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[[File:EvilChair.jpg|frame|link=http://www.suck.uk.com/product.php?rangeID=55|Curse you, British Pound! I'll get you yet!]]
{{quote|''"Somehow, I feel comfortable here."''|Captain Kathryn Janeway of ''[[Star Trek:
Pretty much [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. People sit on chairs, and this one is awfully cool.
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In Ye Olden Times, they called it a throne and there's usually a King in it. Or a princess, for [[Everything's Better with Princesses|some reason]]. Or sometimes, [[Orcus on His Throne|some dude named Orcus]]. The [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] and Mob Boss love their swivelling chairs behind the desk of their penthouse office, with much the same effect.
More modern versions can include buttons on the armrest, which can help [[The Captain]] take a memo if any [[Bridge Bunnies]] aren't around. Alternatively, The [[Big Bad]] will have one of these (in [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|black leather]], natch) and any built-in controls will probably have to do with the [[Bad Boss|tidy]] [[You Have Failed Me...|disposal]] of [[The Blofeld Ploy|underlings]].
Other fiendish uses for the <s>Cool Chair</s> Couch of Villainy ([[Evil Laugh|muah-ha-ha!]]) include practicing your [[Slouch of Villainy]], and naturally, the [[Chair Reveal]].
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* The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Dragonbone Chair]] of the first novel in [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'' series.
* [[Shadows of the Empire|Prince Xizor]] has a chair that [[Kingpin in His Gym|strengthens his muscles for him]] and tells him sycophantic nothings, although it always pronounces his name "Sheezor", much to his annoyance.
* The titular Ravenor of the ''[[Warhammer
** A tagalong in one of the books even privately refers to him as 'The Chair'.
* 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.
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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:
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
{{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.'"}}
* Referenced a few times in ''[[Star Trek: The
* On ''[[Friends]]'', Rachel buys a ''new'' armchair. It's really, ''really'' nice. So nice, in fact, that Joey deliberately breaks his leather Barcalounger in a desperate attempt to be allowed to sit in it. Twice (long story...).
* The Ancient control chairs (aka [[Fan Nickname|Recliner of Doom]]) in ''[[Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG 1]]'' and onwards launch [[Macross Missile Massacre|Macross missile massacres]] [[Unusual User Interface|on command from the sitter's thoughts]], but if and only if the sitter has a particular gene.
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== Tabletop RPG ==
* [[Warhammer
** 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.
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== Webcomics ==
* Lord Shojo from ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' has a Cool Chair that {{spoiler|contains a ''tear in the fabric of the universe''}}.
* The lack of a cool chair is the reason the bug of ''[[Bug
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' all [[Starfish Aliens|Nemesite]] chairs have narrow backs for wings, tail-holes, and four armrests. Bob finds them uncomfortable, but Molly and Galatea, who ''have'' tails, heartily approve of them.
* [[Homestuck|Fly, Pupa!!!!!!!!]] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004265 Flyyyyyyyy!]
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