Which superhero HQ is coolest?

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Some for individuals, others for teams. Tried to keep DC/Marvel evenly repped.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Batcave (Batman) 14
Sanctum Santorum (Dr. Strange) 8
Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters (X-Men) 7
Fortress of Solitude (Superman) 6
Baxter Building (Fantastic 4) 4
Upstairs bedroom of Aunt May’s bungalow in Flushing (Spider-Man) 4
Paradise Island/Themiscyria (Wonder Woman) 2
Hall of Justice (Super Friends) 2
S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier (Nick Fury) 1
Watchtower (Justice League of America) 1


Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

i thought Spider-man lived in Forest Hills

mizzell, Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:41 (seventeen years ago)

Flushing is funnier, though.

Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters is funnier still

mizzell, Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

no rock of eternity no credibility

harry s tfuman (and what), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

no Avengers Tower or Avengers Mansion, no cred

Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

Sorry guys, felt a top ten was about all this poll could handle.

Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

how does the Avengers Mansion end up ranked below the Sanctum Buttmucous

Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

fortress of solitude!!!!111

I don't even like Superman, but come on!

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

You'll vote for the Xmansion anyway, Dan, and we both know it.

Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

Then I vote for the original Fortress of Solitude, because it had to be opened like this:

http://www.supermantv.net/articles/fortress/fortress-solitude.jpg

Also, where is this option??

http://423smith.com/wp-content/doom.jpg

Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

You'll vote for the Xmansion anyway, Dan, and we both know it.

well duh, but had the Avengers Mansion been on there I might have thought about it for longer than a nanosecond

Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

Got to be the Batcave. The 60s batcave...

Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

HERO, Pancakes. Solomon grundy is not a hero.

Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

xavier institute for seeing all the gifted youngsters' crazy powers

mark cl, Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

sanctum santorum lol

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:53 (seventeen years ago)

HERO, Pancakes. Solomon grundy is not a hero.

Lex Luthor was President of the United States! Show some respect!

Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

i voted for the batcave because it has big tvs and a giant coin, what else could you possibly need

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

They stuck Spider-Man out in Rockaway for some reason in the early 70s.

Toss-up between Strange's mancave and Wayne's batcave.

WmC, Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

i refuse to see any of the nolan batjoints til he puts a t-rex and a giant penny in the batcave

harry s tfuman (and what), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.christinaquick.com/blog/wp-content/uploads//2009/01/beam-penny-inspector-gadget.jpg

Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:57 (seventeen years ago)

we should do a poll of superhero manservants. alfred, wong, who else?

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

Jarvis!

Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

(lol everyone's hatin' on the Avengers today)

Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 19 February 2009 20:00 (seventeen years ago)

The 70s JLA Satellite was also pretty boss.

earlnash, Saturday, 21 February 2009 02:36 (seventeen years ago)

Robot secretary and portal to negative zone edge out shi'ar tecmologies (pat. pend.) ftw

butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Saturday, 21 February 2009 03:18 (seventeen years ago)

teen titans tower:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/TT_titans_tower.jpg/250px-TT_titans_tower.jpg

but yeah, gotta be the xmansion.

paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 21 February 2009 04:43 (seventeen years ago)

certainly been blow'd up the most

butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Saturday, 21 February 2009 04:48 (seventeen years ago)

baxter building cos its in the middle of the city like what ~ we aint never scared

BOOM (tremendoid), Saturday, 21 February 2009 06:25 (seventeen years ago)

would have been avengers mansion i think, dan OTM (i gave up on reading that bendis crap after a year about. but i was a HUEG avengers fan as a youth.)

gotta vote for Themiscyria here--AMAZONS!!!!

ian, Saturday, 21 February 2009 06:36 (seventeen years ago)

HERO, Pancakes. Solomon grundy is not a hero.

Hey, be kind - all he wants is a pair of pants.

Nhex, Saturday, 21 February 2009 07:21 (seventeen years ago)

I have to go with Snoopy's doghouse. It's basically a TARDIS on the inside and it has a Van Gogh.

It also flies.

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/ny/4-1-snoopy1.jpg

Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 21 February 2009 07:22 (seventeen years ago)

Also

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YolaDMw28fY/SOqaAJYiIQI/AAAAAAAAA5o/eGDN6VV3YTY/s200/figmoneybin.JPG

Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 21 February 2009 07:23 (seventeen years ago)

This is a two-way between the Batcave and Xavier's mansion. Hmmm.

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 21 February 2009 09:38 (seventeen years ago)

Batcave wins because it doesn't have loads of fucking kids running around shouting.

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 21 February 2009 09:39 (seventeen years ago)

Was gonna suggest Tracy Island, but unsure as to whether the Birds count as superheroes (although, given that Batman DOES, maybe you don't actually need physical superpowers to qualify)

It's an interesting semantic point.

I want sprinkles (country matters), Saturday, 21 February 2009 09:57 (seventeen years ago)

Has to be the Baxter Building! Fortress of Solitude is some horrible minimlist pad.

jel --, Saturday, 21 February 2009 10:02 (seventeen years ago)

Xavier Institute is not well defined physically, in fact I can't even remember what it looks like despite reading a lot of X-comics. But since it's a school, it's socially more interesting than any of the other HQs, and it provides story material much more easily. So I gotta vote for it.

Tuomas, Saturday, 21 February 2009 10:21 (seventeen years ago)

Center Neptune from Battle of the Planets, man! Total 70s hipster pad where they hung out in their stripey trousers playing ping-pong and shit.

