History Main / SupervillainLair

* A ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story featured the debut of a realtor who specialized in finding properties for super-criminals. {{Abandoned Warehouse}}s, {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}}s, [[AmusementParkOfDoom rundown theme parks]], you name it.

* Lots of series set in ''Franchise/TheDCU''. A ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story featured the debut of a realtor who specialized in finding properties for super-criminals. {{Abandoned Warehouse}}s, {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}}s, [[AmusementParkOfDoom rundown theme parks]], you name it.

* Franchise/{{Superman}}:

* A [[SelfDestructMechanism self destruct]] button just in case anyone breaches the lair.

Every up-and-coming {{Supervillain}} aspires to create a particularly cool Supervillain Lair. It may be an ElaborateUndergroundBase, an [[HauntedCastle old castle]] (preferably [[DeathMountain 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:

** ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'': SPECTRE operates from a hidden elaborate [[VolcanoBase volcano base]] in Japan to house and hide their space capsules-swallowing spacecraft.

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

* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad's'' ''Film/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]].

* [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]] has a preference for mansions.

* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': BigBad Dr. Hell had TWO: the island of Bardos, where he found the Mykene HumongousMecha, and the -properly named- island of Hell, an islet near from Japan where he moved to in the second half of the series. His first base looked like a deserted island, covered with ancient, half-crumbled ruins, but his second fortress seemed less ordinary, featuring a mountain with four gigantic faces carved on the slopes. Nonetheless, both of them included the next features:

*** barracks for his {{Mook}}s

*** several training camps for his {{Robeast}}s and {{Mook}}s
*** And in the original manga, his second fortress could transform into a humongous HumongousMecha. And in the GosakuOta episodes, he could launch it off to the space and blow it up (in case his enemies invaded his island and he could not win).

** ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': The lair of the Vegan invaders was a SpaceBase set in the Moon. [[spoiler:When the Emperor began his final offensive against Earth, he ordered blowing it up to show his troops they had only two choices left: conquering Earth or die.]]
* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', Lord Genome's city of Teppelin should easily qualify; the entire city structure IS the GiantRobot / WeaponOfMassDestruction!
* NERV's facility at Tokyo 3 in Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion. It's debatable whether or not they're really evil, but they certainly enjoy looking the part.
* Claw from ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' has [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Dead River.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' the BigBad's lair is Los Noches, a massive fortress in the middle of the desert. It is enormous and includes a great number of traps, minions, a war room, and a throne room. It is perfect for the villain who wants to keep "everything going according to plan."

* Lots of series set in ''Franchise/TheDCU''. A ''Franchise/{{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.
* Throughout his brief self-titled series in the 70s, ComicBook/TheJoker worked out of his "Ha-Hacienda". It's not too clear whether it had a fixed location; at least one comic places it ''[[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll beneath Arkham Asylum]]''.
* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has the modestly named Castle Doom (In the city of Doomstadt, in Doctor Doom's home country of Latveria). The ComicBook/RedSkull, 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. ComicBook/{{Magneto}} had his own private asteroid base in orbit.

** In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'' Comicbook/LexLuthor has a submarine mobile base, an abandoned warehouse, an underground lair, a satellite space base (Injustice Gang's old HQ which he appropriated after their defeat)...

** The headquarters of the [[EvilCounterpart Dark Judges]] is the Dark Hall of Justice, an AlternateUniverse counterpart of Mega-City One's Grand Hall of Justice. It used to be where they organized the omnicidal murges of their planet that left it devoid of life, but they occasionally go back to regroup since entering Dredd's dimension. Features a lot of {{Bizarchitecture}}, a nifty throne room, and a bone-littered courtyard marked by a [[OurFounder memorial statue]] of Judge Death carrrying out the last execution.
** In fact, the Dark Hall is simply Judge Death's personal lair. The other three Dark Judges are shown to have their own fortresses--Judge Fear for instance has a rather imposing-looking castle covered with SpikesOfVillainy on the inside and outside.

