Basic Trope: A villain forces a hero into a mockery of a trial, with the intention of convicting and executing them.
- Straight: Evulz captures Bob, and forces him into a horribly biased trial for "interfering with Evulz's plots", planning to execute him for it.
- Exaggerated: Evulz creates a full and proper, if biased, trial for Bob.
- Downplayed: Evulz calls himself a "judge" and refers to his murders as "executions" for "crimes" committed by the victims.
- Justified: Evulz was a judge or lawyer before turning evil, and enjoyed trials so much he forced them on his victims.
- Inverted: Bob gives Evulz an incredibly biased private "trial" rather than kill him or turn him in to the authorities.
- Subverted: Evulz takes Bob to a courtroom, but it turns out it's just a Death Trap from a falling court bench.
- Double Subverted: After Bob survives the Death Trap, his trial begins.
- Parodied: The process is as long and tedious as an actual criminal trial, full of hour-long hearings, cross-examining, etc. Bob gets visibly more and more tired with the farce and makes less and less effort to defend himself. Evulz get annoyed with Bob's a lack of spunk and ends up using an increasingly Insane Troll Logic to acquit Bob.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Evulz does not give Bob a trial.
- Enforced: The writer needs a way for Bob to survive being captured by Evulz, and thinks a Death Trap is too cliched.
- Lampshaded: "Seems like every villain thinks he's a judge these days."
- Invoked: In an attempt to stall for time, Bob demands that Evulz give him a trial, knowing that Evulz's theatricality will make him agree.
- Exploited: Bob manages to win the trial, and Evulz's sense of honor causes him to let Bob go.
- Defied: Emperor Evulz is a Villain with Good Publicity and knows that his citizens would expect him to give his prisoners a fair trial. But he eventually decides that Bob is too dangerous to let live even a moment longer, and has him assassinated while in detention.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- The inefficiency of the trial allows Bob to escape or be rescued.
- Against all odds, Bob wins the trial, exonerating him from what Evulz accused him of.
- Reconstructed:
- The trial is in an area too secure for escape or rescue.
- After Bob wins, Evulz just shrugs and shoots him. Since when did villains play fair?
- Played for Laughs: Dracone comes to Bob's aid by acting as his lawyer. Not only because he wants to deal with him himself, but is also seizing the opportunity to show what could be more evil than the trial itself.
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