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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Tank''': All right, what do you need, besides a miracle?
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May be tied in with a [[Lock and Load Montage]]. Compare and contrast [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] and [[Extended Disarming]]. Usually seen in a [[Survivalist Stash]] as part of the supplies. Can overlap with [[Gun Porn]].
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== [[Anime]] and Manga ==
* In one of the anime installments of ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'', Rally has one of these in her house. Burglars think they can help themselves. Rally's response when the alarm trips is... eager.
** In the manga, it isn't so much a
* In ''[[Eden of the East]]'', amnesiac Akira Takizawa is [[Amnesiac Dissonance|none too happy]] to discover that his temporary establishment in Washington DC has one of these.
* ''[[Gunslinger Girl|Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino]]''. Pinnochio has one from which he selects a couple of vz61 Skorpions for Franco and Franca.
* Homura from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' is already notable for using her [[Magical Girl]] [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] to carry around not only [[Superhero Packing Heat|guns]], but ''military ordnance''. But then along comes the finale, when she finds herself {{spoiler|facing Walpurgisnacht alone}}, and we get a look at [http://images.puella-magi.net/4/49/Homura_Heavy_Weapons_Kata.jpg just how much stuff she actually has]. And that image is only a fraction of it.
* A weird example can be found in ''[[Rosario
** Later in the manga, recently-introduced character Fong-Fong of the [[The Triads and the Tongs|Wong family]] apparently keeps assault rifles, handguns, and dynamite on the wall in the kitchen. Given that he's the heir of the biggest and baddest youkai gang in Hong Kong and the family house is like a castle, it makes a little more sense.
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* ''[[The Punisher]]''.
* ''[[Batman]]'', although there obviously aren't any guns on the wall.
** Taken to its logical conclusion when one issue showed him opening up his
** Except for the All-Star Batman, who had machine guns in there...
*** Yes, well... AS Batman is a ''special'' case.
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* [[The Matrix|"Guns. Lots of guns."]] This one is more like a ''[[Up to Eleven|mall]]'' of weapons.
** And again in ''Reloaded'', when Neo and the Merovingian's hitmen start looting the wall of weapons in his castle during their fight.
* ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''. Yu Shu Lien is using a
* ''[[Terminator]] 2'' has Sarah Connor with an underground cache of weapons hidden in the desert. Not that we need convincing she's a [[Badass]] by this point in the film. John Connor mentions this as well--"One thing about my mom... she always plans ahead."
** ''Terminator 3'' has Sarah Connor with a weapon cache IN HER COFFIN (of course, SHE isn't in it.) Of course that probably moves into [[Crazy Prepared]] territory.
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* ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' features a wall of anti-lycan weaponry for use by Deathdealers.
** ''[[Blade]]'' also has an anti-vampire wall of weapons.
* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' has an impressive wall of impossible sci-fi superweapons in the form of Jeebs' Jewelery; naturally, seeing as Jeebs is a fence who deals in the black market, he keeps the display hidden behind a secret panel.
** The sequel has another one stashed behind the wall of Agent Kay's old apartment. It comes in handy for the heroes when they are stuck outside of MIB headquarters.
* In ''Pineapple Express'', Red literally has weapons in the wall.
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* Burt's basement in ''[[Tremors]]'' features a literal Wall of Weapons, which [[Battle Couple|he and his wife]] use to devastating effect when a Graboid breaks through the wall opposite.
** In the sequel, Burt's wall of weapons is shown again, and later, he rolls in a ''massive'' truck loaded with shotguns, machineguns and a huge [[No Kill Like Overkill|anti-tank rifle]], plus enough explosives to level a city block.
*** Try four city blocks! And he uses it. [[Chekhov's Armory|All of it]].
{{quote|'''Burt''' (Sitting against the side of his truck, surrounded by dead Shriekers and spent shells): I am ''completely'' out of ammo! *[[Beat|pauses for a moment]]* That's never happened to me before.}}
* In ''[[The Crow]]'', [[Big Bad|Top Dollar]] pulls his katana from a pleasantly mounted wall-cabinet full of wonderful toys.
* [[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]: Both Smiths have walls of weapons in their own house, hidden from each other.
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* In ''[[The Mummy Trilogy]]'' Rick is frequently shown to have numerous guns nearby at all times, in case he has to blow off some mummy's head.
** This habit leads to this exchange in the second movie: "You want the shotgun?" "Actually, I prefer the Thompson."
** In the first movie, during the boat voyage down the Nile, Rick startles Evy when he thunks down a heavy duffle bag right in front of her, then unrolls it to reveal that the duffle is stuffed with weapons.
* Captain Englehorn in Peter Jackson's ''[[King Kong]]'' not only has a rack of rifles on the wall of his ship's cabin, but also keeps a stash of Thompson submachine guns ''under his bed''.
