History Main / RecliningReigner

* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=1563 Ash'waren]].

* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': [[http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/15776/1521859-hela1.jpg Hela]] has spent thousands of years making this trope into an art form. She does this on numerous occasions.

* ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': Nero Maximus spends his time lying on a chaise longue. His wife Empress Fausta prefers to sit in a plush chair and force a slave to hold a pillow in their lap and act as a footrest.

* TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'s Greasus Goldtooth, Overtyrant of the Ogre Kingdoms, travels to battle and even fights like this, on a moving carpet of Gnoblar bearers. The model for Greasus (who is morbidly obese, even by Ogre standards, and possibly even can't walk under his own power) depicts him lying back at ease, giant haunch of meat in one hand, fabulous jewel-encrusted sceptre in the other. To further enhance his aura of disgustingly opulent excess (Ogres charge a very hefty fee to let merchants use the equivalent to the Silk Road), he has more gnoblars spread a carpet of gold coins in front of him wherever he goes. Subtlety is not a quality valued (or, indeed, understood) by ogres, so when they go in for a look, they don't do it by halves.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' when Zigzag the evil vizier meets the [[BigBad Mighty One-Eye]], he's seen reclining on a throne with a bored look on his face. Oh, a [[UpToEleven throne composed by his own harem of buxom, scantily-clad One Eye girls]].
* In ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', Jafar does this, in a definite overlap with SlouchOfVillainy.
* ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Yzma get's to do this after taking over as the reigning empress, just before finding out that Kuzco is still alive.

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* TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'s Greasus Goldtooth, Overtyrant of the Ogre Kingdoms, travels to battle and even fights like this, on a moving carpet of Gnoblar bearers. The model for Greasus (who is morbidly obese, even by Ogre standards, and possibly even can't walk under his own power) depicts him lying back at ease, giant haunch of meat in one hand, fabulous jewel-encrusted sceptre in the other. To further enhance his aura of disgustingly opulent excess, he has more gnoblars spread a carpet of gold coins in front of him wherever he goes. Subtlety is not a quality valued (or, indeed, understood) by ogres, so when they go in for a look, they don't to it by halves.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' when Zigzag the evil vizier meets the [[BigBad Mighty One-Eye]], he's seen reclining on a throne with a bored look on his face. Oh, a [[UpToEleven throne composed by his own harem of buxom, scantly-clad One Eye girls]].

* Most [[Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar Caesars]] are depicted this way. Creator/DomDeLuise in ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' does it.

* ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' Most of the Jarls recline when sitting on their thrones, excluding [[TheHighQueen Jarl Elisif the Fair]]. The in-universe reason is that Elisif is brand new to the position, all the other Jarls have been at it for some time and have grown somewhat jaded. Elisif took over the job after the very recent death of her husband, so she hasn't gotten used to ruling yet. This is in fact determined by the throne, not the character: eight thrones have a slouchy animation programmed into them. So you can sit on one and slouch heroically.

* Most of the Jarls in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' recline when sitting on their thrones, excluding [[TheHighQueen Jarl Elisif the Fair]].
** This in fact is determined by the throne, not the character: eight thrones have a slouchy animation programmed into them.
** The in-universe reason is that Elisif is brand new to the position, all the other Jarls have been at it for some time and have grown somewhat jaded. Elisif took over the job after the very recent death of her husband, so she hasn't gotten used to ruling yet.

* TheEmperorsNewGroove: Yzma get's to do this after taking over as the reigning empress, just before finding out that Kuzco is still alive.

* ''TheMightyThor'': [[http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/15776/1521859-hela1.jpg Hela]] has spent thousands of years making this trope into an art form. She does this on numerous occasions.

* ''Film/TheWindAndTheLion''. When the U.S. Marines break into the Bashaw's palace, they find him lying down on a couch smoking a hookah. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGWdng1hl0U#t=6m15s here]].

* ''{{The Wind and the Lion}}''. When the U.S. Marines break into the Bashaw's palace, they find him lying down on a couch smoking a hookah. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGWdng1hl0U#t=6m15s here]].

* Warhammer's Greasus Goldtooth, Overtyrant of the Ogre Kingdoms, travels to battle and even fights like this, on a moving carpet of Gnoblar bearers. The model for Greasus (who is morbidly obese, even by Ogre standards, and possibly even can't walk under his own power) depicts him lying back at ease, giant haunch of meat in one hand, fabulous jewel-encrusted sceptre in the other. To further enhance his aura of disgustingly opulent excess, he has more gnoblars spread a carpet of gold coins in front of him wherever he goes. Subtlety is not a quality valued (or, indeed, understood) by ogres, so when they go in for a look, they don't to it by halves.

Compare IdleRich. Not to be confused with ReluctantRuler.