Basic Trope: Villains are polite while heroes are not.
- Straight: Dracone is a Corrupt Politician villain who is nice and polite to everyone he meets, even to Rebel Leader Hiro, who is rude and abusive towards him a lot.
- Exaggerated:
- Officer Dracone is a Harmless Villain who is a Noble Top Enforcer and a Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist, while Hiro is a Blood Knight Sociopathic Hero.
- Hiro is the hero and Dracone is the villain simply because the story says so despite their actions and motives saying otherwise.
- Hiro has no heroic motivations and has few heroic traits going for him, meanwhile Dracone doesn't really have anything evil he's thinking about, he just so happens to work with the organization Hiro's against.
- Downplayed: Dracone is a General Ripper but he still has standards he had to comply to, while Hiro is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who thinks Cool People Rebel Against Authority.
- Justified:
- Dracone is using his niceness as a means to further his diabolical plan to take over the world while Hiro feels that being nice gets in the way of his job of being a hero.
- Dracone is a Villain with Good Publicity and has been in power for long, but his intentions to turn the region into a Slavery and Police State, which are Locked Out of the Loop, is what threatened Hiro to a Despair Event Horizon. When Hiro becomes a Well-Intentioned Extremist, he is much considerably ruder and terrifying as a result.
- Dracone is an Anti-Villain of some flavor, lacking any real malice for Hiro, perhaps even seeing that he might have a point. Hiro, meanwhile, is an Anti-Hero with some serious Black-and-White Morality issues who believe you're either With Us or Against Us, and that simply by fighting for the "evil" side, Dracone is irredeemable scum. They treat each other accordingly.
- Inverted: Dracone is a petty Jerkass villain while Hiro is the Nice Guy hero.
- Subverted: Hiro is rude and abrasive because he worries about people getting too close to him, while Dracone's politeness absolutely shatters during his Villainous Breakdown.
- Double Subverted: Even if Hiro did explain that he was trying to protect others, that won't stop him from being a jerk for other reasons (i.e. arrogance, grumpiness, anger issues, or just because); as for Dracone, he manages to pull himself together and regains his politeness.
- Parodied: Dracone opens the door for a lady while Hiro gives someone a wedgie.
- Zig Zagged: Hiro and Dracone's respective meanness and politeness depend on the day. If Hiro is mean, it's only due to the duties of a hero making him stressed, but becomes nice when he is having a good day. Dracone, on the other hand, is nice because things are going his way, but when it isn't, he'll put his politeness aside.
- Averted:
- Both Hiro and Dracone are jerks.
- Both Hiro and Dracone are nice.
- Enforced:
- The author wants to make a point about how Brutal Honesty is better than being polite but deceptive.
- The author wants to show that good and evil come in all shapes and sizes and that it's not obvious to know who's good and evil.
- Lampshaded: "Dracone seems like a pleasant chap. Maybe Hiro could learn some manners from him."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Dracone is a Villain with Good Publicity or Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist, and makes absolutely certain that the media uses Hiro's temperament to make him a Hero with Bad Publicity.
- Defied: Both characters realize that their respective mannerisms don't measure up with their reputations - Hiro learns how to be nice while Dracone learns how to be a heartless villain.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Is it me or do I find villains in the media more tolerable than the heroes?"
- Deconstructed:
- Hiro's teammates become fed up with his callous and boorish attitude, so they switch sides and start working for the much more charming and likable Dracon.
- Hiro's Jerkass nature as a hero is partly what allows Dracone to be a Villain with Good Publicity in the first place. After all, it's hard not to be seen in the right when you're repeatedly attacked by someone who comes off as a destructive jerk who can't even be bothered to explain his actions. This, repeated conflict with the more affable good guys on him allows Dracone to keep Hiro's reputation with the general public at rock bottom while he enacts his schemes.
- Reconstructed:
- They soon find, however, that while Dracon seems friendly, it's all an act, and he's actually a horrible person. They go back to Hiro, who never lets them hear the end of it.
- Hiro, after having Took a Level in Kindness, actually bothers to explain himself and provide evidence to the general public, and Dracone gradually loses his Villain with Good Publicity status as everyone turns on him instead.
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