Emergency Stash: Difference between revisions

However, [[The Call Knows Where You Live]] and his niece is kidnapped. Or maybe an old friend shows up, just in time to be murdered and Bob is framed for it.

 

 

 

Related tropes: [[Crazy Prepared]], [[Hidden Supplies]].

 

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* In the ''[[Sandman]]'' volume ''Brief Lives'' an immortal who had been around for upwards of [[Time Abyss|10,000 years]] dies in a an accident and afterward the immortal's son finds dad's stash. When the main characters encounter the son, he is ''very'' drunk, shows them the stash, and wonders exactly why dad, (who he thought was just a kind of mousy attorney with a pony tail) had that stash and who dad really was. Towards the end of the volume we see the son again, and while he decides to give away or destroy most of dad's stash he does keep several of the fake IDs for himself. As the narration points out, it's handy to be able to disappear and become someone else when you really need to.

 

* Turns up in [[X Files]] fandom a lot. Mulder's allegedly got quite the stash, much of it willed to him by his father. The only people with the keys are him and Scully. Occasionally the Gunmen will have a clue as to where it is, but not access.

 

* In ''[[Commando (film)|Commando]]'', Matrix just happens to have a gun safe with automatic weapons at his house.

* Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes) accessed an emergency stash of I.D. and money in the movie ''The Art of War''. It was hidden behind a mirror in the apartment of the one comrade who didn't betray him.

* In ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]'', {{spoiler|Charly}} has one of these.

 

* In a ''Hulk'' novella this is how Bruce Banner was able to restock himself with clothes - he kept accounts in several banks in larger cities, and he had his ATM cards stuck in a secure location in his clothes so when he Hulked Out he could get at the money.

* In ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' it is mentioned the Butler keeps a large suitcase full of fake IDs, clothes, and assorted guns in every major airport in the world, as this saves a lot of hassle with the security (and given the many (many) weapons he keeps on his person, who can blame him?).

** He also keeps supplies - disguises, forgery supplies, fake diamond rings, etc. - in several stashes spread across the city.

 

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