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** Gaara seems to have picked up this habit when he's sitting down lately too. It seems to be a replacement for his usual standing-up habit of crossing his arms.
* 100% certain that [[Magnificent Bastard|Light]] from ''[[Death Note]]'' does this at ''least'' once.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090124203031/http://www.onemanga.com/Death_Note/62/09/ Most noticeably] after he talks the task force into {{spoiler|[[Big Brother Instinct|not making him kill his sister]].}}
*** Takashi Ooi does this a lot as well.
* Shizuku from ''[[Kämpfer]]'' does this to help show the audience that she's a particularly cunning and devious [[Student Council President]].
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* ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'': Old Dracula does this when he's laughing at Johnathon Harker.
* Nicolae Carpathia as depicted by Gordon Currie in the ''[[Left Behind]]'' film series.
* [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Judge Claude Frollo]] is often depicted as doing this in promotional material. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150517055046/http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001863459/5516170360_frollo_answer_1_xlarge.jpeg See?]
* Vice-Counsel Dupont does this at the climax of [[Equilibrium]] and drops the pose in a most satisfying [[Oh Crap]] moment when {{spoiler|Preston kills Brandt in a [[Single-Stroke Battle]]}}.
* In one scene in [[Out Of The Past]], Whit Sterling does this while having breakfast with Jeff.
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* [[Command & Conquer|Kane]], [[Magnificent Bastard]] he is, is quite fond of doing this.
* Shizune from ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' seems to like "tenting" her hands and otherwise follows the personality tropes associated with this to the letter, though as far as [[The Chessmaster|chessmastery]] is concerned, all she's got to show for herself is a mean game of [[Risk]].
* In the ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' series, evil-aligned mage Edwin is shown clasping his hands in this fashion in his [http://www.sorcerers.net/Games/BG/npc/Edwin.jpg character] [
** Subverted in that he's a [[Smug Snake]] and a [[Chew Toy]] for much of the games. It certainly goes hard on the trope during [[Gender Bender|a certain 'event' in the second game]]...
* [[Ghostbusters|Walter Peck]] has pulled one in the game version.
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* After coming up with a plan to get back at someone he felt had wronged him, Roger from ''[[American Dad]]'' expressed delight that he would get to do this, calling it 'the finger pyramid of evil contemplation'.
* Slade from ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''.
* [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111229073208/mlp/images/4/40/Discordisevil.png Discord]{{Dead link}} from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.
* Lucius on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' engages in this on occasion.
* Megavolt on ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]''.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing during presidential debate [https://web.archive.org/web/20170515044627/http://www.lejdd.fr/Election-presidentielle-2012/Actualite/De-1974-a-2007-le-meilleur-des-debats-d-entre-deux-tours-505904
** A specialist explained it is a good pose to protect yourself from body language reading.
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