* [[Boondock Saints]] features a Basement Room of Weapons, up to and including a DShK heavy machinegun. Curiously, a pair of pimptastic Desert Eagles (and gold watches, a pager, and two moneyclips full of large denomination bills) is sufficient payment for a whole duffel bag of guns.
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* Many examples in [[The Dresden Files]]: Harry's apartment/lab, Thomas' spare bedroom / gun lab, and the storage areas at Monoic Securities' headquarters.
* In the ''[[Kitty Norville]]'' series, [[The Gunslinger|hired gun]] Cormac has an entire shed full of weapons specifically designed to kill werewolves and vampires.
* [[Star Wars|Mara Jade Skywalker]] kept a
* The first secret anarchist hideout in [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s ''The Man Who Was Thursday'' has weapons on every single
* The sci-fi novel ''Revelation Space'' by [[Alastair Reynolds]]. The brobdingnagian spaceship ''Nostalgia for Infinity'' has a warchive containing examples of over four million hand
* In R.A. Salvatore's [[Forgotten Realms|Drizzt Do'Urden]] novels, when Zaknafein is beginning his teaching of Drizzt and reveals a massive wall armory, telling him to take his pick and find out which ones he prefers.
* Roarke in the ''[[In Death]]'' series has a very extensive collection of weapons from the medieval to the modern. In his case it's less an indication of being [[Crazy Prepared]] and more another way to demonstrate his membership in the [[Fiction 500]], but he does demonstrate his proficiency with several of the firearms all the same.
* Subverted in the [[Gordon R. Dickson]] novel ''Lost Dorsai'' (part of the [[Childe Cycle]]): the titular hero has wall of musical instruments displayed ''as if they were weapons'' which convinces the narrator that he truly has become a pacifist.
* The cover art for "The Unbeholden" (a tie-in novel for the old World of Darkness) shows a major character standing in front of his
* ''[[Duumvirate]]'' takes this trope and goes nuts. In the first book, it's just a room full of weapons. In the second book, they have weapons embedded in literally every wall in the house, as well as an underground Walmart of guns, flamethrowers, and lasers.
{{quote|'''Narrator:''' The child-sized weapons were helpfully placed on the bottom shelf, so kids wouldn't have to climb to reach them.}}
* The interior of the manor house from ''[[Garrett P.I.|Old Tin Sorrows]]'' was decorated in this trope.
* A highly overpowered disposable assault weapon forms a key part of the climax of [[William Gibson]] 's All Tomorrow's Parties. It's hidden ''inside'' a wall, which has been plastered over.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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** In the season/series finale, {{spoiler|the [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] comes when he's sleeping, hears what are obviously (to the viewer) fighting noises, sits halfway up, pulls down the cloth covering this wall, heroic music begins to swell... then pulls the cloth over himself as a blanket and goes back to sleep.}}
* When Michael Vaughn goes to Jack Bristow for help in ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', Bristow shows him his underground bunker, where every available surface is covered in guns and other assorted weapons.
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' all hunters have a hidden wall of weapons in their home, vehicle, or house of worship. Sam and Dean are the exception, having only a trunkfull of weapons.
* ''[[Angel]]'' keeps a cabinet full of many different weapons, ranging from swords and crossbows to a sharpened baseball bat. In Season 5 he starts keeping what is probably an entirely different set on the wall of his office.
* ''[[Buffy]]'' has one, too, in her training room at the Magic Box.
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** Not that big a deal, since it's actually an armory. Most if not all armories for military and paramilitary groups look the same.
** Later, in the "Charlie Don't Surf" mission, the player can enter a basement in a building held by Al-Asad's troops, where there is a table strewn with dozens of rifles, shotguns, grenades and pistols.
** ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' features a terrorist safehouse with ''[[Suspicious Videogame Generosity|multiple]]'' weapons caches. There's a
** Soap and Roach break into an armory in a Russian Gulag which is more like an elevated ''island'' of weapons.
** Also, several Spec Ops missions in ''Modern Warfare 2'' have a dropcloth full of available weapons next to the player at the start of each mission.
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* In ''[[Resident Evil]] 4'', the various Merchants will have walls and tables strewn with shockingly extensive arrays of firepower. Not to mention that whenever he's in an outdoor area, he'll stuff his entire inventory into his overcoat. Hell, by the end of the game, Leon's [[Grid Inventory|Attache Case]] qualifies.
** In Code Veronica, there's a room in Alfred's mansion where the walls are covered in rifles and pistols. You'd think that Claire would be able to use the weapons to go on an anti-zombie rampage. [[Fridge Logic|No.]]
* The Orks in ''[[Warhammer
** Don't forget the little gretchin who [[Pooled Funds|dives into the pile for a swim every now and again.]]
* In ''[[Hitman]] 2'' as you collect weapons from the level you slowly build up a wall of weapons in a shed. Oddly enough he [[Interface Spoiler|knows exactly how many different types of weapons he'll find and have a space earmarked for it]].
