Basic Trope: A democratically-elected Evil Overlord.
- Straight: Bob, President of Tropeland, does things that connote poor morality.
- Exaggerated:
- President Bob engages in genocide.
- President Bob is an atrociously vile individual in a political drama that normally portrays even the worst politicians as either good-intentioned but extreme, or merely greedy.
- President Bob believes that Hitler didn't go far enough.
- Downplayed:
- People question the morality of some of President Bob's actions.
- President Bob has an abrasive personality but it isn't immediately apparent that he is evil.
- As President, Bob frequently is forced to Shoot the Dog, though sometimes, he does so unnecessarily.
- Justified:
- I Did What I Had to Do.
- President Bob's actions were necessary for the existence of Tropeland.
- President Bob was able to fool the public into believing he was a benign figure while he was running for election. Now that he is in power, he no longer feels the need to hide his true agenda.
- Inverted:
- President Bob spreads good and peace in Tropeland and abroad.
- President Bob is a good person. It's Vice President Alice who merits scrutiny.
- Subverted: President Bob's evil laws are ruled unconstitutional.
- Double Subverted: President Bob's evil laws are ruled unconstitutional ... so he arranges to have Tropeland's constitution repealed, rewritten or suspended.
- Parodied:
- President Bob opens all his speeches by saying, "I have done nothing illegal or immoral in the past twenty-four hours."
- In a landslide vote, President Evil is sworn into office. Former Attorney-at-law Robert S. Evil, that is.
- Zig-Zagged: President Bob is usually Lawful Evil and does some token good deeds, but when people aren't watching, he bends or breaks the laws in pursuit of his more nefarious ultimate goal.
- Averted: President Bob is not evil.
- Enforced:
- The work is a political satire set in a People's Republic of Tyranny.
- The evil head of state is a politician that the writer personally does not like.
- Lampshaded:
- "Wow, President Bob is horrible."
- "Who the hell voted for this guy?"
- Invoked: Bob, a killer who got away with it, seeks the Tropeland presidency, secretly planning to sanction his misdeeds retroactively.
- Exploited: Vice President Alice catches President Bob working out a corrupt deal and blackmails him by threatening to tell all the voters unless he gives her more of a say in his government.
- Defied: Despite many opportunities to flout the law without too many people questioning him, President Bob never strays from a Lawful Good path.
- Discussed: "I just don't trust President Bob. I bet he's evil."
- Conversed: "By now, voters on this show really ought to have learned maintaining a healthy democracy is tougher than it sounds."
- Implied: President Bob, who deeply regrets his past as a scofflaw, constantly complains of youth turning to crime so easily and expresses a desire to "see to it that those punks never do anything again."
- Deconstructed: After President Bob authorizes the execution of someone from Tropendom — which is led by his sworn enemy, Prime Minister Leah — she takes matters into her own hands via the bomb.
- Reconstructed: President Bob learns the principles of Pragmatic Villainy to ensure he doesn't give relatively good foreign leaders an excuse to go after him.
- Played for Laughs:
- President Bob forces everyone in Tropeland to pull humorous stunts.
- President Bob creates a world where people are forced to kick kittens, must go to sleep at 8 o'clock at night, and cannot eat pineapple pizza on his first day in office.
- Played for Drama: President Bob's misdeeds cause many Tropelanders to do things which, in the narrow letter of the law, constitute "treason", so to maintain his status as a "law and order" type, he is forced either to execute or imprison for life the vast majority of his country's population. Naturally, this leaves virtually all spheres of life more or less abandoned, and Tropeland falls into deep disrepair.
- Played For Horror: The day after he's sworn in, President Bob proves himself to be a demented fascist psycho by enabling the Day of the Jackboot, complete with a remake of the Night of the Long Knives.
- Plotted a Good Waste: President Bob is a thinly veiled version of a world leader who really is or was that bad.
All Hail: President Evil!
