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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: Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'', trying out someone else's [[Cool Chair]].}}
 
Pretty much [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]. People sit on chairs, and this one is awfully cool. 
 
In Ye Olden Times, they called it a throne and there's usually a King in it. Or a princess, for [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses|some reason]]. Or sometimes, [[Orcus Onon 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]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Major from ''[[Hellsing]]'' has a cool chair that is on an elevated platform in the zeppelin. It hides a surprise weapon too. 
* [[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|England]] tries to trick America into sitting on the "Infamous 'Sit and You Die' Busby Stoop Chair. Its evil doesn't stand a chance against Russia's, though, so it's not as cool as it could be.
* Masaru's hovering chair in ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]'', complete with bubble dome.
** While we're at it, the concrete throne at the Olympic Stadium made a better Cool Chair for Tetsuo than anything else he could have sat on.
* The wheelchair in the last episode of ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' is revealed to be a cool chair because {{spoiler|it contains a hidden gun in one arm, a stick of dynamite in the other, and more dynamite stashed under the seat, all in place to lay a last resort final blow on a weakened Mugen. It still isn't enough to kill him.}}
* ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]] Z'' features Freeza and his "bubble car", as the [[Dragon Ball Abridged|abridged series]] humorously puts it.
* While [[Soul Eater|Franken Stein's]] rolling desk chair may look mundane, a frightful power is contained within.
* ''[[Bleach]]'' has the Espadas' chairs, all of which are inexplicably about 15 feet tall and shaped like a piece of modern art. Aizen's couch shares the same absurd size and shape. Both have achieved their own [[Cargo Ship|fandoms.]]
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* [http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ06/DisplayOQ06.html?page=22 Savah's chair] in ''[[Elf Quest]]'' has a cool psychic light display behind it, but it's not nearly as ostentatious as [http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ11/DisplayOQ11.html?page=24 Lord Voll's (later Winnowill's) throne]. 
* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Professor X]] once had a high-tech hovering chair given to him by the Shi'ar.
** And Whiz Kid can turn any object of sufficient mass into any device he can imagine. His wheelchair being the closest thing at hand, it's been turned into a rocket-powered one-man tank on several occasions. Sadly, he's among the [[C -List Fodder]] to be depowered at the end of [[House of M]].
* The Mekon, arch-villain of the Dan Dare comics, crouched on a flying throne shaped like half a lemon.
* The comics adaptation of [[The Thrawn Trilogy]] shows us the command chair on the ''Chimera'', the Star Destroyer that Grand Admiral Thrawn picked as his flagship. It's this massive thronelike thing made out of slabs.
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** Also in Episode I, Darth Sidious uses the "mechno-throne" as a hologram projector. Let me recap: he is sitting on a throne that walks around on its own power. And he is a hologram at the time. Is [[Evil Is Cool|Evil cool]] or what?
** Don't forget Vader's cool chair in his meditation chamber. It's unique in that, rather than being the typical throne, it's low enough that Vader has to cross his legs when sitting in it.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings|"...One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne]] // [[Mordor|In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie..."]]'' Subverted somewhat in that Sauron is [[Orcus Onon His Throne|never seen on his throne]]. Doubly so in [[The Movie]], where Sauron is portrayed as a giant, [[Faceless Eye]] made out of fire, making a [[Cool Chair]] fairly useless. You know, what with him not having a butt and everything.
** However! Realize that in fact Sauron has the coolest chair of them all, as his chair routinely spawns gargantuan legions of horrifying abominations of purest, twisted evil and is the tallest tower in the whole of middle-earth! He RULES this trope!!
** Also, [[The Dragon|Saruman's]] spiky black chair in a throne room made of spiky obsidian (film only). [[Christopher Lee]] described it as "a great place to throw a really classy party, but not too comfortable to sit in."
** Let's not forget the Steward of Gondor's seat (book and film), a plain black chair below and to one side of the ([[Regent for Life|permanently]] [[King in Thethe Mountain|unoccupied]]) [[Rightful King Returns|throne]].
