Basic Trope: A physically handicapped villain.
- Straight:
- Evulz is wheelchair-bound.
- Evulz is blind.
- Evulz is deaf.
- Exaggerated:
- Evulz is a deaf-mute paraplegic.
- Evulz can't do anything without super-advanced technology.
- Downplayed:
- Evulz walks with a cane.
- Evulz is blind in his right eye.
- Evulz limp does not slow him down very much, it just makes him easier to recognize.
- Evulz wears glasses.
- Evulz is a blind Noble Demon.
- Justified:
- Evulz turned evil after being abandoned due to his disability.
- Evulz was injured by a hero.
- Evulz made a Deal with the Devil for ultimate power, which involved sacrificing a body part.
- Alternately, the devil promises to cure Evulz' terminal illness if the latter carries out his will.
- Inverted:
- The only morally good character is crippled.
- Evulz is crippled and pulls a Heel–Face Turn.
- Evulz is in perfect health, whereas all the heroes are disabled.
- Subverted: Evulz doesn't really need a wheelchair. He pretends he does so people will think he's helpless and underestimate him.
- Double Subverted: He becomes paralyzed for real later on.
- Parodied:
- Zig Zagged: Evulz walk sometimes, but this is aided only by a very rare medicine, and only for a short amount of time.
- Averted: No disabled people are portrayed as evil.
- Enforced: The writers want to give the villian a sympathetic trait.
- Lampshaded: "You plan to conquer the world from a wheelchair?"
- Invoked: "Let's put Evulz in a wheelchair, that way Bob will feel bad about fighting him."
- Exploited: Evulz guilt trips his opponents by accusing them of ableism.
- Defied: Evulz begins to walk again.
- Discussed: "Just because Evulz is blind, that doesn't make him any less of a threat."
- Conversed: "Why is it that there are so many disabled villains? Doesn't that rub you the wrong way?" "Well, at least it defies the stereotype that disabled people are always pure of heart."
- Implied:
- Evulz never appears, but a wheelchair appears amongst his belongings.
- Evulz has glassy eyes he hides behind Sinister Shades and Right-Hand Attack Dog which may be a guide dog.
- Deconstructed:
- Evulz sets back disability rights with his actions, because he pushes the notion that disabled people are morally deficient.
- Evulz was unable to get a regular job because companies kept turning him away or refusing to accommodate his needs, forcing him into a life of crime. The more entrenched in it he became, the more he lashed out at the society that rejected him, and slowly became the villain he is now.
- Reconstructed: Bob, who lost a leg in a battle against Evulz, is still heroic, proving that disability has nothing to do with morality.
- Played For Laughs:
- Evulz is making a dramatic speech about how foolish Bob is, but because he is blind, he's facing the wrong way.
- Bob is making a speech to Evulz about hope, when another character comes in to remind him that Evulz is deaf.
- Played For Drama: During a battle against Bob, Evulz is blinded. He gives "eye for an eye" a near-literal meaning as he makes it his mission to get revenge against Bob.
- Played For Horror: Evulz has lost all his limbs in his battles against Bob, becoming horribly disfigured, but refuses to quit via The Power of Hate.
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