Landmarking the Hidden Base: Difference between revisions

* Mr. Majestic, Wildstorm's [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] of [[Superman]], has his headquarters inside (where else?) Mount Rushmore.

* The Quorom, an all purpose evil organization from [[The DCU]], had one of its main bases under the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. (and a villain containment pod under the Washington Monument). Not quite a good idea when heroes smash in through the roof.

* The [[All-Star Squadron]] were based in the Trylon and Perisphere from the 1939 New York's World Fair. The Perisphere was their headquarters, and the Trylon was their [[Cool Garage]].

* In [[Peter David]]'s [[Spy Boy]], the "good" spy team (this troper can never remember if they were S.H.I.R.T.S or S.K.I.N.S) had their invisible headquarters suspended between the tops of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. (This got moved later, for obvious reasons.)

== ''[[Doctor Who]]'' ==

* The Torchwood Institute has had bases:

{{quote|'''Donna:''' What, there's like a secret base hidden under a major London landmark?

'''The Doctor:''' I know, unheard of... }}

* UNIT had one: Under the Tower of London in "The Christmas Invasion". It beat their early place that had a conspicuous "Keep Out" sign.

* Various bad guys have based themselves in/under:

* They make an attempt to [[Justified Trope|justify]] many of these, explaining there is something important about the location or nature of the structure that they need. For example, the Torchwood Tower (Canary Wharf) exists because there was a rift high in the air, so they had to build a giant tower to reach it, The Hub's location was chosen due to its proximity with yet another rift and the Nestene Consciousness was using the London Eye as a giant transmitter to broadcast the signal controlling the Autons. In "Daleks in Manhattan", the Daleks attached Dalekanium strips to the top of the Empire State Building (which at the time was the tallest building on Earth) to kick-start a new race of hybrids with a solar flare.

* Canary Wharf is also the headquarters of the British time travelling military in an [[Alternate Universe|alternate 2006]] visited by the First Doctor in the [[Past Doctor Adventures]] novel ''The Time Travellers''. ''And'' the villain of the Sixth Doctor [[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]] novel ''Millennial Rites'' (for reasons broadly similar to the ''Tomorrow People'' villain).

* In one episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' Dr. Doofenschmirtz has a hidden base inside Lincoln's head at Mount Rushmore.

* In ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'', the Kingpin's lair is in the Chrysler building. There's a secret underground entrance so people not in the know won't find out where his base is (even though the lair's high ceiling ''looks'' like the interior of the Chrysler Building's spire might be expected to look). Of course, by five seasons later, enough airborne bad guys have waltzed in and out that ''someone'' oughta suspect that something about that [[Villain with Good Publicity|nice philanthropist]] Wilson Fisk isn't kosher.

* Parodied on [[The Simpsons]]. In one Treehouse of Horror episode, a missile launch pad is under the Eiffel Tower.