Basic Trope: Evil has a fire motif.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz is a Pyromaniac with fire powers, a Volcano Lair, and a general fire motif.
- Exaggerated: Every single evil person in the entire world is an exact clone of either Satan(in a world with a Fire and Brimstone Hell) or Cthugha. There are no exceptions, and the definition of "evil" is extremely open-ended in this universe, so even preschool bullies are included.
- Downplayed: Evulz's lair is in a desert, which, while hot, is not quite burning hot.
- Justified: Evulz is a fire demon.
- Inverted:
- Evil Is Deathly Cold: Evulz has ice powers, and his base of operations is the Grim Up North.
- Good Is Burning Hot: Bob is the one with fire powers, not Evulz.
- Good Is Deathly Cold: Bob has ice powers and is generally cold-themed.
- Subverted: Evulz boasts about how he's going to burn Bob to a crisp with his "incinerating power", and challenges him to fight him in his volcanic lair. It turns out he doesn't have fire powers nor a volcano lair, and he was bluffing to intimidate Bob.
- Double Subverted: But then he gets pyrokinesis for real, and moves his base of operations to a Lethal Lava Land to fit with the change.
- Parodied: Evulz actually just constantly has a fever.
- Zig Zagged: Evulz starts out with fire powers and a volcano lair. However, he loses those later on, and gains ice powers instead and relocates to the Grim Up North to reflect the change in powers. But then he loses those and he gets his fire powers back, and moves back to the Lethal Lava Land he was originally based in.
- Averted: Evulz isn't associated with fire.
- Enforced: "We need a really intimidating, deadly villain for the show. Make him have fire powers!"
- Lampshaded: "Fear my incinerating wrath!"
- Invoked: Evulz is given the choice of a few different Elemental Powers, and, seeing it as the most lethal and painful one, and therefore the one best suited to evil, chooses fire.
- Exploited: Evulz uses his fire powers, the fact that fire is extremely dangerous and painful to touch, and the association with Fire and Brimstone Hell to build a reputation as a Satanic Archetype and The Dreaded.
- Discussed: "Evulz certainly seems to be trying to portray himself as some kind of Devil figure with his whole fire fixation. Makes you wonder if he bothered to consider the fact that people don't really like the Devil."
- Conversed: "Why is the villain on this show so obsessed with fire?" "Probably just because it tends to kill people painfully. Plus there's the whole association with Hell."
- Implied: Every time Bob enters a fight with Evulz, he comes back with burn scars on his face. How he gets them, however, is never explained.
- Deconstructed: No one wants to ally with Evulz due to his penchant for inflicting one of the most painful ways to die imaginable upon people.
- Reconstructed: He finds a large group of Ax-Crazy Pyromaniacs, and recruits them into his army, promising plenty of opportunities for setting fires.
- Played for Laughs: Evulz's Evil Plan is to hold a literal barbecue with the entire planet as the meat.
- Played for Drama: Evulz's Empire, ruled by fire wizards who seek to establish fire's total supremacy over all other elements, happens to be engaged in war with the rest of the world, and is on the verge of winning. Bob, an ice mage, must stop Evulz in time before he can win and destroy all other elements; however, he fears that he is already too late.
- Played for Horror: Evulz uses his fire powers as sadistically as possible, taking delight in and placing great emphasis on the agony his victims suffer as he brutally tortures them to death with his pyrokinesis.
- Continued from the example for Played for Drama. Evulz also happens to be A Nazi by Any Other Name, so his method of achieving the supremacy of fire over all other elements is simply to exterminate any mage who uses another element, as well as people who do not use magic, by, naturally, burning them to death. The show goes into great detail about how horrific Evulz's genocide against anyone who isn't a fire elementalist is, with Evulz ordering his fire wizards to use their fire powers to subject the victims to excruciating, agonizing torture by fire before killing them.
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