Basic Trope: Evil characters come in all sorts of races, creeds, genders, sexual orientations and handicaps.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz employs Mooks of all sorts of different races and creeds.
- Exaggerated:
- Emperor Evulz has a Token Minority for pretty much everyone, and panics when he notices a shortage of blind bisexual Lithuanians.
- Evulz is a Politically Correct Villain who openly opposes discrimination as one of his goals.
- Downplayed:
- Emperor Evulz will allow people with different skin colors to join his mooks, but only if they belong to the same Religion of Evil he does.
- Emperor Evulz is a human supremacist and xenophobic against space aliens, but within his all-human ranks, everyone is treated with equal respect regardless of race, creed, gender, or sexual orientation.
- Justified:
- Emperor Evulz rules a large multinational empire, and needs to draw his troops from every corner of his realm to be able to fight effectively on his current scale.
- Alternatively, Emperor Evulz is a Villain with Good Publicity, and knows that by having a politically correct army he'll be viewed as progressive by his subjects.
- Alternatively, Emperor Evulz is smart enough not to give a crap about race, gender, sexuality, or creed because he hires based only on competence and loyalty since that's all that matters to him.
- Emperor Evulz has nothing against religions, ethnicities etc., so he doesn't care where they come from or where they believe their mooks.
- Emperor Evulz hates everyone equally.
- Epmeror Evulz's closest allies are of various diversities, so it makes sense for him to employ their kind as well.
- Emperor Evulz just doesn't see any reason not to.
- Emperor Evulz suffered greatly due to being female/black/gay/atheist/etc., and it was these experiences with discrimination that drove them to become a villain in the first place.
- Inverted:
- Politically Incorrect Villain
- Politically Incorrect Hero / Noble Bigot
- The Heroes "R" Us organization will accept all races, creeds, genders, sexual orientations, and handicaps.
- The Heroes "R" Us organization refuses to recruit minorities, does not allow women to join, and is incredibly xenophobic against foreigners.
- Subverted: Emperor Evulz has Mooks that are both men and women, gay and straight, of every race, color, religion and creed. Then we see that there's a considerable glass ceiling, and most, if not all, of his higher-ups are more "pure-blooded".
- Double Subverted: Except for his female blind psychic bisexual Lithuanian Dragon, Lina, who proves useful in showing how anyone has a chance of being promoted.
- Parodied:
- Emperor Evulz's evil Five-Man Band consists of almost every comedic stereotype, from Scary Black Man to Camp Gay.
- Emperor Evulz's keeps complaining about being hounded by the Affirmative Action people even though he's already got countless minorities in his ranks.
- Emperor Evulz's second-in-command is a black/East Asian blind, dyslexic, bisexual, schizophrenic, female Mormon who can't roll her tongue.
- Zig Zagged: Emperor Evulz has the most diverse Evil Army in the world. But that's just for the Mooks, and a heavy glass ceiling means that only straight males of Evulz' own ethnic group and religion are officers. However, extenuating circumstances have Emperor Evulz hire Lina, a blind bisexual Lithuanian girl, as a soldier, and despite all odds she is promoted to The Dragon. However, it then turns out that Emperor Evulz only promoted her for her psychic powers, and plans to kill her off. Lina then pulls a High-Heel–Face Turn for Bob, the hero, and the resistance movement kills off Emperor Evulz. His successor, Emperor Evulz II, is a Politically Incorrect Villain, until his own Mooks kill him off and replace him with a more tolerant regime. While there appears to be a glass ceiling for Emperor Evulz III's officers consisting of his own kind, that's just due to inertia from retaining the command structure of the previous regime, and eventually officers of all races come to occupy the powerful positions in Emperor Evulz III's army.
- Averted: Emperor Evulz is neither this nor a Politically Incorrect Villain; all Mooks are all completely anonymous with diversity not being an issue.
- Enforced:
- "We don't want to lose ratings by offending minorities, but having just white people be bad guys seems pretty stupid..".
- "Problem: The Noble Demon isn't noble enough. Let's give him some standards". "On racial matters, perhaps?" "Sure, why not?"
- Due to their limited budget, the producers couldn't afford actors that were both skilled and good looking, so they went for Ability over Appearance and took the resultant lack of visual cohesion in stride.
- Lampshaded: "For an evil empire, he's remarkably politically correct".
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz, an Affably Evil Villain with Good Publicity, knows that his being viewed as progressive is vital to being beloved by his people, and integrates racial, religious and gender equality in all of his government agencies, including the military.
- Exploited: Because of Evulz' equal opportunity hiring practices, no one bats an eye when the ethnically diverse band of heroes disguise themselves as his mooks. This wouldn't have worked if Evulz only hired male orcs or some equally narrow group.
- Defied: "Only the pure of blood can join the Imperial Legions!"
- Discussed: "You'll find Emperor Evulz doesn't particularly care who does the dying for his goals. The color of the body doesn't really affect his plans, after all".
- Conversed: "Ever notice how the bad guys are more diverse than Our Heroes?"
- Deconstructed:
- Despite Emperor Evulz' remarkable tolerance, his laws are still Draconian, and his rule is still inept with myriad economic and social problems. The resulting unrest causes his subjects to decry him as a lazy politician, with the Equal-Opportunity Evil as a cheap attempt to garner good ratings.
- Alternatively, the subjects of Emperor Evulz have a low opinion of Bob, the hero's, homogeneous Five-Man Band.
- Cultural differences between different ethnic factions in Emperor Evulz army. At best this is Teeth-Clenched Teamwork; at worst it is rendered ineffective.
- Reconstructed:
- In addition to political correctness, Emperor Evulz has also made remarkable strides in keeping his empire's economy in check and improving infrastructure and public welfare, thus retaining his Villain with Good Publicity status.
- Evulz is so equal-opportunity that many species that are considered Always Chaotic Evil are allowed in his ranks; races that the kingdom rejected on principle. As a result of being taken in when no-one else would have them, these monsters have Undying Loyalty towards Evulz and bolster his ranks to the point that civil unrest among the "normal" people is a non-issue.
- Played For Laughs: Emperor Evulz employs all ethnicities and cultures... Because he Hates Everyone Equally and therefore has no reason not to.
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