History Literature / TheBadGuys

* FaceMonsterTurn: In "Dawn of the Underlord". [[spoiler:corruption from the evil dimension thanks to his superpowers turns Mr. Snake into a multi-headed monster bent on corrupting the others.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: Mr. Shark's disguises are obvious to the audience, as he's a shark disguising as other animals or personas. Despite this, everyone else compliments his disguises.
** Subverted in "The Bad Guys in Alien Vs Bad Guys", because Mr. Shark doesn't know what [[spoiler:the females of Dr. Marmalade's alien species]] looks like, his disguise is readily foiled.

* RealityEnsues:
** Despite being able to move on land with no water, Mr. Piranha, being a freshwater fish, is unable to swim in saltwater.
** In "The Bad Guys in Alien Vs Bad Guys", because Mr. Shark doesn't know what [[spoiler:the females of Dr. Marmalade's alien species]] looks like, his disguise is readily foiled.

A movie for the series by Creator/DreamWorksAnimation is in development, originally slated for release in September 2021, but [[https://www.thewrap.com/the-boss-baby-sequel-bumped-to-september-2021-the-bad-guys-moves-to-2022/ now planned for an unknown date in 2022]].

A movie for the series by Creator/DreamWorksAnimation is in development, [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dreamworks-animation-universal-pictures-set-2-movies-2021-1245893 slated for release in September 2021]].

** One recurring background character is the title character of “Pig the Pug”, one of Aaron Blabey’s other book series.

** This is one of the reasons Mr. Snake insists that he can't be a true hero. He was seen as a bad guy to start, so he doesn't bother to change his reputation. This slowly starts to crack away throughout the series, as he becomes a truer hero.

* AtrociousAlias: Mr. Wolf attempts to name the organization "The Good Guys Club", much to the annoyance of the
others, who find it ridiculous. Mr. Wolf mainly keeps pushing it because Agent Fox thought it was "cute".

** Mr. Piranha has a large swarming family of over 900 thousand brothers.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Mr. Piranha has ''900,543'' brothers. They fill up their own gang thanks to this.

* PiranhaProblem: Mr. Piranha, also known as the “Butt Biter”.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Dr. Marmalade is introduced as a normal guinea pig at the end of "Mission Unpluckable". It's only when the others leave (after they think they're rescuing a normal guinea pig) does his true colors show, and he becomes the main antagonist of the series for the first arc. [[spoiler: [[AlienAmongUs And then it turns out he's not even a guinea pig...]]

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Dr. Marmalade is introduced as a normal guinea pig at the end of "Mission Unpluckable". It's only when the others leave (after they think they're rescuing a normal guinea pig) does his true colors show, and he becomes the main antagonist of the series.

** Mr. Snake's anger towards Agent Fox is purely because [[spoiler:Mr. Wolf likes her, which he translates into Mr. Wolf liking her more than himself. He admits tho his jealousy, which he feels like is keeping him from fully becoming a good guy.]]

* MadScientist: Dr. Rupert Marmalade, an evil scientist hamster who is the main antagonist to the heroes [[spoiler:and secretly an alien]].

* GreenEyedMonster: Mr. Snake's anger towards Agent Fox is purely because [[spoiler:Mr. Wolf likes her, which he translates into Mr. Wolf liking her more than himself. He admits tho his jealousy, which he feels like is keeping him from fully becoming a good guy.]]

* OddNameOut: Legs is the only member of the team to not be named after his species.

* AfroAsskicker: Agent Kitty Cat, one of the members of The International League of Heroes, has a large black afro. Until "Superbad", she was only seen from the back, with her afro being her defining feature.

* AtrociousAlias: Mr. Wolf attempts to name the organization "The Good Guys Club", much to the annoyance of the others, who find it ridiculous. Mr. Wolf mainly keeps pushing it because Agent Fox thought it was "cute".

* DeadpanSnarker: Mr. Snake, thanks to finding most of the plans ridiculous, spends plenty of time dryly commenting on them.

* FurryFemaleMane: Agent Fox has an extra ponytail, while the boys have no hair additions.

* PiranhaProblem: Mr. Piranha, also known as the “Butt Biter”.

* SuperheroEpisode: The plot of "Superbad", thanks to a [[spoiler:faulty time travel portal from Prehistoric times, giving the four of them superpowers.]]
* SuperIntelligence: The faulty time machine that [[spoiler:gives The Bad Guys superpowers]] also mutates the brain of [[spoiler:Milton the velociraptor]], turning him from an angry dinosaur into a cultured genius.

* CuteIsEvil: Dr. Rupert Marmalade, a billionaire mad scientist that also happens to be an adorable guinea pig. Despite being cute, he ''hates'' being called cute, to the point of using his scientific abilities to un-cutify anything else on the planet that's considered cute. It also turns out [[spoiler:the guinea pig appearance is just a ruse, he's actually an alien that used it ''because'' he wouldn't be taken as seriously in it, though he was still considered "cute" by alien standards on his planet]].

* MagicPants: Played with. In "Superbad", [[spoilerLMr. Wolf's SuperStrength bulks him up, but doesn't account for his clothing, leaving him naked due to his own mistakes. He later receives a pair of indestructible underwear to counter this]]. This then plays a key part in "The Big Bad Wolf" [[spoiler:where, even as a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever rampaging giant monster]], the underwear remains]].

* RealityEnsues: Despite being able to move on land with no water, Mr. Piranha, being a freshwater fish, is unable to swim in saltwater.

A movie for the series by Creator/DreamWorksAnimation is in development.

* PettingZooPeople: The mammalian characters all are built bipedal. All non-mammal characters keep their basic attributes instead.