Basic Trope: An evil mom/dad/set of parents want their kids to be better than them.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz and Lady Bloodlust try and raise Bob to be a good person, if not The Hero.
- Exaggerated: Emperor Evulz and Lady Bloodlust, people who have constantly crossed the Moral Event Horizon over and over, try and raise Bob to be Incorruptible Pure Pureness
- Downplayed:
- They want Bob to be slightly better than them, like an Anti-Hero or villain.
- Evulz and Bloodlust were already sympathetic Anti Villains, raising their child to be just that bit better.
- A Well-Intentioned Extremist pair of parents wants their kids to ditch the extremist part.
- Justified:
- Being Evil Sucks and they don't want Bob to go through the exact same pain they did.
- Emperor Evulz and Lady Bloodlust are Well Intentioned Extremists or Knight Templars. They believe they're good, too.
- The parents only joined a life of evil due to bad economic circumstances in their youth. Now that times are better, they find it illogical for their child to go down such a route.
- Inverted:
- Daddy's Little Villain.
- Bob is a delinquent who causes chaos, violence, and property damage in his neighborhood and is nothing but an annoying nuisance, but he wants his mother and father to not end up like him knowing that they're good but strict people
- Bob is a Retired Badass who discourages his kids from heroic acts because Being Good Sucks.
- Subverted: They pretend to be raising Bob to be a good person, only to be actually raising him as Faux Affably Evil.
- Double Subverted:
- That, too, was also a lie to get even more ruthless villains off their back.
- They still hoped to raise him to be "good", as in "efficient" as a villain. Bob instead becomes a Stupid Evil goon.
- Parodied: Emperor Evulz and Lady Bloodlust are Dastardly Whiplash type villains, but for some reason they want Bob to be a hero. They even dress him up in angel wings and a halo.
- Zig Zagged: While they raise Bob as a good person, they raise Bob's twin brother, Bobius as evil. And few years later their sister Alice is born, and she's raised as good again.
- Averted: No villain/villainess has children. Or rather they do, but they raise them to be as wicked as them.
- Enforced:
- The creator wants in-depth villains, and static card carrying puppy kickers won't do the trick.
- Evulz's and Bloodlust's aesthetics sell a lot of toys, but many parents don't want to buy their kids villain toys, so the execs introduce a heroic child to keep the same aesthetic with a hero.
- Lampshaded:
- "You know, for a guy who was raised by evil tyrants, he's not half bad."
- "So, let me guess. You don't want the kid to turn out like you?"
- Invoked: Bob brings up the point that Being Evil Sucks and that even if Evulz and Bloodlust don't care about anyone else, they should at least give their kids better lives.
- Exploited: They want to cleanse the reputation of their family for the future.
- Defied: An adviser suggests that Emperor Evulz and Lady Bloodlust raise Bob with compassion. They swiftly kill the adviser.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob is conflicted about who he wants to be. He's been raised good, but what if he wants to be a villain like his mom and dad? If they wanted a good boy, why haven't they retired as villains yet? Is there an ulterior motive for his parents to want a good person for a kid?
- As villains, Evulz and Bloodlust cannot give Bob a consistent moral education. They only succeed in raising a Knight Templar with Moral Sociopathy.
- Reconstructed:
- Emperor Evulz and Lady Bloodlust have a heart to heart talk with their son. They discuss that they want him to have what they (as villains) never grew up with. They tell Bob he is his own person, that he can decide what he wants to be. And most importantly, they'll love him no matter what he is.
- Evulz and Bloodlust get some outside help for Bob's moral education.
- Implied: After Evulz and Bloodlust die, their son Bob is introduced as a perfectly good person, and he doesn't seem to resent his parents, making it unlikely he's just a White Sheep.
- Discussed: "It's strange, isn't it? Bob's parents are as evil as they come, but he's a genuinely good person. Makes you wonder what kind of childhood he had."
- Conversed: "Did you hear that Bob's parents are villains? Yet, he's the nicest guy you'll ever meet."
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