Die Hard with a Vengeance: Simon walks like this when entering the Federal Reserve Bank vault he's about to rob.Agent Smith oversees the City before interrogating Morpheus.Morpheus looks out of a window in this pose right before meeting Neo.Watchmen: Ozymandias, while receiving corporate tycoons in his office.TRON: Legacy: Clu when he has Sam Flynn brought to him.Tarkin and Krennic both strike this pose in Rogue One.Space Cowboys: Bob Gerson, after Hawk crashes a third expensive, experimental rocket plane.Payne putters around for a few seconds without apparently seeing him, then stands with his back to Stone and shouts, "WHAT the hell are you doing in my office?!" Major Payne: The eponymous character once enters his office while Stone is sitting at his desk.Aragorn is in this pose in Arwen's flashforward vision on the road to the Grey Havens. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.Gangland Odyssey has Hoshida staring out the penthouse of his high-rise Hong Kong officer tower in this manner.On a later encounter, their reconciliation is illustrated by his turning from the window to face him as Huo enters the room. Fearless (2006): Huo Yuanjia's long-estranged friend strikes the pose when turning down a request to lend him money.Subverted in Elizabeth, where Walsingham (the queen's spymaster) instructs his disciple to look out the window as to start a discussion as per the trope, and in mid-conversation slits his throat.Bright Lights, Big City: Jamie's boss at the magazine he works for strikes the pose before lecturing him about a sloppy job he did.Similar to a Greatroom scene, where the higher-up gazes into the fire instead of looking at the protagonist, à la The Big Lebowski.Case in point, this ◊ one-page story from The Superman Adventures: On the cosmic end of the scale, Darkseid frequently does this in his throne room, gazing out at his dystopian kingdom.In Last Daughter of Krypton, corrupt businessman Simon Tycho spends a long time gazing down at Earth from his satellite base while his underlyings attempt to capture and subdue Supergirl.In the page picture, from 52, he's watching dozens of people plummet to their deaths from the skies of Metropolis.A lot of the time he's implied to be trying to catch a glimpse of Superman. A recurring motif across all Superman adaptations is Luthor looking down at Metropolis from his tower like a god looking down at puny mortals, only for it to be spoiled by the sight of Superman floating just a few inches higher looking down on him. Marvel Universe criminal boss The Kingpin is prone to doing this in his various forms when in his penthouse.