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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* When Voldemort finally comes face-to-face with her at the climax of the ''[[Worm]]/[[Harry Potter]]'' crossover ''[[A Wand for Skitter]]'', Taylor is sitting in the middle of Hogwarts' Great Hall on a (conjured) throne made of human skulls, [[Filing Their Nails|filing her nails]].
== [[Film]] ==
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* William Albacastle / Willy Pete, authorial character of the [[White Wolf]] ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'' supplement ''Iteration X'' and a major character in the novel ''Judgement Day'' by Bruce Baugh has a damn cool chair. The fact he's a technophillic quadrapalegic who uses waldoes to build telepresence drones and whose motorized wheelchair houses treads, robotic arms, and Hades knows what else gives him a good excuse to have one.
* Again, the Steward of Gondor's seat in ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Return of the King]]'' is a plain black chair below and to one side of the ([[Regent for Life|permanently]] [[King in the Mountain|unoccupied]]) [[Rightful King Returns|throne]].
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
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** [[Discworld]] addresses this idea again in ''[[The Fifth Elephant]]'', with the Scone of Stone: revered seat ''cushion'' of the Low King of the dwarfs.
*** If "cushion" is really the right word for a baked good the consistency of stale granite.
* In David Eddings' ''[[The Belgariad]]'', Brand, the hereditary Rivan Warder, has a seat below the empty throne of the Rivan King.
** This is actually a reference, unintentional or not, ot Denethor, Steward of Gondor in LOTR who sits on a plain wooden chair beneath the Gondorian throne (on the third step I believe)
* The chair in the courtroom of the Wizengamot in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' has chains that, depending on the occupant, may coil up and tie him or her to it. It seems to only do it if the occupant is perceived to be potentially dangerous; in the Death Eater trials Harry sees in the Pensieve, it chains up several Death Eaters, but when Harry himself comes to sit in it in ''[[Harry Potter and
* The Chairmaker in "Use of Weapons"
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* [[The Captain]]'s chairs on [[The Bridge]] in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' series and movies, starting with Captain Kirk's. Best described in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocTeNGrT5r8 this awful fanfic].
** It's [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]], as well: a Federation chair is done in soothing shades of beige, whereas Klingon furniture is all made from black leather and bolted-together slabs of iron. But the Klingons like it that way.
** There's a delicious source of [[Narm]] in ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]'', where the [[Big Bad]]'s Cool Chair is a ''literal'' Couch Of Villainy. A big comfy red one. On a ultra-high-tech, stainless-steel Bridge. It ''really'' doesn't work, as seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20120509074144/http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20050818051109/memoryalpha/en/images/3/34/Sona_bridge.jpg here]. (Perhaps the problem is that he isn't doing a a [[Slouch of Villainy]] on it...)
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' episode "Singularity", the crew become obsessed with trivial nonsense due to [[Space Madness]], and engineer Trip Tucker went all nuts trying to design the Ultimate Captain's Chair with interactive status displays, secondary helm control, inertial micro-dampers and cup holder (but apparently [[No Seat Belts]]).
{{quote|"I know you don't think this chair is important, but you're wrong. What's the most critical component on this ship? The main computer? The warp reactor? Uh-uh, it's the crew. And the most important member of the crew is the Captain. He makes life and death decisions every day and the last thing he needs to be thinking in a critical situation is, 'Gee, I wish this chair wasn't such a pain in the ass.'"}}
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** There is also Inquisitor Lord Karamazov's Throne of Judgement, which is essentially a Space Marine Dreadnought with a chair top.
* [http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs10/i/2006/080/e/3/The_Scarlet_Throne_by_MelUran.jpg The Scarlet Throne] of ''[[Exalted]]'' is an elaborate thing made from magical jade of each colour carved into the shapes of the Five Elemental Dragons in a protective and deferential pose to the sitter, and has been the main symbol of the authority of the most powerful person in the world for 700 years.
* [https://ghwiki.greyparticle.com/index.php/Throne_of_the_Gods The Throne of the Gods] in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', originally the ''[[Greyhawk]]'' setting. A throne carved from the heart of a mountain, set with precious metals and stones, and large enough for a storm giant to comfortably sit in, its origins are completely unknown, though it is clearly an artifact of unfathomable divine power.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Kristoph Gavin in ''[[Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]'' gets a very expensive looking cool chair {{spoiler|in prison.}} Chairs, nail polish and reading are his only hobbies, and given the circumstances, this means he's doing quite well for himself.
* In ''[[Darkstalkers]]'', one of Morrigan's victory moves has her create a throne made of bats that she can sit on.
* ''[[Maple Story]]'' has ''hundreds''. In gameplay, chairs (which you character stores in his or her [[Hammerspace]] inventory) are used to heal,
* In the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' franchise, Shao Kahn may be an [[Orcus on His Throne]] type of villain, but he certainly [https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/File:Shao_Kahn%27s_Coliseum.jpg has a neat throne], made from the skull of some giant horned monster.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', the Earth King has an ornate throne worked into an absolutely enormous wall fashioned in the likeness of a badgermole, and covered in what appears to be gold and jade. Firelord Sozin had a golden throne before a similar wall worked with a golden dragon and surrounded by fiery cressets. After he crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] this is replaced with what seems to be a simpler seat... that's hidden behind a wall of flames in an otherwise unlit hall.
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': A [[Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum|temporarly smart Beezy]] makes a chair that can [[Time Travel]].
* In ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' Thundera's [[The Good King|Good King]] Claudus has a high-backed golden throne with cat's head armrests (appropriate to a [[Catfolk]] [[King of Beasts|monarch]]) and royal blue cushions. [[Big Bad]] [[Sorcerous Overlord]] Mumm-Ra later sees fit to commandeer it after he's
* In the ''[[Inside Job]]'' episode "Appleton", after Reagan finally becomes leader of Cognito (with [[100% Adoration Rating]]), the Illuminati sends her one as a gift, a demonic, hellish-looking throne with a feature that ''spells out her name in fire''. "I... don't hate this," she says with a grin when she tries it out.
== Real Life ==
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