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The Government Warehouse at the end of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The Government Warehouse at the end of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Raiders of the Lost Ark (also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) is a 1981 Adventure film directed by Steven

The Government Warehouse is a plot device used in movies, television series, and novels, a scenario used in role-playing games, and a belief of some conspiracy theorists. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. A conspiracy theory attributes the ultimate cause of an event or chain of events (usually Political, Social or Historical events or the concealment The concept is that there is a secret government warehouse where various items are stored of whose existence the government wants the general populace to remain ignorant. For the government of parliamentary systems see Executive (government. It is also used as a storage area for objects to be used in future use (e. g. Government's Ideal Super Weapon) either to win a political arms race or world domination, depending on storyline.

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Plot device in fiction

In fiction, the Government Warehouse is a plot device used for conveniently disposing of story elements that have fulfilled their purpose in a story, but that would cause consistency or continuity problems for subsequent (or previous) stories in the same fictional setting were they to remain. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. In Fiction, continuity (also called time-scheme) is consistency of the characteristics of persons plot, objects places and events seen by the reader or In many cases, the story items disposed of are of such a nature that they would make it difficult to set up the necessary tensions and conflicts for other stories in the same fictional setting, as they would make such tensions and conflicts simple to resolve.

A secondary purpose of the Government Warehouse plot device is to satirize the ineptitude of governments, the premise being that if a government found itself in possession of an extraordinary object or person, it would simply catalogue it and lose it in a vast filing system. For example, in the film Forever Young, Mel Gibson played an experimental suspended animation subject, who was frozen in a capsule, which was forgotten about and stored in a Government Warehouse until two children stumbled upon it while playing. For other uses of the name see Forever Young. Forever Young is a 1992 film directed by Steve Miner, starring Suspended animation is the slowing of life processes by external means without termination

Perhaps the most well-known instances of the Government Warehouse plot device are the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark and the television series The X-Files. Raiders of the Lost Ark (also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) is a 1981 Adventure film directed by Steven The X-Files is a Peabody, Golden Globe and Emmy Award -winning American Science fiction television series created by Chris Carter At the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Ark of the Covenant is hidden away in a warehouse, explaining its disappearance from the fictional universe of the Indiana Jones films. The Ark of the Covenant (אָרוֹן הָבְרִית ʔārōn hāb’rīθ, Modern aron habrit) is described in the Bible as a sacred container wherein A fictional universe is a self-consistent fictional setting with unique background elements such as an imaginary history or geography and possibly fantasy or science Dr (also Col Henry Walton Jones Jr, better known as Indiana Jones or Indy after his pet dog is a fictional Adventurer, Soldier The shot of the warehouse is an allusion to the final scene of Citizen Kane, where there is a similar shot of a private warehouse. Citizen Kane ( 1941) is an American Dramatic film, and the first Feature film directed by Orson Welles, who also co-authored The warehouse (shown located in Hangar 51) appears in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where it is the setting of a fight between Jones and agents of the Soviet Union. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The Ark can be seen in a box that is broken open in the scene. "Hangar 51" itself is an obvious play on the actual U. S. Government site popularly known as "Area 51", and connected with the Roswell UFO Incident incident in the public consciousness. Area 51 is a nickname for a military base located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States The Roswell Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell New Mexico, USA, on July 7, 1947, which has become the subject of intense

In the closing of an episode of NBC's The Office titled "Conflict Resolution", a similar scene is created using a box full of complaints made by Dwight Schrute, and other characters. Dwight Kurt Schrute III is a Fictional character on NBC 's The Office portrayed by Rainn Wilson. The television series The X-Files is replete with characters and objects with unusual properties and powers that would complicate the fictional setting, or make it too simple for characters to achieve the goals that they quest for, and the Government Warehouse plot device is heavily used to explain the absence of the characters and objects, and to make the goals difficult to achieve. The plot device is in fact a central element of the series. A typical example is found in the pilot episode. The pilot episode of the science fiction television series The X-Files premiered on the FOX network on September 10 1993

Sometimes items are recovered from Government Warehouses in order to construct derived fictional settings. In the first episode of the late-80s War of the Worlds television series a triad of war machines are collected from a Government Warehouse (Hangar 15) where they had been stored since an invasion in 1953, thus linking the television series to the 1953 film The War of the Worlds. War of the Worlds is a Television program that ran for two seasons from 1988 to 1990 The War of the Worlds (also sometimes known as HG Wells' The War of the Worlds) is a 1953 Science fiction film

In the 2006 film Click, the warehouse serves a similar purpose; however, it is not owned by a government but by Bed Bath & Beyond. Click is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 comedy/drama / Science fiction / fantasy Film directed by Frank Bed Bath & Beyond Inc ( was formed in 1971 and today operates a chain of domestic merchandise retail stores across North America.

The MMORPG City of Heroes parodies this plot device by having the MAGI Vault be where dangerous magical artifacts are stored safely under the care of Azuria. A massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG) is a genre of Computer role-playing games (CRPGs in which a large number of players interact with City of Heroes (CoH is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the Superhero Comic book Genre, developed by However, these items tend to get stolen from the vault very quickly, often right after the player gives the item to Azuria for safekeeping.

Real-World Government Warehouses

The government warehouses of fiction and conspiracy theories have a number of analogues in the real world, although some are not run by official national governments. A conspiracy theory attributes the ultimate cause of an event or chain of events (usually Political, Social or Historical events or the concealment Historically, the template is the Great Library of Alexandria, which held an extensive collection of written works but was repeatedly destroyed during the first millennium AD. The Royal Library of Alexandria or Ancient Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest library in the ancient world The Vatican Secret Archives [1] are alleged to hold the secrets of the Knights Templar (a similar allegation is levelled at the Louvre in Paris). The Vatican Secret Archives ( Latin: Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum) located in Vatican City, is the central repository for all of the acts promulgated The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici commonly known as the Knights Templar or the Order The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre located in Paris is the world's most visited art museum a historic monument and a national museum of France Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Many prominent museums have extensive archives which often lay undisturbed for decades, such as the Cairo Museum in Egypt, which was found in 2002 to have 80,000 items - more than half the museum's collection - stored away in its vaults. The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to the most extensive collection of Ancient [2]

In the United States, the National Archives and Records Administration and the Library of Congress both have numerous government warehouses to store historic items and documents. The United States National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government charged The Library of Congress is the De facto National library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress

RPG scenarios

The concept of a Government Warehouse has been used as a fun scenario for role-playing games:

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