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Basic Trope: A certain character is considered a villain despite not exactly having any mischievous intentions

  • Straight: Bob is a part of the group of villains who work together but he does not commit anything too terrible and it’s actually pretty nice
  • Exaggerated: Bob is one of the nicest character in the whole work and does not do anything terrible, he is in the villain group for absolutely no reason.
  • Downplayed: Despite Bob not having any villainous intentions he has his own moments.
  • Justified:
    • Bob is planning to backstab the other villains he work with
    • Bob is just confused which side is the good one and the bad one and he is being manipulated into thinking the villains are the good guys
  • Inverted: Nominal Hero
  • Subverted: ???
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: In a scene, Bob is seen in a torture chamber with someone crying for help presumably going to torture him…until he brings out a bird feather and begin to do tickle torture the guy
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: ???
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: “Still don’t understand what this guy is doing here…”
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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