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* ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': Rare heroic example: [[BigGood M]] strikes this pose after hearing that Bond has been shot.

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* ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': Rare heroic example: [[BigGood M]] strikes assumes this pose after hearing that Bond has been shot.
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* ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': Rare heroic example: M strikes this pose after hearing that Bond has been shot.

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* ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': Rare heroic example: M strikes this pose after hearing that Bond has been shot.
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* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': Deus, who loves his villain tropes, naturally indulges. Probably often, too, given that even a recent hire calls it his [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-830-the-new-hire/ "staring imperiously out of the window" time.]]

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* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': Deus, who loves his villain tropes, naturally indulges. Probably often, too, given that even a recent hire calls it his [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-830-the-new-hire/ "staring imperiously out of the window" time.]]]] Of course, she comes from a DeadlyDecadentCourt, so she's not mocking him; she genuinely thinks any leader should allot some "staring imperiously out of the window" time.
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-->--'''Lorlara''', ''Webcomic/GrrlPower''

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* ''VideoGame/DevilsHunt'' introduces the hero Desmond's father in this manner, as the CEO of a powerful Miami company on his penthouse overlooking Florida. He doesn't even turn around when Desmond barges in.

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* Lampshaded by Flame King in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Red Throne", as he stares out over his kingdom from a window after re-taking it from his daughter Flame Princess.
-->'''Flame King''': Man, I love staring out over things.



** Mr Burns lives on this. He once [[TemptingFate tempted fate]] by saying he'd donate a million dollars to the local orphanage "when ''PIGS FLY!''" Commence porcine air torpedo, and a snarky comment by Smithers. Burns just kept staring. And [[{{Jerkass}} kept the money]], too.

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** Mr Burns lives on this. He once [[TemptingFate tempted fate]] by saying he'd donate a million dollars to the local orphanage "when ''PIGS FLY!''" [[CueTheFlyingPigs Commence porcine air torpedo, torpedo]], and a snarky comment by Smithers. Burns just kept staring. And [[{{Jerkass}} kept the money]], too.



* Lampshaded by Flame King in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Red Throne", as he stares out over his kingdom from a window.
-->'''Flame King''': Man, I love staring out over things.
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* ''Film/JohnWick'': This is how [[TheDon Viggo Tarasov]] is introduced, looking out over his city, an unreachable god among criminals, while asking Aurelio over the phone, with barely restrained TranquilFury, if and why he struck Viggo's son... Aurelio then explains that he did it because Viggo's son stole [[TheDreaded John Wick]]'s car and killed his dog. Viggo turns away from the city view with a quiet [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "Oh..."]] and we see that he is not an unreachable god; he is just another man.
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* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Space tyrant is seen doing this on occasion, [[LikeFatherLikeSon as is his father]], King Cold.

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* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Space tyrant Frieza is seen doing this on occasion, [[LikeFatherLikeSon as is his father]], King Cold.
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As a specific SubTrope of BackToCameraPose used to make authority figures look powerful, this may be part of TheFaceless.

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As a specific SubTrope of BackToCameraPose used to make authority figures look powerful, this may be part of TheFaceless.
TheFaceless. Compare DramaPanes.
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* This is a signature of Jack Donaghy on ''Series/ThirtyRock''. Usually with a glass of Scotch. Later in the series, he even directs Lemon to the other window- where guests stare. At one point, he stares out the window of a recreation of his office on a movie set...at nothing.
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* Used, abused, and parodied by Jack Donaghy of ''Series/ThirtyRock''. He has a single window in his office that he needs to look out of (ideally while holding a drink) in order to reflect. On occasion, he will ask people to move aside so he can stand there. On one memorable instance, when [[ItMakesSenseInContext a TV set of his office is made]], he wraps up the episode by standing at that window even though it doesn't actually face outside.
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This may be part of TheFaceless.

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* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', Darth Vader onboard the ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Executor]]''.

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Darth Vader onboard the ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Executor]]''.


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** As does Hux in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.
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* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': While ordering the hiding of the illegal human experimentation his company has been up to Lloyd Waite turns to gaze out his office window.

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