* Those egg chairs from ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]]'' may be a subversion of this. They LOOK cool, but are horribly uncomfortable and it's almost impossible to write while sitting in one. Of course, that was the point -- the written exam was a [[Secret Test of Character]]; the real test was to see which, if any, of their candidates realized that they were in a situation which was singularly unsuited to writing properly; noticed that there was a useful flat surface in the middle of the room; and go ahead and used that flat surface, even if it made that horrible screeching noise. 
* ''[[Wild Wild West (Filmfilm)|Wild Wild West]]'' (1999) movie. Dr. Loveless' wheelchair had a built-in gun and could turn into a 4-legged mini-mecha.
* In the first ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]'' film, the White Witch's throne of ice was a [[Cool Chair]] -- literally. The four thrones at Cair Paravel toward the end of the film were quite spiff.
* Parodied in the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' series, where Dr. Evil's [[Cool Chair]] keeps malfunctioning, or he just doesn't know how to work it.
* Doctor Doom is seen briefly in ''[[Fantastic Four (Filmfilm)|Fantastic Four]]: Rise of the Silver Surfer'' sitting in a rotating chair with LCD screens on its armrests in a room where the walls are covered with larger monitors. Shame so little of it was shown, as it looked rather cool.
* The Riddler's throne from ''[[Batman Forever (Film)|Batman Forever]]'' might be a subversion of this. 
* [[Patrick Stewart]]'s role as Charles Xavier in ''[[X-Men (Filmfilm)|X-Men]]'' turned a wheelchair of all things into a freakin' cool chair. Those brain probes he uses for mass mind-readin' can't hurt the look, either.
* In ''The Stuntman'' movie, the director character has a hovering cool chair (suspended by a crane) he uses to pop in and out of scenes.
* The new ''[[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|Star Trek]]'' film features an awesome captain's chair. 
{{quote| '''Spock''': Outofthechair.}}
* There's [http://www.jimunwin.com/extra/incrediblechairs/ an entire website] dedicated to the chairs of ''[[The Incredibles]]''.
* Xerxes's gigantic throne in ''[[Three Hundred|300]]'', which is the size of a small house, is carried around by no fewer than 100 slaves, and is lavishly decorated with statues, ivory, and gold.
* In ''[[Night Atat the Museum]]: Battle of the Smithsonian'', the villain steals a pretty sweet looking couch to use as a throne.
 
 
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* In the second Artemis Fowl book, Opal Koboi had a hovering chair.
* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[Foundation]]'' story "Bridle and Saddle" (AKA "The Mayors"), a ruler had a glowing chair that could float due to its shielded nuclear motor. 
* In ''[[Dune]]'', the Emperor's throne was a "massive chair carved from a single piece of Hagal quartz". In ''Dune Messiah'' this is changed to "Hagar emerald" (probably a typo). The aborted 1975 film version of Dune would have had the [http://www.ghostofaflea.com/archives/Harkonnen%20Chair.jpg Harkonnen Capo Chair,] designed by [[HRH. R. Giger]] of ''Alien'' fame.
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|The Silver Chair]] from ''[[The Silver Chair]]'', which apart from looking cool has the magical ability to completely brainwash its occupant for 23 hours a day, and keep him imprisoned for the remaining one.
* [[Nero Wolfe]] has a chair that has been modified and reinforced (under his own supervision, of course) to support his great bulk. There's also the red leather chair in his office that's reserved for his client (or Inspector Cramer). If it's a story where Wolfe has multiple clients, the one he considers most important gets the red leather chair; if it's one with no paying client, it goes to the person Wolfe is more or less working for. In any case, the person who gets the red leather chair is virtually never the guilty party.
* The Iron Throne in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' is intentionally [[Cool but Inefficient]]. Aegon the Conqueror took the swords of all the defeated lords of Westeros and hammered them into a scary but still very sharp throne, saying that a king should never sit easy. Kings often cut themselves on the throne, and legend states that it has killed at least one of them. 
** The populace seems to think that it might be magical and harm only bad kings. Joffrey gets stuck with it when he's at his most arrogant and bratty after the Battle of Blackwater (and goes crying to Mommy). Also, Jaime mentions that Mad King Aerys always has scabs from sitting on the Iron Throne. Both, of course, are awful rulers, so the assumption is that the throne is rejecting them. Of course, it could also just have been a really bad idea to create a chair out of swords. 
