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{{trope}}
In any given movie or TV show, anytime there is a scene set in a parking garage, something bad is about to happen or has happened. Indeed, nothing good ''ever''Nothing Good Ever Happenshappens in a '''Parking Garage'''.
 
The reasons for this are many. A parking garage is an inherently boring place. There is ''nothing'' to do there but park one's car or drive it out of the garage. Since in a time-sensitive movie or TV show this is padding, no scene taking place in a parking garage will consist of a single character getting into a single car and driving away.
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Related: Any scene set under an elevated section of highway.
 
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=== '''Examples''': ===
== Anime ==
* Becomes a plot point in [[The Movie]] of ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]''. Togusa is on stakeout in his car when he notices that the automatic doors for the parking garage take longer to close than they normally would. He then finds out that the pressure-sensitive floor picked up far more weight than the two people he saw walking in. {{spoiler|The reason is because mooks with optical camouflage snuck in behind them.}}
* A crucial battle in ''[[Sailor Moon (Anime)|Sailor Moon]]'' happens in one.
 
== Film ==
* The basis of the movie ''[[P 2 (Film)|P 2P2]]''.
* Scarecrow's drug deal at the beginning of ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' takes place in a parking garage.
* In ''[[Fantastic Four (Filmfilm)|Fantastic Four]]'', Doom {{spoiler|kills Ned Cecil}} in a parking garage.
* In Fargo, this is where the {{spoiler|[[Bribe Backfire]] that kills Jerry's father-in-law}} takes place.
* ''[[Frantic]]''. A [[Hostage for Macguffin]] exchange is set up in a multilevel parking garage; unfortunately it's gatecrashed by Mossad agents who turn it into a shootout.
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* An episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' takes place in a mall parking garage.
* The Grave Digger, one of the scariest antagonists on ''[[Bones]]'', kidnapped Bones and Hodgins from a parking garage.
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]'': The bad guys in the final story arc make ''three separate attempts'' to kill our heroes in various parking garages.
* In the pilot of ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', SD-6 has decided that the risk of Sydney Bristow and all she knows leaving the organization are too great and send assassins after her. They come after her in a parking garage. This is only the first of many such scenes in ''Alias''.
* {{spoiler|Doctor Melfi}} is sexually assaulted in a parking garage on ''[[The Sopranos]]'' in the episode "Employee of the Month".
* In one episode of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', Rory has a clandestine meeting with the season's [[Alpha Bitch]] in a parking garage, in a parody of the [[Film Noir]] use of this trope.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The "Lowlife" chapter of ''[[Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|Half-Life 2]]: Episode One'' has the player racing through crumbling underground parking garages which are also swarming with zombies, headcrabs and antlions.
* A Prohibition-era mission in ''[[Mafia: theThe City of Lost Heaven]]'' has the player assisting a shady deal to purchase illegal Canadian whiskey in an Art Deco parking garage. Naturally, the deal is interrupted by an ambushing rival mob, degenerating into a floor-by-floor firefight.
* The showdown with BB in the original ''[[Max Payne (Video Gameseries)|Max Payne]]''.
* The Chicago mission in ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' involves sneaking into a corporate headquarters through the parking garage, where you're ambushed by armed guards.
* The ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series is fond of using parking garages in various missions:
** In "Waka-Gashira Wipeout" in ''[[Grand Theft Auto III (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto III]]'', the player kills one of the two heads of Yakuza during a Yakuza-Colombian Cartel meeting on top of a parking garage while driving a Cartel gang car, in order to frame the Cartel for the murder of a prominent Yakuza member.
** In "Guardian Angels" in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'', Colonel Cortez stashes a gun for use in the mission in a parking garage, where the player is also joined by Lance Vance.
** In ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'':
*** "Ran Fa Li" has the player tasked in retrieving a car in San Fierro International's massive underground carpark for the Triads, which leads to the player being ambushed by gang members from the rival Da Nang Boys.
*** Players in ''San Andreas'' may also stumble across a scene reminiscent of the Rodney King beating in the parking garage of the Los Santos headquarters.
** The second encounter with Jeff in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' involves the player meeting him in the an underground parking garage...revealing that Jeff has stabbed his wife to death, stuffed her into the back of a car, and is pleading the player to dump the car and her body.
** The same underground parking garage is a flashpoint "Going Deep" in ''[[The Ballad of Gay Tony]]'', when the player aids Ray Bulgarin in eliminating a large group of law enforcers intent on planting evidence in one of Ray's cars in the garage.
 
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* Parodied in the episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' when the Griffins become a reality TV show and Meg Griffin is kicked off the show for being boring; she later has to meet her parents in a parking garage, where they're wearing trenchcoats, fedoras, and sunglasses (and Peter offers her a cigarette).
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' where the Simpson kids go to meet an informant (who turns out to be Mr. Smithers) in a garage. He goes to great lengths to conceal his identity (wearing a trench coat, smoking, standing in the shadows, etc.) but the effect is ruined when Homer drives up and turns on his headlights.
{{quote| '''Smithers''': Well, you might as well give me a ride home...}}
 
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[[Category:Building Tropes]]
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