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Secret evil hideout prejudices

BioDynamo

19:19 / 30.03.02

I'm prejudiced towards the classic "dark cave under gigantic mansion"-type. Shows class, shows style, shows nearly unlimited wealth, all in one go! White marble floors above, bat guano on granite below, big park surrounding the whole thing for those lazy sunday afternoons when you just can't be bothered machinating the doom of your enemies.

Of course it's way out of my budget.

rizla mission

19:33 / 30.03.02

Personally, I can't fucking stand the old Bond-villian setup - the tropical island with the deadly maze and the rocket silo hidden in the mountain and so forth - bloody crap. Carrying on like they're the evilest geniuses under the sun .. Gilligan's Island with delusions of megalomania, more like!

And abandoned amusement parks are pretty lame too.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

00:01 / 31.03.02

Anything involving plush or fun-fur in conjunction with a pirahna tank. I mean, please. It may have looked cool in the Evil Overlord style mag, but as soon as your first spy takes an early bath, that stuff is going to get matted to heck. And you'll never get the smell out.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:43 / 01.04.02

A private island. I'm trying to get one at the moment, but unfortunately I'm stuck in a chain & can't get it until someone's handed over the cash for my Fortress of Solitude, which they can't get until they've sorted out handing over their sub-orbital satellite to someone else, who... on and fucking on, the same old story.
And I've got a bloke turning up next week to measure it out for my Maze of Death... what's an evil genius to do?

Ethan Hawke

10:59 / 01.04.02

The White House, of course.

Utopia

15:52 / 01.04.02

very much into the orbiting space platform. i'd like to look down upon the people who i am so very, very superior to. i'd also like to drop stuff on peoples heads.

Not Here Still

16:23 / 01.04.02

I actually have a mountain picked which I want hollowed out for my secret hideaway.

It's on the Lleyn Peninsula near Porthdinllaen - it's the mountain nearest the sea in the Top right hand corner of the picture.

Many is the time I've sat in the pub on the beach there, working out how to hollow out that mountain.

rizla mission

17:58 / 01.04.02

It's a little .. quaint, isn't it?

I think my hideout of choice has to be the ol' weather-beaten, clifftop gothic fortress in darkest Latveria...

grant

20:13 / 01.04.02

My first thought was "private island" (sorry, Riz).

My second thought is something like the 1/2 floor in "Being John Malkovich" or Platform 9 3/4 in the Harry Potter books. Y'know, like part of an urban building that is completely disregarded. An extra floor on a department store or the disused sub-tunnels below the subway.

Favorite fictional one, of course, is the salvage yard headquarters of the Three Investigators.
And yeah, I loved Oscar the Grouch as a kid. Trash!

Saint Keggers

22:56 / 01.04.02

I've always liked the idea of a massive blimp...like the hindenburg but bigger and filled with nuclear waste...Ok its a bad hideout..but who in their right mind is going to shoot that down over a city??? ME! Thats who.

Rev. Jesse

23:44 / 01.04.02

I like the gentleman's club covered in hardwood paneling with cigar puffing old men playing chess and discussing the fate of Our Hero over brandy and cognac.

The Return Of Rothkoid

08:33 / 02.04.02

I think you've just described my sitting-room.

higuita

10:39 / 02.04.02

The pad the Shocker once had in a Spiderman comic was cool. As mentioned above, disregarded urban building in dodgy neighbourhood ("one so hates the word 'ghetto' but what else can one really say? More champers anyone?") with a whole groovy supervillain pad hidden behind one of the warped doors. Included its own special 'shocker-safe target room. Mmm. Shame it got blown up...
The big boss's place in 'Live and Let Die' beneath the bar was good, too. I like tables that spin or drop through the floor. It happens to me on a regular basis, but that's probably something to do with Abbot Ale.

Got to agree with Rizla though.

"Guvnor, you can't go wrong wiv a good ol goffic fortress. I mean, crennelations, innit? Gargoyles and loads of raven shit. Can't go wrong. Plumbings a bastard and it looks out of place in Bromsgrove, but what are you gonna do, haus prices being what they are..."

Not Here Still

15:03 / 02.04.02

Quaint?

But that's just what I *want* you to think...

Either that, or I'm a crap master villain...

deja_vroom

15:08 / 02.04.02

Me, I'd go for the sewers. I know, I know, the smell... but think about it: Quick access to all areas of the city... if you have some spare time you can train some rats... the extra-repulsive look in the extra-clean heroin when she's tied up and helpless. And it's cheap!

Cat Chant

16:10 / 02.04.02

not bothered but must have groovy spherical chair a la number 2 out of The Prisoner

Matthew Fluxington

20:49 / 02.04.02

I've always been rather fond of my huge fuck-off office at the top of my evil corporate skyscraper. I've given a few of the other options that you mention - the cave under the mansion, the evil island - but they don't satisfy me in quite the same way. I prefer subtlety and class over being bombastic, I suppose.

But don't fuck with me, cos I've got a trap door under yr seat...

The Monkey

10:43 / 04.04.02

Curses. In my absence, someone beat me to the zeppelin idea...pass on the radioactive waste, though. I'll stick to the more old fashioned Hugo-Gernsback/Jules Verne model, complete with Tesla Coils and ray-guns with big glass globes stuck on it.
I opt now for temple-palace ruins in the steamy jungles of...I ain't telling...where I'll build my secret dojo and train armies of ninja warriors....

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