Good Wizzard Meets Naughty Wizzard (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 21 February 2009 10:45 (seventeen years ago)

> But since it's a school, it's socially more interesting than any of the other HQs, and it provides story material much more easily. So I gotta vote for it.

You know that the Fortress of Solitude has a whole city in it, right? And that Paradise Island is a whole society, right?

Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Saturday, 21 February 2009 11:43 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, but the city of Kandor wasn't a constant part of Superman's life, was it? Don't know about Paradise Island though, I never really read Wonder Woman. But I'd say a superhero HQ that's also an active school (with new pupils arriving regularly) is an idea that can constantly provide story material for an ongoing series (high school melodrama combined with superhero adventures), and people like Morrison have used that to great effect.

Tuomas, Saturday, 21 February 2009 11:51 (seventeen years ago)

Fair enough. Kind of surprised no one has voted for the Helicarrier yet, though. I mean, for sheer ridiculousness a helicopter the size of an aircraft carrier is pretty tough to fuck with.

Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Saturday, 21 February 2009 11:54 (seventeen years ago)

What about the Space Sentinels and their spaceship base inside a volcano?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/40/SentinelsFilmation.JPG/250px-SentinelsFilmation.JPG
Their between mission arguments (about cheese, for example) were also rather ILX-like.

snoball, Saturday, 21 February 2009 12:25 (seventeen years ago)

Baxter Building - I love how it looks like a reasonably normal skyscraper, belieing all the crazy shit that goes down within.

chap, Saturday, 21 February 2009 12:33 (seventeen years ago)

The Powerpuff Girls live in the Professor's inconspicuous house, which is a pretty good idea. (see also: Dexter's lab is in his parents' house)

StanM, Saturday, 21 February 2009 12:34 (seventeen years ago)

No love for the Venture Compound?

chap, Saturday, 21 February 2009 12:43 (seventeen years ago)

Have to admit, "Silver Age" is in the title of this thread, it's just invisible.

Doesn't excuse me forgetting Titan Tower though. That should totally have gotten the Hall of Justice's spot.

Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Saturday, 21 February 2009 12:46 (seventeen years ago)

The c in Sanctorum is invisible, too. Man, that's gotta be the worst typo ever.

Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Saturday, 21 February 2009 12:48 (seventeen years ago)

Those first three on the list are really a class apart.

My vote's for the Baxter Building, 'cause it's a HQ and a workplace and a domicile.

M.V., Saturday, 21 February 2009 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

as said above was left off but gotta be Avengers Mansion

H in Addis, Saturday, 21 February 2009 21:54 (seventeen years ago)

what's the avengers' equivalent of the danger room? all i remember (from captain america comics tbf) is a room with a bunch of gym mats

tremendoid, Saturday, 21 February 2009 22:59 (seventeen years ago)

Huge Doctor Strange fan. Despite the name, his pad always seemed so cool: compact and bijou, central location, fabulous decor, room service. hot and cold running psychedelia . . only drawback - rowdy callers from other dimensions at all hours.

Soukesian, Saturday, 21 February 2009 23:11 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Thor-272.jpg/388px-Thor-272.jpg

Valhalla!

Beth Parker, Saturday, 21 February 2009 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/4398/wtower.JPG

it's on the moon, dudes.

fwiw (rockapads), Sunday, 22 February 2009 00:09 (seventeen years ago)

Those cutaway maps of secret forts are one of the best things about comics.

<A href=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Baxterbuilding.jpeg>;Baxter Bldg.</a> (lolhyueg)

Oilyrags, Sunday, 22 February 2009 00:32 (seventeen years ago)

Huge Doctor Strange fan. Despite the name, his pad always seemed so cool: compact and bijou, central location, fabulous decor, room service. hot and cold running psychedelia . . only drawback - rowdy callers from other dimensions at all hours.

^^^^^

Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 22 February 2009 04:57 (seventeen years ago)

y'all forgot the hairless asian manservant

butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Sunday, 22 February 2009 07:40 (seventeen years ago)

xp you don't want to go there with steranko

tremendoid, Sunday, 22 February 2009 10:56 (seventeen years ago)

bump

Oilyrags, Monday, 23 February 2009 21:18 (seventeen years ago)

Thor lives in Asgard, woulda voted for that but since he's not on here I gotta give it to Dr. Strange's mystical beatnik hangout

Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 February 2009 21:47 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 26 February 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

Baxter Building - I love how it looks like a reasonably normal skyscraper, belieing all the crazy shit that goes down within.

Also the name! I don't know the actual history despite being a pretty good-sized FF fan, but it always gave this convincing impression of being an existing building that the FF moved into and fixed up, which seems really appropriate. Of course, when I came on board, they were living in Four Freedoms Plaza, which is cheesy to me now but sounded really impressive and fitting when I was 11.

Anyway, much as I adore the X-Men, the Mansion has been blown to pieces more times than anybody can count, which considerably undermines the best part of the idea, that these teenage superheroes are living in this cool old house. It really should operate as a quirky, cozy boarding school with lots of neat little nooks and crannies and funny stairs and so on, basically the Hogwarts of the superhero world, but the mansion has been really generic from the very beginning and the cachet is gone now. The Danger Room and Cerebro are cool but they're kind of placeless, rootless things.

No, this is the Batcave in a walk.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 February 2009 05:50 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Friday, 27 February 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

> No, this is the Batcave in a walk.

It sure is!

Oilyrags, Friday, 27 February 2009 00:02 (sixteen years ago)


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