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* Southwatch in ''[[Shannara|Heritage of Shannara]]''.

* [[Discworld]]: Although not necessarily evil per se, [[Terry Pratchett]] plays with the trope of the wizard's tower (with influence from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' as well as fairytale tradition) by saying that, when magic is running at unusually high levels in ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'', each wizard is ''biologically compelled'' to build his own tower and start fighting the others, like a snail growing a shell.

* Prince Xizor in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Shadows of the Empire]]'' has one, of the skyscraper variety. Partially subverted in that ''every'' building on Coruscant is a skyscraper. {{spoiler|It collapses after Lando Calrissian drops a ''[[Stuff Blowing Up|thermal detonator]]'' in the garbage chute.}}

* The Shadow King in ''[[The City of Dreaming Books]]'' has a tower. Located in a huge vault in the deepest reaching of the city-spanning catacombs.

 

== Tabletop RPG ==

* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' Nagash, the lord of the undead, has not just an evil tower, but an entire ''mountain'' that's been turned into a gigantic fortress of evil!

** Towers stick out of Naggaroth, land of the Dark Elves, like it was a pincushion.

* From ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'': The Darksteel Citadel on the plane of Mirrodin is the lair of the [[Big Bad]] Memnarch.

** Also, the Tower of Calamities, from the same set.

** Halfway up the Spire is the fortress of a [[Big Bad|Slightly Less Big Bad]]. He plunged most of a continent into winter for years as a weapon of mass destruction, created monstrous laboratories in which to create monstrous armies, and generally was bad news for everyone and everything. And he measures up to the halfway point of the original big bad.

* The ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' gamebook (kinda a halfway-house between an RPG and a [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] book) ''Tower of Destruction''. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|There's one of these, and it flies around destroying things]]. Oh, and demons.

* The Tower of Guidance from ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Radiant Dawn''.

** A bit of a subversion in that it contains the pervading religion's goddess and isn't malevolent in its outward appearance. {{spoiler|The goddess isn't as nice as everyone thinks.}}

* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'': Who can forget the scene where the party first sees Magus's Lair in all its gloomy glory?

* ''[[Chrono Cross]]'': It's only the most chilling part of either Chrono series where the party first enters the Dead Sea and sees the creepy-as-hell Tower of Geddon looming on the frozen waves.

** Also, [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon|Terra Tower]], built by the descendants of the Reptites in an alternate future.

* The [[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne|Tower of Kagutsuchi]], Tartarus in ''[[Persona 3]]'', [[Shin Megami Tensei Imagine|Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building]] and [[Digital Devil Saga|Karma Temple]]. [[Shin Megami Tensei|SMT]] has a thing with [[Tarot Motifs|towers]]...

* Dr. Loboto's tower lab in ''[[Psychonauts]]'', as well as the thorny tower in the Brain Tumbler Experiment.

* An Evil Tower of Ominousness shows up as the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] in ''[[Medal of Honor]] Airborne'', of all places in the form of the Flak Tower, a giant concrete tower the size of a large town. [[Zero Punctuation]] remarks that "''I was unaware the Nazis had a gigantic armored concrete tower that could only be described as a DOOM FORTRESS''". Although the Flak Tower is a real WWII German war structure, the allies never actually attacked one during the war (and the Soviets could only siege them until the people inside ran out of food).

* ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' and ''[[Banjo Tooie]]''. The final boss battles BOTH take place at the top of a tower.

* The final island in the first ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' is basically a giant tower built on a rock. Mount Grimly in ''Mind Over Mutant'' counts as both this and [[Death Mountain]].

* ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' had a few; the tower of Dark Eden in ''Blood Omen'' and the Silent Cathedral in ''Soul Reaver'' are the trust in the tower sense. The Sarafan Keep in ''Blood Omen 2'' could also count.

* ''[[Rise of the Kasai]]'' actually featured three, but the final level of Hassa is the most striking example. So much so that the tower itself functions as [[The Dreaded]] for the main characters.

* The Nazi's built not one, but 8 flak towers in Germany and Austria. These flak towers were built with 3,5m thick walls of reinforced concrete. They were also heavily armed with 128mm, 37mm and 20mm AA guns. [[wikipedia:Flak tower|Flak tower]]

* A lot of old churches give that impression, for example [http://www.heise.de/foto/galerie/Koelner-Dom-17080870454603308f7491dc28fabe34/ Cologne Cathedral] in Germany.

 

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