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''[[Gratuitous Japanese|Evil Mart he youkoso!]]''
Here, you can find all of the delightfully vile tools you could ever need as a [[Big Bad]]. Need a [[Death Trap]]? We carry them all, from [[Acid Pool|Acid Pools]] to [[Trap Door|Trap Doors]]! Looking to make your [[Mooks]] more reliable? You can trade in the standard issue variety for top-of-the-line [[Evil, Inc.]]. [[Mecha
So, what will it be today?
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* The underworld black magic market seen in one episode of ''[[
* The villainous grocery store in ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''.
* Knockturn Alley in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' ([[Evil Counterpart]] to Diagon Alley).
* The Octopus in ''[[
* Arguably, these exist in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' for the [[Player Character]], though some may consider them to be anti-hero mart. These black-market dealers include- in order of severity: a pawnshop owner selling knives and 38. calibre pistols without a license; a bored clerk at a 7-11 offloading firearms to supplement meagre pay; a Chinese ex-military herbalist with several "[[Deadly Euphemism|remedies]]" that can only be bought with cash; a black-market dealer with more than a few ties to organised crime, working from the back of his truck; finally, there's Mercurio, a Ghoul arms dealer working for Prince Lacroix, capable of finding just about anything for anyone. A borderline case may be found in the form of Pisha the Nagrajara, a flesh-eating immortal lurking in the basement of a [[Abandoned Hospital|condemned hospital]], who'll happily hand over some very useful items- provided you can find the occult items she's been searching for.
* An episode of ''[[The Unusuals]]'' featured a store that sold murder equipment.
* The ''[[Champions]]'' supplement ''Gadgets!'' mentioned two organizations that sold weapons and other equipment to super villains: the West German KRONOS and Japanese ISE (International Scientific Elite).
* The webcomic ''[[Evil Inc
* HenchCo in [[Kim Possible]]. Equipment and minions.
* ''[[Despicable Me]]'' has the Bank Of Evil (formerly Lehman Brothers).
* ''[[Men in Black (
* [[Megamind]] subverts this: he builds all his gadgets himself and he gets all his decorative stuff ("computers" that consist of nothing but flashing lights) from a small outlet in Romania.
* In the second ''[[Hellboy (
* Several [[Marvel]] villains made careers out of this: Arcade used to make money by producing robotic "heroes" for the villains to practice on while Taskmaster made money by providing training for [[Mooks]].
* In the [[Cold Opening]] of ''[[
* In [[Real Life]], there's the black market where you can get things you're not supposed to be legally getting.
* The entire country of Malaria in ''[[Igor]]'', though it's less "buy our evil stuff" and more "pay us to not ''sell'' it".
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