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* Samantha Ford has one in ''The11thHour'', with 3 computers side-by-side that can apparently show live feeds of the Stauf Mansion. The room itself is pretty sparse, with a TV at the back and some doors, but granted, she's confined to a wheelchair.

* Part of ComicBook/RedRobin's underground CoolGarage is a dedicated computer and area that was designed using Tim's knowledge from working on the Batcomputer and helping upgrade Oracle's systems.

->'''Trestkon''': You're still the resident hacker, eh?
->'''Evil Invasion''': I'm a programmer, I just hack when I need to.
->'''Trestkon''': I think this is the first office of a programmer I've ever visited without expensive hardware lying around on the floor among pizza boxes and empty cans of pop.
->'''Evil Invasion''': Sorry, but I just moved in. Give me a few days then this place will live up to ''all'' your prejudices.

* The geek house in Creator/CharlesStross ''[[Literature/TheLaundrySeries The Atrocity Archives]]'' features this, only extended to include a [[PostModernMagik laser pentagram for demon summoning]]

* Lester's house from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''; due to him being a GeniusCripple, he normally doesn't leave all that much. On occasion, he will be out in the field, including the "Obvious" version of The Big Score, where he helps take down Merryweather choppers with RPGs.

** [[InsistentTerminology "It's not a basement, it's a command centre!"]]
** ''Die Hard 4.0'' had a couple of these, all the hackers that blow up at the start (at least the ones we see) imply they have a mass of pimped-out computers, then there is the truck the bad guys go around in. And again in the Woodlawn building, it has a massive super server to hold all the financial transactions of the USA (yet is able to be downloaded to a single laptop).
** Warlock's basement even includes a copy of ''GearsOfWar'' set up in the background [[RuleOfCool just because.]]

* ''Series/SiliconValley'': Erlich Bachman has converted his suburban Palo Alto home into an "incubator" for freelance programmers, supplying them free rooms on the condition that he owns 10% of anything they create there. The living room is nothing but computer workspaces, and the garage is filled with servers.

* The Watchtower in the last few seasons of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' was this for Chloe. Back in the high school days of the early seasons, the Smallville High Torch office was this for her as well, though in that case it was open to all students and faculty rather than being private property (it really was more a matter of Chloe being the only one who consistently ''wanted'' to be at the Torch!)

"Real" hackers spend most of their hacking time peering at a text editor and thinking very hard, so one might think this unrealistic, but it still manages to be TruthInTelevision for many. A common cause is the need to keep any number of test machines on hand to verify programs' behavior on dissimilar platforms, or in complex networked setups. {{Demo|scene}}parties and other hackish social occasions often resemble this trope too--as do the bedrooms (or {{basement|Dweller}}s) of hackers who deliberately [[GenreSavvy seek this trope as an ideal]]!

* Otacon operates out of a cargo plane converted into a hacker cave in ''MetalGearSolid4'', [[ProductPlacement courtesy of Apple]].

* In VideoGame/WatchDogs2'', there are Hackerspaces, locations where [=DedSec=] is set up and acts as their headquarters.

The BigBad is a [[TheCracker Computer destroying Techwhiz]]. The [[PlayfulHacker Good Guy's]] on the other side. Now, how do you show the audience that they are awesome, other than having them grab a keyboard, [[RapidFireTyping punch a few buttons]], and [[EverythingIsOnline blow up a satellite]] [[HollywoodHacking in 15 minutes]]?

* ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters 1'' and ''2'' have cyberpunk levels with underground hacker hideouts.

Quite often, this trope will intersect with VoicWithAnInternetConnection.

Throw in the 21st-century equivalent of the MadScientistLaboratory, and have them live in a room packed to the brim full of technological things, that's what. A HackerCave, known in chanspeak as a 'battlestation'

* Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}} arguably sees Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse creating the world's first hacker cave when in the later stages of WorldWarII his superiors discover his lab to be taken over by a massive and revolutionary self-built computer through which he has been running literal truckloads of punch cards to aid in his codebreaking work.

* Kururu's room in ''KeroroGunsou''.
* [[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex The Major]] gets one of these in ''[[TheMovie Solid State Society]]'', although hers is rather stylishly located in a light, airy penthouse apartment.

* [=DiZ=] of ''KingdomHearts'' owns one in the [[spoiler: Basement of the Twilight Town Mansion]]. In frustration, Roxas happened to smash one of them.

* The Villain of ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork 2'' had this but instead the cave was a condo of 30 floors. May also play with RoomOfServers as the most of the rooms were filled to the brim with them.

-->-- ''TheNamelessMod''

* The very last stage in ''VideoGame/{{Condemned}} 2: Bloodshot'' evokes this trope to prove that BigBrotherIsWatching.

* Mocked in ''TheNamelessMod'', giving the page quote.

** Similarly, Cassius, the [[PokemonXAndY Kalos]] storage expert, has a messy house full of rack servers and other equipment.

"Real" hackers spend most of their hacking time peering at a text editor and thinking very hard, so one might think this unrealistic, but it still manages to be TruthInTelevision for many. A common cause is the need to keep any number of test machines on hand to verify programs' behavior on dissimilar platforms, or in complex networked setups. {{Demo|scene}}parties and other hackish social occasions often resemble this trope too- as do the bedrooms (or {{basement|Dweller}}s) of hackers who deliberately [[GenreSavvy seek this trope as an ideal]]!