"I won't require high-ranking female members of my organization to wear a stainless-steel bustier. Morale is better with a more casual dress-code. Similarly, outfits made entirely from black leather will be reserved for formal occasions."
— Evil Overlord List, Rule #33
Evil quite often has a different style compared to heroes and bystanders. Perhaps it's a way to tell the heroes and villains apart, perhaps it's because the artists and costumers think Evil Is Cool, Sexy, cultured, or perhaps a little bit of all of them.
Regardless, these tropes involve fashion choices villains make (intentionally or otherwise).
Also, some of the more extreme Anti Heroes are likely to follow these tropes.
Compare Stock Costume Traits.
Tropes:
- Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes
- Black Cloak
- Clothes Make the Maniac
- Dastardly Dapper Derby
- Dress-Coded for Your Convenience
- Dressed Like a Dominatrix
- Dressed to Oppress
- Evil Costume Switch
- Evil Is Angular
- Evil Makeover
- Evil Wears Black
- Excessive Evil Eyeshadow
- Fashion-Victim Villain
- Fashionable Evil
- Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit
- Femme Fatalons
- Fur and Loathing
- Gas Mask Mooks
- Genuine Human Hide
- Good Colors, Evil Colors
- Good Hair, Evil Hair
- High Collar of Doom
- Horns of Villainy
- Makeup Is Evil
- Man of Wealth and Taste
- Masked Villains, Unmasked Heroes
- Ominous Opera Cape
- Paint It Black
- Putting on the Reich
- Red and Black and Evil All Over
- Red and Black Totalitarianism
- Sackhead Slasher
- Scary Impractical Armor
- Secondary Color Nemesis
- Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains
- Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains
- Shoulders of Doom
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet
- Spikes of Villainy
- Sukhomlinov Effect
- Tin Tyrant
- Villain in a White Suit
