a fortified mansion built by a dictator with embezzled funds in a tax haven.
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a defunct resort on a remote tropical island.
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a decommissioned nuclear launch silo.
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the bottom floors of a skyscraper’s parking garage, converted into an underground stronghold.
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a ghost town abandoned decades ago because of a persistent coal-seam fire beneath it.
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a fairytale castle built according to the designs of a Disney-obsessed billionaire.
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a junkyard trash-palace.
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a penthouse suite with extensive expansions cloaked from outside observers.
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a geostationary space station built by a private syndicate.
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a restored plantation house.
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inside a sinister copy of Mount Rushmore that commemorates history’s worst villains.
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a hydroelectric dam exclusively used to power a cryptocurrency mining setup.
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a defaced cathedral.
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a mountain fortress somewhere between NORAD and an Al-Qaeda base.
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a gigantic armoured ekranoplan built as a testament to Cold War excess.
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hidden in defunct subway tunnels beneath a metropolis.
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a cave complex developed tens of thousands of years ago by a population of superintelligent mutant Neanderthals.
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a seastead outfitted with hydroponic farms and a nuclear engine.
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a factory haunted by the workers gunned down by Pinkertons there a century ago.
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a super-scientific, super-sized zeppelin.
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This hideout is protected by
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an army of clunky Soviet robots lost after everyone involved in the project was eliminated by Stalin.
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big bug-eyed aliens, who were told this was actually a normal and career-enhancing internship opportunity on Earth. They are not being paid for it.
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geriatric ex-Rhodesian mercenaries in very short shorts.
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turrets, saw-blades, and rocket pods that pop out of the surfaces you’d least expect them to.
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a gang of teenage Satanists looking to boost their evil cred.
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Russian mobsters who don’t ask questions, possibly because they only speak Russian.
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a coterie of vampires, who the supervillain is blackmailing into service by threatening to reveal their existence to the world.
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hapless bystanders possessed by the spirits of henchmen killed in past raids.
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forcefields and active camouflage.
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junior villains working towards their big breaks.
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a down-on-their-luck ninja clan mostly there for the cheap rent.
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a private military company that committed war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, and Ukraine.
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giant man-eating plants.
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by artificial werewolves made from surgically-combined German shepherds and soldiers.
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genetically-engineered dinosaurs.
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projected killer holograms.
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living graffiti, swarms of paint particle micro-machines.
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a cult-like paramilitary organization headed by the supervillain themself in the position of commander and prophet.
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the special forces of a rogue nation.
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vat-grown homunculi.
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The supervillain got this hideout
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in a high-stakes poker game.
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in a criminal asset auction.
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as their inheritance from a distant and mysterious uncle.
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in a divorce settlement with their equally villainous ex-spouse.
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as payment for pulling off a huge heist with a team of other villains.
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by killing its previous owner and taking over.
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as a legal purchase through an obscuring chain of shell companies.
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as a gift from a long-standing patron.
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by intimidating the shady billionaire who owned it before them into giving it to them.
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because their buddy (also a villain) willed it to them after that buddy died.
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at staggering personal expense, as an investment that's yet to pay itself off.
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through squatter's rights after finding it empty.
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as a key defensive point seized during a turf war.
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as the prize in a lottery held among illicit shadow-millionaires.
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on the condition that they'd use it as a fief in service of their foul liege.
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from the hero who used to own it by beating their ass.
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through malicious trickery.
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as the dream-home they'd imagined since they were a kid.
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as the backup for their main hideout, which was lost to a heroic assault.
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as part of a soul-trading bargain with an extra-dimensional entity that called itself a devil.
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The supervillain is currently using this hideout
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as the nursery for a baby kaiju they’re raising to wreak havoc.
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for rest & relaxation between capers.
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for enhanced interrogation of a captured hero.
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to lay low while they receive genetic augmentation which requires them to be in an induced coma.
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as a training ground for an elite squad.
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to host a networking event for nefarious sorts.
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as a ritual site to commune with the numberless legions of hell.
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for an augmented-reality arena that'll hone their skills.
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to manufacture high-tech gear for their next job.
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as an observatory and radio-telescope array to communicate with an approaching extraterrestrial invasion fleet. They hope to sabotage the Earth in return for concessions from the fleet.
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as a marketplace for weapons of mass destruction.
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as a nexus for drug smuggling.
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as a museum of their career-defining moments.
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as a staging ground for ever-greater escapades.
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as an anchor for their delves into the nega-realm.
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for trysts with the up-and-coming, straight-and-narrow politician they're having an affair with.
These are really cool and also have some great baked-in hooks.
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I may have one or two questions for Captain Magnificent regarding his architectural choices.