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Cool Chair
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People Sit on Chairs all the time, but this one is awfully cool. In Ye Olden Times, they called it a throne, and there was usually a King on it. Or a Queen. Or a princess. Or some dude named Orcus. Nowadays, the Corrupt Corporate Executive and Mob Boss use the swiveling chairs behind the desks of their penthouse offices to much the same effect. More futuristic versions can include buttons on the armrest, which can help The Captain take a memo if there aren't any Bridge Bunnies around. Alternatively, if it belongs to the Big Bad (in black leather, natch), any built-in controls will probably have to do with the tidy disposal of underlings. Other fiendish uses for the Couch of Villainy (muah-ha-ha!) include practicing your Slouch of Villainy and, naturally, the Chair Reveal. Villains and roguish heroes of the barbarian or Middle Eastern persuasion will often be surrounded by scantily-clad women fanning them and feeding them grapes. Cool Chairs will always be thematically appropriate. You will never find Lord Azazel the Befouler brooding atop his dread throne of plush cushions, and conversely you will never see Captain Jake McHero reclining on a seat made of iron spikes and human tibias. In The '60s, the Cool Chair was Eero Aarnio's Ball Chair. People who have their own Cool Chairs tend to be (understandably) attached to them; should some irreverent interloper put his seat in your seat, feel free to declare: This Is My Chair. A Sub-Trope 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 Rank Scales with Asskicking. Swivel-Chair Antics is another sub-trope. On occasion, the Chair may serve as an escape pod for the villain to make his getaway. |
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Memetic Badass | |
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The chair Aizen is bound to when imprisoned in Muken is extremely large and made out a substance that makes it almost invincible. When Aizen attempts to use Kidou #90 to break the chair and gain his freedom, the chair isn't even scratched. All he can do is admire its construction. The chair became a Memetic Badass because of that, being dubbed as "Chair-kun" by the fans. | |
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Anti-Magic | |
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In the Season 6 finale, Queen Chrysalis is revealed to have a massive throne - with a long-range, Anti-Magic Field Power Effect (that only allows Changeling magic). Even the aforementioned Discord gets Brought Down to Normal once he sets foot in her domain. | |
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Spikes of Villainy | |
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Haazheel Thorn's throne is a massive crystalline beast with Spikes of Villainy that makes the Iron Throne look friendly. | |
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Cool, but Inefficient | |
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The Iron Throne is intentionally Cool, but Inefficient. Aegon the Conqueror took the swords of all the defeated lords of Westeros and forged them with dragonfire 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 (thought that king may have been Driven to Suicide and impaled himself on the throne). | |
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SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! Khorne (he of BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! fame) sits on a massive throne of brass in the center of his fortress, which sits on a mountain of skulls in a lake of blood. Skulls taken and blood spilled by his warriors end up in the pile/lake, representing how his power waxes and wanes with the other three Chaos gods'. | |
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Discord fashions himself quite an evil-looking throne - a dark gray and deep red color scheme, a stylized skull shape with pointed teeth at the top, and a huge pair of antlers sprouting from the skull for added demonic imagery - and plops it right in the middle of Ponyville so that he can observe the chaos he's wrought firsthand. | |
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Swivel-Chair Antics | |
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When Lord Snapcase (not-yet Homicidal Lord Snapcase) replaces his successor Mad Lord Winder, the first thing he does is ask if the chair swivels. The secretary responds he can get a skilled swiveler first thing in the morning. | |
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Power Crystal | |
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The Crystal Empire's castle has one made of, well, Power Crystals. During The Dark Times, King Sombra enchanted it to trigger a hidden portal to his inner sanctum. | |
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The Dragon | |
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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." | |
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Castlevania (Franchise) | |
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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. The chair interactions typically involve characters who are somehow related to Dracula, who is rarely seen outside his throne room. In fact, his monster form at the end of Symphony of the Night was literally just his throne with arms and grotesque shapes growing out of it. |
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Deflector Shields | |
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High-ranking Covenant Prophets glide on gravity thrones, which have Deflector Shields and can shoot lasers. Normally Master Chief vs. an old man wouldn't be much of a fight, so it's a good thing the Cool Chair fixes that. | |
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience | |
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It's Colour-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. | |
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Star Wars (Franchise) | |
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Star Wars is full of them. The Jedi Council hold their meetings in a tower, where each member gets a nice looking chair that you could almost swear was built specifically for them. Sometimes, when some of the members are away, they even fill their chairs via hologram communication. And sometimes Yoda even uses a hover-chair. And let us not forget the Emperor's cool chair while we're at it. In Episode I, we get a scene of Viceroy Gunray on a "mechno-throne", a cool chair that walks around on four legs - very, very slowly... (And Legends EU sources add that the mechno-throne is a really uncomfortable ride. It's more of a status symbol than anything.) 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 cool or what? Anakin's pod racing rival Sebulba had a special chair custom-made to accommodate his odd anatomy comfortably; it, along with his two very expensive twin Twi'lek slave girls was his way of rubbing his wealth in everyone else's face. 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. |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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The Dragonbone Chair of the first novel in Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series. | |