** It features quite prominently in [[media:Game_of_Thrones_Iron_Throne_HBO_promo_01_1452.jpg|promos]] for the [[Game of Thrones (TV)|mini-series]].
* The Eastern Empire from Mercedes Lackey's later [[Heralds of Valdemar|Valdemar books]] also features a throne of blades, except it's all the personal weapons of every leader the entire line of Emperors has conquered in ''hundreds of years'' of history. 
* Somewhat subverted in ''Garfield's PET FORCE'', a series of short young-adult novellas written by Jim Davis, in which [[Garfield]], Odie, Nermal, Arlene and Pooky are sucked into the universe of a comic book starring characters conveniently similar to them. The planet they end up on is a monarchy, and the king is...Jon Arbuckle. Since being royalty can do little to change the fact that he's still fundamentally Jon, he's had the traditional throne replaced with a recliner upholstered in naugahyde, chosen on the basis that stains wipe right off.
* The throne of Kinakuta in Neal Stephenson's [[Cryptonomicon]]. It looks like a chair designed by a Scandinavian with twin degrees in engineering and semiotics and given a blank cheque. When the Sultan sits in it, you ''know'' who's in charge here.
* The [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Dragonbone Chair]] of the first novel in [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Memory, SorrowandSorrow, 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 40000]]'' novels has his [[Cool Chair]] Life support Prison, complete with Psi boosters, Communication jamming and intercept equipment and hidden machine guns. 
** 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 (Tabletop Game)|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 Thethe Mountain|unoccupied]]) [[Rightful King Returns|throne]].
* ''[[Discworld]]'': Patrician Vetinari's seat at the foot of the steps leading up to the long-unoccupied solid gold throne of Ankh-Morpork {{spoiler|which the book ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'' reveals is actually fake, made of wood and so rotten that it would crumble should anyone attempt to sit in it}}.
** [[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.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Number 2's chair in ''[[The Prisoner]]''. The desk it faced had several phones and a set of controls. 
* Rygel used a hovering throne-sled in ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]''. 
* [[The Captain]]'s chairs on [[The Bridge]] in the ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|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 (Film)|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 [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 (TV)|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.'"}}
* Referenced a few times in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]''. One episode that stands out is where Worf has to play the role of captain to fool some 80-year-old Klingons fresh out of stasis that the Klingon Empire controls the Federation. After succeeding, Riker asks him how if felt being captain. Worf's response is thus: "Comfortable chair."
* On ''[[Friends (TV)|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 (TV)|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.
** ''[[Stargate SG -1 (TV)|Stargate SG 1]]'' gets a [[Cool Chair]] too, in the form of General Hammond's chair. In "Proving Ground," Daniel {{spoiler|(who is currently the leader of a fake alien incursion for a [[Training Accident|training exercise]])}} gets to sit at the desk and revels in how comfortable it is.
** In "Prometheus Unbound," Hammond returns to the SGC to recruit Daniel for the latest flight to Atlantis. When Jack asks him if he misses the chair and wants it back, Hammond says yes... and has the chair shipped to his office in Washington. That must be a damn comfy chair.
* Daniel's control chair in his [[Emperor Scientist|secret underground bunker]] in [[All Just a Dream|"Absolute Power"]] also definitely counts. It's on a cantilever, at least one of its armrests is a control panel, and it has a [[Deflector Shield]], making it [[Immune to Bullets|immune to shooting from a 9mm pistol]].
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* Averted on the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''. As part of the design of the 2003 mini-series, the writers and producers attempted to avoid as many of the standard stylings of typical TV [[Space Opera]]. Commander Adama and Colonel Tigh always stand in [[Ci C]]. Some folks think they didn't really think it all the way through...
* Having been crippled, Davros, the creator of the Daleks and recurring villain in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', has his lower body encased in a cool chair by the time of his initial appearance in Genesis of the Daleks and retains it in later appearances.
* The Thinking Chair from ''[[BluesBlue's Clues]]''. Want!
