Which superhero HQ is coolest?

i thought Spider-man lived in Forest Hills

Flushing is funnier, though.

Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters is funnier still

no rock of eternity no credibility

no Avengers Tower or Avengers Mansion, no cred

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

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

fortress of solitude!!!!111

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

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

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

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

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

HERO, Pancakes. Solomon grundy is not a hero.

xavier institute for seeing all the gifted youngsters' crazy powers

sanctum santorum lol

HERO, Pancakes. Solomon grundy is not a hero.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jarvis!

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

The 70s JLA Satellite was also pretty boss.

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

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.

certainly been blow'd up the most

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

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!!!!

HERO, Pancakes. Solomon grundy is not a hero.

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

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

Also

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

> 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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

No love for the Venture Compound?

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.

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

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.

as said above was left off but gotta be Avengers Mansion

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

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.

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

Valhalla!

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

it's on the moon, dudes.

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)

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.

^^^^^

y'all forgot the hairless asian manservant

xp you don't want to go there with steranko

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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

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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.

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> No, this is the Batcave in a walk.

It sure is!