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** He only got those powers in the final episodes from his shadow alter ego.
** In the manga he has various technology-based powers, most notably teleportation, but it takes him over ten volumes to discover most of them due to his amnesia. He is eventually either cured or overtaken by a secondary personality (it's unclear to say the least), and gets off his throne to personally lead the conquest of (the economy of) Fukuoka.
* Quite literally the [[Person of Mass Destruction|Phoenix King]] from ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma
* [[Justified Trope]] in ''[[Code Geass]]''. [[The Emperor]] has since left the conquering to his elder children Schneizel and Cornelia because he's busy preparing to {{spoiler|"kill the gods."}}
* ''[[Bleach]]'' brings us {{spoiler|Sosuke Aizen}}, who, despite being the [[Big Bad]] for much of the series, seems content to wait on the sidelines looking [[Bishounen|pretty]] until he's forced to intervene.
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* The Illusive Man in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' universe does most of his villainy/[[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremism]] from [[Cool Chair|his chair]], but it's acceptable, since he's a leader, not a soldier. Plus, if you had an office as awesome as his, you'd never want to leave either.
** Averted however with Harbinger. While he hasn't actually fought anyone himself, he frequently [[Memetic Mutation|ASSUMES DIRECT CONTROL]] [[Villain Override|of one of his troops]] to assist in taking down [[Player Character|Shepard]].
** In the book ''[[Mass Effect: Retribution|Retribution]]'', the Illusive Man does personally supervise a project... which promptly gets ambushed by a whole army of turians. His escape confirms our hypothesis about his combat skills, as, though he ''can'' fight, he's hardly end boss material.
* Played with in ''[[Evil Genius (video game)|Evil Genius]]''. While the player (as the titular [[Card-Carrying Villain]]) can send his minions out into the world to commit various acts of camp villainy, most of your time is spent maintaining the evil base.
** And once they obtain enough loot to keep their minion's loyalty up, the player's avatar will probably spend all their time skulking in their sanctum out of the way of wandering assassins.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Adventurers!]]!'', Khrima is frequently shown waiting like this. Sometimes he gets impatient when Karn's out [[Level Grinding]] instead of advancing the plot, and wishes he'd brought a Game Boy or something. He's occasionally shown researching lasers or [[Villains Out Shopping|playing Scrabble]] or something.
** Subverting this forms the basis of a short arc: Khrima says he's tired of waiting for the heroes to do stuff, and along with one of his lieutenants, decides to go steal a mini-[[Cosmic Keystone]] to use as a water cooler.
* [[The Wotch|Melleck Xaos]] pretty much subscribes to this philosophy. When he does bother doing anything, it's usually to banter with his minions or [[The Heartless|create some new Fallen]].
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