Basic Trope: A character designed to be disliked for villainous actions and/or intolerable traits.
- Straight: Lord Reptilian is a cruel and despicable Evil Overlord that is designed after the author Bob's former Real Life boss, that he hates and everyone hates him.
- Exaggerated:
- Lord Reptilian is a Complete Monster that is also petty, very arrogant, and a extreme Sadist that caused immense pain and grief to Bob and his friends, becoming their Arch-Enemy, prone to engaging in Cold-Blooded Torture and Evil Gloating when tormenting his victims, that number in the Millions, but is ultimately a Dirty Coward that cowers and begs for mercy when facing anyone of his stature, which the heroes do not give, and when he dies, everyone, including other villains, comemorate his death with a massive party
- All-Loving Hero Bob thinks Lord Reptilian is Beyond Redemption.
- Downplayed:
- Lord Reptilian is designed after the author Bob's former Real Life boss. Said Real Life boss is just a snobbish, annoying bigot, but nothing more.
- Evil Is Petty
- Jerkass
- Lord Reptilian is very cruel and despicable, however, he showcases some Villainous Valour.
- Justified: Author Tract
- Inverted:
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic
- Loved by All
- Nice Guy
- All-Loving Hero
- The Woobie
- Love Sink: Kayami is an entertaining and iconic Fun-loving Heroine that is designed after the author Bob's wife, that he loves and everyone loves her.
- Creator's Pet: Kayami is intended to be an entertaining and iconic Fun-loving Heroine that is designed after the author Bob's wife, but the fanbase despises her and the narrative favoritism she gets.
- The Scrappy: Lord Reptilian is universally hated by the fanbase even though he was never meant to be hated.
- Bob canned Lord Reptilian out of the show after he and his team expressed hatred for him.
- Lord Reptilian's vile personality and actions are meant to make him endaring to the audience.
- Subverted: Lord Reptilian was designed by Bob as being loathsome, but later evolved into a Tragic Villain with several positive traits.
- Double Subverted: Character Rerailment kicks in, and Lord Reptilian returns back to his root characterization.
- Parodied:
- Lance sticks a piece of gum on a cardboard cutout of the author's boss, with the words "Lord Reptilian" slapped on it.
- Lord Reptilian is an inanimate kitchen sink, which exists to be hated.
- Lord Reptilian is a textbook example of Evil Is Petty and commits over-the-top horrendous actions that are Played for Laughs, such as nuking fast food restaurants that get his order wrong or kicking kittens off of cliffs because he was bored.
- Lord Reptilian sells merchandise bragging about how he's made after the author's horrible ex-boss and everybody hates him, which no one wants to buy because they all hate him.
- Even Animals Hate Him.
- This Loser Is You
- Zig-Zagged: There's a lot of plots that either make Lord Reptilian a likable villain or a complete bastard in a snap.
- Averted: No character is made intentionally unlikable.
- Enforced:
- Lord Reptilian is made irredeemably evil so that the audience will sympathize with Hiro and Lance's hatred towards him.
- All of Hiro and Lance's previous opponents were sympathetic or cool and became subject to Rooting for the Empire, so Lord Reptilian is written as irredeemable to ensure that people root against him.
- Lampshaded:Lance: "Lord Reptilian, are you literally written to be hated? Because mission accomplished."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Lord Reptilian tells the heroes that he's made after "some really annoying and horrible authority" to incite them to make them reckless and/or distract them from his true machinations.
- Defied: Lord Reptilian is written with the Evil Is Cool trope in mind.
- Discussed: Lord Reptilian is a villain in a Show Within a Show. After watching it, Hiro asks Lance: "Is this guy made after Bob's former Real Life boss? I heard she's so nasty that he describes her as the worst kind of people he's ever seen."
- Conversed: ???
- Implied:
- There is no direct word from Bob that states that Lord Reptilian is supposed to be hated, but his actions make it very clear that he's intentionally and explicitly made as unlikeable as possible.
- Lord Reptilian is never shown on-screen, but Hiro and/or Lance talk about him in a hateful tone.
- Deconstructed:
- Played For Laughs: Lord Reptilian is made after Bob's class clown in his primary school time that he considers "annoying", and does nothing but play annoying pranks and occasionally nukes fast food restaurants that got his orders wrong. Nobody takes him seriously.
- Played For Drama:
- Lord Reptilian is designed after an authority figure that you shouldn't trust, and for this reason, he is a horrific Evil Overlord that acts all affable on the outside, while commits all sorts of Cold-Blooded Torture and kills anyone he doesn't like in private. When he also tortures and attempts to rape Lance's ex, the audience considers that the breaking point and wants to see him a goner.
- Knight of Cerebus
- Played For Horror: Lord Reptilian is designed after Bob's abusive and violent ex-girlfriend, and is a Complete Monster Serial Killer whose hatred from the audience comes from him constantly inflicting cruel and unusual deaths on numerous innocent civilians.
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