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== Anime
* The Devil's Nest Bar in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''.
* Natsuki from ''[[My-HiME]]'' frequents such a bar to gather information on shady dealings.
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* ''[[Kingdom Come]]'', where heroes and villains tend to switch sides just for the hell of it, has an underground bar where many hang out.
** Rorschach of ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' fame makes a cameo in a couple of panels. In one panel he's breaking Brother Power's fingers.
* Every Bar in Gotham City.
** The Iceberg Lounge, owned by the Penguin, is one of the most popular and classiest.
** One story even said that [[Batman]] pays to keep several of them open (including the Iceberg Lounge) just so he can have places to overhear information.
* There is one located in the ''[[Savage Dragon]]'' version of Chicago. It's name is never given but it is a popular hangout for supervillains.
== Film ==
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* The Tittie Twister Bar from ''[[From Dusk till Dawn]]'', sort of. While it is likely a lot of the clientele of this strip club are criminals, the performers are the Bad Guys, [[Vampires Are Sex Gods|being vampires]] who use the establishment to attract prey.
* Weasel's bar, called "Sister Margaret's Home for Wayward Girls", in ''[[Deadpool (film)|Deadpool]]''. Sort of. It's a mercenaries' hangout, and its denizens aren't ''quite'' criminals, but they're all very dangerous.
* The Poison Apple tavern in the second and third ''[[Shrek]]'' movies. Owned by Snow White's stepmother (naturally), its employees include Captain Hook and Cinderella's stepsisters; patrons include the Headless Horseman, Rumplestiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood<ref>She is a villain in this franchise</ref>, and formerly Puss in Boots. After the villains reform following the events of the third film, the place is renovated and renamed [[Good Guy Bar|the Candy Apple]].
== Literature ==
* The bar where Jim Taggart, Balph Eubank, Wesley Mouch and the other [[Dirty Communists|villains]] hang out in ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. It's designed to look like it's underground but is actually on top of a skyscraper. The basement design is symbolic of the fact that despite their wealth and power, they cannot aspire to greatness, they have to drag it down to their pathetic level. It's established that the drinks are rubbish so they only drink there because it's a fashionable place, which shows that they are comformists. Still, were it not for the bad drinks and the even worse company, you have to admit, it would be a pretty cool place to be. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|It looks underground, but it's not!]]
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'':
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** Then there's Troll's Head, which is something like a more [[Darker and Edgier|serious and gritty]] version of the Drum. To give some idea of what kind of place it is: the thing outside it that shows the bar's name is Troll's Head is not a sign, but an actual severed head of a troll. This is a reference to English pubs with names like the Turk's Head and the Saracen's Head, which acquired those names during the Crusades for similar reasons; many pubs with such names still exist, but with rather less grisly signage.
*** Pratchett references this more directly in ''[[
* The Old Pink Dog Bar of [[Wretched Hive|Han Dold City]] in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish|So Long And Thanks For All The Fish]]'', where customers are periodically murdered by a large bird and disembodied arm which live behind the bar.
* The Korova Milk Bar in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. It's more firmly suggested in the book than the film that the bar is a popular spot for gang-bangers like Alex and his droogs. Amusingly, compared to the film it's a much more sedate-looking place, with murals of cows on the walls, no statues, and a few private curtained cubicles for people working through a really major synthemesc trip.
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* There was a coffee shop in the ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Operation: FLUSH", which looked like a typical Starbucks, except all the customers were villains from the show. The barista even wears a super-villain style mask.
== Real
* There were bars at concentration camps where Nazis could drink and be merry after a hard day of torturing and killing people.
* Every neighbourhood has a really rough pub where no-one who values their life ever goes!
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