Underwater Base



Characters have their base of operations underwater. Somewhat more common with villains. Good for keeping out unwanted visitors. After all, it takes more effort to break in if you have to be looking out for giant squids at the same time.

Compare Elaborate Underground Base, Island Base, Space Base. See also Underwater City.

Anime and Manga

 * Daimos: The Brahmins' Home Base on Earth was an underwater base served like their headquarters to launch attacks from.
 * GaoGaiGar: The Gutsy Galaxy Guard's headquarters is an underwater "Harbor Reef Base" located Later,, they relocate to an orbital space station base.
 * Mazinger Z: The Dragon Baron Ashura was commander of Dr. Hell's sea and submarine fortresses and had two underwater bases: Salude and Bood.
 * Great Mazinger: Marquis Janus Home Base was an Island Base could submerge.
 * Science Ninja Team Gatchaman has had a few, and thus by extension, so did Eagle Riders and Battle of the Planets.
 * The most noteworthy is Crescent Coral Base (Center Neptune in BotP) which had thrusters on the bottom allowing it to physically move and change locations if discovered and projected a fake coral reef above on the water surface to fool people.
 * Gatchaman II had G-Town, a huge mobile base (more like a city) at the very bottom of the ocean.

Film

 * The movie Captain Nemo and the Underwater City puts the city of "Templemere" under a dome at the bottom of the ocean, where the submarine Nautilus has its berth. And this is supposedly done during a time when the best technology is Steam powered.
 * The drilling rig in The Abyss.
 * The Spy Who Loved Me, and possibly other James Bond films.
 * Austin Powers: "Welcome to my submarine lair! It's long, hard and full of seamen."

Literature

 * The research station from Sphere.
 * A Series of Unfortunate Events alludes to the Ancient Conspiracy owning one
 * Also,
 * Beebe Station from the Rifters Trilogy.

Live Action TV

 * The Rangers' base in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue. Deliberately chosen because water is the demons' Weaksauce Weakness.
 * The Doctor Who story "Warriors of the Deep" was set in an underwater base, from which nuclear weapons were controlled.
 * The UFO episode "Reflections in the Water" had an underwater alien base.
 * The Looking Glass station on Lost, used by the Others to block all communications coming to the island.
 * Lost in Oz had a heroic version with Bellaridere's underwater palace.

Other

 * Sea Base Alpha in the EPCOT attraction The Living Seas, before the Nemo makeover.

Tabletop Games

 * Several new underwater territories have been added to the futuristic Risk 2210 A.D. board game, compared to its original, much better-known, incarnation.

Video Games

 * The Pasadena Ocean Lab in Deus Ex was just an advanced research facility for the Big Bad, and devoid of life, but information there is vital to his plans, and The Dragon makes an appearance.
 * The final location of Within A Deep Forest, and the setting of the Knytt Stories story "An Underwater Adventure."
 * There's even an abandoned underwater base in MOTHER 1.
 * The Final Boss battle of zOMG Chapter One takes place in Underwater Base.
 * Final Fantasy V had the Catapult, an underground/underwater base of Lost Technology. Among other things, it features an airship docking bay, a teleporter and a ship-sized elevator to the sea surface. And the icing on the cake? It's yours now.
 * Since X-COM 2 is basically X-COM 1 UNDERWATER!, these make up the bases of your organization.
 * The alien bases, including T'leth, also apply.
 * Eggman has a few of these.
 * Examples include Tidal Plant, Ocean Base (which has surprisingly little in the way of underwater segments), and |Aquatic Base (Super Drowning Skills here).
 * The Ocean Palace of Zeal in Chrono Trigger.
 * Knights of the Old Republic has one owned by the good guys on Manaan. "Owned" being in the past tense.
 * Constructing underwater structures is a popular activity in Minecraft.
 * The deep-sea installation NORAD VI in The Journeyman Project.
 * Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity had the second half of Dive Man's level. Mega Man finds it by using Rush Marine to dive down to the point where the background is black and heads right.
 * Building one, while not exactly required, is extremely useful and directly makes it possible to complete the endgame of Subnautica. The flexibility of the base-building system makes it almost a minigame in and of itself, especially when combined with the game's rather selective implementation of gravity; while it was still in beta there were already contests for the most amazing/interesting bases, and many players seem to use the Creative mode of the game solely to see how extravagant or elaborate a base they can build.

Web Comics

 * Madblood's lair (a later one) in Narbonic.

Web Original

 * The Floridian superheroes known as the Caribbean Crew has a hidden base is sunken off the coast of Key West. From the outside, it mostly looks like a coral reef.

Western Animation

 * The Decepticons' ship in the first two series of Transformers Generation 1; likewise, Devil Z's base in Transformers Super God Masterforce.
 * The bioborgs' base in Sky Surfer Strike Force.
 * MAD in Inspector Gadget used a few of these.
 * So did Dr. Drakken of Kim Possible.
 * Sealab 2020, and by extension, Sealab 2021.
 * Not to mention that other Sealab featured in Centurions.
 * Lake Laogai in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
 * In the Pixar movie The Incredibles, the entrance to Syndrome's magnificant Elaborate Underground Base is under the sea, built for submersible aircraft to use.
 * The Legion of Doom had their headquarters beneath a swamp in the Saturday-morning cartoon series Challenge of the Superfriends.
 * Brother Blood designs one on Teen Titans after Cyborg destroyed his first headquarters. Cyborg destroys this one, too.