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Often discovered by a snooping hero, the
This is sometimes discovered when the hero notices strange sounds - often human voices - and tries to find their source. Other times, it's discovered simply by accident when poking around, or even just [[Shaggy Search Technique|leaning on the correct bookshelf and conveniently revealing the hidden passageway]].
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Sometimes the [[Secret Underground Passage]] is not just a single passage, but links to a [[Tunnel Network|huge network of tunnels under the ground]].
A staple of [[Dungeon Town
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== Anime & Manga ==
* There's one in ''[[Detective Academy Q]]'', where they found out all this while that their school building has a secret passage. Once there, they find what seems to be evidence of a person imprisoned underneath, with a diary written with his own blood.
* There are at least two in ''[[
* In Ubel Blatt, Koizell and Ato use an ancient subterranean passage to cross under the mountains so as to avoid Glenn's armies, but Glenn suspected that the notorious "Hero Killer" might possibly know of the secret tunnel although it seemed very unlikely.
== Board Games ==
* ''[[Clue (
== Comic Books ==
* The tunnel connecting the garage in the [[Batman|Bat-Cave]] to the roads into Gotham in the various ''[[Batman]]'' incarnations. Whether this is a [[Tunnel Network]] [[Depending
* ''[[Steelgrip Starkey
* Von Goosewing made one into the castle of [[
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* In ''[[Madagascar]]'', the penguins are introduced digging a tunnel to escape from the zoo. In the [[Spin-Off]] ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'', it's revealed that they have a network of 15 escape tunnels.
== Film - Live Action ==
* ''[[National Treasure 2 The Book of Secrets]]'' has the main character take the president through a secret underground passage in search of answers to a historical mystery.
== Literature ==
* In ''Nightrunner'', there's one in the fourth book leading from the workshop out to a barn.
* ''[[Pyrates]]'' is made of this. There's a secret underground path beneath the family home, which has been in existence for centuries. A great deal of the book takes place underneath New York City, and the underground paths lead to several places including the bad guys' hideout, and different parts of NYC.
* ''The Ghost at Dawn's House'' in ''[[The
* There are a few in Alexandre Dumas's ''[[The Three Musketeers (
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* In the last chapter of ''The Extraordinary Adventures of [[Arsène Lupin]], [[Gentleman Thief|Gentleman-Burglar]]'', Lupin discovers a hidden underground tunnel between a house and a nearby church, and uses it to abscond with the furnishings. Secret underground passages also occur in other Lupin stories.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[The Hobbit]]'' has a secret underground passage into Smaug's lair; Bilbo uses it to steal a goblet from Smaug's hoard while Smaug is sleeping, causing Smaug to go on a rampage when he figures out that it's missing.
* A popular stock trope of British children's mystery/adventure author [[Enid Blyton]].
* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' series, there's a culvert under the road in ShadowClan territory that is considered by the cats to be a secret passage; it can be used for safely crossing the road and for sneaking onto the other Clan's territory. ThunderClan didn't know about it for ''years'' until Fireheart and Sandstorm discovered it.
* There are at least two explicitly ''underground'' passages in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books—the tunnel between Hogwarts and Honeyduke's; and the tunnel between the Whomping Willow and the Shrieking Shack. There are numerous other tunnels and passages in Hogwarts, though, any of which might include an "underground" component.
== Live Action TV ==
* In the ''[[
* On Leverage this occurs during the 10 Lil' Grifters Job. {{spoiler|It is how the killer gets away and frames Nate.}}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Dragon Age]]'', there's one between the windmill and Redcliffe Castle.
* There's a number of these in the ''Zelda'' series, especially ''[[The Legend of Zelda (
* In ''Call of Cthulhu: [[Dark Corners of the Earth]]'', an old smugglers' tunnel is the route through which the army attempts to get into an otherwise inaccessible building. {{spoiler|All the soldiers die, and the player is the only one left to go through them.}}
* Underground train tunnels and subways, sewers, and bunkers in the ''[[Fallout]]'' series.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Avatar The Last Airbender's]]'' secret tunnel became a meme.
* Being a popular mystery trope, this happens in many episodes of ''[[Scooby Doo]]''.
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