** Reused in Blood Money, but taken to even more illogical extremes, with 47 having slots available for an Elephant Rifle, a Six Shooter and a nail gun. Possibly justified this time as the game takes place in a flashback and so he would have added the spaces as he got the weapons.
* Similarly ''[[Far Cry]] 2'' has an armory next to every gun shop in the game, where the player can always find an unlimited supply of weapons they bought from the dealer. Empty spaces for future guns are sort of justified, as the armory clearly belongs to the dealer, and he would know his own inventory.
* ''[[Time Splitters]]: Future Perfect'' features a [[Runaway Train|train compartment]] containing a cache of weapons mounted on the carriage wall. Upon entering it, Anya, the player's [[Voice with an Internet Connection]] remarks, "Wow, this is such a guys' room.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] 3: Morrowind'', especially in the ''Tribunal'' expansion pack, a fun thing to do is get a large empty house make your own
** People do this in ''[[The Elder Scrolls|Oblivion]],'' and ''[[Fallout]] 3'', too. There are even mods for all three games that make doing this easier.
*** It's needed in those last two games thanks to them using the Havoc physics engine. No I don't want my swords to drop realistically, I want them to line up in a row.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [
** And the [[Shout-Out]] to the Charlie Daniels Band,
* [[Meaningful Name|Eagle-Eyed]] Pete, a minor {{spoiler|(and dead)}} character from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', used to be one of the best snipers in his thieves' guild, and had an [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0614.html armory to match.]
* Jake English of ''[[Homestuck]]'' keeps all his guns in a big, messy pile. [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006020
* In ''[[Flaky Pastry]]'' Zintiel [http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=176 got this].
* Don't-call-him-a-supervillain Deus{{context}} has weapons, amongst other things, all kept ready on sliding wall sections in his office.
{{quote|'''Deus''': Who doesn't want a room with secret panels?}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Professor Farnsworth in ''[[Futurama]]'' puts his own little spin on this
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Lois Kills Stewie," after Stewie conquers the world, Peter and Lois search his room, finding a hidden lever that reveals a whole ''room'' full of weapons.
* Clay Puppinton in ''Moral Orel'' has an entire ''[http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c3921396b1350113978ce87c0092 hallway]'' lined with weapons of all kinds.
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* The Fenton family in ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. They have a ''vault'' of weapons.
* [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Mermaidman and Barnacleboy]] have one, and its weapons are genuinely deadly (as deadly as it can get in a children's show, anyways). One wonders why the duo never use said weapons seeing how their own abilities are lacking due to age.
* Most versions of the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' have the heroes keep one of these in their lair, usually in their training room, though in this case it's all martial arts weapons.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Apparently, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100918091954/http://www.inveraray-castle.com/pages/content.asp?PageID=106 Inveraray Castle] has more [[Blade on a Stick|polearms]] and muskets than you'd want to [[Incredibly Lame Pun|shake a stick at]].
* It was common to find Governor's Palaces insanely well armed in Colonial America. This was to both show off the power and wealth of the British Empire (a rifle being a sizable portion of a normal person's yearly income) and to be used to defend the Governor and his family/staff in case of uprising. In Colonial Williamsburg, the Governor's Palace had more muskets, rifles, pistols, and melee weapons than the actual magazine (arsenal).
* The first room you enter at Alnwick Castle has an incredibly array of polished metal in the form of antique pistols, swords, and assorted other weaponry arrayed in aesthetically pleasing patterns around the walls. All of the walls. Filling every square inch. (Even more impressive, however, is the library with walls made of books.)
* The Great Hall at Edinburgh Castle is decorated with swords, pistols, a couple of little brass mortars and just about every kind of polearm you can think of.
* And of course, [[Truth in Television]] for most military and police forces. Armories will often have them stored on racks on the walls, sometimes in locked cages for added security.
* Leeds Armoury has the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140117041232/http://www.royalarmouries.org/visit-us/leeds/leeds-galleries/hall-of-steel Hall of Steel.]
* Gun manufacturer Heckler & Koch maintains a ... special conference room (the Grey Room) at their Virginia HQ for the purpose of looking impressive. [http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj93/HK417/GRAY%20ROOM/Gray-Room-panorama.jpg It's successful.]
* Duncan Mccollum, who wrote the book on Arisaka collection, has a collection of Arisakas displayed this way. It inspired [[Forgotten Weapons|his son's interest in firearms]].
* In Feudal Japan it was common for a Daimyo to have a rack for all his [[Samurai]] to check in their swords when they attended him. In this case it was a very practical thing as the Daimyo if he was paranoid would not want anyone armed except his picked bodyguards and if he was willing to tolerate it, he might not be willing to tolerate [[Bar Brawl|weapons and alcohol]] in the same feast-hall.
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