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->'''Agent Sulky:''' Sore Throat, our mysterious informant. Why are we meeting in a dark, deserted building?
->'''Sore Throat:''' I live here. This is just a normal night for me.

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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', the police discover that the suspects have been using homes that were foreclosed on by a particular bank. When they investigate one, they find a roughly-constructed trapdoor to a basement, leading them to think it's being used for human trafficking. (It's actually [[spoiler:tiger trafficking]])

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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'', the police discover that the suspects have been using homes that were foreclosed on by a particular bank. When they investigate one, they find a roughly-constructed trapdoor to a basement, leading them to think it's being used for human trafficking. (It's actually [[spoiler:tiger trafficking]])
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** It's revealed that [=MI6=] has taken over a disused (and fictitious) Underground station under the Houses of Parliament ''Film/DieAnotherDay''.

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** It's revealed that [=MI6=] has taken over a disused (and fictitious) Underground station under the Houses of Parliament in ''Film/DieAnotherDay''.
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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Galadriel and her company expected Sauron's fortress in Forodwaith to be abandoned. They are taken by surprise when a snow-troll attacks them and injures several Elves.
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* ''Series/TheWire'': vacant townhouses line many of the streets the show is set on. Wallace lives in one with a host of other kids without adult supervision, season 3 revolves around Colvin pushing the drug trade to streets with no residents (although to his surprise, one of his chosen locations still had a regular legal resident) and both the dealers and users set up in the vacants, and one is turned into an impromptu clinic.



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* "Bando" by Music/{{Migos}} is about selling crack out of abandoned houses. Group member Offset would later commision a GemEncrusted necklace modelled after the abandoned house emoji, with a functioning door and gold and diamond human figure inside.
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* [[http://skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Avalon Avalons]] from ''Webcomic/SkinDeep'' are where the local monsters go to hang out with each other in their non-human forms; some of them do have members (in human form) stationed around the entrances to keep the everyday Muggles out.

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* ''Webcomic/KiwiBlitz'': The [[BioAugmentation body-modding]] crime syndicate ALTER has their base in an abandoned office building that's supposedly under perpetual construction. The above-ground floors of the building really are completely empty; meanwhile, the gang secretly uses the underground level and parking garage for their illicit activities.
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[[http://skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Avalon Avalons]] from ''Webcomic/SkinDeep'' are where the local monsters go to hang out with each other in their non-human forms; some of them do have members (in human form) stationed around the entrances to keep the everyday Muggles out.
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->'''Agent Sulky:''' Sore Throat, our {{mysterious informant}}. Why are we meeting in a dark, deserted building?

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhOHKCM6ZJw This]] car commercial. (In this case it's a car not a building, obviously.)
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Abandoned buildings are something we automatically learn to ignore, which makes them the perfect cover for someone who doesn't want to draw attention to themselves. Like certain less-than-legal businesses, or the {{Masquerade}}. Which means that that abandoned building off in the distance, might not be so abandoned after all, it's just kept looking that way to keep out the curious.

Not usually for fight scenes like its close relative AbandonedWarehouse, generally people want to keep this building intact. Doesn't mean there won't be an underground [[FightClubbing fight club]] there though.

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Abandoned buildings are something we automatically learn to ignore, which makes them the perfect cover for someone who doesn't want to draw attention to themselves. Like certain someone operating a [[BlackMarket less-than-legal businesses, business]], an illegal gambling den, or the {{Masquerade}}. Which means that that abandoned building off in the distance, might not be so abandoned after all, it's just kept looking that way to keep out the curious.

Not usually for fight scenes and gunfights like its close relative AbandonedWarehouse, generally people want to keep this building intact. Doesn't mean there won't be an underground [[FightClubbing fight club]] there though.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhOHKCM6ZJw This]] car commercial. (In this case it's a car not a building, obviously.)
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhOHKCM6ZJw This]] car commercial. (In this case it's a car not a building, obviously.)
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* In one episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', Jake and Charles use an abandoned building across the street from a drug dealer's hideout to spy on him. Unfortunately, the CabinFever and being around each other all the time sets them on edge and they're loud enough that their cover is blown.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', the police discover that the suspects have been using homes that were foreclosed on by a particular bank. When they investigate one, they find a roughly-constructed trapdoor to a basement, leading them to think it's being used for human trafficking. (It's actually [[spoiler:tiger trafficking]])

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* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'' it is noted that, to the perspective of {{Muggles}}, [[WizardingSchool Hogwarts]] looks like an abandoned castle.

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** The magical hospital St. Mungo's is disguised as a permanently "closed for refurbishing" department store in the middle of London.
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* ''VideoGame/EvilGenius2'' works an Exploitation of this trope by the Forces of Justice early on in the game. Your EvilGenius will be vexed at why the good guys continue to send agents to investigate your operations on the abandoned island and cause delays to their plans because their minions keep having to stop and fight them; one of the minions will point out that all the helicopter visits your minions need to get on and off the island rather breaks the fiction that the island is abandoned. The Evil Genius basically goes "''Fiiiiine'', let's go kidnap a valet and learn how to distract agents with a casino."
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* In ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'', professor Hobby's headquarters and android production lines are located in the submerged ruins of Manhattan, for some reason.

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* In ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'', professor Professor Hobby's headquarters and android production lines are located in the submerged ruins of Manhattan, for some reason.
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* ''VideoGame/BugFables'' has [[spoiler: [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace the Deadlands]], which is just an abandoned house - except it's full of EldritchAbomination BossInMookClothing enemies, the origins of which [[NothingIsScarier are never explained.]] There's also a small cockroach settlement.]]

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* ''VideoGame/BugFables'' has [[spoiler: [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace the Deadlands]], which is just an abandoned house - except it's full of EldritchAbomination BossInMookClothing enemies, the origins of which [[NothingIsScarier are never explained.]] There's also a small cockroach settlement.]]

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