* The Frank Lloyd Wright chairs in the council chambers on ''[[Babylon 5]]'', and the command chair on the ''White Star''-class ships. One of the buttons on the latter was programmed, at the battle of Corianna VII, to detonate 500 Megaton thermonuclear mines. Can you get any cooler? 
* A [[Genre Savvy]] moment in ''[[Rome]]'' has Cassius trying to convince Brutus that the cool chair Caesar has ordered for the forum is actually a throne and indicative of a thirst for power. Brutus claims that "thrones are usually more decorative. That is decidedly plain and chair-like."
* In the first episode of ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'', Ducky and DiNozzo quickly snap photos of each other sitting in the President's chair on Air Force One.
* The Diary Room chair on ''[[Big Brother]]''. Not particularly cool as a chair, but very definitely shorthand for "Draaaaaaaa-mah! is about to occur!"
* Dad Anyfamily's mobile (as in [[Tim Taylor Technology|gasoline-powered]]) chair from ''[[Roundhouse]]''. It comes equipped with a TV, a propane grill, a cooler, and even brake lights.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* A golden throne, studded with platinum and decorated with dragon bones, and carved with the glorious feats of the town's ruler, doesn't even get near how awesome chairs and thrones (as all furniture) can become in [[Dwarf Fortress]].
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise)|Dr. Robotnik]] has various incarnations of his signature Eggmobiles, which manage a trifecta of [[Cool Chair]], cockpit of sundry [[Boss Battle|Boss Battling]] machines, and omnivehicle escape pod. So enamored is he with his flying chair that it's rare to see him actually standing.
* We never see her sit in it, but Azala in ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' has a throne made of bones in Tyranno Palace. Choosing to sit in it causes the character doing so to give an [[Evil Laugh]].
* Some ''[[Castlevania]]'' games have a ''sidequest'' centered around finding and sitting in Cool Chairs.
** ''Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow'' has a soul you can collect which, when equipped, will regenerate health at a fairly generous rate whenever you're sitting down-be it in a [[Cool Chair]], a few boards and dowels barely held together with glue, or a crate.
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* Sebastian Krist has one in ''Rise of the Triad''.
** Sebastian Krist's chair is so cool that it comes with ''built-in rocket launchers''.
* There's one of these that Bowser usually sits on in the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series, with a clear example of such a sinister spike-covered throne found in the ''[[Mario Party (Video Game)|Mario Party]]'' Bowser mini games.
* ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'''s Leon Kennedy finds a [[Cool Chair]] while venturing into the final areas of the game. You even get an action command to sit it in, Dracula style (Doing so will reveal a collectible).
* Organization XIII of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' has an entire circular meeting room with no less than thirteen cool chairs for each member of the Organization. Each one is raised to ridiculous heights on top of a plain white tower, and they seem built for people who are about ten feet tall (less of a problem when you can teleport). Since all the elevations vary depending on rank, it's amazing that they manage to have meetings without having to shout at each other to be heard. Naturally Xemnas, being the leader, has the highest chair.
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** The Illusive Man's chair is impressive if only for its elegant simplicity. There's a reason why, in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', he gets annoyed when {{spoiler|Shepard sits in it.}}
* In Wii version ''[[A Boy and His Blob]]'', the emperor sits on a rather slimy throne which is has several heads very much alive.
* 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.
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* Lord Shojo from ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|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 (Webcomicwebcomic)|Bug]]''. [http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/chair-of-doom/ could never be a super villain.]
* 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 (Webcomic)|Fly, Pupa!!!!!!!!]] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004265 Flyyyyyyyy!]
 
 
== Web Original ==
* [[Dr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing -Along Blog|Dr. Horrible]] has a big, giant overstuffed [http://www.librarything.com/pics/drhorrible.jpg chair] in his laboratory. It's a bit too gaudy to be a proper [[Evil Overlord]] chair, which makes it probably an [[Affectionate Parody]]. Plus, meta-wise, the chair belonged to the person in whose home they filmed the Billy shots. "The chair really is that big," Whedon was quoted as saying. "We did not bring a chair increaser." 