* ''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 {{Magitek}} 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 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]], including -- you guessed it -- an island with a cave shaped like a skull.

** In the first book, it eventually turns out that HYDRA's main fortress exists in a PocketDimension tied to Battersea power station in central London. Their ally Gravemoss, meanwhile, has his own personal lair hidden in the Catacombs of Paris (which is fitting, given [[{{Necromancer}} what]] he is).

* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'': Subverted. When the comically inept [[CardCarryingVillain Bowler Hat Guy]] has captured Lewis and is [[MrExposition telling him]] [[MotiveRant his motives]] for doing so, he mentions how he met the [[AIIsACrapshoot robotic hat Doris]] and how they retreated to "our villainous lair" to make their nefarious plans. Cue camera shot of the ridiculously cute kid theme restaurant they actually went to.

* Spoofed to death in the ''Film/AustinPowers'' series.

** "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to my submarine lair. [[DoubleEntendre It's long and hard and full of seamen!]]"

** Although never shown onscreen in the films, according to supplementary material, Palpatine's Imperial Palace on Coruscant is... [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs the old Jedi Temple]]. Makes perfect sense for a Sith, since it was built on top of an ancient site that was used by Force sensitives from both sides for their rituals.
* Spoofed in ''[[Film/{{DEBS}} D.E.B.S.]]'', with Lucy's lair being something vaguely evil-looking. Then, after the film skewers the meetup dialogue (and Lucy's "evil" image), we find out that, despite all her high-tech gadgetry, the lair still has yet to be completed. This, of course, could be ue to Lucy's just having come back from Antarctica or wherever.
* Emporer Tod on the planet Spengo had about everything above in ''Film/MomAndDadSaveTheWorld''
* Destro's under water base in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' has everything a supervillain lair needs, which includes a self destruct mechanism.

* ''Literature/DrNo'': UnbuiltTrope. Dr No has one, built on a tropical island for the sole reason of feeding his megalomania. The book makes a great deal of noise about the time and expenses involved, and Bond muses about the strange, surreal quality of the whole thing.

* In the ''Literature/AngelsOfMusic'' novella "The Mark of Kane", the Angels are tasked with infiltrating Kane's supervillain lair. Their employer (a, relatively speaking, heroic version of Literature/{{the Phantom of the Opera}}) reveals that he's been able to obtain the blueprints of Kane's lair by asking around the contacts he made in the lair-construction industry back when he built his own elaborate underground base beneath the Paris Opera House.

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** Season Four: The Initiative

** Season Seven: The vineyard. And eventually the Hellmouth itself.

* Brilliantly spoofed, along with the rest of ''Film/JamesBond'', in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. The Fortress of Doom, Chaotica's lair in the holodeck program ''The Adventures of Captain Proton!''

* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Ornithophobia Diffusion", Sheldon claims that if he had a working superweapon, he would be living in a Supervillain Lair on the proceeds of holding the world hostage.

** ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'' uses a seemingly standard spaceship called Vulgyre as the headquarters for Zone. It ultimately turns into a massive plot point when [[spoiler:it turns out to not only be sentient, but the true leader of Zone who has been using their conquests to become the Galactic Super Beast.]]

* ''Series/TwelveMonkeys'': Season 2 reveals the existence of Titan, a city-sized time travel machine which serves as the headquarters of the Army of the 12 Monkeys and personal lair of [[BigBad the Witness]]. Season 4 reveals that its true purpose is [[spoiler: to serve as a WaveMotionGun powerful enough to destroy the world across every day of existence, creating a [[RealityBreakingParadox paradox so big]] that [[TimeCrash time totally collapses]]]].
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': The Mads have cycled through various lairs for their MadScientist experiments in weaponizing awful movies, each more elaborate than the last. First there was the fairly mundane Gizmonic Institute, then [[ElaborateUndergroundBase Deep 13]], then [[OldDarkHouse Castle Forrester]], and finally [[SpaceBase Moon 13]].

