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== [[Film]] ==
* A version of this takes place in ''[[Spy Hard]]'', as the villian's headquarters has a clearly marked "Intruder Entrance" sign on one of their doors, and it isn't [[Schmuck Bait]] either, it's actually pointing out the best place for intruders to enter.
* The live-action ''[[Dudley Do -Right]]'' movie had this with Snidely Whiplash and his secret hideout.
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939): While going through the Haunted Forest to the castle of the Wicked Witch of the West, our heroes encounter a sign that says "Witch's castle 1 mile." Mind you, the Witch is the ruler of the country, and has no need of secrecy.
* ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'': Kayley says there should be a sign declaring the border of Dragon Country, despite the fact that the air suddenly turns gaseous, the sky is orange, and the heroes walked over a dragon skeleton to get there.
* ''[[Megamind]]'' had a variation of sorts. Roxanne was able to easily find Megamind's hideout because it was the only building in town with a fake observatory on the roof, but she couldn't have gotten in without the doormat that said "Secret Entrance".
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== Literature ==
* The various signs on the way to Don'tgonearthe Castle ("Last Chance Not To Go Near The Castle!" "Don't Go Near The Coach Park!") in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]''. Justified in that the Old Count ''wants'' visitors, and understands [[Schmuck Bait]].
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Bowser's castle in ''[[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario World]]'' was marked with a literal neon sign proclaiming "BOWSER", though it wasn't trying to be hidden in the first place.
* ''[[Serious Sam]] II'' sees Sam wonder where he can find the imprisoned Simba shaman right outside a building with a huge neon side that reads "Lucky's imprisoned Simba shamans".
* In ''[[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door]]'', the "Secret Entrance" to the Great Tree is cleverly hidden by a large piece of paper that's the exact color and texture of the tree. You blow that paper away...and you find that the "Secret Entrance" has been marked thusly with a large movie-theater–style sign, complete with flashing lights around the edges.
** Hilariously, an NPC traveling with you, when talking about the Secret Entrance and how it's hidden, mentions that it wouldn't be marked by a sign.
* ''[[Dragon Quest IV (Video Game)|Dragon Quest IV]]'' doesn't have a neon sign, obviously, but it does have an island shaped like a spider with [[Four Is Death|four]] smaller fortresses in the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest corner.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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*** In "Bugsy and Mugsy" Bugs Bunny is living in an abandoned house that two criminals use for a hideout. Bugs invokes this trope by putting up a literal Neon sign that says "Rocky's Hideaway." naturally it doesn't take long for the police to find them. Rocky never noticed the sign and thought that idiot sidekick had turned him in. Poor Mugsy gets a beatdown for nothing.
* In the ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' TV movie, ''Fairly Odd Baby'', Wanda and the other were looking for the evil baby lair, and she said that her maternal instincts were a sonar device to locate Poof. She credited her maternal instincts to finding the room where Poof was located, but there was clearly a sign that pointed to wear the door was.
* Also done in the [[Super Mario World (Animationanimation)|Super Mario World]] cartoon, where Bowser's Castle has the same sign as in the game, except it lights up letter by letter. And is apparently called the ''Coney Island Disco Palace''. A menacing name it is not.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
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