History Main / SupervillainLair

* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', Lord Genome's city of Teppelin should easily qualify; I mean, the entire city structure IS the GiantRobot / WeaponOfMassDestruction!

** The Initiative from the fourth season.

** Season Six: Warren's basement. Erm...

* Brilliantly spoofed, along with the rest of JamesBond, in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.

* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad's'' ''JamesBond'' parody episode "Tearjerker", where the titular villain's lair and vehicles all have some sort of major defect[[note]]For example, he sends some {{Mooks}} rappelling into his office to kill Stan, but the floor breaks underneath them, then the ropes don't detach so Stan just climbs up after Tearjerker[[/note]]. Tearjerker (played by Roger) keeps blaming it on the lousy contractor. [[spoiler:This even proves to be his undoing, as his EscapePod craps out while he's over a volcano.]]

* Nearly every ''JamesBond'' film ever made.

* Emporer Tod on the planet Spengo had about everything above in ''MomAndDadSaveTheWorld''
* Syndrome in TheIncredibles has an absolutely fabulous lair, in a tropical paradise - [[IslandBase Nomanisan Island]] - under a volcano. Complete with monorail, underground rocket launch site, underwater docks for the subplanes, and lava walls.
* Destro's under water base in Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra has everything a supervillain lair needs, which includes a self destruct mechanism.

* The Initiative from the fourth season of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.

* The MarvelUniverse has the modestly named Castle Doom (In the city of Doomstadt, in DoctorDoom's home country of Latveria). TheRedSkull, Superia, and ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} seem to prefer elaborate bases hidden on seemingly deserted islands. The Kingpin, being a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive "legitimate businessman"]], has a penthouse in a New York skyscraper-- with the floor directly below him packed full of lowlife goons. Doctor Demonicus raised an island from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. {{Magneto}} had his own private asteroid base in orbit.

** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has the Lucky 38 Casino, Caesar's Fort, and the Legate's Camp(base game), the [[MadScientistLaboratory Think Tank and Forbidden Zone]](''Old World Blues''), and [[YeOldeNuclearSilo Ulysses' Temple]](''Lonesome Road'').

Every up-and-coming SuperVillain aspires to create a particularly cool SupervillainLair. It may be an ElaborateUndergroundBase, an [[HauntedCastle old castle]] (preferably atop a craggy mountain peak in the middle of nowhere surrounded by a [[DramaticThunder perpetual lightning storm]]), an [[UnderwaterBase underwater complex]], an EvilTowerOfOminousness, a [[IslandBase volcanic isle]], a [[SpaceBase space station]], [[ExecutiveSuiteFight a corporate office building]], a [[BigFancyCastle BFC]] at the end of world 8 (in video games anyway) among other possibilities, but if you really want to be a cut above lesser villainous contemporaries you make it a [[FloatingContinent floating fortress]] or an AirborneAircraftCarrier. It will generally be stocked with most or all of the following:

** The Mega Man series loves this trope. Every game has at least one new evil fortress for Wily, [[VideoGame/MegaMan4 three have]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan5 separate]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan6 evil lairs]] for the ''DiscOneFinalBoss'', some of Wily's fortresses are [[RecycledINSPACE in space]], and once he even has a skull-themed [[ThatsNoMoon Death Star]].

** The Mega Man series loves this trope. Every game has at least one new evil fortress for Wily, [[VideoGame/MegaMan4 three have]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan5 separate]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan6 evil lairs'' for the ''DiscOneFinalBoss'', some of Wily's fortresses are [[RecycledINSPACE in space]], and once he even has a skull-themed [[ThatsNoMoon Death Star]].

* FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi features this repeatedly as the titular heroine uses her knowledge of modern innovation- coupled with magic and a heaping helping of 'they will kill me' to design some awesome {{Magitech}} versions. These include a [[UnderwaterBase submarine base]], several elaborate palaces, and an [[IslandBase entire island system]]- that she conquered. She is noteable in treation her minions well, however, and so lacks the usual [[{{No OSHA Compliance}} flippancy with their lives]]. The lairs she constructs reflect this. In fact, she usually uses [[MechaMooks Roving magical drone-golems in place of conventional troops]]. Many of the antagonists themselves have bases that they must have [[LavaPit constructed]] in [[{{booby trap}} accordance]] to a [[SharkPool villain's]] [[DeathCourse decoration]] [[{{deathtrap}} guide]], includeing- you guessed it -an island with a cave shaped like a skull.

* FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi features this repeatedly as the titular heroine uses her knowledge of modern innovation- coupled with magic and a heaping helping of 'they will kill me' to design some awesome {{Magitech}} versions. These include a [[UnderwaterBase submarine base]], several elaborate palaces, and an [[IslandBase entire island system]]- that she conquered. She is noteable in treation her minions well, however, and so lacks the usual [[{{No OSHA Compliance}} flippancy with their lives. The lairs she constructs reflect this. In fact, she usually uses [[MechaMooks Roving magical drone-golems in place of conventional troops]]. Many of the antagonists themselves have bases that they must have [[LavaPit constructed]] in [[{{booby trap}} accordance]] to a [[SharkPool villain's]] [[DeathCourse decoration]] [[{{deathtrap}} guide]], includeing- you guessed it -an island with a cave shaped like a skull.

* FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi features this repeatedly as the titular heroine uses her knowledge of modern innovation- coupled with magic and a heaping helping of 'they will kill me' to design some awesome {{Magitech}} versions. These include a [[UnderwaterBase submarine base]], several elaborate palaces, and an [[IslandBase entire island system]]- that she conquered. Many of the antagonists have bases that they must have constructed in accordance to a villains decoration guide, includeing- you guessed it -an island with a cave shaped like a skull.

* In ''My Immortal'', Draco is held bondage in Volxemort's lair. ''

* Lots of series set in TheDCU. A recent ''{{Batman}}'' story featured the debut of a realtor who specialized in finding properties for super-criminals. [[AbandonedWarehouse Abandoned warehouses]], [[AbsurdlySpaciousSewer spacious sewers]], [[CircusOfFear rundown theme parks]], you name it.