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Sometimes, the sign instead advertises the [[Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club]] [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|which is in no way]] [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|a villain's lair, at all]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Astro Boy]]'', the three robots' underground hideout is marked by a garishly painted sign.
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** A bit of a subversion: Nega-Duck knows that Darkwing won't notice the huge flag, so he also leaves a single breadcrumb behind at the site of a fight between them, knowing Darkwing would figure out exactly where it came from.
* In the 1946 ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "[[The Great Piggy Bank Robbery]]", [[Daffy Duck]] (as "Duck Twacy, the famous detec-a-tive") takes a streetcar (labeled "To Gangsters' Hideout") past neon signs that read, "Gangsters' Hideout," to one that reads, "This is IT! Entrance."
** Another Looney Tunes example: The 1952 [[Bugs Bunny]] short "Water, Water Every Hare" started with a shot of a castle with a neon sign alternating "Evil Scientist" and "Boo".
*** In "Bugsy and Mugsy" Bugs Bunny is living in an abandoned house that two criminals use for a hideout. Bugs invokes this trope by putting up a literal Neon sign that says "Rocky's Hideaway." naturally it doesn't take long for the police to find them. Rocky never noticed the sign and thought that idiot sidekick had turned him in. Poor Mugsy gets a beatdown for nothing.
* In the ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' TV movie, ''Fairly Odd Baby'', Wanda and the other were looking for the evil baby lair, and she said that her maternal instincts were a sonar device to locate Poof. She credited her maternal instincts to finding the room where Poof was located, but there was clearly a sign that pointed to wear the door was.
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