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Close cousin of [[To the Batpole]], this is a room that has a [[Transformation Sequence]]. A mundane living room, bedroom, or small apartment can be converted into a fully-functional [[Superhero]] lair by a pressing a simple hidden control button, or pulling down a horribly out-of-place candle sconce.
Named for the room in small schools that serves as a combined cafeteria, gymnasium, and/or auditorium; which is often referred to with a cutesy portmanteau name like "cafetorinasium" or "cafetorium". (Incidentally, the school in the animated show ''[[Fillmore!]]'' had a cafetorium. But that school had ''everything''.)
Many will contain a [[Wall of Weapons]].
A [[Super-Trope]] to [[Feng Schwing]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* A commercial a few years ago illustrated the speed with which businesses must adapt these days, by showing a corner restaurant that alternately transformed into a corner gym and a corner boutique.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In [[Buster Keaton]]'s "[[The Scarecrow]]," two farmhands share a one-room house in which all the furnishings have at least two
* The title characters' home in the movie ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'' was filled with camouflaged and hidden equipment caches, including a gun drawer hidden as part of a wall oven.
* K from the second ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' movie has a cache of weapons hidden in his old apartment, which is now someone else's home. They have to [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|neuralize this family]] in order to access it.
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* Pick a room in any of the ''[[Spy Kids]]'' movies.
* The film ''Robin and the Seven Hoods'', set in the 1920s Prohibition era, features a bar/casino that can transform into a temperance church meeting for when the police show up.
* Not actually a hideout, but the apartment of Bruce Willis's character in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' had a lot of
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* Sarah Jane's attic in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', triggered by the sentance "Mr. Smith, I need you." which makes her [[Magical Computer]] Mr. Smith awaken and transform the room (or at least the chimney breast).
** Chimneys have breasts?
** Only the female ones.
* In ''[[Stingray (1964 TV series)||Stingray]]'', the Gerry Anderson series, where X20, the weird sea creature who lives all alone in a house on a rock in the middle of the ocean, disguises the secret sea-creaturey equipment in an ordinary-looking house in case he gets visitors, which he did a few times (though he also had to don a quick human disguise on these occasions as well).
* Anderson did much the same thing at various times in [[Thunderbirds]]. International Rescue's headquarters on Tracy Island is a combination of this trope and [[To the Batpole]], with both huge hidden hangars for the Thunderbirds and parts of the main
* [[The Goodies]] lived and worked in an office that included fold-down beds that were also doors to other rooms, a window showing a choice of vistas or a TV screen, and in one episode, controls that drove the building in the famous Le Mans 24 hours race. Later episodes set in the office included props doing similar versatile work.
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* In ''[[Deus Ex]]'', when J.C. gets to his brother's room and puts in the code given to him by his brother, the wall opens up to reveal a futuristic computer and enough munitions to, well, easily take care of those pesky [[The Men in Black|M.I.B.]]s that invade it later on.
* ''[[Starship Titanic]]'' has tiny versions of these rooms for guests traveling "Super Galactic Traveler Class" as the furniture folds in and out to create a kitchen, dining area, bedroom, and living area. (Not at the same time, mind.) The problem is that unless you know which furniture plates to unfold in the proper order, the furniture gets in its own way and won't fully unfold. {{spoiler|There's also a puzzle where you need to unfold the couch so that you can watch the room's TV and see if you won an upgrade to a less confusing room.}}
* Can be found in some of the bases available to players in ''[[Champions Online]]'', like the loft, where hitting the right control on your desk will drop shutters over the windows and reveal various special hidden features like your costume closet and arsenal.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The Hair Bear Bunch had a lot of cool appliances hidden in their phony cave at the Wonderland Zoo.
* [[The Tick (animation)]] bugs Arthur to reveal where "the hidden switch" is in the pilot episode. Naturally, there isn't one, and Tick nearly destroys the apartment looking for secret [[Superhero]] gear.
* ''[[Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends]]'' had one at Aunt May's boarding house, in Queens. Somehow, she didn't notice.
* In an episode of ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' the bridge of an old harbor-tour boat transforms into a fully-functional anti-sub warfare center.
* Parodied on ''[[Family Guy]]''; Quagmire's bland living room turns into a fully-equipped bachelor pad with the press of a few buttons. In a later episode, there is a chase scene in his house in which every piece of scenery folds out into a bed when knocked.
** Stewie also has a secret room full of guns ammo and other evil genius type decor.
** Peter has a hidden base underneath the house where he hides his porn. It was part of a cutaway gag though and hasn't been seen since, so it probably isn't canon.
*** Is anything canon in that show?
* The 1970s cartoon ''Drak Pack'' had one of these, a room in an old run-down haunted mansion that turned into a high-tech communications center at the touch of a [[Big Red Button]].
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Truth in Television]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131009204149/http://www.plasma2002.com/epb/ Emergency Party Button].
* In some Bavarian homes there is a single wall between the kitchen and the living room. The fireplace built into the wall serves both as a stove and a heater.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak THIS THING!]
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