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== Film - Animated ==

* 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.

* 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 ==

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* There are a few in Alexandre Dumas's ''[[The Three Musketeers (Literature)|The Three Musketeers]]'' series. In a footnote to the Oxford World's Classics edition of ''[[The Vicomte De Bragelonne (Literature)|The Vicomte De Bragelonne]]'', editor David Coward remarks on the historical accuracy of one such passage:

{{quote| There was a communicating tunnel in Fouquet's town house, but not at Saint-Mandé. [[Rule of Cool|But Dumas was not a man to waste a good subterranean passage.]]}}

* In the last chapter of ''The Extraordinary Adventures of [[~~Arsene~~ 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.

* 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 Adventures of Archie Reynolds (Literature)|The Adventures of Archie Reynolds]]'' has one used by smugglers, that the heroes stumble across while exploring the neighborhood.

* ''[[Beowulf (Literature)|Beowulf]]'' has a secret underground passage into the dragon's lair; a thief uses it to steal a goblet from the dragon's hoard while the dragon is sleeping, causing the dragon to go on a rampage when it figures out that it's missing.