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[[File:undersea.jpg|frame|Think of it as your regular secret base. Except instead of birds, you have [[Everything's Even Worse
Characters have their base of operations underwater. Somewhat more common with villains. Good for keeping out unwanted visitors. After all, it takes more effort to break in if you have to be looking out for giant squids at the same time.
Compare [[Elaborate Underground Base]], [[Island Base]], [[Space Base]]. See also [[Underwater City]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Daimos]]'': [[Winged Humanoid|The Brahmins']] [[Home Base]] on Earth was an underwater base served like their headquarters to launch attacks from.
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** The most noteworthy is Crescent Coral Base (Center Neptune in [[Battle of the Planets|BotP]]) which had thrusters on the bottom allowing it to physically move and change locations if discovered and projected a fake coral reef above on the water surface to fool people.
** ''Gatchaman II'' had G-Town, a huge mobile base (more like a city) at the very bottom of the ocean.
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== [[Film]] ==
* The movie ''Captain Nemo and the Underwater City'' puts the city of "Templemere" under a dome at the bottom of the ocean, where the submarine ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|Nautilus]]'' has its berth. And this is supposedly done during a time when the best technology is [[Older Than Radio|Steam]] powered.
* The drilling rig in ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Austin Powers]]'': "Welcome to my submarine lair! [[Double Entendre|It's long, hard and full of seamen]]."
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The Rangers' base in ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]''. Deliberately chosen because water is the demons' [[Weaksauce Weakness]].
* The ''[[
* The ''UFO'' episode "Reflections in the Water" had an underwater alien base.
* The Looking Glass station on ''[[Lost]]'', used by the Others to block all communications coming to the island.
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== [[Other]] ==
* Sea Base Alpha in the EPCOT attraction The Living Seas, before the Nemo makeover.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Pasadena Ocean Lab in ''[[
* The final location of ''Within A Deep Forest'', and the setting of the ''Knytt Stories'' story "An Underwater Adventure."
* There's even an abandoned underwater base in ''[[
* The [[Final Boss]] battle of [[Gaia Online|zOMG]] Chapter One takes place in {{spoiler|Labtech X's}} Underwater Base.
* ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' had the Catapult, an underground/underwater base of [[Lost Technology]]. Among other things, it features an airship docking bay, a teleporter and a ship-sized elevator to the sea surface. And the icing on the cake? It's ''[[Player Headquarters|yours]]'' now.
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** The alien bases, including [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon|T'leth]], also apply.
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Eggman]] has a few of these.
** Examples include [[Sonic Triple Trouble|Tidal Plant]], [[Sonic Advance Series|Ocean Base]] (which has surprisingly little in the way of underwater segments), and [[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006
* The Ocean Palace of Zeal in ''[[
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' has one owned by the good guys on Manaan. "Owned" being in the past tense.
* Constructing underwater structures is a popular activity in [[Minecraft]].
* The deep-sea installation NORAD VI in ''[[The Journeyman Project]]''.
* ''[[
* Building one, while not exactly ''required'', is extremely useful and directly makes it possible to complete the endgame of ''[[Subnautica]]''. The flexibility of the base-building system makes it almost a minigame in and of itself, especially when combined with the game's rather selective implementation of gravity; while it was still in beta there were already contests for the most amazing/interesting bases, and many players seem to use the Creative mode of the game solely to see how extravagant or elaborate a base they can build.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* So did Dr. Drakken of ''[[Kim Possible]]''.
* ''[[Sealab 2020]]'', and by extension, ''[[Sealab 2021]]''.
** Not to mention that ''other'' Sealab featured in ''[[
* Lake Laogai in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.
* In the Pixar movie ''[[The Incredibles]]'', the entrance to Syndrome's magnificant [[Elaborate Underground Base]] is under the sea, built for submersible aircraft to use.
* The Legion of Doom had their headquarters beneath a swamp in the Saturday-morning cartoon series ''Challenge of the Superfriends''.
* Brother Blood designs one on ''[[Teen Titans (
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