History Main / SupervillainLair

* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has the modestly named Castle Doom (in the city of Doomstadt, in Characters/DoctorDoom's home country of Latveria). The [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]], Superia, and ComicBook/{{Hydra}} seem to prefer elaborate bases hidden on seemingly deserted islands. [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], being a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive "legitimate businessman"]], has a penthouse in a New York skyscraper -- with the floor directly below him packed full of lowlife goons. Doctor Demonicus raised an island from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] had his own private asteroid base in orbit.

* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'': {{Subverted|Trope}}. When the comically inept [[CardCarryingVillain Bowler Hat Guy]] has captured Lewis and is [[MrExposition telling him]] [[MotiveRant his motives]] for doing so, he mentions how he met the [[AIIsACrapshoot robotic hat Doris]] and how they retreated to "our villainous lair" to make their nefarious plans. Cue camera shot of the ridiculously cute kid theme restaurant they actually went to.

** ''Film/LicenceToKill'': Franz Sanchez doesn't really have one, other than a very nice house. However, his underling, televangelist Joe Butcher, has a large retreat that's the home base of his cult, and doubles as a production center for Sanchez' drugs.

** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': Raoul Silva has an island city. Which he personally turned into a ghost town, by faking evidence of a toxic leak on the island, so he could move in.
** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'': Franz Oberhauser [[spoiler:a.k.a. Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] has a facility built into a meteor crater in the desert, which collects and processes the information from his global surveillance network.

** "Is it a hollowed out volcano like I asked for?"

* Several examples from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', most of them {{subverted|Trope}}. None of the other characters can tell what the Monarch's flying cocoon is supposed to be (it's mistaken for a giant pine cone more than once) and prior to Season 3, it was parked in the Grand Canyon where anyone could see it. Phantom Limb had a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired base he called "the lair of the phantom", but it was located in a gated suburban community for supervillains.

* {{Parodied|Trope}} relentlessly in ''Totally Renamed Spy Game'' by Cheapass Games (formerly known as "''Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond''").

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Syndrome has an absolutely fabulous lair, in a tropical paradise -- [[IslandBase Nomanisan Island]] -- under a volcano. Complete with monorail, underground rocket launch site, underwater docks for the subplanes, and lava walls.

* [[AirVentPassageway Human-sized ventilation ducts]] that the {{heroes}} will eventually crawl around in.

** Then, of course, there's Señor Señor Sr., who only became a villain after Ron pointed out that his home was already half way to being a lair.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'': Every game has at least one new evil fortress for Wily, [[VideoGame/MegaMan4 three have]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan5 separate]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan6 evil lairs]] for the DiscOneFinalBoss, some of Wily's fortresses are [[SpaceBase in space]], and once he even has a [[BewareTheSkullBase skull-themed]] [[ThatsNoMoon Death Star]]. And, generally speaking, all of them possess at least two robotic defenders designed to try to stop Mega Man from making it to Wily.

** ''Film/RogueOne'' shows that Darth Vader has one on Mustafar, complete with an EvilTowerOfOminousness and impressive view of [[SceneryPorn the lava plains]]. It's an interesting choice of location given that he sustained most of his injuries that forced him to wear an armored suit in the first place on that planet. Presumably, it was his way of showing the planet did ''not'' conquer him, and a subtle [[EvilIsPetty dominance]] of Obi-Wan's line "IHaveTheHighGround".

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' was already doing the super-villain lair before its spin-off successor with Cerberus' hidden space station. After three games of dealing with the group through holograms or separate organization cells, we finally get to see the [[DiabolicalMastermind Illusive Man]]'s own lair -- and it is as suave, devilish and reprehensible as the man himself.
* And before that, Shepard and Liara go to the lair of the Shadow Broker in the ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' DLC... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The Lair of the Shadow Broker]].

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', the BigBad's lair is Las Noches, a massive fortress in the middle of the desert. It is enormous and includes a great number of traps, minions, a war room, and a throne room. It is perfect for the villain who wants to keep "everything going according to plan."
* The Garden of Time, Precia's base in the first season of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha.'' Take a [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100524232357/nanoha/images/thumb/7/70/GardenOfTime.jpg/1000px-GardenOfTime.jpg look]].

** ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'' uses a seemingly standard spaceship called Vulgyre as the headquarters for Zone. It ultimately turns into a massive plot point when [[spoiler:it turns out to not only be sentient, but the true leader of Zone who has been using their conquests to become the Galactic Super Beast]].
** In the finale of ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'', [[BigBad Radiguet]] (in his [[OneWingedAngel Raguem]] form) used his base, the Vylock (a floating, brain-shaped ship) for a unique purpose- to turn it into extra armor for himself (so the Jetmen [[AttackItsWeakPoint couldn't get him in his back wound]]); it worked for a while, but the Jet Garuda punched it off of him and destroyed it, leaving him vulnerable to the Jetmen's desperation attack, which he ultimately falls to.

* Pretty much every ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' series have the villains based in one of these; in the [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers early]] [[Series/PowerRangersZeo seasons]] of ''Power Rangers'', the villains were frequently based on the moon. Other seasons/series have had the villains based in [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace space]] [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm stations]], [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue other-dimensional]] [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai locations]], [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo submarines]], [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce caverns]], [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder island fortresses]], the list goes on.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':

* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has the modestly named Castle Doom (in the city of Doomstadt, in [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]]'s home country of Latveria). The [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]], Superia, and ComicBook/{{Hydra}} seem to prefer elaborate bases hidden on seemingly deserted islands. [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], being a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive "legitimate businessman"]], has a penthouse in a New York skyscraper -- with the floor directly below him packed full of lowlife goons. Doctor Demonicus raised an island from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] had his own private asteroid base in orbit.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''/''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'' crossover ''ComicBook/EscapeFromThePhantomZone'', Kryptonian mad scientist Xa-Du has a base in the PhantomZone called Aethyropolis where he houses his troops, locks his prisoners up and performs horrible experiments. Built from ghost carbon, one of the few solid substances in the "twilight dimension", it looks like a pyramid-like bluish-grey castle surrounded by sharp spires.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

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* All the {{Big Bad}}s in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' have lairs, as do some of the less big baddies. Of note is Brother Blood, who keeps a tally on how many secret lairs Cyborg owes him. And Slade, whose lairs are always underground, always dark, and always have some theme.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', the BigBad's lair is Los Noches, a massive fortress in the middle of the desert. It is enormous and includes a great number of traps, minions, a war room, and a throne room. It is perfect for the villain who wants to keep "everything going according to plan."

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' the Infinity Castle serves as the base of operations for [[BigBad Kibutsuji Muzan]] and his [[StandardEvilOrganizationSquad Twelve Kizuki]]. Nakime's Blood Art allows her to [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} shuffle the rooms]] ([[spoiler:used [[TeleportSpam defensively]] and [[TheWallsAreClosingIn offensively]]]]) and [[PortalDoor make entrances anywhere]] outside.

* While it rarely dwelt very long on any of them, nearly every supervillain to appear on ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}}'' had a snazzy lair of some kind. Mountains and personal islands were the most popular, but the sky was the limit, and more than one bad guy took up residence there.

* Many ''Film/JamesBond'' villains have one.

** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'': [[NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE]] has a meeting room in Paris for its "business" reports. Their main operative, Emilio Largo, has a [[CoolBoat special yacht]], the ''Disco Volante''.
** ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'': SPECTRE operates from a hidden elaborate [[VolcanoLair volcano base]] in Japan to house and hide their space capsules-swallowing spacecraft.