Basic Trope: A major attack on the good guys' home base.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz attacks the heroes' base.
- Exaggerated:
- Emperor Evulz attacks the town where the base is located.
- Emperor Evulz attacks all of the heroes' bases around the world.
- Downplayed: Emperor Evulz sends a few Mooks to attack the base, and it's nothing that the heroes can't stop.
- Justified: The heroes keep all of their equipment and gadgets in their base, so they would be vulnerable without it.
- Inverted: The heroes attack Emperor Evulz's Supervillain Lair.
- Subverted: Emperor Evulz starts to attack the base, but the heroes defeat him.
- Double Subverted: ...However, during the attack he hidden a bomb in the base, which detonated a short while after his defeat.
- Parodied: Emperor Evulz plans to sends Mooks to the base in order to find it's blueprints that he could use for a future invasion. The Mooks question why he would do this when he could just invade the base with all of his forces.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Emperor Evulz doesn't attack the base.
- The heroes don't have a home base.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "The heroes won't see it coming when I invade their base!"
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz specifically prepares all of his resources in order to successfully attack the base and catch the heroes off-guard.
- Exploited: The heroes notice Emperor Evulz approaching their base, so they destroy him.
- Defied: The heroes are aware of the possibility that Emperor Evulz could attack their base, so they prepare for a possible attack and succeed in fending him off.
- Discussed: "We don't know what plans Emperor Evulz has under his sleeves. We should prepare the base for a possible attack."
- Conversed: ???
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