** The comic book character Dr. Soup, from the ''Shmumberman'' comic series, has one. Once he is defeated, the factory worker, who is named "Hugo" following Soup's defeat, takes over the lair and vows to turn it into "a place of peace and justice."
** Odd Todd's lair, introduced in the Season 1 finale "O is Not For Over", looks more like an office space than anything else, since he rented out half the space to a team of web developers. According to him, his previous lair was much more dark and mysterious, but since it was too hard to read, he re-did it.
** In Season 2's "And Then They Were Puppies", the Puppy Master's lair is introduced. It looks like an observatory with a dog bone on top.
** In "Villains In Need Are Villains Indeed", it's revealed that Jamie Jam, Mr. Lightning and the Noisemaker have two lairs of their own: one on land, and one in the town lake. Of course, since the Noisemaker CannotKeepASecret, he manages to reveal both lairs' existences to Odd Squad, much to the chagrin of Jamie Jam and Mr. Lightning.
** The Total Zeroes, a villainous sibling duo debuting in Season 2, are shown to have a lair in "Total Zeroes". However, Sister Zero eventually becomes DrunkWithPower enough to destroy it until she and her brother are stuck in a WhiteVoidRoom with nothing left to zap, and it's unknown if she gets it back following her power upgrade to multiply things by 8 rather than 0.
** In the first part of the Season 2 finale, "Who is Agent Otis?", [[spoiler: the villainous duck family that raised the eponymous agent]] is revealed to have a lair situated in a barn, which also served as their place of residence.
** The Shadow's lair, first seen in "Odd Beginnings: Part 2", is a roomy warehouse that's able to house nearly all the villains in the world.

* Spoofed relentlessly in ''Totally Renamed Spy Game'' by Cheapass Games (formerly known as "''Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond''").

* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement ''Evil'' contains instructions for playing evil [=PCs=], including details on the construction of an evil lair. These cover finding a remote location, dealing with local creatures and possibly making them your minions, the cost of constructing a lair underwater or inside a volcano, creating magic traps and guardians, building escape routes...pretty much a short handbook for this trope from a GenreSavvy villain's point of view.
* Obviously a BIG part of {{7TV}} from Crooked Dice. They even produce downloadable scenery for you to decorate the 'set' with. The rulebook includes rules for what happens when you lose a hand to hand while standing on an overhead gantry.

* ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'', where as the resident supervillain, you get to build a lair - twice - get the money, minions and henchmen you need to defeat the Super Spies, and successfully TakeOverTheWorld - all done in a [[{{Troperrific}} cheesy 1960's-style way]].

* Outer Heaven in ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' is a mercenary facility where the titular mecha is being built.

-->'''[=[PC]=]''': "Why is it that villains always go for the underwater secret base?"
-->'''Krunk the Kobold''': "Krunk doesn't know, but he did have a previous master who had a secret volcano base. The sulfur hurt Krunk's sinuses."
* The White Star in both ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Original Generation'' and ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Original Generation 2''
* In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer: Red Alert 3'', after assassinating Allied Supreme Commander Bingham Premier Cherdenko decides that YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness and launches attacks at you from his Secret Volcano Base.

** Don't forget the Temple of Nod/Temple Prime in the Tiberian series. Sure, they typically get blasted by the Ion Cannon, but that was [[ThePlan Kane's plan all along]]. They have two purposes; to be used by his soldiers and sacrificed when the benefit is greater than that use.

** it should be noted that their names are "Castle Oblivion" and "The Castle That Never Was". And if a Disney world has a villain, he'll have his lair...
* At the centre of the ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'', [[EvilOverlord Lord Recluse]] spins his web of schemes within his futuristic fortress in Grandville, the [[PresidentEvil capital of his island nation]]. And that's just the main base- each of his lieutenants has their own customised base ([[OurGhostsAreDifferent Ghost]] [[DarkActionGirl Widow]] has an EvilTowerOfOminousness, [[MadScientist Dr Aeon]] has a futuristic city...), and dozens of smaller [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Arachnos]] bases are dotted in all the territory they control. Player villains can join a Super Group and construct a base of their own.

