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Villains and roguish heroes of the [[Ancient Arabia|Middle]] [[Qurac|Eastern]] [[Arabian Nights Days|persuasion]] will often be surrounded by [[Paid Harem|scantily-clad women]] fanning him and feeding him grapes.
Cool Chairs will always be thematically appropriate. You will never find [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Lord Azazel the Befouler]] brooding atop his dread throne of plush cushions, and conversely you'll will never see [[The Captain|Captain]] [[Awesome McCoolname|Jake McHero]] reclining on a seat made of iron [[Spikes of Villainy|spikes]] and [[Atop a Mountain of Corpses|human tibias]]. In [[The Sixties]], ''the'' Cool Chair was [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030135552/http://www.eero-aarnio.com/8/Objects/Ball_Chair.htm Aarnio Eero's Ball Chair.]
A subtrope of this is the ''Hovering'' '''Cool Chair''', often found in video games and more fantastic works of fiction. Hovering Cool Chairs are also sometimes weaponized - machine guns, rockets, and lasers pop out of it to attack the villain's enemies- especially when also functioning as a [[Super Wheelchair]]. This may serve as a way to introduce a [[Boss Battle]] with a mastermind-type villain without resorting to [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]. [[Swivel Chair Antics]] is another [[Sub-Trope]].
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