Basic Trope: The villain doesn't get a song, even though one would be expected for the work.
- Straight: "The Trope Adventure", despite being an Animated Musical, has no song for the Big Bad Emperor Evulz.
- Exaggerated: After Emperor Evulz is introduced, the songs stop entirely.
- Downplayed:
- Emperor Evulz' dragon gets a song.
- The heroes sing a "The Villain Sucks" Song about Emperor Evulz.
- Evulz gets an instrumental leitmotif.
- Justified: Evulz can't sing.
- Inverted: Only the villains get to sing.
- Subverted: Emperor Evulz begins to sing...
- Double Subverted: ...but he gets interrupted.
- Parodied:
- A Running Gag is Emperor Evulz attempting to sing, only to get interrupted.
- Emperor Evulz signed up for his role as a villain solely because he found out he wouldn't have to sing.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Villain Song
- There aren't any songs at all.
- Enforced:
- To subvert expectations of the typical "villainy" tropes.
- Emperor Evulz' actor can't sing, and the producers couldn't find a good alternate singing voice for him.
- Evulz was planned to have a song, but it was cut due to time or something similar.
- Evulz is meant to be an Enigmatic Villain, a Villain Song would make him understood, which would beat the purpose of making him enigmatic.
- Lampshaded: Evulz witnesses a musical number and wonders, "Why don't I get to do that?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Evulz decides that he will sing a song, no matter how badly made it is, and even if the title of the song is just "I Wanna Sing In This Musical Too".
- Discussed: "Weird that I don't get a song. I mean, I'm a villain in an animated musical, isn't that almost expected of me?"
- Conversed: "I wonder why some villains don't get songs."
There ain't No Song for the Wicked, money don't grow on trees...
