogger.com/_tl3FA5WXvFo/SD4cG8ITMGI/AAAAAAAAAzI/3UW06-2myhw/s400/Sunfury+ Spire.jpeg Sunfury Spire]] in Silvermoon can be quite ominous.
** The Mana Spires in Netherstorm are massive structures that MOVE, but the big daddy of all these is Tempest Keep.
** Taken UpToEleven in [[ExpansionPack Catacylsm]] which boasts both the Twilight Citadel and the Sulfuron Spire, made of twisted metal and on fire respectively. The latter of which now houses the aforesaid ElementalEmbodiment of fire.

* ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'': Stephen King topped them all --- the stands at the center of the [[strike:universe]] ''multiverse''. It's a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] in this case. [[spoiler:The [[BigBad Crimson King]] was waiting for the hero there, but he didn't own the place -- he'd been trapped by it. The Tower itself was actually a CosmicKeystone that the Crimson King was trying to destroy, and it was [[GeniusLoci somewhat able to defend itself]].]]

* Most of the conflict in ''{{Otherland}}'' occurs [[InsideAComputerSystem within the titular network]], but a significant portion of the climax takes place in the real-world skyscraper that forms the headquarters of J Corp. Black, ominous, and massively taller than anything else nearby, it's a suitable home for CorruptCorporateExecutive Felix Jongleur and [[spoiler:gets spectacularly flattened when the Other decides to commit suicide via DeathFromAbove]].

* The final level of MassEffect has Shepard [[spoiler: climbing the Citadel tower which has been seized by Saren's Geth. This is notable in that Shepard does not ascend the tower the way it's meant to be done, but instead by exiting it and walking up the side. The boss fight with Saren takes place at the top in the council chamber.]]

* The [[ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne Tower of Kagutsuchi]], Tartarus in ''{{Persona 3}}'', [[ShinMegamiTenseiIMAGINE Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building]] and [[DigitalDevilSaga Karma Temple]]. [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei SMT]] has a thing with [[TarotMotifs towers]]...

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* A literal tower of doom existed for many years at the US Army's Fort Detrick in Maryland. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_470 Building 470]] was a 7-story tower built as an anthrax factory, complete with heavy-duty biohazard safety systems (one major leak was so well-contained that no personnel were exposed, even though the leak was catastrophic by any reasonable definition). The building was decommissioned and fully sterilized in 1970 and turned over to the National Cancer Institutes, which couldn't find much use for it, and was finally torn down (verrrrry carefully, mainly because of asbestos concerns rather than biological contamination) in 2003 over a period of ten months.
* The Tower card of the regular [[TarotMotifs Tarot deck]] usually means calamity.
* Nikola Tesla's tower at Wardenclyffe would have resembled this had it reached completion. It also would have looked totally badass due to all of the lightening that may have surrounded it...
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* The Ithavoll Group headquarters in ''{{Bayonetta}}''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} 1'', the Tower of Darm is so massive that takes up about half of the game, with about 100 floors in the entire tower.

* ''TheDarkTower'': Stephen King topped them all --- the stands at the center of the [[strike:universe]] ''multiverse''. It's a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] in this case. [[spoiler:The [[BigBad Crimson King]] was waiting for the hero there, but he didn't own the place -- he'd been trapped by it. The Tower itself was actually a CosmicKeystone that the Crimson King was trying to destroy, and it was [[GeniusLoci somewhat able to defend itself]].]]