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Most feature [[Elaborate Underground Base|labyrintine cave complex]], [[Lava Pit]]s and use of free heat. Often done in a [[Convection, Schmonvection|rather careless manner]]. May or may not be located [[Island Base|on an island]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Great Mazinger]]'': Marquis Janus, one of the villains of the ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' sequel had an [[Island Base]] with an artificial volcano built on the center. Its eruptions could be set off and stopped at will. Often it was used to blast Great Mazinger with a rain of hot-molten rocks, debris and volcanic cinders in order to slow down its advance or hinder [[The Hero]] Tetsuya as he battled.
* ''[[Kotetsu Jeeg]]'': Queen Himika's [[Home Base]] was inside a volcano.
* Starscream's temporary base in ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'' is located on a volcanic [[Island Base|island]] in the Pacific. Since he and his minions are giant alien robots, the heat is not an issue. Hell, [[Dark Chick|Thunderblast]] enjoys bathing in the lava.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Austin Powers]]''
* Disney version of ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea''
* ''[[Spy Kids]] 2'' ([[Island Base]])
* ''[[You Only Live Twice]]''
▲* ''[[The Incredibles]]''—Syndrome's base at Nomanisan Island.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' has all "classic" Weyrs made this way (one of the rare occurrences of this trope with ''extinct'' volcanoes,) but not early or later ones.
* Evil Harry Dread, the low-budget [[Evil Overlord]] in ''[[
* ''The Cosmic Computer'' by [[H. Beam Piper]] includes a gang of bandits who've taken over an abandoned spaceport built into an extinct volcano. The port was constructed during a war, and it's well armed for defense -- not to mention that when it was abandoned, a lot of its manufacturing and repair equipment was left behind.
== [[Live
* The villain Moltor of ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'' bases his operations inside one of these, in sharp contrast to his brother Flurious, who resides inside of an icy cave lair.
== [[Tabletop
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'':
** ''[[Dragonlance]]''
** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]''
** Red dragons, being immune to fire, prefer hot lairs including volcanoes.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Boiling Point: Road to Hell]]''{{context}}
* ''[[Evil Genius]]''{{context}}
* ''[[Far Cry]]''{{context}}
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''{{context}}
* ''[[Red Alert]] 3''{{context}}
* Subverted in ''[[No One Lives Forever]] 2''. It looks like this but, as it turns out, the actual lava pit inside the base would be too troublesome—so the villains use synthetic lava instead.
* ''[[MARDEK]]'' has at least one NPC who lives in a volcano, a mad hermit {{spoiler|who is actually the shaman of the area, [[My God, What Have I Done?|driven insane from guilt]]}}.
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* [[The Elder Scrolls]]:[[Morrowind]] has the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] in the crater of a volcano.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Minions At Work]]'' as a comic about going-on in [[Supervillain Lair]]s featured [http://www.minionsatwork.com/2011/01/minions-256-where-theres-smoke.html volcanic lair] of [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Doctor]] [[Lizard Folk|Coldblood]] time and again, with lots of jokes about its volcano nature.
{{quote|'''Minion No. 1''': [http://www.minionsatwork.com/2011/07/greetings-molten-yes-were-late-again.html I totally told you, WE LIVE IN A VOLCANO! There's NO SUCH THING as a "minor plumbing problem"!]}}
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{{quote|After all, [[Sarcasm Mode|nothing quite says "intelligent"]] like having 70 billion dollars of equipment next to an unstable volcano!}}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130607010939/http://www.villainsource.com/lairs.html Villain Source]—volcano [[Island Base]]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' TV show and movie, witches lived in the Volcano of Gloom.
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