* Lampshaded and/or subverted in ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever 2''. In one sequence you come upon two guards discussing the needlessly elaborate evil lair. One guard explains that while it would be far more convenient and cost-effective to lease office space, then potential clients wouldn't think that the organization is evil enough for high-profile jobs. As proof, he cites a vastly inferior evil organization pulling in many important jobs simply because they had a top-rate design firm redesign their secret base.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'': 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]]. And, generally speaking, all of them possess at least two robotic defenders designed to try to stop Mega Man from making it to Wily.

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'' has the Master's lair, a prototype Vault built under a CreepyCathedral, and Mariposa Military Base much further north.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' has the Enclave's oil rig.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has Raven Rock in the main game, Haven in ''The Pitt'', Adams Air Force Base in ''Broken Steel'', and the Underground Lab in ''Point Lookout''.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Lucky 38 Casino]], [[BigBad Caesar]]'s Fort, and the [[TheDragon Legate]]'s Camp(base game), the [[MadScientistLaboratory Think Tank and Forbidden Zone]](''Old World Blues''), and [[YeOldeNuclearSilo Ulysses' Temple]](''Lonesome Road'').
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'': the Institute fills this niche in the main game, with the Nucleus in Far Harbor, the Fizztop Grille in Nuka-World, and the Mechanist's Lair in Automatron.

* In ''VideoGames/CarmenSandiegoWordDetective'', every location is a villain lair for a member of V.I.L.E., with the main hub a lair for Carmen herself.
* [[IslandBase The Island of Claymodo]] in ''[[VideoGame/{{Clayfighter}} Clayfighter 63 1/3]]", home of the MadScientist Dr. Kiln.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' was already doing the super-villain lair before its spin-off successor with Cerberus' hidden space station. After three games of dealing with the group through holograms or separate organization cells, we finally get to see the [[DiabolicalMastermind Illusive Man]]'s own lair - and it is as suave, devilish and reprehensible as the man himself.
* And before that, Shepard and Liara go to the lair of the Shadow Broker in the ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' [=DLC=]... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The Lair of the Shadow Broker.]]

** Magus' castle is a classic EvilOverlord's castle on an island accessible only behind a hidden cave in a mountain range, complete with giant dragon statue on top and uses psychological warfare like fake save points, undead minions who beg to be killed, CreepyChildren, and monsters disguised as trusted figures in your characters' life (the latter two don't even do anything to you until you find the first boss). It gets taken over by the QuirkyMinibossSquad later, but with far fewer traps and more BossArenaIdiocy.

* [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Castle Heterodyne]], and, for that matter, Mechanicsburg as a whole, it being the town of [[TheIgor Igors]]. An enormous, ancient and ''[[InstantAIJustAddWater sentient]]'' castle, with its cavernous halls and wavy passages filled with {{Death Trap}}s, and more than slightly [[AIIsACrapshoot whacked in what it has as a head]], it certainly qualifies. Somewhat subverted in that for at least two generations, including the most recent, Heterodynes were ''the heroes'', but their castle is much, much, ''much'' older. [[AirBorneAircraftCarrier Castle Wulfenbach]] and other [[MadScientist Sparks']] lairs are on the book too. Pretty much unsurprisingly, the comic being about [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]].
** In the print-novel version of the story, it's commented at one point that EmperorScientist Klaus Wulfenbach actively encourages his fellow Sparks to build these, since every minute they spend on construction is one less they're unleashing Mad Science on the surrounding countryside.

* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', being a webcomic about MadScience, naturally has several of these... Some more impressive than others. When we're first introduced to Helen Narbon she's plotting to TakeOverTheWorld from a rented office above a dentist's surgery, and her sometime-rival Lupin Madblood has built one [[BasementDweller in his mother's basement]]. [[HumbleBeginnings But hey, everyone's got to start somewhere, right?]] They both eventually move into much more impressive digs later on.