* The online program ''Habbo Hotel'' has the throne. Unfortunately, to obtain such an item means you have to scam it, trade for it or... gulp... buy it. :(
* ''The Brick Testament'' gives [[Satan]] a particularly nice throne [http://www.thebricktestament.com/revelation/children_to_be_killed_as_warning/rv02_12-13.html here].
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Villains with a preference for high technology (and occasionally heroes, too) often use a ''hovering'' [[Cool Chair]], which can move them around their screen-covered command-center without the inconvenience of getting up and walking. I recall an episode of the old [[Spider -Man]] animated series, when J. Jonah Jameson is 'invited' up to SHIELD's Helicarrier, and we get the [[Chair Reveal]] on Nick 'The Pirate' Fury. He's sitting in some sort of awesome, electric, hovering chair. Just to underline the [[Rule of Cool|"These guys have loads of cool stuff"]] point
** In another episode of [[Spider -Man: theThe Animated Series]], Norman Osborn hired Spencer Smythe to create the Spider Slayer, the terms of their deal included Norman financing the development of a hover chair for Smythe's son. In the end of the episode, Spencer was believed dead and his son, blaming Spidey, Osborn, Jameson and Eddie Brock for that, agreed to work for the Kingpin, who provided him with a hover chair.
** Professor X in the 90's ''[[X-Men (Animationanimation)|X-Men]]'' cartoon had a hoverchair for no apparent reason.
*** Because they're a lot cooler than a wheelchair?
*** Easier to animate?
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*** And after Megatron rebuilt himself and captured Professor Sumdac:
{{quote| '''Megatron:''' I trust you're comfortable in your ''chair?''}}
* In ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', episode "Trials of the Demon", a demon lord who is banished to his own personal pocket dimensional prison turns out to have a giant stone throne covered in spikes in there. Keep in mind that he's the only being in the entire prison, so you have to imagine: at some point he had to have formed a throne himself from the rocks just because a demon lord's gotta have a throne.
* Jafar in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' has a throne that's basically [[Slouch of Villainy|a couch]] with a giant carving of a cobra's head above it and more cobras for the legs. He also [[Go-Go Enslavement|chains Princess Jasmine to it.]] Of course, the original throne of the sultan of Agrabah was pretty cool too, having an elephant carving.
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|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 (Western Animation)|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 succesfully laid [[The Siege|siege]] to Thundera.
 
 
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* Real-life example: the term "chairman" comes from a time when all the members of a committee, save for the most important one, had to sit on benches. The most important one got a chair, which, when everyone else is sitting on benches, seems pretty cool all by itself.
** In the British House of Commons, only the Speaker has a chair. Everyone else sits on benches. 
** Subverted in the House of Lords, where while the Lords do sit on benches (admittedly really, really, posh benches), the "chairman" of the House (formerly the Lord Chancellor, now the Lord Speaker) does ''not'' get an actual chair but rather sits on the [[wikipedia:Woolsack|Woolsack]], which is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: a sack full of wool. Despite the absence of a back, it's apparently quite comfortable. There's also a Judges' Woolsack, another (much longer) wool-filled cushion right in front of and below it, where the Law Lords--Britain's highest judicial authority until they were moved to the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in late 2009--sat during the State Opening of Parliament (although any Lord may sit on it during normal session). Double Subverted in that there ''is'' a rather cool chair in the Lords Chamber--it's the monarch's throne, from which he/she gives the Speech from the Throne every State Opening of Parliament--and unlike the Judges' Woolsack, if you're not supposed to be sitting in it but sit in it anyway, you ''will'' get in trouble.
* The old-school [https://www.chesterfields1780.com/ Chesterfield] chairs and sofas are among the most recognisable upper class furniture, familiar from every [[Smoky Gentlemen's Club]] in fiction, ever. 
* The long-running TV show [[wikipedia:Jimchr(27)ll Fix It|Jim'll Fix It]] featured a large chair for Jimmy Savile with concealed compartments that would open when he pressed the right button. When Tom Baker and K9 were on the shown K9 said it was pleased to meet "Mr Savile and Chair".
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