History Main / EvilTowerOfOminousness

* In ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} 1'', Darm is so massive that takes up [[MarathonLevel about half of the game]], with about 25 floors in the entire tower.
** In the prequel ''Ys Origin'', it takes up the whole game, but features more varied environments like a flooded prison, lava area, and sand-filled area.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' Nagash, the lord of the undead, has not just an evil tower, but an entire ''mountain'' that's been turned into a gigantic fortress of evil!

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': The Daemon World of the Iron Warriors, Medrengard, is an entire world covered with evil towers reaching into space.

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

* In the third ''Left Behind'' movie, after an implied jump forward in time, the new way of things has been established and Nicolae Carpathia resides in a central "GC"-emblazoned building which dominates the DVD menu [[spoiler:and blows up at the end]].

* Templar Towers in ''WebComic/TwoKinds'' are huge, gunmetal grey edifices surrounded by orbiting red panels near the top. They house a barracks, an absolutely huge {{PowerCrystal|s}}, and a mind-control beacon that interacts with specially made {{Slave Collar}}s to ensure that those wearing them can't rebel. Even without the collars, they have a dampening effect on non-human minds.

** Sauron's personal tower Barad-dûr, raised by his magic in the heart of Mordor to become the greatest stronghold of all Middle-Earth. With the final destruction of Sauron's power, it [[LoadBearingBoss promptly fell apart]].

** In ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'', the FanRemake of ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', throughout the ''Xen'' level you can see a huge tower hovering in the distance, with an enormous red portal over it that gives it something of [[https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d856e3d132e863fa2968760/1583457186738-9GKTT8ALFZNW0XQH73FU/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kNvT88LknE-K9M4pGNO0Iqd7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1USOFn4xF8vTWDNAUBm5ducQhX-V3oVjSmr829Rco4W2Uo49ZdOtO_QXox0_W7i2zEA/20200305194702_1.jpg?format=1000w an Eye of Sauron look]]. You finally reach it in ''Interloper'', and spend much of the level making your way up through it.

After the ElaborateUndergroundBase, this is perhaps the most common form of a supervillain lair. A jaw-droppingly massive tower that, well, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin towers]]'' over everyone and everything around it.

* In the ''Podcast/AliceIsntDead'' episode "Omelet," the long haul trucker {{Narrator}} is disturbed by the strange, unreal [[AlienGeometries visual quality]] of a tower she sees incongruously jutting out of a hillside in the distance, which serves to {{Foreshadow|ing}} her far more up-close experiences with the paranormal throughout.

* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasandFerb'', Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated is headquartered in a big purple skyscraper.

* Mojo Jojo's [[SupervillainLair observatory]] in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.

* The Black Rose Tower in ''{{Literature/Tasakeru}}'' is a complex case, not so much ''evil'', but definitely ominous. Originally built by a would-be world conqueror, it was quickly abandoned when said conqueror did a HeelFaceTurn. It was revealed later to have strange magical properties, including repairing itself when damaged and limited shapeshifting. [[spoiler: The inside is even weirder: it adapts to the needs of whomever calls it their home.]]

* ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'' has a smashing one of these in the Skeksis' fortress.

* In Disney's ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'', one of the scariest straight examples was the setting of the final confrontation. Also a rare female villain-version.

** The Crystal Tower at the center of the Ancients' Maze, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'', where [[BigBad Xande]] awaits. It stretches upwards far, far above the clouds (it takes both of the Nintendo [=DS=]' screens to show just part of it) and holds the altar/[[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporter]] to the Dark World at the top.

** Mirage Tower in the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'', a spiral-shaped structure whose very top contains a [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporter]] into the Sky Warriors' Floating Castle.