Basic Trope: A mentally disabled villain.
- Straight: The Dragon Dracone has Asperger's syndrome.
- Exaggerated:
- Dracone is pure evil, and has at least half a dozen mental disabilities.
- Every single villain has some sort of mental disability.
- Downplayed:
- Dracone has Asperger's syndrome and is a Minion with an F in Evil.
- Dracone is an Affably Evil Manchild and a Friendly Enemy to the heroes.
- Justified:
- Dracone's disorder keeps him from understanding what is and is not acceptable. Emperor Evulz takes advantage of this by enabling and encouraging Dracone's less savoury actions.
- Dracone is lashing out after being bullied and ostracized because of his disorder.
- Inverted:
- Lance, Alice's second-in-command and primary partner, has Hollywood Autism.
- Dracone is the only character who doesn't have some sort of mental handicap.
- Dracone is an Evil Genius, maybe even with a Morally Ambiguous Doctorate or two.
- Subverted: Evulz reveals that Dracone was faking his autism.
- Double Subverted: Evulz is a Politically Incorrect Villain, and lied because he was embarrassed to have a minion with autism.
- Parodied: Evulz has engaged in plenty of dog-kicking, but no one believes he's evil because he doesn't have autism.
- Zig Zagged: Dracone is sometimes portrayed as autistic, sometimes he isn't.
- Averted:
- The villains have no mental handicaps.
- Any mental handicaps the villains have are explicitly not part of his evil (ex. Dracone's autism makes him a Rail Enthusiast but none of his evil deeds involve trains in any way, shape or form).
- Enforced:
- The author has some kind of problem with autistic people.
- The author is autistic, but thinks Evil Is Cool.
- Lampshaded: "What's up with all these autists siding with Evulz?"
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz recruits people with Hollywood Autism when he's in need of more minions.
- Exploited: The heroes use their knowledge of Dracone's Hollywood Autism to trick him into revealing Evulz's plans.
- Defied:
- Evulz refuses to hire Dracone because of his autism.
- Dracone's autism and his capacity for evil have no direct correlation. Dracone may even have a Berserk Button towards people who assume otherwise.
- Discussed: Evulz ponders whether people with Hollywood Autism make good villains.
- Conversed: While watching Sinkhole Wars, Alice remarks that the characters with Hollywood Autism seem to have an affinity for evil for some reason.
- Implied: Dracone has a few odd symptoms that suggest a mental disorder.
- Deconstructed: The characters start associating autism with Dracone, which stigmatizes non-evil autists.
- Reconstructed: Jason, an autistic hero, kills Dracone and calls out the other heroes for their prejudice.
- Played For Laughs: Dracone's Hollywood Autism symptoms consist of him being a Literal-Minded Cloudcuckoolander, which always makes his schemes fail and turns him into an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.
- Played For Drama: After being bullied because of his mental handicap, Dracone slips into extreme cynicism and eventually evil.
- Played For Horror: Dracone's autism manifests in a desire to do horrible (or just plain spooky) things like vivisection or taxidermy. Or the writer says that Dracone has a bundle of mental handicaps (of which autism is just one of his most visible) that all combine in a semblance of Hollywood Sociopathy and thus Dracone has no problem slaughtering an entire building full of people just because the cook made his beans and greens touch in his dinner.
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