* In the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, you can ''order'' your own Supervillain Lair from a ''website''. There are ones listed for sale or rent, there are Supervillain Lair timeshares on the island of Karedonia (which is run by a supervillain), there is everything you could want, down to 'Evil lair human resources specialists to keep your henchmen happy'.
** In the first chapter of Ayla 8, side team The Vindicators invade an evil lair in a holographic simulation for training, and get their asses kicked. The person playing supervillain turns out to be [[spoiler: Ayla herself, as part of her classwork for the same course.]]

** UnreliableNarrator Mephisto the Mystic mentions that in the 1960s he went into Covert Construction, serving both fellow supervillains and various villainous spy organizations [[note]]in a pastiche of SpyFiction villains[[/note]]. [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/441-razzle-dazzle-part-3]]

* Actively [[InvokedTrope invoked]] in Literature/{{Worm}} both by Coil's [[spoiler: under city bunker]] and later [[spoiler:[[VillainProtagonist Taylor]]'s [[BadPowersGoodPeople bug]] [[CreepyGood filled]] lair.]]

* [[http://www.villainsource.com/ Villain Source]] (Your Online Source For Everything Evil) has a number of supervillain lairs for sale, ranging from skull-engraved volcano islands to inflatable castles for the supervillain on a budget ([[VillainCred not any supervillain we'd care to hang out with]]). Naturally each lair comes with its own [[BigRedButton obvious]], [[NoOshaCompliance accessible]] {{self destruct mechanism}}.

* ''{{Literature/Deviant}}'': The Degenerates, a gang of human traffickers, live in a seedy bar-esque hideout in the sewers.
* In ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown: Warriors Rage''; the Razor Trio, consisting of Oboro, Mikoto, and Tohma Kuki; live and work inside the Tengen Castle in [[PenalColony Riten-kyo]].

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has the headquarters of "Doofenschmirtz Evil Incorporated!", with its own jingle as well!

* Several examples from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', most of them subverted. None of the other characters can tell what the Monarch's flying cocoon is supposed to be (it's mistaken for a giant pine cone more than once) and prior to season 3, it was parked in the Grand Canyon where anyone could see it. Phantom Limb had a Frank Lloyd Wright inspired base he called "the lair of the phantom", but it was located in a gated suburban community for supervillains.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', Dr. Weird has his lair and laboratory somewhere on the South Jersey Shore (in what was apparently once "Belle Isle Asylum). In the first Dr. Weird short, his Rabbot escapes by smashing through a wall; this flaw causes him problems later, as his inventions sometimes escape or are stolen from "[HIS] IMPENETRABLE FORTRESS!"
* ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'': Dr. Robotnik's Robotropolis is pretty much a Supervillain Lair the size of an entire city.

* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad's'' ''Film/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.]]

* WesternAnimation/InvaderZim plans his conquest of Earth from an ElaborateUndergroundBase beneath his house, with a backup base in the form of a SpaceStation he occasionally uses. His one-time rival, Tak, operated out of an EvilTowerOfOminousness disguised as the skyscraper headquarters of a hot dog company.
* Mojo Jojo's observatory in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' set atop a volcano, which makes it appear as an EvilTowerOfOminousness.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'', the AcademyOfEvil run by [[NebulousEvilOrganization V.I.L.E.]], which also serves as their headquarters, is located somewhere in the Canary Islands. When they're forced to abandon and [[TrashTheSet destroy]] this base in the Season 2 finale, due to fears of being discovered by ACME, they open Season 3 by relocating to a castle in Scotland.

** Odd Todd's lair, introduced in the Season 1 finale "O is Not For Over", looks more like an office space than anything else, since he rented out half the space to a team of web developers. According to him, his previous lair was much more dark and mysterious, but [[RealityEnsues since it was too hard to read, he re-did it.]]

