ENTER! Misc. Avatar Contest - Your Fortress of Solitude or Evil Lair

[Locutus of Bored]

Thank you all for the win.

This week I'd like to explore locations you'd choose for a superhero pad or a villainous lair. It can be a cool looking building, mansion, ancient ruins or castles, natural formations, a cave, an ice hotel, a ship, a space station, an underwater habitat, etc.

The usual Misc. avatar contest rules apply: No TV, movies, or media, and 150x150 pixels and 140kb or less in size.

Entries will be accepted through Sunday evening.

Good luck to you all!

 

[RJDiogenes]

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Oh, man, I know just the thing. Not sure if I can get it into an avatar, though....

 

[RJDiogenes]

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Here we go:

A converted government-surplus Atlas missile base and silo. Link. Sort of a cross between Superman, Batman, and William Gibson.

 

[SPCTRE]

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A converted government-surplus Atlas missile base and silo. Link. Sort of a cross between Superman, Batman, and William Gibson.

That's pretty damn cool.

 

[think]

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And what I can't stand is that I just made that picture ,,, I am at like a picture or two or so a week... right, then come here to misc randomly find this thread and post this fresh like image for the contest like it was made for it. still I made it first then found the contest.

that was the image and a thumb above below is the avatart...

 

[Mary Ann]

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Who would ever suspect a chocolate-box English country cottage in rural Devonshire occupied by a short, dumpy, slightly mad middle-aged woman who knits sweaters for her 16 cats to be the headquarters for the League To Take Over The World And Do Some Other Not Very Nice Things? We're so evil we didn't even apply to the local council for planning permission for the underground laboratories, rocket launchers, torture chambers, and staff cafeteria. Tea and crumpets, anyone?

 

[bbjeg]

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Connected to a fjord in Norway for a breathtaking fortress of solitude.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

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A classic: Volcanic Island.

Excuse me, gotta go and order my minions to hew my face into a rock of the mountain as a monument to my glory!

 

[auntiehill]

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A castle on a mist-covered lake.

 

[scotpens]

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The Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired mountaintop retreat of bad guy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason) from Hitchcock's North by Northwest. A house that could actually be built, though it existed only as studio sets and matte paintings.

EDIT: Oops, I forgot the "no TV, movies or media" rule. Brain fart.

I'll come up with something else shortly.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

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The summit of Aiguille du Midi in the French Alps.

I assure you, Mr. Bond, that is not an ICBM on the peak.

 

[Saga]

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[Timelord79 (he/him)]

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We call it a... "Death Staaaar"!

 

[Taylirious]

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[auntiehill]

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^There's a vote!

 

[SPCTRE]

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Who would ever suspect a chocolate-box English country cottage in rural Devonshire occupied by a short, dumpy, slightly mad middle-aged woman who knits sweaters for her 16 cats to be the headquarters for the League To Take Over The World And Do Some Other Not Very Nice Things?

Dear God, James Bond would never find that lair - the world would be doomed, DOOMED!

 

[RJDiogenes]

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Damn, I love everything so far.

A converted government-surplus Atlas missile base and silo. Link. Sort of a cross between Superman, Batman, and William Gibson.

That's pretty damn cool.

Isn't it? Acres of fields and forest, with a nice rustic house-- the kind of place I'd want to live anyway-- and then a futuristic base spread out underground. Possibly even enough room to keep all my books.

 

[scotpens]

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My own private (non-volcanic) island in the Caribbean. Or wherever.

 

[Mary Ann]

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The ultimate reverse psychology.

 

[Timewalker]

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Any lifeform that keeps the world safe from mosquitoes is a superhero to me!