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Basic Trope: A villainous character has bad table manners to emphasize their badness.

  • Straight: Emperor Evulz eats in a sloppy, wasteful manner.
  • Exaggerated:
  • Downplayed: Emperor Evulz eats like a normal person but he'll casually swear, talk about impolite subjects and belch at the dinner table.
  • Justified:
    • Emperor Evulz skipped Table Manners 101 in favor of Evil 101.
    • Emperor Evulz prefers junk food, hot wings and sloppy joes.
    • Emperor Evulz chooses to eat messily to gross out Bob the Hero, purely for laughs.
    • Emperor Evulz is a Psychopathic Manchild.
    • Emperor Evulz is a ferocious manbeast.
    • Table manners as we know them didn't exist yet during Evulz' days.
  • Inverted:
    • Emperor Evulz has good table manners and only eats fancy food.
    • Bob the Hero eats like a pig.
  • Subverted:
    • Emperor Evulz eats his food with the same manners the viewer would expect of an emperor...
    • Emperor Evan eats sloppily - but this is actually because of nerve damage and he is not an Evil Cripple either.
  • Double Subverted:
    • ...but only in public. In private, he eats like a slob.
    • After a few years of involuntary eating difficulties, Evulz decides he enjoys being a pig and goes out of his way to make himself a less refined eater.
  • Parodied: Whenever Emperor Evulz eats, people around him Waterfall Puke out of disgust.
  • Zig Zagged: Emperor Evulz eats properly in some scenes, and like a pig in others.
  • Averted: No one is shown eating on screen.
  • Enforced:
    • Emperor Evulz has no arms and thus has to eat without silverware.
    • Emperor Evulz is an Anti-Role Model.
  • Lampshaded:
    • "Y'know, for a big-shot emperor, he eats like a toddler."
    • "O great and might Jabba..." "Oi, fuck you!!"
  • Invoked: "I suppose, being your archnemesis and all, that it's only good practice for me to have the table manners of a spasming rodent".
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Emperor Evulz takes Manners 101 so he can be Wicked Cultured.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Deconstructed: The Emperor's table manners disgust and offend his subordinates and colleagues. His overindulgence of rich foods results in obesity and constipation, and his clothes are constantly getting set to the cleaners due to food stains. Several times he nearly passes out from choking and he even dies from it.
  • Reconstructed: For all it's low points, being a minion of Evulz has a notable advantage - namely, Evulz does not encourage minions to shame eachother for lifestyle choices. As a result, a large amount of his minions also have terrible table manners. In addition, Evulz considers choking a necessary risk to gross out any visitors, has a rigorous exercise routine to work off the fat and uses medication to help with the pooing problem.

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