Basic Trope: A villain who is also a bigot.
- Straight: In addition to having a fondness for punting puppies, Emperor Evulz is also racist, sexist and homophobic.
- Exaggerated: The Social Darwinist Emperor Evulz is a genocidal monster set on exterminating racial minorities, albinos, trade unions, socialists, handicapped people, and LGBT people, as well as enslaving the impoverished and confining all women to the kitchen — by law!
- That goes for even his own kind as well.
- Downplayed:
- Emperor Evulz is slightly awkward around different races, loathes Alice not due to her sex but her beliefs, and secretly not comfortable with the idea of homosexuality, yet he doesn't make a big deal about it and let his biases sabotage his own plans.
- Evulz is is somewhat bigoted, but his bigotry is completely irrelevant to is villainy.
- Evulz is a Fantastic Racist but not bigoted against actual races.
- Politically Incorrect Jerkass.
- Lots of characters in the work are portrayed as bigots, either because of Deliberate Values Dissonance or to teach a Prejudice Aesop. Evulz just happens to be the worst of the lot.
- Justified:
- The work takes place in Nazi Germany, or a Fantasy Counterpart Culture thereupon.
- Bigotry is what makes him a villain in a first place.
- Emperor Evulz grew up in a prejudiced environment.
- Prejudiced people are more likely to commit hate crimes.
- Someone who's already evil for a greater-scale crime is less likely to have moral inhibitions against more mundane crimes.
- Inverted:
- Noble Bigot/Politically Incorrect Hero
- Equal-Opportunity Evil/Politically Correct Villain
- Emperor Evulz's goal is to end discrimination. This sounds nice at first, but it quickly becomes clear he is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wishes to violently enforce Political Overcorrectness.
- Subverted: His political incorrectness is merely a façade to gain his people's approval; Emperor Evulz actually has views more tolerant and progressive than his subjects, and is the ruler of a highly insular and provincial nation. Behind closed doors, he had no problem supporting POC, LGBT, and women's rights.
- Double Subverted:
- Emperor Evulz ends up Becoming the Mask.
- Emperor Evulz, despite being the exact opposite of racist or sexist, is snobbishly classist and plans to exterminate the physically handicapped.
- Evulz's few standards of political correctness end up becoming incorrect anyway.
- It's the straight, cis, white Christian men that suffer his wrath for the crimes of existing.
- Parodied:
- Emperor Evulz is a Racist Grandpa whom no one takes seriously, and spends more time using antiquated racial slurs and telling his mooks boring stories than actually being a threat.
- An internet comedian is treated as one of these after telling a racist joke on a social media platform.
- Emperor Evulz' master plan is nothing more than upsetting everyone by threatening to say a racial slur.
- Zig Zagged:
- Emperor Evulz can't decide whether he wants to treat minorities like dirt or exploit them by giving them menial (but still quite evil) jobs within his organization, so he flip-flops between the two.
- For all his politically incorrect behavior, it's really just how horrible Emperor Evulz is to others regardless of their race, class, or gender.
- Evulz is openly narrow-minded, but he keeps his prejudices out of his villainy, and the evil deeds he does are not related to or motivated by any bigotry he has. For example, just because he has a negative perspective of black people doesn't stop him from hiring Drake and promoting him to second-in-command.
- Evulz is prejudiced against certain groups, but sympathetic towards other ones.
- Averted: Emperor Evulz isn't racist, sexist, homophobic, classist, or a religious fanatic — or he might be, but that issue never comes up.
- Enforced:
- The Moral Guardians want to point out how politically correct they are while at the same time pointing out how evil this guy is.
- The work is an Author Tract against bigotry and prejudice.
- The creators make the villain bigoted to lower the chances of the audience sympathizing with him.
- Lampshaded: "Wow. So not only is he a murderer, he's also a racist jerk."
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz, trying to rise to power, panders to his bigoted audience by becoming this.
- Exploited: The heroes are able to convince the surrounding nations to form The Alliance by pointing out how much Evulz hates their respective races... and what he's likely to do if he wins.
- Defied: "Simply because I am evil does not mean I have to sink to such petty levels as bigotry! I despise everyone equally!"
- Discussed: Two of Evulz' (disloyal) subjects ponder how he could have gained the support of so many of their countrymen and -women, given his being known to have spat vitriol at seemingly every demographic under the sun.
- Conversed: "I'm glad I don't live in Tropendom. A villain like Evulz isn't the type you can put in jail or order to perform community service to repay their crimes in full."
- Implied: When Emperor Evulz meets each of the people that our heroic Five-Token Band will later comprise, he scowls deeply — and only at the heroes-to-be.
- Deconstructed: Because of his closed-mindedness, Emperor Evulz comes to have a 0% Approval Rating, and a coup is organized to overthrow him.
- Reconstructed:
- Emperor Evulz has a strong enough Evil Army to crush the resistance and carry on as usual.
- The majority of the population turns out to sympathise with Emperor Evulz on these issues.
- Played For Laughs: Because of the sheer ridiculousness and shamelessness in how Emperor Evulz expresses his views, no one takes him seriously.
- Played For Drama: Emperor Evulz begins a campaign of ruthless propaganda and genocide, killing everyone who displeases him. And it transpires that our heroes are among his most hated targets...
- Unparodied:note Emperor Evulz really is the threat he considers himself to be, and is pretending to be a befuddled old man in order to fool his victims.
- Plotted A Good Waste: The show was created and originally released in a country where discrimination is still a pressing social problem, and the creator wants to bring these issues to light.
- Untwisted Emperor Evulz's hatred of white supremacy turns out to be politically incorrect in it's own right, given he is an elitist who see them as "white trash".
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