* Let's not forget VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}. We've had Underground Lairs, Lairs in volcanoes, Lairs underwater, even lairs in the middle of busy cities. And most or all of them have bizarre security systems, teleporters, and massive banks of computers. Electric eye are used in the old ninja hideout.
* Lampshaded and/or subverted in ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever 2''. In one sequence you come upon two guards discussing the needlessly elaborate evil lair. One guard explains that while it would be far more convenient and cost effective to lease office space, then potential clients wouldn't think that the organization is evil enough for high-profile jobs. As proof, he cites a vastly inferior evil organization pulling in many important jobs simply because they had a top-rate design firm redesign their secret base.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'': The 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]]. And, generally speaking, all of them possess at least two robotic defenders designed to try to stop Mega Man from making it to Wily.

* Lots of series set in Franchise/TheDCU. A recent ''Franchise/{{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.

** ''Comicbook/KryptonNoMore'', super-villain Radion has a secret base built on the slope of a mountain.
** In ''Comicbook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'' Comicbook/LexLuthor has a submarine mobile base, an abandoned warehouse, an underground lair, a satellite space base (Injustice Gang's old HQ which he appropriated after their defeat)...

* ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'':

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan'': The 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]]. And, generally speaking, all of them possess at least two robotic defenders designed to try to stop Mega Man from making it to Wily.

** "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to my submarine lair.[[DoubleEntendre It's long and hard and full of seamen!]]"

** "Welcome to my secret underground lair"

** "Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to my submarine lair. [[DoubleEntendre It's long and hard and full of seamen!]]"

* [[MechaMooks Roving security robots]].

[[caption-width-right:256:SkullForAHead? [[BewareTheSkullBase How about skull for your whole house?]]]]

[[caption-width-right:256:SkullForAHead? How about skull for your whole house?]]

* Mojo Jojo's observatory in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' set atop a volcano, which makes it appears as an EvilTowerOfOminousness.

* 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 {{Magitek}} 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 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.
* ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''. Journalist Buster Kincaid is delighted to find that the suspected BigBad has an ElaborateUndergroundBase in Antarctica's [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mount Terror]] -- a [[VolcanoLair volcano]] on [[IslandBase Ross Island]].
* The 127th Emperor Hetto starship acts as the command hub for the Conquest Fleet and is Atvar's main base of operations in ''FanFic/WorldwarWarOfEquals''.
* The ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'':

* In ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'', [[FallenHero Jade]] originally uses the Dark Hand's former penthouse headquarters as her base, but after realizing the captured Valmont will rat her out, abandons it fairly early on. Later, she relocates to Windsor Manor, subjugating the ghouls haunting the place into a security force as part of its conversion into her new lair.

* In ''FanFic/JewelOfDarkness'', [[VillainProtagonist Midnight]] has apparently inherited Slade's tastes in lairs, since the one she uses in the Jump City Arc is near-identical to the one he used in Season 1 of canon.
* In ''Fanfic/HeroesForEarth'', originally a small mech vehicle in the first episode of the [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers cartoon]]. This version of the mobile oil platform is equipped with a laboratory, opulent dining quarters, brig, galley and an army.

* Syndrome in ''WesternAnimation/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.

* While not belonging to a supervillain per se, in ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'' Skull serves this purpose for the primary antagonist, [[BigBad the Skullasaurus.]]

* Subverted hilariously in ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons''. When the comically inept [[CardCarryingVillain Bowler Hat Guy]] has captured Lewis and is [[MrExposition telling him]] [[MotiveRant his motives]] for doing so, he mentions how he met the [[AIIsACrapshoot robotic hat Doris]] and how they retreated to "our villainous lair" to make their nefarious plans. Cue camera shot of the ridiculously cute kid theme restaurant they actually went to.

* Wily's Skull Castle in the ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' series.
** 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]]. And, generally speaking, all of them possess at least two robotic defenders designed to try to stop Mega Man from making it to Wily.

* ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'' Skull serves this purpose for the primary antagonist, [[BigBad the Skullasaurus.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'' Skull serves this purpose for the primary antagonist, {BigBad: the Skullasaurus.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'' Skull serves this purpose for the primary antagonist, {BigBad the Skullasaurus.]]