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Confession Cam | |
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The Diary Room chair on Big Brother. Early examples were fairly simple but later seasons will usually have a specially-designed chair that's much more elaborate. Either way it's definitely shorthand for "Draaaaaaaa-mah! is about to occur!" | |
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Regent for Life | |
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And let's not forget the Steward of Gondor's seat (book and film), a plain black chair below and to one side of the (permanently unoccupied) throne. | |
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Evil is Cool | |
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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 cool or what? | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad Megabyte in ReBoot had a hovering Cool Chair. Of course, sitting in it required him to take his legs off to attach himself to it. He often had one of his Mooks polishing his legs while using his chair. | |
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Parodied Trope | |
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Parodied on The Simpsons, where Mr. Burns offers to use his influence to get Homer into college to actually get his nuclear physics degree, saying "I have a chair on the admissions board of Springfield University". His "chair" turns out to be a giant throne with devils carved into it, skulls for the handrests, and two attack dogs chained to it. Stephen Hawking's wheelchair from the same show. It could fly and was loaded with more tools than Inspector Gadget. |
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged | |
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The Inspirationally Disadvantaged Felix Renton from Kim Possible has a wheelchair with a hover system and retractable Combat Tentacles. It was built by his mother, a cybertechnology expert who moved into town to work at the space center with Kim's father. In his second appearance, the bad guys steal it, causing Shego to remark that Even Evil Has Standards. | |
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Training "Accident" | |
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SG-1 gets a Cool Chair too in the form of General Hammond's chair. In "Proving Ground", Daniel (who is currently the leader of a fake alien incursion for a 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. Possibly a reference to something his actor Don S. Davis said in an interview. When asked if he could play any other role in the show, who would it be, he replied, "I'd be my own damn role. I have the best chair on the set." | |
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Cool House | |
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Player-owned houses in Runescape can be outfitted with furnished throne rooms. The fanciest ones can be crafted from bones, crystal, or for optimum snazz and Money Sink efficiency, demonic magic stone. | |
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Mordor | |
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" ... One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne / In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie." Subverted somewhat in that Sauron is 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! This arguably gives Sauron the coolest chair of them all, as his chair routinely spawns gargantuan legions of horrifying abominations of pure twisted evil and is the tallest tower in the whole of Middle-earth! Can your chair do that?? | |
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The Captain | |
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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 this awful fanfic. It's Colour-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. According to Wil Wheaton, the chair was so cool that, by unspoken consensus, no TNG cast or crew member ever sat upon it unless 1) they were Patrick Stewart or 2) the script specified it. (Visiting celebrities got to do whatever they wanted, of course.) There's a delicious source of Narm in 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 here. (Perhaps the problem is that he isn't doing a a Slouch of Villainy on it...) |
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Chair Reveal | |
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When J. Jonah Jameson is 'invited' up to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier, 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 "These guys have loads of cool stuff" point. | |
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Ridiculously Human Robots | |
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Hedonism Bot is a Cool Chair. | |
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Expy | |
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Interestingly enough, Jim Starlin originally conceived Thanos as an Expy of the above-mentioned Metron. Editor Roy Thomas said he should base the character on Darkseid instead. Thanos hover thrones are possibly a nod to the originally intended reference. | |
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Narm | |
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There's a delicious source of Narm in 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 here. (Perhaps the problem is that he isn't doing a a Slouch of Villainy on it...) | |
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Emperor Scientist | |
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Daniel's control chair in his secret underground bunker in "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 shooting from a 9mm pistol. | |
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Tim Taylor Technology | |
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Dad Anyfamily's mobile (as in gasoline-powered) chair from Roundhouse. It comes equipped with a TV, a propane grill, a cooler, and even brake lights. | |
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Cool Chair | |
| Ryuugi's The Games We Play (Fanfic) | seeAlso |
Cool Chair | |
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Rule of Cool / int_a53edcb7 | |
| HRGiger | seeAlso |
Cool Chair | |
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Impossibly Cool Weapon / int_a53edcb7 | |
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Memetic Personality Change / int_a53edcb7 | |
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Movie Superheroes Wear Black / int_a53edcb7 | |
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Powers as Programs / int_a53edcb7 | |
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Rock Beats Laser / int_a53edcb7 | |
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Cool Chair | |
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The Captain / int_a53edcb7 | |
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Weak Boss, Strong Underlings / int_a53edcb7 | |
| coolchair | sameAs |
Cool Chair |
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